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R · Movie · 1h 47m · Comedy, Drama, Romance It'll be fun. Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down? Directed by Olivia Wilde View on TMDB My Rating Watched: August 16, 2026 Rating: ★★★½☆ Weird movie and I almost…
The law, which took effect on July 19, requires every e-bike in the state to be registered, from the slowest Class 1 pedal-assist models all the way through faster Class 3 bikes. Riders under 17 without a driver’s license must pass an MVC licensing test to obtain a special e-bike license, while Class 2 throttle-equipped e-bikes and Class 3 models also require insurance, similar to owning a car. 🫠…
TV-14 · Series · Season 1 · Drama, Family Restless, razor-sharp, and refusing to conform, Sybylla is dead set on writing her own story in an era that expects her to find a man and settle down. View on TMDB My Rating Watched: August 15, 2026 Rating: ★★★½☆ Overall pretty good. I didn't look it up but I bet it's based on a book. Some of the romance scenes were a bit over the top and Lifetime for me…
One of the clearest examples of surveillance-driven wage setting appears in on-demand healthcare staffing. A report put together by the Roosevelt Institute, a liberal-leaning think tank, was based on interviews with 29 gig nurses and found that staffing platforms that gig nurses use to sign up for shifts, including CareRev, Clipboard Health, ShiftKey and ShiftMed, routinely use algorithms to set…
I've always felt the need to share links that I find interesting. I think it helps like-minded people find their tribe. I'm unsure if my efforts have helped much, yet I persist. A few days ago I got an email from Antonio Santos asking how the links in my feed work. They have a blogroll page on their site, but it never makes it into their feed, and they wanted to know what I was doing differently.…
Smart pet-feeder company Petlibro suffered an outage on Tuesday, giving users a harsh reminder of the risks of relying on smart devices. I'm disappointed that an Ars author wouldn't make a distinction between cloud based smart devices and local ones. Read on arstechnica.com → Reply via email
In 2021, I wrote about common pitfalls of low-code solutions and today I'd like to revisit the topic to judge whether or not "AI" [1] has improved the citizen developer experience. To quickly summarize the old post: Nancy from accounting is great at accounting, and she can't be faulted for not knowing anything about software development. Her app ran on her own AD credentials, so it broke the day…
I understand the argument that if you don’t like what Big Tech is doing, you should vote with your wallet. It’s a simple equation after all. Stop buying Apple products, de-Google your life, and delete your Meta accounts. And if you can —trickier for us knowledge workers— move away from Microsoft. Alternatives abound and, if enough people do it, the companies will get the message. Except I’m not…
by Jo Callaghan Kat and Lock #2 · Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense · 400 pages · Random House Audio · Audiobook From the bestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye comes an inventive thriller that pits algorithms against experience, logic against instinct, and one undetectable killer against two extraordinary detectives. “Unswervingly gripping and scary, and at the same time…
On a whim, I decided to ride my eBike on a 30+ mile ride. Men of a certain age love WWII or Civil War history; I love both types! Some quick searching of the Richmond area led me to pick Malvern Hill Battlefield as my destination. Looking along the route, I saw there was a BBQ place along the way. Sweet, that looks like an itinerary. Henrico County, VA · August 2026 Distance 34.8 mi Moving 2:07:32…
Imagine that you share a ride to work with the same colleague most mornings. As it passes by a license plate reader, the camera records the car, which can be linked through vehicle records to its registered owner. Beside it, another sensor detects signals broadcast by devices traveling nearby, such as your phone and your colleague’s smartwatch. After enough trips, software may treat some of those…