Tootfinder

I love it when a state gets something right.
https://reason.com/2026/04/03/colorado-becomes-first-state-to-protect-defendants-against-faulty-roadside-drug-tests/

Colorado becomes first state to protect defendants against faulty roadside drug tests
A 2024 study estimated that 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongly arrested due to unreliable roadside drug tests used by police.

Wired ends its UK print edition, after reducing from six to four issues per year at the end of 2024; seven London-based journalists left at the end of 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Wired pulls plug on UK print edition as it focuses on global subscriber growth
Wired will not put out a print magazine in the UK in 2026 as it focuses on global subscriber growth, Katie Drummond reveals.

Ik lees èn hoor dat we een koude winter hebben gehad. Ik heb dat niet zo ervaren. Even gekeken wat mijn warmtepomp ervan vond, die stemt zijn stookgedrag.af op de gemeten buitentemperatuur.
Ik neem een ruime winter, van 1 oktober t/m 31 maart.
24/25: 1563 kWh.
Nu: 1510 kWh
De afgelopen winter was dus iets minder koud dan de winter ervoor, iets, in elk geval op het paadje naast de schuur, waar de temperatuur gemeten wordt. De verdere instellingen van de warmtepomp zijn ge…

Exclusive: Nigel Farage was given undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire in 2024 (Anna Isaac/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p34#a260429p34

AND at the same time, it can be true that voting for a Democrat is the best choice you have.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Yes, make the best political choice the moment offers, don't be like those people who didn't vote in 2024.
But DO acknowledge that we ALSO need to create better choices in future elections. And work towards making that happen.

Crachat, "La dérape" (2024)
#MusicWomenWednesday

Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

#TuneTuesday (Apr 28)
I can definitely see Half Alive’s 2024 song “Sophie’s House” being used in some coming-of-age comedy. The song’s upbeat nostalgic vibe is a really fun listen and like most of their music videos the dance choreography in this one is really good.
h…

«Von 500 auf 5.000 MByte — Windows-Updates werden immer größer
Seit September 2024 sind Updates in Windows 11 um den Faktor 10 gewachsen. Das liegt am Betriebssystem selbst, aber auch an Microsofts KI.»
Sorry, wirklich nötig für ein Betriebssystem ist dies nun nicht aber dies für die unnötige Datenüberwachung (KI) die als nötig deklariert wird.
😒

Von 500 auf 5.000 MByte: Windows-Updates werden immer größer - Golem.de
Seit September 2024 sind Updates in Windows 11 um den Faktor 10 gewachsen. Das liegt am Betriebssystem selbst, aber auch an Microsofts KI.

"Amazon wildfire emissions may be up to three times higher than estimated"
#Wildfires #AmazonRainforest #Emissions

Amazon wildfire emissions may be up to three times higher than estimated
Fires are a recurring phenomenon in central South America, often intensified by drought and deforestation. In 2024, wildfire activity reached its highest levels in 20 years, affecting vast areas of the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado—the world's most biodiverse tropical savanna, stretching across one-fifth of Brazil and extending into Bolivia and Paraguay.

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.

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 21.04.2026.
412 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…

I've used some questionable pit toilets in my day but I've never worried about falling in.
"This is not the first time accidents involving pit toilets have happened in Australia.
In July 2024, firefighters had to pull apart one such toilet in Indigo Valley in the state of Victoria after a man got stranded in it."
#Australia #PitToilet #Outhouse

Our #VFXPipeline, database and renderfarm also supports shot numbers with emojis. Need to find my post about this from a few years ago 😁
Maybe I should test it again to make sure it still works. Back then, all I had to do was disable a regular expression that enforced alphanumeric characters.

Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8410967c-c713-46d1-a5e6-42cfc3b6528c

In his lengthy screed against the pope, Trump claimed that he won the 2024 election “IN A LANDSLIDE.”
Exit polls showed Trump with a solid 20-point margin of victory among Catholics over Kamala Harris.
But Trump seems to believe, mistakenly, that Catholics will stick with him no matter what he says or does.
Catholics are swing voters.
In 2020, Joe Biden won the Catholic vote, 52 percent to Trump’s 47 percent.
A recent poll found that for the first time this …

Bucs draft Bain, confident in former Miami star https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48577361/buccaneers-take-rueben-bain-jr-15th-pick-nfl-draft

IFG-Ablehnung #BMJV: Unterlagen zu #Quickfreeze aus 2024 dürfen nicht beauskunftet werden, denn
"Würden diese Positionen bekannt und die im BMJV und in der Bundesregierung Beteiligten öffentlich an diesen Positionen festgehalten, würde es im weiteren Verlauf der Beratungen erheblich erschwert,…

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 21.04.2026.
412 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

I visited Budapest in the spring of 2024. It is an •incredible• place, not just the awe-inducing history visible everywhere in built environment, but the present: the vibrant life, the artistry and skill everywhere, the rich and varied intersections of cultures, the spirit, the marvelous people I met through seemingly every door I entered.
Sending Hungarians love and strength from Minneapolis today. You are amazing. Your home and your society are worth fighting for.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Gits:
🎵 Second Skin
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/second-skin-live-at-rkcndy-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Rvwe2nPrL4QiylcSD6lcy

lja Leonard Pfeijffer: 48 Kolumnen aus der belgischen Zeitung De Morgen über konstitutionelle und absolute Demokratie in Deutsch:
https://europa.blog/de/category/blogs/ilja-leonard-pfeijffer/

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Archives - Europa Blog
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer / Foto: Stephan Vanfleteren Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Der niederländische Schriftsteller Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer hat von Januar 2024 bis Dezember 2025 zwei Mal monatlich Essays zur Entwicklung von Demokratie und Rechtsstaat unter dem zunehmenden politischen Druck rechter Parteien in Europa und in den USA – dort vor allem durch Donald Trump und die MAGA-Bewegung – in der niederländischsprachigen belgischen Zeitung „De Morgen“ veröffentlicht. In den insgesamt 48 Essa…

The UK's High Court rules that London's Metropolitan Police can keep using live facial recognition; police say the tech has led to 2,100 arrests since 2024 (Connor Jones/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/high_court_gives_thumbs_up/

Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on Londoners, say judges
: Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws

auston matthews 2024-2026 is the new EP40 2024-2026 or something but who cares it's just sportsball :-)

"Among those monitored were a Palestinian academic invited to give a guest lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University and a pro-Gaza PhD student at the London School of Economics, according to internal documents.
In October 2024, the University of Bristol provided the firm with a list of student protest groups it wished to receive alerts about, an internal university email suggests. It included pro-Palestinian and animal rights activists.
In total, 12 universities paid th…

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students
Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

Geheimnisvolle Orte: Berlin von unten – Geschichten aus dem Untergrund - #ARD #rbb
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL3JiYl8yYzM0MzE5NS0yZTFhLTRjMmQtYWFiZS1mY2VkYmNiNjMyNzRfcHVibGljYXRpb24 (2024, 43min)
'Spuren der Verganhenheit' onder Berlijn.
Eens wat anders dan een crimi.. 😊
2015 bij de rbb en nu al bij de ardmediathek.de.
Aansluitend:
Geheimnisvolle Orte
Bahnhof Friedrichstraße - Agentenschleuse und Grenzpassage
Enjoy!
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2024 global temperature record is consistent with model-predicted warming: #GlobalWarming or the lack thereof see the many links in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-12-marz-2026/ at the very bottom).

Klinkt nog als weinig voor de gruwelijkheden die hij beging.
10 jaar cel en tbs voor verkrachting en grootschalige seksuele online afpersing https://nos.nl/l/2609892

10 jaar cel en tbs voor verkrachting en grootschalige seksuele online afpersing
De 32-jarige Mark S. uit Borculo perste tussen 2011 en 2024 slachtoffers af door te dreigen seksueel getinte foto's en video's online plaatsen.

Cowboys target Bain's draft stock could fall after deadly car crash revealed https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/12/fatal-crash-could-impact-cowboys-nfl-interes…

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 21.04.2026.
412 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

On Website Technicals (2024-03) - Tech updates: METERCHANGE, micro-optimisation, podcast WebVTT transcript, CORS, Opus 16kbps, 429, time cues, mp3L, auto dark mode, lite-only text. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-82.html

On Website Technicals (2024-03)
Tech updates: METERCHANGE, micro-optimisation, podcast WebVTT transcript, CORS, Opus 16kbps, 429, time cues, mp3L, auto dark mode, lite-only text.

