Disneyland rules typically forbid costumes and masks worn by guests 14 years of age or older. But the rules clearly do NOT prevent adults from dressing in stylish trash can cosplay:Why yes we are Disneyland trash pic.twitter.com/ftfLrX4BOK— Damfino ⍟⃝ (@LadyDamfino) October 3, 2019Really, Lady Damfino's feed is full of stylish, permissible cosplay ideas such as agent of the First Order or aspiring Egyptologist:The FIRST ORDER here is fashion, okay. pic.twitter.com/YmSt3p0fyB— Damfino ⍟⃝ (@LadyDamfino) September 9, 2019Hello, I’m here to look for a late 90’s Brendan Fraser pic.twitter.com/JCUXKyDAnZ— Damfino ⍟⃝ (@LadyDamfino) July 25, 2019 Read the rest

There are three baseline requirements for any graphic designer: Imagination, fluency with the Adobe Creative Cloud, and the ability to draw a straight line. As a matter of fact, the programs in Adobe CC are so intuitive these days that the last one is probably negotiable.Which is why if you're looking to land a job in graphic design, web design, or any artistic career, the Ultimate Adobe CC Training Bundle is a really good place to start.This 12-course online boot camp covers all the essential platforms in the Adobe CC suite. Most of the courses are well suited to beginners, but even veterans in the field might learn a thing or two from the up-to-date tutorials. And with lifetime access, you'll have plenty of time to unlock the full potential of this powerful graphics software.There's plenty of training on Photoshop, the flagship software of Adobe's fleet. You'll get separate courses on Essentials and Advanced training, as well as a market-driven lesson that teaches you the crucial skill of how to keep your visual messaging consistent across platforms.A pair of courses take the same approach to teaching Illustrator, allowing anyone to create seamless charts and presentations by way of hands-on projects.Web designers will want to dive into the classes on Adobe XD. The exercises in these modules will have you building actual websites and mobile apps and learning how to streamline your workflow as you go.Want to see your work move? There's plenty of training on both Adobe After Effects and Animate, geared toward animating and polishing everything from web banners to infographics. Read the rest

Boing Boing reader Pink Frankenstein is behind this stunning, high-resolution recreation of the 1968 Disneyland souvenir map, which he's generously licensed CC 0 (there's also a 700 DPI, 3.5GB Photoshop master file). Pink Frankenstein adds, "Any idea who the original artist is?" Read the rest

The great Drew Friedman took time to draw a portrait of every U.S. President. His work always blows me away (as you might guess, given the number of times I've posted about him). Below, a few samples from the book, which is called All the Presidents. It's published by Fantagraphics.Some of these portraits will be on display at a Drew Friedman exhibition being held at Friends of the Libraries Gallery, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, in Columbus Ohio, from November 2, 2019 - February 9, 2020. Read the rest

Steve McQueen, the King of Cool, famously wore a Tag Heuer Monaco in his epic 1971 racing film Le Mans.There are lots of debates about McQueen fashion items. The King of Cool is also frequently pictured wearing a Rolex Submariner. Let us not get into Belstaff vs Barbour. Read the rest

"Hear that Elizabeth? I'm coming to join you, honey!"Truly one of the most entertaining shows ever on television, Sanford and Son sports the TV theme song that taught me to appreciate theme songs!The incredible Redd Foxx played the wild and excitable Fred Sanford, while Demond Wilson played his more neutral son Lamont. The theme was by Quincy Jones.Redd Foxx was the stage name of John Elroy Sanford. Read the rest

Sahel Sounds is a record label, a recording project and artist collective focused on the culture in the West African Sahel. While based in Portland, Oregon, founder Christopher Kirkley frequently travels to West Africa to locate, record and work with musicians in that area. Sahel Sounds publishes a unique array of artists and genres including Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar, electronic synth composer Hama who plays modal, quarter tone “Arabic scales” on a Yamaha electronic keyboard, the sinuous singing and lilting melodies of Les Filles de Illighadad and a handful of other compelling artists.Kirkley also writes extensively on the artists, how he met and recorded them as well as illuminating what makes their musical approach so distinctive. Also, the record label’s YouTube Channel features over 450 videos of the Sahel Sounds artists. Founder Christopher Kirkley took time to speak with Boing Boing to share his insights on the Sahel Sounds project. How and when did you start the label?It was originally a blog that was kicked off in January of 2009. Simultaneously, I started the blog while I was traveling around West Africa to do this project of field recordings. But it was my own project and wasn’t financed by any external sources. What was the initial interest in this region of West Africa?I heard some music from that part of the world and was really fascinated by it. However, I couldn’t find out enough information on that particular West African music online. I felt like I really need to go there myself and find out about it. Read the rest

