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A bill like this would normally get called a ban in all but name; but since it is literally called the “Gender Delusion Disqualification Act”, it is, in essence, a ban in name as well.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51816803

President Trump fell asleep at the 9/11 memorial ceremony.

The president dozed off at multiple points during the event Friday, slumped over in his chair with his eyes closed and his head hanging down while everyone else onstage—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Melania Trump, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—was clearly awake.

every App Store search is logged letter-by-letter, with millisecond timestamps. Apple can compute your typing speed.

every search you type, timed to the millisecond, stored to your account

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/06/17/apples-app-store-search-data-stores-every-single-keystroke

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51757733

We recently blacklisted some of the IP’s that our LG tv was sending data to. I can’t believe the sheer number of requests logged in just 1 week! And what’s worse is LG is even denying it now

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/71321898

Netzpoltik details that police are able to gain access in this way either through physical access to someone’s phone or by intercepting verification codes via a state-sanctioned phishing attack or intercepting SMS messages via telephone surveillance

I meant to post these earlier, but I kind of got sucked into other things and eventually forgot. You know how it is.

The sunlight was not being cooperative with me just at this moment, so it was challenging to get any decent pictures of this particular monkey. How so?

Well, with this stupid fence mesh in the way, for a start. With a glossy finish on it, no less. Some people just have no respect for the struggling photographer, let me tell you.

Male and female white faced sakis are dimorphic. The females are all black, or possibly all grey depending on how you want to look at them. Only the males have their namesake white faces. Misogyny again, even with monkeys. What a crock.

Anyway, the unavoidable polka dot effect created by the fence here might just serve as a small but fitting unintentional tribute to Yayoi Kusama, and almost even on time.

someone talked about a mobile wallpaper version of the post with hello kitty. so here that is. a version without hello kitty and versions with higher quality can be found below.

* edited info:

• this is an edited version of this post i made yesterday. the source image is my work
• i am in no way affiliated with the hello kitty franchise. these character designs are not my work and are stolen from Sanrio

i chose the generic android phone size which Pixels and samsung phones use today cuz i thought that might represent the largest amount of peeps here.

high quality version

high quality without hello kitty

some of y'all might notice a problem when trying out these wallpapers: they look smudgy or low quality despite you downloading the high quality version. that is because you phone assumes the image is not pixel art so it tries to smooth it out, making it... yeah, less crunchy. to combat this, here are upscaled variants which preserve the crunchiness of the pixels:

high quality 4 x scaled

high quality without hello kitty 4 x scaled

this should resolve the bluriness you may find with the original resolution images.

yes i'm sorry this isn't a fully original post. i will make... something. i'm a bit burned out with all of this stuff...
it's a surprising amount of work. even purpleposts take their time and this one took waaaayyyy longer than i wanted it to. well over 3 hours of being distracted, trying to get the characters just right... it took a while. and now i still gotta make one more post to finally be cought up again.

imma do it... maybe not today, but tomorrow perhaps? hopefully...

i wish you a wonderful day in which something fun happens.

A 20-year study of 400,000 students found that children who attended public school pre-K earned better grades and test scores through high school than those in other childcare settings. Better-trained teachers and earlier exposure to structured classrooms may help explain why the advantage lasted so long.

In 1973 a reportedly drunk driver flattened a tree in the middle of the Sahara, which sounds unremarkable until you learn it was the only tree for 250 miles around, a 300-year-old acacia so isolated it was marked on maps covering half a continent. https://share.google/ePM21R48Aq0VRqTUb

She got loads of attention from everyone and people wrote happy birthday messages on the barn announcement board. It made me so happy. I didn't get to spend as long as I wanted at the barn because I've had a tough day and it's hot outside. I made sure Sandy got the attention she deserves though and lots of treats.

My TBI symptoms are gone, thank goodness. I also was told my house insurance won't cover the foundation damage cause by a tornado spawning essentially on top of my house. The wind applied enough torque to twist my house slightly and it's beyond fucked.

I just want to get through the winter without the place falling into the ground. My dad wants to sign his place over to me when he goes to live the RV life in the spring, so if that happens, I can just sell my place to whoever the fuck will take it.

It's going to cost like over half the cost of the house to fix it. And that's only the foundation. There's a retaining wall that needs replaced, the erosion on the driveway from 10.5 inches of rain in a month needs filled on, my front porch is close to collapsing as is my patio roof, and a bunch of inside walls need fixed after the foundation gets fixed because they're cracking. Every day I notice more damage.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51751971

State-run surveillance operations around the world are using Claude to streamline their operations, Anthropic said in a threat report released Thursday.

An old picture I have of a fox I encountered in camp.

Captured on Sony NEX-7 with a Sony E 55-210mm F4.5-6.3 OSS lens.

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