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[mamselle]

CNN CEO Jeff Zucker has just resigned over non-disclosure of a close relationship with another upper-level CNN staff member.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ-xS_kyBjs

M.

[Larimar]

My book is in hand! I am officially a book author now!

[smallcleanrat]

My book is in hand! I am officially a book author now!

That's awesome! Congratulations!

[Larimar]

Thanks!

[mamselle]

Felicitations!

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCPL5-Gcgx8

M.

[Larimar]

Thank you!

[Harlow2]

My book is in hand! I am officially a book author now!

That's great, larimar! 

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

My book is in hand! I am officially a book author now!

Congrats!

[apl68]

Congratulations, Larimar!

[ab_grp]

That has got to be so exciting, Larimar! Congratulations!

[mamselle]

Maybe this is just a 'random musing,' but...

I just realized one of the reasons I like teaching geeky middle-schoolers might be because I identify with them.

I just had the image of my 3rd-grade self correcting our music teacher, who had substituted a regular triad for a 7th chord, even though the 7th chord was marked in the music we were singing/she was playing from.

She didn't take it badly, explaining it was allowed to omit the 7th, it was an 'extra' or 'color' tone, not required to establish the chord per se...so I learned something, for all that.

And I don't think I did it rudely, I remember raising my hand when she asked for questions after we'd finished singing and asking politely...

But I chuckle now, because last night one of my students corrected my analysis of a chord they'd just played and the scene came back to me...

M.

[Larimar]

Thank you, everyone!

And Mamselle, your 'random musing' is sweet.

[Langue_doc]

Congrats, Larimar.

[Parasaurolophus]

My book is in hand! I am officially a book author now!

Well done!

[ab_grp]

This is just kind of crazy to think about, a radio station broadcast being able to completely brick the "infotainment" systems of Mazdas from particular years: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/radio-station-snafu-in-seattle-bricks-some-mazda-infotainment-systems/  I appreciate the comments on the article for the extra explanation added.  Remote interference with vehicles has been a plot point in several crime shows I've seen over the years, but it often seems farfetched.  Stories like this make me wonder about the possibilities, although in this case it seems like poor coding practices occurred that probably shouldn't be expected to occur in this context.

ETA: Meant to include this article from a few weeks ago about a teen who was able to hack Teslas (through user error, not a security vulnerability inherent in the cars themselves, though it seems like a fine line to me): https://www.pcmag.com/news/teenage-hacker-gains-remote-control-of-25-teslas-in-13-countries