Tootfinder

Datenleck bei McDonald's und der für Einstellungen beauftragten KI-Firma Paradox
McDonald's nutzt einen KI-Chatbot für Einstellungsgespräche, doch die dabei gesammelten Daten waren kaum geschützt. Sicherheitsforscher fanden einfach Zugriff.

Texas-based Securonix acquires ThreatQuotient, which helps companies analyze threat intelligence more efficiently; ThreatQuotient had raised about $170M (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/11/securonix-…

Securonix acquires threat intelligence startup ThreatQuotient - SiliconANGLE
Securonix acquires threat intelligence startup ThreatQuotient - SiliconANGLE

‼️Die #Petition
"Verbot von Deepfakes von echten Menschen vom 19.03.2025"
hat bisher 1353 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 28647 Unterschriften bis zum 24.07.2025.
https://

Three of the new advisers appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guide the government on immunization policy
took part in lawsuits casting doubt on the safety or efficacy of vaccines,
public records show.
In dismissing all 17 members of an influential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel on Monday,
Mr. Kennedy cited what he said was a history of conflicts of interest that he claimed made those experts a “rubber stamp” on approving …

Kennedy’s New Vaccine Advisers Helped Lawyers Raise Doubts About Their Safety
Three of the health secretary’s picks to replace fired members of an influential panel that sets U.S. vaccine policies have filed statements in court flagging concerns about vaccines.

from my link log —
The crisis of zombie social science.
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-crisis-of-zombie-social-science
saved 2025-04-04

The Crisis of Zombie Social Science
Why it's almost impossible to falsify social science theories and how to fix it.

'...analysis from Gartner found the per-employee subscription model to be 2x-5x more expensive than the legacy model."
✅ UK unis sign up to £10M Oracle Java subscription framework • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/jisc_java_oracle/

UK unis cough up £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs
: Deal includes 'waiver of historic fees

Who is realistically going to carry around a second digital camera with them? Of course cameras are better than smartphones, but the best camera is the one you have with you at the moment.
I've taken thousands of photos that I never would have thanks to my iphone.
https://

Who says Seattle doesn't get as much sun as Cupertino?

The ngscopeclient about dialog now has a (hopefully) full list of all 77 authors credited! Very manual generation process for now, but I'm going to try and automate the list generation for the future.
One less thing to do before we ship the v0.1 release.
We now have only six release blocking tickets and then we can ship it:
* Fix some shaders assuming unlimited X axis thread block size is possible
* Binary packaging for MacOS
* Window resize events not handled …

Want to shape the future of the GÉANT Community Programme (GCP)?
Join the GÉANT Community Committee (GCC)—applications close today!
As a member, you’ll:
✅ Help steer community-driven collaboration & innovation
✅ Be the voice of the community to GÉANT’s General Assembly
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How to submit your nomination ⤵
📃 Read the eligibility criteria:

Call for new GÉANT Community Committee (GCC) Members – Apply by 14 AprilGÉANT CONNECT Online
Submissions are now open for you to join the GÉANT Community Committee (GCC). What are the duties of a GCC member? As a GCC member , you will support the GÉANT Community Programme (GCP) to ensure we continue to maintain a thriving community for years to come, and all relevant subjects are covered within the

Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon (Chris Cameron/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/trump-withdraws-from-agreement-with-tribes-to-protect-salmon.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p159#a250612p159

to be a "good girl", u have to pass muster in the system of eyes. u have to feed cash into “feminization” to be both real—convincing, relatable—and not-real, alluringly ideal, said the WIRED article

A Star Gone Missing: Afghan Singer Vanishes In Country Where Music Is Forbidden
https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-singer-zulala-hashemi-taliban-music/33472476.html

Why Do Start-ups? (2025) - Is getting rich the only reason to found a start-up? #podcast #startup #why -

Why Do Start-ups? (2025)
Is getting rich the only reason to found a start-up? #podcast #startup #why

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/11/lets-be-clear-the-rioting-in-la-is-by-the-cops-not-the-protestors/

Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors
I already wrote about the GOP’s bloodthirsty desire to use the military on Americans. They manufactured a nonsense “crisis” by over-aggressively sending in ICE agents to grab people off the streets…

Guter Start in den Tag.
Stellt ihr eigentlich auch den Eimer in die Tür nach dem wischen? 🤔

So after wrapping up the #Wiki theme for my #Markdown -based (not)CMS (https://…

Browns rookie RB Quinshon Judkins arrested on domestic violence, battery charge https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6490608/2025/07/12/browns-quinshon-judkins-arrested-domestic-violence-charge/

#linktipp
#Pakistan is home to one of the largest concentrations of sellers on Alibaba.com
https://restofworld…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Agoria feat. Madison McFerrin:
🎵 Getaway
#NowPlaying #Agoria #MadisonMcFerrin
https://agoriamusic.bandcamp.com/track/getaway-feat-madison-mcferrin

Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90% of submitted notes are never published, with many notes "stuck in limbo" (DDIA)
https://ddia.org/en/a-deep-dive-into-xs-community-notes-report

A Deep Dive into X’s Community Notes: An Analysis of English and Spanish Contributions Between 2021 and 2025
The Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA) examined how X’s Community Notes system functions across English and Spanish, drawing from over 1.76 million notes submitted globally between 2021 and 2025. The report explores submission and publication dynamics, contributor behavior, and systemic challenges like transparency gaps and rating backlogs. As community-driven content moderation becomes a global model, this report sheds light on its potential, and limitations, for building a h…

I like to use this quote for when a client doesn't like what I've done:
“A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.”
― John Cage

Don the Con
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: put the zip ties down.
#satire #potus45

A great piece of analysis with lots of suggestions for what to do in response to the Trump administration's efforts to destroy U.S. research infrastructure. I appreciate the inclusion of the work to #DefendResearch against #censorship.

Es gibt sicherilch Hunderttausende, die bereit sind, sich selbst im Kampf gegen Israel zu opfern. Egal wie fit die Abwehr in #Israel ist. Die schiere Menge lässt statistisch erwarten, dass es massive Terroranschläge in Israel geben wird und international bei israelischen Einrichtungen. Sicherheit ist hier eine Illusion.

I like books. I buy them as physical as well as eBooks formats.
I don't always make a direct contribution to the author/s when I buy them used, or borrow them from the library.
But I will explicitly not support (with my wallet) of Amazon's Monopoly on the book industry.
So I will encourage everyone to also boycott that monopoly.

My old Acurite weather station quit working properly. I won't own another Acurite product, so I bought an Ambient WS-2903D. This should be a link to local weather conditions in NE Oklahoma. I'll be setting up sharing shortly. #OKWX #PWS

‼️Die #Petition
"Erhalt des freien Zugangs zur Psychotherapie vom 16.04.2025"
hat bisher 16483 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 13517 Unterschriften bis zum 23.07.2025.
https://

I wrote about why Zohran Mamdani's free bus fare policy is a good idea actually, and the difference between thinking about transit as a consultant versus as a voter and activist.
(public replies to this toot will appear as comments)
https://scott.mn/2025/06/11/consultant

Consultant's mindset, or why Jarrett Walker is wrong about free buses

Doctor during annual physical, in a sequence of questions: “Any nausea?”
Me: “Just one day last week… when I read too much news.”
Doctor laughs and professional poise falls apart.
A nice human moment.
👨‍⚕️😆

from my link log —
MySQL transactions per second vs fsyncs per second.
https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-10-mysql-transactions-per-second
saved 2025-03-21

#caturday

Uma mulher bonita pode fazer tudo; uma mulher feia deve fazer tudo.

