Tootfinder

Ukraine's military denies reports that Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad encircled by Russian forces: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/ukraines-military-denies-reports-that.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/115670725187255890
Sounds like a good idea to me. :elmo_fire:

Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Trustpilot refutes the claims (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/trustp…

:ippantekinikaimononiikutotukaretesimaimasu:

$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow, lower than I would imagine. (and it can be as low as $0.12 where rates are lower.).
"During testing, the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling a gross combined weight of 75,000 pounds (34 metric tons) over a 390-mile (625 km) long-haul route."
a tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile.

Trump orders overhaul of U.S. vaccine schedules (David Nather/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/06/trump-overhaul-rfk-jr-vaccine-schedules
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p4#a251206p4

The US supreme court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of Donald Trump’s executive order to heavily restrict the right to birthright citizenship,
the long-held constitutional principle that individuals born on US soil are automatically United States citizens.
The order was a contentious part of the administration’s bigoted immigration crackdown
– and a step that would transform the interpretation of a 19th-century constitutional provision.
Multiple judges across…

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching

Yep, I love how Newsom is trolling Trump and want him to keep doing it, but I would strongly prefer many other Democrats to be the 2028 candidate. https://mastodon.social/@GoatRoper/115670868451444294

The Perverse Beauty of Regex: A Love Letter to the World’s Most Efficient Torture Device
— by @…
🔣 https://www.<…

The Perverse Beauty of Regex: A Love Letter to the World’s Most Efficient Torture Device
It starts innocently. You just want to search for something. A word, a phone number, perhaps the occasional email address belonging to your former classmate who still owes you £60 for books. You could do this the normal way, with a search box like a civilised human, or you could

Main Street bust threatens the entire economy
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/04/main-street-bust-threatens-the-entire-economy

I managed to get out and I can confirm snow and ice on forest roads.
But it was fine. It all was a bit more technically challenging than usual.
Maybe I've got to clean my bike tomorrow.
#cycling #mountainbiking

Sitting on a fancy sofa in a very dim bar surrounded by a dozen tieflings as I sip NA amari and the DJ spins Camouflage and more modern knock-offs and 14-year-old me is pleased at this. Current me is pleased at how early it is.

picked this up at the show at p.i.t. & having my mind straight up splattered. coltrane & dolphy (with tyner, garrison, & jones) at birdland in '62, preserved off the radio by #jazz hustler boris rose. dizzying fire & grace by all players at all moments. @…

evening live entertainment enjoyment

This week’s @… radio episode promotes today’s Last #BandcampFriday Before New Years
Grab these links and give some #accordion artists a gift of inva…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-12-03: Last Bandcamp Friday Before New Years (And a Few Book Recommendations)
One more time before the year is up, we’re hosting another #AccordionBandcamp special on the occasion of #BandcampFriday coming up this week on Dec 5th, your chance to purchase accordion musi…

Netflix CEOs say the WBD deal won't fail because "we understand these assets that we're buying" and they're not buying to compensate for business deterioration (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/netflix-execs-warner-bros-deal-1236…

Netflix Execs Say Warner Bros. Deal Is No AOL Time Warner Fiasco In The Making
Netflix executives sought to reassure Wall Street investors Friday that their Warner Bros. Discovery deal won't be another media business fiasco.

This is too real...
#llm #ai

"Garden ponds provide vital habitats – and a revival is under way in Britain"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

Separating Flare and Secondary Atmospheric Signals with RADYN Modeling of Near-infrared JWST Transmission Spectroscopy Observations of #TRAPPIST-1: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1960/meta -> New research on flares from a hot-tempered star could inform search for habitable planets: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/12/04/new-research-flares-hot-tempered-star-could-inform-search-habitable-planets

Hvis man har lyst til at nŸrde sprog med mig og et par kolleger, er her et spritnyt afsnit af podcasten Writing wrongs (med en lidt for dramatisk titel, synes jeg, men hvad): https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/writing-wrongs/id1797795962?l=da&i=100…

Terror in the State of Denmark - Conversations from a List of Resolutes
Podcastepisode · Writing Wrongs · 05.12.2025 · 1 t. 7 min.

when he casually demonstrates counting in binary by tapping his fingers at several Hz (8m45s)
https://youtu.be/S-2adBkW7Xo
and later on when he’s toggling in the program, i can tell he’s using his musician skills

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has been delightful so far. More as I continue playing it, but it’s a visual and aural masterpiece whose gameplay actually picks up from where Prime 3 left off, which was a pleasant surprise.

