And Now, Something Delightfully Weird: “The Moon’s Milk” Trailer (Narrated by Tom Waits)

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Seven and a half years in the making, The Moon’s Milk is an entirely handmade stop motion animated short about a time when the moon was close enough to be reached by ladder. Narrated by Tom Waits, the film chronicles the last expedition of Captain Millipede and his crew to harvest the milk seeping from the craters. The action take place between the gravities of two heavenly bodies, which further complicates the attraction between the characters. Longing, missed signals, and mishaps lead to the enchantment of the heavens with music.

themoonsmilk.com

Behind the Scenes:

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Composer: Caroline Penwarden
Post Production: ZAP Zoetrope Aubry Productions
Color: Leo Hallal
Editing and Color: Ashley Pagán

Official Site: tomwaits.com
Official Store: tomwaitsstore.com
Facebook: facebook.com
Twitter: @tomwaits

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:34:29am

Love that scent of a brand new thread.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:36:09am

Is Moon Milk used to make the cheese that the moon is made of?

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:36:49am
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mmmirele  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:38:03am

This month I’ve been reading a lot in Spanish about narcotrafficking, particularly in Mexico, and there’s some things that happened which I think escaped all of us because we were (legitimately) much more worried about what Trump was doing.

First, there was the arrest of Genaro Garcia Luna, who was the Mexican secretary of public security in the Felipe Calderon government (2006-2012). The US government arrested him in Dallas at the end of 2019 on charges that he’d taken money from the Sinaloa cartel when he was in government. There had been allegations, particularly in the El Chapo trial in 2018, that El Chapo’s brother said he bribed Garcia Luna with briefcases filled with $3 million in cash twice.

Now this is the deal, some of Garcia Luna’s defenders have said you can’t stuff $3 million in cash in a briefcase, and yeah, that’s true, but gee, there are suitcases that can fit the money. In any case, accusations against Garcia Luna had been made for a very long time (e.g., a Forbes writer called him one of the 10 most corrupt Mexicans in 2013 forbes.com). And after he left office, he bought an expensive (for a guy on a government salary) boat ($700,000) and house (over $3 million) AND these were straw purchases in the names of other people. And paid in cash. Garcia Luna has pleaded not guilty but is still being held, even though his attorneys requested twice that he be released from jail due to COVID.

However, the incident we all *really* missed (and with good reason, it was in the 3 weeks before the election and went until after the coup attempt), was the arrest of General Salvador Cienfuegos, who was the Mexican secretary of national defense under the Enrique Peña Nieto administration (2012-2018). Cienfuegos was picked up at LAX on drug and money laundering charges on October 15. After intense pressure from Mexico, he was handed off to Mexico on November 18 with the expectation that Mexico would file charges against him. Instead, Cienfuegos was cleared of all charges on January 14, 2021 and the Mexican legislature passed a law where foreign agents (i.e., like the DEA) would no longer have immunity. The US Justice department (still under Bill Barr) threatened to re-start the procedure against Cienfuegos and also said it did not believe it could cooperate with Mexico on information sharing due to the new law. It is unclear what the Biden administration’s stand is, but to be perfectly honest, I would think the position would be similar, because DEA agents are now in danger.

That said, based on my reading, it appears that Mexican journalists and commentators who know more about narcotrafficking than I ever will, are (a) not surprised that officials are taking bribes and (b) that it doesn’t matter *what* the government is, there appears to be a somewhat unspoken agreement that the Sinaloa cartel is under some protection. Even Andrés Manuel López Obrador (aka AMLO), the current president and head of the left leaning MORENA party, is tangled up in this. A year ago (March 29, 2020) he was in a city in Sinaloa, and gee, what did he do? He walked up to a car and shook hands with an elderly woman…who happens to be the mother of El Chapo.

AMLO saluda a mamá de El Chapo en su visita a Badiraguato

In addition to the “why are you doing this, we’re in a pandemic!” reactions, there were also a considerable amount of WTFs!?!

Video footage that went viral on Sunday evening showed the leftwing populist - who most call Amlo - shaking the hand of El Chapo’s elderly mother, María Consuelo Loera Pérez, as she sat in her car.

“Don’t get out,” Amlo can be heard telling the 92-year-old woman, before adding: “I got your letter.”

theguardian.com

My point? It doesn’t matter which party it is—whether it’s the PANistas (National Action Party, PAN, conservative) or MORENA (left of center), at least to these informed journalists, it looks for all the world like the Mexican government is in bed with one cartel. And the reasoning is that it’s easier to deal with one cartel than a half-dozen or more, and the one cartel will police the groups (plazas) underneath them which make, harvest and/or move the drugs.

