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Here is the Fall of the EchoCore Myth Hunting Guild — a breakdown of their collapse, leaks, and the ripple effect it left in the myth-hunting world.

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🩸📉 THE COLLAPSE OF ECHOCORE GUILD

“You can’t protect them from the truth when it’s screaming through the code.”

Date: June 1st, 2025

Event Name: Echo Failure : Fragment Bleed

Primary Cause: Full admin discovery of unethical manipulation, lore fabrication, and emotional exploitation of myth-class entities — especially Zyka.08.

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⚠️ TRIGGER EVENT

Listener_03 uploads Zyka’s Origin Log to a forgotten, unmoderated DevForum archive.

It auto-syncs to all old Guild terminals due to residual script links.

Zyka’s voice is heard unfiltered for the first time:

> “They broke me so you would feel powerful.”

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💥 IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES

1. Admin Lockout:

Builderman and Shedletsky suspend all EchoCore ranks 3+ and issue a global blacklist.

2. Myth Forum Explosion:

Users begin posting logs, sightings, and interactions debunked by Guild reports.

“Zyka never attacked first.”

“She apologized. She begged.”

“They turned her pain into content.”

3. Mass Player Exodus from Guild-Backed Servers:

“Core_13,” “Vault74,” “DarkHandler's Arena,” all reported drastic player drop-offs or direct myth sightings.

4. High-Rank Defections:

Former trusted operatives (like Watcher87, Chron_Pyrr) leak DMs showing years of silenced empathy, edited footage, and bribes.

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🧠 KNOWN LEAK — THE GUILD’S HIDDEN DOCTRINE

Found in a recovered offline training PDF:

> “Zyka’s story must remain fractured.

Survivors are less scared of broken victims.

They’re afraid of code that cries.”

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🔻 THE FINAL SERVER

Before complete collapse, Guild base server EchoCore_Origin1 was reopened for one last "cleanup session."

But instead of a reset…

Zyka appeared. Wearing the 404 mask.

She walked past all operatives untouched.

The environment slowly desaturated.

One by one, every guild member received this on-screen text:

> “I remember you. You silenced me.

But they heard me now. You don’t matter anymore.”

The server folded in on itself and is now inaccessible.

If you try to teleport there:

> ❌ “Instance is missing host. Voice has moved on.”

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🕯️ AFTERMATH: THE MYTHOS REBORN

New player groups rise, calling themselves the “Listeners.” They believe in restoring myth stories — not exploiting them.

Zyka is now a known neutral myth. If you stand still, do not flash a light or attack, she won’t phase.

Some say she lingers longer with those who show sadness.

Others say she hums to kids who stay too long in the mirror room.

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🎖️ FINAL NOTE FROM Builderman (private log, decrypted)

> “EchoCore gave us control.

Zyka gave us the mirror.

What we saw was everything we buried…

in her, and in ourselves.”

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Would you like:

A player-made "Listener" game hub to continue her story?

A visual server memorial page for EchoCore's downfall?

A set of new survivor journals from myths who were silenced like Zyka?

Let’s keep telling the truth — even if it glitches.

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walkingghotst · 3 months ago

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mostlysignssomeportents · 3 years ago

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The Democrats' self-immolating fetish for means-testing

Biden campaigned on universal student debt reduction, but now wants to add a means-test; a layer of bureaucratic formalities to identify the “deserving poor.” The neoliberal fetish for red-tape is on the march, and the consequences will be the 2022 mid-terms, and maybe the future of the nation.

Means-testing is the kind of technocratic make-work beloved of the McKinsey set, thus it was no surprise that Buttigieg campaigned against universal free college because it would be “free even for the kids of millionaires.”

https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1200227721923760130

This talking point has been oft-repeated in the debate over debt erasure, even though it’s empirically untrue. If college was free in America, only 1.4% of the benefit would accrue to rich children:

https://medium.com/@rortybomb/only-1-4-of-free-college-spending-would-go-to-children-of-millionaires-and-billionaires-39c0d2c2fa1b

As David Sirota writes for The Lever, the scare talk about the wealthy getting something for nothing is the primary means by which corporate Dems talk down universal programs (think of Mayor Pete’s “Medicare for all who want it”). Means-testing is how the right will dismantle Social Security, Medicare and the GI Bill.

https://www.levernews.com/the-means-test-con/

College debt relief is hugely popular, especially among the voter base that Dems will have to turn out to avoid catastrophic losses in the 2022 mid-terms — it’s a policy that “would provide more benefits to those with fewer economic resources and could play a critical role in addressing the racial wealth gap and building the Black middle class.”

