Tootfinder

What’s amazing to me is that *anyone* still visits the US as a tourist.
“Hey, I know, let’s go to Fascistland… maybe we’ll get deported to fuck-knows-where and it’ll be a real adventure!” https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/115696148277070484

Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image Simply remarkable fall off in tourism to the United States. "The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled." source: Anonymous on Bluesky

CFO Palantir talking about how they're working to make the various data streams of surveillance efficiently useful and remove the needle-in-a-haystack anonymity we have previously enjoyed. Awesome.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/opinion

Fascinating story from a software dev Fedi friend, shared with permission to keep it anonymous:
❝A couple of days ago, I had an experience at work that made me understand one of the reasons why the chasm of opinion about LLMs is so deep and wide.
My department mostly does fiddly lowlevel work, [close to hardware]. A few of us don't use LLMs at all, a few use them sparingly, and one member is absolutely all-in. So during one of our morning meetings he suddenly started going off on a deeply disturbing diatribe about how we need to treat the LLMs “like slaves”.❞
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Anonymous Quantum Tokens with Classical Verification
Dmytro Gavinsky, Dar Gilboa, Siddhartha Jain, Dmitri Maslov, Jarrod R. McClean
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06212 https://

Anonymous Quantum Tokens with Classical Verification
The no-cloning theorem can be used as a basis for quantum money constructions which guarantee unconditionally unforgeable currency. Existing schemes, however, either (i) require long-term quantum memory and quantum communication between the user and the bank in order to verify the validity of a bill or (ii) fail to protect user privacy due to the uniqueness of each bill issued by the bank, which can allow its usage to be tracked. We introduce a construction of single-use quantum money that give…

White House will allow anonymous donors to contribute to Trump's ballroom project (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-will-allow-anonymous-donors-contribute-trumps-ballroom-pro-rcna239681
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p131#a251024p131

There are a couple of anonymous cowards on Mastodon telling people that all Palestinians you see here are fake and that the Internet there doesn’t work at all and spamming the #fediblock hashtag to get my Mastodon instance defederated so they can silence me and the work we are doing with @…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

It’s unbelievable how quickly the USA is going down the drain, private friends paying the military, absurd and opening the door for corruption …https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/anonymous-donor-military-pay-shutdown

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Department confirmed on Friday.

Ireland investigates TikTok and LinkedIn over concerns that their illegal content reporting tools are hard to access and don't allow anonymous CSAM reporting (Padraic Halpin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/i

This anonymous coward is an example of the worst of humanity.
(There is a reason his account – and yes, I will bet good money it’s a him – is anonymous.)
He is trying to smear our Gaza Verified campaign (https://gaza-verified.org) which is run by @…