Tootfinder

It’s obvious that this tool was made by people who care about data and care about humans. It’s not even that it’s •perfect•; it’s just that it’s •thoughtful•.
That kind of human-to-human feeling of “we did our best because we care about the strangers who use this tool” just seems almost like an act of radical defiance in this Era of Enshittification. I appreciate it so much.

Teenager has just suggested some of the programs, which I was under the impression were via the browser, may need to be on desktop.
This might mean Wine I guess?
And probably some kind of microsoft office install? I was hoping to get away with libreoffice..
Anybody have any experience with wine?
I will in any case have to contact the IT support at the school I think. I hope I am not the only parent doing so with the #EndOf10 .
Meanwhile, over on the laptop, the Linux Mint is installed (in danish even) and seems to be restarting without the USB
holding breath here...
🤞
13/n

So. Much. This.
https://hci.social/@chrisamaphone/115391556289269102

The #IWW #GDC as an antifascist organization was always kind of a hack. It was a beautiful hack and it worked well for what it did.
In 2016, as Trump was rising, I found info from the Twin Cities GDC. They were super organized, building an amazing community defense organization. When we (Seattle) went to set up our chapter, following their lead, they were extremely supportive. When I got shot, Twin Cities folks were at my house keeping my partner safe. They literally flew people out to support us. They very much remain in my mind when I think about what mutual aid looks like.
Unionism is an important strategy of a larger fight. But it's important to realize that it's not the other way around. The GDC was built to defend the union, because there wasn't something larger to do that work. It filled a gap.
When we organized against Trump, we tried to make the GDC the greater thing. We tried to make the GDC into the vehicle for social revolution against the fascist threat... And it sort of worked. We were able to do a lot.
But that was never what it was built to do. It was always built as an appendage of the IWW. This contains its own problem. If Unionism is the revolutionary movement, then it becomes impossible to build a truly revolutionary society. Unionism centers "workers" which implicitly decenters those who can't work in the traditional sense (the young, the elderly, those physically or mentally able to work). It also decenters care labor that hasn't yet been widely commodified. Sure, there are all types of hacks to patch the holes, but the fundamental construction starts from the wrong assumptions.
It felt, for a while, like things could go another way. Like that our ability to bring members in could shift things a bit, maybe set the GDC on more equal footing with the core focus of the IWW. But that was always an illusion, far less important to think about than the crushing terror of the regime we were fighting.
Now, I will absolutely trash talk the IWW on occasion but in the end I do think they're doing good and important work. Any criticism I have should be taken with a grain of salt... And I know I do have a lot of salt. Again, Unionism is an important strategy. It's useful both in improving immediate material conditions and as part of the most powerful weapon we have against the capitalist system: the general strike. It's important, I can't say that enough. But it's not sufficient.
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and I wonder if there are any other GDC organizers or former organizers who might be feeling the same. Feel free to DM me. I'd like to get some more perspectives and see if my understanding from several years ago deviates significantly from what other folks are feeling right now.
I'd also like to bounce some ideas around that come from my own organizing experience.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/115746396115275350
I think my take on why I don't use AI coding tools is much more detached from their abilities.
It's partly that my kind of coding requires skills that I don't want to lose. But it's also the…

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
TARRANT: Hmm, smells lovely.
VILA: No, it doesn't. It's disgusting.
AVON: Well, somebody has to go down and you are the one with the delicate touch, Vila.
TARRANT: Magic hands. You've often said so yourself.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/140

So the #NoKings protests are going on. I'd love to join, but like millions of Americans who are among the most pissed off (think anyone working in any kind of service industry) I'm here at work.
It's been quite a long time since I've had regular weekends on the days that a lot of you take for granted having off. It's socially alienating for sure, you miss all kinds o…

it's kind of unbelievable that in 2025 the "instant messaging" problem is *less* solved than it was in 2010

Without raccoons, how would we know what kind of margarine our neighbors eat?

