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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

In Cuba Even Salt Is a Problem – Havana Times

A product as basic and elemental as salt is has become yet another of problem for the island’s authorities. Not a day has gone by when they have not been called to account, even by the official press, for the lack of some consumer product, be it tobacco, electricity, coffee or masks.

On Tuesday salt became the latest item to be added to the list. It is sold in a form so damp that even the addition of rice to Cuban salt shakers is not enough to separate the grains. On Tuesday Jorge Luis Bell Alvarez, director of Ensal, has had to face the press to provide some justification for the problem. He claimed the only Cuban salt producer with technology capable of producing dry salt is in Guantánamo province. In addition to distributing the product locally, the plant also supplies Havana’s rationed markets. In total, it is responsible for 46% of Cuban saline production.

Source: In Cuba Even Salt Is a Problem – Havana Times

Yanomami e Árvores – Minas de Ouro e Ouro de luxo / COVID-19 propagado por garimpeiros… « Não – Pas de Cartier! » – A exibição: se estende para o próximo ano até 4 de dezembro de 2022  

Barbara Crane Navarro

Desempenho «Escultura de fogo», La Miroiterie, Paris, França – 2006: Barbara Crane Navarro

«Os xamãs Yanomami que lutam contra a epidemia de xawara veem a imagem da doença aparecer forma de tiras de tecido escarlate. A epidemia de xawara está se aproximando e sua fumaça está vermelha brilhante! Ele transforma o céu em um fantasma e devora todos os seres humanos em seu caminho! Ele deve ser expulso!»

– Davi Kopenawa, porta-voz dos Yanomami e xamã, Roraima, Brasil, de seu livro «A Queda do Céu»

«Xamãs Yanomami lutam contra xawara – a fumaça das epidemias»
instalação – mídia mista
Barbara Crane Navarro

Xamãs da região do alto Orinoco na Amazônia, Venezuela, descreveram para mim – oru a wakëxi – a fumaça dourada nesses termos décadas antes de eu ler as palavras de Davi. Enquanto sonhava em minha rede na casa coletiva Yanomami, o shabono, vi a escultura totêmica que…

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Runway and activism | An activist breaks into a Louis Vuitton fashion show in Paris — Stigmatis

Barbara Crane Navarro

Paris A protester stormed a Louis Vuitton fashion show in Paris on Tuesday, parading down the catwalk with a banner condemning the effects of overconsumption on the environment. Holding a sign that read ‘overconsumption = extinction’, the activist marched on behalf of environmental organizations Amis de la Terre France, Youth for Climate and Extinction Rebellion,[…]

Runway and activism | An activist breaks into a Louis Vuitton fashion show in Paris — Stigmatis

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Is Buying Vegan Better? — Something to Ponder About…

Barbara Crane Navarro

I ‘m the type of girl who’s rarely without some kind of handbag, or tote. I have many. My so-named ‘bag-robe,’ consists of various D.I.Y. constructions, which have either beenrecycled,or have recycled fabric or zips, incorporated into them. Many I’vehand-made or hand-painted. There’s one exception to this and it’s that one exception that had me[…]

Is Buying Vegan Better? — Something to Ponder About

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