Tootfinder

playing hooky, en route to the ballgame, doing my best to cherish my place in the arcane, & very much feeling the harvard mixer '71 version of "old world" where jonathan richman (mr. route 128 himself!) inexplicably shouts out "hey, new york #mets kids!" starting at 6:40ish.

BREAKTHROUGH: Belgian Authorities Arrest and Interrogate Israeli War Crimes Suspects Following Complaint by Hind Rajab Foundation and GLAN - THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
https://www.hindr…

Blockchain-based lender Figure files for a US IPO, reporting H1 revenue up 22.4% YoY to $191M and a profit of $29M, compared with a loss of $13M in H1 2024 (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/blockchai

1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/

I cannot stress enough the stupidity of e.g. "ACAB" and "ABOLISH THE POLICE"
Get out of your feelings and get into your strategy -- it is undeniably true that there is a SEVERE need for police reform
But, tell me, who escorted ICE away from Dodger Stadium?
#uspol #blackmastodon

Flink App: the only way to stop us forcing ads down your throat is by going outside the app to the system settings and blocking us from there.
#Flink

Mgmt: We don't have the resources to make our own LLM. Can we just monetize AI prompts?
Business School Student: Hold my beer 🍺
#blockchain

PromptChain: A Decentralized Web3 Architecture for Managing AI Prompts as Digital Assets
We present PromptChain, a decentralized Web3 architecture that establishes AI prompts as first-class digital assets with verifiable ownership, version control, and monetization capabilities. Current centralized platforms lack mechanisms for proper attribution, quality assurance, or fair compensation for prompt creators. PromptChain addresses these limitations through a novel integration of IPFS for immutable storage, smart contracts for governance, and token incentives for community curation. O…

I can't tell you how weird it is as a manager to go through burnout blossoming and then sinking in to become a morass of emotional exhaustion and feelings of utter uselessness — while, in parallel, hearing feedback from my reports about how I've helped them struggle through and in most cases escape their own burgeoning burnout over the past few months
Just out here using my own body as a stick to pull my reports out of the quicksand of burnout

The ngscopeclient about dialog now has a (hopefully) full list of all 77 authors credited! Very manual generation process for now, but I'm going to try and automate the list generation for the future.
One less thing to do before we ship the v0.1 release.
We now have only six release blocking tickets and then we can ship it:
* Fix some shaders assuming unlimited X axis thread block size is possible
* Binary packaging for MacOS
* Window resize events not handled …

Filings: crypto industry donated $26M to Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., in H1, including $5M from Blockchain.com; Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz gave $3M each (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/01/trump-crypto-donors-maga-super-pac

Crypto donations flood Trump's super PAC
The Trump family is deep in everything from stablecoins, meme coins and NFTs to Bitcoin mining.