Tootfinder

JD.com launches online marketplace Joybuy in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, as it expands globally to challenge Amazon (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/jdcom-launches-joyb…

'Mass obstruction' — Draft officers injured in Odesa following confrontation with 'civilian group': https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/16/mass-obstruction-draft-officers-injured.html

#SmallWinButItsAllIGot I opened this packaging with my bare hands, clearly I am ready to take on a grizzly bear.
(I bent it in half across the top, then flexed it back and forth as fast as I could, thinking that if I could put enough heat into the bend it would weaken the plastic. I don't know if I generated that much heat. But it did weaken.)

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Every once in a while i hear people talking about work conferences as like mysterious worlds where everyone is a stranger they'll never meet again and I have to wonder just how large their industry is.
Like when I go to HARRIS I know all of the grad students who run the event, the professor leading the research group, I'm expecting to see some of the same vendor sales reps, the same teams from the same European government agencies, etc. The keynote speaker is a former college h…

OpenAI hat mit ChatGPT Translate jetzt einen eigenen Übersetzungsdienst
ChatGPT Translate ist ein separater Übersetzer für mehr als 50 Sprachen. Die KI bietet an verschiedene Zielgruppen angepasste Übersetzungen, etwa für Kinder.

Ich habe es nun geschafft, die absolut furchtbar zusammengewürfelten Informationen zu erytanischen Neujahrsbräuchen mal zu sortieren, die Stichpunkte zu Fließtext zu schreiben und das Ganze überhaupt in eine Form zu bringen, in der ich damit arbeiten kann.
http://junetm.bplaced.net/dokuwiki/do

In the end, the Guide concluded that Sol-3 was another datapoint in resolving the Fermi Paradox, revising the Drake Equation L down further.
Ford's notes read "mostly harmless" but Arthur found a Dick's Burgers napkin in a glovebox, with a scribbled note saying "the self-fulfilling DFPC is a particularly nasty bug."
"What's DFPC?", Arthur asked.
"Dark Forest Pareidolaic Collapse", said Zaphod.
"We see faces in t…

Today in the drizzle I stopped by the Living Library, a beautiful native plant garden near SF's Balboa Park at the San Jose/Seneca intersection. Highly recommend a visit to see some #ceanothus in bloom and California poppies and island mallows beginning to, and much more.

YouTube revises policy to allow full monetization of nongraphic videos on sensitive issues including abortion, self-harm, suicide, and domestic and sexual abuse (Sam Gutelle/Tubefilter)
https://www.tubefilter.com/2026/01/15/youtube-sensitive…

YouTube removes the guesswork by expanding monetization for controversial content - Tubefilter
YouTube is allowing creators to more effectively monetize videos that touch upon sensitive subjects like abortion and domestic abuse.

Professor David Bowman said that,
because many of the fires in Australia this month appear to have burnt rapidly through grassland,
it made for difficult firefighting conditions.
“You can’t fight these things in the same way you fight a forest fire
because they’re travelling so quickly with high winds.
Everything you’re trying to do was being controlled by the wind,” he said.
Professor Bowman said, if heatwave conditions continued in Victoria,
the e…

Hundreds of satellite images capture Victoria's destructive bushfires erupting
Hundreds of images captured by an orbiting weather satellite, and stitched together by the ABC, show the scale and destructive force of the Victorian bushfires.

Trump eyes "Hormuz Coalition," seizure of Iran's Kharg Island oil hub (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/16/trump-iran-hormuz-strait-kharg-island
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p68#a260315p68

(un groupe désigné terroriste aux USA)
LOL

RE: https://mastodon.art/@weirdsatellite/116236345822822852
My base of operations!! 🙀🥗

i will find this ASU frat leader leader fella

The AEK is the best keyboard…
…for cats to sleep on.
#Marchintosh

1988: "It exceeds 640K."
1990: "It supports 32-bit & a GUI."
1992: "It delivers true multitasking."
1995: "It's client-server based."
1997: "It's connected to the Internet."
2004: "It's a thin client."
2008: "It's mobile-enabled."
2010: "It's container deployable."
2014: "It's powered by the cloud."
2025: "It's AI-powered.…

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/116232834837623434
“The researchers suspect that Glassworm—the name they assigned to the attack group—is using LLMs to generate these convincingly legitimate-appearing packages. “At the scale we’re now seeing, man…

RE: https://furry.engineer/@Jencen/116230174130792389
Ok you guys I just found out about a thing called the Eurobox and now I'm really upset that we don't have them over here in North America.
Modularized, standardized, stackable totes.

