Tootfinder

In case anyone wants to know what mosquito buckets are: https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/

I really should get back into #astrophotography this year. Last year was marred by both bad weather and brainfog. Here's an image from 2024.

The volume (parts 1 and 2) the paper appeared in has a lot of interesting contributions on writing systems, including Donald Knuth's remarks on the grapholinguistic model of TeX (start of Part 2).
https://doi.org/10.36824/2024-graf1
https://doi.org/10.36824/2024-graf2

75 years ago the Soviet #SpaceDogs Dezik and Tsygan became the first vertebrates to survive a spaceflight, if only a suborbital one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezik_and_Tsygan (and see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/06/11/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-11-juni-2024/ for the first vertebrate to reach space but didn't make it back alive two years earlier).

"Wissen im Netzwerk: Praxisrelevante Ansätze zur Überführung von Forschungsdaten digitaler Editionen in Knowledge Graphs": Masterarbeit von Simone Franz am @… 2024
https://doi.org/10.18452/38321

I updated “Don’t Disable Form Controls” with a suggestion on what to do with submit buttons:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/02/dont-disable-form-controls.html#SubmitInstead
And no, making them read-only is not it, so don’t:

Don’t Disable Form Controls
Just another usability and accessibility pro telling authors not to do the thing they continue to do. It’s Ok to Disable Buttons There are plenty of cases where you want to disable a button until a user takes a conscious action to enable it, such as when launching nuclear missiles.…

The survey for the #ECB's banknote designs survey has a link to #Bluesky (ecb.europa.eu) which is on #WSocial.
They can't even bring themselves to label it "W" and just have it as BlueSky. 😂

Wettbewerbsverfahren: Apple beginnt Gespräche mit US-Justizministerium
Es geht um Apples iPhone-Ökosystem: 2024 reichte das Department of Justice Klage ein. Nun gibt es Bestrebungen zu einer Einigung – mit ungewissem Ausgang.

Wettbewerbsverfahren: Apple beginnt Gespräche mit US-Justizministerium
Es geht um Apples iPhone-Ökosystem: 2024 reichte das Department of Justice Klage ein. Nun gibt es Bestrebungen zu einer Einigung – mit ungewissem Ausgang.

« Target Israel and we will target you » ~ twelve republican senators including Rubio 2024
« If you move forward with the measures indicated in the report, we will move to end all American support for the ICC, sanction your employees and associates, and bar you and your families from the United States. You have been warned. »

Fruits Of Labor (Of Love)
(A 10x8" silver chloride print I made last night of a scene captured in the Bernina Range in 2024, which reminded me of 18th century landscape painting...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: Update wertet PS-VR2-Grafik merklich auf
Die neueste Beta von Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 beschert der Playstation-VR2-Version einen Qualitätssprung, den in dieser Form niemand erwartet hätte.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: Update wertet PS-VR2-Grafik merklich auf
Die neueste Beta von Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 beschert der Playstation-VR2-Version einen Qualitätssprung, den in dieser Form niemand erwartet hätte.

Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions
have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year,
driven largely by datacentre construction.
In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted
119m mTCO₂e (metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent),
or about a third of those of France.
The previous year, they emitted roughly 101m mTCO₂e,
roughly equivalent to the 2024 emissions of Czechia.
The US companies’ cl…

Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France
Microsoft, Amazon and Google say they still aim to achieve net zero output despite construction boom

Two Scattered Spider members who pleaded guilty in the UK to an August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London are jailed for five and a half years (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyg0y6yg2o

Teen hackers jailed after live streaming cyber attack on TfL
Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair were convicted for their roles in the attack, which led to large costs for Transport for London.

In 2024 I emailed my local MPP because I thought his hotel expenses were fishy. His office responded to me that I was "singling him out" and that all Toronto MPP were doing the same.
Today, my MPP is resigning from his Minister position
Good riddance Stan
https://www.…

Der https://unfallatlas.statistikportal.de/ enthält jetzt auch die Daten von 2025. Wie immer belegen die Zahlen den Erfolg der "Vision Zero Fortschritt" der Petrolköpfe und Auto-Ideologen. Schwerverletzte leicht Rückläufig, Tote und Leichtverletzte gehen weiter rauf. Der Straßenterror bleibt …

Exclusive: Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google | Reuters
<https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-content-licensing-deal-with-google-sources-say-2024-02-22/> | <

Got my Phlegmesis tapes in from Iron Fortress! They were on sale and I couldn't resist. 'The New Wave of Rotten Fornication' was of course one of my top 20 albums of 2024, and even the Phlegmesis LEFTOVERS are sick.
Here's New Wave if you wanna hear it: https://phlegmesis.bandcamp…

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…

Er is een opvangcrisis, geen asiel/migratiecrisis,
Migratiesaldo gedaald tot onder de 100.000, het laagste punt sinds 2020 - #opvangcrisis

Migratiesaldo gedaald tot onder de 100.000, het laagste punt sinds 2020
Het aantal eerste asielaanvragen daalde vorig met een kwart ten opzichte van 2024.

from my link log —
CO2 helps viruses stay alive longer in the air.
https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/04/co2-ventilation-research-virus-airborne-life-haddrell-celebs/
saved 2026-07-06

A new discovery about carbon dioxide is challenging decades-old ventilation doctrine
CO2 is a good proxy for how much exhaled — and potentially infectious — air is in a room. New research suggests the more CO2 there is, the more virus-friendly the air becomes.

