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I can spot your Utena references anywhere Rebecca Sugar

World poverty rate to fall below 10% for the first time

For the first time ever, the number of people living in extreme poverty is set to fall to below 10% of the global population in 2015, the World Bank said.

“This is the best story in the world today – these projections show us that we are the first generation in human history that can end extreme poverty,” Jim Yong Kim, World Bank’s president, said.

The World Bank projects that the number of people living in poverty fell to 702 million people in 2015, or about 9.6% of the global population. That compares to 2012, when 902 million people lived below the poverty line, which was around 12.8% of the population at the time.

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Day 21: dress up

chicken-noodle-doodle said:

Gray, and the character from homestuck who makes you the happiest when you think about them, in winter clothes :)

Okay IN MY DEFENSE your icon is Stevonnie and I got distracted and misread this as a Steven Universe ask.  SORRY I MESSED UP RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE OOPS.

So anyway here’s wonderwall some Connie Maheswaran and snow over Beach City. UwU

Strange, I don’t see much of this on my Dashboard. In case you missed it, yes, Patreon has been hacked, and unfortunately it’s looking like they pretty much scored everything that was stored in their databases and it has all been posted online. You can read about it here, but here’s the gist of it:

Passwords (encrypted, but there some buzz going around that they might be decrypted with the source code)

Private messages

Email addresses (hence if you use the same password for several accounts, they will know which email address to try it on)

Who you’ve backed

Shipping addresses

Tax Forms (Also supposedly encrypted, but…)

DMCA Takedowns (for creators that have had them filed against them)

You may want to take some steps to mitigate the damage, but really for the time being that includes changing your password ASAP, and doing so if you use the same one at different locations. And if you’ve been anonymously backing any creators, prepare to have that data publicly available. And supposedly, Patreon does not store complete credit card numbers.

I wanted to bring up just a few things to all you amazing supporters of artists out there who ever had Patreon accounts prior to the malicious remote code execution (Hack) that resulted in the publication of your account data. The passwords are encrypted, meaning you have between 0 days and six months before your passwords become part of every script kiddies attack dictionary, which means you need to IMMEDIATELY:

* Change your password on  Patreon

* Never use any password you have EVER used on  Patreon EVER AGAIN on any account (the data that was stolen dates back to at least 2012, so if you’ve ever had a password on the Patreon site, that password gave it’s life in the line of service and should never be used again).

*If you are using that password elsewhere, change those to something else. ASAP.

Additionally, you should check in every so often at security researcher Troy Hunt website “Have I Beem pwned?” to see if your data is now easily accessible link: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Patreon  CEO Jack Conte stated that full credit card information for supporters isn’t stored on their servers. This means it’s unlikely  that you’ll see weird charges or outright credit card theft, but keep an eye out for it anyway.

Their servers did contain  social security numbers and tax form information…. So if you’re someone who receives money though Patreon , keep an eye out for signs of identity theft.

If you’re interested in reading more about this, I’d recommend the technology news site Ars Technica, who has been reporting on it here:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/patreon-was-warned-of-serious-website-flaw-5-days-before-it-was-hacked/

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/gigabytes-of-user-data-from-hack-of-patreon-donations-site-dumped-online/

Black Rose / Green Scarf

THIS IS A REALLY FUCKING EXCITING THING, BUT OF COURSE NOBODY SEEMS TO GIVE ENOUGH OF A FUCK ABOUT MESOPOTAMIAN SHIT TO ACTUALLY REPORT THIS ANYWHERE SOMEONE MIGHT SEE IT.