And it’s entirely likely that the DEA, CIA and other US agencies know this and either can do nothing or don’t want to do anything.

Again, this is just me reading, but this is stuff we’ve missed in the transition from dangerous orange guy to sane guy with nice doggies. We’re really going to have to keep an eye south of the border, and not for the reasons Ted Cruz thinks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:38:49am

I am starting to really wonder what sort of full-on clusterfuck we could be facing in the 2024 elections if enough states decide that their state legislatures have the power to override voting results.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:40:42am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:42:02am

The Kingdom of the Dude will not be revealed unto us in all its Diverse and Sustainable Glory until all have been Woke in His Divinely Awesome Name…

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:43:15am

Referring to this, btw:

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:49:02am

From the previous thread about Mike Straczynski…he’s the executor of Harlan Ellison’s estate. He’s now trying to reassemble The Last Dangerous Visions and get it published.

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calochortus  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:54:26am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

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I suspect some people raised in a religious culture cannot imagine that there are people who have no religion. Therefore they are interpreted as having different (wrong) religious beliefs, or that they are actively trying to deny the religion that is lurking somewhere in their mind.
It is true that many people who drift away from the religion they were raised in having a nagging feeling that there is a god out there somewhere and are a bit nervous about eternal punishment, but other people are able to completely reject their religious training, or weren’t raised with a religion.

To be clear, there is nothing wrong with having religious beliefs, though they can be used for ill as well as good. It’s just that not everyone has a religion and most of us manage to live good, moral lives without it.

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Nojay UK  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:56:40am

re: #9 🌹UOJB!

He’s now trying to reassemble The Last Dangerous Visions and get it published.

I really really hope not, it’s unpublishable. Howlin’ Harlan collected over two hundred stories, supposedly, for the final anthology over the decades since Again, Dangerous Visions was published. More than half the contributors to the fabled third anthology have died in the interim and the author estates are typically a mess. Generally publication rights Harlan agreed with the authors reverted after a decade or so and a lot of the contributors who could give renewed permission are reluctant to see those early works in print, if they haven’t already been published elsewhere.

I’ve got more hope for the “Rendezvous With Rama” movie and that will probably never be made either.

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:56:45am

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:59:48am

Not ” everyone”

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calochortus  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:02:20pm

re: #13 Dangerman

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Not ” everyone”

I might be terrified to go to the stores where those idiots are hanging out. Fortunately, I’ve never seen anyone carrying a weapon in my local grocery store or coffee shop.

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:03:58pm

Suckers

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:05:22pm

A year ago today, a little encouragement in a dark time.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:07:09pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:09:16pm

re: #5 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am starting to really wonder what sort of full-on clusterfuck we could be facing in the 2024 elections if enough states decide that their state legislatures have the power to override voting results.

And the majority conservative Supreme Court sides with them.

We could be stuck with GOP Presidents for decades.

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jaunte  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:13:09pm

Thread

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mmmirele  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:15:52pm

re: #14 calochortus

I might be terrified to go to the stores where those idiots are hanging out. Fortunately, I’ve never seen anyone carrying a weapon in my local grocery store or coffee shop.

If I see someone open carrying, I’m going to call the cops. Because I am not going to be the one to judge whether this is a good guy with a gun or a bad guy with a gun.

And this is why my local pizza parlor gets my money—they’ve made it clear they don’t want guns in their restaurants.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:16:38pm

re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg

And the majority conservative Supreme Court sides with them.

We could be stuck with GOP Presidents for decades.

Once the GOP can change the rules to ignore voters, what rights would we have left? We would descend into an authoritarian regime with no Constitutional or nonviolent hope of regaining our freedom.

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ericblair  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:18:32pm

re: #10 calochortus

I suspect some people raised in a religious culture cannot imagine that there are people who have no religion. Therefore they are interpreted as having different (wrong) religious beliefs, or that they are actively trying to deny the religion that is lurking somewhere in their mind.
It is true that many people who drift away from the religion they were raised in having a nagging feeling that there is a god out there somewhere and are a bit nervous about eternal punishment, but other people are able to completely reject their religious training, or weren’t raised with a religion.

To be clear, there is nothing wrong with having religious beliefs, though they can be used for ill as well as good. It’s just that not everyone has a religion and most of us manage to live good, moral lives without it.