Wikipedia-Gründer Jimmy Wales: Warum Vertrauen Wissen schafft
Wer kennt sie nicht: die Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia mit ihren über 60 Millionen Beiträgen in über 300 Sprachen. Sie verspricht, neutral und objektiv das Wissen der Menschheit zu sammeln. Nicht alle glauben an das Versprechen. Elon Musk hat mit «Grokipedia» vor Kurzem ein Gegenprojekt lanciert.
📺

Wikipedia-Gründer Jimmy Wales: Warum Vertrauen Wissen schafft - Sternstunde Philosophie - Play SRF
Wer kennt sie nicht: die Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia mit ihren über 60 Millionen Beiträgen in über 300 Sprachen. Sie verspricht, neutral und objektiv das Wissen der Menschheit zu sammeln. Nicht alle glauben an das Versprechen. Elon Musk hat mit «Grokipedia» vor Kurzem ein Gegenprojekt lanciert. Jimmy Wales liebte schon als Kind Enzyklopädien – und er war ein Computernerd. Mit viel Wagemut, Know-how und «pathologischem Optimismus», wie der US-Amerikaner und Wahlbrite von sich sagt, …

Been playing with what kind of image to use in the fake window. Some beachy sunset as though looking out from a beach bar?
Maybe that's too lazy just based on the window blind I made a couple of years back. Will I sleep paranoid I'm being watched by Krux?

The joys of doing semiconductor lab work while getting over the tail end of some kind of respiratory bug: trying not to cough and yeet the sample you've been working on for two weeks across the lab

Getting a s***-ton of CSV files as input for spatial analysis can be a pain.
Yes, you can write a quick Python loop in the #QGIS console to load them but it's not a great workflow, imho.
The DuckDB read_csv function has been very convenient for this kind of ETL workflow:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Misty in Roots:
🎵 Man Kind
#MistyinRoots
https://open.spotify.com/track/2nXrbCG4XXr7AD2v3tTtxP

Warum unser Kind seit Jahren nur englische Bücher liest, Englisch-LK wählte, alle Geräte und Streaming-Dienste auf Englisch eingestellt sind, den Bildungsgutschein in x Kilogramm Bücher umwandelte und ihr Wortschatz unfassbar riesig ist?
Weil sie damals #Minecraft-Videos schauen wollte und es die nur auf Englisch gab.

Day 19 (a bit late): Alice Oseman
As I said I've got 14 authors to fit into two days. Probably just going to extend to 30? But Oseman gets this spot as an absolute legend of queer fiction in both novel & graphic novel form, and an excellent example of the many truths queer writers have to share with non-queer people that can make everyone's lives better. Her writing is very kind, despite in many instances dealing with some dark stuff.
I started out on Heartstopper, which is just so lovely and fun to read, and then made my way through several of her novels. The one I'll highlight here which I think it's her greatest triumph is "Loveless", which is semi-autobiographical and was at least my first (but no longer only) experience with the "platonic romance" sub-genre. It not only helped me work through some crufty internal doubts about aro/ace identities that I'd never really examined, but in the process helped improve my understanding of friendship, period. Heck, it's probably a nice novel for anyone questioning any sort of identity or dealing with loneliness, and it's just super-enjoyable as a story regardless of the philosophical value.
To cheat a bit more here on my author count, I recently read "Dear Wendy" by Ann Zhao, which shouts out "Loveless" and offers a more expository exploration of aro/ace identities, but "Loveless" is a book with more heart and better writing overall, including the neat plotting and great pacing. I think there are also parallels with Becky Albertalli's work, though I think I like Oseman slightly more. Certainly both excel at writing queer romance (and romance-adjacent) stuff with happy endings (#OwnVoices wins again with all three authors).
In any case, Oseman is excellent and if you're not up for reading a novel, Heartstopper is a graphic novel series that's easy to jump into and very kind to its adorable main characters.
I think I've now decided to continue to 30, which is a relief, so I'm tagging this (and the next post that rounds out 20) two ways.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen

The SAQ (Quebec's liquor monopoly) is doing a Spotify style year-end round-up this year. Some of it is a "fun" quiz. Zzzzz.
One of my questions was “did you buy more products from Canada or Sweden this year?”
Hanlon's Razor must have a corollary… right? I can't tell if this is AI slop or [a different kind of] incompetence.
(The SAQ carries 14 products from Sweden; 13 of which are different flavours of Absolut vodka. I did not purchase any of their prod…

Keine Beweise - Kind (6) zeigte Notzeichen: Freispruch für Iraker #News #Nachrichten

In a world with kings, our only agency is to beg “please, sir, be kind.”
#apple #BigTech

20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse. Can you help? Email paris AT paris.id.au (and read on for the details). ❤️ Here’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID. I am writing this as a desperate measure.

