Chicory Coffee
@chicory.bsky.social
New Orleans, IT professional, TTRPG nerd, cat dad.
Formerly @UnusedBits.
Formerly @UnusedBits.
Anybody know how to adjust their pet(s) for daylight savings? The greyhounds clock is off again this morning.
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Anybody know how to adjust their pet(s) for daylight savings? The greyhounds clock is off again this morning.
Looks like #Ring is getting worse and worse. Letting police live stream from devices? Seriously?
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
www.eff.org
August 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Looks like #Ring is getting worse and worse. Letting police live stream from devices? Seriously?
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
New Orleans Oddities & Curiosities Expo 2025 will be July 19, 2025 only this year.
Just saw the update posted. "We're so sorry for the disruption and disappointment.∙ If you purchased a Sunday GA ticket, it will now be valid for Saturday."
www.showpass.com/new-orleans-...
Just saw the update posted. "We're so sorry for the disruption and disappointment.∙ If you purchased a Sunday GA ticket, it will now be valid for Saturday."
www.showpass.com/new-orleans-...
www.showpass.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
New Orleans Oddities & Curiosities Expo 2025 will be July 19, 2025 only this year.
Just saw the update posted. "We're so sorry for the disruption and disappointment.∙ If you purchased a Sunday GA ticket, it will now be valid for Saturday."
www.showpass.com/new-orleans-...
Just saw the update posted. "We're so sorry for the disruption and disappointment.∙ If you purchased a Sunday GA ticket, it will now be valid for Saturday."
www.showpass.com/new-orleans-...
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So, we’re gonna tell our kids we looked at this, shrugged, & carried on as normal?
July 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So, we’re gonna tell our kids we looked at this, shrugged, & carried on as normal?
Stay classy, #Louisiana. bets on how long before these 5 officials are pardoned and put in charge of something in ICE?
5 people charging up to $5k USD to foreign nationals for fake visas since 2015. Absolute trash preying on people.
www.kplctv.com/2025/07/16/l...
5 people charging up to $5k USD to foreign nationals for fake visas since 2015. Absolute trash preying on people.
www.kplctv.com/2025/07/16/l...
Louisiana officials charged in immigration fraud and money laundering scheme
Louisiana officials and a businessman accused of running a decade-long immigration fraud and money laundering scheme.
www.kplctv.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Stay classy, #Louisiana. bets on how long before these 5 officials are pardoned and put in charge of something in ICE?
5 people charging up to $5k USD to foreign nationals for fake visas since 2015. Absolute trash preying on people.
www.kplctv.com/2025/07/16/l...
5 people charging up to $5k USD to foreign nationals for fake visas since 2015. Absolute trash preying on people.
www.kplctv.com/2025/07/16/l...
What's a [not] great idea? Integrate #MicrosoftTeams and #Copilot into the vehicle console so you can use generative AI to record and summarize your meetings...while you are driving. Let's enable the in-car camera so we can see how distracted they are too.
media.mercedes-benz.com/article/931e...
media.mercedes-benz.com/article/931e...
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media.mercedes-benz.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
What's a [not] great idea? Integrate #MicrosoftTeams and #Copilot into the vehicle console so you can use generative AI to record and summarize your meetings...while you are driving. Let's enable the in-car camera so we can see how distracted they are too.
media.mercedes-benz.com/article/931e...
media.mercedes-benz.com/article/931e...
Uptown New Orleans this morning.
June 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Uptown New Orleans this morning.
Lol, #AMD Adrenalin thinks I've been playing the 2014 classic "Alien: Isolation" because Microsoft is bad at naming things. Maybe AMD needs some better machine learning...
May 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Lol, #AMD Adrenalin thinks I've been playing the 2014 classic "Alien: Isolation" because Microsoft is bad at naming things. Maybe AMD needs some better machine learning...
virtualize.sh/blog/ground-...
Gee, I wonder which satellite launching company is not playing by the rules. There are so many options.
Gee, I wonder which satellite launching company is not playing by the rules. There are so many options.
Ground control to Major Trial
When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.
virtualize.sh
May 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
virtualize.sh/blog/ground-...
Gee, I wonder which satellite launching company is not playing by the rules. There are so many options.
Gee, I wonder which satellite launching company is not playing by the rules. There are so many options.
Now that's a headline: USDA withdraws plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
"The USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products"
Can we go back to being a reasonable country again? please?
www.foxla.com/news/usda-sa...
"The USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products"
Can we go back to being a reasonable country again? please?
www.foxla.com/news/usda-sa...
USDA withdraws plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry: What to know
The USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their raw products, withdrawing a Biden-era proposal. Here's what to know.
www.foxla.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Now that's a headline: USDA withdraws plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
"The USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products"
Can we go back to being a reasonable country again? please?
www.foxla.com/news/usda-sa...
"The USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products"
Can we go back to being a reasonable country again? please?
www.foxla.com/news/usda-sa...
Waffling from stupid to evil then back. The cruelty is the point with these people.
www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-g...
www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-g...
RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction
Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.
www.latintimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Waffling from stupid to evil then back. The cruelty is the point with these people.
www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-g...
www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-g...
Proposed Louisiana law to prevent roofing contractors from helping owners with claims. I guess it is to prevent the graft like in FL but this feels like something different.
lailluminator.com/2025/04/24/r...
lailluminator.com/2025/04/24/r...
