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Lemon, it's Wednesday
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Lengthy rant about this week's internet security issues, beginning "So, basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without logging in, which is bad" and ending, "Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 257. Anyway, it's Wednesday."
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
wjcstp
I help manage 2 websites with wordpress installations, and as of this morning neither of the hosts have the patched versions of PHP available to select.
I backed up two of my 3 DBs, not sure why I can’t do the third, and the host (Dreamhost) finished patching around 11pm PDT last night. So …?
Ferdinand and Isabella
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Patricia and I at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival 2026
Taken by: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083476382174
Taken by: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083476382174
Lovely!
🤔
me_irl
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Current status: https://mltshp.com/p/1DY7E
My brain immediately shouted “Negative, I am a meat popsicle,” before I looked closer.
Sunn O)))
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The drone-noise duo Sunn O))) performing on stage, wearing hooded cloaks and drenched in fog.
Went and felt Sunn O))) perform last night. Very loud and weird and an interesting experience to help usher in spooky season.
Delmar Hall, STL, Oct 20, 2026
Delmar Hall, STL, Oct 20, 2026
made a thing
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Soooo, I've been banging away on this crazy thing (first with tools, then with fingers and mallets) since last February when I first sketched the design.
Someone gave me access to one of these insane stainless steel table bases (hidden here by the table top that I fabricated) which had been chucked into a dumpster in Bellevue as flawed by some furniture/decor company that didn’t want to pay to ship them back to Europe for a refund.
The Jam Table is 5 feet in diameter and 34 inches off the floor, designed for four musicians.
Clockwise from bottom are a xylophone, percussion rack (with a kick drum built into the table base), propane-tank tongue drum, and - god help me - I scratch-built a standup bass into the table.
On Saturday, I debuted it at SEACompression (Seattle's post-Burning Man party) and people seemed to have a good time plinking, banging, and drumming on it together.
Only one small casualty - a little fish-shaped woodblock on the perch rack needs to be reglued), and one good lesson learned - It either wants amplification or placement in a quiet room so you can hear the bass properly. We were sited next to a dubstep sound system, which kinda swallowed half the sound.
I'll also be modifying the bass neck to add a torsion cable to counteract the string tension and - I fervently hope - reduce the tuning/futzing time to something less than 1 hour.
And I might *just* be in talks with a certain beloved local radio station to get it sited in or near their Gathering Space. Details if and as they develop.
Full build log with photos and videos here: https://www.xylovan.com/jam-table/
Someone gave me access to one of these insane stainless steel table bases (hidden here by the table top that I fabricated) which had been chucked into a dumpster in Bellevue as flawed by some furniture/decor company that didn’t want to pay to ship them back to Europe for a refund.
The Jam Table is 5 feet in diameter and 34 inches off the floor, designed for four musicians.
Clockwise from bottom are a xylophone, percussion rack (with a kick drum built into the table base), propane-tank tongue drum, and - god help me - I scratch-built a standup bass into the table.
On Saturday, I debuted it at SEACompression (Seattle's post-Burning Man party) and people seemed to have a good time plinking, banging, and drumming on it together.
Only one small casualty - a little fish-shaped woodblock on the perch rack needs to be reglued), and one good lesson learned - It either wants amplification or placement in a quiet room so you can hear the bass properly. We were sited next to a dubstep sound system, which kinda swallowed half the sound.
I'll also be modifying the bass neck to add a torsion cable to counteract the string tension and - I fervently hope - reduce the tuning/futzing time to something less than 1 hour.
And I might *just* be in talks with a certain beloved local radio station to get it sited in or near their Gathering Space. Details if and as they develop.
Full build log with photos and videos here: https://www.xylovan.com/jam-table/
pen
I guess something like this
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hell yeah to all of this but especially rodan, shellac, and polvo
Couple of notes
In 1994, I'd just graduated college and was working my first job at an editorial design firm. My co-worker, friend, and future business partner of 20 years sat 3 feet away from me along a half wall. His girlfriend's friend Andrea was going to Art School™ out east somewhere (I want to say Yale? RISD maybe?) and sent a tape of what was cool. Side A was Rodan "Rusty". Side B was Polvo "Celebrate the New Dark Age". I've never been the same.
A few months later, that same guy, Bill said "Hey, this guy who was the guitarist of a band I liked when I lived in Chicago is in a new band called Shellac. You should check them out." Moved to Chicago a few months later and must have seen Shellac 8 times over 5 years.
At a Shellac/Fugazi $5 show at the Rainbow Room skating rink they were playing music between The Make*Up and Shellac sets and I couldn't place it and tried to describe it to Bill over the phone and he guessed Gang of Four. That wasn't the band I heard but good god did I love "Entertainment". To this day I don't know what they were playing between sets.
