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nothing has surprised me less than the part of the Count The Rice behind the scenes that showed all the grants having conversations with each other using nothing but the word "grant" like they were pokemon
In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:
Taylor Farms
Earthbound Farms
Little Salad Bar (Aldi)
Marketside (Walmart)
Kroger House Brand
Target private label greens
Costco salads and greens etc
Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce
Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.
This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.
We need a fully funded and staffed FDA, and regulations with teeth - and that's exactly what we don't have under Trump. To make things worse, the CDC is no longer tracking these outbreaks. We're on our own.
Thirteen Democrats joined Republicans to back a voter ID bill. Here's who voted yes, how it ties to the SAVE Act, and why it remains controv
Kathy Castor (Florida)
Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Don Davis (North Carolina)
Jared Golden (Maine)
Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
Josh Gottheimer (New Jersey)
Marcy Kaptur (Ohio)
Susie Lee (Nevada)
Jared Moskowitz (Florida)
Chris Pappas (New Hampshire)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington)
Darren Soto (Florida)
Derek Tran (California)
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesnāt care which VPN you use, only that itās still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows āsurveillance softwareā.
Two things back that up:
Thereās no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Appleās advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Androidās works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then thereās activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: āItās impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].ā Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
Please be critical of what videos you see now. Even cute animal ones. Does the animal move kind of weirdly? Is the fur a little too smooth looking? Do all of the non dog animals make actions eerily similar to how a dog would do a trick, because that's what AI has the most visual training on replicating? Its movements a bit too quick and perfectly timed?
Watch out. They're infecting collections of animal videos everywhere.
For me, the only logical choice is to quit watching reels and shorts and TikToks altogether. Iām not good at applying critical evaluation over and over and over again, I quit doing it after a couple videos out of boredom and just believe whatever. My skepticism has like a 90s shutdown timer.
Embattled Sen. John Fetterman said Wednesday that he would leave the Democratic Party if it stopped supporting U.S. aid to Israel.
āIf our party ever becomes, and just makes it official, the anti-Israel party, thatās when I would leave because thatās been a moral clarity for me,ā Fetterman said during the Hill National Summit in Washington, D.C., TheHill.com reported.
John Fetterman, leave your pasty ass out the Democratic party NOW. Donāt wait. Do it now you spineless cum sock. You bald piece of shit conservative fluffing, āisraelā-pandering, constituent-betraying pile of maggot-ensconced manure. Go.
Iām actually kind of glad aspartame is the latest food additive boogeyman for crunchy people, not because I think it is terrible for humanity but because it is a major migraine trigger for me and makes me violently ill. Itās hidden in so many things for no fucking reason, liquid medicine, mints, drinks that arenāt even marked diet. There are so many times Iāve bought something that had sugar in it and looked at the ingredients and realized it also had aspartame in it OR drunk something and gotten sick and realized it was on the ingredient list. Itās my fault for not checking but there are so many other artificial sweeteners that donāt have that controversy behind them and donāt have so many people reporting adverse effects but itās like aspartame manufacturers are pitching their product left and right. Itās kind of nice to see products marked with āNO ASPARTAMEā now.
The Grant room in the latest episode of game changer is literally nightmare panic attack fuel and I would cry if I ever had to be involved in that situation
Larry Ellison has admitted this is a fact, Peter Thiel admits it's the truth, Bill Gates says it will be a fact, so does Musk & around 20 other billionaires, and they are saying it in videos they make, to media spokespersons, and straight into our faces, & still we ignore it, why the hell is that?
Is this a good justification to push for sufficient hardware for my developers to do what they need using predominantly local models in the future? Get ourselves weaned off of the big name subscriptions so at least itās just our power bill and our machines spinning under load?
I am lucky to be someplace that has been conservative and frankly slow to get around to adopting itā¦. But we are reaching the cliff where people want to stand up agentic chains and get keys for raw model access, and Iām having to keep them in limbo until more funds are budgeted for their AI spend - and Iām wondering if we should get ahead of our future misery and spend on hardware now instead if license seats continually. Huh.
Itās weird being basically our āAI plugā who peddles the services to our engineers and re-ups them when theyāre out of spicetokens, while ALSO being a believer that this approach is not sustainable and that our existing workflows, practices and data hygiene are nowhere near the level they should be at before trusting AI to take the wheel and steer, so IMO we are actively choosing to drive the bus closer and closer to a cliff of our own creation.
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