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Researchers have found a flaw in the web connectivity for Kia cars that could let a hacker take over control of some key functions. CC-licensed photo by Sean Davis on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. It’s Friday, so there’s another post due at the Social Warming Substack at about 0845 UK …

Best Bets’ On an Unhistoric Night was my favorite record of 2022, and their follow-up, The Hollow Husk of Feeling, might just take the top spot this year as well. This new album has all the elements that first made me fall in love with the New Zealanders: punchy rhythms, jangly guitars, a touch of […] The post <h2>New album: Best Bets || The Hollow Husk of Feeling</h2> <h3>New Zealand’s …

The Echo Meal is any perfectly recreated plate of turkey, veggies, stuffing, and pie made from all the leftovers from yesterday’s pig-out. Microwaved brussels sprouts, steamed turkey chunks, and stirred up gravy all combine into a perfect follow-up to the feast. AWESOME! Ready for more awesome? Get brand-new daily awesome things straight to your inbox: The post #105 The Echo Meal appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things.

The Fujifilm X100VI is the most preordered camera in history by far. There were more orders placed prior to the release date than there were X100V’s produced in its entire four-year run. Completely unprecedented! I quickly made my order within minutes after it was announced, and I still had to wait over a month for it to arrive. There are people who placed their preorders on day-one who are still …

The share of payrolled employee jobs among London residents that are held by non-UK nationals has been increasing since the UK’s formal exit from the European Union and the start of the pandemic in early 2020. A big increase in jobs held by non-EU/non-UK citizens has been driving this change, even as the number held by EU citizens has fallen. We have recently published analysis looking into this. It examines …

Trevor Paglen has developed a series of works based on the well-known ‘Psychological Operations’ (PSYOP), i.e. deceptive military operations to influence the population through the audiovisual staging of non-existent facts or events. Cyclops is the latest in this series and is presented in the form of a game. Players are presented with obscure audio tracks containing either musical compositions, letters and numbers or simply sounds, representing a puzzle to be …

Over the last year I’ve been working with our local school system to include preferred pronouns in their student information system. The use case for this arose out of direct experience with one of my own kids being misgendered in a classroom. Now as a technology-savvy parent, it is not like you check out the source code of your school’s student information system and go patch the problem yourself - …

Some wild stuff has surfaced in my RSS reader this week about WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s corporate-but-very-personal war with WP Engine, full of absolutely S-tier business maneuvers. I could hear the tiny *squelch* of braincells dying within my skull as I searched for logic and reason behind this stuff, but by golly have I found it. Behold: Exhibit A, Exhibit B. I’m sorry. It’s not right to make fun of …

My 17-month-old baby has been going through an absolutely awful sleep regression, and most of the month of September has been a sleep-deprived tornado. Because she can’t fully sleep… I can’t fully sleep. We tried everything. My husband and I switched off taking care of her, we tried rearranging her bed setup, we tried letting her sleep with us, we tried feeding her more before bed, we tried different pajamas, …

This is both the second part of my meditation and a review of Tabarome Millésime. Here’s the crux of it: Tabarome Millésime is the most important Creed of the 2000s, and yet no one discusses it. Before you dismiss this claim, hear me out, and then draw your own conclusions. My argument rests on a theory that ties this Creed fragrance to one of the biggest successes of 2010—a wildly …

Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.

Not a new idea, but just another visualization and reminder. Wealth, feeling like you have plenty, is an equation. Wealth = Have ÷ Need If you have nothing, then focus on having some. Once you have some, the easiest way to increase your wealth is to decrease your needs. Have 10 but think you need 100? You are poor. Have 10 but only need 5? You are wealthy. Have 10 …

Miriam Kent joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Yelena Belova not quite managing to break her 'eating stale biscuits' conditioning in Black Widow.

Photographer: Gabriel MuñozSummary Author: Gabriel MuñozShown above is the active, snowcapped Villarrica volcano in the Andes Mountains of Chile. I was about 3 miles (5 km) south of the crater when I snapped this photo on May 11, 2024. Subject to frequent small outbursts, known as Strombolian eruptions, Villarrica's last major eruption occurred in 1948. On this autumn night it's ejecting incandescent material several hundred feet into the air. The …

Details coming soon. Tickets go on sale December 1, 2024. The post Sean of the South–Andalusia, Alabama appeared first on Sean of the South.