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Prominent academics, including a former IPCC chair, round on governments worldwide for using the concept of net zero emissions to 'greenwash' their lack of commitment to solving global warming. | |
Submitted at 04-23-2021, 01:29 AM by sleeppoor | |
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Findings from a new inspector general report show how Trump officials blocked hurricane aid for Puerto Rico and obstructed a probe looking into the withholdings. | |
Submitted at 04-23-2021, 01:55 AM by sleeppoor | |
Jenna Karvunidis, an early proponent of gender reveal parties, now has more nuanced thoughts about the popular themed events. That's in part to her own daughter, one of the first gender reveal babies. | |
Submitted at 04-23-2021, 01:46 AM by Xiphias | |
I was born in 1944 in Little Mexico, which was located just north of downtown Dallas. At that time, the forties and earlier, Mexican restaurants often had a lot of Anglo customers. They would serve chicken-fried steaks, fried chicken, spaghetti and meatballs, mashed potatoes, green beans, dinner rolls. Of course they would also offer basic Mexican food like enchiladas with chili gravy and tamales, but you couldn’t charge very much—it was expected to be cheap. And it wasn’t called Tex-Mex then, just Mexican food. Actually, some Anglos thought the term “Mexican” was offensive, so they would say, “Oh, we just love Spanish food.” | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 11:14 PM by Forensic | |
Submitted at 04-23-2021, 12:31 AM by Xiphias | |
A fatal Tesla crash this weekend that involved an apparently driverless Model S has renewed safety questions about Tesla Autopilot, including whether there are enough safeguards to ensure drivers are paying attention while it’s engaged. Consumer Reports found this week that the answer is, uh, no. | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 07:47 PM by FMonk | |
Professional troll and desperate attention seeker Milo Yiannopoulos has surfaced again. The conservative speaker, who has been banned off most social media platforms and sparked riots at his public speaking events, has declared he's no longer gay. | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 08:14 PM by Disruptive Emotional-Support Pig | |
A chat with Lenval Brown and voice director Cash DeCuir. | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 07:32 PM by Xiphias | |
By a truly unbelievable coincidence, I was recently out for a walk when I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me. As I got closer, the dull enterprise typeface slowly came into focus: Cellebrite. Inside, we found the latest versions of the Cellebrite software, a hardware dongle designed to prevent piracy (tells you something about their customers I guess!), and a bizarrely large number of cable adapters.
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For example, by including a specially formatted but otherwise innocuous file in an app on a device that is then scanned by Cellebrite, it’s possible to execute code that modifies not just the Cellebrite report being created in that scan, but also all previous and future generated Cellebrite reports from all previously scanned devices and all future scanned devices in any arbitrary way (inserting or removing text, email, photos, contacts, files, or any other data), with no detectable timestamp changes or checksum failures. This could even be done at random, and would seriously call the data integrity of Cellebrite’s reports into question.
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In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files. | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 07:06 PM by Simian | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 06:49 PM by crote | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 06:18 PM by nocash | |
Informative isn't just the facts, but the facts in their context | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 06:49 PM by Forensic | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 05:04 PM by Xiphias | |
Neighborhoods in several different southern New Hampshire towns were rocked by a mysterious explosion Tuesday night. | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 04:56 PM by Xiphias | |
Her identity began to unravel after her co-host said she had gone missing. | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 12:26 PM by nocash | |
Photos and audio recordings from Tsutsuishi, arguably Japan’s most dystopian train station. | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 08:52 AM by The Livin' Burden | |
No one seems to be sure what happened to a set of remains thought to be two children killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing.
For decades, the bones were kept at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. A Penn Museum spokesperson said the remains have since been transferred to the care of researchers at Princeton — but an administrator at the New Jersey university was uncertain of their whereabouts. After this story published, a spokesperson said Princeton does not have them.
The indifferent treatment of the remains is not new. At Penn, according to people with first-hand knowledge, they were not kept in climate-controlled storage. They were kept in a cardboard box on a shelf.
