We should pretty much assume that all age verification efforts either currently are feeding into surveillance efforts, or will be bought out by surveillance companies.

His death is the first homicide in ICE custody in recent history

Press [X] to doubt.

ICE officials wrote in that report that while detained at Camp East Montana, Lunas Campos received “regular” medical evaluations

Press [X] to doubt.

Lunas Campos’ death “is still an active investigation, and more details are forthcoming,” the spokesperson said.

Translation: This is the least-damaging version we can use as an explanation, given the facts that the public currently knows. However, we reserve the right to change our story if additional information get leaked.

The federal government tried to deport the six detainees who witnessed the final moments of Lunas Campos.

The actions of a totally innocent bureaucracy, definitely not panicking …

The whereabouts of those witnesses are currently unclear

Yeah, I’m going to guess it’s not anyplace good.

Only after the [public] medical examiner advised his family that it might be a homicide did ICE officials allege a suicide attempt. […] Eleven days after Lunas Campos’ death, 36-year-old Victor Manuel Diaz marked the facility’s third fatality. ICE sent Diaz to a U.S. Army hospital rather than the local medical examiner, where a military spokesperson said that the agency would not make his autopsy public.

So there’s an ongoing cover-up in this third [known] death, got it.

Fuck ICE.

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Because this head prioritizes branding over utility, neither the bit nor the screw head can withstand the torque of a standard Torx or Hex fastener. The result? Broken bits, stripped screws, and more time spent on what would otherwise be a simple task.

Ugh.

Rights for me, rules for thee!

There were videos of this a few years back, when Tesla was pushing an update to all the cars in their lot.

Stardew Valley 1.7.

I’d much rather he spent some time inside a prison for his crimes.

What a cute picture - thank you for sharing!

Also, a reminder that new carpet can be dangerous to pets, especially the very young, very old, or those in fragile health.

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The team in the operating room found themselves having to extract a “collectible shell nearly 20 centimetres long” (nearly eight inches).

The chase car has been removed - but no one’s seen the self-driving cars either, not since the chase car was removed. It’s another intentional misdirection.

I think one of the reasons Stardew has had such a long life is the modding community: it’s been ten years since it’s release and I can’t imagine playing it that long. I can, however, bring up Passerby Cemetery, East Scarp, Ridgeside, etc, and scratch my Stardew itch with new content every couple years.

I’m sure Eric knows this as well, and would include modding in HC.

I mean, he spent 4 years of 70-hour weeks making Stardew. I’d expect Haunted Chocolatier to take equally as long - actually longer, since he’s still making Stardew releases, presumably taking some time for himself these days, has to approve any official merch or related stuff like the concert series, etc.

I followed a link in that article to this one: Tesla didn’t remove the Robotaxi ‘safety monitor’ – it just moved them to a trailing car:

When Musk says there’s “no safety monitor in the car,” he’s technically telling the truth, the monitor is in a different car, following right behind. But the implication that Tesla has achieved true unsupervised autonomy is misleading at best.

Even if his robots were ready for primetime (they’re not), I don’t see how he’s going to be able to price them affordably, given the RAM shortages.

Nah, he’ll have the government buy them as fleet cars.

It’s unclear why January’s security update for Windows 11 has been so disastrous.

Vibe coding …

Funny, I thought he doesn’t read the Times because it’s such a “failing” paper and he doesn’t associate with losers.

Hell, Microsoft and Apple did the same thing decades ago. Microsoft offered computer discounts to high schools and colleges, so that the students would be used to (and demand) Microsoft when they went into the business world. Apple then undercut that by offering very discounted products to elementary and junior high schools, so that the students would want Apple products in higher education and the business world.

The tactic let them write off all the discounts on their taxes, but lock in customers and raise prices on business (and eventually consumer) goods.