Just look at it.(Thanks Robbo!) Read the rest

Ben Watson is a reporter for Defenseone, a news site that covers "US defense and National Security" who formerly served in the US Army as a public affairs officer; last week, Watson returned to the USA after an assignment in Denmark, entering the country at Dulles Airport.When Watson was interviewed by a CBP officer, the officer asked him what his profession was, and when Watson answered "Journalism," the officer said, "So you write propaganda, right?" Watson denied that he wrote propaganda, and the CBP officer grew belligerent, refusing to allow Watson to pass the checkpoint until he repeatedly stated that being a journalist was the same thing as "writing propaganda."A CBP spokesperson told Defenseone that they are investigating the author's conduct.The CBP have been at the forefront of several scandals related to unethical, xenophobic and lawless behavior since Trump took office, from the agency's role in the unlawful detention and killings of migrant children to participation in a racist and violent Facebook group to unlawful searches of devices at the border to raping their fellow officers in a "hazing ritual" to raping migrants seeking entry to the USA.The agency is the largest law-enforcement force in America, and attracts more complaints per officer than any other force. The top figures in the Agency are implicated in its scandals, and its poor reputation has starved it of recruits, leaving it scraping the bottom of an unhinged, sadistic, violent, racist and sexist barrel.The rot goes all the way to the top, with the Agency's top lawyers involved in deeply unethical, secret guidelines that make a mockery of the Constitution. Read the rest

The Sackler family (previously) made more money than the Rockefellers when their family business, Purdue Pharma, misled the public about the addictiveness of its flagship opioid, Oxycontin, and induced doctors to overprescribe it, kicking off an epidemic that has killed more Americans than the Vietnam war, with the body count at 400,000 and still climbing.Until recently, the Sacklers were best known as "philanthropists," having perfected the reputation-washing playbook that corrupt oligarchs have used to rehabilitate their name since the gilded age robber-barons like Carnegie invented it.But the Sacklers have since been embroiled in a series of federal and state criminal proceedings, as well as numerous civil cases, and these have revealed the family's complicity in the death toll, which recently prompted to family to agree to bankrupt Purdue and hand control of it, as well as $3b in cash, to settle the suits against them.The family claimed that their total take from Purdue had amounted to $4b, and that the settlement would strip them of the gains from their illegal and unethical activities, but prosecutors have long argued that the Sacklers used shadowy money-laundering techniques to hide billions offshore, funnelling one billion dollars through a single bank.Now, 24 States' Attorneys General have objected to the settlement, joining forces with lawyers representing 500 cities, counties and tribal governments. They deposed a company advisor who put the figure at $12b, not $4b, and the attorneys argue that settling outstanding lawsuits for $3b would allow the Sacklers to retain the bulk of the profits they received from their company's participation in mass overdoses and immiseration. Read the rest

Troll Factory is an entertaining online edugame that shows you how disinformation merchants infiltrate social media and spread their corrosive anti-democracy propaganda.Yle's Troll Factory game asks you to imagine you are a professional troll who tries to amass influence in social media by spreading fear, bias and suspicion using botnets, paid marketing and internet memes. The game combines authentic social media content with game-like simulation that's personalised based on the user's choices.Fake news, hate speech and conspiracy theories spread in Facebook, Instagram and Youtube. The big internet behemoths can't stop this from happening. So it's becoming increasingly hard for people to notice when they share, comment or like something inaccurate online -- even unintentionally."We decided to turn the whole fake news problem upside down. What if you became an actual troll to understand the motives and intentions behind today's information wars?" says Jarno M. Koponen who's leading the project for the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle's News Lab in Helsinki. Read the rest

Mitch "the World's Best Artist" McConnell (Not "Moscow" Mitch O'Connell, the sell-out senator) got enough money in his crowdfunding campaign to erect this terrific They Live homage featuring reality TV show host Donald Trump. The VOTE billboard is ready for selfies at 7th Ave and 48th St!Mitch said, "Mostly due to Boing Boing, it’s UP!" Yay!Mitch received enough funds to keep the billboard up for a month, but if he gets more money it'll stay up longer. Contribute here. Read the rest

