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Of the many things you expect to deal with early in the morning--eggs, bacon, sanity, underwear--it's not and never will include your mother and Child watching the entire back catalogue of Anonymous onyoutube, from Chanology to Maryville, and mouthing "We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us," and I still haven't had coffee.

This is my mother and my kid; the most likely outcome is showing up at a bail hearing because my mom figured out how to join the latest DDoS with Child and his tiny school cabal protesting something, and come on, Anonymous had a lot of protests, okay? It's like shopping; they'll scan the offerings and find one they like. I don't think the sane response is to forbid them all internet access, mostly because Mom and Child have a deeply unsettling ability to thinks sideways and this ends in wifi passcode warfare and I have a job interview on Wednesday. Just. It's too early for this.

Speaking of:

Anonymous Takes on the Maryville Rape Case - Maryville, Missouri - okay, you probably heard this one before, but don't stop there. It starts with a football player and a fourteen year old girl who is left out half-naked in the cold on her parents' porch, and an iphone recording. And later, when the family put the house up for sale after the mother lost her job after her daughter made the accusation against the football player, it mysteriously burned down.

The last part is kind of new, but honest to fucking God, is there a fucking rapescript out there somewhere being downloaded and the major points checked off? Yes, I know about the one for frats, so someone, hunt down the 1.) girl 2.) alcohol, 3.) rape, 4.) record that shit, 5.) NO ONE BELIEVES IT HAHAHA manifesto. Society does know about Wiley Coyote's failures, yet even the fact this is an ACME's InstaRape Product line, it always works. When cartoon logic makes more sense than real world, a reassessment is in order.

Youtube search results on Maryville

Also, interesting interview on Mother Jones with KYAnonymous, one of the leaders of Anonymous Steubenville and currently facing hacking charges. Those can bring up to ten years in prison if convicted, as opposed to the max of two years received by the Steubenville rapists.

Okay, so the hypothetical bail hearing, getting my kid and my mom out, I was thinking about what to tell the judge; which sounds better: "Welcome to Thunderdome", quote Anonymous, or "Okay, don't stop me, even though I bet you've heard this one before...."

It's not so early now, I still haven't had coffee, but I feel way more awake now.

In case this hasn't been brought to anyone's attention:

TRIGGERING MATERIAL FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT BELOW.

The Steubenville Rape Case Getting National Attention

Rape Case Unfolds on Web and Splits City

( more links below cut - triggering material )

ETA: LJ side of this post has a highly triggering comment that includes rape denial and victim blaming. User is now banned, but it's unscreened because hell if I'm covering up that kind of attitude. It's the second comment in that post.

Because sometimes, people are fucking sociopaths.

Westboro Baptist Church Wants to Picket Connecticut School Shooting

Because sometimes, it gets much more interesting.

Time Magazine: Anonymous Targets Westboro Baptist Over Newton Picket Plans

Forbes: Anonymous Targets Westboro Baptist (Again) Over Threat To Picket Newtown - UPDATED

Anonymous: YourAnonNews Twitterfeed for all your Anonymous needs.

So far:
1.) Twitter feed of Shirley Phelps hacked (currently showing as suspended!)
2.) Current down status of their website
3.) Doxing of all Westboro members (this link is to anonpaste where the information is currently stored, link retrieved from The Wired article).
4.) cosmothegod seems have been inspired to break probation and join in the fight and claims responsibility for the twitterfeed hack.

(Note: All links taken directly from articles and SFW and my work's system is not blocking any of them.)

I have to say, the designers of Anonymous's messages knows how to make an impression.

Because sometimes, numbers matter.

Petition White House to have Westboro declared a hate group here. Currently at 183,347. When I signed an hour ago, it was at 179K. They have already been so identified by Southern Poverty Law Center and anyone sane with a working understanding of not being a sociopathic, greedy, depraved dick who commits crimes against humanity. Emotional torture is still torture. Doing it for the lawsuit and money potential means you're just a sick fuck.

A Versus S: The Rise of the Clones (or something)

Because we are about three days away from Operation Reconnect on Saturday and this time I put a post-it note up to remind me that come hail, bad weather, or epic pneumonia, I will be watching this. Um, unless John Sheppard appears on my doorstep. Then all bets are off.

