Boston Marathon

[Deepvoid]

Ok so now the Boston PD is tweeting that NO arrest has been made.

Can we get it straight for once?!

[allegro]

when ABC news broke into regular programming a little while ago, they said that an arrest could be made "very soon" based on surveillance video from Lord & Taylor, but nothing yet.

[marodi]

Anonymous has taken over the WBC's Facebook page

In retaliation for them saying they were going to "attend" the funerals of the Boston attack victims.

Don't fuck with Anonymous.

[DigitalChaos]

The media is going to jump on any hint of news right now since there is a lack of anything to report on. Let them continue to chew on their own faces.

[Deepvoid]

Seen on twitter:
CNN confirms: Schrodinger's cat definitely alive... probably. Box still closed. But totally alive for sure. Or dead.

[Nyx]

Anonymous has taken over the WBC's Facebook page

In retaliation for them saying they were going to "attend" the funerals of the Boston attack victims.

Don't fuck with Anonymous.

That page never belonged to WBC. It was created by Anon and has been run by them for months now.

[DigitalChaos]

Seen on twitter:
CNN confirms: Schrodinger's cat definitely alive... probably. Box still closed. But totally alive for sure. Or dead.

"Maybe CNN can get that Dove Real Beauty campaign sketch artist to draw the suspect as others see him, but also as he sees himself."

edit: for those who haven't seen it yet:

[Deepvoid]

That was a pretty neat video.

Buzzfeed has been a good source for information
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/s...dly-in-custody

[DigitalChaos]

Is there a surge in weird activity the last few days or is it due to a surge in reporting abnormal stuff?
In my area there has been a coordinated attack on a power substation and phone lines that left them offline for a while. There was just a big gas leak from a pipe breach a few miles from the giant San Bruno gas explosion that made national news. I know that most of the SF Bay area went on high alert immediately after the Boston explosions but... wtf

[orestes]

Because DigitalChaos. Seriously. This is what he does in every thread, and every thread turns into what this is turning into. Can we get some flood control or something?

We do have a shiny ignore button. I advise everyone to use it.

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I would be hesitant to go by anything the MSM are reporting, especially television, because 1) everyone is in a race to have a scoop, regardless of whether the so-called "facts" have been confirmed and 2)questionable sources.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...g-fact-fiction

[Sutekh]

speculation by bbc security boffin Frank Gardner on lines of enquiry http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22192379

I'm surprised north korea gets mentioned but mexican cartels don't, but whatever, maybe it's not that likely

[Frozen Beach]

http://nation.time.com/2013/04/18/fb...ston-marathon/

[allegro]

wtf all hell has broken loose in Watertown and at MIT. I guess MIT was just given the all-clear but the Twitter feed and police scanner and live feeds of this stuff is surreal!!

[Frozen Beach]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/natio...own-mit/64379/
Apparently the suspects are the ones from the bombing. One is supposedly in custody, though I heard on a news feed that he was dead.

edit: NBC reported they found a pressure cooker at the Watertown crime scene.

[NINisamazing]

They said the one suspect is dead, and the other one is still at large.Who was the naked guy then?

[Leviathant]

I've been glued to this for the past few hours: https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/watertown

Edit: Late nights + twitter do not always facts make.

[NINisamazing]

I am still wondering who the naked guy is? They confirmed that suspect one is dead, and one is still at large? Who was the guy also laying on the ground with his arms spread? Are there more then 2 people? Eh,I am going to bed. We will know more later.

[NINisamazing]

Ok, the naked guy was nobody. Wrong place, wrong time.

[cynicmuse]

This Middlesex DA press release sums up the current state of events. For the non-massholes, Cambridge and Watertown are both in Middlesex county.

[Sutekh]

BBC is refusing to name names but AP reports suspect is a Chechen national
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-su...cambridge-mass

[jessamineny]

They're also brothers. Neither one is the missing Brown student.

[Deepvoid]

Wow! Crazy stuff happening.

And who saw that one coming? Possibly Chechen rebels?

[Sutekh]

BBC has put together a short profile of them which suggests chechen/islamist links

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22219116

Doesn't look good

[WorzelG]

I hope this doesn't turn into a Jean Charles de Menezes situation

[october_midnight]

The pic of the dead suspect in the morgue is fuckin' gnarly...

[Dra508]

Having lived in Watertown and Boston at one time, traveling those roads and neighborhoods I imagine they are as quiet as when we have blizzards and they ask folks to stay off the roads. But to have to stay locked in your home, so unreal for Americans.

[DigitalChaos]

Woke up to a bunch of idiots ranting about how Islam needs to "clean house before the US does it for them" and similar stupid statements.

Everyone is dissecting one of the suspect's youtube pages: http://www.youtube.com/user/muazseyf...Fmuazseyfullah

And this isn't going to help the conspiracy nuts: http://www.minds.com/blog/view/53725...ramed-his-sons

[Dra508]

Where did this whole "Muslims did it" thing come from? I could be talking out of my ass here, but seems more like domestic terrorism. Couldn't tell you WHY, though.

There you go, both.

[Minpin]

And this isn't going to help the conspiracy nuts: http://www.minds.com/blog/view/53725...ramed-his-sons

As much as I really don't want to be associated with the conspiracy nuts, I couldn't help but think it when I heard Chechen terrorists.
Maybe I have been taken in by the 'conspiracy' bug, but since reading Litvenenko's account of the Dagestan apartment bombings in Blowing up Russia, I'm pretty skeptical of Chechen terrorism. I'm not convinced that wasn't an FSB plan to foment another war with Chechnya.
But again this doesn't really reflect on the Boston bombings, it's hard to equate that situation with this.

[DigitalChaos]

As much as I really don't want to be associated with the conspiracy nuts, I couldn't help but think it when I heard Chechen terrorists.
Maybe I have been taken in by the 'conspiracy' bug, but since reading Litvenenko's account of the Dagestan apartment bombings in Blowing up Russia, I'm pretty skeptical of Chechen terrorism. I'm not convinced that wasn't an FSB plan to foment another war with Chechnya.
But again this doesn't really reflect on the Boston bombings, it's hard to equate that situation with this.

There is no problem with being skeptical. In fact, it's fucking awesome. I wish more people were! You go into conspiracy nut land when you start accepting the conspiracy through a lack of skepticism in the opposite direction. Official reports do not automatically mean truth. Actual conspiracies have happened.
I had a coworker and good friend who retired from the Department of Defense. His time there caused him to not trust a single thing the government ever said. He war labeled a conspiracy nut by most of the right-wing people during the Bush years. I wish he was around to see Rachel Maddow's "Hubris" circulating so heavily in the public spotlight.