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I think the most unintentionally pretentious part of me is I genuinely forget that most people do not have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of mythology and folklore. I literally just assume most people know at least the name of every Greek god. My mom and I were watching the Banshees of Inisherin and at the start, she asked "Do you know what a banshee is?" and I was so stunned because it would never occur to me to ask that question because I would never assume the average person doesn't know what a banshee is. The average person knows what a banshee is right. You know what a banshee is right. You know the names of the greek gods right. You know that norse myth where loki fucked the horse right. Right. RIGHT
DDoS Attack Against AO3: Correcting Misinformation
Normally I don't make any posts like this, but I have an interest in cybersecurity and sadly I've seen people are being really ignorant about this recent DDoS attack against the site AO3 (Archive of Our Own), so I thought I'd remind people of a few things:
Anonymous Sudan appears to have no actual link to Sudan at all, or to any previous hacktivist groups that once operated there. This masquerade is probably based in anti-immigration and other racist sentiments, and utilizing those sentiments in other people to scare people and set up Muslims and Sudanese people as a target. This should be obvious from the language used in their note, but this was already known prior to this particular attack.
This so-called Anonymous Sudan has actually been very active recently—remember that they claimed to attack Reddit, Flickr, Riot Games, a huge number of Microsoft web portals like OneDrive and Outlook, etc. before AO3, so AO3 was totally a logical target for them since they've gone after smaller entities before. DDoS attacks like this are easy for any script kiddie to set up, so it's not weird that they'd go for a smaller target like this.
Honestly this group of posers probably just wants money, everybody. They sent AO3 a ransom note asking for Bitcoin (and just in case people don't know, do not pay a ransom if at all possible if this ever happens to you).
My advice to people who've noticed this attack is two-fold: calm down since this is part of a larger pattern that has literally resulted in basically no loss for the end-user of any of the sites, and... I don't really know a better way to put this, but don't believe everything you read. A religiously-motivated hate group wouldn't use terms like "LGBTQ+" and "smuts," and it's so blatantly obvious that the timing of every single one of these attacks is being used to smear Muslims and Sudanese people if you think about current events for like. One second. And if you look up Anonymous Sudan, you'll see their string of attacks and how all experts know that they have nothing to do with Sudan at all. Even AO3 itself told everybody that the group is lying about their motivations... though I think I'd go further than that personally because even their name itself is almost certainly a total sham.
To be clear: this post isn't targeted at anyone in particular. I've just seen a lot of people falling for this overall or not realizing this is part of a pattern, and I also wanted to remind everyone that this isn't anything to be concerned about. What is something to be concerned about is not doing research or thinking critically and then unwittingly spreading racist ideas.
i find out that Charlie's sweeping edge killed Tilin? WHAT? and he passed Juanaflippa to Roier and now he's exiled himself? WHAT'S GOING ON
Redesign doodle of Lucy first design + Wip of Virgo redesign since I was in a fairy tail mood.
it is genuinely bewildering to me that adult human beings do not know this but if you are mean to people they will not like you. like tbh they are probably also not going to like you if you are mean to other people but they are definitely not going to like you if you are mean to them. it doesn’t matter if you are funny or if you can use r/aita rules to prove that you are in the right. people simply so not enjoy being treated like shit.
I didn't even know Tara was missing until this episode... Shows how little I care about her.
You know, as a person who wears glasses, I never understood how people couldn’t recognize Clark Kent was Superman until I started trying to unlock my phone with Face ID. During the day when I have my glasses on my phone is like hey how ya doing, but at night when I’m lying in bed with them off it’s like holy shit who are you?!? I literally just sit there as it denies me multiple times in a row like dude you know me, we’ve been together for years. I’m then forced to put them back on and suddenly it’s all like hey dude your back, you’ll never believe what happened. I just stopped some oddball from gaining access to your personal information no need to thank me. No wonder Clark was so confident with just a pair of glasses. That is some wild stuff right there.
I hate losing friends..... especially people who have been close in my life for like 9 years?
I slowly stopped masking around her and that went okay mostly... but then had a pretty rough chat about AuDHD and she just.... was so closed off after that....
How can people just.... do that? Be friends with someone then... drop them like they're nothing when finding out about disability. She barely understood me talking about pots... apparently drawing the absolute line at neurodivergence.....
I'm really depressed about it. Especially since our youngest kids grew up together since a couple months old.
It really makes me want to isolate. My adult friend group is dwindling and it's really difficult for me to make new friends at this age.... I know that sounds pathetic. I feel pathetic..
I lived a life thinking I was on same page as society.