For a few years I had an office in the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center at MIT. Here are some photos I took on a sunny autumn day using a film camera in 2005. This building had a lot of problems but it definitely made a statement. #architecture #FrankGehry

Neue Mac & i mit Health-Schwerpunkt, vielen Tests und OS-26-Troubleshooting
Themen: Wie Sie mit Apple Health Ihre Gesundheit im Blick behalten, was die neuen M5-Geräte können und wie Sie Probleme mit macOS und iOS 26 angehen.

i love every little bit of human bodies on an aesthetic level but backs are lowkey my favorite part, i could study every slope and pore of them all day, whats ur favorite back image

Der #Bundestag hat die #Rentenreform beschlossen. Fünf Klarstellungen zur sozialen Absicherung älterer Menschen von @… , Sarah Yolanda…

How revenue decisions shape #technicaldebt
https://www.hyperact.co.uk/blog/how-revenue-decisions-shape-technical-debt

Spannende Faktencheck-Arbeit: Weihnachtsmärkte sind keineswegs im Ausnahmezustand. Die KI-Bilder von Absperrungen und Polizeiketten sind Fantasie, genauso wie die Mär von massenhaften Absagen – real sind nur 12 von 7000 Weihnachtsmärkte betroffen. #Fakten statt Fakes! #Weihnachtsmärkte …

RE: https://journa.host/@anneapplebaum/115673436905171469
I use tweets like these to open my friends’ eyes, and maybe they’ll open yours as well. Both users are products of capitalism, playing their roles perfectly within capitalism.
Anarcho-Syndic…

Breken met populisten: "Het werkt misschien rustgevend, de ogenschijnlijke beschaving die Jettenbal lijkt te brengen, maar het is wel zaak wakker te blijven. Liefst met de sleutelbos in de vuist en de keukenmessen uit het zicht. We weten niet waar dat demissionaire coalitietuig toe in staat is als ze merken dat het Nederland menens is om met hun populisme te breken." https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/04/breken-met-populisten-a4914451?gift_token=4914451~1765536039~8461zGC_TN2dSsAGxzbXqQ~DkswDlENxO8ZZr1uBC7Hr3NIviTp4ZU-q_trfKo__oQ

Another blackout 😡
#Kambah #Canberra

🦗 Insects on the space menu: A sustainable food source for future missions
#food

Insects on the space menu: A sustainable food source for future missions
Long before humans reached orbit, insects had already shown they could handle the hurdles of spaceflight. Light, highly adaptable and nutritionally rich, these resilient animals present an attractive option for European researchers studying reliable food sources for long-duration missions.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
LAGOS IN PARIS:
🎵 Mali Spirit
#LAGOSINPARIS
https://lagosinparis.bandcamp.com/track/mali-spirit-folamour-extended-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4cEQJAGKi0ToNEqBs60Kpd

Nieuwe veiligheidsstrategie VS is 'frontale aanval op Europa' https://nos.nl/l/2593354
Lees pagina 25-27:
https://www.<…

Nieuwe veiligheidsstrategie VS is 'frontale aanval op Europa'
"De groeiende invloed van patriottistische Europese partijen is een bron van groot optimisme." Het Witte Huis doelt daarmee op radicaalrechtse partijen zoals de AfD in Duitsland.