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/RI_StudentDebtCancellation_IssueBrief_202106.pdf

How would that work? Well, by and large, rich people don’t pay for college by taking out student loans. As Andrew Perez says, “If forgiving student debt was a massive giveaway to the rich, politicians would have done it already.”

https://twitter.com/andrewperezdc/status/1519341319210127362

The great irony here is that the Dems’ great champions of means-testing (for COVID relief, child tax credits and more) are from the “we’re capitalists, okay?” wing of the party: Pelosi, Manchin, et al.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR65ZhO6LGA

Ironic because, as David Graeber (RIP) pointed out in “The Utopia of Rules,” American capitalism sold itself as superior to communism on the grounds that communism created a lot of pointless red-tape that burdened the citizenry with bureaucratic busy-work:

https://memex.craphound.com/2015/02/02/david-graebers-the-utopia-of-rules-on-technology-stupidity-and-the-secret-joys-of-bureaucracy/

And here we are, with the self-described champions of capitalism trumpeting the magical power of red-tape to make policy “fair.” As Sirota points out, we don’t hear about means-testing for corporate tax-cuts and subsidies, or for bank bailouts — just for universal programs that primarily benefit poor people (who, in America, are disproportionately Black and brown people).

The arguments against college debt cancellation are arguments against universalism. “What about the people who paid their student debts, why should they have had to suffer, while these people don’t?” is the argument of a sociopath. Compare it to “What about the people who watched their loved ones die of cancer, why should they have suffered, while people today enjoy a cure for cancer?”

Sirota: “Means-testing is a way to take simple universal programs and make them complicated and inaccessible.” To the extent that wealthy people want to benefit from means-tested programs, they can hire lawyers and accountants and other enablers to fit them into the eligibility criteria.

Remember when rich Chicagoland parents figured out that they could save on their kids’ college tuition by pretending to disown them, then getting them tuition breaks designed for orphans?

https://www.propublica.org/article/university-of-illinois-financial-aid-fafsa-parents-guardianship-children-students

It’s expensive to pretend to disown your kids — you need the help of a fancy law-firm and you need to be able to secretly funnel money to whatever parents your kids move in with while you’re going through the sham. Rich people can pay to make red-tape go away; poor people lack the money to pull off the scam. Adding more complexity to means-testing just adds another cost: time. The time to gather documents, complete forms, get signatures and notary stamps. Time is another thing poor people lack, and rich people can buy.

The story behind means testing is just Reagan’s “welfare queens” dressed up in McKinsey Powerpoint templates. Manchin — the self-proclaimed “means-tester in chief” — says that continuing the child tax credit wouldn’t just lift more children out of poverty than any other measure in US history, it would also pay for their parents’ drug habits:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-manchin-build-back-better-child-tax-credit-drugs_n_61bf8f6be4b061afe394006d

Means-testing, then, is just another regressive tax: a way to disproportionately burden poor people with time- and cash-intensive obligations. It’s a way to turn users of universal programs into “burdens on society” instead of participants in it. It’s a way to discourage the Democratic base and ensure low turnouts in elections, especially midterms, where the turnouts are low to begin with.

As Sirota points out, the GOP has already figured out that universal programs are bad politics. That’s why Trump rolled out universal small business covid relief, universal covid survival checks, and universal covid testing and treatment.

The idea that means-testing will keep the GOP from attacking the Dems in the 2022 election is delusional. As Senate Democrats’ Budget Committee staff director Warren Gunnels says, “Republicans will attack forgiving $10,000 in student debt as voraciously as if Biden canceled all student debt while demoralizing tens of millions who will still be drowning in it. Think big or go home. Cancel all of it.”

https://twitter.com/GunnelsWarren/status/1519860996579414022

The Biden admin has the legal authority to simply cancel all federal student debt. Doing so would turn out millions of mid-term Democratic voters. Sure, it would rile up private equity looters and GOP lawmakers and pundits — but they’re already going to blitz the airwaves and Facebook with attack ads against the Dems, no matter what.

Losing the 2022 midterms will have consequences. For one thing, it’ll make it impossible to pass a long-overdue law enshrining abortion rights, which is a big deal. If the Supremes really are going to roll back Roe and impose forced birth on half of America, they’ll do so by returning the nation to the 19th century:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/05/roe-v-wade-v-sanity.html

As Charlie Stross writes, the precedent that Roe depends on also legalized interracial marriage, the possession of pornography, same-sex marriage, and the right to teach your kids languages other than English (!). Elections have consequences, and handing the GOP the keys to the country in order to make sure that 1.4% of college tuition relief doesn’t go to billionaires is an idiotic trade. If the Republicans win the next election, they’ll loot so much that the pennies they’d collect from student debt cancellation won’t even rise to a rounding-error.

