#creepy
Mozilla’s first-ever Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter
In 2023, the state of our digital privacy is: Creepy
In addition to the Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter score, you can also take a quiz to determine your own privacy footprint.
From the link below, select which popular products you own. We’ll weigh their privacy features and flaws, then show how well or poorly your devices and apps protect your personal information.
#Privacy #creepy #Mozilla #digital #DigitalPrivacy #spyware #malware #CreepOMeter #spying #eavesdropping
Found the #banned YouTube video on Bitchute:
#creepy goings on
Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/ENDFcWTsGBI
Vous aurez du mal à me croire, mais mon modèle est une photo d'Angelina Joly^^
#dessin #gribouillage #drawing #art #amateur #noir-et-blanc #angelina #creepy #d3 #enjomineur #mywork
Strangely, when you have launched a Kickstarter all you can do is wait and occasionally pester people... and then there's a lot of time for other things, so today I made this angry fantasy crab.
For the left side legs I used a cc-by photo by Simon Matzinger. I have redrawn them a fair bit, but they are still there somewhere underneath.
As my old Disapora pod which hosted this free culture project got closed I am posting my art here. You can see it using the #katharsisdrill and #darkkatharsisdrill tags.
Go here for the high resolution Image.
As always Creative Commons - attribution
#art #mywork #Krita #crab #fantasy #creepy #world #cc #creativecommons #freeculture
The New Age tribunal
I have been busy with my next Kickstarter, but also found time for this uncanny piece.
As my old Disapora pod which hosted this free culture project got closed I am posting my art here. You can see it using the #katharsisdrill and #darkkatharsisdrill tags.
Go here for the high resolution Image.
As always Creative Commons - attribution
#art #mywork #Krita #NewAge #tribunal #fantasy #creepy #world #cc #creativecommons #freeculture
Digging Through the Archives of Scarfolk, the Internet’s Creepiest Fake Town
... In 1978, the town of Scarfolk, in northwest England, cut its police budget in half. This drastic measure was followed by a wave of violent crime. To deal with the influx of dead bodies, the remaining police did the obvious thing—they teamed up with the “Keep Britain Tidy” campaign, and encouraged citizens, especially children, to pick up “victim debris” themselves.
If this sounds too grotesque to be true, don’t worry—it is! There were never any smiling, appendage-finding kids in Scarfolk, because Scarfolk never existed. But the town’s online presence is meticulously detailed and impressively #creepy. For three years, graphic designer Richard Littler has been using his design skills and bone-dry wit to write a whole history of Scarfolk, a fictional, supernatural-tinged town that finds humor in #dystopia, and is closer to today’s world than we might like to think.
What the literal fuck
So I was considering using #Thunderbird as an #email client... but found this snippet in their #privacy policy:
Thunderbird uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host its servers and as a content delivery network. Your device’s IP address is collected as part of AWS’s server logs.
...Amazon? Absolutely the fuck not
#creepy #creeps #surveillance #data #amazon #FuckAmazon #AmazonGoToHell
Massimo auf Twitter: "Created in 1960, the Pigg-O-Stat™ is still an all-in-one pediatric immobilization device designed for positioning infants and young children for an appropriate x-ray without significant complications [read more: https://t.co/NdTFb9PlUw] https://t.co/dW76CBzbQH" / Twitter
First thought this is some kind of #blender
#creepy
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1439172344996634628
Watch a Scorpion and Its Young Glow Different Colors Under UV Light
Did you know that Scorpions glow when you put them under an ultraviolet light? Ecological artist The Butterfly Babe (Sarah Folts) has shared a video showing a mother scorpion with her young gathered on her back and glowing a bright blue and purple under ultraviolet light.
As spotted by Laughing Squid, this fluorescent feature is due to specific proteins in scorpion exoskeletons, although the reason for its evolutionary usage is not entirely clear.
What is clear is that subjecting the large arachnids to ultraviolet light makes for some stunning photo and video opportunities, as different species of scorpions glow different colors. As shown in the video above, even differently aged scorpions of the same species fluoresce different colors.
The glow is caused by chemicals in its outer shell (cuticle / Hyaline layer) absorbing and then re-emitting the light at a lower wavelength, which creates the soft blue-green color. This hyaline layer is incredibly strong and stands up to time incredibly well: scientists have found that even fossilized scorpions can glow when a UV light source is placed on them.
It has even been shown that when scientists preserve scorpion samples in liquid-filled jars, the hyaline layer can make the liquid glow. An interesting thing observed by researchers is the creatures don't glow immediately after molting. Instead, the cuticles have to completely harden before they start to shine blue/green.
"We don't really know exactly why they do it -- it could just be an accident, a freak of nature, that all scorpions fluoresce," Owen Seeman, the collection manager for arachnids at the Queensland Museum, said in an interview with ABC in 2017.
In fact, it is still unknown if the glowing material comes from a chemical reaction in the hardening process or if the scorpions actually secrete the chemicals that create the glowing reaction.
Some theorize that it could help scorpions find each other while others think it is just a fluke of evolution and has no purpose at all. Another theory is that scorpions use the glow to see at night, as their eyes are more sensitive to the blue-green colors. However, there is very little UV light at night which makes this explanation unlikely. Another theory is the fluorescence makes their bodies more sensitive to light, which in turn makes it easier for them to find a shade-covered hiding spot. Because scorpions avoid sunlight in general and UV light in particular, Carl Kloock, an arachnologist at California State University, postulates that the glow actually helps them determine if they are safe to come out or if they need to stay hidden based on how much UV light shines on them.
Even though the reason for the glow remains a mystery to scientists, it can definitely make things easier for researchers while out in the field since they can easily spot scorpions at night by simply using a UV flashlight.
#educational #arachnids #colorful #colors #cool #creepy #nature #scorpion #ultraviolet #uv #wildlife