Tootfinder

After nearly 30 years, NASA realized this near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet | Space https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/after-nearly-30-years-nasa-realized-this-nea…

tja… Boris Palmer macht wieder Dinge
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/tuebingen/boris-palmer-verwehrt-sportlerin-im-rollstuhl-eine-rampe-fuer-eine-ehrung-100.html

"Bin ich weniger wert?" - Boris Palmer will Para-Tischtennisspielerin keine Rampe bauen
Eine Tischtennisspielerin im Rollstuhl bekommt keine Rampe für eine Sportlerehrung. Das hat Tübingens OB Boris Palmer entschieden. Die Sportlerin wundert sich.

I realized why I found Jared Harris so compelling as Hari Seldon in the Foundation TV series
His acting reminds me of a dramatized version of John Conway, and I hadn't realized that my mental image of Hari Seldon had at some point merged with John Conway (whom I'd been lucky to see lecture in person many years back)

#ReleaseDay The new version of https://thi.ng/geom-sdf is automatically preprocessing the vertices given for 2D polygons & polylines to remove any coincident and colinear ones (using Douglas-Peucker algorithm). Thi…

2D Signed Distance Field creation from @thi.ng/geom shapes, conversions, sampling, combinators

Las Vegas Raiders' 2026 NFL preseason schedule officially released https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/22/las-vegas-raiders-2026-nfl-preseason-schedule-officially-r…

This afternoon’s listening:
Jon Hopkins - Singularity.
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lQnr5v1qgvB7gMmLDL_6ofEIduzYv1k9Q&si=ukJOXiLcff7ppF5x

Singularity - Album by Jon Hopkins
Singularity is the fifth studio album by English electronic musician and producer Jon Hopkins, released on 4 May 2018 through Domino Records. It was announced on 6 March 2018, with the release of the first single, "Emerald Rush". The second single, "Everything Connected", was released on 25 April, while the third, "Singularity", was released on 4 May, along with the album. The album follows Hopkins's companion previous album, Immunity. It was released to critical acclaim and was nominated at th…

from my link log —
Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of, for relocatable ELF dynamic linkers.
https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/20/linux-kernel-will-support-origin-sort-of
saved 2026-07-21

"New research aims to reduce microfiber pollution released from cruise and hotel laundry"
#Clothes #Textiles #Environment

New research aims to reduce microfiber pollution released from cruise and hotel laundry
Microfiber pollution from large-scale laundry operations is emerging as a significant and largely unseen environmental issue. New research led by the University of Portsmouth is using Cleaner Seas Group's industrial filtration technology—already deployed in commercial settings to better understand the scale of the problem and how it can be prevented before it reaches our waterways.

"According to a new study, construction was impacted more than any other industry studied, with American-born workers losing more jobs than immigrants as a result of the deportations."
Trump’s Deportations Are Costing Americans Jobs, Study Finds - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/realestate/trumps-deportations-are-costing-americans-jobs.html

Where Billionaires Summer, a Gardener Died in the Snow (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/realestate/where-billionaires-summer-a-gardener-died-in-the-snow.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r1A.-sBb.KoG67NlLWcx7&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p43#a260621p43