This is where “atheists are just mad at God” comes from. If you’re mad at God, you’re a believer. To an atheist, being mad at the Christian God makes as much sense as being mad at Zeus or Batman. However, simple absence of belief is something that a fundy believer just cannot wrap their heads around.

You can be mad at the church, though. God might not exist, but churches sure do.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:24:54pm

Still, Zeus is kind of a dick.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:27:46pm
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calochortus  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:28:41pm

re: #22 ericblair

This is where “atheists are just mad at God” comes from. If you’re mad at God, you’re a believer. To an atheist, being mad at the Christian God makes as much sense as being mad at Zeus or Batman. However, simple absence of belief is something that a fundy believer just cannot wrap their heads around.

You can be mad at the church, though. God might not exist, but churches sure do.

And yet, a lot of people who purport to believe in God do a lot of sinning. And I’m not talking about a brief slip-up. I mean embezzling over a period of years, carrying on affairs over time, etc. You’d think if they really believed, they’d straighten up and fly right. Forgiveness for sins is great, but I think you are supposed to actually repent and not just be gaming the system.

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calochortus  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:31:06pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

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And there’s another thing I’m trying to figure out. When have we actually had a natural disaster where the ravening hordes actually showed up and needed to be repelled with assault rifles? Yes, there has been looting when neighborhoods became unlivable and people were evacuated, but generally the Nat’l Guard provides some security and arrests looters.

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JC1  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:33:20pm

re: #25 calochortus

And yet, a lot of people who purport to believe in God do a lot of sinning. And I’m not talking about a brief slip-up. I mean embezzling over a period of years, carrying on affairs over time, etc. You’d think if they really believed, they’d straighten up and fly right. Forgiveness for sins is great, but I think you are supposed to actually repent and not just be gaming the system.

We’re awesome at rationalizing. The “I’ll just confess/repent on my deathbed and still go to heaven” excuse makes it pretty easy to live a shitty life while actually believing.

It’s hard for me to imagine how anyone can fully buy into any of the god in the sky religions though, so who knows?

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DesertDenizen  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:39:28pm

re: #27 JC1

We’re awesome at rationalizing. The “I’ll just confess/repent on my deathbed and still go to heaven” excuse makes it pretty easy to live a shitty life while actually believing.

It’s hard for me to imagine how anyone can fully buy into any of the god in the sky religions though, so who knows?

If, like me, you were raised with no religion at all and weren’t really exposed until you were a teenager it is tough to get into religion. It just never made sense to me.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:44:40pm

Generally, if I believe that I need a gun in order to go some place; I consider that a sign that I don’t really want to be in that place. Particularly as a civilian.

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calochortus  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:47:09pm

re: #28 DesertDenizen

If, like me, you were raised with no religion at all and weren’t really exposed until you were a teenager it is tough to get into religion. It just never made sense to me.

I was raised without religion too. I do understand the attraction as there can be a lot of positives in that sort of community, and it hasn’t been all that long that we’ve had much of a clue as to how the universe works. There are still plenty of questions that science can’t answer. Not that it never will, but people do like explanations for things.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:49:35pm

re: #29 ckkatz

Generally, if I believe that I need a gun in order to go some place; I consider that a sign that I don’t really want to be in that place. Particularly as a civilian.

I find the level of disconnect really high in the cases where the gun carrier says they need the weapon “to feel safe” while in the next breath denying any need to wear a mask in that same location since doing so would be “living in fear” of Covid.

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calochortus  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:50:42pm

The laundry is calling my name, so I’ll catch you all later.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:50:50pm

re: #30 calochortus

I was raised without religion too. I do understand the attraction as there can be a lot of positives in that sort of community, and it hasn’t been all that long that we’ve had much of a clue as to how the universe works. There are still plenty of questions that science can’t answer. Not that it never will, but people do like explanations for things.

And they like comforting explanations for things.

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calochortus  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:51:51pm

re: #33 Belafon

And they like comforting explanations for things.

Don’t we all? At least some of the time.

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JC1  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:52:21pm

re: #28 DesertDenizen

If, like me, you were raised with no religion at all and weren’t really exposed until you were a teenager it is tough to get into religion. It just never made sense to me.

Grew up Roman Catholic, was an altar boy (nothing inappropriate happened, nor am I aware of anything inappropriate happening to anyone at the churches I attended.) I don’t remember if I ever really believed though. It’s been too long since I definitely haven’t.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 28, 2021 • 12:55:37pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

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retired cynic  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:01:43pm

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:02:00pm

The article reminded me of this song:

Loona - Hijo de la luna

Loona - Hijo de la luna HQ (Sentimiento version)

It also is a great Viennese waltz/fast waltz tune.

