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Happy #FursuitFriday! For the next two weeks, select fursuit bandanas are 20% off in my shop! Name embroidery is free. https://pantherapalm.etsy.com
#FurryMerch #furry #FurryFandom #embroidery #FursuitBandana #DogBandana #Fursuit #Etsy
I'm not sure if I wanna fursuit at CFz this year. Hydro is close to 10 years old at this point. I love the character but my underarmour has gone missing and I currently don't have the funds to replace it. :(
I might partial but it doesn't feel right without the full body going on.
This is my big doofy boy who I love very much
What's better than one super toony wiggly noodle?
How about TWO super toony wiggly noodles? 🐉🤝🐉 MirthfulLix
📸 Gryphonfluff #FursuitFriday
Every chance I've had to interact with satellite operators in conferences, I've asked them about their plans for dealing with solar storms (I'm particularly worried about Starlink, which requires dozens of maneuvers per day to avoid collisions. What if a large fraction shuts down for a few hours?!)
The universal response to my inquiries has been "Don't worry about that, it'll be fine!"
I guess we're going to find out very soon. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
When a pair of women in their 80’s, a former biology teacher and vicar are taking it upon themselves to point out that prized ancient artefacts won’t count for $hit when you’ve destroyed life as we know it on this planet…then maybe, just maybe politicians should wake up and take real #ClimateAction now. We can’t wait any longer.
Group says two women in their 80s took hammer and chisel to protective glass at British LibraryJamie Grierson (The Guardian)
This is the problem…
If you keep your head down over #ClimateBreakdown, you influence no one to take action.
If you speak out, people either laugh or get turned off…and still no one takes #ClimateAction
With every passing month #DontLookUp becomes more and more painfully true.
As a scientist, I’m faced with indifference and a failure to understand the reality of the climate crisis every day. We must wake people up, says UCL’s Bill McGuireBill McGuire (The Guardian)
It's nearly time for ConFuzzled again - beware random fluffderg attacks! Don't let this happen to you!!! (Or do, if you like cuddles...)
📷 Zelandeth
💛 @azakir
🐦 Firemixer
⌚️ #FursuitFriday
I really love these cute fursuits so much....
....I MUST cuddle any cute fursuiters in my place....
....I feel very happy and satisfied.
♥️🥰♥️🤗 #FursuitFriday
We desperately need a vision and a long term strategy
The global average concentration of carbon dioxide in March this year was 4.7 parts per million (or ppm) higher than it was in March last year, which is a record-breaking increase in CO2 levels over a 12-month period.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-record
Experts issue warning after finding global average concentration in March was 4.7ppm higher than same period last yearOliver Milman (The Guardian)
With our new family member 🐔 Chimkin Flummox and adorable Jorden.
📍: #Suitwalk Heilbronn
📅: 2024-05-04
🐲: https://twitter.com/FurJorden
📷: @gustl
amazing headshot by https://dumpstercryptid.carrd.co/ i got over on some other site
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Just as a test, I loaded up a browser, with zero ad blocker, and zero network filtering. Basically, a direct, dirty connection to the internet. From there, I loaded up just ONE site, and ONLY the homepage, nothing more. The results are beyond astounding.
NEVER, EVER turn off your ad blocker.
#getanadblocker #ublockorigin #adblocker #privacy
A question that doesn't seem to be asked as we watch police forces flooding into university campuses to disperse Gaza protests with sticks:
Why do the Gaza protests need to be dispersed?
You could just leave them be. It'd be fine, there are plenty of protests that don't draw squads of cops with body armor and APCs. A student sit-in at a university's admin building isn't exactly societally disruptive, it'd be very easy to just not send it troops.
Why does the State have an animating interest in quashing these demonstrations with physical power?
Maybe that question should get more open attention.
Don't mind me, I'm just a derp who will pose for a photo anytime. I'm also a cutie, or try to be. Hugs?
#FursuitFriday #Fursuit #Fursuiter #Fursuiting #FurryAnthro #FoxFursuit #FoxFursona #TerrenceTheFox #FurryFandom #UKFur #Furry
Modern devices may seem simple and easy to use, whereas they are in fact fantastically complicatedFinancial Times
"Opinion: Why is Britain’s mental health so incredibly poor? It’s because our society is spiralling backwards"
Yes...very..
Even as neoliberalism destroys our dreams of a better life, politicians tell us ‘there is no alternative’. But there is, says Guardian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
Seeing all the major left of center parties across Europe all becoming Centrist Liberals at best and Neoliberals at worst is so horrifying.