Mike Africa Jr., a current member of the MOVE organization, was shocked and disturbed by the news that his relatives had been denied a resting place.
“They were bombed, and burned alive,” Africa Jr. said, “and now you wanna keep their bones." | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 02:55 AM by Velveteen Touch | |
Hard Luck Mine Castle is a 22-room property built in the middle of the Nevada Desert between 2000 and 2012 by Randy Johnston. | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 02:32 AM by Xiphias | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 02:42 AM by Xiphias | |
Submitted at 04-22-2021, 12:50 AM by Xiphias | |

Prominent academics, including a former IPCC chair, round on governments worldwide for using the concept of net zero emissions to 'greenwash' their lack of commitment to solving global warming.
Findings from a new inspector general report show how Trump officials blocked hurricane aid for Puerto Rico and obstructed a probe looking into the withholdings.
Jenna Karvunidis, an early proponent of gender reveal parties, now has more nuanced thoughts about the popular themed events. That's in part to her own daughter, one of the first gender reveal babies.
I was born in 1944 in Little Mexico, which was located just north of downtown Dallas. At that time, the forties and earlier, Mexican restaurants often had a lot of Anglo customers. They would serve chicken-fried steaks, fried chicken, spaghetti and meatballs, mashed potatoes, green beans, dinner rolls. Of course they would also offer basic Mexican food like enchiladas with chili gravy and tamales, but you couldn’t charge very much—it was expected to be cheap. And it wasn’t called Tex-Mex then, just Mexican food. Actually, some Anglos thought the term “Mexican” was offensive, so they would say, “Oh, we just love Spanish food.”
A fatal Tesla crash this weekend that involved an apparently driverless Model S has renewed safety questions about Tesla Autopilot, including whether there are enough safeguards to ensure drivers are paying attention while it’s engaged. Consumer Reports found this week that the answer is, uh, no.
Professional troll and desperate attention seeker Milo Yiannopoulos has surfaced again. The conservative speaker, who has been banned off most social media platforms and sparked riots at his public speaking events, has declared he's no longer gay.
A chat with Lenval Brown and voice director Cash DeCuir.
By a truly unbelievable coincidence, I was recently out for a walk when I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me. As I got closer, the dull enterprise typeface slowly came into focus: Cellebrite. Inside, we found the latest versions of the Cellebrite software, a hardware dongle designed to prevent piracy (tells you something about their customers I guess!), and a bizarrely large number of cable adapters.
(...)
For example, by including a specially formatted but otherwise innocuous file in an app on a device that is then scanned by Cellebrite, it’s possible to execute code that modifies not just the Cellebrite report being created in that scan, but also all previous and future generated Cellebrite reports from all previously scanned devices and all future scanned devices in any arbitrary way (inserting or removing text, email, photos, contacts, files, or any other data), with no detectable timestamp changes or checksum failures. This could even be done at random, and would seriously call the data integrity of Cellebrite’s reports into question.
(...)
In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files.
Informative isn't just the facts, but the facts in their context
Neighborhoods in several different southern New Hampshire towns were rocked by a mysterious explosion Tuesday night.
Her identity began to unravel after her co-host said she had gone missing.
Photos and audio recordings from Tsutsuishi, arguably Japan’s most dystopian train station.
No one seems to be sure what happened to a set of remains thought to be two children killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing.
For decades, the bones were kept at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. A Penn Museum spokesperson said the remains have since been transferred to the care of researchers at Princeton — but an administrator at the New Jersey university was uncertain of their whereabouts. After this story published, a spokesperson said Princeton does not have them.
The indifferent treatment of the remains is not new. At Penn, according to people with first-hand knowledge, they were not kept in climate-controlled storage. They were kept in a cardboard box on a shelf.
Mike Africa Jr., a current member of the MOVE organization, was shocked and disturbed by the news that his relatives had been denied a resting place.
“They were bombed, and burned alive,” Africa Jr. said, “and now you wanna keep their bones."
Hard Luck Mine Castle is a 22-room property built in the middle of the Nevada Desert between 2000 and 2012 by Randy Johnston.