South Park is no longer available on Paramount outside the US, as sources say the platform's license to stream the series internationally has expired (Brande Victorian/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

‘South Park’ Removed From Paramount+ Outside the U.S.
Amid a streaming rights battle, the platform's license to stream the series internationally has expired, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

phpc.social is now using Postgres 17.4 as its database (up from 16.8). That was easy and apparently basically downtime-free. Props to Vultr for having a cleaner upgrade experience than the last time I interacted with RDS.
#MastoAdmin

Judge reverses CFPB rule erasing medical debt from credit reports
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5398381-joe-biden-medical-debt-reporting-rule-scrapped/

If you’re undocumented, don’t march tomorrow. Stay home. Let the rest of us get this one. Solidarity.
Si eres indocumentado, no marches mañana. Quédate en casa. Que nos toque a todos. Solidaridad.
#Protests #Trump

Meet RFK Jr.'s New Vaccine Advisers (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-vaccine-advisory-panel-acip-hhs-martin-kulldorff-james-pagano-vicky-pebsworth-2240dcb0
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p166#a250612p166

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44246518 is that still named the slashdot effect, or is slashdot effect something for old people only?

Nethotrons: exploring the possibility of measuring relativistic spin precessions, from Earth's satellites to the Galactic Centre
Lorenzo Iorio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10162

Nethotrons: exploring the possibility of measuring relativistic spin precessions, from Earth's satellites to the Galactic Centre
By ``nethotrons'', from the ancient Greek verb for to ``spin'', it is meant here a natural or artificial rotating object, like a pulsar or an artificial satellite, whose rotational axis is cumulatively displaced by the post-Newtonian static (gravitoelectric) and stationary (gravitomagnetic) components of the gravitational field of some massive body around which it freely moves. Until now, both relativistic effects have been measured only by the dedicated space-based mission Gravity Probe B in t…

‼️Die #Petition
"Verkürzung der Übergangsfrist für das Verbot von Mikroplastik in Wasch-, Pflege- und Reinigungsmitteln vom 09.03.2025"
hat bisher 145 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29855 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

It’s time for something new. So: what do you think I should do next? I want to be of service. https://anildash.com/2025/06/11/time-for-something-new/

It's Time for Something New
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

SAG-AFTRA's Interactive Media Agreement with game companies requires performers' informed consent for all planned AI use on their voice, likeness, and movements (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/sag-aftra-video-game-deal-details/

SAG-AFTRA Video Game Deal Includes AI Consent Guardrails, Minimum Rates for Digital Replica Use
Full text of the tentative SAG-AFTRA agreement will be released June 18 for a ratification vote period that ends July 9

On Condensation Management - Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation -

On Condensation Management
Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation

"It's science, it's f = ma. We should keep politics out of it as much as we can." ->
NASA astronaut [Col. Terry W. Virts] on Russian colleagues backing war against Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgSoSAsvio

@… Is it possible that mstdn.social is blocking certain IPs from access as I am using a VPN and it seems like I have a problem accessing it sometimes.

There is a lot of conflict between developers who say #LLM tools are making them more productive, and developers who want to quit and move to a cabin in the woods.
Recently I discovered a possible reason why. #AI is just a bad fit for conventional, reality-based models of value creation like

The future of AI-driven development isn’t Agile. It’s XGH.
A lot of ink has been spilled over Large Language Models and their associated products being inserted into just about everything, often against the will of the product’s users. One of the areas where…

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.IM. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.IM/new/
[1/1]:
Energy Reconstruction of Non-fiducial Electron-Positron Events in the DAMPE Experiment Using Conv...

[2025-04-14 Mon (UTC), no new articles found for cs.GL General Literature]

from my link log —
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right: dissecting and dividing algebraic data structures.
https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/Dissect.pdf
saved 2025-04-14

Capitalism has given you Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Peter Thiel… Have you said thank you once?

Such a powerful sobering, statement and also a call to continually reflect on what we are each doing in this moment. https://time.com/7285045/resigning-national-science-foundation-library-congress/

Apple’s ‘liquid glass’ contrast hilarity is now a bullet on my post “I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did”
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-dont-care-what-google-or-apple-or-whomever-did.html
Please please PLEA…

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 14-07-2025 03:10
Temperatur: (min: 14,9C) 14,9C (max: 17,4C)
Feuchte: 99%
Luftdruck: 1010,6 hPa (gleichbleibend)
Windrichtung: N/A Grad

#Linux tip for people running Rocky Linux #VFX workstations (or Alma or RHEL I guess) who are looking for a solution to the system locking up once you're running out of memory: install systemd-oomd - the out of memory killer daemon. It's not enabled by default but I think it is on distributions that…

Nooit geweten dat Australisch Engels een aparte 'taal' op mn toetsenbord was, nu wel .
Door onbekende oorzaak was dus die taal ingeschakeld.. 🥴

Report: Cops looking to arrest ex-NFL WR Brown https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45503522/ex-wr-antonio-brown-sought-attempted-murder-charge-report-says

Hmm watched the Liquid Glass movie. Just me or is everything higher contrast? Also, colors seemed distinctly more saturated.