The best description of Brown University, from Bess Kalb. (And to be clear, the heirs and star's kids are invariably also in that carton.)
https://besskalb.substack.com/p/brown-america

Meine Schuld, weil ich auf der #Fahrbahn fuhr und nicht auf dem Gras.
Mit Blick auf das Kleinkind im Kindersitz habe ich gesagt, dass sie wahrscheinlich die am lautesten Schreiende wäre, würde jemand so an ihrem Kind vorbei fahren. Darum fährt sie es mit dem Auto, war die Antwort!

Rotisserie Chicken

kind of funny that emojis have only been around in Unicode for 15 years

I'm not sure why it took them this long to stand up against the administration. His attacks against churches, hospitals, and schools isn't new.
"'We are troubled by threats against the sanctity of houses of worship and the special nature of hospitals and schools,' the bishops said in a special message, the first of its kind in 12 years."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

RUDE

I don't post links like this often . . . but Nederland is the kind of town that deserves support.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/aid-nederland-shops-and-employees-postfire

Donate to Aid Nederland Shops and Employees Post-Fire, organized by Dan Vollmer
This go fund me is to help support the business owners and employees affected … Dan Vollmer needs your support for Aid Nederland Shops and Employees Post-Fire

Isn't AI a kind of tulip?

JD Vance just went on Foxnews and lied his face off
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPSP9_lkj6q/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Leigh McGowan on Instagram: "It’s actually kind of scary how easily these people lie…"
Get the facts straight on JD's Fox News interview and how it relates to the government shutdown. Understand the impact of the shutdown on healthcare benefits and why it's a topic of controversy. Learn more about the programs that provide healthcare to illegal aliens and how they're being affected by the shutdown.

Sonnet 134 - CXXXIV
So now I have confessed that he is thine,
And I my self am mortgaged to thy will,
Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine
Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:
But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
For thou art covetous, and he is kind;
He learned but surety-like to write for me,
Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.
The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
Thou usurer, that put'st forth …

I wonder if I can convince myself to run hass on a dedicated device instead of k8s. It would make it much saner for integrations like Shelly's CoIoT which perform better when they can connect directly to hass on a native non-http service port.
I'm kind of bummed mqtt has somewhat fallen out of favor as it's definitely very reliable for wifi devices that sometimes roam and reconnect.

heard a great firsthand terence mckennaism last night: "things seemed to be going along just fine. the stones came out with satanic majesties & the prospects for real psychedelic rock seemed limitless. and then the Band released music from big pink & everything seemed to go into reverse all at once." on one hand, lol. i dig big pink most days. but also kind of a mostly defensible position, especially taking into account the nonmusical backdrop of 1967-1968.

TIL Philippa Strache hat als Kind im Musikvideo von Falcos „Mutter, der Mann mit dem Koks ist da“ mitgespielt.

The one-of-a-kind Star Trek Deep Space Nine 2-hour documentary, "What We Left Behind" is available for FREE.
Beginning w/ Max "Rom" Grodénchik & Andy "Garek" Robinson, this's a must-see for any Star Trek fan.
▶️ What We Left Behind: Looking Back at #StarTrek #DS9

Scientists shocked as bumblebees learn to read simple “Morse code” #bee

Scientists shocked as bumblebees learn to read simple “Morse code”
In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to a sweet reward, demonstrating an unexpected sense of timing. This ability may stem from a fundamental neural process, suggesting that even tiny brains have complex time-tracking mechanisms relevant to evolution and AI.

