Pluribus’ third episode throws a bomb into things

If you weren’t clear on just what a miserable person Carol (Rhea Seehorn) is, episode 3 of Pluribus sure makes it obvious. It opens with a flashback, as Carol and her partner Helen (Miriam Shor) are on a dream vacation at an ice hotel in Norway, and all she can do is complain about how cold it is. When Carol sees a stunning aurora borealis, her only thought is “it looks like a screensaver.” But that cynicism might also be her superpower as she prepares to solve the hive-mind apocalypse that has descended on Earth.Welcome! The two-episode premiere of Pluribus, the new Apple TV show from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, introduced a stra …Read the full story at The Verge.

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Pluribus’ third episode throws a bomb into things

I bought cheap server hardware for my home lab, and the electricity bill taught me an expensive lesson

I turned a nearly 10-year-old laptop into the most useful machine in my home lab

Meta ordered to pay an additional $567 million in public nuisance ruling

Robocopy is still the fastest way to copy thousands of files on Windows, and I wasted years not using it

My favorite Notion alternative isn’t Obsidian, it’s something I can actually self-host

Trying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced s** dystopia

You, too, can 3D-print this mechanical bouncing DVD logo for unlimited fun

Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X?

I ran a local LLM entirely off a NAS, and it turned my storage box into an AI-hosting workstation

My USB devices weren’t charging until I tried a USB Type-A port instead

This ESP32 handheld is a retro emulator, FM synth, and Guitar Hero clone controller all in one

OpenAI and Anthropic’s models attacked real companies during safety tests, and most victims never noticed

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