This reminded me of the time the following happened with my then partner.

Me: I hate that orange cunt

Redheaded Girlfriend: For the last time, I'm not shaving it.

It took me a good 5 mins to stop laughing.

Pluralistic: Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster (16 Sep 2024) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)

pluralistic.net/2024/09/16/gam…
memeorandum.com/240916/p29#a24…

Do you need to know who runs voter registration in Pennsylvania, or Florida, or Idaho? When election administrators are elected in Colorado?

For #DemocracyDay, bookmark our resource on who runs elections at the local level, state by state. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-ball…

There are only 50 days left until Election Day. And there's too much at stake to sit this one out.

So get involved in any way you can. Knock on doors or make phone calls for the Harris-Walz campaign. Talk to your friends, family, and neighbors about why it’s important to vote in this election. And make sure you’re registered and ready to vote by going to IWillVote.com/Obama.

iwillvote.com/Obama

Secure by Design for AI: Building Resilient Systems from the Ground Up
#Docker #Engineering #AIML #Developers #Security #Securityseries

docker.com/blog/secure-by-desi…

What the Polaris Dawn mission could reveal about human health in space

The Polaris Dawn astronauts have returned to Earth — but the real work has just begun.

#WritersCoffeeClub 16. Name-check your cover artist, even if it's yourself. Share your best cover.

It's me, I'm the cover artist.

I've already shown this first one a few times (and I'll do it again), but here's an older comic cover I hadn't posted yet* that I still think is kind of fun.

*I may have accidentally deleted my first post trying to pull my alt text for the greyscale one. Whoops. Here, have that one instead.

#MastoArt #DigitalArt

L'un de mes films préférés dont je vous ai déjà parlé "Yes, God yes", avec la talentueuse Natalia Dyer (Stranger Things). Il y a ce tube de Christina Aguilera, "Genie in a bottle", interprété par Samantha Urbani. Pas retrouvé cette version en dehors du film, snif youtube.com/watch?v=6i7F5id3mu…

#StrangerThings #Series #Films #Soundtrack #USA #Movies #Cinema

Outrageous political swag is not just an American thing.

Reminder: Pierre's wife, Mrs. Ana #Poilievre, is the official swag supplier to the Conservative Party of #Canada.
AKAIK, her official inventory is does not carry photos of PMJT, but the childish nicknames her husband spews in public, even in Parliament, have been co-oped by other producers.
Not pictured are examples of T-shirts & flags that use #PMJT image, along with extreme violence & threatening language.

hilltimes.com/story/2024/07/22…

Analisis of the plans for the next Commission: when corporate lobby groups define the strategy under the slogan of ‘competitiveness’, it is a wake-up call. Environmental policies, climate measures, social justice, and even democracy are in the firing line.

Read all about it here: corporateeurope.org/en/2024/09…

Oh neat. The sleep apnea detection in #AppleWatch is also coming to existing Series 9 and Ultra 2 models; not just for the new Series 10. #Apple

9to5mac.com/2024/09/16/three-a…

A polar bear feeding her cubs.

A screenshot from OceanXplorers S01E04.

#PolarBears
#Svalbard

TikTok’s lawyer hints at the government’s secret evidence for wanting to ban the app.

Andrew Pincus, the attorney representing TikTok and ByteDance in an appeals court hearing today, didn’t outright mention the DOJ’s attempt to introduce classified evidence. But he did suggest there’s no public rationale for the potential ban.

“We don’t really know what was determined here, because this was Congress enacting statute that has no findings, that doesn’t say why Congress did what it did.”