two gods.. chillin’ on a mountain zero feet apart because they’re both gay
finally finished this, took a little longer than i was expecting but i really like how it turned out in the end! I haven’t painted Freyr and Freyja properly for at least two or three years so this was a fun update
So I dida postabout these a while back, but here’s the main thing that I think is of major interest!
These nudibranchs attach themselves to a species of jellyfish in their larval stage, feeding on the bell, eventually outgrowing the jellyfish, consuming the tentacles of the host and then swimming away to carry on its life.
So not only are they free swimming, fish-like slugs, they’re parasitoids as well!
My home will be a home with no loud anger, no explosive rage, no slamming doors or breaking glass, no name calling, shaming or blackmail. My home will be gentle, it will be warm. It will keep my loved ones safe. No fear, no hurt and no worries. I may come from a broken and twisted place but I will build something whole and safe. I’ll sing in the shower again, cook with a smile and dance in all the rooms. I will heal.
Buried in the new Apple Iphone and Apple TV privacy policy is an
unannounced program that uses “information about how you use your
device, including the approximate number of phone calls or emails you
send and receive…to compute a device trust score when you attempt a
purchase.”
The measure is billed as an anti-fraud system and Apple claims that its
surveillance is “designed so Apple cannot learn the real values on your
device.”
Though Apple doesn’t provide any details on how this works, the company
has previously deployed a privacy measure called “differential privacy”
that allows for some aggregate data-gathering and analysis that
theoretically protects the subjects’ privacy – however, Apple’s
differential privacy implementation was fatally flawed,
a fact that was slow to come to light in part because of the company’s
notorious secrecy and its hostility to independent repair and
unauthorized analysis of its security measures.
Apple’s locked-down systems are often a useful line of defense against fraud, theft and surveillance – but as the company’s record in China shows,
this control is a dual-edged sword. By locking its Iphones to its App
Store, and then capitulating to the Chinese government by banning secure
VPNs from the Chinese App Store, Apple has made Chinese mass
surveillance and retaliation against political dissidents much easier,
and made evading surveillance and retaliation much harder.
Apple’s privacy policy also adds that the Trust Scores “are stored for a
fixed time on our servers.” However, this fixed time is not defined,
nor are there any promises that Apple won’t change the duration in
future – indeed, as the Chinese experience has shown, states have
enormous influence over how technology is designed and deployed.
Oh my god, someone has footage of it! I remember one time my dad, lil brother, and I were leaving a Ryan’s. We were waiting for a chance to hop onto the road and in the distance we just saw everything turn grey. We saw it come closer and closer and come to find out it was rain!
It was just a wall of rain – the end of the rain, really. I’ve never seen it again, but it’s so cool to see footage of the edge of rain!