I've said it before but I am old enough to remember when the Social Democratic party here in Sweden was further to the left than the former Communist party is today. The Social Democrats has not been left of center since the late 90s.
Next Lord of the Rings: screenwriter Peter Jackson turns one paragraph in the Silmarillion into a 3 hour movie 😜
https://www.avclub.com/peter-jackson-lord-of-the-rings-hunt-for-gollum-serkis-1851466175
Warner Bros. Discovery announced that a new Lord Of The Rings movie is set for 2026Mary Kate Carr (The A.V. Club)
If you're just going to call anything that uses electricity "electronics" then I'm going to call anything that uses gravity "gravitronics".
My drip coffee maker?
Gravitronic coffee maker.
That grandfather clock?
Gravitronic clock.
The slide on the children's play set?
Gravitronicly-powered play.
This year we launched the first satellite capable of seeing methane emissions, a potent and dangerous greenhouse gas.
Now the fossil-fuel companies are building structures to hide those emissions.
Climate criminals.
#Climate
Fossil fuel companies are building enclosed structures that hide the flaring of methane gas from satellites.Steve Hanley (CleanTechnica)
It’s taken me less than 2 minutes to find a company that sells these systems to hide flaring. They are not even bothering to hide what they do. Governments need to grow a backbone and make the sale of these systems illegal….but oh yeah, the #BigOil
lobby bribed them all against taking this most basic of actions to be able to functionally monitor methane, the thing that is frying our planet quicker than CO2.
https://www.zeeco.com/products/flares/ground-enclosed
Zeeco’s Totally Enclosed Ground Flare (TEGF) provide smokeless operation inside of a combustion chamber that completely conceals the flare flame.www.zeeco.com
@JugglingWithEggs
‘A few of the advantages of Zeeco’s Enclosed Ground Flare system are listed below:
- Clean, smokeless burning for a range of flare gas compositions
- No radiation outside the unit
- No visible emissions’
It’s the final point which is the USP of this system…
The tendency for corps to automate away low-tier work has some unfortunate consequences when this tendency hits things like SOCs - at that point, removing e.g. tier-1 triage type work produces minimal cost savings (junior analysts aren't all that expensive) but also removes the work experience that is required to learn how to become a senior analyst.
When your educational pipeline is interrupted, this also interrupts knowledge transfer from seniors within the organization, resulting in increased institutional knowledgebase decay over time.
Many of the services currently in production are highly resilient to disruption - and well they should be; they've been built from the accumulated knowledge and expertise of many people over a period of years, with the explicit goal of creating resiliency, maintainability, and performance.
However, that resilience is a finite resource for these services, and is maintained over time by the application of institutional knowledge and expertise; even the best-documented and most-resilient systems will decay over time if the personnel who comprehend its structure and maintenance requirements depart the service-operations role without passing this distillation of knowledge down to their successors - successors who, in turn, need an onramp to obtain such roles in the first place, an onramp that was formerly expected to be the tier-1 roles that are being progressively automated away.
And that's not to say that all tier-1 roles will vanish, and certainly not immediately - but the progressive reduction in their availability will impact the pool of personnel available for these roles.
Like all complex systems, the ones I'm talking about aren't going to immediately fall over; instead, we see gradual losses in effectiveness over time - for "the system by which security analysts are trained from neophytes to senior level" this will look like a much-reduced qualified candidate pool over time, with fewer and less-qualified candidates for the jobs that are available.
This is likely to end up being compensated for in the short run by outsourcing and exploiting international workers from areas that are lagging behind in technological availability of these junior-removing automations - but these workers will necessarily not have the same context and institutional knowledge that in-house workers will have about the nature and purpose of the systems being used, which will cause impedance mismatches that we already see with, e.g., MSSPs and their clients.
I don't have a clear feasible solution for this. I'd like to see various outfits that are working to automate away junior positions engage with this directly, tho, and to have frank and open discussions about ways to teach people how to work with their systems to gain that expertise so that they can be effective seniors in the paradigm that those companies envision in the future - tech requires people to operate, and if your product is intended -for- the disruption of such a market, describing the new system that you envision resulting from the disruption is, I think, a requisite for ethical participation in such markets.
Ultimately, I think that considering the whole lifecycle of how -your- product interacts both with the system as it is -and- with the system that your product will define with its success is absolutely necessary for a product to remain successful over time.