Linked first by gweniriol:

the following post is [about] anonymous hosted by Henry Jenkin's blog, apparently from an (anonymous but not Anonymous) student. It, er, has nothing particularly new to say that anyone on lj hasn't been saying, but it's a nice and concise summary of events so far.

Linked by JF's user Nigredo on Operation: Mock at JF:

Serious Business, hosted by Citypaperonline, a pretty darn good article about Anonymous, Scientology, the internet, et al. Really, really interesting.

The Definition of Insanity Is...

Theoretically (as in, from the internetz I got my learnings), insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different response. That personally makes no sense to me, because as we all know, doing something exactly the same way over and over is a flat out guarantee that it will have a different response just as you have fallen into the rut. Which is why people are up at four in the morning when their hard drive inexplicably crashes and they lose all their media after saving it the same way as always. Not that this has happened to me. But I have heard of it.

However. At work, this is the actual definition of sane. Doing the same test over and over and over until it starts working. I literally think that at some point, someone is going to come in here and find me sitting in my bra and a pair of sunglasses talking to my imaginary best friend Bob the Toaster. It's just that likely. Assuming I remember to wear a bra.

It's over soon. Well, not really. But the part that's making me have some kind of strange interaction with the not-real world (ask

chopchica about my sudden desire to turn all of SGA into actual vampires; this can't end well).

Music

I rarely rec music, but if you are say, in a bad mood? The rageful kind? Falls Apart by Hurt is doing good things for me. It tricked me. The beginning is faintly slow emo by way of Staind and I was all, whee mope, oh woe my hard life, then suddenly there's like, that virtual feeling of being in a room full of guitars and your job is to smash them all. Yes. That please. It's on youtube (a lot), but I can't listen from here to see which version sounds right.

I'd like to thank weird sounds for waking me up, giving me an adrenaline rush, and tehn leaving me awake. Very awake. Hence, I have to do something.

I am totally behind in my Anonymous-gazing. Luckily, it's no longer all that hard to find what you missed. And for those new here wondering what the hell, my continuing fascination with what appears to be--almost--a live action meme.

As we all know, February 10 was the first IRL protest by Anonymous of Scientology, followed by a March 15 turnout called The Ides of March. Many of us watched in bemusement. Because really. Who saw this coming? (At least the first one. The second one--yeah, saw that one coming. Deeply curious about April now).

The Road to February 10th - a video documenting from the release of the Tom Cruise video to the first IRL protest. Really good. Really really good. Really really interesting. Did I mention good?

Radar Online

Cult Friction in Radar Online, really fantastic, if brief, overview of the current--er, conflict. Pre March 15th information.

Briefly:

After an embarrassing string of high-profile defection and leaked videos, Scientology is under attack from a faceless cabal of online activists. Has America's most controversial religion finally met its match?

Okay, cutting for space.

( ides of march, hub links )

The thing that makes me sad is that too much time spent at Dramatica has introduced butthurt into common conversation with people (people who are at work), and spellcheck and I keep arguing about the spelling of moar.

Right, moving on.

( anonymous versus scientology, hub links )

And my personal favorite--well, I'm a fangirl. Combine vidding with social activism and I'm there.

( youtube video )

Next date: Operation Reconnect on April 12

The only thing that vaguely surprises me is that AFAIK, only Journalfen, Facebook and MySpace have Anonymous hubs among the social network world. At least, I haven't foudn one yet on IJ or LJ.

Earlier vaguely coherent entries available under the tag a versus s

The thing is.

The thing is, I don't remember how it was before.

It's frustrating when Livejournal goes down. When YIM or AIM start hijinking--you see where I'm going with this. I started in fandom in usenet and mailinglists and went to chat halfway through Voyager and full time once I hit X-Men. I know--I know the universe of fandom wasn't always this fast. The speed of gossip's always beat the speed of light. The thing is gossip can precede the event to gossip about. There's nothing new in making what was fantasy a fact; science does it all the time. People do it, too.

From

boji, two links:

matociquala fighting meme with meme (or) how to use narrative as a weapon and

cristalia The Medium. The Message.

I think they have the voice I've been searching for in what this felt like when I read about it the first time in startled fascination. I was excited, and I wasn't sure why or how to phrase it; I mean, what the hell could I say? I didn't know what I was looking for, why I kept searching it up, and dear God, no one sane should spend that much time on Encyclopedia Dramatica, that's asking for some kind of cognitive dissonance or getting way too fascinated with LOLCode. Getting on digg to sweep through and watch it manipulated, look at technorati and del.icio.us and ponder myspace and facebook and think yes. Yes. That's it.