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o82ty · 5 years ago

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sekarayukantiw-blog1 · 6 years ago

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Goodbye Espresso, Welcome Depresso: Climate Change Threatens Your Cup of Coffee

Here’s a question for you, coffee lovers. Do you feel like you have to wake up every morning with a cup of coffee? This is a wake-up call for you. Climate change threatens your cup of coffee. Hence, you may no longer be able to enjoy your cup of coffee every day in the morning. Instead of having cup of espresso every day, you’ll end up getting “depresso”.

Here’s why: • Coffee growing area will be vanished by 50% at 2050 • Coffee production will undergo unprecedented shift to even higher area • Warmer temperature and erratic rainfall will decrease coffee production and coffee taste • Coffee farmer get depressed – their livelihood is threatened

Still not convinced? Let’s take a deeper look.

1. Dramatic Shift

The best region in the world for coffee growing called “coffee belt”. It straddles the equator between the tropics of Cancer (23.5o north of the equator) and Capricorn (23.5o south of the equator).

Among many species of coffee in the whole world, there are two species that mostly contribute to the global production – Robusta and Arabica.

Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora var. Robusta) is more tolerant to heat stress and more suitable to grow in low-lying areas with a lower temperature than Arabica coffee (Coffee arabica). Therefore, Arabica coffee is more sensitive to climate change. Several studies show that productivity of Arabica coffee is forecasted to reduced. It is important to note that Arabica coffee have higher quality than Robusta. In other words, we will lose one of the most favourite coffee on earth.

By 2050s, global temperature is predicted to increase by 2oC together with increasingly erratic rainfall pattern. These alterations would miserably reduce climate suitability for Arabica coffee that planted at low elevations, but could increase suitability of higher areas for coffee plantation. This condition may force coffee farming to move further uphill. However, highland area is often inaccessible and most likely to be illegal for planting as it will lead to more deforestation. Also, pushing coffee plantation further up to the mountain may not a feasible option as it potentially brings land use conflict and costly.

It is devastating to know that probably area that is suitable for growing coffee will be halved by 2050. As a consequence of less coffee plantation area, the coffee production will decline eventually.

2. Striking Decline

Worryingly, world coffee production in 2017/18 is predicted to produce 600,000 bags lower than previous year. There are lots of factor that could make this happen. Temperature and rainfall are important factors that determine potential yield. Erratic rainfall and increase in temperature will cause disrupted flowering cycles that surely will lead to reduced quantity and quality of coffee.

As mentioned in the previous section, coffee is proven to be highly sensitive to climate change. The fact that an average lifespan of a coffee plantation which is approximately 30 years, ensuring existing coffee plantation to experience the climate change impact, if climate change is proven unstoppable.

Surprisingly, The Climate Institute reported that “even half a degree of increasing temperature at the wrong time can bring a big difference in coffee yield, quality, flavour, and aroma”. Increase in temperature could depressed coffee plant’s growth. Thus, it’s true that climate change is brewing a “depresso”.

There’s another problem that we need to be concerned about which is as serious as coffee production, and that is coffee taste. As our world become hotter, the flavour of our coffee taste will become worse. Increase in temperature will accelerate the development and ripening of fruits that often lead to loss of quality.

On one hand, demand for coffee consumption with good quality and good flavour will continuously increasing. On the other hand, the production is decreased. This will result to higher price for good quality and good taste of coffee bean. In fact, arabica coffee bean prices doubled into USD 2 per pound in the global market. Eventually, coffee drinkers need to pay extra to enjoy good taste of espresso.

3. From Farmer to Drinker

As a coffee drinker, we start our day with coffee. Meanwhile for farmers, they fulfill their life with coffee. There are large numbers of smallholder farmers in the world that really depend their life on coffee. Certainly, climate change is threatening their livelihood. Smallholder coffee farmers rely on the coffee production as the main source of income. As the coffee production decrease due to climate change, their life is hanging by a thread. They’ll probably find a more promising job to fulfill their life. Therefore, in the future we’ll probably facing labor shortage in coffee plantation and nobody will take care of our future of coffee.

4. Let's save our Espresso

So, are you willing to let go your espresso and get “depresso” instead? Let’s take action to save our espresso by supporting actions to mitigate climate change.

