Tootfinder

Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0ggkr2g77o

2024 TfL hack affected around 10 million people, BBC can reveal
TfL insists it has "kept customers informed throughout this incident and will continue to take all necessary action".

Enttäuschung für die Forschung: Asteroid 2024 YR₄ wird den Mond klar verfehlen
Der Asteroid 2024 YR₄ hat die Öffentlichkeit vor einem Jahr in Atem gehalten. Jetzt ist unerwartet früh klar, dass er auch für den Mond keine Gefahr darstellt.

All the president's mess -- In 2024, Donald Trump won back the White House in a landslide victory ... (Irie Sentner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2026/03/06/all-the-presidents-mess-00817081
http://www.memeorandum.com/260306/p87#a260306p87

Schon seit ein paar Wochen bin ich ein Album der Woche schuldig. Weil ich wegen anderer Dinge nicht so richtig Zeit fand zum bewussten Musikhören, rotierte »Really Good Terrible Things« von North Sea Echos (erschienen 2024) hier mehrere Wochen im Player. Alder/Matheos (früher Fates Warning) machen mal wieder ein eigenes Ding, sie haben sich dieses Mal aber der ruhigen Töne gewidmet. Mir zu langweilig. #rocknroll

Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft's Azure version of OpenAI models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-defense-department-ban-military-use-mic…

OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway
Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.

„Seamonster“ by Facet
Platform: Amiga
Released: 18 May 2024
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 2nd in the Decrunch 2024 Amiga Pixel GFX competition
#GFX_Facet #YR_2024 #PF_Amiga

Nachdem gestern noch ein paar Besorgungen zu erledigen waren, ist mein #Frostpendeln Endstand für die Saison 2025/26 bei 1026km und damit ganze 477km mehr als letzte Saison.
Schade, dass die heutige Radtour durch's #Furttal und

A look at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory, a startup hub where 300 businesses joined in 2025 vs. 250 in 2024; 17 unicorns have moved to Lisbon since hub's 2022 launch (Michael Dempsey/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5263ed8c-79dd-460a-b131-56a6fcefeb1e…

Portugal welcomes start-ups seeking scale
Hubs in Lisbon, Porto and Braga nurture new businesses as they look to expand

Sources: the legal team for Paramount President Jeff Shell has engaged in preliminary talks about a possible exit from the company, where he was hired in 2024 (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/jeff-shell-negotiating-exit-…

Jeff Shell Negotiating Exit From Paramount President
Jeff Shell's legal team is engaged in preliminary talks with Paramount Skydance on a possible exit from the media giant.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
cg8:
🎵 ahhhh!hhhh! (i don't wanna go) (6 Music Session, 17 Dec 2024)
#cg8

Nur ein komplett vertrottelter Kapitalist würde zu #Ostern die Preise senken und den Marktpreisvorteil weitergeben, selbst wenn er es aufgrund interner Umstände/Einkauf/Lagermix bereits könnte. 🤪
#Schokolade

Grüne: Urabstimmung zur Parteireform!
Ich habe mir angesehen, was konkret vorgeschlagen wird: https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/03/parteireform/

Parteireform?!
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen sind in den letzten Jahren enorm gewachsen - nicht ganz so stark wie englischen Grünen, die gefühlt gerade explodieren, aber immerhin: Zum 31.12.2024 waren es in Deutschland rd. 155.000 Grüne (+23% im Vergleich zum Vorjahr), zum 31.12.2025 waren es dann über 180.000 (erneut +18

"‘You Can’t Live Without Us’: How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels "
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

'You Can’t Live Without Us': How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels  
Four of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have spent the last four years systematically shifting away from climate-friendly advertising to push a new message: fossil fuels are here to stay, a report has found.  Campaign group Clean Creatives analysed 1,859 communications from BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron published between 2020 and 2024, spanning paid advertisements on Facebook, YouTube, […]

Lithuania says Russian military intelligence ordered 2024 attempted arson at factory supplying Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/lithuania-says-russian-military-intelligence.html

The Crab Nebula Revisited Using HST/WFC3: #CrabNebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-revisits-crab-nebula-to-track-25-years-of-expansion/ (color coded the expansion in two sections from 2000 to 2024).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Starburster (6 Music Session, 15 Jul 2024)
#FontainesDC
https://longdissonance.bandcamp.com/track/fontaines-d-c-starburster
https://open.spotify.com/track/09ttHg3ZNVgDlYBZa1ZBw0
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The people who actually decide elections aren’t in the base
— and they’re turning.
Political independents and soft partisans — voters Trump converted in 2024 to beat Harris — are more loosely attached to Trump and support his policies less.
When political conditions deteriorate for the GOP, it’s these voters who are the first to leave.
What MAGA elites think might matter to other elites (people who have dinner with Steve Bannon),
-- but when it comes to electi…

Forget the "MAGA split" on Iran. It's the independents and soft partisans that matter.
Plus, most "moderates" favor left-wing economic policies. Your weekly political data roundup for March 15, 2026.

