Rayhunter works by intercepting, storing, and analyzing the control traffic (but not user traffic, such as web requests) between the mobile hotspot Rayhunter runs on and the cell tower to which it’s connected. Rayhunter analyzes the traffic in real-time and looks for suspicious events, which could include unusual requests like the base station (cell tower) trying to downgrade your connection to 2G which is vulnerable to further attacks, or the base station requesting your IMSI under suspicious circumstances.

Mutual aid is a foundational element of Anarchism, but it is often difficult to translate theory into meaningful action while surviving the hellscape of late stage capitalism. Still, up and down the land there are a variety of practical examples from Food not Bombs stands, to Community Toolsheds, and Infoshops. Free Shops often go under the radar, but can be a vital link for many. If you go down to Boscome in Bournemouth on a Friday, outside Costa, you'll find the Boscome Free Shop, week in, week out, being there, making their community better. We wanted to know more so asked them not only why, but how they do this and how can others looking to find a way to make their anarchism practical start their own.

The list titled <em>Sabot in the Age of AI</em> catalogues strategically offensive methodologies and purposefully orchestrated tactics intended to facilitate (algorithmic) sabotage, including the deliberate disruption of structures and processes, as well as the targeted poisoning and corruption of data within the operational workflows of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Each approach delineated herein has been meticulously designed to systematically subvert the integrity of training pipelines, derail data acquisition procedures, and fundamentally undermine the foundational pillars that uphold the efficacy, reliability, and functionality of AI-driven frameworks.

Some easy starting points.

A line-by-line teardown of the most smug, exclusionary comment I’ve gotten since starting this blog—and why the so-called “freedom” they preach looks a lot more like a wall.

This essay grows out of a quite minor Twitter thread, which is here.Scotland now provides period products for free, to everyone who needs them.That's an incredibly powerful thing. The fact that Scotland does it — the fact that Scotland is the first nation in the world to do it — makes me proud to be Scots. It is a seed from which the good society can grow.

A solarpunk manifesto

Within the constellation of allied hobbies and subcultures collectively known as geekdom, one finds many social groups bent under a crushing burden of dysfunction, social drama, and general interpersonal wack-ness. It is my opinion that many of these never-ending crises are sparked off by an assortment of pernicious social fallacies — ideas about human interaction which spur their holders to do terrible and stupid things to themselves and to each other.

Throughout history, people have bathed in public rather than in private. Should we bring back the public bathhouse for the sake of sustainability?

This guide explains everything you need to know to build stand-alone photovoltaic systems that can power almost anything you want.