• Cannes to premiere Jean-Luc Godard film finished the day before he died

    The director’s 18-minute film Scénarios will premiere at this year’s Cannes film festival accompanied by his 34-minute introductionThe final film from the French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard is set to premiere at this year’s Cannes film festival.Scénarios is an 18-minute short that the film-maker finished in 2022 the day before he died via an assisted suicide procedure in Switzerland. Godard also made an accompanying 34-minute introduction which is a combination of “still and moving images,...

  • Unnecessary Net Zero, Part II: A Demonstration with Global Carbon Project Data

    Some commenters on my previous blog post, Net Zero CO2 Emissions: A Damaging and Totally Unnecessary Goal, were dubious of my claim that nature will continue to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at about the same rate even if anthropogenic emissions decrease…or even if they were suddenly eliminated. Rather than appeal to the simple CO2 […]

  • Folie a trois: Challengers Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts, But What Parts!

    Nonlinear storytelling can be a clever method of making us care about movie characters more than we ought. We’re enthralled by the sociopathic killers, crooks, pushers, and palookas who populate […]

  • Part protest, part rave: the Indigenous artists stunning the Venice Biennale

    From Gold Lion winner Archie Moore to Brazilians the Tupinambá collective, First Nations artists are making their voices heard at ‘the Olympics of art’. They talk hammocks, hunting and human connection‘I’m not using the word ‘representing’ as I can’t represent Australia,” says the softly spoken Indigenous artist Archie Moore, recovering after the packed opening of the Australia pavilion at the Venice Biennale. “I can’t even represent all the Aboriginal people – because we’re not a homogenous...

  • Tornado Watch issued for parts of Siouxland; Severe Thunderstorm Warnings & Tornado Warnings in effect for parts of Siouxland

    SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — UPDATE (4:43 PM) – The National Weather Service

  • From skinny jeans to baggy trousers! How 'four lads in jeans' faced vicious trolling after snap of pals enjoying a night out in Birmingham went viral in 2019

    Jamie Philips, Connor Humpage, Kevin Rooney and Alex Lacey rose to internet fame when their group shot became a immortalised in the meme hall of fame as the 'four lads in jeans' .

  • The Most Disturbing Part of It

    The Big Ten, the Pac-12, and the Ivy League are overrun with antisemitic students protesting in favor of Hamas. They claim they support Palestinians, but “Globalize the intifada” and “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea” are explicit genocidal slogans of Hamas. Democrats insist words mean things. These words mean the students are terrorist sympathizers. Some of the protestors are chanting “Death to America.” At least one Columbia University student screamed at Jewish students, “The...

  • The Most Disturbing Part of It

    The Big Ten, the Pac-12, and the Ivy League are overrun with antisemitic students protesting in favor of Hamas. They claim they support Palestinians, but “Globalize the intifada” and “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea” are explicit genocidal slogans of Hamas. Democrats insist words mean things. These words mean the students are terrorist sympathizers. Some of the protestors are chanting “Death to America.” At least one Columbia University student screamed at Jewish students, “The...

  • On this day in 1966

    On this day in 1966, Milton Olive III became the first Black soldier awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War.

  • Bonnie Jean Johnson

    June 18, 1951-April 13, 2024 Bonnie Jean Johnson, age 72, passed peacefully on April 13, 2024, in St. George, Utah. She was the daughter of Virgil and Verda Thamert and was born June 18, 1951, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bonnie actively supported children’s charities and animal protection groups. She loved communicating with and spending […]

  • Phishing Failures: How Not to Phish Your Users

    This blog was co-written by Javvad Malik and Erich Kron. Let’s dive into the cautionary world of phishing simulations gone wrong. You know, those attempts to train users not to fall for phishing that somehow end up setting off more alarms than a Hawaiian missile alert system.

  • The Heatwave Baking Parts Of Asia

    Large swaths of Asia are sweltering through a heatwave that has topped temperature records from Myanmar to the Philippines and forced millions of children to stay home from school.