I once turned to my wife and told her if she ever wanted to know what it sounded like in my head constantly this was it and put on Melvins "Hung Bunny". I could listen to the A side of that LP 1000 times and never get sick of it.
A lot of the goth/art kids in high school and college art classes were super into The Cure. I never got it. Then I somehow got ahold of their early stuff. That first 3 LP run is just such great post-punk. (I think that was $10 CAD BTW — found it in Montreal if I remember correctly.)
In 1994, I'd just graduated college and was working my first job at an editorial design firm. My co-worker, friend, and future business partner of 20 years sat 3 feet away from me along a half wall. His girlfriend's friend Andrea was going to Art School™ out east somewhere (I want to say Yale? RISD maybe?) and sent a tape of what was cool. Side A was Rodan "Rusty". Side B was Polvo "Celebrate the New Dark Age". I've never been the same.
A few months later, that same guy, Bill said "Hey, this guy who was the guitarist of a band I liked when I lived in Chicago is in a new band called Shellac. You should check them out." Moved to Chicago a few months later and must have seen Shellac 8 times over 5 years.
At a Shellac/Fugazi $5 show at the Rainbow Room skating rink they were playing music between The Make*Up and Shellac sets and I couldn't place it and tried to describe it to Bill over the phone and he guessed Gang of Four. That wasn't the band I heard but good god did I love "Entertainment". To this day I don't know what they were playing between sets.
I once turned to my wife and told her if she ever wanted to know what it sounded like in my head constantly this was it and put on Melvins "Hung Bunny". I could listen to the A side of that LP 1000 times and never get sick of it.
A lot of the goth/art kids in high school and college art classes were super into The Cure. I never got it. Then I somehow got ahold of their early stuff. That first 3 LP run is just such great post-punk. (I think that was $10 CAD BTW — found it in Montreal if I remember correctly.)
Also I probably cheated as I think both Lysol and Celebrate the New Dark Age are EPs
Sesame Street: Pinball Number 4
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It's a day for four.
Has there ever been an actual pinball machine made based off of this? If not, there should be.
*gasps*
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https://www.threads.com/@mollyin...
‘Titled "Re-Matriate: Home/Land/Security," the piece consists of about 19,000 salmon vertebrae ground down into bead-like shapes. The bones were sourced from the Cook Inlet watershed, namely from the Kenai River and Skilak Lake. Painstakingly arranged and sewn together in the shape of a tunic using more than 1,400 yards of red thread, the piece weighs in at around 7 pounds. According to Mouw, the design
itself took an entire year to complete.’
‘Titled "Re-Matriate: Home/Land/Security," the piece consists of about 19,000 salmon vertebrae ground down into bead-like shapes. The bones were sourced from the Cook Inlet watershed, namely from the Kenai River and Skilak Lake. Painstakingly arranged and sewn together in the shape of a tunic using more than 1,400 yards of red thread, the piece weighs in at around 7 pounds. According to Mouw, the design
itself took an entire year to complete.’
you wouldn’t …
iot
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A meme where two people are riding a bus.
Pessimistic bus rider: I need to patch every IOT device in my home because of the number 4.
Optimistic bus rider: I can MITM all of my IOT devices and figure out what data they're all phoning home with.
Pessimistic bus rider: I need to patch every IOT device in my home because of the number 4.
Optimistic bus rider: I can MITM all of my IOT devices and figure out what data they're all phoning home with.
I have to say this year's Cybersecurity Awareness Month is unprecedented. Rarely are people so acutely aware of cybersecurity than they are this week!
Another brilliant success for the Trump administration! https://www.cisa.gov/cybersec...
Another brilliant success for the Trump administration! https://www.cisa.gov/cybersec...
I just enjoyed going down a 30 minute rabbit hole reading an interesting article from 2019 how to do this with the author's test case being a smartphone-controlled baby crib. Intriguing stuff!
hero
a duck pond
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Satellite view of an exurban part of Northwood, Ohio. At the lower left is the intersection of railroad tracks. Most of the area is covered by forest or cultivation. Off of Drouillard Rd. is a large grassy field with a pond shaped like a duck, the beak and top of the head being sand rather than blue water.
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown would be amused. I guess also that what looks like the bathhouse is a decorated shed.
source: 41.612098,-83.495152
cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
source: 41.612098,-83.495152
cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
If i had this kind of land i'd 100% do this but it would be in the shape of a Fender Precision and i'd call it Bass Lake.
in-ground pool that's spells the word "pool" in looping cursive and is wildly unusable for lap swimming
@joshmillard make it 'ool' and it's a deal
pressed flower collection
nugs for the mummy nug
it was "4"
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30-40 olives meme, with new text superimposed:
Off work late? Hungry but too tired to generate a private key? Try 4
4: an easy to generate private key.