Hong Kong joins the ranks of other autocratic nations that have banned face coverings in the name of national security: Sri Lanka, France, the Netherlands, Canada, etc (such bans have also been proposed in the UK, Australia, the USA).Wearing "any facial covering that is likely to prevent identification" during a protest makes you liable for a USD3,200 fine. Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam imposed the emergency order this week, and it took effect at 0:00 local time yesterday. In her press conference, Lam cited bans in other countries to defend the legitimacy of the order.A police inspector told the South China Morning Post that protesters who could show a doctor's note attesting to an infectious disease would be exempted from the rule.One 16 year old student protester told the SCMP that he would ignore the ban, saying: "Why should we follow the rules when the police – those who actually have power – do not act in accordance to the law?"Less than a day on, the police have already begun to target mask-wearing protesters for brutal arrests:1st day of #AntiMaskLaw, cue the abuse of power. Riot police came looking for ppl with masks in Central like a pack of wolves. They found 2, and rushed to push them to the ground. With the new law #HKPolice think the can use force simply bc ppl cover their face. #FreeHongKong pic.twitter.com/ez0RtAZQxD— Alex Lam 林偉聰 (@lwcalex) October 5, 2019A third chief inspector, who works in a police station that has been besieged by protesters, agreed that enforcing the new would be hard, but he said it would also deter some protesters from coming out. Read the rest

Your choices:* This is Just to Fucking Say* I have eaten // the fucking plums* that were in // the fucking icebox* you were probably// fucking saving* for fucking breakfast* they were fucking delicious* so fucking sweet* and so fucking cold* other(via Kottke) Read the rest

Hey hey, I'm fresh back from a short two-day excursion to Disneyland. I have a bunch of stuff to share with you but I'm going to start with my visit to Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar, that little cocktail oasis behind the pool at the Disneyland Hotel. And, if you haven't been, it really is small. You're looking at about 1/3 of the entire bar in the photo below.Now, while it's an intimate space, it's jam-packed with over 1600 artifacts, photos, and in-theme adornments. It's got your typical tiki bar elements mixed with real movie memorabilia (even Indiana Jones' iconic bullwhip). What it didn't have on a Monday at 6:30 p.m. was your typical tiki bar crowd, there were more sports tees and baseball caps than aloha shirts and more tourists than tiki lifestylers. But, I'm sure that changes as the evening goes on. Its Imagineering set decorator, Brandon Kleyla (who is now Manager of Props at Universal), describes the lounge as "Adventurers Club meets Jungle Cruise meets Tiki Room." (Oh, how I miss the Adventurers Club!) In a 2016 interview, Kleyla describes how the bar's inspiration took form:"We had to establish 'Who is Trader Sam?' Well, he’s a trader, he’s on the Jungle Cruise... we looked at the basics. And then we asked, 'what if he knew Indiana Jones, what if he knew Jack Sparrow, or Swiss Family Robinson,' you know, all those types of characters. Basically what it came down to is that he can know anyone live-action from pretty much anywhere in Disney’s 'Adventure' history. Read the rest

So, a gaggle of doctors discovered that I had an 80% blockage in one of my arteries: the result of bad genetics and my former attempts to kill myself with food and booze. There's a stent in me now and, although my mind is still right fucked up with all of the medical goings on, I'm still here. They found the issue without my having to have a heart attack first. I dodged a bullet.You can't kill me.Image via Wikipedia Read the rest

Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been discharged from the hospital.Brief statement from Bernie’s treating physicians Arturo E. Marchand Jr., MD and Arjun Gururaj, MD: pic.twitter.com/6SEo89LSVK— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) October 4, 2019[PHOTO: Shutterstock] Read the rest

A bit of good news for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, and the app developers trying to help them not get injured or killed by police. Apple has reportedly reversed its decision to ban the app HKmap.live, which allows users to track protests and police activity in Hong Kong. The earlier move to ban the app was seen by many as acquiescence to China's foreign policy, over the urgent needs of Apple users.Thanks everyone, @Apple finally made the right decision. Will update later as things are going crazy in #HK now. pic.twitter.com/PsnNry0V21— HKmap.live 全港抗爭即時地圖 (@hkmaplive) October 4, 2019(Our Cory Doctorow has written about the app previously here at Boing Boing.)As Cory explained when Apple yanked HKMapLive:Hkmap Live is a crowdsourced app that uses reports from a Telegram group to track the locations of protesters, police, and traffic, as well as the use of antipersonnel weapons like tear gas, mass arrests of people wearing t-shirts associated with the protest movement, and mass transit closures in proximity to demonstrations (it's a bit like Sukey, the British anti-kettling app).The escalation of indiscriminate violence by Hong Kong's police has driven mainstream opposition to the Chinese state and the Hong Kong authorities. The protests continue to grow, the the police continue to attack families, elderly people, bystanders, and the main body of protesters, with no mercy or quarter -- including the on-camera, point-blank shooting of an unarmed, nonviolent protester. In this context, Hkmap isn't just a way for protesters to evade police, it's a survival lifeline for innocent people facing an occupying army of sadistic armed thugs. Read the rest

