US authorities have arrested three men after taking down a dark web drug ring which laundered $2.3 million in cryptocurrency.
Category: Flotsam-and-Jetsam
15 MONTHS OF FRESH HELL INSIDE FACEBOOK
Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here’s how that turned out.
LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-15-months-of-fresh-hell/
Microplastics are raining down from the sky
Scientists discover large amounts of tiny plastic particles falling out of the air in a remote mountain location.
In what looks like a pristine, remote mountain region, tiny pieces of plastic pollution were found raining down from the sky—raising questions about the global extent of plastic pollution—a first-of-its-kind study has found.
Oxford philosopher’s newest hypothesis predicts the rise of super villains
“I think Bostrom has somehow penetrated our private forum.” – The Editor
Oxford philosopher and founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute Nick Bostrom‘s latest research paper seems to indicate our species could be on a collision course with a technology-fueled super villain.
Sol Pais’ blog and other social links
LINK: https://dissolvedgirl.neocities.org/
Archive in case they delete the blog: https://web.archive.org/web/20190417152502/https://dissolvedgirl.neocities.org/
Other links: https://listography.com/lonelyangel444
People report finding “secret links”
@lookner On Sol Pais’s blog she warns if secret links. I held down the spinning blue thing and this popped up. (About blowing ones own brain out) pic.twitter.com/JCgdB0WdWE
— BOOKS (@specialmngirl) April 17, 2019
@lookner One more secret link on Sol Pais blog. On her about me page is a picture of her as a young girl. Click on pic and this comes up. pic.twitter.com/VQgYQNYOxF
— BOOKS (@specialmngirl) April 17, 2019
Sol Pais: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Sol Pais, a South Florida teenager “infatuated” with the Columbine massacre and its perpetrators and the subject of a massive manhunt in Colorado after authorities said a “potential credible threat” led Columbine High School and other schools to close, is dead, authorities say.
Meanwhile, a website in the name Sol Pais leaves behind a trail of disturbed journal entries, including drawings of guns and one of the Columbine killers.
Hundreds of Denver Schools Are Closed as F.B.I. Seeks Woman ‘Infatuated’ With Columbine
The killers have achieved dark folk hero status in the corners of the internet where their carefully planned massacre is remembered, studied and in some cases even celebrated, officials say. Their admirers, often known as “Columbiners,” are frequently depressed, alienated or mentally disturbed, drawn to the Columbine subculture because they see it as a way to lash out at the world and to get the attention of a society that they believe bullies, ignores or misunderstands them.
LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/columbine-shooting-sol-pais.html
U.S. Soldiers Uncovered in Atomwaffen Division Satanic Nazi Death Cult Terror Group
Devil worshippers consolidate control over fascist U.S. domestic terrorist group
Several month investigation uncovers true identities of many members of clandestine terror group whose members hail both Hitler and Charles Manson as ideological visionaries.
The first of a five part series on the Atomwaffen Division U.S. domestic terrorist group
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today’s industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.
What is the world going to look like when all these changes have run their course? Author John Michael Greer seeks to answer this question, and with some degree of accuracy, since civilizations tend to collapse in remarkably similar ways.
Dark Age America, then, seeks to map out in advance the history of collapse, giving us an idea of what the next five hundred years or so might look like as globalization ends and North American civilization reaches the end of its lifecycle and enters the stages of decline and fall.
In many ways, this is Greer’s most uncompromising work, though by no means without hope to offer. Knowing where we’re headed collectively is a crucial step in responding constructively to the challenges of the future and doing what we can now to help our descendants make the most of the world we’re leaving them.
John Michael Greer, historian of ideas and one of the most influential authors exploring the future of industrial society, writes the widely cited weekly blog the Archdruid Report and has published more than thirty books including The Long Descent, The Ecotechnic Future, The Wealth of Nature, and After Progress. He lives in Cumberland, Maryland, an old mill town in the Appalachians, with his wife Sara.
BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE RETURN OF VIOLENT FAR-RIGHT TERRORISM IN THE AGE OF LONE WOLVES
In recent years, a variety of both foreign and now domestic extremist movements have adopted and vigorously advocated via social media a strategy that encourages “lone wolves” to engage in individual acts of violence against a broad array of designated enemies. This breed of inspired adversary is a more recent and distinctly different kind of terrorist — to which traditional organizational constructs and definitions do not neatly apply. Terrorism today is thus also populated by individuals who are ideologically motivated, inspired, and animated by a movement, a leader, or a mélange of ideological mentors but who neither necessarily formally belong to a specific, identifiable terrorist group nor directly follow orders issued by its leadership.