International Rights Advocates has sued Starbucks on behalf of eight Brazilian plaintiffs who were trafficked and forced into modern day slavery on coffee plantations that supply a major percentage of Starbucks’ coffee imports.

Dorchester County council (SC) recently tipped Democratic in a special election. I hate to get all “correlated” up in here, but the last time that happened was shortly before Nixon resigned.

something, something… cooold war

iPXE maybe? But there’s a lot of implementation details you would have to figure out. Two that come to mind are:

1. A mobile device from which you can selectively provide an image for booting

2. A physical intrusion detection system for your home machine that you can also read remotely

You seem to spend a lot of energy questioning people’s intentions, inventing reasons to question whether people’s intentions toward you are genuine. Some do deserve to be questioned, no doubt. It just seems draining, and for what goal?

Do you aim to be the sole determiner of truth? To never be duped again? To sharpen your skills as an investigator?

How much more creative energy could you put into the world by taking people at their word in all but the highest risk cases?

With all of the perks the position entails.

Because the current administration is acting with impunity, meaning they don’t feel the need to explain themselves while they hold themselves above the law.

Instead of poisoned kool-aid, suffocation by spray tan.

What weighs more: the cost of taking people at their word, or the effort it takes to interpret the subtext of every interaction?

What would Altman gain from overstating the environmental impact of his own company?

What if power consumption is not so much limited by the software’s appetite, but rather by the hardware’s capabilities?

You are right. This current government is a “We the People” problem, not a “You the Politician” problem.

We are all AI on this blessed day

In this administration, everything is the enemy. Even Trump’s good graces are combative in nature. How they don’t literally eat each other is beyond me.

Peril Partnership?

Hell, you could do this with GNU coreutils

Min Reqs: 233 MHz Processor, 64MB RAM, 1.5 GB Storage… it could probably run on your car key fob.

unzipping?

He promised me a reach around!

Fuck, I hope that guy’s decision, to deny a woman her dying wish to see her children, haunts him for the rest of his life.

Pay a settlement of $10 million to each and every federal employee fired by DOGE. Then we can start to talk about your well-being, Elon.