Lawmakers in Congress want Spotify to detail its allegations of abuses by digital rival Apple as part of a federal antitrust probe, reports Reuters late on Friday citing two anonymous sources.The investigation seeks to determine if Apple engages in anti-competitive behavior to give its own Apple apps an unfair advantage in the Apple Store marketplace.Spotify has been gunning for a federal antitrust probe into Apple for several years now.Excerpt from Reuters:The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee reached out to the music streaming service with broad requests for information, according to one source, who added the request to the company was narrowed in follow up telephone calls.Spotify Technology SA filed an antitrust complaint against Apple in the European Union in March, but the contact with the committee marks its first known participation in congressional inquiries into the iPhone maker, whose Apple Music streaming service is Spotify’s biggest rival.Spotify and other developers have alleged that Apple engages in anticompetitive behavior by imposing rules that hamper distribution via its App Store, the only way for third-party developers to reach more than 900 million iPhone users.At the same time, Apple sometimes copies the features of their apps for its own offerings, developers have said. Multiple apps in the App Store offered female cycle tracking before Apple added the same feature to its own health tracking app this fall, for example.Exclusive: Antitrust probers in Congress ask Spotify to detail alleged Apple abuses - sources [reuters.com, Diane Bartz, Stephen Nellis — PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK] Read the rest

'Dank' is definitely not dank.

Deandre Somerville, 21, of West Palm Beach, overslept and missed jury duty. Florida judge John S. Kastrenekes threw him in jail for 10 days."Now I have a record," he told local media. "I almost feel like a criminal now. Now, I have to explain this in every interview."Somerville was to be one of six jurors, and it was his first time serving on a jury. He told local media he slept though his alarm and woke up hours later, realising he had missed the trial. Kastrenakes also demanded a letter of apology, and went as far as to say how much of his time Somerville wasted: "almost an hour." After the media noticed, Kastrenakes reduced the sentence -- but Somerville had already served his 10 days.It's not the first time a questionable decision has made the case about Judge Kastrenakes. He threated a highway patrol trooper who gave him a ticket and ended up disqualified from a case involving another patrolman because of what he said to her.Kastrenakes called trooper Sandra Thompson a “liar” during the 12:30 a.m. traffic stop and said the tickets she wrote him would color his opinion of troopers in court, the highway patrol didn’t make a report of the incident until five months later.Even so, Kastrenakes this morning granted prosecutors’ motion for disqualification, stating “the public must have the perception of judicial fairness.”“At the time, I was upset about receiving a ticket which seemed to me to be unjustified by the circumstances,” Kastrenakes wrote in his order, filed separately this morning in each of seven cases made by the FHP. Read the rest

Weeks before the Trump Ukraine whistleblower's complaint was made public, a top CIA lawyer made what she said was a criminal referral to the Justice Department on the whistleblower's claim Trump abused the powers of the presidency in pressuring Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden. “The move by the CIA's general counsel, Trump appointee Courtney Simmons Elwood, meant she and other senior officials had concluded a potential crime had been committed, raising more questions about why the Justice Department later closed the case without conducting an investigation,” report Ken Dilanian and Julia Ainsley at NBC News:[A] timeline provided by U.S. officials familiar with the matter shows that multiple senior government officials appointed by Trump found the whistleblower's complaints credible, troubling, and worthy of further inquiry starting soon after the president's July phone call.While that timeline and the CIA general counsel's contact with the DOJ has been previously disclosed, it has not been reported that the CIA's top lawyer intended the call to be a criminal referral about the president's conduct, acting under rules set forth in a memo governing how intelligence agencies should report allegations of federal crimes.The fact that she and other top Trump administration political appointees saw potential misconduct in the whistleblower's early account of alleged presidential abuses puts a new spotlight on the Justice Department's later decision to decline to open a criminal investigation — a decision that the Justice Department said publicly was based purely on an analysis of whether the president committed a campaign finance law violation. Read the rest

