wednesday newstrip

Genshin Impact: Kazuha story quest release date, time, & leaks revealed · Antarctic lake disappears after ice shelf fractures · a 2023 deadline to phase out the use of plastic fruit stickers has come as a surprise to New Zealand's fruit-growing & packaging industry · outspoken Hole singer Courtney Love has sledged “rude” teen star Olivia Rodrigo in a series of social media posts, accusing her of copying her work · classified British defence papers found at bus stop · 'Dragon man' skull forces researchers to rethink human evolution · ‘fool’s gold’ contains a newly discovered type of real gold.

a note on mosquitoes

Only
the female
sucks the blood.

The male feeds
on plant 
juices.

wednesday newstrip

Crayfish take more risks while on antidepressants, study shows · physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state · David Eagleman: ‘The working of the brain resembles drug dealers in Albuquerque’ · English Heritage reject Enid Blyton for coin commemoration, calling her a "racist, sexist, homophobe" · could horse-derived antibody therapy be effective against SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern? · massive icebergs once made epic trek all the way from Canada to Florida · 'Great failure': health expert slams handling of Australia's vaccine rollout · China's Mars rover took a selfie.

wednesday newstrip

Man looking for shark teeth in a Florida river survives an alligator bite to his head · no, DoNuts T.®ump didn’t wear his pants backwards · calls for Australia to reclaim Cocos (Keeling) Islands' internet domain, which has become a haven for child sex abuse · ex-Giant Bomb duders’ new project is already blowing up on Patreon · tiny creatures survive after being frozen for 24,000 years in Siberian tundra · the Dead Sea is disappearing, leaving behind a landscape shattered by sinkholes · Fastly blames global website outage on software bug that was accidentally triggered by customer · Siloscape malware escapes Windows containers to backdoor Kubernetes clusters.

geographies: Parachilna

 

Oh / the things / that one finds!

This poem was written nearly sixty years ago. No idea who made this video, which is recent, know nothing about it. The poem has appeared in a number of anthologies over the years, including one from the Caribbean.

Varnishing Point

 

wednesday newstrip

Clever maker with hand tremors turned a smartphone gimbal into a soldering iron stabilizer · China watches on as a herd of elephants wanders from town to town, causing over $1 million in damage · cop sacked over groin wax wins in appeal · bomb-sniffing rat retires after award-winning Cambodian career · Knockout City doesn’t show your overall stats, which is a bummer · the World's oldest water lies deep below Canada & is 2 billion years old · New Zealand dairy worker had fatal fall while doing a trick on his farm bike · Facebook suspends former US Prissygent DoNuts T.®ump's accounts for two years.

geographies: Little Topar

 

wednesday newstrip

People in the US state of Texas will soon be allowed to carry handguns without a licence · Greenland's melting ice sheet is unleashing an astonishing amount of mercury into the nation's rivers & fjords · the Australian Federal Court has ruled that the Environment Minister Ley-z Sussan has a legal duty not to cause harm to young people of Australia by exacerbating climate change when approving coal mining projects · Sri Lanka faces 'worst beach pollution' in history from burning ship · global car manufacturer says Australia is failing to lure electric vehicle importers · Israeli soldiers have shot & killed a Palestinian during a protest in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry has said.

geographies: Tooleybuc

 

Spamelot Phishalot

I am being bombarded with spam, phishing spam. Nothing like the Nigerian scam emails, this stuff is sophisticated. Good graphics, 99% correct spelling; a number of click-on links; & with complex sender addresses that seem to indicate advanced programming & redirection abilities. I'm getting 30 to 40 a day. I can't block them because they're already identified by Gmail as spam. All I can do is report them as phishing messages.