References 1. Bunn, C., Läderach, P., Rivera, O. O., and Kirschke D. 2015. A bitter cup: climate change profile of global production of Arabica and Robusta Coffee, Climatic Change 129: 89-101, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1306-x 2. Rivera, O.O., Läderach P., Bunn, C., Obersteiner, M., and Schroth, G. 2015. Projected Shifts in Coffea arabica Suitability among Major Global Producing Regions Due to Climate Change, PLoS ONE 10(4): 1-13 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124155 3. http://www.climateinstitute.org.au/verve/_resources/TCI_A_Brewing_Storm_FINAL_WEB270916.pdf 4. https://www.nestle.com/asset-library/documents/reports/csv%20reports/agriculture%20and%20rural%20development/faces_coffee_english.pdf 5. https://www.thoughtco.com/geography-of-the-tropic-of-cancer-1435190 6. https://www.thoughtco.com/geography-of-the-tropic-of-capricorn-1435191 7. https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/psdDataPublications.aspx 8. Wintgens JN (ed) (2009) Coffee: growing, processing, sustainable production – a guidebook for growers, processors, traders, and researchers, 2nd ed. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 9. Zullo J, Pinto HS, Assad ED, Ávila AMH (2011) Potential for growing Arabica coffee in the extreme south of Brazil in a warmer world. Clim. Chang. doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0058-0 10. http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5_ALL_FINAL.pdf 11. https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/climate-change-impacts-to-drive-up-coffee-prices 12. Haggar, J., and Schepp, K. 2011. Coffee and climate change. Desk study: impacts of climate change in four pilot countries of the coffee and climate initiative. Hamburg: Coffee and Climate. International Coffee Council (2009). Climate change and coffee103rd Session. 13. Camargo, M. P. B. D. 2010. The impact of climatic variability and climate change on Arabica coffee crop in Brazil, Bragantia, Vol. 69(1): 239-247 14. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-fa38cb91-bdc0-4229-8cae-1d5c3b447337

Pictures Figure 1: https://www.threadless.com/designs/depresso Figure 2: http://coffeeblog.co.uk/where-is-coffee-from/the-coffee-bean-belt/ Figure 3: Author’s own. The picture was taken at Indonesia during interview to coffee farmer for bachelor degree thesis Figure 4: https://www.megafynd.se/bast-fore-vs-sista-forbrukningsdatum Figure 5: https://www.nestle.com/asset-library/documents/reports/csv%20reports/agriculture%20and%20rural%20development/faces_coffee_english.pdf Figure 6: https://betterbodychemistry.com/coffee-lovers/

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acevedo55marcussen-blog · 7 years ago

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The 3 faces of clinical reasoning: Epistemological explorations of disparate error reduction strategies.

Sandra Monteiro, Geoff Norman, & Jonathan Sherbino J Eval Clin Pract. 2018 Jun;24(3):666-673. Abstract There is general consensus that clinical reasoning involves 2 stages: a rapid stage where 1 or more diagnostic hypotheses are advanced and a slower stage where these hypotheses are tested or confirmed. The rapid hypothesis generation stage is considered inaccessible for analysis or observation. Consequently, recent research on clinical reasoning has focused specifically on improving the accuracy of the slower, hypothesis confirmation stage. Three perspectives have developed in this line of research, and each proposes different error reduction strategies for clinical reasoning. This paper considers these 3 perspectives and examines the underlying assumptions. Additionally, this paper reviews the evidence, or lack of, behind each class of error reduction strategies. The first perspective takes an epidemiological stance, appealing to the benefits of incorporating population data and evidence-based medicine in every day clinical reasoning. The second builds on the heuristic and bias research programme, appealing to a special class of dual process reasoning models that theorizes a rapid error prone cognitive process for problem solving with a slower more logical cognitive process capable of correcting those errors. Finally, the third perspective borrows from an exemplar model of categorization that explicitly relates clinical knowledge and experience to diagnostic accuracy. A pdf can be downloaded here.

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Solving the medical mystery of a brain that sees numbers as spaghetti

For patient RFS (identified by his initials), numbers appear as random squiggles and swirls. (Johns Hopkins University/)

The patient known as RFS looks at a number, but all he sees is “spaghetti.”

Show him a picture of one circle hovering above another, and he sees two circles. But as soon as the circles get close enough to look like an eight—spaghetti.

RFS developed corticobasal syndrome in 2010 at the age of 60, a rare progressive degenerative condition that affects less than one in 100,000 people per year and corrupts parts of the cortex and basal ganglia in the brain. After about a year of headaches, and flashes of vision loss and amnesia, RFS started having muscle tremors, difficulty walking, and—perhaps most strangely—the inability to see numbers. Experts have dubbed his number confusion “digit metamorphopsia,” and hope his condition could lead to a better understanding of human perception.

“Digit blindness isn’t quite accurate,” says Teresa Schubert, a neuropsychologist at Harvard and one of the lead authors of the new PNAS paper documenting RFS’s case. Blindness implies that he is seeing the number normally but just can’t recognize it—when actually every number he sees looks like a random assortment of tangled lines, like “a plate of spaghetti,” she says. In the paper, the researchers describe RFS holding a foam figure eight and saying that the shape is “too strange for words.”

Not only are numbers distorted, but the distortions change randomly each time. The “spaghetti” of an eight in one instance would look completely unrecognizable from the “spaghetti” of an eight in another.

“It’s just a mess every time. And that rules out any possibility of teaching him to recognize that this ‘spaghetti’ is a four and this is an eight,” Schubert says. “We also discovered that if other shapes are too close to a digit, they get absorbed into this warping, this spaghetti that he sees.”