Its nice to encouraging stories like this - and exciting.
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agricu…

@… I don’t think I ever felt more embarrassment in my life than I did in that moment.
But, I also came to cherish that I had a person by my side who knew what she wanted and wouldn’t back down.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2025: Arvo Pärt at 90
Acclaimed interpreters of the Estonian composer's music Tõnu Kaljuste and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir celebrate his work at an atmospheric Late Night prom.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mkd5

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Pedro Aznar (65) The Beatles (32) Milo j (29) Clara Cantore (23) Pulp (23). #myweekcounted 559 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Megan Kelly on alleged war crimes:
"I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump & Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
#MAGA #megankelly

A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks (John Pavlus/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91446331/amazo

Amazon takes on AI's biggest nightmare: Hallucinations
Byron Cook, a distinguished scientist at Amazon, is is helping the company use an obscure type of AI to minimize AI's worst side effect.

The Supreme Court gave Trump a big redistricting win. But the fight is just getting started. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/trump-redistricting-fight-indiana-pressure-00678789
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p144#a251205p144

US immigration authorities arrested a visiting professor at Harvard law school
after he was charged with discharging a pellet gun outside a Massachusetts synagogue the day before Yom Kippur,
– and he agreed to leave the country.
Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a Brazilian citizen, was arrested on Wednesday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
after his temporary nonimmigrant visa was revoked by the state department
following what the Trump administration labe…

So wie es aussieht lebe ich in der Emoji-Wetter-Welt von @… / @… im Fediverse 🌦️
#emoji

Judge Orders Google to Limit Default Search Deals to One Year - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-orders-google-limit-default-search-deals-to-one-year-2025-12

November: more than 81,000 Russian targets DESTROYED by Ukrainian strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/november-more-than-russian-targets.html

"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."
—Alan Rickman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study"
#Food #Diet #ForeverChemicals

The Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in "censorship", including fact-checking and online safety (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-adm

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115665765920606574
but why?

I'm about to clean my archive from unused video clips. - oh boy. Why did I record so many in portrait format? That's really just nice for social media

SBS Examines Sa Wikang Filipino
a podcast that focuses on identifying and clarifying misinformation and disinformation that affects Australia's social cohesion...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sbs-examines-sa-wi…

📉 COP30: Zimbabwe's forest and energy projects reveal the downside of carbon credits
#zimbabwe

COP30: Zimbabwe's forest and energy projects reveal the downside of carbon credits
Carbon offsets are a way for companies or countries that pollute the air to "cancel out" some of their carbon emissions by funding projects that protect forests, plant trees, or provide clean energy—sometimes on the other side of the world. Polluting companies in the US, Europe, Asia or elsewhere can buy one carbon credit from a green project anywhere in exchange for emitting one metric ton of carbon dioxide (CO₂).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
The Cavemen.:
🎵 Adaugo
#TheCavemen
https://open.spotify.com/track/6lxai3ZSpU2UctunwrCjvp

@… The filet arrived, and my wonderful amazing loving fiancée (at the time) asks for the ketchup.
The waiter goes silent, but ultimately responds that he’ll find some.
Time passes, dishes are getting cold, and my lady reluctantly eats her filet sans sauce. She’s upset, but we’ll live.
In comes a visibly exhausted waiter, he found ketchup.<…

Maybe, just maybe, Governor#GavinNewsom needs to hear that this is a really bad idea.
And DPR's assertion that their regulatory controls are sufficient is risible. After all, see how well laws about stop signs and traffic lights are followed.
California pesticide agency could loosen restrictions on most toxic rat poisons

*half* a cookie is a serving??
monsters!