Continuing to gain in the polls, Senator Elizabeth Warren raised $24.6 for Q3 fundraising, coming in slightly behind Senator Sanders and cruising past former Vice-President Biden in their campaigns for US President.CNBC:Sen. Elizabeth Warren finished the third quarter raising $24.6 million, her campaign announced Friday.The total haul puts her just behind Sen. Bernie Sanders, who brought in over $25 million, and ahead of former Vice President Joe Biden’s $15 million.For Warren, the successful quarter is the latest sign that she is surging, not just in the polls, but in the fundraising game, toward front runner Biden. In some of the recent voter surveys, she’s either tied or gone ahead of the former vice president. Biden’s fundraising also trailed that of South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who raked in $19.1 million in the quarter.Senator Warren's campaign also sent dinner to the Sanders organization on the evening their candidate was hospitalized with chest pain and underwent emergency heart surgery. Read the rest

In 2016, a Facebook user called the Austrian Green Party politician Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek "a corrupt oaf," a "traitor" and a member of a "fascist party." Glawischnig-Piesczek secured an Austrian court verdict that held these remarks to be libellous, and Facebook took them down for Austrian users.But Glawischnig-Piesczek was upset that these remarks were still visible outside of Austria, so she asked the EU's highest court, the CJEU, to order Facebook to block the post throughout the world, and to use some kind of technology to prevent other Facebook users from making "equivalent comments."This represented a new peak in extraterritorial theories of internet regulation. For years, we've had laws and rulings in which one jurisdiction orders the removal of content that is unlawful in its borders and insists that the material be removed everywhere in the world, even in places where the speech would be lawful (in the USA, the remarks directed at Glawischnig-Piesczek would be protected speech under the First Amendment). These efforts have had disturbing potential for kicking off a race to the bottom, in which each territory's speech rules are combined into a set of global prohibitions: the world's longest copyrights would obtain in every country (so Mexico's life-plus-100 rule would trump the EU's life-plus-50 rule), the world's most hair-trigger libel rules would govern globally (no insulting the King of Thailand, or the Saudi royals, or Attaturk, or Putin), and so on.But Glawischnig-Piesczek went further: she didn't just want Facebook to remove a libellous remark. She wanted Facebook to somehow screen every other remark, made by every other Facebook user, in every language, in every territory, and determine whether they were posting something "equivalent" to the remarks that offended her, and block those from being published. Read the rest

This L-type magsafe charger for pre-2013 MacBooks is already cheap at but if you use promo code NX72DAJR, you can get it for half that price. Read the rest

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion is Robert Cialdini's absolute classic book outlining six principles that you can use to convince people to do things and/or defend yourself against coercion. I hadn't seen this 2012 animated explainer video above narrated by Cialdini and Steve Martin, not the comedian but rather co-author of Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive.(via Laughing Squid) Read the rest

From Catlech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technology, LEONARDO (LEg ON Aerial Robotic DrOne) is a bipedal robot that's uses dronelike propellers to balance and walk around. Eventually, the propellers will boost LEONARDO's ability to jump. The demo video above was just released. The following is from a February article by Evan Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum:IEEE Spectrum: Where did the idea for a robot like this come from?Mory Gharib: For many applications that we’re thinking about for the future, like a flying ambulance project that we have or missions to Mars, there is a huge need for I would say a third party—a robotic partner that can, in very extreme situations, conduct scouting or help people in ways that that either drones or bipedal robots can’t do. That was the whole idea—we need to have a system that basically can defy gravity to go places where other robots cannot. And because this machine is not going to fly in the way that drones do, because it has most of the time its legs are on the ground, it can carry a much heavier battery and payload...If everything works perfectly, what kinds of capabilities will the robot have?Soon-Jo Chung: Walking on flat terrain, walking, running, and jumping to overcome small obstacles by using the lift generated by the propellers. And it should be able to in a very soft and stable fashion land after it jumps or flies. The ultimate form of demonstration for us will be to build two of these Leonardo robots and then have them play tennis or badminton. Read the rest

Stephen Colbert explains why Trump keeps talking about his impeachable offenses in public:“Trump knows if something’s bad, you don’t admit it in public,” he said. “So, if he admits it in public it must not be bad. He’s trying to normalize it.” The host compared what Trump is doing to a husband saying, “Honey, I know you think it’s wrong for me to have sex with our neighbor, but if it were, why would I be doing it in the middle of your book club?” Image: YouTube Read the rest