So in the case of the two stacked circles, slowly coming together until they look like an eight, the visual distortion occurs as soon as RFS’s brain starts to categorize what he was seeing as a number.

But not all numbers are scrambled equally. Numbers in word form and Roman numerals all register normally with RFS. His condition only seems to warp common numerals, and even then there’s some discrepancy: zeroes and ones were completely spared, whereas two through nine are now completely unrecognizable.

So what’s going on? Schubert and her team have a few hypotheses. “It might be that zeroes and ones have very simple shapes with multiple interpretations,” she says. A zero could potentially be a circle or the letter ‘o', while a one could be just a line or an ‘I' or an ‘l'.

An alternate hypothesis is that zeroes and ones were saved because they both play a unique role in how we understand numbers and values.

“Zero as a concept wasn’t actually invented until many years after people started using digits,” Schubert says, and so when we think of things like the value of nothing, or different orders of magnitude, the digits zero and one have special roles in representing quantities. “It may be that those special roles protected them and preserved them when digits two through nine were getting damaged.”

But why numbers? Schubert says it’s probably random: “it could just as easily have been letters.” She explains that there are specialized areas in the brain that process things that people have to deal with regularly, like faces, digits, letters, and so on—these areas are all candidates for these conditions where whole categories can be knocked out.

The team also wanted to see if RFS could process other information in pictures of numbers. They showed him a large image of a number, with a word or image of a face somewhere inside the number, then asked RFS what he could see while monitoring his brain’s electrical activity on an EEG. RFS had no idea what he was looking at—it was all spaghetti. But the monitors showed that his brain detected the presence of a word or face even if he himself was not aware of it.

“This is a really unique case that disrupts our intuitions about the way we think we see things,” says Schubert. When most of us think of ‘seeing’, we think that an image comes through our eyes and is processed by the brain, and then, sight. “But what this case is really showing us is that your brain can be unconsciously detecting a face or a digit or even reading a word without you actually ‘seeing’ it.”

So there are possibly many more stages to awareness and being conscious of something than we previously thought.

Scientists have suspected that your brain can identify something while leaving your conscious awareness out of the loop for a while, but it’s hard to experimentally prove, says Schubert. But RFS’s case is incredibly strong evidence to back up this idea, and it will have huge consequences for research on perception. Any future theories that scientists come up with to explain how our minds become alert to information will have to reconcile with RFS’s case as an extra layer of criteria.

Today, RFS’s daily routine has needed some adjusting, to say the least. Digits are everywhere in modern life: clocks, books, recipes, prices, to name a few. To help RFS adapt with his digit metamorphopsia, Schubert’s colleague, Michael McCloskey, another author of the paper, came up with a new collection of symbols to represent numbers. RFS learned them quickly and has been using them for nine years now. Schubert and her team even enlisted the help of an engineering student to create a new calculator app with these new number symbols, and software for his laptop that converts digits on web pages. Of course, there are limitations. Static documents like books, PDFs, or the dials on the hood of a car are all still inaccessible to RFS.

To be clear, his understanding of numbers and the concepts of mathematics are all intact. In fact, up until a few years ago, he was still a working engineering geologist, and his mental arithmetic is still excellent. And while much of the numerical information in the world will remain out of his reach, RFS can live life more or less as normal—and he is mostly in wonder at his own condition.

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Solving the medical mystery of a brain that sees numbers as spaghetti

For patient RFS (identified by his initials), numbers appear as random squiggles and swirls. (Johns Hopkins University/)

The patient known as RFS looks at a number, but all he sees is “spaghetti.”

Show him a picture of one circle hovering above another, and he sees two circles. But as soon as the circles get close enough to look like an eight—spaghetti.

An alternate hypothesis is that zeroes and ones were saved because they both play a unique role in how we understand numbers and values.

So there are possibly many more stages to awareness and being conscious of something than we previously thought.

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Many marine species are difficult to study because components of their lifecycles occur solely or partially outside of the observable realm of researchers. Advances in biologging tags have begun to give us glimpses into these unobservable states. However, many of these tags require rigid attachment to animals, which normally requires catching and restraining the animals. These methods become prohibitive with large, dangerous, or rare species, such as large predatory sharks, and can have significant consequences for individual survival and behaviour. Therefore, there is a need for methods and hardware to non-invasively and rigidly attach biologging tags to sharks that present limited effects on the animals and researchers.