Here's a photo that's a bit different from my usual style.
I took it with the tele lens on last weekend's hike. The inversion caused such a great sea of clouds with just some sole islands.
This kind of weather really offers such unique motives. And again: it was worth carrying the zoom lens up there :-D
Enjoy!
#photography

Interesting: I was unsure if I should buy a 2nd hand OLED computer monitor for a specific price and if I really should because it's some kind of luxury for a few hundred Euros.
So I asked ChatGPT for (1) estimating a fair price given all the relevant information about that and then (2) describing my situation and letting it generate a /- list (to check if I have overseen an aspect) and a recommendation for buy/not buy.
The result was fascinating to me. One of the better use-…

"chatbots over-rely on this kind of sensory-immaterial conjunction because[IT] impresses people passing superficially over a text--exactly the kind of fake-deep crowd-pleaser for which L.L.M. output is being fine-tuned."
(Original title: Will A.I. writing ever be good?)
https://maxread.substa…

Will A.I. writing ever be good?
Some notes on A.I. writing

The kind of inspiration I need in a gym

"... und wie man einen fahrradhelm richtig aufsetzt." 🤨
[gestern abend beim gassigehen gesehen.]

I keep thinking about working from a coffee shop... but what is the etiquette?
For example...
How much coffee and cake do I need to consume for every hour I am there?
Do I go for some kind of coffee crawl, moving from coffee shop to coffee shop, buying a drink from each one, staying for 30 mins or so?
I will be buzzing after the first couple of hours 😅
Co-working spaces are so very expensive... the one I used to go to didn't survive lockdown.

Erst war es nur ein Loch. Dann wurde es ernst ...
#TurtleStitch

Flicken Sticken
Problem My dachshunds chewed a hole in my jacket pocket. Not just an ordinary jacket, but a kind of Janker, a type of Bavarian traditional jacket, most...

A profile of Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, who has 19M followers on the platform, many of them young people, and drew nearly 50M viewers to a monthlong stream (Emmanuel Morgan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/arts/kai-cenat-twitch-streaming.html

How Kai Cenat Became a New Kind of Celebrity for Gen Z
With his boisterous antics, Cenat has gained 19 million Twitch followers and the attention of celebrities who covet that audience.

Just finished "Beasts Made of Night" by Tochi Onyebuchi...
Indirect CW for fantasy police state violence.
So I very much enjoyed Onyebuchi's "Riot Baby," and when I grabbed this at the library, I was certain it would be excellent. But having finished it, I'm not sure I like it that much overall?
The first maybe third is excellent, including the world-building, which is fascinating. I feel like Onyebuchi must have played "Shadow of the Colossus" at some point. Onyebuchi certainly does know how to make me care for his characters.
Some spoilers from here on out...
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I felt like it stumbles towards the middle, with Bo's reactions neither making sense in the immediate context, nor in retrospect by the end when we've learned more. Things are a bit floaty in the middle with an unclear picture of what exactly is going on politics-wise and what the motivations are. Here I think there were some nuances that didn't make it to the page, or perhaps I'm just a bit thick and not getting stuff I should be? More is of course revealed by the end, but I still wasn't satisfied with the explanations of things. For example, (spoilers) I don't feel I understand clearly what kind of power the army of aki was supposed to represent within the city? Perhaps necessary to wield the threat of offensive inisisia use? In that case, a single scene somewhere of Izu's faction deploying that tactic would have been helpful I think.
Then towards the end, for me things really started to jumble, with unclear motivations, revelations that didn't feel well-paced or -structured, and a finale where both the action & collapsing concerns felt stilted and disjointed. Particularly the mechanics/ethics of the most important death that set the finale in motion bothered me, and the unexplained mechanism by which that led to what came next? I can read a couple of possible interesting morals into the whole denouement, but didn't feel that any of them were sufficiently explored. Especially if we're supposed to see some personal failing in the protagonist's actions, I don't think it's made clear enough what that is, since I feel his reasons to reject each faction are pretty solid, and if we're meant to either pity or abjure his indecision, I don't think the message lands clearly enough.
There *is* a sequel, which honestly I wasn't sure of after the last page, and which I now very interested in. Beasts is Onyebuchi's debut, which maybe makes sense of me feeling that Riot Baby didn't have the same plotting issues. It also maybe means that Onyebuchi couldn't be sure a sequel would make it to publication in terms of setting up the ending.
Overall I really enjoyed at least 80% of this, but was expecting even better (especially politically) given Onyebuchi's other work, and I didn't feel like I found it.
#AmReading

Looks like the FCC is getting serious about robocalling? https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-415059A1.pdf
The subject line in the mailing list where I saw this is “For those of you who follow this kind of stuff” which turns out to mean that any knowledgeable discu…

I always find it kind of funny that I have to create a different Documents folder because every application decides it's a good practice to fill the official one with their crap.