June 2026 was the second-warmest June on record globally, 0.12°C cooler than the warmest June in 2024.
The average global temperature for the last 12 months (July 2025 to June 2026) was 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average, and 1.43°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.

Did "vibe coding" used to mean something else, before the prevalence of stochastic bullshit machine emitting code-shaped text vomit? I have a vague memory of it involving /fun/ before 2024.
#fuckai #vibecoding #askfedi

Viidelle syytteet: Syyttäjä vaatii kahta miljoonaa euroa Suomussalmen raakkutuhoista #Suomussalmi

Viidelle syytteet: Syyttäjä vaatii kahta miljoonaa euroa Suomussalmen raakkutuhoista
Raakkutuho paljastui Suomussalmen Hukkajoella elokuussa 2024, kun rauhoitettujen jokihelmisimpukoiden päältä oli ajettu metsätyökoneella toistuvasti.

Cowboys believe they have a 'secret formula' to improve their pass rush https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7428658/2026/07/08/cowboys-pass-rush-defense-formula/

Kamala Harris wants the DNC to release its autopsy report of the 2024 campaign (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-election/kamala-harris-dnc-release-autopsy-report-2024-campaign-rcna343453
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p4#a260507p4

NFL players who attended Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding, plus a 2024 redraft and the NFL's top duos

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/taylor-swift-travis…

"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html

Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets.html

Apple sues OpenAI alleging trade secret theft, says scheme was 'at every level'
The two companies entered into a high-profile partnership in 2024 when ChatGPT was integrated into the iPhone's operating system.

Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.

POL-WHV: 53-Jähriger nach Gerichtsbeschluss in Fachklinik untergebracht Wilhelmshaven/Friesland (ots) - Ein 53-jähriger Mann, der seit Ende 2024 im Bereich der Friesischen Wehde und später in Varel durch wiederholt auffälliges Verhalten in Erscheinung getreten war, befindet sich seit Ende Juni 2026 aufgrund einer ... https://www.

A reminder that the obsession 50 years ago was #overpopulation — it was the scary message next to every practical environmental message about pollution, etc
Fast forward to now, and the opposite is true — no longer a case of “don’t worry, it’s just wealthy nations breed less”
In fact, environmentalism was always right about pollution — but the scary message is everything cost…

40 Prozent des deutschen Mittelstands nutzt KI
Der Anteil der mittelständischen Unternehmen, die Künstliche Intelligenz einsetzen, ist seit 2024 um 118 Prozent angestiegen. Rund 40 Prozent nutzen KI.
https://www.

40 Prozent des deutschen Mittelstands nutzt KI
Der Anteil der mittelständischen Unternehmen, die Künstliche Intelligenz einsetzen, ist seit 2024 um 118 Prozent angestiegen. Rund 40 Prozent nutzen KI.

Full Match | The Judgement Day (Finn Bšlor & JD McDonagh) vs Social Elite (Matthew Smyth & Sean Guinness) at OTT's 10th Year Anniversary show from 26th October 2024
#prowrestling #wwe #wrestling

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

Gedegen onderzoek van Trouw en Investico over Nederlandse betrokkenheid bij de Israelische oorlogsmisdaden.
https://www.trouw.nl/binnenland/hoe-een-nederlander-in-het-israelische-leger-diende-…

Hoe een Nederlander in het Israëlische leger diende als scherpschutter in Gaza, Libanon en op de Westoever
Voor het eerst is van een Nederlander, die sinds 2024 in het Israëlische leger dient als scherpschutter, gereconstrueerd in welke eenheid hij zat en op welke uitzendingen hij ging.

/3
Hieronder een paar links voor verdere info.
Opvallend daarbij is dat sommige voorlichting al niet meer beschikbaar is (website is weg) of dat het enige en laatste nieuws uit 2020 😉
Slimme verkeerslichten: hoe werken ze?
#TalkingTraffic #iVRI #verkeer

Asfinag warnt: - Immer mehr Fahrzeugbrände auf unseren Autobahnen #News #Nachrichten

Reddit and OpenAI Build Partnership - Upvoted
<https://redditinc.com/news/reddit-and-oai-partner> (2024-05-16)

I have one for #GrindayFriday this week. This is one man deathgrind project NAILGUT from Kelowna, British Columbia, and their brief 4 song EP 'Distorted Perceptions of Reality' from 2024. It's nasty, grody, grindy, sludgy stuff with chainsaw guitars and bashing drums. I love it.

