Altar Blue and Gold | Art by Nicole T. Lasher

Altar Blue and God, a woman sitting at her altar, a wooden table with a bowl, a basket with a wand, a light blue candle, a bottle of holy water, and a censer. She is wearing a long, draped royal blue dress, a gold stud earring, and has a medium thickness mass of dark, curly hair. In the background is an abstract painting of seaweed.

This is a woman sitting at her altar about to consecrate a new wand. Her altar is a wooden table with a bowl, a basket with a wand, a light blue candle, a bottle of holy water, and a censer. She is wearing a long, draped royal blue dress, a gold stud earring, and has…

Jair Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil’s presidential palace and supreme court | Brazil | The Guardian

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Jair Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil’s presidential palace and supreme court by Tom Phillips (The Guardian)

…thousands of pro-Bolsonaro extremists have refused to accept Lula’s narrow victory in October’s election, spending recent weeks camping outside army bases across the country and calling for a military coup.

Hundreds of hardcore supporters of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, have stormed the country’s congress, presidential palace and supreme court in a stunning security breach that was immediately compared to the 6 January invasion of the US Capitol by followers of Donald Trump in 2021.“What we are witnessing is a terrorist attack,” the news anchor…

‘Democracy now’: Israelis protest Netanyahu’s new right-wing government • FRANCE 24 English

Protesting Netanyahu's Right Wing Government
‘Democracy now’: Israelis protest Netanyahu’s new right-wing government • FRANCE 24 English from YouTube

Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, a…

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBoSpAfGmT0&ab_channel=FRANCE24English[/embed] Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.

Bertha | Art by Nicole T. Lasher

Bertha, a woman with curly black hair with reddish highlights, wearing a yellow long sleeved shirt and loose pants. She leans on a cane with her right hand. The background is abstract, firey swirls.

This is a kind of complicated doodle. I was fooling around a bit with brushes and effects in Corel Painter Essentials and eventually decided on the kind of person I wanted to put in that firey, swirly background.  

Twitter leak of email addresses totals at least 200 million – The Washington Post

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Hackers leak email addresses tied to 235 million Twitter accounts by Joseph Menn (The Washington Post)

Researchers say the information was assembled by unknown actors who exploited a previously disclosed flaw in Twitter’s system for verifying account ownership.

Records of 235 million Twitter accounts and the email addresses used to register them have been posted to an online hacking forum, setting the stage for anonymous handles to be linked to real-world identities. Source: Twitter leak of email addresses totals at least 200 million – The Washington Post

The role of copyright in online creative communities: law, norms, and policy

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Many sources of rules govern our interactions with technology and our behavior online—law, ethical guidelines, community norms, website policies—and they do not always agree. This is particularly true in the context of content production because copyright law represents a collection of complex policies that often do not always account for the ways that people use…