Day: April 5, 2024

More AI Art

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

I’ve been using Microsoft Copilot to make thumbnails for my Apple Music playlists.

I think that this one is my favorite.

Not a fan of the hearts, but it was the best image generated.

A little too bright and too many disco balls! 🪩

This was made with Google’s Gemini. For some reason, Copilot wouldn’t make one with the word ‘Madonna’ on it.

South China Sea: InfoOp Podcast (ASEAN)

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
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Clip from Episode 1 of Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific? Podcast (Apple Podcasts) with Ray Powell and Jim Carouso. 

Powell and Carouso worked together at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia. They’re trying to “shape” the Indo-Pacific for US corporate interests and to provoke a war with China.  

Jim Carouso is currently with the Center for Strategic & International Studies. CSIS is funded by various governments, including the United States, and corporations. Carouso is also with BowerGroupAsia in Singapore. He formerly worked in the State Department and was a chargé d’ affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra and the U.S. Mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Ray Powell was formerly a Defense Attaché in Canberra, Australia.

Source

The Defense Attaché System is part of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Source.

More on SeaLight’s (formerly Project Myoushu) ‘assertive transparency’ campaign.

Previously:

SCS: The Office of Naval Research funded Stanford’s GKC

Philippines’ ‘assertive transparency’ strategy is causing them to miss out economically

PH: Compared To China, US Trade, Investment Offers Laughable + More

Update on the status of this blog

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Yesterday, I was alerted by Netgear Armor that my device was under a DoS attack when I was trying to access my WordPress. I can only assume that someone has been attacking my site. This would explain why I haven’t been able to access my WordPress, yet I could access other WordPress sites.

This happened when I was trying to access my site. The IP address leads to Automattic, which owns WordPress.

I did some research into protecting my WordPress, from a denial-of-service attack, and there are a few ways to do it. One is with the use of plugins, but now you need at least a Creator account (which is $20 per month) to be able to use plugins with WordPress. Another is by using a content delivery network with DDoS mitigation capabilities. I chose to purchase an inexpensive web hosting plan (I’ve been planning on doing this anyway for the storage) with a CDN and DDoS mitigation.

If my assumption is correct and the cyberattacker(s) sees this, know that I have all of my research backed up. My web hosting service also backs up this blog.

I could just be paranoid, too. 🤷🏼‍♀️