Put it directly on your root certificates with your fingers.
You will certainly not regret 4
Off work late? Hungry but too tired to generate a private key? Try 4
4: an easy to generate private key.
Put it directly on your root certificates with your fingers.
You will certainly not regret 4
Whose?!?
F O U R
Ah, here's the story: https://www.theregister.com/security...
"The CA of concern in this case is called eMudhra, which boasts of having issued over 60 million digital certificates...
"'Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, and another is 115....' Other researchers have found private keys including the numbers 66, 155, 156, 230 and 237."
"The CA of concern in this case is called eMudhra, which boasts of having issued over 60 million digital certificates...
"'Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, and another is 115....' Other researchers have found private keys including the numbers 66, 155, 156, 230 and 237."
Salty story
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Engraving of Preserved Fish, C. 1830
"There were at least ten other Fish family members with the Quaker given name Preserved, whose lineages are often confused."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Grace Fish
Chastity Fish
Sojourner Fish
Temperance Fish
Truth Fish
Thankful Tune Fish …
https://www.google.com/search...
Chastity Fish
Sojourner Fish
Temperance Fish
Truth Fish
Thankful Tune Fish …
https://www.google.com/search...
I have visited the grave of Preserved Fish.
Smokin'
The Concrete Murals of Dodger Stadium
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Black and white photo of three abstracted concrete murals, with jagged, crumpled forms casting shadows in the sun, on the exterior of a structure (probably a concourse) below a level open to the outside. The middle piece has a sphere embedded into the upper center.
source: https://defector.com/the-secr...
Art by George Nocito and Bert Schwartz. Nate Rogers who has a whole article about the lengths he went to to figure out who the unnamed artist was. Gift link from me!
Art by George Nocito and Bert Schwartz. Nate Rogers who has a whole article about the lengths he went to to figure out who the unnamed artist was. Gift link from me!
Protests in France - Kiran Ridley
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A protester in Paris wearing an 18th century period costume and reflective ski goggles against a background of black-clad protesters and smoke
French students put ours to shame
This is almost my ARC Raiders character.
"dress for the protest you want"
I Voted!
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Winning “I Voted” Digital Sticker Design submitted by Halle G.
Design based on Mustang © 2008 Luis A. Jimenez, Jr.
Design based on Mustang © 2008 Luis A. Jimenez, Jr.
My 2026 General Election mail ballot has been counted! I got this cool "Blue Mustang" virtual sticker! Visit GoVoteColorado.gov for more election information
I mean, this just screams voter fraud. Horses can't vote!
@homerj DO NOT QUESTION THE POWER OF BLUCIFER
@jazon I had a project to design a kiosk for a Denver client. I drew a bunch of landmarks including Blucifer.
Everyone loved it. And then told me there was no way that could go into the kiosk.
Apparently Blucifer is litigious.
And given the fact he killed is maker, I wasn't going to mess with him.
Everyone loved it. And then told me there was no way that could go into the kiosk.
Apparently Blucifer is litigious.
And given the fact he killed is maker, I wasn't going to mess with him.
I make important things for work
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Three dogwelders in various states of realism
My students are designing cereal boxes. One of the things they need is a mascot, but many of them feel like they're not good at art. Today I showed them how they can use a reference photo as a guide, and how to simplify and exaggerate to make it look less realistic and more cartoonish.
What kind of cereal would you be?
WOOLY WILLY
Queen of Swords
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Another card done, this is the Queen of Swords starring my brilliant Aquarian friend @bee.perry. Weird coincidence for this card. I added an owl and a drawing of a black and white cat. After showing the image to her, Brandy told me she has an owl figurine AND a drawing of a black and white cat on her wall. I have never been to her place. Hand-drawn entirely in Adobe Illustrator without the use of AI. ©2026 Davezilla. All rights reserved.
Damn, it looks like she’s staring into my soul!
égalité, fraternité, panthère rosé!
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
Promo ad for Minnesota alternative rock station 93.7
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Via Kottke https://mastodon.social/@kottke...
LOL how many "The Edge" stations were there?
I listened to REMs "It's the End of the World as We Know It" on repeat for an entire eight hour work shift when this radio station was coming on the air.
In addendum and for the record however Rev 104 and Radio K were the supreme rulers of my life in the Twin Cities.
I want to go to there.
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Futuristic Mars tourism poster.
I've got this one, signed by the artist in a frame. https://science.nasa.gov/image-de...
@heyitsal Oh, that's beautiful.
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<image of the band Counting Crows where every band member’s face is replaced with Charlie Kirk>
Counting or not counting crows
Counting or not counting crows
this is very good