Your cable company advertises one price, but charges another, much higher one: on average, your real bill will be 24% higher than the price you were promised.They get away with it by adding a series of "fees" onto the monthly bill, and by assigning misleading names to these fees that imply that they're government mandated taxes (this is also common in the aviation industry, where ticket prices are inflated with industry "fees" that are misleadingly listed in a way that makes travelers think they're paying taxes to governments or airports).All in all, the cable industry is bringing in an estimated $28b in misleading "fees" like "broadcast TV fees, regional sports fees, HD technology fees, Internet service-related fees, administrative fees and convenience fees, all of which are simply part of the company's cost of business, but which are not included in your quoted price.Some of these charges are particularly egregious, such as Frontier's practice of charging the customers is bought from Verizon a router rental fee, even if they've bought a router from Verizon to work with the service. But even the less-grifty fees are bullshit, and when Consumer Reports used a "secret shopper" program to contact sales reps from the big companies, they consistently lied about the total price of the service. Consumer Reports wants Congress to pass the TRUE Fees Act, which deshenaniganizes many of these practices, forcing telcos and cable operators to accurately quote prices and to offer free contract cancelation after price hikes. This report exposes how the cable industry is using the practice of hidden, sneaky fees to disguise the true cost of cable service and increase revenue, and how much those fees are costing consumers. Read the rest

Some people sober up and realize they've made a giant mistake.Smithsonian:Outside the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts towers a totem pole by Charles Joseph, a Canadian artist from the Kwakiutl First Nation. In the early hours of September 20, the left hand of this striking artwork was stolen, prompting both the museum and Joseph to issue a plea for its return. Fortunately, their appeals seem to have worked. According to Marian Scott of the Montreal Gazette, the thieves have returned the hand, also taking it upon themselves to leave a rather contrite apology note.In a statement, the MMFA revealed that the stolen appendage was deposited on the museum’s doorstop at some point on the night of October 1 and October 2. In the apology letter, the vandals explained that at the time of the crime, they were “not in a sober state of mind” and “had no idea what the totem pole was.”“After we realized what this stood for and represented for so many people, we immediately felt sick to our stomach,” the note continued. “We would like to let all know that in NO WAY, SHAPE OR FORM was this done in spite.” Read the rest

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kylie Shea (@kyliesheaxo) on Oct 3, 2019 at 9:12am PDT Professional dancer and actress Kylie Shea performed in front of a thermographic camera that forms an image from infrared radiation. From Instagram:We filmed this late one night on a tennis court in the freezing cold to watch and study how my body heats up when I dance. My core was the first to fire up and the back of my legs (the place my body prefers to store fat) remained ice cold for the entire 45 minutes of improv. Though this was a few years ago, I recently rediscovered the footage and realized I had never shared it here on IG! This study fascinated me and I look forward to exploring it further with different styles of movement! Cheers to growing, learning, and dancing, always. 💫🌹🥂🎶 Motorcycle “As the Rush Comes” (Gabriel & Dresden Chillout Mix) Read the rest

The Goop purveyor was familiar with the line of vibrators but had apparently not seen 'The Tennis Coach' up close. As the interview continues it seems she may not be very familiar with these products.At least one prior attempt by Goop to sell things that go in and or near a woman's vagina have had bad results. Read the rest

https://img.youtube.com/vi/MaAVrj6MO5U/maxresdefault.jpgLate Night with Seth Meyers created this fake commercial that explains how the impeachment process works.Image: YouTube Read the rest

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was wonderful. Far and away my favorite episode, however, was Hush.Overnight, skeletal ghouls with metal grins and MIB style steal the voices of Sunnydale's townspeople. How the Scooby gang handles some of the evilest characters the series has seen, during a communication breakdown, is wonderful.Nowadays public schools in California teach Powerpoint.This super creepy episode was just fantastic. I am going to re-watch more Buffy. Read the rest

The geniuses at Squirrel Monkey designed Dropbox for the 1980s. It's a perfect solution for the MS-DOS, floppy disk, and modem era.Image: YouTube Read the rest

When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China’s investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated.— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 4, 2019 "strains credulity"Mitt did follow up with a "bolder" statement:By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 4, 2019 Read the rest

Cleveland's Stephanie "Crochetverse" Pokorny created a freehand, crocheted Alien Xenomorph costume for her (incredibly lucky!) son, Jake, adding glow-in-the-dark fabric paint accents to make it luminescent. It's completely amazing. If you think that's great, don't miss her Skeletor costume!The video! WAIT FOR IT! 😱😍 Jake has this DOWN!CROCHET XENOMORPH ALIEN MOVES AND GLOWS!.Fully freehand crochet costume by me for my son.I used LIT by @Culture Hustle mixed with glow daek fabric paint from Joanns and the glow is INSANE! It about glows in daylight! pic.twitter.com/MgNDOSlthq— Crochetverse (@crochetverse) October 3, 2019(Thanks, Allen!) Read the rest