"How the BBC’s Flawed Impartiality Scuppered a Podcast About a Heating System"
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/04/28/how-the-bbcs-flawed-impartiality-scuppered-a-podcast-…

How the BBC’s Flawed Impartiality Scuppered a Podcast About a Heating System
Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores the latest worrying sign of the BBC's flawed interpretation of 'impartiality

On dit qu’il ne faut jamais rencontrer ses héros, sous peine d’être déçu. Franchement, je ne sais pas quel imbécile a pondu cette énormité. Je viens d’en avoir la preuve : c’est une belle connerie.
Lire la suite sur le Sillon 🌊 https://sillon-fictionnel.club/post/martha-cooper…

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 81 nodes and 150126 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Series finale. Taylor says goodbye. 😢
▶️Taylor Tomlinson Says Goodbye to “After Midnight”
#aftermidnight

Bunte Sprengelstraße

General Bibliography - General public bibliography for EOU and related research. #bibliography #dataset - https://www.earth.org.u…

General Bibliography
General public bibliography for EOU and related research. #bibliography #dataset

What's the most polar-opposite pair of places with the same or very similar names you've encountered?
For me, it would be this pairing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leavenworth,_Washington

Leavenworth, Washington - Wikipedia

YouTube intensiviert offenbar den Kampf gegen Werbeblocker
Beschwerden von Nutzern mit Adblockern über YouTube-Warnmeldungen häufen sich. Auch bislang funktionierende Adblocker-Lösungen werden wohl von YouTube erkannt.

from my link log —
PiDP-11 and other replicas of old computers.
https://obsolescence.dev/
saved 2025-04-23 https://dotat.at/:/JVYER.html…

Wusstet Ihr....
Die erste #Balkonsolaranlage wurde bereits am 14.04.1923 auf einer #Gartenlaube errichtet.
Damals arbeitete das #Marktstammdatenregister noch mi…

Required reading.
✅ Human Rights Campaign | Tips for Preparedness, Peaceful Protesting, and Safety
https://www.hrc.org/resources/tips-for-preparedness-peaceful-protesting-and-safety

Tips for Preparedness, Peaceful Protesting, and Safety
Safety and preparedness are essential in uncertain times. Whether you're preparing for an emergency or participating in a peaceful protest, these…

#protest #nokings

Over 2K UFO sightings reported in first half of 2025 (Steph Whiteside/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5397562-ufo-sighting-increase-report/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p116#a250711p116

In the Air - Outside of the Window II ✈️ ☁️
在空中 - 窗外 II ✈️ ☁️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

I found this a nice and interesting video essay about the Dark Forest hypothesis in sci-fi literature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0SvgT9Lc2M
I usually don't dare clicking on new recommended channels on Youtube because I don't know if that's some crap…

'DeSantis lied’: Key claim behind 'Alligator Alcatraz' just collapsed - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/alligator-alcatraz-2673114102/

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 14-07-2025 05:10
Temperatur: (min: 14,0C) 14,1C (max: 17,4C)
Feuchte: 99%
Luftdruck: 1010,6 hPa (gleichbleibend)
Windrichtung: N/A Grad

malaria_genes: Malaria var DBLa HVR networks
Networks of recombinant antigen genes from the human malaria parasite P. falciparum. Each of the 9 networks shares the same set of vertices but has different edges, corresponding to the 9 highly variable regions (HVRs) in the DBLa domain of the var protein. Nodes are var genes, and two genes are connected if they share a substring whose length is statistically significant. Metadata includes two types of node labels, both based on sequence st…

