Art After the Plague: How painters through the ages have responded to contagion
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Kim Jong-un: fragile and under pressure but he won’t give up
The Observer The North Korean leader’s surprise freeze of his nuclear programme is less a genuine move than a diplomatic manoeuvre,...
Friday, 30 October 2020
How Tesla super fans get the add-ons they can't get from Elon Musk
As soon as Arizona fitness coach Torrey Penn bought his new Tesla Model Y online this September he knew what extras he would need for his new ride — and it didn't involve an extra $10,000 Full Self-Driving advanced driving package with automatic steering, braking, and turning while on any road.
Instead Penn, 43, left Tesla.com and headed to Amazon and eBay, where he quickly found what he wanted: a Tesla key card ring to open and start his new electric vehicle. He bought it on eBay for $99 as a replacement for an ill-fitting wedding band. The ring arrived last weekend and he immediately programmed it. Now he can put his hand near the front door and the car unlocks and starts, even if he doesn't have his connected smartphone or key card on him. (Instead of traditional car keys, Teslas have key cards, like a hotel.) Read more...
More about Tesla, Tech, Elon Musk, and Transportationfrom Mashable https://mashable.com/article/tesla-store-fan-products/
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Facebook temporarily pauses awful feature it will reinstate post election
Don't worry, militia members will have to wait until after Election Day to be algorithmically pointed to Facebook groups of like-minded individuals.
At Wednesday's Senate hearing on (at least in theory) Section 230, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg let slip a slight behind-the-scenes change his company has taken in the lead up to Nov. 3. Specifically, Zuckerberg offhandedly mentioned that Facebook has temporarily stopped recommending political issue Facebook groups to its users.
Of course, Facebook intends to spin this presumably dangerous — or, at the very least, worrisome — recommendation feature right back up again after the election. So reports BuzzFeed News, which was able to confirm that the new policy is only temporary. Read more...
More about Facebook, Election 2020, Tech, and Social Media Companiesfrom Mashable https://mashable.com/article/facebook-temporarily-pauses-political-group-recommendations-until-post-election/
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New top story on Hacker News: Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft
Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft
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Thursday, 29 October 2020
YouTuber attacked by flying cheese fondue in spectacular viral video
YouTuber Tasty Hoon has gone viral with his latest mukbang video, in which his attempt at a cheese fondue went incredibly, hilariously wrong. At least it still seemed to taste good.
In the eight-minute clip uploaded on Wednesday and shared over 42,000 times on Twitter, the South Korean YouTuber prepared to enjoy a delicious-looking meal of fried chicken and cheese. It's a common food combination, and many YouTubers before him have pulled it off without incident.
Tasty Hoon's downfall, however, was that he attempted to liven up his video by putting the cheese in a fountain. It sounds like an inspired idea — cheese fondue fountains are absolutely a thing, and it would add an interesting visual element to his mise en scene. Unfortunately his cheese wasn't quite liquid enough, and the situation quickly got messy. Read more...
More about Food, Cheese, Tasty Food, Tasty Videos, and Mukbangfrom Mashable https://mashable.com/video/tasty-hoon-mukbang-cheese-fountain/
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A special surprise from Kim Kardashian West. A Twitter meme. About holograms of dads.
It was just earlier this week that Kim Kardashian West gave us a new Twitter meme: users riffing on her tasteless tweets about "surprising [her] closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where [they] could pretend things were normal."
Now the reality star has bestowed upon us a fresh set of memeable tweets that are just as wild as her first, though for a completely different reason.
"For my birthday, Kanye got me the most thoughtful gift of a lifetime," Kardashian West wrote on Thursday, a shockingly normal sentence considering what follows. "A special surprise from heaven. A hologram of my dad." Read more...
More about Memes, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Holograms, and Culturefrom Mashable https://mashable.com/article/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-hologram-meme/
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Kim Kardashian's birthday present from Kanye was this nightmarish hologram of her dead dad
If you have ever lost a loved one, you'll know that grief is an unending process — a hole in your heart and life that can never be filled, a bittersweet love forever within you with nowhere to go, a lifetime of cherished moments trapped in amber.
So we don't want to judge Kim Kardashian too harshly for this, but... good lord.
For my birthday, Kanye got me the most thoughtful gift of a lifetime. A special surprise from heaven. A hologram of my dad. ✨🤍 It is so lifelike! We watched it over and over, filled with emotionpic.twitter.com/jD6pHo17KC
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) October 29, 2020 Read more...
from Mashable https://mashable.com/article/kim-kardashian-dad-hologram-kanye-present/
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New top story on Hacker News: Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of
Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of
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Denialism, Dishonesty, Deflection: The Final Days of the Trump Campaign Have It All
The President is ending his reëlection bid with scandals that call into question the legitimacy of next week’s vote.
from Everything https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/self-dealing-denialism-dishonesty-deflection-the-final-days-of-the-trump-campaign-have-it-all
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