Elegia

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

A small sculpture, now possibly, maybe, probably finished. My first plan was to make it much lighter and more grey with blue-green tones on top and brown spots along the sides from below, sort of. But a lot of the things I do end up in a brown-beige-grey kind of colour scheme so I'll try to keep my hands away from this very blue thing.

After all, I'll make more faces and add more papier-maché to them. I want to make more like this in different versions, with different expressions and different pointy things sticking out.

The thing is made out of stoneware clay but with a kind of papier-maché built on, easily seen on photo number 1. It attaches very well to the clay and allows me to play with the different materials in different ways. Which is nice. I like it.

The whole thing then painted with acrylics which feels like cheating when there's clay involved but really doesn't have to be. As long as it's not supposed to be food safe it doesn't matter.

Marjane Satrapi, cartoonist and film director, best known for Persepolis

You're being targeted by one of the cleverest scams going right now, and the reason it works is uncomfortable: the email genuinely came from PayPal.

The trick is in the subject line, not the email

When most people think "phishing email," they picture sketchy senders, broken English, and links to weird domains. This scam is the opposite. The email passes every authenticity check — SPF, DKIM, DMARC, all green. It comes from PayPal's actual mail servers. The fonts are right. The footer is right. The unsubscribe link works. If you forwarded it to a security expert and asked "is this really from PayPal?" they'd have to say yes.

So how is it a scam?

Scammers have figured out that PayPal lets anyone send small amounts of money to anyone else, and that PayPal will dutifully email the recipient a notification. The scammer sends you a payout of, say, one Hungarian forint — about a quarter of a cent. PayPal's system then automatically generates and sends you a real, legitimate, fully-authenticated email confirming the transaction.

Here's the catch: the email's subject line is whatever the scammer typed when they set up the payout. PayPal doesn't sanitize it. So they write something terrifying like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 — call this number with questions" and PayPal's servers cheerfully deliver that subject line straight to your inbox, wrapped in a perfectly legitimate-looking notification.

This means every adult who is eligible to vote in Alberta has had the following information leaked: first names, middle names, surnames, addresses, postal codes, telephone numbers, unique identifier numbers, electoral divisions and voting areas.

Elections Alberta got an emergency injunction to have the website taken down but the horse is out of the barn, our information is out there now.

This is a breaking news story so I’m sure more details will be coming but in the meantime please be EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS about anyone who contacts you and seems to have information about you that may make them seem like legitimate government or banking officials.

The implications for anyone who has an Emergency Protection Order, stalker, or sensitive professional or public profile are terrifying. Please reach out to your supports and do whatever you need to do to stay safe.