Draymond Green kind of apologizes for calling Cowboys' Dak Prescott a 'bum' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/draymond-green-kind-of-apologizes-calling-dallas-cowboys-dak-prescott-bum

Heading to @SustainableBrands next week? It’s my favorite gathering for people reimagining business through purpose and profit.
Lately I’m hearing from execs who feel their sustainability work is plateauing—not for lack of heart, but because the system itself resists the kind of change we’re trying to create. What are _you_ noticing?
If that’s on your mind too, let’s grab 15 minutes at SB to trade notes. I promise you’ll walk away with at least one useful perspective you hadn’t c…

Man kann nicht mit Asterisk arbeiten und mit seinem Kind über Asterix reden. Das ist rein vom Denkprozess her nicht möglich.
Die Frage ist jetzt, wo mache ich den Bugreport auf?

We're all at home and doing fine, thanks for asking. (If you don't know what this is in reference to, don't worry.)
https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens/

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
WINDER, GA—In the hours following a violent rampage in Georgia in which a lone attacker killed at least four individuals and injured nine others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was […]

OK #forensics bubble ...
What do you think of a forensic software that doesn't support hash matching with deleted / recovered files and files in archives (OK.. the latter is a bug but still..) ... and cannot restore deleted video files (mp4 in this case) while a 2yr old installation of Autopsy can.....And yet charging several 1000$/€ a year, being kind of a market leader / monopol…

Get a shirt, get a hoodie, be cozy as the authoritarian impulse flails about desperate to push through and consolidate power.
And do it at a discount!
Will you buy a whole new wardrobe designed by me? Maybe.
Will @threadless@threads.net re-share this? I dunno.
Have I oddly made this post seem political? Yes I have!
Buy stuff here: htt…

First off - Skate Story looks like my kind of aesthetic game jam
https://youtu.be/hbQzl5ofo6U
Second off - helllloooo Blood Cultures

Theoretical guarantees for change localization using conformal p-values
Swapnaneel Bhattacharyya, Aaditya Ramdas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08749 https://a…

Theoretical guarantees for change localization using conformal p-values
Changepoint localization aims to provide confidence sets for a changepoint (if one exists). Existing methods either relying on strong parametric assumptions or providing only asymptotic guarantees or focusing on a particular kind of change(e.g., change in the mean) rather than the entire distributional change. A method (possibly the first) to achieve distribution-free changepoint localization with finite-sample validity was recently introduced by \cite{dandapanthula2025conformal}. However, whil…

The office tonight. Going direct, a bit of audio coming back at me from that wedge. Not as bad as the first time we played here, but still pretty far away from any kind of enjoyment

Aaron Glenn on if Justin Fields will remain Jets starter: 'What kind of question is that?' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6711066/2025/10/12/justin-fields-aaron-glenn-jets-starter-question/

“I think a lot of it is looking at the world today and realizing capitalism has just taken over, and it really is the thing that’s causing the most pain for people. I just wanted to really kind of drive that point in the game, in a kind of humorous, sarcastic way, that this capitalism is not good.”
Ron Gilbert about his latest game
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/after-40-years-of-adventure-games-ron-gilbert-pivots-to-outrunning-death/

On linear waves with memory in a Bessel-like medium
A. Giusti, I. Colombaro, A. Mentrelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11493 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11493…

On linear waves with memory in a Bessel-like medium
We discuss the propagation of harmonic and transient waves for systems governed by a wave equation with memory whose integral kernel involves ratios of modified Bessel functions of the first kind in the Laplace domain. In particular, the investigation of transient waves is carried out by means of a fully numerical approach based on the Talbot method for the numerical inversion of Laplace transforms.