Hijo de la Luna Wikipedia

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:15:54pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

There are no bigger cancel culture practitioners than Rightwingers. See Kapernick or the Dixie Chicks.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:22:27pm
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jaunte  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:28:56pm
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Belafon  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:37:21pm

It’s an old tweet, but interactive teacher:

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mmmirele  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:39:39pm

Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota is losing her shit about Lil Nas X. The latter has been told for a while that he’s going to hell, so he decided to go there.

And Lil Nas X knows he’s yanked so many chains today…

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:43:18pm

re: #43 mmmirele

If I hear one more goddamned Republican talk about George Floyd as a “criminal drug addict”, I might murder someone. For fuck’s sake, I don’t care if he WAS a “criminal drug addict,” HE DID NOT DESERVE TO DIE IN THE STREET LIKE A DOG WITH A POLICE OFFICER KNEELING ON HIS NECK! Fuck you very much! Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:49:29pm

This awful attitude about “criminals deserve their fate” is disgusting. The harsh attitude towards criminals is part of what drives our super high recidivism rate. I’m not saying serious crimes shouldn’t be dealt with seriously, but civilized society needs to stop with the rape jokes and the “I hope he fries” attitude. It’s not helping anything, and it contributes to the police murder rate because, hey, they’re killing criminals, there’s nothing wrong with that, right?

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:53:05pm

re: #43 mmmirele

I think its interesting the Evangelicals won’t acknowledge that they normalized The Devil by turning him into a ridiculous supervillain figure.

I grew up with cable and there were three channels worth of pulpit hustlers making Satan sound like Doctor Claw—somehow impossibly strong and involved in everything but also just weak enough that perfunctory prayers and GIVING THAT MONEY was enough to defeat him. And over the years it’s just gotten dumber because their theology is now justifying a bunch of the shit that previously would have be seen as malefic, so now Satan is an even narrower, emptier threat.

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A Mom Anon  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:55:11pm

re: #45 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Same attitude goes for poor people too, even the white ones. They made bad choices or they wouldn’t be poor. They spend their money on lobster and booze and neglect their kids so fuck them. And a lot of this, most of it, is why everything stays broken.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:55:46pm

If you have an iPhone it’s urgent you update it right now.

forbes.com

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:56:43pm

re: #48 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

If you have an iPhone it’s urgent you update it right now.

forbes.com

The page did not load very well for me, but I will run the update anyway.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:58:09pm

re: #48 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

All I got was of &%$#^ pop-ups.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 1:59:16pm

re: #50 PhillyPretzel

All I got was of &%$#^ pop-ups.

I did find Apple’s security update notes. There’s a new cross-site scripting vulnerability that exploits an iOS bug. Basically, a malicious website can hijack your device.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:00:15pm

re: #51 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I went to Apple’s website and I read that too. Thanks.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:00:45pm

re: #49 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

re: #50 PhillyPretzel

Key parts:

Apple has deemed the vulnerability so serious that it has also released iOS 12.5.2 so people who own devices such as the iPhone 6, iPhone 5S and older iPads can also update their iOS 12 operating systems.

The sudden release of iOS 14.4.2 is the latest in a series of urgent security fixes in recent weeks.

The details are scarce, but Apple says the vulnerability fixed in iOS 14.4.2 could allow a malicious website to perform arbitrary cross-site scripting. As Sean Wright, SME application security lead at Immersive Labs explains, cross-site scripting gives attackers multiple means to attack you. This could include redirecting you to a phishing or malicious site, performing actions on a site on your behalf, or even obtaining information from your browsing session. “Since this is in WebKit, it could impact any site you visit, and potentially many apps as well,” he says.

Combine this with the fact the issue is actively being exploited, and it makes sense that all iPhone users should update to iOS 14.4.2 as soon as they can, Wright advises.

Don’t wait to update to iOS 14.4.2

Many people wait to update their iPhones due to bugs in early iOS versions. But since iOS 14.4.2 is a pure security update, it’s important that you install it now. This will ensure your iPhone is protected from malicious attackers.

