James ThomsonAdult life mostly consists of exclaiming “christ, that happened ten years ago!” about a variety of different events until you die.
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Alex Robbins
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thecarfactoidsAnybody can write a story about two ‘old stagers’ (though the Mini was only 18yrs old here), but how many magazines can create a cover like this?
Just CAR.
It takes creative genius to convince & develop such a cover & it’s a testament to the magazine’s roll call of great Art Editors (in the case Wendy Harrop) & Richard Davies (who was responsible for the cover).
This looks as good today as when it was fresh on the newsstand…
Yes, it should come as little to no surprise that I’ve popped up here again today. To celebrate, here’s a Renault 21 I took a picture of on holiday in Spain two weeks ago.
To say that I’m extraordinarily proud of this would be an understatement. One of my oldest and dearest friends on the bridge of his ship - and I got to write about it.
And you can read about it on the Telegraph app today, or online here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/telegraph-christmas-road-test-hunt-class-mine-countermeasures/ [reg req’d]
Polychrome 
The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
Sheril KirshenbaumFor thousands of years, fermenting beer was considered a household task for #women.
By the Middle Ages, some sold beer at English markets. Female brewers wore tall, pointy hats to be easily spotted. They stood by cauldrons & often had cats to keep mice away.
Sound familiar? It should.
You see, when male brewers felt threatened, they accused the women of witchcraft. These rumors may have led to some witch iconography we still recognize today.
https://theconversation.com/women-used-to-dominate-the-beer-industry-until-the-witch-accusations-started-pouring-in-155940 #history #HistoryRemix
Scarfolk
Well look, as a Volvo owner I couldn’t very well let a cold snap go by without taking at least one picture of my car in the snow, now, could I?