Nic Chan tells a familiar story and hits on one of three lessons I’ve learned in this scenario:
1. No discounts (project fees are different);
2. Very clear and tight scope with full-price out-of-scope rates;
3. Some clients are just a poor fit.
https://indieweb.social/@NicMakesStuff

Wer als Kind Filme mit Hans Moser gesehen hat, braucht jetzt keine Untertitel beim #Tatort aus Wien

Our university library has one of the cooler archival fonds around: the Syd Bolton Collection. It's comprised of almost 14,000 video games and hundreds of consoles and systems, along with over 5,000 issues of game magazines, hundreds of books and literature, peripherals, and related technology, materials, and documents. It is one of the largest collections of its kind in the world and the largest known in Canada.

One baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied.
Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, wearing a plastic gas mask and flanked by Roman soldiers in tactical vests labeled “ICE.”
In another Chicago suburb, not far from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that has drawn protests over detentions, a sign at the manger outside the Urban Village Church says
“Due to ICE activit…

Church nativity displays on immigration draw praise, outrage in Illinois and Massachusetts
Nativity scenes at some churches are sparking fierce debates. At Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, the baby Jesus lies with zip-tied wrists in the kind of emergency blankets given ICE detainees. At St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, the manger sits empty, beneath a sign reading “ICE was here.” Supporters say Jesus, Mary and Joseph were refugees, comparing them to immigrant communities facing federal raids. Critics call the displays political and sacrilegious. The controver…

Chirurg gesteht Fehler - Prozess um Kind im OP: „Unglaublich respektlos!“ #News #Nachrichten

Shout out to #aerc which is the geekiest, most awesome, CLI-est email client out there. Pulls my email faster than Mac Mail and I can do almost everything with the keyboard. Yes, reading HTML mails in Lynx mode is wonky, but kind of adorable.
#email

RE: https://mastodon.social/@climatenewsnow/115538501664157040
climate solutions are often co-beneficial! Many people think that solving climate change will involve some kind of suffering as penance for our sins of harming our world but actually the…

Two Types of Natural Kind Discovery: Nobel Meets Kuhn
Samuel Schindler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09069 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09069

Two Types of Natural Kind Discovery: Nobel Meets Kuhn
Philosophers have spilled much ink over the discovery of ideas in the classical 'context of discovery'. However, there has been little engagement with the question of what constitutes a discovery of 'things in the world'. A much-overlooked answer to this question is provided by T.S. Kuhn. In this paper, I show that discoveries awarded with a Nobel Prize in Physics in the past 53 years accord with a basic premise of Kuhn's account and his distinction between two types of natural kind discoveries…

#EroticMusings Week 28—With erotic works, do you begin with the end in sight, or discover the finished work as you go?
I plot my fairytales, depending on
- is it an original (like "the queen's pleasure girl"?
- is it an erotic retelling/mash-up? (Like "the princess' frog")
- what kind of meta writing do I want to do around it?
My fairy…

Valley-dependent topological interface states in biased armchair nanoribbons in gapless graphene
Zheng-Han Huang, Jing-Yuan Lai, Yu-Shu G. Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05653 ht…

Valley-dependent topological interface states in biased armchair nanoribbons in gapless graphene
We investigate an electrical bias-controlled, topological kind discontinuity in valley polarization, in a two-segment armchair nanoribbon of gapless graphene, where the discontinuity is created at the interface by applying opposite in-plane, transverse electrical biases to the two segments. In particular, using an efficient tight-binding theoretical formulation, we explicitly obtain energy eigenvalues and probability distributions of discontinuity-induced, interface-confined electron eigenstate…

Want to try an imagine how difficult things could get for us in the EU? (Or elsewhere?) You dont even have to try hard.
If you are responsible for planning, running, maintaining or procuring IT infrastructure of any kind for any organisation, this is essential reading.
https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology/

Queen Jane on a step on the ladder in the barn that leads to the hay loft
#photo #photography #cats #barn

Netflix secured $59B in bridge financing from Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and HSBC for its WBD bid, one of the largest loans of its kind; Wells' share is $29.5B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/netfli…

Native language aside, I cannot imagine myself speaking like Rich Roll.
“ The opposite of anger. Gratitude. I mean, if anger is driven by a sense of righteousness at having been wronged in some level of victimhood that is kind of underscored with fear, gratitude is a sense of the universe being abundant and that life is made of good things and possibility.”

