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N-gated Hacker News

🚀 Behold, the browser that claims to be #faster than a caffeinated cheetah and more private than a teenager's diary! #Waterfox, the browser that's apparently so secretive, not even your ISP knows what you're up to. 🙄 With Oblivious DNS and private tabs, it's like your very own digital #invisibility #cloak. But don't worry, its speed will surely help you reach the end of the #internet before anybody notices! 😂
waterfox.net/ #browsing #privacy #HackerNews #ngated

WaterfoxFast and Private Web BrowserWaterfox is the privacy-focused web browser engineered to give you speed, control, and peace of mind on the internet.
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GraadYeah

TRATADO DE INVISIBILIDAD de Luciana Kaplan 📽️
An intimate, honest portrait of women who work in cleaning services at different institutions in Mexico City, their problems and the labor abuses they experience, is what Mexican director Luciana Kaplan shows us in her film #TratadodeInvisibilidad, a film she presented at the Guadalajara International Film Festival, @FICGUADALAJARA, where she won two awards and in which we were able to talk with her and her cinematographer Gabriel Serra.
youtube.com/watch?v=908NpsRIf8
#movie #pelicula #tratadodeinvisibilidad #lucianakaplan #INVISIBILITY #cleaners #mexico #exploitation

YouTubeTratado de invisibilidad (México), de Luciana KaplanBy FICG Guadalajara
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Einzelgänger

Throwback Friday - Being invisible in itself holds tremendous power; it’s an advantage widely overlooked in today’s narcissistic world. This video explores the priceless benefits of being invisible.

[Video Title: Why Invisibility is Power | Priceless Benefits of Being Invisible]
The full video is available here: youtube.com/watch?v=62QhA2_fa5

#einzelgänger#einzelganger#philosopher
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mythologyandhistory

Did you know that #invisibility cloaks are #real?

From the 2nd c's Cap of Hades to #Marvel 's Invisible Woman, magic that renders one #invisible is a common theme in #mythology & #scifi.

In 2006, #theoretical #physicist John Pendry figured out that light could be bent around an object so that it renders it invisible.
This led to many advancements in metamaterial science, known as 'metamaterial cloaking'.

I've enjoyed this talk by Pendry: youtube.com/watch?v=VO6IrynhjK [start: 4:43min]

YouTubeSir John Pendry "The Science of Invisibility Cloaks and Metamaterials"By UIMP
#science
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Snowbird of Paradise

This flower, which I saw outside my building, is new to me so I took its picture in order to look it up.

It is identified by my iPhone and Wikipedia as a Lenten Rose: “A perennial flowering plant and species of hellebore in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, native to Greece and Turkey.”

In case you were wondering, Lent is the six-week period leading up to Easter. It starts on Ash Wednesday (Feb. 14, 2024) and either ends on Maundy Thursday (March 28, 2024) or Holy Saturday (March 30, 2024), depending on the denomination. Today is March 10, so I saw this Lenten rose right in the middle of Lent.

When I looked up “hellebore” I learned that “the Eurasia genus Helleborus consists of approximately 20 species of herbaceous or evergreen perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, within which it gave its name to the tribe of Helleboreae. Despite names such as ‘winter rose’, ‘Christmas rose,’ and ‘Lenten rose,’ hellebores are not closely related to the rose family. Many hellebore species are poisonous.” (Wikipedia)

Image from Learnaboutnature.com, Hellebores.

That got me wondering about the tribe of Helleboreae and if they were hunters or gatherers. As far as I can tell, though, this is not a tribe of humans but of plants that have been used for both beneficial and nefarious purposes. “Healers have used hellebores in a variety of concoctions including salves, sold as a ‘fountain of youth’ and as a powder for invisibility. Medieval witches were thought to use Hellebore powder to summon demons.” (Tesselar.net)

According to one source, “in 600 B.C the Athenians under Solon used the poisonous Hellborus roots as a biological weapon to contaminate a river to subdue and conquer the un-suspecting citizens of  Kirrha who drank from it.” (Learnaboutnature.com)

So, this pretty little flower can be a biological weapon, has possibilities for use in summoning demons in scary movies, and could be used by superhero characters to achieve invisibility and eternal youth. It is also very near my apartment in case I ever have the urge to poison anyone.

https://snowbirdofparadise.com/2024/03/10/lenten-rose/

#ashWednesday#biologicalWeapon#demons
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