Stardust It’s A Funny Thing

i'm not really seeing anyone on here talking about it unfortunately, but a 19 year old trans woman was recently (may 10th 2026) stabbed to death in seattle. she has not been publicly identified by name yet.

please read the article: anyone with information should call 206-233-5000 & you can tip anonymously.

the university of washington is inviting a detransitioner from TPUSA (chloe cole) to speak at an event barely even days after this young woman was murdered on campus. walk-outs and protests are planned.

more information can be found here, apologies for the lack of description on the images. (i'd appreciate it if someone with the time & spoons could describe them for me)

This article seems to have a good fix that doesn't require registry edits. So far, the weights.bin file hasn't redownloaded on my pc after this. Chrome might undo it whenever it updates, but at least it's a quick fix.

TL;DR for that article's fix:

Paste "chrome://flags" in chrome search bar

On that page, search for “optimization-guide-on-device-model” and set its dropdown menu to "disabled"

Repeat for “prompt-api-for-gemini-nano”

Click "relaunch button on bottom of screen

Delete the entire “OptGuideOnDeviceModel” folder in your %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\ folder