Coraline Ada Ehmke's Hippocratic License is a software license that permits the broad swathe of activities enabled by traditional free/open licenses, with one exception it bars use by: "individuals, corporations, governments, or other groups for systems or activities that actively and knowingly endanger, harm, or otherwise threaten the physical, mental, economic, or general well-being of individuals or groups in violation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights."The Open Source Initiative maintains the canonical list of free/open licenses based on compliance with its Open Source Definition, which excludes licenses that ""discriminate against any person or group of persons" and that "restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor." On this basis, OSI cofounder Bruce Perens says the Hippcratic License is not compatible with the OSD.Ehmke calls the OSD "horribly dated" because it doesn't enable software developers to ensure that "our technology isn't used by fascists."The OSD was developed in response to a proliferation of "open" licenses, many of which were open in name only, attempting to co-opt the word "open" without providing true openness (for example, Microsoft fielded a "shared source" license that permitted limited scrutiny of its sourcecode, but restricted the creation of new works based on that code). Since the OSD's inception, the "field of endeavor" clause has given rise to controversy over attempts to expand the idea of "software freedom" into other human rights domains, including the right to be free from violence, harassment, exploitation, etc. The OSI has maintained that adjudicating whether a use qualifies for a field of endeavor prohibition was too legally intensive to make these licenses broadly useful, but Ehmke counters that the UN's Declaration has 70 years' worth of interpretive cases and scholarship that clears up this ambiguity. Read the rest

Elizabeth Holmes continues to struggle.ABC7:According to our media partner, the Mercury News, Holmes' lawyers have asked a judge to let them quit the case. They're claiming Holmes is not paying them. "Ms. Holmes has not paid Cooley for any of its work as her counsel of record in this action for more than a year," lawyers Stephen Neal, John Dwyer and Jeffrey Lombard said in the filing obtained by the newspaper. "Further, given Ms. Holmes's current financial situation, Cooley has no expectation that Ms. Holmes will ever pay it for its services as her counsel." Read the rest

Puddles' voice is that of an angel. An angel in clown make up, but sure.I love this guy. Read the rest

Relive the glorious moment when the First Order almost ended the Resistance! This lovely model of the rinky-dink Crait Ski Speeder will take you there.The kit comes with a Poe Dameron minfig as well as some Admiral named Ematt, a 'resistance trooper' and 2 First Order snowtroopers. Pretty sure the resistance guy dies easy.You may engage in futile attacks on the Mobile Big Laser used by the FI to smash the resistance's big barn door!LEGO Star Wars: The Last Jedi Defense of Crait 75202 Building Kit (746 Piece) via Amazon Read the rest

A Redditor created stats for the Goose from Untitled Goose Game. Naturally, its actions include an enraging honk:The creator got some pushback for giving the Goose a chaotic neutral designation. His analysis:I mean, even though the Goose is unnaturally intelligent, evasive and mean, it never really does anything of real threat to the village. My take on it is to be the subject of a wild goose chase, being maddeningly difficult to pin down, or to be an incredibly annoying support NPC for a damage dealing fiend who keeps it as a pet/associate.Speaking of Untitled Goose Game, Tiny, who has a Patreon focusing on custom made keycaps for mechanical keyboards, sculpted this goose keycap with polymer clay:sorry but i couldn't resist making a goose keycap as annoying and obnoxious as the goose in the game #untitledgoosegame pic.twitter.com/GbSkFoJd6i— tiny ~ keycap maker @ NYCC 2678 (@tinymakesthings) October 2, 2019 Read the rest

