Recently, during a TTRPG session:
Rebekah, the Galliard: *happens to be with part of her pack in the Umbra, tries to pick-lock an umbral door*
Door: *is picked*
Door: *relocks itself*
Rebekah: *stares*
Rebekah: *leans against the door, whispers* "Hey, nice door …"
Over the voice chat: *audible sputtering*
Storyteller: "Not while I'm drinking!"
The Australian Ghost Whisperer
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Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11194
Super interesting work 😍
> "an attacker could extract private information such as the online and activity status of a victim, e.g., screen on/off. More…
The thing that Renee Good now knows, that Tortuguita knows, that Heather Heyer knows, that I only know because I glimpsed for a second, is that when you die fighting oppression you live forever in that memory of resistance. When we carve their names into a monument, along with all the other names of the murdered and disappeared, that will stand, perhaps, across from the statue of Willem in the park where the Northwest Detention Center once stood, they will always be reminders of what it looks like to sacrifice everything in order to be on the right side of history.
The names of those who resist live as ghosts, summoned by name to haunt future oppressors, summoned by name to awaken our own conscience to the call. Martyrs, whispered like the White Rose or yelled as a threat like John Brown, cannot die so long as any of us with a bit of spine carries even an ounce of humanity.
It is possible to die knowing you did the right thing, and I have felt it. There is an acceptance that is impossible to imagine without being there, without feeling it for yourself. You have nothing to fear in resisting, even if it ends you. But you will never forget the shame of doing nothing if you fail to.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Jim Perkins:
🎵 Whispers (solo piano version)
#JimPerkins
https://open.spotify.com/track/2iGxG31v5tZsJfvUd1yKXJ
Tonight I woke up from a noise in the living room - I thought it sounded like the creepy whisper of a little girl 😱
It took me a few moments until I realised that the dog was snoring! 😴 #dogsofmastodon
Sandbar introduces Stream Ring, an AI-powered smart ring for transcribing audio notes into text via an app, preorder now from $249 and shipping in summer 2026 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sandbar-stream-smart-ring/
Or one could use LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice and not be dependent on some distant service provider.
Online office suites confuse me. It’s unclear what *modern* problem they address. Sharing files is a solved problem. Common data formats exist. https://mastodon.social/@DevOpsPink/11
“I watch others from afar—chasing dreams I cannot reach, climbing ladders I cannot touch, celebrating victories that sound like whispers from another life. They wake without fear. They plan without hesitation. They move through a world that no longer belongs to me. And I… I measure my days by the tremor of explosions, by the moments when the sky feels ready to collapse.
War steals more than homes—it swallows the ordinary: quiet mornings, free laughter, hands meeting without trembling. …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Martin Ellerby, Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra & Mark Heron:
🎵 The Whispering Knights (Standing Stones)
#MartinEllerby #MarkHeron
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Yk0zgwociOsx3j4QbPjcJ