The NHTSA asks Waymo about its self-driving vehicles illegally passing school buses, including 19 times in Texas this year, as part of a probe opened in October (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-probes

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Ignacy Jan Paderewski & Ignacy Jan Paderewski:
🎵 Nocturne in B flat, Op.16 No.4
#IgnacyJanPaderewski
https://open.spotify.com/track/1heAl7KyPvG0C2ZAByhgSh

RFK Jr. cracks down, says school vaccinated kid without consent (Erin Mansfield/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/12/04/rfk-hhs-midwest-school-illegally-vaccinate-child/87602266007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p1#a251206p1

Eye of Sauron
-- @…

Scientists Close In on a Universal Cancer Vaccine
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-close-in-on-a-universal-cancer-vaccine/

»Cyberkriminalität — Millionen Payback-Konten angreifbar:
Cyberkriminelle nutzen aktuell offenbar eine Schwachstelle im Sicherheitskonzept von Payback aus, um Kundendaten und Bonuspunkte zu stehlen«
Die Frage ist eigentlich: Weshalb nutzen populäre App Dienste immer noch kein Argon2 & Co. Passwort Hashes so wie E-Mail Adressen im Klartext und nicht zB 2FA / Passkeys?
📺

Millionen Payback-Konten angreifbar
Cyberkriminelle nutzen aktuell offenbar eine Schwachstelle im Sicherheitskonzept von Payback aus, um Kundendaten und Bonuspunkte zu stehlen. Dies zeigen Recherchen von STRG_F (NDR/funk). Potenziell betroffen sind Millionen Konten.

"Great British Energy plans 15 GW clean energy investment"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

Great British Energy plans 15 GW clean energy investment
UK government-owned energy company’s first strategic plan sets GBP 15 billion private finance target and commits to support for more than 1,000 local and community energy generation projects.

Sources: Bari Weiss poaches ABC News' Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman to serve as CBS News correspondent; he isn't in line to anchor the Evening News (Dylan Byers/@dylanbyers)
https://x.com/dylanbyers/status/1997100294845694456

Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) on X
Scoop: Bari Weiss has managed to lure ABC News correspondent @mattgutmanABC to CBS after a protracted back-and-forth negotiation, per sources familiar. He will serve as a high-profile correspondent and is not in line for Evening News anchor job. More in tonight’s In The Room

The GiGly
Your weekly guide to all the hottest gigs in Perth...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods

@… If you’ll permit me to regale you of a tale:
At Thanksgiving 10 years ago, I first met my wife’s parents. They’d traveled to Las Vegas where she lived at the time, so we’d gone out to a fancy Italian restaurant for dinner.
Now, this was no low end joint. It was one of those places where there’s a gentleman in the bathroom whose job it is to d…

Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M context window (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/

Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory

Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump's 'No Scalps' Rule (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2025/12/pete-hegseth-strikes-venezuela-congress/685156/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyU9-dkka0WAMwdBsboY7xVE
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p145#a251205p145

https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115670720807693676

»KI im #Wahlkampf — Wie #Chatbots unsere Wahlentscheidung beeinflussen:
Gleich zwei Forschungsteams haben in großangelegten Studien den #Einfluss von KI auf

KI im Wahlkampf: Wie Chatbots unsere Wahlentscheidung beeinflussen | t3n
Gleich zwei Forschungsteams haben in großangelegten Studien den Einfluss von KI auf Wahlentscheidungen und politische Präferenzen untersucht. Die Ergebnisse entkräften alte Befürchtungen, sind aber nur teilweise beruhigend. Dass Gespräche mit Chatbots die politischen Einstellungen und Absichten stärker beeinflussen können als klassische Kampagnen oder Wahlwerbung, wird schon lange befürchtet. Jetzt gibt es erstmals zwei großangelegte Studien, […]

'Terrifying': DOJ sparks alarm as terrorism surveillance scheme takes big leap forward - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/doj-terrorism/

A look at Paramount's culture shift under David Ellison, where the focus is on male-driven action movies, and not on prestige films seen as critics' darlings (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Feelings Don’t Matter: How the Ellison Era Is Transforming Paramount 
It’s a brand-new day at the legacy studio, where prestige films are out, testosterone-heavy tentpoles are in and Brett Ratner is back on the call sheet.