A few samples of the sender addresses:

ABC Ethereum i39u9aiqhonxhjj@mjzgobktbvg23xpkp.us via mtnubdevpf849twe9z.94l4kzb071qhf8d.stataschool.gr.com

China Crypto wmm2awbl8jt43s7@durzrgtoozsg49chfnwbn.us via 653977295hi228366.2npjqfng3myshr6308k4slndczsoo10wxmdczze2--------------.ec2-208.67.249.123.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.pyramid.systemshows.com

NESPRESSO UTZM2CAH.BV0ZYGCR@uwpttovjzxnqkhbyliie.us via bwuryj.53034-------.bzq-84-110-57-121.cablep.bezeqint.net

NESPRESSO G6O2CLP4.YSZ2LPNE@dxumfgvafloaguhdwsia.us via agdgon.62319-------.constantly.assistancewartime.com

China Crypto Bonus99-nooreply6F1QUVW...@6f1quvwqggmpmy5.us via mendiparc.bounabil18.earthosting.eu.org

Ethereum Invest J1B9HTO8.XIYNDZJH@fqoaeokirwniinxfrsri.us via malolajs.14mlo.foya.earthosting.eu.org

Ethereum Invest 6OU9HQV8.FCF9PZDQ@wdjjjicjdrwlzxsugvjw.us via malolajs.14mlo.foya.earthosting.eu.org

China Coin 7956@ro1zd4djeqrzxn7.us via sqnxqodmqwxqcmrkedmp.yj1ryikyt8fijxn.sxmvwjo14yqpz5nu1f.worldof.drivercycle.com

A few samples of the visuals :

Note the common address to write to if you want to unsubscribe. That's this place.

It's up for sale for $2.5 million if you want to buy it. I think it's empty.

Somebody who's obviously being subjected to the same bombardment as myself has tweeted: "As far as I can tell, that address is either a walk-in shipping/courier service, or maybe a hotel. (It's a weird block that's hard to navigate on streetview.) Clearly just an address harvested from somewhere that doesn't actually mean anything/an attempt at appearing legit."

I have a theory about these emails. It's to do with cryptocurrency mining. Since I can't discern any logic in plastering my email with a plethora of annoying & repetitive messages, I'm forced to believe that, possibly buried in that sender address, is an ongoing mining operation. Will continue to believe that unless someone comes up with an alternative theory.

wednesday newstrip

Australian Pram Minister Scat I'mtheshallowone is holding a news conference. Australian Prem Minister Scat I'mtheshallowone is holding a news conference. Australian Prim Minister Scat I'mtheshallowone is holding a news conference. Australian Prom Minister Scat I'mtheshallowone is holding a news conference. Australian Prum Minister Scat I'mtheshallowone is holding a news conference. Australian Pram Minister Scat I'mtheshallowone is holding a news conference. Australian Prem Minister Scat I'mtheshallowone is holding a news conference. Australian Prim Minister Scat I'mtheshallowone is holding a news conference. Australian Prom Minister Scat I'mtheshallowone is holding a news conference. Australian Prum Minister Scat I'mtheshallowone is holding a news conference.

wednesday newstrip

In emptiness of space, Voyager I detects plasma ‘hum’ · clever modder upgrades an old wacom into a pricier drawing tablet with $100 worth of parts · Ecstasy better at treating PTSD than traditional anti-depressants – study · Bill Gates told golf buddies that his marriage was ‘loveless’ · what 2,000-year-old poo says about our gut bugs · Federal Environment department tried to bury research that found huge underspend on Australian threatened species · Elongated Muskrat sends Bitcoin tumbling after pulling out of Tesla deal · freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor · for CBC, a dog story is more important than Israel’s apartheid · American business magazine Fortune has named New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern the world's greatest leader.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a life-sized
re-enactment of 
the first crossing
of the Atlantic 
Ocean by a pedal- 
powered liferaft. I
almost drowned.

seen in the carpark

 

The print parts of Otoliths issue sixty-one are now available

The print parts of Otoliths issue sixty-one are now available from The Otoliths Storefront at Lulu. Details are below. Lulu generally runs a promotional discount from Monday to Friday. This week's discount is 10% & the discount code is BOOKS10.

