Dems will need every single vote in the senate. Party leadership pushing for people on the wrong side of the actuarial curve to enter a race for a six year terms seems ill-advised and short-sighted.
Like we learned nothing from Ted Kennedy and the ACA.
W's 2000 campaign platform was pretty fundamentally isolationist.
The GOP talking point of the time was the the US didn't have any business intervening even in e.g., the former Yugoslavia where an active genocide was happening.
IDK how you extrapolate that to a latent bloodlust.
On AI & water usage, it looks like all US data center usage (not just AI) ranges from 628M gallons a day (counting evaporation from dam reservoirs used for hydro-power) to 200-275M with power but not dam evaporation, to 50M for cooling alone.
So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf courses.
Directly related: it's literally impossible for me to take Maria Bartiromo seriously because every time I see her, my brain gets stunlocked thinking it's Cheri Oteri doing a bit as a news anchor.
Gemini Pro's massive context window can be useful for some specific uses -- especially when it comes to planning a project -- even if it can underperform on individual tasks.
But Gemini Flash is palpably, painfully bad for most things I've thrown it at. And the free stuff kicks you to Flash quick.
for real, though, i think the ridiculous inflatable costumes are a major flaw in the armor that can be heavily exploited, portland protestors are leaning all the way into our reputation and making heroes out of inflatable frogs and villains out of the security forces
Stealth pistols was like *the* character build for that game. Massively OP for most of the game.
But the game would also happily let you create builds that were borderline unplayable. That and the crazy difficulty spikes around bosses are a lot of why it has the (earned) reputation it does.
It's a completely broken and unbalanced trainwreck of a game mechanically, but Obsidian was really cooking with the narrative elements of it. It's still got a really special place in my heart because of it.
A friend and I played it at the same time, and I don't think I'll ever forget talking about playing it and slowly realizing we were getting very different plots because we'd chosen to take the major missions in a different order
It's an absolute mess of a game, but Alpha Protocol is still one of the most ambitious games I've ever seen in terms of choice and impact.
You'll hit major story beats no matter what, but even seemingly little things like the order you choose to do missions impact what characters live and die.
Vendors in the infosec space are absolutely insane.
Got a ping that somebody from a random vendor is in the lobby of the corporate office -- that I don't work at -- saying they have an appointment with me.
New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed
It was probably made easier because I'm in an area where Amazon never really recovered from covid and Prime was a complete lie -- 95% of Prime items were 5+ days shipping.
I was already considering cancelling and cutting back, then Bezos decided to Bezos and I went to extra mile to take it to $0.
I dropped my Amazon to $0 this time last year. it's been both generally easier than I expected and eye-opening on the point re: items not carried elsewhere.
It's been surprising and frustrating how many companies use Amazon as their *only* distribution channel. Have done a lot of doing without.
