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‘Kia Boys’ Trend Fueling Nationwide Crime Wave Is Running Rampant on Instagram -    

Jessica had vaguely heard about the Kia Boys trend on social media from scattered news reports and a brief mention by the police officer who took her report. But it wasn’t until the summer, when a coworker showed her some Instagram accounts, that she fully understood what was going on. When searching “Kia Boys” or “Kia Boyz,” account after account popped up showing people stealing cars, joyriding in cars with ripped-up ignition boxes, and similar videos featuring cars that were seemingly stolen. Many of these videos, seen by Motherboard, showed extremely erratic and downright dangerous driving, such as playing chicken with parked cars at high speeds, driving into oncoming traffic in broad daylight, or speeding down a dedicated bike path or sidewalk. And a few showed people flashing guns

“I knew it was a viral sensation,” Jessica told Motherboard. “But I didn’t know it was, like, that deep, where the actual people stealing the cars were bragging and taunting their victims online.”

The nationwide surge in Kia and Hyundai thefts is the result of multiple, overlapping factors. The car companies didn’t install a simple, cheap, yet effective anti-theft device in most of its cars over a 10-year period unlike every other manufacturer, creating a vulnerability that makes the cars easy to target and steal. This vulnerability was widely shared on social media platforms starting in 2021 and a subculture developed around showing off those stolen cars in videos posted online to Kia Boys accounts. And the people who commit these crimes largely get away with it, for reasons that vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but generally speaking reflect a trend in American policing where property and violent crimes tend to go unsolved.

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Terry Bisson’s History of the Future - The New Yorker   

Sometime in 1989, Terry Bisson was driving his daughter to college in upstate New York when an idea for a short story came to him. Glancing toward the highway median, he had a vision: animals sitting together, in their own world, talking to one other. The vision became a title: "Bears Discover Fire."

The story that resulted is strange and funny, yet oddly realistic. It takes place in Kentucky, where Bisson grew up, but is set in "unclaimed land" that could stand in for any exurban wilderness, and follows an uncle and nephew during an odd season in which bears stop hibernating and discover fire. "They make a fire and keep it going all winter," a character explains. No one knows what to make of this development. The uncle and his nephew, Wallace Jr., follow the story on TV, but grow frustrated that the news mainly shows "guys talking about bears" rather than the bears themselves. They decide to go looking for the genuine article.

After supper, they head into the back yard and through a fence. "Across the interstate and through the trees we could see the light of the bears' fire," Bisson writes. "Wallace Jr. wanted to go back to the house and get his .22 and go shoot one, and I explained why that would be wrong." Also, the uncle points out, "a .22 wouldn't do much more to a bear than make it mad." Later, Wallace Jr.'s ornery grandma escapes her nursing home and disappears into the dark wilderness; they find her with the bears, enjoying their campfire in silence. "My imagination ran wild," the uncle recalls. "I looked around the circle at the bears and wondered what they saw."

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