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The IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report released today. Here are the key takeaways and figures.

First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.

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"Exploiting aCropalypse: Recovering Truncated PNGs"

My writeup on exploiting CVE-2023-21036 (un-cropping Android screenshots!)

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse.html

Ghost Horse Bag by Simon Monk. It's not a real object. It's not a photograph. It's a painting. The holes in the board are also painted. From a set of paintings which need to be seen to be believed. On at the Beecroft in until the end of May. southendmuseums.co.uk/exhibiti

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Morning!
I'm on #Strike today along with thousands of my colleagues across the public sector.

You can read more at prospect.org.uk/serving-our-so

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Pi Day is a fake holiday made up by Big Math to sell more math.

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Hi friends, I have been working on a service to help get RSS feeds into mastodon, and it's more or less ready for prime time. It lives at:

feedsin.space/

Basically, you:

1) create an account by sending a message to @admin with the word "help", and clicking on the link you get back

2) specify the URL to a feed, and a username for the feed

3) your feed lives at ____@feedsin.space, and you can follow it like any other account in the fedi

Blog post here: muffinlabs.com/2023/03/09/feed

Tube and rail strikes this week in London and the UK:
- Wednesday 15 March: Tube strike
- Thursday 16 March: Rail strike
- Saturday 18 March: Rail strike
There is often disruption the following morning. National rail affects most lines, but Overground, Elizabeth and c2c are ok this time.
nationalrail.co.uk/service_dis
tfl.gov.uk/campaign/strikes

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Barbie have come a long way. This is ace news. Maggie Aderin-Pocock has her own Barbie! “The Barbie modelled on me is a space scientist with her own telescope. Girls should be shown that anything is possible”. theguardian.com/commentisfree/ #space #physics #women

In cold weather, in a slightly lower gear to keep warm.

Using python and your linter is complaining about consider-using-f-string? flynt will automatically fix them github.com/ikamensh/flynt

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Newly published today: Detached from reality, a long read by Kayley Hignell at Citizens Advice. I've been working with Kayley for a while to help her get this written, and we're both very pleased with the result.

medium.com/@kayley.hignell/det

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