Tootfinder

Regularly, I use the following for near-realtime communications ("text messages”).
- SMS/RCS/iMessage (friends, family)
- Facebook Messenger (friends, family)
- What's App (friends)
- ActivityPub/Mastodon (friends)
- Matrix (friends, work)
- Discord (work)
- Mattermost (friends, locals)
I'm sure I'm missing some.
The fact that no one is allowed to make a single piece of software (for wide distribution) that talks on all of thes…

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet.
It infected 3.5 million people in 1986.
Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page
https://www.resete…

Guinea worm is close to being the second disease eradicated in history, following smallpox
https://www.euronews.com/health/2026/02/04/guinea-worm-is-close-to-being-the-second-disease-eradicated-in-history-following-smallpox You may have seen this online at some point, a long white worm being pulled from someone's leg, looking almost like a white string. This worm has been plaguing...

Tracking every single trade in the 2026 NFL draft https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/page/nfldrafttradetracker48440450/2026-nfl-draft-trade-tracker-picks-current-future-players-deals

Aerial scouting was an effective, and very scenic, way to find the most intense #wildflower blooms in the Carrizo Plain and Antelope Valley
#flying

One of my VR Lighthouses died last month. These things are gyroscopically spinning 24 hours a day for, what, a decade now? Nearly.
No wonder. Mostly the industry seems to be settling on using head-mounted cameras rather than sweeping infra-red beams and receptors on the head anyway.
It is true that lighthouses give accurate positioning, but means I can't easily take the headset next door, say. Or to a party.
So inside-out, as they call it, is fine for the headset now and mostly okay for the hand-controllers.
But it offers no solution at all for the foot-trackers and hip-tracker that I need for puppetting the characters in the #vr #slimeVR #trackers

Xicoia Studios releases a single and music video made by "real humans" starring AI "actor" Tilly Norwood ahead of Norwood's official AI acting debut this year (Lily Ford/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ge…

AI Actor Tilly Norwood Drops Debut Single and Music Video ‘Take the Lead’: “I’m Just a Tool, but I’ve Got Life”
Featuring Norwood flying through the clouds on a blow-up flamingo, the video begins with a note: "The following production was made by 18 real humans."

This. @… https://bsd.network/@dch/116375237468185032

dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: (@dch@bsd.network)
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu here's a suggestion before spending a bazillion on "AI". Make it (much) easier to start small businesses. Like, €100 instead of €1000s, and a clearly defined list of paperwork, that can be processed at a single govt agency in under 1 hour, in 1 country. Then, simplify the byzantine pan-EU tax arrangements so this small business can just pay tax once, instead of needing to spend €4000/year on accountant support, and filing in multiple countries.…

In early February there were more than 750 families,
nearly half of them including children,
as well as some 370 single adult women
being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.
It is just one of many immigration centers across the country,
but the only one holding families.
Since the start of the Trump administration, the number of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention has skyrocketed,
-- increasing sixf…

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.

First ride this spring! We had our bikes at the maintenance service this week and were eager to have a ride.
46km of joy!
#mtb #cycling

New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire (Melia Russell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/patlytics-raises-40-millio…

A startup building the Harvey for patent law has raised $40 million
Patlytics raised the new funding after securing more than 40% of the AmLaw 100 firms and growing revenue about 10x in a single year.