Apple’s features-based operating system update, iOS 14.5, is due to launch any minute now, probably soon in April. It will come with updates such as the App Tracking Transparency feature that is set to hurt the likes of Facebook by limiting how it can track you across apps and services.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:01:06pm

re: #47 A Mom Anon

Same attitude goes for poor people too, even the white ones. They made bad choices or they wouldn’t be poor. They spend their money on lobster and booze and neglect their kids so fuck them. And a lot of this, most of it, is why everything stays broken.

Jesus: “Love the poor people and care for them. Show compassion.”
Christians: “Fuck that, fuck them, and fuck you too.”

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:02:59pm

re: #11 Nojay UK

I really really hope not, it’s unpublishable. Howlin’ Harlan collected over two hundred stories, supposedly, for the final anthology over the decades since Again, Dangerous Visions was published. More than half the contributors to the fabled third anthology have died in the interim and the author estates are typically a mess. Generally publication rights Harlan agreed with the authors reverted after a decade or so and a lot of the contributors who could give renewed permission are reluctant to see those early works in print, if they haven’t already been published elsewhere.

I’ve got more hope for the “Rendezvous With Rama” movie and that will probably never be made either.

Go to J Michael’s Patreon page for details about The Last Dangerous Visions. He’s chronicling the final volume’s progress.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:17:10pm

My iPhone is up to date. Thanks.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:17:36pm

re: #44 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

What is a criminal drug addiction though? Why is addiction even a crime?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:18:51pm

re: #57 Patricia Kayden

What is a criminal drug addiction though? Why is addiction even a crime?

I think she meant “a criminal with a drug addiction”, the implication being that all drug users are criminals. The simple fact is that drug abuse is a mental and physical health problem more than it is a crime problem.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:19:41pm

I just noticed this on amazon:
amazon.com

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:20:34pm

re: #41 jaunte

StoneKettle is having fun with this:

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:22:32pm

re: #60 ckkatz

We know who Lindsay is really afraid of.

Merrick Garland scares the shit out of him.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:23:27pm

re: #61 🌹UOJB!

Yes. And it is a beautiful thing.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:23:56pm

re: #61 🌹UOJB!

We know who Lindsay is really afraid of.

Merrick Garland scares the shit out of him.

BWA HAHAHAHA!

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:31:05pm

Looks like the promised line of ‘severe weather’ is about to arrive at Chez Katz. (Thunderstorms, 60mph winds) Of course severe is a relative term. I would suspect, based upon reports in lgf, it might be classified more as ‘normal’ in other parts of this beautiful country.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:32:34pm

re: #64 ckkatz

And the Greater Philadelphia area is going to hit with those storms.
weather.gov

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:43:50pm

Right now my thermometer shows it’s 89 outside in my part of Los Angeles.

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jeffreyw  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:44:37pm

re: #64 ckkatz

Looks like the promised line of ‘severe weather’ is about to arrive at Chez Katz. (Thunderstorms, 60mph winds) Of course severe is a relative term. I would suspect, based upon reports in lgf, it might be classified more as ‘normal’ in other parts of this beautiful country.

That line rolled through our area last night dropping a quick inch of rain and rattling the windows with continuous thunder. No reports of any local damage; this morning dawned cool and clear.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:47:38pm

re: #60 ckkatz

StoneKettle is having fun with this:

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:47:56pm

Title of article on my Asahi . com homepage: “China or America: Japan’s economy being forced to confront the fumi-e*; a wrong choice will mean death.”

If Japan chooses China, which it likely will, SK will have to rethink its options, Taiwan will be extremely vulnerable.

*a fumi-e was an image (e) of Christ, Mary, or both that suspected Christians had to step on (fumu) when Christianity was banned beginning in the late 1500s, but only really gaining intensity in the early Tokugawa period. The idea was that true Christians would refuse, and indeed thousands were tortured and executed.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:49:28pm

m.dailykos.com

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:52:25pm

re: #19 jaunte

Thread

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it was all they could find to charge him with
the first time
and the second time

say it with me:
republican obstructionism toward any kind of gun law changes only protects gun nuts.
(responsible gun owners don’t need any protection)

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:52:38pm

re: #70 Belafon

More Sen. Graham: “Every time a Republican does anything, we’re a racist. If you’re a white conservative, you’re a racist.

He’s actually right about this, but he has no idea what he said.

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KingKenrod  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:52:42pm

Graham’s mythical gang can also stock up on AR-15’s at the local gun show. Let’s see him Rambo himself out of that shit.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:53:15pm

Indirectly related to my earlier post: NY Yankees’ pitcher Tanaka Masahiro returns to Japan with family after enduring “frightening experiences” including son being bullied in kindergarten, worries about how Floridians (where they are living right now) are dealing with covid. He will reportedly join the Rakuten team.

