Tootfinder

Young Raiders Unit Has a Leader Worth Following https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-adam-butler-jonah-laulu-training-camp-patrick-graham-pete-carroll

Day 3: Octavia Butler.
Incredibly dark, graphic, and disturbing near-future science fiction, which has proved absolutely prophetic. In the 1990's she was writing about a charismatic Conservative Christian and white nationalist president elected in 2024, and the horrors his paramilitary followers would unleash, including forced labor & indoctrination camps. Did I mention those books include ebikes & pseudo-cellphones too? Characters fleeing north from a disastrous social collapse in Loss Angeles? This is "The Parable of the Sower" and "The Parable of the Talents" and the later was tragically rushed to an end because of Butler's declining health.
Her work deals unflinchingly with racism and the darker parts of society, and to those who might say "her depiction of social collapse is overblown," I'd say that while it's not literally the world we live in, it's *effectively* the world that the poorest of us live in. If you're a homeless undocumented latinx person in LA right now, I'm not sure how meaningfully different your world is from the one she depicts.
Her work comes with a strong content warning for lots of things, including racial violence, sexual abuse and slavery, including of children, animal harm, etc., so it's not for everyone. Reading it in 2023 was certainly an incredible trip. Her politics are really cool though; with explicit pro-LGBTQ themes and tinges of what might today be considered #SolarPunk.
#20WomenAuthors

DT Adam Butler gave what appears to be a pretty loaded statement about Raiders O-line https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/07/30/dt-adam-butler-…

Enhanced performance in quasi-isodynamic max-$J$ stellarators with a turbulent particle pinch
G. G. Plunk, A. G. Goodman, P. Xanthopoulos, P. Costello, H. M. Smith, K. Aleynikova, C. D. Beidler, M. Drevlak, P. Helander
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19319

Enhanced performance in quasi-isodynamic max-$J$ stellarators with a turbulent particle pinch
Recent stellarator reactor designs demonstrate mostly outward turbulent particle transport, which, without advanced fueling technology, inhibits the formation of density gradients needed for confinement. We introduce ``SQuID-$τ$'', a self-fueling quasi-isodynamic stellarator capable of sustaining density peaking through inward particle transport caused by turbulence. Temperature and density profile predictions based on high-fidelity gyrokinetic simulations demonstrate enhanced performance, sig…

REAL ENEMIES is an evening-length, multimedia, jazz-fueled exploration of American paranoia. This innovative marriage of music-theater and hybrid nonfiction marks the first collaboration between composer Darcy James Argue, filmmaker Peter Nigrini and writer Isaac Butler, who together chronicle a shadow history of post-war America that may—or may not—be true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpXE-aZ-xhA

New site from the GSA "GO.gov will serve as a single travel management solution for all civilian Federal agencies [...]"
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/114863580250597448

I feel like there should be a name for the position "superintelligent AI is going to wipe out humans, and that's awesome, let's help", but I'm failing to find it.
the Terminator universe has "collaborators", but Skynet is in the "evil" bucket. what's the genre of "Skynet, but it's morally good"? where are those stories?
Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis, maybe, but humanity mostly wipes itself out. it's just the remna…