Trump family is inflicting a new kind of Saudi-style 'royalism' on the US: experts - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-corruption-family-wealth/

Jetzt wird Darth #Trump die Verhandlungsergebnisse im Nahostkrieg in die Luft sprengen und dafür dann dem #Nobelpreis Komitee die Schuld geben, weil sie ihm den Friedensnobelpreis nicht gegeben haben.
So wird er wohl reagieren, wie eben ein trotziges und verhaltensauffälliges Kind

An active Transverse Energy Filter based on microstructured Si-PIN diodes with an angular-selective detection efficiency
S. Schneidewind, K. Gauda, K. Bl\"umer, D. Bonaventura, C. G\"onner, V. Hannen, H. -W. Ortjohann, W. Pernice, L. P\"ollitsch, R. W. J. Salomon, M. Stappers, S. Wein, C. Weinheimer
https://arxiv.org/abs/251…

An active Transverse Energy Filter based on microstructured Si-PIN diodes with an angular-selective detection efficiency
Si-PIN detectors can be microstructured to achieve angular-selective particle detection capabilities, which we call active Transverse Energy Filter (aTEF). The microstructuring consists of a honeycomb structure of deep hexagonally-shaped holes with active silicon side walls, while the bottom of the holes is made insensitive to ionizing radiation. The motivation for this kind of detector arises from the need to distinguish background electrons from signal electrons in a spectrometer of MAC-E fil…

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Attached is a screenshot of a direct message that one of our Gaza Verified members got.
The mind boggles. What kind of lowlife targets people who are already facing famine and genocide to rob them of the money they need to survive?
In …

Apparently there’s another influx of new folks here, so I guess I should give my best tidbit of advice:
You have to really actively seek out people to follow here, much more than you’re used to — and until you do, this place will feel •dead•. Cool stuff isn’t just going to show up. You won’t get many helpful suggestions. No tech giant marketing dept is spending millions to draw you in. It’s going to be •work•. It’s kind of a drag, tbh.
But: your people are out there!! You just have work to seek them out, one account at a time.

“The housing crisis is primarily one of affordability rather than solely relating to supply and a range of measures are needed to address them.
“But allowing developers an even greater level of autonomy does nothing to deliver the kind of housing solutions needed by the majority of people affected. It just allows developers and landlords to increase their profits.”
Labour told ‘numbers game’ approach to housing targets is doomed to failure | Morning Star

"The skyscraper, the apotheosis of form following finance and function"
—Jenny Diski, LRB
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n15/jenny-diski/post-its-push-pins-pencils

Jenny Diski · Post-its, push pins, pencils: In the Stationery Cupboard
The secret beating heart of the dream office is the stationery cupboard, the ideal kind, the one that opens to enough...

Today in #BanCars / #FuckCars news. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/10

A Car Driver Ripped Off a Woman’s Leg in Broad Daylight - Streetsblog New York City
A Brooklyn driver drove onto a busy sidewalk in central Williamsburg and maimed a 33-year-old pedestrian. Why can't our officials prevent this kind of predictable incident?

Sonnet 105 - CV
Let not my love be called idolatry,
Nor my beloved as an idol show,
Since all alike my songs and praises be
To one, of one, still such, and ever so.
Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
Still constant in a wondrous excellence;
Therefore my verse to constancy confined,
One thing expressing, leaves out difference.
Fair, kind, and true, is all my argument,
Fair, kind, and true, varying to other words;
And in th…

Spent the day tinkering with trying to make #unnamedpopulartilingwindowmanager run in an Armbian VM on my mac with VirGL. Alacritty and kitty don't play nice with acceleration and software rendering has to be used.
Felt like kind of a waste of time, but I guess it was healthy to mess with desktop Linux for a change..

I found this charming: https://petapixel.com/2025/11/24/pope-francis-one-of-a-kind-leica-sold-for-nearly-100x-its-estimated-value/

Pope Francis' One-of-a-Kind Leica Sold for Nearly 100x Its Estimated Value
The camera and lens sold for about $7 million, one of the highest charitable results ever achieved by a Leica camera.

