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She’s showing off her crown! A North Carolina woman was celebrated after sharing professional headshots with her afro on LinkedIn, Good Morning America (GMA) reports. Koai Martin began her natural hair journey in 2019, loving her hair but not always feeling the most comfortable wearing her afro out, instead choosing to keep it in protective styles like box braids.  “I was the most comfortable this way because I have always been told and taught that straight hair is ‘more professional’ or ‘more acceptable.’ So when I started my professional career and I saw practically none of the Black women I worked with wearing any natural hairstyles, I assumed all the things I had been told were right,” Martin told reporters. Over the last couple of years, her stance and her hair have evolved and Martin has gotten more and more comfortable with wearing her hair in its natural state. When it was time to take new headshots, she thought they should reflect what she looks like on a regular basis. When it was time to get photographed, she continued her routine as usual, steaming her afro out, a tip that she got from her sister, and heading straight to take…

The last five years have seen the emergence of a slew of social media apps with one thing in common: the focus on India’s non-English-speaking population. The list includes ShareChat (now a unicorn), DailyHunt, Lokal, Roposo, Helo, and numerous others. Many steadily grew their user base, while others silently bit the dust. But Bangalore-based live audio discussion app Leher neither registered massive growth nor did it fall by the wayside. Years later, the social media app has made a mark as a made in India alternative to Clubhouse. “When we launched our app in 2018, the regional language social media apps space was in early stages. We, as an audio platform, were way ahead of the curve,” Vikas Malpani, CEO and Co-founder of Leher, told YourStory. The app was founded under Leher.AI Pvt Ltd by Vikas, a serial entrepreneur and angel investors in Unacademy, among others, and Atul Jaju, a senior engineer at Goldman Sachs. Leher grew its marketing spends to 10 percent from almost nil earlier.  » Read More

WhatsApp stickers: Netflix’s thriller series, Money Heist, has created quite a buzz around the world. The show will return for its fifth and final season on September 3. While the first part of Season five will arrive in September, the second part of Money Heist season five will arrive in December this year. Now, just as Money Heist season five begins, WhatsApp stickers, dedicated to this show, have been released.WhatsApp today rolled out an animated sticker pack called Sticker Heist to its users across the globe that shows various characters from Netflix’s second most popular non-English series Money Heist. The animated sticker pack contains a total of 17 stickers and it includes various characters from the very famous Dali face mask to Professor, to Professor and Lisbon meeting, to Tokyo, Bogota, Rio, Stockholm, Arturo, Alicia Sierra and even Nairobi.The newly introduced WhatsApp sticker pack weighs in at just 658KB and it has been designed by Mucho Pixels. The best part about this sticker pack is that it is available for download on both WhatsApp’s Android and iOS-based apps across the globe. Also read: Looking for a smartphone? Check Mobile Finder here.If you are a Money Heist fan, here is a…

Get the shot: Hoyer, Ross news should be call to action originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago To the unvaccinated Cubs, unvaccinated Cubs fans, and everybody else in the damn country who’s over the age of 12 and otherwise eligible for a COVID-19 vaccination who hasn’t already been vaccinated: Get. The. Damn. Shot. Please, already. NBC Sports Do it for yourself, your teammates, your family, for the lug next to you in the bleachers. Just do it. This pandemic hasn’t gone away. And as the virus continues to mutate into new, more transmissible variants, it’s straining ICUs and morgues in communities across the country, most acutely in regions with the lowest vaccination rates. When Cubs president Jed Hoyer and manager David Ross both tested positive for the virus Friday morning, it was just the latest reminder of all of that, if not a wakeup call.  » Read More

A screengrab of the OA Lindungi Komuniti Facebook page. KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 ― The Orang Asli community in Malaysia have taken to creating TikTok videos to spread awareness of Covid-19 precautionary measures and vaccination among the country’s indigenous community. This is their latest effort since March 2020 to help protect the community, by creating educational materials on the Covid-19 pandemic in their own languages. One-minute impact multiplied to 26.7k Under the #OALAWANCovid campaign hosted on the Facebook page named OA Lindungi Komuniti, a contest to produce one-minute TikTok video clips on Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOP) and the importance of vaccination was launched. These short video clips ― which had to be original video produced by the Orang Asli just for the contest ― were posted on the Facebook page, with the content to be judged on various criteria such as their originality, creativity and popularity. In just 17 days during the contest period from August 15 to August 31, a total of 30 participants from the Orang Asli community submitted their video clips, which were collectively viewed an impressive 26,700 thousand times, the contest organisers told Malay Mail. In fact, the video clip with the most views had…