Roofers could be banned from helping customers with insurance claims • Louisiana Illuminator
Louisiana lawmakers advanced a bill Wednesday that would prohibit roofing contractors from assisting homeowners with insurance claims.
lailluminator.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Proposed Louisiana law to prevent roofing contractors from helping owners with claims. I guess it is to prevent the graft like in FL but this feels like something different.
lailluminator.com/2025/04/24/r...
lailluminator.com/2025/04/24/r...
Microsoft is bringing back their uber-spyware. Opt-in for now, but how long will that last?
arstechnica.com/security/202...
arstechnica.com/security/202...
That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows
Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?
arstechnica.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Microsoft is bringing back their uber-spyware. Opt-in for now, but how long will that last?
arstechnica.com/security/202...
arstechnica.com/security/202...
What the actual hell, #Texas? The #F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act to enshrine into law something that was routinely debunked.
It also has a very real chance of reviving the #SatanicPanic of the 80s.
Watch Texas use this to ban school plays and drama classes too.
www.rascal.news/texas-furrie...
It also has a very real chance of reviving the #SatanicPanic of the 80s.
Watch Texas use this to ban school plays and drama classes too.
www.rascal.news/texas-furrie...
A Texas conformity bill could impact tabletop roleplaying games in schools statewide
This decade’s Satanic Panic is encapsulated in the F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act, aimed at reinforcing "reality" while curbing students' rights to creativity and expression.
www.rascal.news
March 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
What the actual hell, #Texas? The #F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act to enshrine into law something that was routinely debunked.
It also has a very real chance of reviving the #SatanicPanic of the 80s.
Watch Texas use this to ban school plays and drama classes too.
www.rascal.news/texas-furrie...
It also has a very real chance of reviving the #SatanicPanic of the 80s.
Watch Texas use this to ban school plays and drama classes too.
www.rascal.news/texas-furrie...
Hail Satan, Judge. Sorry, u mean good on you tor illustrating how silly some of the “for the children “ laws are.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...
Judge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral Panics
When Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” that platforms harm children, they probably werenR…
www.techdirt.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Hail Satan, Judge. Sorry, u mean good on you tor illustrating how silly some of the “for the children “ laws are.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...
I cannot fault anyone for wanting to get out now before it gets worse.
www.404media.co/nasa-yale-an...
www.404media.co/nasa-yale-an...
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says
“We are witnessing a new brain drain.”
www.404media.co
March 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I cannot fault anyone for wanting to get out now before it gets worse.
www.404media.co/nasa-yale-an...
www.404media.co/nasa-yale-an...
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I feel like the Venn diagram of New Orleans area cyber truck owners and Chaos members is a perfect, white circle
February 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I feel like the Venn diagram of New Orleans area cyber truck owners and Chaos members is a perfect, white circle
GoG adding 11 #LEGO titles to the preservation program.
www.gog.com/blog/lego-cr...
New to store:
The LEGO Movie
The LEGO Movie 2
LEGO City Undercover
LEGO NINJAGO Video Game
Added to program:
Pirates of the Caribbean
Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones 2
Batman
Batman 2
Batman 3
The Lord of the Rings
www.gog.com/blog/lego-cr...
New to store:
The LEGO Movie
The LEGO Movie 2
LEGO City Undercover
LEGO NINJAGO Video Game
Added to program:
Pirates of the Caribbean
Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones 2
Batman
Batman 2
Batman 3
The Lord of the Rings
Lego®: Cross-generational fun | GOG.COM
I have to be honest with you. For the longest time, I didn’t understand the appeal of LEGO® games. Watching others play, watching YouTube videos or Twitch
www.gog.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
GoG adding 11 #LEGO titles to the preservation program.
www.gog.com/blog/lego-cr...
New to store:
The LEGO Movie
The LEGO Movie 2
LEGO City Undercover
LEGO NINJAGO Video Game
Added to program:
Pirates of the Caribbean
Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones 2
Batman
Batman 2
Batman 3
The Lord of the Rings
www.gog.com/blog/lego-cr...
New to store:
The LEGO Movie
The LEGO Movie 2
LEGO City Undercover
LEGO NINJAGO Video Game
Added to program:
Pirates of the Caribbean
Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones 2
Batman
Batman 2
Batman 3
The Lord of the Rings
Well that explains the traffic.
Yeah, King Arthur is having issues.
February 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Well that explains the traffic.
Reposted by Chicory Coffee
This is amazing: Pillsbury has finally given up and started pasteurizing the flour in their raw cookie dough because they know people are going to eat it raw even if they say not to
pillsbury to the rescue: www.pillsbury.com/products/saf...
Pillsbury Cookie Dough Is Now Safe to Eat Raw
Pillsbury Ready to Bake Cookie Dough products are now safe to eat raw. It's the same cookie dough you've always loved, but now we have refined our process and ingredients so it's edible before it’s ev...
www.pillsbury.com
February 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This is amazing: Pillsbury has finally given up and started pasteurizing the flour in their raw cookie dough because they know people are going to eat it raw even if they say not to
#KreweofChad Land Grab - NOPD will choose when to enforce Mardi Gras rules more than ever. Too bad NOPD announced this before the first spray paint when down on the grass.
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
New Orleans' Krewe of Chad gets green light for Carnival 2025 neutral ground landgrabs
The New Orleans City Council agreed to give police wide discretion this year in enforcing a new Carnival parade ordinance designed to reduce Krewe of Chad landgrabs that limit access to routes.
www.nola.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
#KreweofChad Land Grab - NOPD will choose when to enforce Mardi Gras rules more than ever. Too bad NOPD announced this before the first spray paint when down on the grass.
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...