Linear Memory (2024)
A prototype version of my piece Linear Memory running inside a https://thi.ng/genart-api sandbox on a Motorola phone, connected to a custom early prototype Layer square screen...
The animation consists of dozens of layers of semi-random multi-scale pixel patterns, slowly scrolling in…

#TIL die fünf häufigsten #nachnamen in der Gemeinde #Genève:
Einwohner: 209061
Anteil des häufigsten Nachnamens: 0,46%
Top-Nachnamen 2024:
Rang 1: da Silva (953)
Rang 2: Ferreira (630)

Seeing a lot of talk this morning about #JoeKent resigning from his post in the Trump admin.
As someone who lives in #WA3 where he ran for house rep in 2022 and 2024, I'm honestly not buying it.
I wouldn't be surprised if we learn later that the step down now,…

The Harvest: Canada’s MAID Program, Eugenics, and the Commodification of Despair
When a state administers death as a healthcare service and then discovers the dead have commercially valuable parts, the question is no longer about dignity. It is about inventory. Something has gone structurally wrong in Canada, and the evidence is no longer ambiguous. In 2024, 16,499 Canadians died through the country's Medical Assistance in Dying program, accounting for 5.1 percent of…

The Harvest: Canada’s MAID Program, Eugenics, and the Commodification of Despair | David Boles, Blogs
When a state administers death as a healthcare service and then discovers the dead have commercially valuable parts, the question is no longer about dignity. It is about inventory. Something has go…

So viel Entschädigung zahlte die Bahn 2025 an Reisende
Ist die Bahn verspätet, gibt es ab einer Stunde Wartezeit Entschädigung. 2025 zahlte die Bahn einen dreistelligen Millionenbetrag, aber weniger als 2024.
https:…

William Patrick Corgan Jr., conocido como Billy Corgam, el frontman y guitarrista de The Smashing Pumpkins, hoy cumple 59 años de edad.
La foto es de su presentación en Fauna Primavera el año 2024.
#BillyCorgan #CumpleañosRockero

Idly wondering if this time, the media will clearly identify "fossilflation" as the reason for higher prices for everything as we discussed with @… back in Ep. 221 in 2024 https://

[Episode #221] – Fossilflation | The Energy Transition Show
What causes inflation? And how is it connected to the energy transition?

@… This would be a question for @…, but since the talks from the previous edition are available (

@… This would be a question for @…, but since the talks from the previous edition are available (

📢 Merz mit 91,2 Prozent als CDU-Chef wiedergewählt
Der CDU-Parteitag hat den Parteivorsitzenden Friedrich Merz erneut zum Parteichef gewählt. Er erhielt 91,2 Prozent der gültigen Stimmen. Der Kanzler erzielte damit ein besseres Ergebnis als 2024.
➡️ https://www.

Merz mit 91,2 Prozent als CDU-Chef wiedergewählt
Der CDU-Parteitag hat den Parteivorsitzenden Friedrich Merz erneut zum Parteichef gewählt. Er erhielt 91,2 Prozent der gültigen Stimmen. Der Kanzler erzielte damit ein besseres Ergebnis als 2024.

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…

Translation: Kaspersky forced to cut staff in France as the Russian antivirus software company continues to pay the price for the collateral damage of the war in Ukraine. Revenue at its French subsidiary fell from nearly €30m in 2021 to €22.4m in 2024, and the workforce was reduced by a fifth.

Antivirus : le russe Kaspersky contraint de tailler dans ses effectifs en France
L’éditeur de logiciels continue de subir les effets de la guerre en Ukraine. Il a perdu de nombreux clients dans les administrations et les grandes entreprises.

I wrote https://jws.news/2024/hp-z4-g4-workstation/ two years ago about buying an old workstation off eBay to try running local LLM models. It didn't go as well as I had hoped, but between tariffs, hardware shortages, and my own lack of cash, I think that it is going to be another two years before I get to try again.

from my link log —
SIEVE is simpler than LRU.
https://cachemon.github.io/SIEVE-website/blog/2023/12/17/sieve-is-simpler-than-lru/
saved 2024-01-03

Na próxima terça-feira (17), o *Humanitas* recebe o neurocientista Miguel Nicolelis para a conferência:
“A Inteligência não é Artificial. Intenções humanas, extrativismo e o poder por tršs das mšquinas.”
💻 Na conversa, Nicolelis propõe um olhar crítico sobre o avanço da Inteligência Artificial e seus impactos sociais e ambientais. Em 2024, cerca de 300 bilhões de dólares foram investidos em empresas de IA, um crescimento que levanta questões urgentes sobre consumo de energia, šgu…

Evento
O Instituto Humanitas Unisinos - IHU - um órgão transdisciplinar da Unisinos, que visa apontar novas questões e buscar respostas para os desafios de nossa época. Parte da visão do humanismo social cristão, debatendo a sociedade do futuro.

I'm shocked, shocked, that waiving the transfer tax on downtown office to residential conversions did not result in a single such conversion happening.
Well, not that shocked. (The real point of March 2024 Prop C was the sneaky provision letting the SFBOS reduce the transfer tax altogether without an election. Not to produce housing but to cut downtown landlords' taxes.)

