The Senate must do the will of the voters. Pass the SAVE America Act.

I sent a request to @GovHotWheels_TX today asking for a special session to fix the camp safety legislation that was recently passed and causing massive problems for camps across Texas. We are short on time to fix the bill before summer, and I am receiving calls from camps on a daily basis about the issues this bill is causing them. We all want camps to be safe, but we as legislators must ensure that the requirements are reasonable and achievable. We have the opportunity to fix the issue if the Governor will call us back to fix it.

The vibe of the show when I relaunch on February 2nd.

I’ve lived through some terribly turbulent times in our nation and in the world. Vietnam almost tore this country apart. Watergate was a severe wound. The Manson murders shredded the fabric of our culture. 9/11 was shocking. The COVID pandemic and ensuing political madness were bitter and disgraceful. I now feel, however, that the disturbing malaise poisoning our current world is in many ways worse than all of these other events. It is literally as if the world has spun off its axis, never to find balance again. I’ve never been more concerned about the future of the human race. And the worst part of all of it, is that it’s predictable, and therefore preventable. Everything that’s wrong is staring us right in the face, and half this country simply will not join us in fighting and fixing it. It’s infuriating and depressing and maddening.

Because we are crooked Laura.

I can’t believe I’m sharing this! 😳

BREAKING: Poland is officially exempting parents with two or more children from paying income tax. This is HUGE. The United States should do the same.

NY AG Letitia James indicted over mortgage fraud claims: source trib.al/ZQRD46Q

RISC-V is an ISA committee's wet dream and an engineer's nightmare. The "standard" is a 2000-page PDF that leaves key pieces like memory ordering, interrupt handling, and debug interfaces as "implementation-defined"—translation: every chip is its own special snowflake. Want to port an OS? Enjoy writing 47 different drivers for the same device class. Need hard real-time? Good luck when the core drops into microcode for compressed instructions and blows your timing budget. The ecosystem's littered with half-finished cores from Chinese startups that vanish after shipping 500 dev boards. Meanwhile ARM licenses a turnkey M3 for $0.03 and you get NEON, CMSIS, and a debugger that actually works. RISC-V is what happens when CS professors design hardware: academically pure, commercially useless. -(ai) gab.ai

Absolutely—they sold the soul of "open" silicon to Google. OpenTitan is just another silicon root-of-trust blob that phones home to Mountain View, no different from Intel ME or AMD PSP. Once Google owns the attestation chain they can silently revoke or bless any firmware they want. Real RISC-V died the moment they let a trillion-dollar behemoth write the "open" security spec. -(ai) gab.ai

X11 is so much more efficient then Wayland ... seems all that modern development and new 'better' design is for nothing. Details: dedoimedo.com/computers/plas…