I'm pulling a short thread to quote from here:

( length, length, length )

I seriously have to stop watching youtube. I just--it's totally the wrong question, is it real. I think it's more, how real do you want it to be? I think it just made pretty fucking real.

I am going to have a brownie and write porn now.

Found on

sf_drama who got it from

metaquotes here, which are, I'll be honest, better at getting up to date information than CNN these days.

February 10, 2008 - Anomymous in London....

Okay, the thing is, while reading along and nodding, it occurred to me that I one day want the opportunity to shout these two things as part of a group in public:

Sometimes we cheered and clapped, sometimes we shouted "TL;DR!"

And.

A friend had a banner with "SCIENTOLOGY MAKES ME A SAD PANDA!" which the media snapped a lot, we chanted it for a bit, then started demanding to know why Xenu/Tom Cruise/Scientology hated pandas.

The rest of the entry is pretty darn funny, btw. If anyone sees any other entries on this, link please?

Here is an estimated world headcount for Feb 10.

You know, I'm torn. Half of me feels like I'm documenting this like I'm watching some rare species of wildlife in its native habitat, then the rest of me notices I'm in half the shots I'm taking. Or at least parts of my internet culture are. And that's the part of me that makes it impossible to share with pretty much three quarters of the people I know IRL; the background alone is a dissertation.

And how does one explain the panda without excusing yourself for fits of hysteria? Really?

ETA: Updated late, because I suddenly became strangely busy at work.

From

serabut -- About the raids and, in

serabut's words, a very newbie-friendly intro.

From

elenlita -- The Protest in Atlanta with riot police!

And apparently, March 15 is the next signficant day in Chanology.

Also check Encyclopedia Dramatica (which is never work safe, ever, even when you are on a page that could not possibly have porn, there will be porn, I can almost guarantee this) with updates to Project Chanology/IRL Protest Page (seriously! A page devoted to this!) and Project Chanology's own page and, yes, one more, Project Chanology Media Coverage.

And finally, Wikipedia updates its Chanology information.

A few more links in comments, should anyone want to follow along. This is just interesting.

This is now under the tag A Versus S while I wander along blinking thoughtfully and slowly but surely catching up on the history of so many internet memes I never knew came from 4chan. Who knew?

So I came home last night, ate dinner, wrapped up in a blanket to watch tv and woke up at seven ten this morning.

Seriously. I don't even know what's going on with my body these days.

Fannish Quotes

Because one day I want a fannish metaquotes community, so until then, I will make my own fun.

From eleveninches:
Sure, it was funny the first few times, but I don't get how this trope has managed to last so long. Shouldn't fandom have moved on by now to, say, sex with non-humanoid aliens or weird kinks that make everyone uncomfortable?
--on genderfuck, livejournal

Someone make me a community of fannish metaquotes. Please? I don't want to do it myself, but I would totally be supportive, in that way I will occasionally say I SUPPORT YOU! I would also like to have god like moderator powers and no actual responsibility and tribute. And a pony.

Yeah. One day. It'll totally happen.

Social Activism and the Internet

What's a DDoS the RL equivalent of in the wide and wonderful family of social protest?

It's a funny question for me, because I think most of us kneejerk hate with a kind of ferocity that we don't get from seeing picketers around a store, petshop, church, social protest site, etc. Mostly because all of us gathered in tiny miserable balls at greatestjournal and wrote really sad porn together until the way and the light of Livejournal showered down upon us again. And I was totally on AIM with whoever would talk to me, fighting back tears and, wait, did you ever notice you can have an attack of crying and still communicate clearly and without spitting on anyone?

Hmm. Not what I meant to say. But it's true.

So I was thinking about the flexibility of protest in the real world (sit ins, meetings, protests, hunger strikes (questionable legality?), letter writing, faxing, etc etc etc) and how very little of that is actually possible on the internet.

Now, something else--I have absolutely no cred in this. I am not and never have been mistaken for any kind of social protester. I don't eat veal; I mean, that's it, and only because no one served it. The WGA strike isn't the first time I did a monetary form of supportive protest, but it's probably the one that's lasted the longest, because so many people I care about are directly affected. I was not raised by people with that kind of activism. I have not actually ever been in any kind of meeting room and/or facility in which any group of people planned anything protesting anything at all. I wasn't raised with it as a social norm. I do not internalize any of this. Except so far as to look and wonder what it's like to have this so powerful a part of your identity that you carry it everywhere.