Filing: SpaceX reports 2025 revenue of $18.7B, up 33% YoY, a $4.9B loss, vs. a $791M profit in 2024, and $20.7B in capital expenditures, up from $11.2B (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/technol

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pulls Back the Curtain on Its Finances
Mr. Musk’s rocket and satellite maker disclosed its financial performance for the first time, as it prepares to go public in what is set to be one of the largest offerings to date.

New publication on the linguistic (specifically, grammatical) properties of #emojis , based on a student's Bachelor thesis. It took two years from the conference presentation to publication, but now it's finally out. #linguistics #openAccess #writing https://doi.org/10.36824/2024-graf-reis

We’re talking big money and big looting.
Trump embraced crypto as a candidate in 2024.
Then he and his family invested like mad in it
– through CIC Digital,
a Trump Organization affiliate that is behind his memecoin, $Trump,
and through another Trump family-backed crypto company, World Liberty Financial,
co-founded by Trump, his sons and the family of the special envoy Steve Witkoff in the middle of the 2024 presidential campaign
(but which the White…

Conflicts of interest? Trump only has one interest: himself
The president made $2.2bn last year, with plenty of help from his own political decisions. This is called corruption, folks

2024 NFL redraft: Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels or Drake Maye at No. 1?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nfl-redraft-caleb-williams-jayden-daniels-drake-maye/

Brian Schottenheimer, Cowboys lose key pass rusher for start of 2026 NFL season https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-lose-charles-snowden-three-game-suspension/76542357b63b576f4cc8f5d2

I have a JPC-12 vertical antenna. On the good side, it puts the coil 4' away from the base, reducing coil losses by not putting it at the point with the highest current. On the other hand, it's stainless steel with significant real resistance, so even that reduced current still heats it up substantially. Some of that heat could instead be radiated RF!
I am considering rewinding the coil with lacquered silver-coated copper wire for substantially-reduced real resistance, as KA7O…

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 (Jim Tankersley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes…

Can Companies Embrace A.I. Without Layoffs? This One Says It Is Trying to.
The German software giant SAP says it is betting that employees can reinvent jobs instead of eliminating them. Experts are divided on whether it will work.

BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 30.06.2026 Hannover / Bad Bentheim (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und ...

Burgum was considered the
not-completely-crazy candidate for the GOP nomination in 2024.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mpvq5so5qu2o

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Angélica Garcia:
🎵 Juanita (6 Music Session, 5 Jun 2024)
#AngélicaGarcia
https://angelicagarcia.bandcamp.com/track/juanita-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/20xUkZt5wVADOO7kZxGtpK

Area Theorems and Quasiconformal Extensions of Harmonic Mappings with a Pole
Zhijun Chen, Limei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03306 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03306 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.03306
arXiv:2606.03306v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we study the class \Sigma_{H}^{k}(p) of sense-preserving univalent harmonic mappings in the unit disk \mathbb{D} that possess a simple pole at p\in[0,1) and admit a k-quasiconformal extension to the extended complex plane for k\in[0,1). In 2024, Bhowmik and Satpati established an area theorem and derived a sufficient condition for the k-quasiconformal extension of harmonic mappings belonging to \Sigma_{H}^{k}(p) without logarithmic terms. Motivated by their work, we investigate the corresponding problem when a logarithmic singularity is present. Our main contributions are two-fold: we first prove a generalized area theorem for all mappings in \Sigma_{H}^{k}(p); we then obtain a sufficient condition for sense-preserving univalent harmonic mappings in \mathbb{D} to admit explicit k-quasiconformal extensions. These results extend the aforementioned work to the setting where logarithmic singularities are allowed.
toXiv_bot_toot

Historical pairing of Jared Verse, Carson Schwesinger to lead Browns defense in post-Myles Garrett era https://www.nfl.com/news/historical-pairing-of-jared-verse-carson-schwesinger-to-lead-browns-defense-in-post-myles-g…

A profile of David Sacks, appointed as White House AI adviser in December 2024, who has a ruthless devotion to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act (George Packer/The Atlantic)
https:…

The Venture-Capital Populist
How David Sacks and the new tech right went full MAGA and captured Washington

Brandon Aiyuk delivers message in video post, calls 49ers 'little-a-- boys,' tells them to 'stop running from the bill' https://www.nfl.com/news/brandon-aiyuk-delivers-message-in-video-post-cal…

"Some designs of emojis are very different for the same codepoint, especially the ones depicting emotions/reactions. Examples coming to mind are 😨, 🔫. What are your thoughts on this?" - The (water) pistol 🔫 was originally a hand gun which looked a lot more real. In response to its frequent use in criminal or other unsavory contexts (e.g., as a threat), most platforms replaced it with the colorful plastic toy gun design in 2018. (In 2024, Elon Musk had it turned back into a realistic hand gun for the Twemoji design 🙄)
I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think we can stay on top of all potential uses of emojis (or should even try to limit them) and people who want to use emojis for threats probably can still do so. On the other hand, I do find it rather hard to imagine that the green plastic 🔫 could be used as a threat... so... I guess good job, designers/tech firms? #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs

There is a reason why I bought two washlets after my 2024 trip to Japan.
(Source: #Japan #Bidet #Washlet #💩