Tootfinder

Amnesty Internationalreports that portable, convenient electric shock devices made for law enforcement
-- like the GLOVE
-- can be, and have been, used for torture.
Once called weapons,
they’re now marketed as “humane”.
-- They are the former.
A prisoner in Kentucky died of a heart attack after 27 successive shocks, directly following 13 Taser hits.
ICE tactics, already sadistic,
are looking increasingly like torture.
The Geneva convent…

ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture
Plans for gloves that can deliver electric shocks underline the homeland security department’s sadistic practices

If nothing else, today I learnt that as a builder of digital public infrastructure for public good I'm helping create a 'dystopian hellscape' https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2078133895766114412.html
Thread also notable for saying the quiet part about FUD…

Thread by @deanwball on Thread Reader App
@deanwball: Some observations on Kimi: 1. It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that. In agentic coding sessions, it seems pretty much on par wi...…

Nån som vet? Kikar på en sak på tradera och ser att samma person toppar sitt tidigare bud flera gånger om utan att nån budar emellan. Nåt skumt eller händer det normalt? #tradera

After working in the NT in the lat 80s, early 90s, I thought I'd covered every crazy story about the local politicians. ( My favourites were the MP who punched another fan while at the footy, and the Mines and Energy minister drinking water from the Ranger tailings dam to prove uranium was safe.)
I didn't expect them to keep electing crazy people in the 21st century.
"NT minister claims Earth’s magnetic poles could flip if territory doesn’t use more groundwater&quot…

NT minister claims Earth’s magnetic poles could flip if territory doesn’t use more groundwater
Business minister Robyn Cahill wants to make NT ‘datacentre capital of the globe’, but Environment Centre says scientific claim is ‘completely cooked’

The Guardian plans to make NAZA available for free on its website after the documentary completes its theatrical run, which starts September 28 (Melanie Goodfellow/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/guardian-naza-for-free-website-theatrical-1237112321/

The Guardian To Offer ‘NAZA’ For Free On Website After Theatrical Run & Is Exploring Ways To Show Doc In Israel & Palestinian Territories
Guardian To Offer Bombshell Doc ‘NAZA’ For Free On Website After Theatrical Run & Is Exploring Ways To Show Film In Israel & Palestinian Territories

A look at China's push to catch up with US AI chips; sources: its Vice Premier warned AI companies that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-ai-chips-ra…

Great blog, "Each Day The US Weakens Itself" https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-update-20-each-day-the-us?r=1tgexa&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

Midweek Update #20: Each Day The US Weakens Itself
What It Means For US-China Relations

Two years after its completion (after 17 years of construction, 2007-2024), France's new nuclear power plant Flamanville 3 will shut down for a year starting this coming Saturday. This to replace its faulty reactor lid and for a major first inspection.

Nucléaire : l'EPR de Flamanville à l'arrêt samedi pour sa première inspection approfondie
L'EPR de Flamanville (Manche) va être mis à l'arrêt pour près d'un an à partir de samedi pour sa première visite complète, qui se traduira pour EDF par des milliers d'opérations dont certaines d'envergure, notamment le remplacement du couvercle de cuve du réacteur.

Hello #Yukon, this is likely the first ever #racketlon tournament in the territory!
August 29&30, singles and doubles, youth and adult, at the Canada Games Centre in #whitehorse
To ke…

"Lebendig begraben" https://www.nordkurier.de/regional/uckermark/lebendig-begraben-dreifache-mutter-erleidet-jahrelange-tortur-wegen-mysterioeser-einschulung-4868947

„Lebendig begraben“: Dreifache Mutter erleidet jahrelange Tortur wegen mysteriöser Krankheit
Eine Mutter erzählt, wie ME/CFS ihr Leben ausbremste und sie dennoch zurückfand. Ihr leiser Neuanfang beginnt fern der Familie – in einem abgedunkelten Zimmer auf dem Land.