A buddy messaged me earlier today saying that he had been stuck at ORD for 30 hours with his extended family.

Ich fürchte, jeder Kommentar würde im Verfassungsschutzbericht landen.
Erste Ölkonzerne melden sprudelnde Gewinne
https://ard.social/@tagesschau/116403111389468134

🥱¼🥱
mrrrgnnn tootles 🖖 fedizens
☕☕(☕)

おはようございます（やることが多い）

https://pixelfed.social/p/IceClimate/917562328858243801
Good night all...

Somewhere between pacifism that is just passivism and starting a pyrrhic hot war that only entrenches authoritarianism, there’s some kind of jiu jitsu here that is active and forceful resistance, but uses the regime’s own force against them.
I do not pretend to know what exactly that is. I do believe that a diversity of tactics is important — and that we’re all going to have to accept the work of holding ourselves together as a resistance even as people choose very different tactics we’re not comfortable with ourselves.

The 2026 January Jicker is the first of three indoor track meets at Cornell's Barton Hall which are a great escape from cabin fever
#photo #photography #running

I’ve been testing 3d-printed whistle variations; preparing a batch for drop-off to some local helpers for distribution.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Yazoo:
🎵 Situation
#Yazoo
https://knightdavis.bandcamp.com/track/yazoo-situation-knight-davis-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6b9dCj2PyHsVs2CDl1RsiK

Ich sehe manchmal so Videos wo Menschn hinweisen, sei es nun hier in Deutschland, aber auch so Länder wie Bali oder sonst wo.
Nim frage ich mich, wie lönnen wir Körperbehinderte da hinkommen und vorallem geniessen, das stelle ich mir sehr sehr schwer vor.

I ran the desktop script that's to be integrated with FreeBSD Installer.
Unfortunately: kde is currently not packaged for FreeBSD:15:latest on ARM64, so a change to quarterly was required.
The script installed two packages from quarterly (alongside previously installed packages from latest):
― lang/lua54
― multimedia/wireplumber
The issue with SDDM persists.
I reverted to latest. pkg-upgrade(8) in progress …
Testing is painfully slow in emulation…

It feels like the open source world is fracturing. It used to be if we wanted alternatives to commercial software we could look to open source, but so much of open source software today is using AI.
Sure, some maintainers are saying "I only use it to speed things up, I still review all code before it gets added." but for lots of folks that's not good enough, and they draw a hard line at the use of any AI.
Are we looking at "open source" versus "open …

President Trump accuses Iran of using AI as a "disinformation weapon" to make fake images of wartime successes against the US, saying "AI can be very dangerous" (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Who called the little jump things dolphins do "porpoising" and not "dolphing"

Ukraine and Russia in the Epstein files | Ukraine This Week: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/ukraine-and-russia-in-the.html

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Überwachung weltweit: Bundesregierung winkt UN-Cybercrime-Konvention durch

Micron completes the $1.8B acquisition of Powerchip's DRAM fab in Taiwan, and plans a second fab of similar scale with construction starting by the end of FY26 (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Sources: President Trump is increasingly taking journalists' calls himself, as his personal phone number circulates and is offered for sale to rich individuals (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/

Everyone Has Trump’s Phone Number Now
The president’s personal iPhone has been lighting up.

Punch a Nazi.

