The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
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Saturday, September 12, 2026
Friday, September 11, 2026
Review: Renaissance and Baroque
Renaissance and Baroque by Heinrich WölfflinMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The baroque never offers us perfection and fulfilment, or the static calm of 'being', only the unrest of change and the tension of transience. This again produces a sense of movement, though of a different kind. Tense proportional relation-ships were part of this characteristic action. The circle is for instance an absolutely static and unchangeable form, but the oval is restless and always seems on the point of change; it lacks inner necessity. The baroque sought out such free proportions as a matter of principle; everything that was self-contained and complete was contrary to its essential nature. It used the oval, not only for medallions and similar objects, but for ground plans of halls, courtyards and church interiors. The form made its appearance early, as part of an agitated composition in a painting by Correggio (1515), and this was at a time when no-one in Rome had thought of using it, either in painting or architecture. It was then taken up by Michelangelo for the plinth of the statue of Marcus Aurelius, and passed on to Vignola...
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Thursday, September 10, 2026
Monday, September 7, 2026
Review: We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec Anonymous
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec Anonymous by Parmy OlsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a detailed, fascinating account of the 2chan -> 4chan -> Anonymous -> LulzSec evolution and the actions/lives of the driving core team including the extent to which they can be identified.
There are some Anonymous culture I only sort of remember such as the shaming "shoe on head" imagery specifically demanded in Anonymous/4chan as a verification method used to prove identity. In September 2012, for instance, journalist Adrian Chen, who had exposed a controversial Reddit moderator, was forced by members of the Anonymous collective to post images of himself wearing a tutu and a shoe on his head to prove his identity and meet their demands.
There is a lot on the Anonymous DDoS activity, particularly with the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is a DoS-attack tool which multiple untutored volunteers used carelessly allowing their IP addresses to be discovered. All of this was not even essential as the real damage was done with a botnet and even just sharing data shared by others with Anonymous.
It is interesting from the outside the crime noir element where it all falls apart and in the rather typical way of no-honor-among-thieves. Clues are found by determined investigators after sloppily left behind, mostly because a life of crime wasn't connived from birth of course. Then court orders cause HideMyAss.com to reveal what was thought hidden and pers turn CI as in the case of Sabu: https://www.darkreading.com/cyberatta...
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