#amusing tho

[indecisiveapple]

Choose quickly or else

WHAT AM I CHOOSING WHY AM I BEING SLICED

[aceofwonders]

random character ideas that have come to me in dreams recently...

-shooting star falling to the earth and surprise it is a person a la stardust (stars druid or twilight cleric or maybe both) 

-someone who was cursed by a god to where they physically can’t lie (in the dream it was vecna who did the cursing and they were connected to the briarwoods but yeah) 

[violetsystems]

Is Dumping A Trove Of Hacked Government Emails Good Or Bad For Democracy?

Tens of thousands of emails from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s staff were posted online. Experts weigh in on what should happen next.

On April 19, a slew of tens of thousands of wide-ranging, private emails between Chicago public officials was quietly published online.

The group behind the dump — Distributed Denial of Secrets — says it didn’t hack the emails, but after obtaining them around February, spent more than a month sifting through them, decoding the emails and deciding which ones to publish broadly.

“We [initially] found, you know, a lot of really corporate data … about mergers and acquisitions,” said activist Freddy Martinez, one the group’s advisors who’s from Chicago. ”And we sort of put it to the side. And then … looking a bit deeper, we found all of the city of Chicago’s emails … we sort of knew that there was a lot of really important information in there.”

So the group published a database that they say contains 60,000 documents of emails among top officials within Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration. The emails appear to touch on innumerable topics, from conversations about when to ignore a reporter’s phone calls, extensive emails on the city’s COVID-19 planning, to a secretive Chicago Police Department drone surveillance program.

The ransomware group Clop took credit for the hack, and published the data behind the emails according to the Chicago Sun-Times. That’s after city officials say the group tried to get a ransom payment to prevent the dump. The emails come from the Jones Day law firm, which the city had hired to conduct an internal investigation into its handling of a high-profile botched police raid.

Experts say the episode raises familiar and long-standing questions about whether hacks like these — obtained illegally with mal intent of ransom — as well as reporting on them, are ethical, or even good for democracy at all.

[sheschill]

The fear mongering is really affecting people’s logic 🙄

[asianassporn]

Why am I watching dating naked

[limeylizard]

today in computing class i learned that sitting several teenagers around a table and giving them pieces of string as connections and sheets of paper as data does not make a very efficient router

[thatlilqt]

How many nuns could a nunchuck chuck if a nunchuck could chuck nuns?

*facepalm* you're silly you know that??