Here’s the NYT’s liveblog for today’s events there. If the election is nullified and re-done they should push for better oversight.

Nothing disinfects like sunlight.

Number 1: moot, the father of 4chan.

The first letters of the top 21 spell, “marblecake, also the game”, which is some 4chan inside joke I don’t get (despite some naive Dramatica trawling). I am assured “marblecake” is a sexual term, I assume a disgusting one.

The linked article discusses the various attacks Anonymous used, including beating reCAPTCHA using a Mechanical Turk.

Time doesn’t seem to care that they were pwned, and laughs off the comical failures of their IT department. It makes one wonder how much they care about professional standards in general.

(Via Defamer.)

[420chan] is an imageboard mostly filled with a strange combination of completely stoned people, cross dressers, and shota lovers.

(NSFW Link is theirs.)

The sentence is structured to entice you to dig deeper. “Click me”, it says, and once you’re through the looking glass you’re immediately and violently punished. It’s a memetic timebomb that goes off again and again and again.

The /b/ clans are turning communication tools into digital weapons, from griefing virtual worlds and wikis all the way down to DDOSing with bare packets: Technology-as-anarchist-prank. It’s fantastic.

The lovable detritus of the 4chan civil war live in a community immune to its own tactics — because invading /b/ is like pissing into an ocean of piss. And once the community reached a critical mass it exploded into this V-like noumenon Anonymous “who” identifies with the Biblical Legion. Truly Sci-Fi, PKD-style stuff.

Once again I find myself arriving in the future.

Anonymous works as one, because none of us is as cruel as all of us.