As William Gibson wrote, "The street finds its own uses for things."
More in this vein:
• Hong Kong protesters use lasers to blind security cameras
(Thanks, UPSO!)
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Nov 13, 2019
Protestors use laser pointers to bring down police drone
This is the most cyberpunk thing I've seen for a while: Chilean protesters using lasers to take down a drone. pic.twitter.com/tLSgj7YSB6
— NetSec Focus (@netsecfocus) November 13, 2019
Relicblade launches campaign for new two-player starter set
It seems weird to be writing about something as frivolous as a game while the world is infected and on fire, but we do need a little distraction and joy to keep us sane, and for some of us, the gaming hobby offers just that. Sean Sutter, the one-person game designing artistic juggernaut behind the […]
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New York Police Union doxxed Mayor DiBlasio's daughter on Twitter
As anti-police protests raged across the country on Sunday, the official Twitter account of the Sergeants Benevolent Association of the NYPD spent most of the day whining about New York Mayor Bill DiBlasio. DiBlasio is hardly a stalwart of #TheResistance, and there are certainly plenty of good reasons for the average citizen to complain about […]
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Image Scrubber is a website that removes EXIF data and blurs faces in photos
Image Scrubber is a useful website that removes all the identifying metadata from any photograph and gives you the option to blur out certain parts of the photo. This is a tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests. It will remove identifying metadata (Exif data) from photographs, and also allow you to selectively blur parts […]
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Get a factory-refurbished iPad Pro for under $350
We all know the drill. As the overlords of the smartphone and tablet markets, the braintrust at Apple very seldom hold sales on their signature devices. So rather than spending almost $1,000 on a brand-new iPad Pro, the folks in Cupertino are instead giving you the opportunity to score one for about a third of […]
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Learn how to podcast like a boss from these experts
Entrepreneurs looking for new avenues to reach customers may not have considered one of the fastest-growing content mediums today: podcasting. And we don’t mean just dropping an advertisement for your product or service in the middle of a popular show. Right now, there are about 850,000 active podcasts reaching 165 million Americans. Those listeners are […]
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Get certified marketing training on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and more with these classes
Twitter rants and various online ugliness aside, social media has actually grown up a bit over the past 15 years. In general, users are warier of their interactions on platforms like Facebook or Instagram — and marketers have taken note. In fact, if you felt retailers you saw on social media were only looking to […]