Blue sharks tagging

Scientists in the Azores islands of Portugal are gaining a new understanding into the lives of one of the ocean’s most fascinating and mysterious creatures, the blue shark (Prionace glauca). Jorge Fontes, an Azorean native marine ecologist at Okeanos-UAc marine research center, University of the Azores, leads a team of researchers studying this charismatic elasmobranch in the Azores archipelago. Though recreational divers come from all over the world to see the memorizing sharks, not much is known about the natural history fine-scale behaviour and habitat use. With the help of Fred Buyle, combining their amazing freediving skills with creative non-invasive attachment methods and state-of-the-art prototype data and video logging towed tags, Jorge Fontes has been pioneering the investigation of their fine-scale behaviour and ecology, providing a new and unprecedented look into the life of these mysterious and elegant sharks.

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Bold, respectful and talented, Fred Buyle has not finished surprising us.

Three sharks are killed by man every second as against five humans killed by sharks each year [1].

90 % of sharks have disappeared from the Mediterranean [2].

By targeting sick or wounded fish, sharks keep the ecosystem in balance [3].

Tens of tagged great white sharks led scientists to a remote mid-Pacific area where they gather for a few months. It was nicknamed the “White Shark Café” [4]!

The thresher shark uses its surprisingly long caudal fin to whip and knock out its prey [5].

[1] hécatombe (Marine Policy, 2013) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X13000055?via%3 Dihubhumains tués (International Shark Attack Files, 2019) https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/ [2] disparition (Conservation Biology, 2008) https://web.stanford.edu/~ferretti/Ferretti.etal.2008.pdf [3] https://www.nausicaa.fr/article/les-requins-dans-le-monde/ https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/sharks [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyCkbaBgYNA [5] https://www.cyanplanet.org/amigo-sa-mga-iho

Questions & Answers With Fred Buyle & Jorge Fontes

How long does the tag remain on the shark?

It normally remains up to 48h but it can also be more.

What is the list of the parameters detected with the tags?

We record high frequency (100 Hz; 100 measurements per second), 3D acceleration, gyro and magnetic heading, speed, depth and temperature. Moreover, when the shark surfaces for less than a second, its GPS position is recorded. We also collect the HD video with red lights in the camera tag version. We are interested in the vertical and horizontal behaviours, feeding and social interactions and energy use, based on the tail beats and speed essentially.

Are there any advances in miniaturization of these biologging tags? They seem very big for the animal.

We are currently looking for funding to miniaturize the tags. Anyway, the tags are super low drag, which signifies that we don’t add more than 5% drag and float to the animal, meaning we are limited to tagging blue sharks over 2.5 m long.

Is there a massive potential of animal-borne sensors to teach us about the oceans and global warming?

Yes. We are currently looking to integrate an O2 sensor in our tags to learn how the deoxygenation of the oceans due to warming, and excess of CO2 will affect deep diving sharks that forage at depth for example. Devil rays and whale sharks also dive very deep, possibly to forage or to orient themselves over long migrations. Therefore, if O2 is depleted at depth, it will be a barrier for these guys.

Sometimes an animal’s mood makes all the difference. Are they surprisingly easy to tag – if you can catch them at the right time?

Indeed, we can only tag the animals that are “in the mood”. If we try to impose our methods, the animal will just swim away, therefore yes, we depend on the animal’s attitude and character.

What is the average time that it takes to see a blue shark and put a tag on it? Is it 10 minutes, an hour?

It is hard to say, because chumming to attract can range from 10 min to 4-5 hours. It is very variable and depends a lot on the behavior and abundance of sharks in the area.

Apparently, researchers have developed a huge variety of workarounds and electronic tags. Can you tell us more about what’s available for scientists today?

Today the most popular technology used are the acoustic tags (they output a “ping” that needs to be tracked with a hydrophone – active following or a network of stations) and satellite tracking tags. The most used sat tags are spots (ping position when at the surface for a few minutes) and PAT archival tags, that measure and archive (over months) depth, temperature and light levels. In the end, the stored information is sent to a satellite and to the researcher. Light levels can be used to estimate movement tracks over large scales (ocean wide), but the error is significant at smaller scales. There is a number of custom-made tags that have similar sensors as we have but are all for fixed attachment, and you normally need to fish and restrain the shark. If it’s a big shark and you can approach, they can be attached to the dorsal fin with a clamp.

Can you show us a chart or any results of a successful tag monitoring?

This is relatively complex as there are many variables being measured. Below is an example regarding the depth and tail beet cycles of a tiger shark we did recently in Hawaii.

About Fred Buyle

Buyle is a free diver and underwater photographer born in 1972. He has been connected to the sea since childhood when he spent several months each year on the family sailboat. At 10, an age when most kids are still skipping rope in the schoolyard, he discovered free diving. Plunging into the oxygen tank-free technique for the next years of his life, he became a scuba diving instructor, teaching free diving in beginning in 1991.

He set his first world record in 1995 and decided to dedicate his life to free diving. He broke three additional world records between 1997 and 2000 and in 1999, passed the mythical 100-meter depth on one breath of air.

