Destructive Criticism

My name is Julie, and I like to learn new things.

[lickgold]

“Wanna hangout?” Actually, I have to do something in a few weeks so I need to stay home and rest until then, thanks though!

[staff]

We recently learned that a third party had obtained access to a set of Tumblr user email addresses with salted and hashed passwords from early 2013, prior to the acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo. As soon as we became aware of this, our security team thoroughly investigated the matter. Our analysis gives us no reason to believe that this information was used to access Tumblr accounts. As a precaution, however, we will be requiring affected Tumblr users to set a new password.

For additional information on keeping your accounts secure, please visit our Account Security page.

[syntaxcoloring]

Who is the “third party” and how, specifically, did they read the login database? How did Tumblr discover this breach now, three years after the fact, and why wasn’t it discovered earlier? What salt and hash scheme does Tumblr use to protect our passwords? Can we expect a full post-mortem? What has Tumblr done to prevent this from happening again?

Login database access is a huge deal and I don’t think Tumblr is treating this incident with enough transparency and gravitas.

Are affected users aware, for instance, that this breach also affects their accounts on other websites if they use the same email and password?

[animalsinraingear]

[heythereney]

[firelord-frowny]

It really, REALLY bothers me when I hear people frame climate change and other environmental crises as something that everyday, average-ass people are responsible for, and not corporations and entire governments. 

Like literally, how can a regular-ass person ~opt out~ of all damaging behaviors while still being able to function in society? 

You literally can’t. 

The future of our planet is not down to whether or not someone recycles their water bottle. 

It’s down to whether or not governments and corporations decide to quit sucking up all our resources and poisoning the earth with reckless abandon. 

I mean obviously people should still live as cleanly and as sustainably as they can manage where they are and with what they have, but like. THAT isn’t the major issue. 

[lilacbreastedroller]

govts and corporations have deliberately put the onus on yr individual choices so the system can continue being as destructive/profitable

[sopphistries-deactivated2016080]

God bless this post this pisses me off so much Also this hyper-individualist shift of responsibility is largely an American thing and consumerism is framed as a solution- e.g., buy more shit that’s sustainable! That’ll fix the problem (buy a new, green water bottle! buy a new, green car! buy a new, green whatever-the-fuck that’ll just ultimately produce more waste)!

[crybabyhellbutch]

I took a course in sustainable engineering.

The professor mentioned that even if every private individual in the world were to conserve resources and the environment the ol’ Jimmy Carter way- by turning down the thermostat, recycling your glass and plastics and metals, cut down on luxuries, take shorter showers, etc., it would only get us 10% of the way to where we need to be in order to avoid global catastrophic climate change.

The vast majority of freshwater use is from industry and agriculture. http://www.worldometers.info/water/ 

The vast majority of CO2 emissions is from industrial and electrical generation sites and associated vehicles. http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html

Private individuals hardly make a dent, even in ideal conditions.

[gothic-punk]

In Wyoming it's now illegal to collect data about pollution

A new Wyoming law expands on the “ag-gag” trend of criminalizing whistleblowers in a new way: making it illegal for citizens to gather data about environmental pollution.

Wyoming’s Senate Bill 12, or the “Data Trespassing Bill” as it’s being called, criminalizes the collection of “resource data.”

It defines collection as “to take a sample of material, acquire, gather, photograph or otherwise preserve information in any form from open land which is submitted or intended to be submitted to any agency of the state or federal government.”

Can you believe this shit?

[alethinephrine]

in WYOMING????? Where Yellowstone resides, where a supervolcano lives, where protected and endangered species live? Don’t get me wrong, prohibiting pollution research is wrong regardless of where you are, but this is fucking scary. naturepunk, biologyweeps, you need to see this.

[naturepunk]

Holy hell we need to end this.

[hhjjjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhksl]

When Prince first changed his name to a symbol they actually had to mail out floppys to the press with a custom font because there was no way to type out the symbol on a keyboard

[thebsdboys]

[catgirlconspiracy]

I remember seeing that post about worst format for entering your phone number… This one is actually the worst.

[salamirigole-blog]

[asian]

[corvidaet]

[catflare]

[paticmak]

Summer evening.

[mysharona1987]

[mysteryho1238138798223789-deact]

[iam6ft3andihaveagirlfriend-deac]

this is me

[mugicha1]

this really is carlos

[namelesswarning]

So I looked up a mini golf place nearby and I guess they’re only open for 30 minutes in the dead of night on Thursdays only.

[thebestoftumbling]