My local supermarket has no Hummus. I feel like some kind of line has been crossed 🤔

Germany's Federal Cartel Office opens an investigation into whether Temu is influencing the pricing of third-party merchants, potentially stifling competition (Mark Hallam/DW News)
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-investigating-temu-on-price-fixing-sus…

Germany investigating Temu on price-fixing suspicions
Germany's competition watchdog has announced an investigation of Chinese discount online retail site temu.com, suspecting it of influencing retailers' prices. The site is the fastest-growing of its kind in the world.

Einsatz im Kaufhaus - Beim Baby-Wickeln: Frau sticht auf Touristin ein #News #Nachrichten

The thing about "woke" is, the techbros don't use it to refer to political views.
They use it as a derogatory slur to refer to people who endeavor to be kind.
Imagine the horrors of someone being kind.

Zum Glück ist das Kind für diesen Wehrdienst-Bullshit knapp zu alt.

Experte rät zu sanftem #Smartphone-Einstieg
https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3324795/
Der Zukunftsforscher Horx meinte in einer ORF-Diskussion: wenn man einem Kind ein Smartphone gibt…

Finished "Lobizona" by Romina Garber. I have extremely mixed feelings about this book. It's a powerful depiction of the fear of living as an undocumented child/teen and it has interesting things to say about rejection, belonging, and the choice between seeking to be recognized for who you are and wanting you blend in enough to be accepted as normal. However, it's also an explicit homage to Harry Potter, and while it doesn't include antisemitic tropes or glorify slavery or even have any anti-trans sentiments I can detect, to me the magical school setup felt forced and I thought it would have been a better book had it not tried to fit that mould. Also, it would have been a super interesting situation to explore trans issues, and while it's definitely fine for it not to do that, the author's praise of Rowling's work has me wondering...
There's a sequel that I think could in theory be amazing, but given the execution of the first book, I think I'll wait a bit before checking it out. By putting her main character in opposition to both ICE in the human world and the magical authorities in the other world, Garber explicitly sets the stage for a revolution standing between her protagonist and any kind of lasting peace. But I'm not confident she's capable of writing that story without relying on some kind of supernatural deus ex machina, which would be disappointing to me, since "a better world if only possible through divine intervention" is an inherently regressive message.
Overall, #OwnVoices fantasy centering an undocumented immigrant is an excellent thing, and I've certainly got a lot of privilege that surely influences my criticism. However, #OwnVoices stuff has a range of levels of craft and political stances, and it can be excellent for some reasons and mediocre for others.
On that point, if anyone reading this has suggestions for fiction books grappling with borders and the carceral state, Is be happy to hear them.
#AmReading

$13 Tees Through September 29, 2025: #design

I always find it kind of funny that I have to create a different Documents folder because every application decides it's a good practice to fill the official one with their crap.

Kilauea putting on a show tonight. Live on YouTube if you like that kind of thing.

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
SHAD: Get hold of Command.
DASTOR: [On screen] Command. Yes?
SHAD: It's the harvest, sir. It's been good. Very good.
DASTOR: [On screen] And?
SHAD: Well, we're loaded and ready for lift-off, but, er...
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/201

I am really really TIRED of Democrats telling us what's happening as if we don't have eyes of our own. The only reason they exist at all is to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
I have yet to witness any Democrat calling people to arms in any way, advocating for any kind of or resistance, putting themselves out there as leaders around which we could rally.
Kamala is out on a book tour. @…

Megan Kelly on alleged war crimes:
"I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump & Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
#MAGA #megankelly

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No matter what you are going through, always try to help people.
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Instead of saying, "Fuck off", ask, "how can I help you to fuck off?" Be kind.
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B12 - The Keeper
AVON: True, but let us assume that the keeper of the secret is somewhere down there on the planet Goth, and that the keeper is a royal personage.
JENNA: Lurgen's brain print is on a thong around a chief's neck. That's what Docholli said.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/5

This computer is kind of interesting actually. The floppies are from a Mindset workstation (the rest isn't).
Here's a cool video on it (no, not the one from the 2-bit guy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmwa0xCSnU