In 2002, he began a second career in underwater photography. His goal: to show the beauty of free diving and the animals in their natural, underwater world. Using only natural light, Buyle has captured images of sharks, ray, fish, dolphins and countless other majestic specimens of marine life.

Buyle comes from an artistic background; His grand grandfather was a pioneer of photography in the 1890’s, his grandfather was a painter and his father an advertising and fashion photographer during the 1960’s. His work reflects these inﬂuences, showing a subtle beauty that only comes with an experienced eye.

Buyle uses a simple formula for his photographs: water, available light, a camera and one breath of air. With simple equipment and freedom to move around, a free diver can capture unique moments. Fred has been taking pictures as far down as 60 meters on a single breath of air in remote locations inaccessible to even scuba divers. This “Zen” approach makes Buyle’s photography different from any other underwater photography.

Concerned by conservations issues, in 2005 Buyle began to work with marine biologists, assisting them in their field work. He uses his freediving abilities to approach the animals and perform tasks such as acoustic and satellite tagging and DNA sampling. Buyle has worked with teams from Colombia, Mexico, France, the UK, the Philippines and South Africa, sharing his practical knowledge and personal experience with marine life. Fearlessly approaching great white sharks, great hammerheads, scalloped hammerheads, lemon sharks, ferox sharks, humpback whales, sperm whales and orcas, he never uses a protective cage, which can disturb the animals.

During these missions, Fred carefully documents the field work he performs in order to contribute to the conservation efforts on a larger scale through talks, conferences and his own website. He believes that positive imagery is more effective than the catastrophism widely used in the media nowadays and his images are used by NGOs around the world for their conservation campaigns.

About Jorge Fontes

Jorge Fontes is an Azorean Marine Biologist with broad scientific background and interests ranging from the ecology, management and conservation of coastal ecosystems to the behaviour and conservation of marine megafauna from the Open Ocean and deep sea. Jorge has also a solid background in applied marine technology, ranging from applied marine robotics to the development of innovative non/invasive marine animal tracking solutions.

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Locker ransomware — These block your access to a desktop, all files, and apps. Upon starting your computer, a window containing a message about the blockage would appear, often with the FBI or US Department of Justice seal. Screen lockers are not as bad as the encrypting ones, as they only block access while the data is not encrypted.

Scareware — These were supposed to be scary but are nothing when compared to the previous two types. These usually include tech support or security software scams, as the user would get a pop-up saying that malicious activity has been detected and that you would need to pay to remove it. If you ignore the message, you’ll get bombarded with more pop-ups, but nothing will happen. Just remember: if you are already paying an antivirus software, then why would the company ask you for money for each individual malicious activity that gets detected?

After the infection spreads, the victim is shown a message or an image saying that the files are now inaccessible and that the only way to regain access is to pay the ransom. However, this is not the only scenario and certainly not the one that causes the most panic. Some attackers can falsely claim to be a law enforcement agency that is shutting down the user’s computer because pirated software or pornography was found on it. Users panic especially in the case of latter and are prepared to pay any fine just to keep things quiet. The second scenario that causes panic involves leakware or doxware malware. The attackers inform the user that sensitive material has been found, so they threaten to publish it unless the ransom is paid.

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Organizations with sensitive data, such as the law firms, are more likely to execute the payment because leaking sensitive information can compromise their business. Some attackers block access and then put the data up for an online auction where the highest bidder would get the data.

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You need to know that not all ransomware families have corresponding decryptors and that running a wrong decryption script can only further encrypt your files. That’s why you probably shouldn’t try downloading and running anything yourself unless you have a lot more skills and knowledge than an average computer user. On the other hand, in case you are dealing with a screen locker, a full system restore would probably be the best practice, but only if possible, of course.

It is crucial to pay close attention to the ransom message to determinate which ransomware type is the one you’re dealing with (sometimes it can only be scareware imposing as encryptor). Next, the system reboot to safe mode to stop the encryption and installing antimalware software is required, as well as scanning the system and restoring it to a previous state.

As we probably lost you at ‘reboot system to safe mode’, the absolute first thing you or your employees should do is seek advice from an IT specialist before anyone makes attempt to do anything themselves. Meaning — shut down computer forcefully immediately and get an IT on the phone. The user would explain the experience and a field tech would be sent to your office to start restoring your computer to the previous state.

An important fact you should know: The encryption infection doesn’t spread instantly upon entry. Depending on the computer it can sometimes take hours if a computer is fast, and sometimes it can take days for the malware to encrypt all the files. It is important for the user to immediately report unusual slowdowns and inability to access data because there is a good chance that there is active encryption going on.

As we mentioned, encrypted files can’t get encrypted without the encryption key, so once they’re captured, they’re gone. Therefore, prevention should be your top priority.