Vaping giants like Juul attracted billions in investment from tobacco companies by reversing decades of progress in weaning children off of nicotine, thanks to deliberately targeting children with advertisements and phony in-school "mental health" seminars that advised them to take up their carcinogenic, highly addictive products.Juul and other vaping products are marketed as a safe way to quit smoking, but as their products are increasingly discovered to be uniquely and fantastically unsafe, it raises a new question: how do you quit vaping?The answer is: no one knows. There's virtually no research on how to quit vaping, which is incredibly addictive, thanks to the extremely high levels of nicotine salts in many vape liquids, and to vaping's smooth delivery, which allows users to take in much higher levels of nicotine than they would get from traditional cigarettes.It's especially hard for teens, thanks to the prevalence of vaping in school, which means that kids who quit face massive social pressure to start again. Quitting is a physically uncomfortable experience, and includes withdrawal symptoms like cravings, headaches, irritability, and depression. Managing these symptoms is the key to successfully quitting, Levy says, “because that’s what makes it so hard to stop.” Her program uses nicotine patches to ward off withdrawal. Levy tries to treat with the lowest dosage possible, but if the patch isn’t working, there are also stronger medications like Buproprion. She also counsels parents to give kids nicotine lozenges if they start to get a craving. Because lozenges are ingested, not inhaled, the nicotine is absorbed more slowly into the body and they don’t deliver the same euphoric dopamine hit of ripping a Juul. Read the rest

Google has long allowed you to delete all the data it's stored on you, or to turn off collection, but turning off collection altogether made its services a lot less useful (for example, it made the auto-suggested locations in the Maps app of your phone worse, forcing you to do more typing on a tiny keyboard while on the go), and otherwise you had to remember to periodically open Google's privacy dashboard and delete your stored history.The latest iteration of Google's privacy dashboard solves this problem by allowing you to set a window for the retention of your data, so that Google will automatically purge records after a set time (the shortest is 3 months, the longest, 18 months). Google is rolling this out across all its services, the latest being Youtube.The move comes as Google is also improving the privacy defaults in Android: I got a software update last week that has a surprisingly easy-to-use feature that warns you when apps that you aren't using try to get your location, and then allows you to configure those apps to only get your location when you're actually using them, or never, or always.All of this depends on your trusting Google to honor the implicit promises in these privacy settings, of course. It's a difficult risk to assess: Google has broken its promises in the past, and even done sneaky things to subvert its users privacy settings.But the company is also operating in a new world where multibillion dollar fines are becoming par for the course when this sort of misbehavior is detected, and there is burgeoning political will to revive antitrust law and break up Big Tech companies. Read the rest

Kaja Robinson is 53 and has a daughter about to go off to college, but she is still embroiled in bizarre, kafkaesque disputes over the $17,000 student loan she took out in the 1980s: for decades, she has had to set aside whole days to call debt collectors and try to get them to acknowledge the payments she's made -- for which she has paperwork, but which the lenders lost track of, causing her loans to balloon to $49,000.At one point, Robinson was advised to file a lawsuit to clarify the matter, but she lives in Minnesota and the nearest court able to hear such a case in two states away, in Chicago. Instead, she worked out a kind of pro-forma program whereby she made a monthly $5 "good faith" payment, which satisfied the computers that she was not in default, allowing her to repair her credit and get a mortgage.But Robinson's debts keep getting sold from one debt-buyer to another, as the fly-by-night debt vultures go bankrupt or sell off their "assets" (that is, badly documented, allegedly delinquent loans), and it starts all over again. Robinson has no end in sight. Her $5/month program has been unilaterally erased by her debt's latest owner, and she's back to spending whole days on hold, waving her stack of yellowing paper receipts at the phone.Both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have promised to erase outstanding student debts if either is elected to the presidency in 2020.Kaja Robinson can’t forget the hold music at her former debt collection agency’s phone line. Read the rest

The creators of the Exploding Kittens game wanted to make an event to "fix the things that were wrong with traditional conventions," that was "actually fun," and had a "giant cat that explodes." Enter Burning Cat. A two-day event at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland that will feature guest speakers, a giant "ring," an enormous cat statue that will eventually burn, and, of course, lots of games. About it, in their words:We’ve attended a lot of gaming conventions. A lot of them. There are things we like. We like the fans. We like the games. We like the creativity. But there are many things that we don’t like. We don’t like that most conventions are basically glorified shopping malls. We don’t like that despite being a gaming convention, very few people play actual games or have actual fun.So, we decided to reboot the idea of a convention. We decided to build something new from the ground up. We decided to focus on a core philosophy: this is a con you attend if you want to have actual fun. This is a place to observe and/or participate in games, comedy, and creativity. This is a place for tabletop gamers, card game players, casual party game players, families who love games, game makers, or anyone who ever hosted a game night.Burning Cat is an event for people who are tired of screens and want to have fun face-to-face.If this sounds fun to you (and why wouldn't it?!), better get your tickets now — this thing is definitely going to sell out. Read the rest

"Evil Midweek Cutie" costume available at Walmart.(Via Kiersten Essenpreis.) Read the rest