Topic: ART - on July 14, 2016 at 4:09:00 PM CEST
100 Jahre Dada: Hugo Balls dadaistisches Manifest
100 Jahre nach Hugo Balls dadaistischem Manifest ist der Dadaismus in Zeiten von „Post-Truth-Politics“, dem Irrsinn um Donald Trump, Emoji, LULZ und den kalten Ideologie-Online-Kriegen so aktuell wie nie. Das Internet stellt, genau wie der Dadaismus, „die gesamte bisherige [Gesellschaft] in Frage, indem [es] ihre [angeblich gefestigten Wahrheiten] durch [Netzwerkeffekte und Memetik] zu reinen Unsinnsansammlungen machte“
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2016 at 4:07:00 PM CEST
100 years of Dada: today is the centenary of Hugo Ball's Dada Manifesto
Dada is a new tendency in art. One can tell this from the fact that until now nobody knew anything about it, and tomorrow everyone in Zurich will be talking about it. Dada comes from the dictionary. it is terribly simple. In French it means “hobby horse.” In German it means “good-by,” “Get off my back,” “Be seeing you sometime.” In Romanian: “Yes, indeed, you are right, that’s it. But of course, yes, definitely, right.” And so forth.
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Topic: Religion - on July 14, 2016 at 4:05:00 PM CEST
Creationist Ken Ham offers public schools a massive discount to bring kids to his Ark museum
Attention, public schools! Do you want to make your students significantly more ignorant for a rock-bottom price? Well, you’re in luck: Creationist Ken Ham is offering public schools a big discount if they bring their kids to his new Ark Encounter museum on a field trip.
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2016 at 4:04:00 PM CEST
91-Jährige löste Kreuzworträtsel in Museum: Es war ein Kunstwerk
Im Neuen Museum Nürnberg – Werk des Künstlers Arthur Köpcke ist mit 80.000 Euro versichert
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on July 14, 2016 at 4:02:00 PM CEST
Bub klemmte sich Kopf in Kinderklobrille ein
Einen ungewöhnlichen Einsatz hatte die Grazer Berufsfeuerwehr am Dienstag: Ein Dreijähriger hatte sich seinen Kopf in einer Kinderklobrille eingeklemmt.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 14, 2016 at 4:00:00 PM CEST
Stream 15 Hours of the John Peel Sessions: 255 Tracks by Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Siouxsie and the Banshees & Other Artists
For fans of what came to be called “alternative music,” the discovery of new artists and bands felt like a genuine adventure before the internet irrevocably changed music consumption. A few official venues acted as guides—magazines like Trouser Press and NME, shows like 120 Minutes, MTV’s late-night showcase of post-punk, new wave, industrial, etc. Word of mouth, local zines, college radio, mixtape gifts, and the purloined contents of older brothers and sisters’ record collections went a long way. Many of us had access to independent record stores that stocked all sorts of underground oddities, often run by obsessive know-it-alls like High Fidelity’s Rob Gordon.
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Topic: Conspiracy theory - on July 14, 2016 at 3:58:00 PM CEST
Why NASA's video feed cut away from that 'UFO'
Is NASA hiding clear video evidence of a UFO descending to Earth? To paraphrase what a spokesperson from the space agency told me when I asked: "Uh, no." NASA increasingly has eyes all over the solar system, whether it's on Mars, above our heads in orbit or, as of this week, around Jupiter. So perhaps it shouldn't be that surprising that every few months word circulates around the internet that one of NASA's eyes has captured a UFO or evidence of alien life. The latest such alleged sighting comes courtesy of NASA's High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the International Space Station.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 14, 2016 at 3:57:00 PM CEST
FBI Agent: Decrypting Data ‘Fundamentally Alters’ Evidence
An FBI agent has brought up an interesting question about the nature of digital evidence: Does decrypting encrypted data “fundamentally alter” it, therefore contaminating it as forensic evidence? According to a hearing transcript filed last week, FBI Special Agent Daniel Alfin suggested just that. The hearing was related to the agency's investigation into dark web child pornography site Playpen. In February 2015, the FBI briefly assumed control of Playpen and delivered its users a network investigative technique (NIT)—or a piece of malware—in an attempt to identify the site's visitors.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on July 14, 2016 at 3:55:00 PM CEST
Linus Torvalds Is Again Mad Over “Sh!t Code”, Calls Some Linux Devs “Brain-damaged”
Linux Torvalds is again mad over some developers due to their “disturbing” coding style. He has bashed the networking developers by pointing out their “brain-damaged” commenting syntax and listed out the styles that a Linux kernel developer should use.
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Topic: Appelbaum - on July 14, 2016 at 3:52:00 PM CEST
Orwell’s Swan Song: Free Speech Activists Whitewashing Wikipedia To Silence Dissent
If you’d told me a year ago that I’d be writing a blogpost in July 2016 about how EFF and TorProject supporters are actively censoring free speech on the internet, I would have thought I’d be writing it for The Onion. Unfortunately, I’m not. I have supported and amplified for EFF, the Tor Project and related organisations, staff members and campaigns relentlessly, for years. As a ‘Person of Interest’, I have relied on their enterprises to keep me safe. I have defended them ideologically and in principle, when they have been unfairly under attack. However in an unbelievably Orwellian twist, recent and current events have completely transformed the situation from free speech organisations being similarly under attack by the State, to the State using free speech organisations to attack enemies of the State, and free speech as a whole.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 14, 2016 at 3:50:00 PM CEST
Tor-Projekt tauscht Aufsichtsgremium aus
Relativ überraschend hat das Anonymisierungs-Projekt seinen Verwaltungsrat komplett ausgetauscht. Unter den neuen Direktoren ist auch Kryptografie-Ikone Bruce Schneier. Der Anonymisierungsdienst Tor hat sein Aufsichtsgremium komplett ausgetauscht. Der alte, siebenköpfige Verwaltungsrat habe einstimmig sechs neue Mitglieder bestimmt und sei zugleich geschlossen zurückgetreten. Zur neuen, ehrenamtlich tätigen Führungsspitze zählen unter anderem Cindy Cohn, die Leiterin der Electronic Frontier Foundation, sowie die prominenten Kryptologen Bruce Schneier und Matt Blaze.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 14, 2016 at 3:47:00 PM CEST
The Tor Project Elects New Board of Directors
Today, the board of directors of the Tor Project is announcing a bold decision in keeping with its commitment to the best possible health of the organization. Says Tor's Executive Director Shari Steele, "I think this was an incredibly brave and selfless thing for the board to do. They’re making a clear statement that they want the organization to become its best self."
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