Privacy-focused MVNO Cape raised a $100M Series C at a $900M valuation, and says its revenue grew from $4.5M in 2024 to $37M in 2025 (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/19/ex-p…

This Ex-Palantir Exec Built A $900 Million Privacy-First Cell Network
Cape cofounder and CEO John Doyle is seeing rapid revenue growth for his cell network, which deletes call logs and doesn’t collect social security numbers like AT&T and Verizon do.

"February 2026 was Earth’s fifth-warmest February on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange
ht…

February 2026 was Earth’s fifth-warmest February on record
Despite the lack of a planet-warming El Niño event, global ocean temperatures were the second-warmest on record in February, behind only the El Niño year of 2024.

The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupted on Sunday,
sending lava fountains, ash and smoke into the air.
The US Geological Survey said it was the 42nd episode of lava fountains since the current series of intermittent eruptions began in December 2024.
The plume from the latest eruption reached more than 10,000 metres (35,000 feet), according to the National Weather Service

Assimilation of Ground and Satellite Magnetic Observations Unravels the Ionospheric, Magnetospheric, and Induced Fields During the May and October 2024 #GeomagneticStorms: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL116964 -> How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm? https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/CryoSat/How_does_an_ice_satellite_detect_a_geomagnetic_storm

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

Commanders land Oweh on 4-year, $100M deal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48155924/commanders-land-odafe-oweh-4-year-100m-deal-agents-say

Qualcomm says it plans to buy back another $20B worth of shares and is raising its quarterly cash dividend, after unveiling a $15B buyback in November 2024 (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-17…

POL-DH: --- Diepholz - Graffiti Verursacher ermittelt --- Diepholz (ots) - Die Polizei hat drei Heranwachsende als Verursacher von rund 30 Graffiti in Diepholz und Umgebung ermittelt. Im Laufe der letzten zwei Jahre (2024 und 2025) wurden in der Stadt Diepholz und der weiteren Umgebung (Barnstorf und ... https://www.pres…

Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu…

Artists From 75 Different Countries Made at Least $500,000 On Spotify Last Year
"The takeaway here is that music has become increasingly borderless," Spotify's Joe Hadley says of the company's latest loud and clear report released Wednesday

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

I like the idea of a low-cost MacBook, but when you can get a 2024 MacBook Air with an M3 and 16GB of memory for the same money, I don't know why more people don't just do that.

Berlin-based Upvest, which builds trading APIs for neobanks and retail lenders, raised $90M in equity, sources say at a $735M valuation, up from ~$413M in 2024 (Arno Schütze/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Lynks:
🎵 USE IT OR LOSE IT (6 Music Session, 20 Feb 2024)
#Lynks
https://lynkslynkslynks.bandcamp.com/track/use-it-or-lose-it-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/72YhBiqyf312dbifU3yHbx

Democrats watched with mouths agape this week as Latino voters,
many of whom have sat out previous primary seasons,
turned out in droves for James Talarico in Texas.
But the push to win back the elusive and swingy coalition that proved pivotal to Donald Trump’s 2024 victory goes way beyond the closely watched Lone Star State.
This is a story that kicked off last year as Democrats overperformed in Latino-dominant districts across Virginia and New Jersey.
It’s o…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

"Italy, Spain set solar records in March"
#Italy #Spain #SolarPower #Energy

Italy, Spain set solar records in March
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting finds the weekly average electricity price fell across most major European markets last week as gas prices dropped. Solar energy production increased in southern Europe, helping Portugal and Spain to record their lowest daily average prices since 2024 and 2013 respectively.

#Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) and #Galaxy NGC 55
Date: 11 02 2026 UT 18:39
Location: Farm Tivoli, #Namibia
Telescope: ASA Astrograph 12" f3.6
Camera: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro
Mount: ASA DDM 85
Exp.Time: LRGB 10/2/2/2 min.
Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1244930 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

I took this super closeup of the #asteroid 2024 YR4. 😉
OK OK. JK. 😜
This is a closeup of a "laddige" my wife and I received two days ago at #Udupi #Krishna Matha. The ridges are finger impressions when the "ball" was made. This particular ball had actually been offered to Krishna at the altar earlier that day, and we were #fortunate to receive it. 🙇‍♂️
About laddige: 👇
#food

An interview with CEO Tom Conrad about Sonos' new speakers, its first consumer product release since 2024, scrapping set-top box plans, app fiasco, and more (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The Psychedelic Furs:
🎵 The Ghost In You
#ThePsychedelicFurs
https://glennlimbaga.bandcamp.com/track/the-psychedelic-furs-the-ghost-in-you-glenn-limbaga-2024-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/04BQXS1HwzNpfZ2Wvw2RIy

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Wunderhorse:
🎵 Teal (live at Other Voices 2024)
#Wunderhorse
https://longdissonance.bandcamp.com/track/wunderhorse-teal
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jJvNlkbQmtRpG9uIUpiYA

#throwback to March 5, 2024, when I found this "crime-scene tape" at a #Goodwill store. 🧻
Maybe the real crime is that this precious item ended up at a Goodwill. 🤔
Or that I took this picture. Or that I'm making this post. 😵
#tbt #Thursday #throwbackThursday #gag #toiletPaper #humor