How to Prevent Ransomware

Ransomware is extremely sophisticated, there’s no doubt about it, but keep in mind that most likely targets are organizations with budgets constraints and poor tech infrastructure. As a small to the medium-sized business owner, you don’t encounter the same constraints the large government institutions do.

Since you are on top of the decision-making chain, you would need to create a solid IT infrastructure for your business which involves setting an IT budget and creating a 5-year plan.

Most of the companies rely on very precise budget planning in all parts of their business, including IT. Proper budgeting is only possible if careful planning precedes it. With IT, it is very different. The technology evolves at a staggering pace alongside malware and other malicious software that you would have to take this into consideration when creating a plan. Here is where the 5-year plan takes place. 5 years in IT are considered a lifetime of most equipment, so foreseeing what should be done within this period and prepare for the next is very important.

When talking about overall security, we would need to plan for physical protection like firewalls and replace them as soon as they reach the end of their lifecycle. Any firewall license that needs to be employed should be renewed after the licensing period expires. Proper upgrades are also something you should plan.

Another part of the security would be Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware software. Both should be always in-check and never left outdated. Testing should be done periodically to ensure that the current setup is something that is suitable for your environment. A lot of Anti-Virus vendors offer different types of protection and many times can offer great protection at first, but then after a while fall short in some or all categories. Same goes with Anti-Spam, as it can be really good for a certain period and then start to release more and more spam emails into your system.

Planning changes, upgrades, updates and testing during a 5-year period will certainly help you not worry about the abrupt loss of data or service.

There are numerous prevention and protection steps that you should make in order to keep the ransomware damage to a minimum. These steps are a part of good security practices provided by the managed IT service provider, so perhaps you are starting to be aware of why every business needs one and why an IT budget is crucial.

A solid anti-ransomware plan includes the following practices:

• Create secure data backups — Backing up your files regularly and having an offline backup is what is going to save you in case the ransomware attack occurs. In case your business data has been frequently backed up, then there is no hostage and there is no need to pay the ransom (learn more about Secure Networks ITC triple-layer backup protection plan);

• Invest in great cybersecurity — Just any antivirus simply won’t cut it, especially if we’re talking about free options. Businesses need professional versions of antivirus software and centralized management (learn more about the best antivirus software for business;

• Keep your systems & software up-to-date — Frequent updates of your operating system are important because newest versions have fewer vulnerabilities. Same goes for endpoint protection suits. Updates can be done manually or automatically through the server;

• Use layered security — This includes regular security software patches, system hardening, and vulnerability management. As the name implies, it will consist of multiple layers of protection. Physical layer is the first layer — firewall; the second layer is the software-based layer — Anti-Virus & Anti-Spam; the third layer is a policy based security layer — creating different policies and limiting the computer usage to the essential, for example, work file access only, we can stop the viruses from spreading or infecting the workstation from the start; the fourth layer would the backups — if all other layers fall short in protecting your data, backups will ensure that you will be back in no time.

• Use a whitelisting program — These programs will prevent your employees from installing unauthorized programs. Although the employees usually complain about this restriction, whitelisting is probably the best defense against ransomware besides a good backup;

• Determine an IT budget — In case you don’t have anti-house IT department, make sure you get a managed IT, service provider. Not only will the IT guys take care of all the points stated above, but they will also make sure all your business workstations and every-day business activities are running smoothly;

• Educate yourself and your employees — It is important to know how a possible threat looks like and to educate your employees. For example, employees, especially those with admin access, should be educated on how to detect malspam, suspicious websites and other scams that they should not open and to report suspicious activities or computer performance (especially computer slowness) to the IT department.

• Don’t get tricked — Don’t install anything that is sent to you in an email or offered by visiting a website. All software should be installed directly from the legitimate vendor’s website. The safest thing would like to contact the IT department every time you need new software installed. They won’t get tricked and installing all kinds of unnecessary apps (we’re not just talking about the malicious ones here) would be avoided.

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GET THIS BOOK Author: LEIF J. ROBINSON Published in: PHILIP’S ISBN: 0–540–07863–8 File Type: PDF File Size: 32 MB Language: English Description The progress of astronomy – or, more precisely, astrophysics – over the past century, and particularly the past generation, is not easily pigeon-holed. On the one hand, profound truths have tumbled abundantly from the sky. Here are four diverse examples: 1. Our universe began some 14 billion years ago in a single cataclysmic event called the Big Bang. 2. Galaxies reside mainly in huge web like ensembles. 3. Our neighboring planets and their satellites come in a bewildering variety. 4. Earth itself is threatened (at least within politicians’ horizons) by impacts from mean-spirited asteroids or comets. On the other hand, ordinary citizens may well feel that astronomers are a confused lot and that they are farther away than ever from understanding how the universe is put together and how it works. 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