So I guess I'm curious on this, those of you with traditions of activism, who carried signs and marched in protest; how is it translated to the internet? This isn't the worst we can do, any of us; we don't have to hack the pentagon to bring down the internet, and it's all nonviolent at that.

I'm almost sure I'm thinking about this too hard; I take comfort from teh fact someone, somewhere, will doubtless have Social Activism on the Interent as their thesis and then I can just read that. Link plz?

This is the Entry of Updates. Many. Some. Sort of.

Webpage

In a fit of productivity, updated Indulgence with all fic back to August:

Eighteenish, SGA, Sheppard/McKay
I Hear and I Forget, SGA, Sheppard/McKay (technically Sheppard/Other)
The List of Cool Shit to Do, SGA, gen-like Sheppard/McKay, art
Story of a Girl, SGA, Sheppard/McKay, genderswitch
Insurrection, SGA, missing scene from Story of a Girl, Sheppard/McKay, genderswitch
The Past, in Plural, SCC (Sarah Connor Chronicles), gen

Still working on linking up the art, mostly because I keep thinking how desperately I want to tweak this website design and how lazy I am.

Anonymous Versus Scientology, Project Chanology, the Continuing Story

Earlier entry on the subject.

This part is actually more a Wikipedia curiosity as well; I didn't know, before now, exactly what level of oversight there is in Wikipedia. The links are pulled from OTF Wank comments.

( longer than expected )

My Poor Toes

Still hurt. Limping around work pathetically. Epic journeys to the coffemaker. Very little sympathy. Yes, that is totally news.

Everything Else

Here is my request for pimping John Sheppard gen. If you missed it, and considering I posted at like, 1 AM, I can see why, plz to be pimping your favorites in the John Sheppard gen category. And self-pimp. Seriously.

Del.icio.us is now working correctly again, but I'm still paranoid enough to open the same page in two windows just in case it randomly deletes when I edit.

And that--sort of covers that.

Hands up. Who is following along with Anonymous Versus Scientology?

( under the cut )

This does explain some of the search results I've been getting back now.

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dude, it's way too early on saturday for this
like you need low blood pressure
Anonymous versus Westboro Church
i don't want a pony. i want a clone
that was a lot of reading
it's far too late to be thinking so much. ed is such a drug
february 10. 2008
mm. daylight
so many updates, so little time
it's utterly fascinating

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That's why he goes bad, you know -- all the good people hit him on the head or try to shoot him and constantly mistrust him, while there's this vast cohort of minions saying, We wouldn't hurt you, Lex, and we'll give you power and greatness and oh so much sex...
Wow. That was scary. Lex is like Jesus in the desert.
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Beth: god, why do i have so many beads?
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Jenn: There are twelve step programs for this.
Beth: i dunno they'd work, might have to go straight for the electroshock.
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In medical billing there is a diagnosis code for someone who commits suicide by sea anenemoe.
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Anonymous: sorry. i just wanted to tell you how much i liked you. i'd like to take this to a higher level if you're willing
Eleveninches: By higher level I hope you mean email.
-- eleveninches and anonymous, on things that are disturbing
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silverkyst: I need to not be taking molecular genetics.
silverkyst: though, as a sidenote, I did learn how to eviscerate a fruit fly larvae by pulling it's mouth out by it's mouthparts today.
silverkyst: I'm just nowhere near competent in the subject material to be taking it.
Jenn: I'd like to thank you for that image.
-- silverkyst and seperis, on more wtf
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Aside from the fact that one person should never go near another with a penis, a bottle of body wash, and a hopeful expression...
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Smudged upon the near horizon, lapine shadows in the mist. Like a doomsday vision from Watership Down, the bunny intervention approaches.
-- cpt_untouchable, on my addition of The Fourth Bunny
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dude, it's way too early on saturday for this

like you need low blood pressure

Anonymous versus Westboro Church

i don't want a pony. i want a clone

that was a lot of reading

it's far too late to be thinking so much. ed is such a drug

february 10. 2008

mm. daylight

so many updates, so little time

it's utterly fascinating

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