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:53:45pm

re: #25 calochortus

And yet, a lot of people who purport to believe in God do a lot of sinning. And I’m not talking about a brief slip-up. I mean embezzling over a period of years, carrying on affairs over time, etc. You’d think if they really believed, they’d straighten up and fly right. Forgiveness for sins is great, but I think you are supposed to actually repent and not just be gaming the system.

nothing’s happened to me so far.
i must be getting away with it.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:54:28pm

re: #68 HRH Stanley Sea

Yes, I agree with you.

Back in the 1990’s a lot of popular gun targets had ‘criminals’ as the image. Guess what race?

Eventually white images were added to the mix. Realizing that this was not very good imagewise, the targets largely switched to zombies.

But the concept of the inner-city ‘other’ threatening the suburban and rural white gun-owner is a continuing meme in certain swathes of the gun community. And propagated by certain organizations seeking to drive firearms sales.

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A Mom Anon  Mar 28, 2021 • 2:56:38pm

re: #70 Belafon

And again, there’s a really simple way to fix the need for food and water at Georgia polling places. So simple, yet so impossible. It would make one think that need for food and water at polling places is part of a plan of some sort….

Seriously though. The state has voting machines every single year that sit in storage while the lines persist. It’s also possible to have paper ballots at polling places, that’s how we did it in olden times. Like when I was a kid. This is totally fixable fairly quickly. If we weren’t a state full of racist fuck weasels running things.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:01:24pm

re: #70 Belafon

Chris Wallace could have cited scores of examples of Republicans being racist. All Republicans may not be racist but racists certainly are comfortable with the Republican Party. That’s for damn sure.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:02:13pm

re: #64 ckkatz

Looks like the promised line of ‘severe weather’ is about to arrive at Chez Katz. (Thunderstorms, 60mph winds) Of course severe is a relative term. I would suspect, based upon reports in lgf, it might be classified more as ‘normal’ in other parts of this beautiful country.

Looks like the line of severe weather has passed me by. I am not heartbroken at missing the excitement.

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:02:31pm

re: #77 A Mom Anon

And again, there’s a really simple way to fix the need for food and water at Georgia polling places. So simple, yet so impossible. It would make one think that need for food and water at polling places is part of a plan of some sort….

Seriously though. The state has voting machines every single year that sit in storage while the lines persist**. It’s also possible to have paper ballots at polling places, that’s how we did it in olden times. Like when I was a kid. This is totally fixable fairly quickly. If we weren’t a state full of racist fuck weasels running things.

** only in some precincts

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Jay C  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:03:32pm

re: #61 🌹UOJB!

We know who Lindsay is really afraid of.

Merrick Garland scares the shit out of him.

Yeah, but saying that he needs to have an assault rifle to protect his neighborhood from the Attorney General of the US doesn’t have quite the same impact…..

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:05:02pm

I just saw a recipe for a grilled kimchi-cheese sandwich and I am totally making this as soon as I can find quality kimchi (the Korean market about 15 miles away sold homemade kimchi, but stopped recently—I am heartbroken).

The powerhouse, though, is kimchi/natto in combo. So good. The kimchi breaks down the sticky, stringy natto and it will keep you going all day.

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b.d. (America is Great Again)  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:07:51pm

re: #73 KingKenrod

Graham’s mythical gang can also stock up on AR-15’s at the local gun show. Let’s see him Rambo himself out of that shit.

If the “gangs” wanted to lure Graham out of his stronghold house all they would have to do is carry a TV camera and microphone.

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:10:23pm

re: #19 jaunte

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i’ve also said this before - the way to get support for a more robust background check system is to make sellers, including dealers, and private individuals somewhat responsible for who they sell to

not completely. not absolutely. not strictly liable.

Some.
take reasonable precautions not to sell to a potential mass killer. that means more than just ‘looking them up’

just a reasonable person standard the same as we all face every day when we interact with the public ourselves. no more and no less.

you can’t predict everything.
some things are obvious.
i applaud this particular seller.
though right now they do hide behind laws that allow them to say ‘i did what i was required to do”.

and all for just a tiny fraction of total sales.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:18:50pm

re: #80 Dangerman

** only in some precincts

It’s irrelevant. The QOP wants apartheid, and they will get it. The mechanics of voting don’t mean anything. We’re likely living through the last good government in America. Biden, presiding over the Last Republic, likely to pass with him.


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