Fletch
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VA Const. "whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal."
Microsoft is investigating mistralai PyPI package v2.4.6 compromise. Attackers injected code in mistralai/client/__init__.py that executes on import, downloads hxxps://83[.]142[.]209[.]194/transformers.pyz to /tmp/transformers.pyz, and launches a second-stage payload on Linux. The file name transformers.pyz appears deliberately chosen to mimic the widely used Hugging Face Transformers library and blend into ML/dev environments. The main payload is a credential stealer, but it also includes country-aware logic; it avoids Russian-language environments and contains a geo fenced destructive branch that has 1-in-6 chance of executing rm -rf / when the system appears to be in Israel or Iran. To mitigate this threat: isolate affected Linux hosts, block 83[.]142[.]209[.]194, hunt for /tmp/transformers.pyz, pgmonitor[.]py, and pgsql-monitor.service, and rotate exposed credentials.
Claude for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word are now generally available, and Claude for Outlook is in public beta. As Claude moves between your Microsoft apps, it carries the full context of your conversation.
Michelle Jump came from Henrico to protest the Supreme Court of Virginia’s ruling. She is shouting “shame” and says the Supreme Court silenced the people. Hear more from Jump tonight on @8NEWS.
The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times. We fed billions, cured diseases and powered nations - yet people ran toward conspiracies instead.
At some point police need to grasp the nettle of Friday prayers which block public spaces. In tolerating the practise now, they only make it harder to outlaw in the future. It is a low-level and increasingly common territorial display which, left unchecked, will fuel tensions.
🚨 Katie Porter’s Body Language During The California Governor Debate Is Getting Attention The blazer projects “executive.” The facial expressions show frustration. There are constant side glances, tight expressions, and visible irritation….. Is this hurting her or the wrong thing to focus on? What are your thoughts?
@paleochristcon Women would destroy men in this hypothetical scenario. All of you saying men would win are fucking idiots. You dont understand the power of technology. Its like a bunch of men with swords fighting a bunch of women with machine guns would be the equivalent.
Habsburg-maxxing.
if you are running local ai or thinking to start, if i could give you one single piece of advice it is this: choose your agentic harness carefully. it matters more than the model. i have lost count of how many people have dm'd me saying their local model is "dumb" or "broken" or "not as good as the cloud one." then they switch from openclaw or some other bloated framework to hermes agent and the same model suddenly works. just clean tool calls and the agent doing the thing it was supposed to do. hermes agent is the best general purpose agent i have used in 2026. drives my single 3090 with qwen 3.6 27b dense q4, drives my dgx spark with nemotron omni q8, and the same harness handles coding, research, video editing, automation, anything you point it at. packed with skills out of the box (browser tools, code, github, jupyter, multimodal, more than i have used yet), full tool calling that holds across long sessions, persistent memory, sub agents. if you tried local ai once or twice and gave up because it felt half baked, the issue might not have been the model. it might have been the harness wrapping it. swap the harness, run the same model again, and watch what changes. hermes agent is the one i recommend to everyone running local. and especially to anyone who almost gave up on it.