Reject Teams, return to PictoChat

Free topic for you #retrocomputing YouTubers, the Zoomed Video Port.
Didn’t find videos about it in my admittedly cursory search.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoomed_video_port

Radio Free Asia to resume Korean broadcasts to reach North (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/radio-free-asia-resume-korean-broadcasts-reach-north-2026-01-16/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p149#a260115p149

Noah Wyle DGAF & mocks MAGA lunatics with a flamethrower of a parody on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
#noahwyle #maga #trump

I got Nabuchadanazar. It's fun.
Remind me of the good ol' Caesar 3

Unterdessen 20 Min auf die S-Bahn wartend. Während CDUCSUSPD Geld Richtung Unternehmen verschieben und alles verrotten lassen.
Danke, Markt. Danke, Liberalismus.

This poses a vexing problem for resistance: a direct force-on-force assault against ICE by small groups of citizens is foolish…but holding signs and waiting for the next election sure as hell ain’t gonna cut it either.
We have to find ways to fight back on the streets — but it has to look good on TikTok and on the news and to members of Congress and judges and the gaze of the whole world. Cameras and whistles are a start, but it can’t stop there. All this is not just going away on its own.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Dark Chisme:
🎵 Dominance of Truth
#DarkChisme
https://darkchisme.bandcamp.com/track/dominance-of-truth
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DEAiZgyJjH5jEIw1oW3qw

I just started using the arduino-cli but I can't find a way to specify which USB stack to use.
I may have a workaround. I am thinking I can uninstall the stack I do not want it to use, but that seems like a silly hack.
#arduino #maker

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest cinematic fever dream,
"One Battle After Another,"
has transformed beloved Central Coast landmark La Purisma Mission into a revolutionary hideout.
Who could have predicted that the same historic site where we once ate sack lunches with the burros would someday host Leonardo DiCaprio sprinting from the authorities?
Life truly comes at you fast.
The plot? Buckle up.
We've got a far-left activist group called Fren…

My dryer is gaslighting me and it's not even gas powered, it's an electric heat pump dryer (edit: actually the washer is doing this not the dryer)
But i've been sitting down here for at least thirteen minutes watching the 7-segment display saying 0:01 remaining.

The "MUNICH" effect! Zelenskyy and Rubio have found a way to counter Putin and his energy blackmail: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/the-ampquotmunichampquot-effect-zelenskyy-and.html

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Analyse: KI-Modelle auch als Gruppe weniger kreativ als viele Menschen

X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/397470/x-rolls-out-cashtags

Die Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung hat jedes Bild veröffentlicht das Leute in einer Fotobox aufgenommen haben auf dem Opernball zum Valentinstag. Ein schlechter Tag um Affären zu haben 😂

You didn't give me what I wanted when I meowed...

The Ides of MarchIntosh
#Marchintosh

Live updates: Trump meets with Venezuelan opposition leader (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-1-15-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p136#a260115p136

I think the whole wretched crew of the Trump regime are astonished about this too. They’ve been doing everything they possibly can to get somebody, anybody to shoot an ICE agent, whether in rage or well-justified self-defense. They’re desperate for it.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Flyying Colours:
🎵 Goodtimes
#FlyyingColours
https://flyyingcolours.bandcamp.com/track/goodtimes-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/5OK5Ayd5kjcfXO7bM8HVYI

Mr Nobody Against Putin is an Oscar-winning documentary that tells the story of Pavel “Pasha” Talankin,
a primary school teacher and videographer who becomes an international whistleblower.
After being reluctantly drawn into Putin’s propaganda machine, he starts documenting how ordinary Russians are indoctrinated with pro-war messages and recruited for the war.
We speak to Talankin and the film’s co-director, David Borenstein.

“Mr Nobody Against Putin”: Oscar-Nominated Film on Russian Teacher Who Takes on State Propaganda
Mr Nobody Against Putin is an Oscar-nominated documentary that tells the story of Pavel “Pasha” Talankin, a primary school teacher and videographer who becomes an international whistleblower. After being reluctantly drawn into Putin’s propaganda machine, he starts documenting how ordinary Russians are indoctrinated with pro-war messages and recruited for the war.