Part One
386 pages, b&w
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Part One of Otoliths sixty-one contains fiction & non-fiction, vispo, reviews, translations, essays, & poetry from Sanjeev Sethi, Olchar E. Lindsann, Louise Landes Levi, Linda M. Walker, John Bradley, Andrew Topel, Clive Gresswell, Heller Levinson, Jack Galmitz, Patrick Cahill, Paul Dickey, C.S. Fuqua, Clara B. Jones, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Anna Cates, Jim Meirose, Joann Renee Boswell, William Doreski, Tony Rauch, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Ian Ganassi, GTimothy Gordon, Adam Fieled, Gavin Lucky, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Ron Riekki, Cameron Love, Lynn Strongin, Mary Corbin, Jim Leftwich, Karl Bachmann, Dennis Hinrichsen, Nina Živančević, Charles Freeland, Hazel Smith, Peter J. King, Mark DuCharme, Mary Cresswell, Kenneth Rexroth, Bob Lucky, Heath Brougher, Nathan Whiting, John Levy, Jake Goetz, Tony Beyer, Simon Perchik, John M. Bennett, Hugh Tribbey, S. K. Kelen, Jeff Harrison, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Richard Kostelanetz, Timothy Pilgrim, Paul Ilechko, Martin Edmond, J. D. Nelson, John Sweet, Megan Wildhood, Aysegul Yildirim, Bob Kotyk, Michael Neal Morris, Elmedin Kadric, Randee Silv, Eric Hoffman, David Lohrey, Sheila E. Murphy, Keith Nunes, M.J. Iuppa, John J. Trause, Michael J. Leach, Tom Beckett, Alison J Barton, Mark Pirie, Penelope Weiss, Keith Polette, Bob Heman, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Paul Pfleuger Jr, Jane Simpson, Alex Glynne, & Javant Biarujia.

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Part Two of Otoliths sixty-one, the full color part, contains paintings, collages, drawings, photographs, essays, memoirs, asemics, & vispo from Laurent Grison, Brandstifter & Texas Fontanella, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Sarah-Jane Crowson, Doren Robbins, Elaine Woo, Judith Skillman, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, hiromi suzuki, Bart Plantenga, Pete Spence, David Miller, Cecelia Chapman, Jim George, Guy R. Beining, John McCluskey, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Greg Hill, Josie / Jocelyn Deane, Isabel Gómez de Diego, Dave Read, Remi Seamon, Texas Fontanella, John M. Bennett & Adam Roussopoulos, George Myers Jr, Daniel f Bradley, Rosella Quintini, Sreemanti Sengupta & Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, John Gallas, Daniel de Culla, Carol Stetser, Mike Callaghan, John M. Bennett, harry k stammer, Jeff Bagato, Magdelawit Tesfaye, Sophia Archontis, jeremy witherington, Diana Magallón, Olivier Schopfer, Keith Higginbotham, Marilyn Stablein, Fotis Begetis & Jack Galmitz, Katrinka Moore, Sam Langer, Michael Brandonisio, Cherie Hunter Day, & Stephen Nelson.

wednesday newstrip

The mystery of white dwarfs with intense magnetic fields could finally be solved · almost two-thirds of Australians think the Covid vaccine rollout is not going well, survey suggests · falling 21-tonne Chinese rocket 'garbage' could have landed anywhere from Denmark to Australia, but apparently came down in the Indian Ocean · new method shows that tau forms small aggregates as part of the body's normal physiology · Game of Thrones prequel, House of Dr. Agony, releases first photos · World baffled by Australia’s escalation with China · South Carolina adds firing squad to execution methods after running out of lethal-injection drugs.

Today the post-
woman brought
me an abacus.
"Does it still
work?" I asked.
"I wouldn't count
on it," she replied.

from the Manet archives

The Balcony