"How an invasion of purple flowers made Iceland an Instagram paradise – and caused a biodiversity crisis"
#Iceland #Environment #Biodiversity

Sources: Masayoshi Son plans with the White House to build "Trump Industrial Parks" in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by Japan's trade deal (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-softbank-ma

Trump asks RFK Jr. to 'fast track' vaccine schedule review (Lauren Gardner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/trump-rfk-jr-vaccine-schedule-review-00679723
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p5#a251206p5

@… My wife, whom I love dearly with all my ability, might end a man’s life if such a thing were uttered within earshot.
But, you have a point.

She was allowed a phone call to her parents, who contacted a lawyer.
The next day, a federal judge issued an emergency order barring her removal from the US for at least 72 hours until her case could be reviewed.
But the next morning, she was shackled at her wrists, ankles and waist and deported to her native Honduras,
a country which she left at the age of seven and of which she has virtually no memory.

»Was ist Rust?
Bei Rust müssen Entwickler nicht zwischen Geschwindigkeit, Sicherheit und Benutzerfreundlichkeit wählen.«
Ein weiteren pro Rust Artikel und ich als Rust-Fanboy teile dies natürlich gerne. Ich bin der Meinung, dass u.a. moderne Web Server, API's & App's der Performance wegen auf/mit Rust aufgebaut werden sollen.
🦀

Was ist Rust?
Bei Rust müssen Entwickler nicht zwischen Geschwindigkeit, Sicherheit und Benutzerfreundlichkeit wählen.

'Have to come up with another name': Trump calls to rebrand American football - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-football-2674374588/

US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-…

Biden Slams Republicans for Using L.G.B.T.Q. Identity as 'Political Football' (Amy Harmon/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/biden-lgbtq-award.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p3#a251206p3

The Blaze retracts its article accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the January 6 pipe bomber after the FBI arrested a different person (Will Sommer/@willsommer)
https://x.com/willsommer/status/1996791496994111884

Will Sommer (@willsommer) on X
The Blaze has finally retracted its story accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the Jan 6th pipe bomber, after a different person was arrested today.

Trump Mobile is offering phones for $500 —they are just refurbished, and three years old | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mobile-trump-phone-refurbished-prices-b2879224.html

Pardoned Democrat Henry Cuellar wants GOP to probe his prosecutors (Benjamin Guggenheim/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/henry-cuellar-pardon-investigation-00679552
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p130#a251205p130

What could go wrong? "Artificial intelligence systems built with biologically inspired structures can produce activity patterns similar to those seen in the human brain even before they undergo any training, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University."
Johns Hopkins Study Challenges Billion-Dollar AI Models
https://scitechdaily.com/johns-hopkins-study-challenges-billion-dollar-ai-models/

Trump nominations package hits stumbling block in Senate (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/04/congress/senate-nominations-package-delay-00677016
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p139#a251205p139

Horizon Quantum, which aims to list on Nasdaq via a SPAC in Q1 2026, claims it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/horizon-qu

Software startup deploys Singapore’s first quantum computer for commercial use
Singapore-based software firm Horizon Quantum Computing has become the first private firm to deploy a quantum computer for commercial use in the city-state.

Chi Ossé ends early bid to challenge Jeffries (Faith Wardwell/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/chi-osse-ends-bid-to-challenge-jeffries-00679466
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p125#a251205p125

Justice Department urges judge to jail former Jan. 6 defendant after alarming return to DC (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/justice-department-urges-judge-to-jail-former-jan-6-defendant-after-alarming-return-to-dc-00678109
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p144#a251204p144

Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump's Boat Attacks (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/politics/trump-boat-attacks-killings.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p142#a251204p142

Jake Tapper Misidentifies D.C. Pipe Bomb Suspect as a '30-Year-Old White Man' (Paul Bois/Breitbart)
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/12/04/jake-tapper-misidentifies-d-c-pipe-bomb-suspect-brian-cole-as-a-30-year-old-white-man/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p1#a251205p1

Supreme Court Lets Texas Use GOP-Drawn Voting Map for 2026 (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/supreme-court-lets-texas-use-gop-drawn-voting-map-for-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p141#a251204p141