Okay, I wrote a little bit about Sly, and about Janet and Prince, and the very first thing I ever blogged about, and how Sly maybe invented some not-small part of the world we live in. And also about the scariest live show I've ever been to. https://www.anildash.com/2025/06/09/sly-st

Sly Stone and the Scariest Show Ever
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Judge Blocks Trump Administration Tactics in L.A. Immigration Raids (Miriam Jordan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/immigration-raids-judge-injunction.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p117#a250711p117

Perplexitys eigener Browser "Comet" mit integrierten KI-Agenten nun verfügbar
Comet basiert auf Chromium und nutzt Perplexity als Suchmaschine. Der Webbrowser mit eingebautem KI-Assistent ist vorerst Perplexity-Max-Abonnenten vorbehalten.

Evidence challenging the Trump admin's immigration moves is now out in the open
https://www.lawdork.com/p/evidence-challenging-the-trump-admins

from my link log —
The yaml document from hell.
https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell
saved 2025-04-11

Judge orders Trump administration to stop immigration arrests in Southern California without probable cause (Kaanita Iyer/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/california-immigration-arrests-probable-cause
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p114#a250711p114

'Mysterious order' could give Clarence Thomas an excuse to undo voting rights - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-voting-rights-mystery/

from my link log —
ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.
https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
saved 2025-01-16

GitHub - ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.
A list of AI agents and robots to block. Contribute to ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt development by creating an account on GitHub.

The 'Manosphere' Starts to Turn on Trump (Jesus Mesa/Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-andrew-schulz-joe-rogan-tim-dillon-maga-2098045
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p118#a250711p118

Chinese state media: CEO Ren Zhengfei says Huawei chips lag one generation behind US peers and claims the US "exaggerated Huawei's achievements" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Another Woman Arrested For Her Pregnancy Loss
https://jessica.substack.com/p/another-woman-arrested-for-her-pregnancy

Judge orders Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops, arrests in California (Jaimie Ding/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/california-immigration-stops-arrests-b4d59afc4aa6be4944e67f773aa34096
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p112#a250711p112

from my link log —
What the hell Is a target triple?
https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/04/14/target-triples/
saved 2025-04-15 https://

What the Hell Is a Target Triple? · mcyoung

#GiftLink
Newsom Says Trump Is Destroying U.S. Democracy in Speech on L.A. Protests - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/newsom-speech-trump-la-protests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE8.NjQu.DDVE62i_gRXe&smid=url-share

Democrats Should Prepare for the Return of Debt Politics (Bill Scher/Washington Monthly)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/10/democrats-should-prepare-for-the-return-of-debt-politics/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p162#a250710p162

Opinion | Kennedy’s purge of a key vaccine committee is a power grab - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/10/kennedy-purge-vaccine-committee-cdc-acip/

from my link log —
A Mind Is Born: 256 byte Commodore 64 demo.
https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
saved 2021-03-19 ht…

Trump Plans 'Major' Russia Statement Monday, Mulls Sanctions (Derek Wallbank/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-11/trump-plans-major-russia-statement-monday-criticizes-putin
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p164#a250710p164

"The credit score drop is [as bad as] filing for bankruptcy, and some borrowers are finding out when they try to get car loans or rent apartments."
Student loan missed payments causes credit score drop for millions - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/25/credit-score-student-loan-elinquency-debt/

Bannon: Trump must appoint special prosecutor to investigate Epstein files (Rob Crilly/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/07/09/bannon-trump-appoint-special-epstein-prosecutor/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p165#a250710p165

Trump Doubles Down on Using Tariffs as Tool of American Power (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doubles-down-on-using-tariffs-as-tool-of-american-power-c59ca442
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p163#a250710p163

Trump's Tariffs Blow Up the Copper Market (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-copper-tariffs-defense-china-ff3eefb1?st=FpjXfU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p161#a250710p161

Trump's EPA Chief Tried to Debunk Chemtrails, but Nobody Actually Read the Report (Miles Klee/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/chemtrail-conspiracy-theory-epa-lee-zeldin-1235382905/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p149#a250710p149