Consciousness Explained Away: Daniel Dennett’s Illusionism and the Theory That Spends Its Own Foundation
When Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-two, the philosophical world lost one of the last serious defenders of a position so counterintuitive that even sympathetic readers spent decades trying to talk themselves into it. Dennett argued, across more than fifty years of writing, that consciousness as we ordinarily understand it does not exist.…

Consciousness Explained Away: Daniel Dennett’s Illusionism and the Theory That Spends Its Own Foundation | David Boles, Blogs
When Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-two, the philosophical world lost one of the last serious defenders of a position so counterintuitive that even sympathetic readers …

Pastel Fog Rise
(Watching the sunrise and a dramatic fog rise on an early summer morning near Zugspitze, 2024. The summit is partially visible through the clouds...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Schöne Manifestation meines genossenschaftlichen Engagements.
🤍🤎🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈
#FCSP2024 #StPauli #genossenschaft

Beneath Democrats’ near-universal opposition to what they call the president’s “war of choice”
are simmering tensions about the way America should engage with the world,
especially when it comes to the Middle East.
Since losing to Trump and his America First agenda in 2024,
which promised not to start new wars, leading progressives have urged Democrats to reclaim the “anti-war” mantle.
“Voters, especially young people and working families, are exhausted by ‘for…

Berlin 😍
I can relate when #socialmedia is a synonym with the #megacorp #algorithms (because the general public doesn't know about healthy alternatives

Kamala #Harris denkt über eine erneute Kandidatur nach. Dumm ist, wer einen Fehler ein zweites Mal wiederholt. Die Demokraten sollten eigentlich gelernt haben, dass Harris die US AmerikanerInnen nicht überzeugt.
Außerdem verärgert ihr politisches Schweigen zu Darth #Trump, nur um ihre Chancen für eine erneu…

US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2028: Kamala Harris denkt über Kandidatur nach
Versucht sie es noch einmal? Die Demokratin Kamala Harris verlor 2024 die Präsidentschaftswahlen in den USA gegen Donald Trump. Jetzt deutet sie eine Kandidatur für 2028 an.

"What’s ironic is that you have the leader of the Catholic church speaking out against war and against the way that immigrants are being treated. That shows this co-option of the Christian identity by Opus Dei to be a complete fallacy; it’s all for political expediency. It’s about these people’s own deeply authoritarian and conservative views about how the world should be run."
He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then…

April 12, 2026 -- By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-12-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p39#a260413p39

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach

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.

POL-STD: Süderoogsand / Flensburg / Hamburg: Leichenfund auf Süderoogsand - Ermittlungsbehörden suchen Zeugen bei Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst Stade (ots) - Am Dienstag, den 09.07.2024, wurde auf der Sandbank Süderoogsand im schleswig-holsteinischen Wattenmeer eine männliche Wasserleiche aufgefunden. Im Zuge der rechtsmedizinischen Untersuchung konnte die Identität des Verstorbenen ...

NFL Teams 'Investigating' Possible Cowboys Draft Target Rueben Bain's Fatal 2024 Crash https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/nfl-teams-investigating-possible-dallas-cowboys-draft-target-rueben-bain-…

Vanaf vandaag (eindelijk) op MUBI (abo): Megalopolis van Francis Ford Coppola
#Megalopolis #mubi

The Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) is a process by which a taxpayer can ask two states (or #tax authorities) to reach an amicable agreement to eliminate double taxation as required by bilateral treaties, where the normal processes have failed.
According to #OECD statistics, in 2016-2024 there were only 19 cases …

Israeli startup Onyx Security, which helps secure and manage AI agents' operational risks, raised a $35M Series A led by Conviction, after a $5M seed in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjmra11x911g

Cyber startup Onyx Security raises $35 million to control AI agents in organizations | CTech
The Israeli startup develops a platform to secure and manage AI systems as they become integral to business operations.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Nia Archives:
🎵 Crowded Roomz
#NiaArchives
https://futurerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/lalkara-crowded-roomz-diljit-dosanjh-nia-archives-welcome-to-future-2-drum-bass-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JH3rxj9e7cY8T1QFgr5mQ

The NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/nist-narrows-cve-analysis-nvd/

NIST narrows scope of CVE analysis to keep up with rising tide of vulnerabilities
The National Vulnerability Database will now only analyze vulnerabilities in critical software, systems used in the federal government and those under active exploitation.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Mark Lanegan:
🎵 When Your Number Isn't Up
#MarkLanegan
https://marklanegan.bandcamp.com/track/when-your-number-isnt-up-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/3aRedm15894RrspWnLuqMx

U.S. forces have launched military operations with Ecuador against
“designated terrorist organizations”
inside the South American country,
Southern Command said Tuesday.
The military released no details on the operations
but suggested in a statement that it was an extension of strikes carried out by the Trump administration
against suspected drug trafficking organizations in the region
In January 2024 gangs stormed a TV station,
taking staff ho…

"A “good year” for forests changes less than it seems"
#Forests #Environment
https://

A “good year” for forests changes less than it seems
The rate of tropical primary forest loss fell sharply in 2025, reversing the record highs of the year before. On paper, it looks like progress. In reality, the dip is likely only a temporary reprieve. The decline followed an exceptional year for wildfires. In 2024, drought helped drive some of the largest fire-related losses on […]

Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now $500 more expensive than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/s…

Microsoft reveals major price increases for all Surface PCs as RAM crisis continues: Flagships now $500 more expensive than at launch
Microsoft is raising prices on all its current Surface PC offerings, with the midrange devices now starting at above $1,000, and flagships starting at $1,500.

Way-too-early 2027 NFL mock draft: Six QBs go in Round 1 in a deep class and Arch Manning isn't QB1 (yet)

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2027-nfl-mock-draft-arch-man…

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

From the archives but resharing because it's that time of year: my blog post on protecting pea plants from birds. And soon I'll post pics of my new and improved pea cage. #peas #gardening #garden #pisum #birds #allotment #blog #VegetableGardening https://colinpurrington.com/2024/05/birds-are-eating-my-pea-plants/

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Just noted interesting parallels between #ArtemisII and Apollo 11 and 12, involving #SolarEclipses, either by the close Moon or by the Earth: during or after each of the three missions the astronauts described these events as their visual highlights. The Artemis II crew has done this several times - and in the post-flight press conference after #Apollo11 Neil Armstrong did it, too, in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz6nzutr7RU#t=42m19s in the segment from 42:20 (in the transcript https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED059051.pdf on PDF pages 21--22).
What he was describing is the eclipse just before arrival at the Moon of which I had re-processed the best image in https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl -> https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-juli-2024/#Jul26 (and he is mistaking the zodiacal light they saw and photographed with the solar corona, the very same mistake made repeatedly during Artemis II).
Finally, a solar eclipse by the huge Earth observed from Apollo 12 just before splash-down was described by Alan Bean as "the most spectacular sight of the whole flight" while it happened: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2019/11/24/eine-fette-sofi-fur-apollo-12-durch-die-erde/ (no images of totality were taken but Bean later painted the view from memory). The reason I had looked up the Apollo 11 presser was to see how this famously well-prepared post-lunar mission presentation looked like and when it happened: 19 days after their return.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Elbow:
🎵 Balu (6 Music Session, 27 Mar 2024)
#Elbow
https://audiovertigoexplicit.bandcamp.com/track/balu
https://open.spotify.com/track/24ZIUF2vN7ush7CHo607Ox

Cowboys ‘Team to Watch’ With New $31 Million Trade Candidate https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/zaire-franklin-nfl-trade-candidate-rumors-news/

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

"India expected to install about 42.5 GW of new solar capacity in 2026"
#India #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower

India expected to install about 42.5 GW of new solar capacity in 2026
India installed around 37.8 GW of solar capacity in 2025, according to JKM Research. This comprised about 28.6 GW of new utility-scale solar, a 54.6% increase from 2024, and 7.9 GW of rooftop solar, up 72% year on year. Off-grid additions stood at 1.35 GW, compared to 1.48 GW in 2024.