ClaimGeorge Orwell's 1984 was banned in the US for being pro-communist and banned in the USSR for being anti-communist.ReportingAdvertisementsOn September 2 2021, a Facebook post featured an image suggesting that George Orwell’s 1984 was banned in the United States for pro-communist sentiments, but that it was also banned in the USSR for anti-communist sentiments.A screenshot from Tumblr showed a bookstore’s shelf with a placard for “Freedom to Read Week” (an annual event in Canada), denoting a particular book as having been “challenged,” “seized,” “banned,” or “burned.” 1984 was marked as “banned” in “USSR,” “China,” and “United States.”A written portion of the image stated that 1984 had been “banned in USSR for being anti-communist,” and “banned in US for being pro-communist”:At the bottom of the image, Tumblr user ours-a-g-a commented:The book is 1984, which is neither. It’s anti-authoritarian, which tells you a lot.No additional information was included in the Facebook post. The first visible comment on the Facebook post read:I’m surprised to learn that it’s banned in the US, as I own several copies and have yet to be un-personed.A reverse image search located an earliest crawled iteration on Tumblr from March 2 2021; that timing was consistent with Canada’s annual Freedom to Read…

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Encino Man is one of the most memorable comedy movies of the early 1990s, and you can revisit the caveman comedy for free right now by streaming it on YouTube. Released in 1992, the movie is directed by Les Mayfield and written by Geroge Zaloom and Shawn Schepps. It stars Pauly Shore and Sean Astin as two friends who discover a caveman (Brendan Fraser), whom they help to integrate into modern-day Los Angeles. Click here to unlock the Weaselverse and watch Encino Man for free. The official synopsis reads: "The fun kicks off when two high school buddies dig up a frozen caveman in their backyard! Once the living fossil thaws out, the friends figure he's their ticket to being cool. But the plan backfires when the newcomer turns everyday life upside down, generating pre-hysterical craziness wherever he roams! Co-starring Sean Astin and Brendan Fraser, you'll definitely dig Encino Man -- the totally irreverent, totally awesome comedy that shows just how hilariously out-of-control things evolve once the stone age meets the rock age head-on!" Over the past year, Shore has teased Encino Man 2, suggesting that Disney+ would make a good home for the potential sequel. As The Mighty Ducks…

At a glance.WhatsApp patches bug.Twitter updates its features to promote "social privacy."Labor Day threats to data privacy.WhatsApp bug discovered hiding in image filters.WhatsApp is in the news again, this time for a (now-patched) vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to read a user’s private data. Exploitation of the bug would require both the user and the attacker to jump through a complex series of hoops, but experts at Check Point Research say that given the global messaging platform’s massive reach, the presence of the issue at all is worth noting. The attack hinges on the way WhatsApp filters and transmits images. Because filtering requires modification of the picture’s pixels, a hack could be triggered by the attacker sending the target a malicious image. When contacted about the glitch, WhatsApp responded, “This report involves multiple steps a user would have needed to take and we have no reason to believe users would have been impacted by this bug. That said, even the most complex scenarios researchers identify can help increase security for users.” WhatsApp version 2.21.1.13 includes a patch, complete with image checks to further safeguard against exploitation of the glitch.New Twitter features promote social privacy.In an attempt to make…

In an…interesting piece about Sonic the Hedgehog porn, which has to be the very definition of a slow news day thinkpiece, Slate writer Luke Winkie declared Tumblr “ancient”: “Think of the vast reams of erotic Harry Potter slashfic that linger around ancient Tumblr,” he says. I’ll chafe at that insinuation; it’s the same insinuation made all around the Internet, especially on sites like Twitter or TikTok, or wherever Gen Z and younger millennials can be found: Tumblr is an old, dying thing, and not at all important to the current meme or fandom culture. Part of this might be how Tumblr’s management strains to make it seem as popular as humanly possible, like when they rolled out a subscription model before quietly taking down every reference to it on the website as if it was just a summer day fool’s joke gone too far. Ah, Tumblr Post+ you were a dumb idea, with an even dumber execution. Of course, Tumblr isn’t the most popular social media site on the Internet; its humor lies in a niche place, and its fandom culture can be difficult to navigate due to years of both healthy discussions and in-fighting. Still, Tumblr breaks out of…