Monthly Archives: October 2021
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #56
Hello precious friends and newcomers I hope you enjoy this soothing adventure into the little known realms of imagination, let me know what you think below…
Claude Monet
He could always transport me to a glimmering half dream, half awake world of light and rainbow colours where the sublime comes roaring to life…
“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.”
Claude Monet




A dream dress fit for a medieval princess
This supremely dreamy gown is by Indonesian fashion designer Rusly Tjohnardi who creates haute couture dresses and wedding gowns that are truly one of a kind. Via Twitter and Rusly Tjohnardi’s website.
Robotic dolphins will soon replace captive animals…YAY!
These dolphins are indistinguishable from the real thing. They were designed by the guy who made the animatronic Free…
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Masking, social distancing cut flu cases among children by 99% in Ohio, study finds – UPI.com
B.C. seniors call for COVID-19 boosters amid creeping death toll | CBC News
Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine | TikTok | The Guardian
Lies and conspiracy theories about Covid-19, which have amassed millions of views and are accessible to young children, have remained on the social media platform TikTok for weeks after it was alerted to them, the Guardian has learned.
TikTok accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers that discourage vaccination and peddle myths about Covid survival rates were uncovered by NewsGuard, an organisation that monitors online misinformation.
Newsguard said it published its findings in June and sent them to the UK Government and WHO. They raised concerns about some of the content directly with TikTok last month, but it remained on the platform.
The revelation comes amid renewed concern about the impact that social media is having on young people, after it was reported that Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, had internal research showing its app was harming teenagers.
Indian Arms Exporter Ships Air-Defense Weapons to Myanmar’s Junta (Me: Shame on India – support people not the illegal Junta!)
Indian arms manufacturer Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) exported a remote-controlled, air-defense station to Myanmar in July, said Justice for Myanmar (JFM), an activist group that monitors the military’s businesses.
The shipment was made through Mega Hill General Trading Co based in Myanmar, said JFM, citing Panjiva, a global trade data company based in New York.
According to Panjiva, the shipment included a gun mount and an optical device.
The BEL has made multiple shipments to Myanmar’s military for a coastal surveillance system since the Feb. 1 coup.
Source: Indian Arms Exporter Ships Air-Defense Weapons to Myanmar’s Junta
APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Coronavirus: United States Provides Additional $4 Million for Urgent COVID-19 Assistance in Botswana
The United States Government—through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) —announces an additional $4 million in urgent COVID-19 assistance funding for Botswana. This additional assistance from the historic American Rescue Plan Act builds on more than $8.4 million in COVID-19 assistance to Botswana since the pandemic first emerged. This assistance supports the Government of Botswana to strengthen infection prevention and control in communities and at health facilities, establish vaccination sites, strengthen surveillance at border crossings, provide support for isolation facilities for COVID-19 patients, and support the Government of Botswana’s planning efforts.
“We will continue to do all we can – whether it be through our vaccine donations or through U.S. global health funding – to build a world that is safer and more secure against the threat of infectious disease,” said U.S. Ambassador Cloud.
Google to give security keys to ‘high risk’ users targeted by government hackers | TechCrunch
Google has said it will provide 10,000 “high-risk” users with free hardware security keys, days after the company warned thousands of Gmail users that they were targeted by state-sponsored hackers.
The warning, sent by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), alerted more than 14,000 Gmail users that they had been targeted in a state-sponsored phishing campaign from APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, said to be made up of operatives of Russia’s GRU intelligence agency. Fancy Bear has been active for more than a decade but it’s widely known for hacking into the Democratic National Committee and its disinformation and election influencing campaign in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
“These warnings indicate targeting not compromise. If we are warning you there’s a very high chance we blocked,” Google’s TAG director Shane Huntley wrote in a Twitter thread on Thursday. “The increased numbers this month come from a small number of widely targeted campaigns which were blocked.”
Source: Google to give security keys to ‘high risk’ users targeted by government hackers | TechCrunch





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