Q&A with Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on accidents, why autonomous vehicles won't lead to job losses, plans to license Waymo tech to other companies, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/business/waymo-ceo-robotaxi.html

Waymo Co-CEO Tries to Make a Case for the Safety of Driverless Cars
Waymo’s co-chief executive, Tekedra Mawakana, knows she needs to earn the public’s trust. It won’t be easy.

nein, ich bin nicht single, ich habe nach analyse des marktes lediglich beschlossen das ein spekulativer leerstand lukrativer ist

Post something red

Top Senator Accused of Druggy Affair With Married Bodyguard (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-senator-accused-of-druggy-affair-with-married-bodyguard/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p156#a260115p156

What @… says here — and it’s so reasonable, right? — is why I’m just astonished that nobody’s shot an ICE agent yet.
https://mastodon.social/@tropicalchaos/115902444835685276

Standard Kernel, which is making AI-powered GPU optimization software, raised a $20M seed led by Jump Capital, with General Catalyst and others participating (Clinton Nwachukwu/Ventureburn)
https://ventureburn.com/standard-kernel-raises-20m/

Standard Kernel Raises $20M to Automate GPU Software Optimisation
Standard Kernel Raises $20M to automate GPU kernel generation, maximising performance and efficiency across AI workloads.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mitski:
🎵 Where’s My Phone?
#Mitski
https://mitski.bandcamp.com/track/where-s-my-phone
https://open.spotify.com/track/4BUDJShvKNRbrgylxri5tI

“Just run the LLM locally”
On your PC that costs $30,000

All that stuff in the previous post is what makes an arrest an •arrest•. ICE isn’t conducting arrests. They’re conducting abductions.

Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-meta…

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
Meta is discontinuing Horizon Workrooms and Meta Horizon managed services, amidst its many VR layoffs.

I'm wondering who the people are who plan, design, oversee construction of and finally manage these abominations.
When they get up in the morning, what are they asking themselves? What do they wish for? Who hurt them?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jesse Welles:
🎵 Shirley Not
#JesseWelles

Say what you will about state violence, but •orderly• state violence — an officer with a face and a badge, Miranda rights, an orderly booking, the constitutional phone call, the jail roster, the habeas corpus petition, a trial, a system, a process, maybe once in a blue moon consequences for officers’ most egregious abuses — is infinitely preferable to what ICE is now: a secret police with blanket immunity.

Once again “cold messaging” eBay seller about a listing that didn’t have “make offer” worked out, I got 40% off

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Light of the World:
🎵 Painted Lady
#LightoftheWorld
https://open.spotify.com/track/117gT0pzRNpqaC78xpHFLd

One of the many, many, many horrible things about what ICE is doing is that now any group of white men in tactical gear with an SUV can attack, beat up, and kidnap any random person — and nobody will stop them, because who knows, they •might• be ICE, and you can’t obstruct federal agents, now, can you?? https://pdx.social/@portlandmercury/115901949802924271

Widespread chatbots are perhaps the ultimate expression of the ruling class to prevent the plebs from waking up.
A holodeck for the mind, holding you captive.
A Matrix pod to keep you subdued.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
The New York Community Choir:
🎵 Rejoice, Rejoice
#TheNewYorkCommunityChoir
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ky8lIbWxEwZW5kAa2kZCO
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to $17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/funding-picked-up-ai-led-europe-q1-2026/

AI Drives Europe’s Second Straight Quarter Of Funding Gain As Deal Volume Falls Sharply
European venture funding reached $17.6 billion  in Q1 2026, Crunchbase data shows. That’s up nearly 30% year over year and marks the second consecutive quarter of growth. The main driver was AI, which for the first time claimed more than 50% of the continent’s total funding for the quarter.

