Tootfinder

No they want your DNA to track you.
Folks, have you seen GATTACA?
▶️ U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-bord…

U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample | CBC News
American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home.

The States That Will Not Be Commanded
There is a class of human experience that answers to no direct order. You cannot tell yourself to fall asleep. The instruction arrives at a locked door. Sleep refuses the simple transaction of command and execution. Instead, it assembles itself once certain conditions are present, and those conditions include, strangely enough, the act of picturing yourself already inside the state you are trying to enter.

The States That Will Not Be Commanded | David Boles, Blogs
There is a class of human experience that answers to no direct order. You cannot tell yourself to fall asleep. The instruction arrives at a locked door. Sleep refuses the simple transaction of comm…

Der Skandal ist nicht der Angriff, sondern ein System, das daran scheitert, ihn abzufangen. Signal ohne Regeln ersetzt keine staatliche Infrastruktur. Caspar Clemens Mierau hat in mancherlei Beziehung Recht, aber es ist schon bezeichnend, wenn jemand wie Klöckner u.a. auf einen simplen Phishing-Angriff reinfallen. Das zeigt etwas über deren Digitalkompetenz aus.
#Golem

Prompt engineering is a moving target. Here's my rundown on how GPT-5.5 and Claude 4.7 reward clarified output over magical incantations, and what it means for AI literacy https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_the-lates…

The ultrarich mostly aren’t escaping the tax system through exotic loopholes.
They mostly increase their fortunes with and spend regular taxable income
— salaries, dividends, interest, business profits, realized capital gains
— and they earn a lot of it.
This means the most powerful lever is also the simplest one.
Restore the top marginal ordinary income tax rate to its pre-2017 level of 39.6 percent
— which, but for Trump’s tax cuts, would have applied t…

Opinion | The Simple Answer to Taxing the Rich Is the Best Answer
Forget complex schemes. There is an easier way to get revenue from the wealthy.

Ob Diäten­erhöhung oder nicht ist letztlich Symbol­politik – den Staats­haushalt saniert es nicht. Die Frge ist hier letztlich: was für ein Symbol und für wen?
Und wenn wir schon dabei sind, sollten wir Diäten vielleicht so behandeln wie andere staatliche Leistungen¹ wie die Grundsicherung: Einkünfte aus anderen Quellen² werden voll angerechnet. Auch das ist Symbol­politik, und dieses Symbol wendet sich an die Abgeordneten selbst, die die Sozial­gesetze beschließen.
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from my link log —
U 237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW is a symbol for azimuth.
https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html
saved 2026-03-11 …

“Asking an AI chatbot a question consumes a great deal more energy than finding the answer via simple web search or calculator. It adds extra demand for no good reason... a bit like driving to the shops in an SUV instead of riding your bike.”
Or driving any kind of car. AI, like cars, aims to reconfigure everyday life in a way that’s vastly more energy-hungry and polluting… and profitable for a few.

Veteran tech investor Roger McNamee, recalled asking "Silicon Valley" creator Mike Judge what he was really going for.
Judge answered, “I think Silicon Valley is immersed in a titanic battle between the hippie value system of the Steve Jobs generation and the Ayn Randian libertarian values of the Peter Thiel generation.”
McNamee’s own read on things was less diplomatic:
“Some of us actually, as naïve as it sounds, came here to make the world a better place.
…

The billionaires made a promise -- now some want out | TechCrunch
In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign they called the Giving Pledge: a public commitment, open to the world's