Guardian: ‘Magicians get emotional about it’: should secrets of magic ever be revealed?
Study examining highly contested topic of ‘exposure’ looks at when it is acceptable to share tricks of the trade.
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The paper, Towards a Theory of Exposure, is available in the Journal of Performance Magic.
Verge: Secret service members, maybe don’t set your Strava to public.
Or you could end up like French President Emannuel Macron’s bodyguards: leaking the location of the one person you’re supposed to protect.
Le Monde found the names and addresses of roughly a dozen of Macron’s bodyguards… and then found their running routes on Strava. Including routes they ran during recon trips to scout hotels for the president to stay at.
Semafor.com: Bodyguards inadvertently expose French President Macron’s location on Strava
CBC: Porter breaks its own rules by kicking deaf woman and her service dog off a flight
Porter says ‘miscommunication’ between pilot and flight attendant led to incident.
Every airline has some number of employees who make mistakes or are ill-suited to their jobs. My experience with Porter has been uniformly good, so I don’t think this incident, sad though it is, should be taken as a general indicator of the airline’s services.
CBC: Porch pirates are getting smarter. Here’s how to protect your parcels [video]
Montreal police say they’ve noticed more package thefts in certain neighbourhoods. One cybersecurity expert says thieves are getting smarter and planning out their tactics ahead of time.
NYT: Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to End Washington Post Endorsements
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Washington Post, whose decision to end presidential endorsements at the paper set off a firestorm inside and outside the paper last week, said on Monday in his first comments about the change that it had been done to improve the newsroom’s credibility, not to protect his own personal interests.
“Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election,” Mr. Bezos wrote in an essay published on The Post’s website. He added: “What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one.”
Last Updated: 28.Oct.2024 22:20 EDT
