traegorn:

captainbritish:

bogleech:

twilight-sparkle-irl:

chrome users, your browser is about to start targeting advertising for you

Google asks websites to not abuse Topics API

Tech tweaked ahead of rollout in July, Mozilla and Apple still not interested

theregister.com

have fun

this does not necessarily apply to chrome-based browsers but it very well can. ymmv

Click here to get firefox, and once you install it, firefox will ask if you want to import all of your logins, bookmarks and settings from Chrome or whatever else you browsed with.

Then go here to add firefox’s best adblocker:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

Please do not use AdBlock Plus, they sold out years ago and allowed advertisers to “whitelist” certain ads.

uBlock Origin is the correct “best adblocker”

However, there is also AdNauseam which is built atop uBlock and will silently click on every ad it blocks so you can fuck with advertising companies. Essentially, this poisons whatever information profile they’ve built up on you. AdNauseam was even banned on the Google Web Store in 2017, so you can tell it works and that Google fucking HATES IT.

Use. Firefox. Dangit.

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feamir:

windynebula:

expiredcheese:

#What three hours of sun does to a nation

iceland’s two seasons: hibernation and mania

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duckdotcom:

scathing new insult to try out with your insomniac friends, “snoozeless”

This is so fucking rude to encounter after waking up at 2am

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kibumkim:

😭😭😭😭

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cryptobotanical:

Incivility is contagious and on the rise

Rude behavior toward frontline workers is on the rise, according to a new study.

Axios

I’ve had a feeling for a while now that people are ruder now than they were before the pandemic. I did some googling and turns out I’m not crazy or alone in thinking people have gotten ruder and more aggressive over the past few years. The articles chalks it up to stress from the pandemic and the economy and other global situations, but I think it’s deeper and more complicated than that. I don’t think stress is a valid excuse to be rude to strangers who don’t deserve it, even when I’m really upset or stressed out I don’t use a random service industry employee, or any random undeserving stranger, as my punching bag because that’s deplorable behavior.

I think one of if not the biggest contribution to the rise of rudeness comes down to people spending years inside getting little to no in person socialization and spending massive amounts of time online, and social rules online tend to be different than social rules in person. Online it tends to be more normal and acceptable to be aggressive and hostile to strangers, usually because there’s not the same consequences (it’s hard to punch someone through a computer screen) and also it’s easier to not feel guilty about bad behavior when someone is just words and pictures on a screen, it tends to make the hostility and aggression spilled on others not feel as “real” or “bad” as treating someone like that in person. (and I’m not saying this is okay, I really think as a society we should address and work on the ease and acceptance of being a total raging sack of shit to strangers online) But I think if people spend years spending massive amounts of time online and little to no time actually in person with other people, it’s going to affect their sense of how it’s acceptable to behave and treat other people as they adopt the social norms of the internet.

I do like the point this article makes that rudeness and aggression are contagious. It is a social contagion, the more you’re rude and aggressive to others the more tense and upset they’ll feel and start behaving rudely and aggressively too. The good news is, kindness and courtesy are also contagious.

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pablolf:

And Keanu says something really interesting to me on the first John Wick. He comes to me and he goes, “Look, just so you know, little bit of advice, when you edit, once a week, you should see the edit on the big screen.” And I’m like, OK, we’ll try. Later, alone with him, I’m going, “Well, why?” He’s like, “I’m a big-screen actor.” And I had no fucking idea what that meant. I thought it meant a movie star. And he’s like, “No, no, no, no.”

And he started talking to me about non-verbal acting, like gestures, motions. And he’s like, “Look, when you see me on a little monitor and I give this little look, it’s one thing. But when you see it on a 40-foot screen, that look’s going to say a lot. That’s what I want to play this guy as. So just please be aware of it, so when we punch in on the closeups, it’s going to mean something.” And it kind of really clicked for me right there.

I’ve always been fascinated by non-verbal gesture, body language. Keanu would go through and strip his dialogue down. It was like, “No, no, nope. I’m just going to cuddle the puppy.” In the first John Wick, he doesn’t talk for 32 minutes. Try to sell that one to a studio: You have Keanu Reeves and you’re not going to let him talk.

Chad Stahelski on what the John Wick movies owe to Buster Keaton

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kn1ght-l1ght:

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread

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fairycosmos:

fairycosmos:

there’s just nothing that beats being at home. the world will try to convince me i should be doing more and it’s like yeah but im at home

like if youre at home right now just take a minute to be like UGH yes im at home 

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butchdarling:

You know that study that found when doing a blind taste test the majority of people prefer pepsi over coca cola so coke changed their recipe to taste more like pepsi, and people actually liked the new coke a lot less because the people who were buying coke didn’t want it to taste like pepsi they wanted their coke to taste like coke. That’s what a lot of the new changes tumblr is working on feel like.

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