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profeminist:

BREAKING: The effort to defund Planned Parenthood has FAILED in the Senate. This is great news!!

Soure: Planned Parenthood Action

WHOOO HOOO!!!! 

More Info: GOP plan to defund Planned Parenthood stalls in the Senate

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Hackers are exploiting a serious zero-day vulnerability in the latest version of Apple's OS X so they can install adware applications without requiring victims to enter system passwords, researchers said.

As Ars reported last week, the privilege-escalation bug stems from new error-logging features that Apple added to OS X 10.10. Developers didn't use standard safeguards involving additions to the OS X dynamic linker dyld, a failure that lets attackers open or create files with root privileges that can reside anywhere in the OS X file system. It was disclosed last week by security researcher Stefan Esser.

On Monday, researchers from anti-malware firm Malwarebytes said a new malicious installer is exploiting the vulnerability to surreptitiously infect Macs with several types of adware including VSearch, a variant of the Genieo package, and the MacKeeper junkware. Malwarebytes researcher Adam Thomas stumbled on the exploit after finding the installer modified the sudoers configuration file. In a blog post, Malwarebytes researchers wrote:

Last month, we reported on the existence of Gutterdämmerung, the self-described “loudest silent movie on Earth” that is basically a supernatural Western/fairy tale where most of the principal characters are played by huge rock stars. At the time, we knew it would feature Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Grace Jones, and Jesse Hughes from The Eagles Of Death Metal, but director Björn Tagemose promised a handful of other people who would be joining up to play crazy cowboy angels or whatever. Now we know who two of those people are: Lemmy Kilmister from Motörhead and Tom Araya from Slayer.

According to a press release, Lemmy will be playing “a crazed general” who is in charge of the “Armour Cavalry.” Araya will be “a mysterious messenger of darkness” who will be “bringing the light…with a truly primal performance.” Along with those announcements, we also have a better idea of what ...

prettygirlfrommtpleasant:

Bless his heart.

The other day Darius pointed out that Channing Tatum is a human Mr Peanutbutter from Bojack Horseman and my world has not been the same since on several levels.

The Great Google+ Purge is officially underway. The social network isn't dead, but the plan to make Google+ the "social backbone" of Google is. After integrating Google+ with just about everything in the Google Ecosystem, Google's social strategy has "pivoted" and Google+ will now be de-integrated out of everything. Google+ will be left to stand alone as a (probably niche) social stream.

Google+ was, in a word, "forced." It was forced not only into products and on users but onto the rest of the company, too. In 2011, for instance, Larry Page famously tied all employee bonuses to the company's success in social. It was easy to see why Page decided to do this at the time: Facebook was big and growing and scary. What if people stopped using search and just asked their friends for websites and product recommendations?

With a fear-powered, top-down mandate and every employee having a vested interest in Google+, the social network got shoehorned into every Google product. Google+ showed up in Search, Android, Google Maps, YouTube, Google Play, and many others.

thatjayjustice:

This is just the most recent of countless similar messages I have received because of my Wonder Woman costumes. I am so tired of white, white passing, and anti-Black people from any and all ethnic backgrounds and nationalities looking at me in my costume and telling me ‘You don’t deserve to wear that. Wonder Woman isn’t for Black people.’

It’s nothing to do with ‘accuracy’, it’s racism and I’m sick of it. In before ‘Oh but they just didn’t know about Nubia!!’ Please. You can try to use ignorance as an excuse but you have to ask yourself, even if these people don’t know there IS a Black Wonder Woman, what makes them feel like they have the right to tell Black people what they can and cannot do? What gives them this supposed authority over our imaginations and our desire to create? This mentality is the reason why so many potential cosplayers of color are afraid to even wear a costume.

I can and have sent these people panels, pages and issues of official DC comics full of images of Black Wonder Women (yes, there are more than one!) and it doesn’t matter to them. My skin is still too dark, my nose too broad, my hair too nappy, in their words, not mine. I have been told to my face that I disgrace the Wonder Woman costume with my Blackness. Many other people of color have gone through similar experiences. I know of only one way for us to combat this.

Create, design, display and wear whatever we damn well please. Let our differences enhance our art. Let every single privileged individual who thinks to question our rights to self expression choke on their words. Feel free to be yourself in whatever way you see fit. Do not let other people’s opinions of your race or ethnicity dictate your choices. Don’t let the way they see you have anything to do with who you are. 

The cast of Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot made the rounds at Boston’s Tufts Medical Center Saturday; taking a break from their busy shooting schedule, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon posed for pictures and playfully searched for focused, non-terminal, repeating phantasms under patients’ beds.

The new supernatural comedy is currently filming in Boston, which is standing in for the original’s New York City; oddly enough, it’s the only thing that hasn’t offended people about the newest entry in the Ghostbusters franchise. According to E! News Daily, some of the kids at Tuft’s Floating Hospital for Children put a sign in the windows that spelled out “Who ya gonna call?,” grabbing the attention of the cast and crew. There are no reports of any of the children mocking the new uniform designs or proton packs, because apparently these kids know how to ...

In news that shouldn’t come as that big of a surprise to anyone with a passing familiarity with actual jokes or any degree of skepticism where the internet is concerned, yet another comedian is mad at Instagram users Fuck Jerry and The Fat Jew for stealing his jokes.

Comedian Davon Magwood tweeted this joke last week in the wake of the internet’s Cecil The Lion-related outrage:

That joke was quickly re-posted without attribution by both Fuck Jerry’s Elliot Tebele and the Fat Jew’s Josh Ostrovsky, both of whom are Instagram “personalities” with millions of followers. (Tebele even left a grammatical error Magwood made in his post.)

Magwood, in turn, posted an open letter to the ...

Much like President Thomas Jefferson would have done if the original expedition had turned into a complicated headache with a bunch of creative and logistical issues, HBO has announced that it is “temporarily pausing production” on its upcoming Lewis And Clark miniseries. That comes from Deadline, which says production has been “a rough shoot so far,” with internal issues and “weather-related factors” forcing HBO to make “two major behind-the scenes changes.”

Those changes probably won’t impact the average TV watcher much, though: Director John Curran and director of photography Rob Hardy have both left Lewis And Clark (whether it was their idea or not, however, remains unknown). Now HBO is scrambling to replace them, hence suspending production. Stars Casey Affleck and Matthias Schoenaerts are still on board, as are executive producers Tom Hanks, Edward Norton, and Brad Pitt. Oh, sure, directors are important, but most people are happy as ...

Black women activists have been saying this for a while now (the whole thing between @BrownBlaze and @deray was about this). @thetrudz is even stepping away from online activism because of the violence inherent in pushing exposure to images of black people being murdered. But this string of tweets is a nice summary of a topic with a wealth of rich discussion going on behind it.

Activism that harms activists “for the benefit” of the oppressor…I wonder at it. I can’t speak on it as a white person, but the paradigm rings my bell a lot re: online feminist activism/my role according to men “trying to learn”/how fucking used and exhausted I felt trying to fulfill that role.

Which is to say, if black women are saying constant overexposure of dead and brutalized black people is doing more harm than good, I’m way more Team Them than what 1) men prioritizing “teaching white people” have to say about it, 2) white people who want to rubberneck “cause how else can I learn?!” have to say about it.