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

Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers and 2M likes; TikTok says 14 accounts don't violate rules (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/tiktok-ai-videos-children-report

Videos of sexually suggestive, AI-generated children are racking up millions of likes on TikTok, study finds
AI-generated videos showing what appear to be underage girls in sexualized clothing or positions have together racked up millions of likes on TikTok, even though the platform’s rules prohibit such content, according to new research from an online safety non-profit.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Pharoah Sanders:
🎵 Love will Find A Way
#PharoahSanders
https://pharoahsanders.bandcamp.com/track/love-will-find-a-way-radio-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jKQvm9mE1O1LlMZibkx0U

Bernie Sanders backs 5% billionaire wealth tax to keep hospitals and emergency rooms open and to prevent millions from losing coverage
https://bsky.app/profile/cabillionairetax.bsky.social/post/3mdgk2do26a2g

California Billionaire Tax Act (@cabillionairetax.bsky.social)
Worth remembering: the top marginal tax rate in the 1950s was 90%. (Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Milena Casado:
🎵 Yet I Can See
#MilenaCasado
https://open.spotify.com/track/4KDzAJbRpxbwzAVRafa0y7

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 17845 nodes and 789779 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in Dec. 2025, about the same as in 2008; Stack Overflow now primarily makes money from enterprises and licensing (Claire Yubin Oh/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/stack-overflow-forum-dead-tha…

Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking... thanks to AI
The platform is raking in millions of dollars in revenue, with AI an ironic new source of revenue.

Sei partners with Xiaomi to pre-install its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/0…

Sei Wallets to Come Pre-Installed on Millions of Xiaomi Phones
The app will enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores.

Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (Lauren Johnson/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/commerce/shopify-product-network-merchant-ads/

Shopify Rolls Out Ad Network for Millions of Merchants
The e-commerce giant is opening up search and post-checkout ads in storefronts.

Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on "red envelope" freebies to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech…

China's AI apps wield 'red envelopes' in Lunar New Year fight for users
Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and DeepSeek step up fight heading into 'crucial' holiday season