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can't believe nobody has bought this jacket since I posted it yesterday!!

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Oh shit, Harlan Ellison did an audiobook of Through The Looking-Glass

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started looking up other Harlan Ellison-read audiobooks and uhhhh he did Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea and a lot of the Discworld books, tracks

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aw man I'm previewing the Rob Inglis audiobooks and he reads it soooooo seeeerious, boo

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Finished the Harlan Ellison audiobook of Wizard of Earthsea and very sad to learn he didn't do the other books!!

This one, dubbed 'aCropalypse', is also a bit heinous. Screenshots cropped on Pixel phones using the de facto tool store the cropped part within the image itself, and this omitted part can later be un-cropped/recovered. The result is countless screenshots out in the wild with potentially sensitive info not intended to be shared.

Easy read version:

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/289229/20230319/google-pixel-acropalypse-exploit-s-markup-tool-uncrop-photos-reveal.htm

And an excellent technical writeup for fellow #infosec peeps:

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse.html

good to remember that The Hold Steady still absolutely rules

silly little thesis updates 

current with-footnote count is 23,624 words. I need to write a conclusion (always my weak point lol) but I think it's close? gonna start revising the (mostly garbage) introduction tonight because I know it needs a lot of work and I think that will make writing a conclusion a bit clearer.

@meetar Peter it's probably too big for me but I bet it'll fit you

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: hummingbird heartbeat, an effort at estrangement, prophecies, dogshit on a spring walk, enough cyanide, the trappings of an action movie

Amazing how much writing I can get done when I simply don't do the dishes

@v OMG incredible!! thank you for always being on the lookout

"delete your account a hero or post long enough to become a villain"

"just doing some scholarly knowledge production" I think to myself as I pull up the Wikipedia entry for Carmen Sandiego to help me remember the word I'm looking for ("portmanteau")

yesterday I told a stranger about my research and they thought it was cool and wow I really needed that validation!!

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