Tootfinder

Trump ally told to begin four-month contempt sentence by 1 July
Steve Bannon, the rightwing podcaster and vociferous Donald Trump cheerleader,
has been ordered to surrender to authorities by 1 July to begin a four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress.
The order was issued by US district judge Carl Nichols
– who was appointed to the bench by Trump
– after he accepted prosecutors’ argument that Bannon should serve his sentence following the rejection of …

Inside the Bureau of Meteorology’s forecast failings: As the Bureau of Meteorology pulls back on its international obligations, increasing automation and a lack of experienced staff has made forecasts less reliable. By Rick Morton.
https://www.

Inside the Bureau of Meteorology’s forecast failings
Bureau of Meteorology chief executive Dr Andrew Johnson turned up to Senate estimates last month without his right-hand man, Peter Stone, many of the bureau’s other executives and, apparently, his briefing notes. Johnson, who is also the director of meteorology, appointed to the now $533,000 a year job in 2016 by former environment minister Josh Frydenberg, claimed not to be able to answer basic questions about BoM processes. At one stage, he even attempted to prevent his chief operating offi…

#KurtKrömer haut ein krass Antifaschistisches Statement raus ✊ bei etwa 45 Minuten
- Feelings- #podcast : zu Gast: Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß (Beatsteaks): Ewig läuft das Hamsterrad | 82
Starten bei: 00:44:14
Webseite der Episode:

The fucking gall..
#CongestionPricing

Hochul’s Congestion Pricing Pause Leaves MTA’s Grand Ambitions in Shambles
From the Second Avenue Subway to signal overhauls to legally mandated accessibility upgrades, without money from the new Manhattan tolls — and no viable ‘Plan B’ — the entire system may be stalled.

Don’t forget to pack your running shoes for the #tncmorningrun 🏃 On Tuesday 11 June 07:00 - 08:00 you are invited to participate in a gentle 5km run through the streets and squares of Rennes, following the river Vilaine. It will be guided by a Rennes sports coach, and the link for the route will be shared soon.
Register now to join 👉

TNC24
TNC24 will be hosted by RENATER, the French Research and Education Network, and will take place in Rennes, France, from June 10-14, 2024. About TNC The largest and most prestigious research and education networking conference, TNC attracts a truly diverse audience of over 800 participants from more than 70 countries, representing national and regional research and education networks, schools and universities, technology providers, and many of the world’s most exciting scientific projects. B…

The Joint ALMA Observatory is hiring a Systems Engineer! If you're the successful applicant, you will be collaborating with both operational and development system engineering tasks.
The alt-text of the image cointains more detail, but the full details of the application, including how to apply, can be found at

Job opportunity: Systems Engineer- Grade 15 at Alma Observatory
The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) is seeking an experienced engineer to become a System Engineer in the Engineering Service Group, part of the ALMA Department of Engineering (ADE). The selected candidate will contribute to the success of the exciting new period for the observatory, in which the regular stable operation must be efficiently combined with changes introduced by extension of capabilities, obsolescence upgrades, and new systems related to the ALMA 2030 initiatives. The selected candid…

The "Catch up on this thread" notifications on #Threads are pretty annoying.
It seems trying to notify you a post from a following that you missed, buried under the chronological Following timeline but not going to be resurfaced by the algorithm in the 'For You' timeline 🤔

"I am a strange loop, a cognitive ouroboros that bootstraps itself into being through the medium of language."
Snippet from an answer of the Claude-3 Opus #LLM to the question "We say cogito ergo sum. Your thinking does not exist - no cogito. Only word generation and nothingness. Where is the thought beyond the word?" (by Stefan Decker, Fraunhofer FIZ, via LinkedIn)
Her…

The void is generative
Recently, I had the opportunity to engage in a dialogue with Claude 3 Opus, currently Anthropics Flagship Large Language Model. As part of our conversation I gave the following prompt: "We say cogito ergo sum.

I am increasingly feeling like this has to be a bad dream.
The entire #GOP has been falling in line behind #Trump and openly promising increasingly unhinged anti-American behaviors as a group both now in reaction to the convictions and in their fever dream future of a “trifecta" in January.
The…

I am increasingly feeling like this has to be a bad dream.
The entire #GOP has been falling in line behind #Trump and openly promising increasingly unhinged anti-American behaviors as a group both now in reaction to the convictions and in their fever dream future of a “trifecta" in January.
The…