For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs - Issue #90
Look who showed up for the weird stuff
Hey Weirdos,
We’re coming to you on a soft, grey, rainy morning, the kind that makes you want to curl up with a mug of something warm… except a small tragedy has happened. There’s no coffee in the house. So here we are. Send your thoughts and morally neutral juju.
This week we took on more cases, welcomed a short-term intern (she’s already proving she can handle the chaos, wish her luck), and kept the wheels turning behind the scenes.
Landing in all inboxes this week was
latest, A Free OSINT Lesson: How Your “Friend with Benefits” Became an Insider Threat. When a simple “friends-with-benefits” scenario becomes a cybersecurity horror show, you get a masterclass in how casually shared trust can burn down corporate defences.For paid subscribers,
brought us the fourth part in her deep-dive series about Commonwealth v. Russ. This installment peels back another layer of historical intrigue around Oscar F. Russ’s harrowing court saga in 1915. This is your dose of judicial noir.What Kennedy Recommends
I bought Collective Amnesia a couple of years ago, and it sat on my shelf waiting to be read. The other day, rainy and cold, I plucked it off the shelf and read over half.
Koleka Putuma’s Collective Amnesia is a fearless and an unflinching dive into Blackness, womanhood, and history that doesn’t just speak truth to power, it shreds the whole idea of who holds power in the first place.
Her poems insist on visibility, and dismantle the authority we’re taught to accept in academia, religion, politics, relationships, asking what we’ve learned and what we need to unlearn. It’s grief and memory, pain and joy, sex and self-care, all woven into a sharp, lyrical reminder of what South African society and most of us have chosen to forget.
Take it easy,
Your Bullshit Hunting Crew