…and ICE are killers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/15/ice-detention-death-homicide/

Often thinking about this https://youtu.be/eywi0h_Y5_U

Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access "certain capabilities" (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/364509/claude-anthropic-government-id-kyc-privacy

You Switched to Claude Over Surveillance Fears. Now It Wants Your Passport
Anthropic quietly rolled out government ID and selfie verification for Claude—a first among major AI chatbots, and a peculiar pivot for a company whose privacy stance just drove a record wave of users away from ChatGPT.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Tone B. Nimble:
🎵 Hallelujah
#ToneBNimble

ICE are racists…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/aclu-lawsuit-ice-minnesota-trump

A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; they generated $122M in revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/apple…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Bug Club:
🎵 Quality Pints
#TheBugClub
https://thebugclub.bandcamp.com/track/quality-pints
https://open.spotify.com/track/4BPwhKpHKpEjQh9HCCV0EP

You should consider watching retro Oscars!
Better movies, also a few months later you could have gone and bought an Apple I from Byte Shop in Mountain View.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8RjvesnvDPydq4p8oTiYNgA0sGA4YYX&si=ALw6_scEyhV_PGZ2

A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs who keep a low profile, with fortunes entwined with China's push for tech independence (Bloomberg)

Sources: Trump and several state governors agree to direct grid operator PJM to hold an auction for tech companies to fund new power plants due to AI demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/trump-…

YouTube revises policy to allow full monetization of nongraphic videos on sensitive issues including abortion, self-harm, suicide, and domestic and sexual abuse (Sam Gutelle/Tubefilter)
https://www.tubefilter.com/2026/01/15/youtube-sensitive…

YouTube removes the guesswork by expanding monetization for controversial content - Tubefilter
YouTube is allowing creators to more effectively monetize videos that touch upon sensitive subjects like abortion and domestic abuse.

Sources: Thinking Machines lacks a clear product or business strategy and has been struggling over the last couple of months to raise a new round of financing (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/thinking-machines-is-nothing-without

Thinking Machines is nothing without its people
More Thinking Machines employees are in talks to join OpenAI. Also: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on ACCESS and the Sources Live @ Davos lineup.

Total global VC funding to fintech startups totaled $51.8B in 2025, up 27% YoY and above pre-pandemic totals, but much lower than 2021's peak of $141.6B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/fintech/funding-jumped-big-checks-ai-ye-2025/<…

Fintech Funding Jumped 27% In 2025 With Fewer Deals But Bigger Checks
Global venture funding to fintech startups climbed in 2025 to its highest level in several quarters, boosted by later-stage deals, Crunchbase data shows.

Ashley St. Clair, mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sues xAI, alleging Grok refused to stop making sexualized deepfakes of her, amid custody disputes (Peter Senzamici/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/15/us-news/elon-musks-baby-…

Elon Musk’s baby mama Ashley St. Clair sues X for AI sex deepfakes: 'like this nightmare will never stop'
Elon Musk baby mama Ashley St. Clair is suing his AI platform, Grok, for refusing to stop making sexually explicit deepfake images of her — including phony pictures of her as a nude child — and the…

Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code (Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-security-worries-force-company-t…

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source
Cal is moving its flagship open-source program to a proprietary model because it can't cope with the dangers of AI hacking its open code.

Recovered notes from a lobbyist's phone outline a $5M payment structure tied to Argentine President Milei and other top officials' promotion of the Libra token (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/393639/probe-

A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/04/15/teens-exper…

Teens’ Experiences on TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat | Pew Research Center
About this research This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on social media and how the views and…

Pillar, which helps businesses driven by commodities, like metals, manage financial risk, raised a $20M seed led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $23M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/fina

Financial risk management platform Pillar raises $20M seed in round led by a16z | TechCrunch
Pillar's investors include a16z, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Crucible Capital and Gallery Ventures.

Sources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-s…

ByteDance Suspends Launch of Video AI Model After Copyright Disputes With Hollywood
ByteDance has put on hold the global launch of its latest video-generation model, Seedance 2.0, due to a string of copyright disputes with major Hollywood studios and streaming platforms, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. The TikTok parent released Seedance 2.0 to ...