The latest #Pluralistic post by @pluralistic is about a very smart #OpenHardware approach: the #Baochip. I know very little about hardware manufacturing, but this looks really cool and feasible.

Go read it at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/09/quantity-break/

Why is nobody shocked about this? Are we so numb that we'll only care if people get killed? Or wasn't it the "right" kind of people getting attacked?

#auspol

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/29/perth-invasion-day-bomb-threat-media-australia/

I hate that anyone named Melissa will now be associated with this potentially deadly hurricane. I have a friend named Katrina who changed her name to Kat after the 2005 hurricane killed nearly 1400 people.

Maybe we could just name hurricanes/cyclones after the oil companies and the billionaires who profit off them? Have to reuse the names a lot, but we can just add numbers, like we do for Kings or Popes: ExxonMobil III or BP XIX.

#Hurricane #Melissa

Holy shit I love my internet service provider said no one ever!

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https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/we-dont-care-we-dont-have-to/#were-the-phone-company

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