Tootfinder

Snap Q2: revenue up 9% YoY to $1.34B, vs. $1.35B est., 469M global DAUs, vs. 467M est., and global ARPU of $2.87, vs. $2.90 est.; SNAP drops ~15% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/snap-q2-earnings-report-2025.html

Snap shares plummet 15% after weak second quarter revenue metric
Snap reported second-quarter earnings in which sales were basically in line with analysts' estimates while global average revenue per user missed expectations.

Comrade Xi's parade. China's message to America #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/06/comrade-xis-parade-chinas-message.html

Anyone from Microsoft following me?
I’m going to leave GitHub (I’ve been a user since the beta days) and will incessantly ask everyone I know to leave it as well if you don’t roll back the “can’t opt out” force-feeding of “AI” nonsense.
You should also have no integration or collaboration with Xai at all, ever.
Make your management have some sense, this is hostile and disgusting and wrong.
#github

from my link log —
Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?
https://brandondong.github.io/blog/javascript_dates/
saved 2025-05-29

The climate crisis hits Texas.
#climatecrisis

What does it mean when someone who is silent on condemning Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people has no end of words to malign those of us speaking out against it?
🤔
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

NYT reports 11.88M subscribers in Q2, total revenue up 9.7% YoY to $685.9M, adjusted operating profit up 28% YoY to $133.8M, and subscription revenue of $481.4M (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/media/new-york-times-ea…

New York Times Revenue Jumps 9.7% From Subscriptions and Ads
The company added 230,000 digital-only subscribers in the second quarter. It now has 11.88 million total subscribers.

psst
you! yes, you
would you like to see a piece of fantastic investigative journalism, uncovering an international tax fraud scheme (in minecraft)?
do you want to see how some kids invented CDOs-but-worse and how it ended?
here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLm-QFzrxA

@… @… I’m very proud of that project’s name

»Reality check: Microsoft Azure CTO pushes back on AI vibe coding hype, sees 'upper limit'«
Blind trust is never good, but unfortunately too many people are mentally blind.
🧑‍💻 https://www.geekwire.com/2025/reality-chec

¡Art City Tour 2025! Este jueves 10 de Julio 2025 es la tercera edición, un evento mšs para la #AgendaCulturalCR
https://artcitytour.gamcultural.com/03

Insurer Blue Shield of California's new parent company alarms consumer advocates
Blue Shield of California accrued a surplus of more than $4 billion over the decades as it benefited from its former tax-exempt status, according to a regulatory filing.
Last year, regulators approved a request by 💥Blue Shield of California,
the state's third-largest health insurer, to restructure and establish a new parent corporation in Delaware.
The Oakland-based nonprofit go…

Insurer Blue Shield of California's new parent company alarms consumer advocates
Whistleblower demands California regulators rescind restructuring of Blue Shield of California, which established a new corporate parent in Delaware. He...

I was lucky enough to watch the premiere of "Nühai" ("Girl") by Shu Qi. Very moving.
https://www.labiennale.org/it/cinema/2025/programma-cinema-2025-pubblico/nühai-girl-2025-09-04-16-15
It was …

Anybody know how to convert between these and cartesian or polar?

#Wels

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Amortisation automatisch

Texas officials face scrutiny over response to catastrophic and deadly flooding (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/06/texas-officials-face-scrutiny-over-response-to-catastrophic-and-deadly-flooding-00440035
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p8#a250706p8

tech nerdery
I mean this: if every receiver just connected to its source when it was ready, and we hadn't made short-timeout stateful firewalls everywhere, we'd have to deploy SO MANY fewer weird one-off services just to receive something.
Instead we have to provision certificates and public facing hostnames to get communication going. Backend development is so much more complex and less robust because of it.

Sometimes people are like “Can you build this for me? I’ll give you money.” and sometimes I’m like “Okay.”

AirPods Pro 3: Das sollen Apples nächste ANC-Stöpsel können
Die Gerüchteküche geht davon aus, dass es bis zur nächsten Generation der beliebten Apple-In-Ears nicht mehr lange dauert. Das sind die Details.
http…

The Lean project is looking for someone to work on a documentation tool for math/technical communication. This is likely to be very influential, so a chance for someone with the right skills to have great impact. See the announcement here:
https://

Public view of Lean | Zulip team chat
Browse the publicly accessible channels in Lean without logging in.

divisive leader

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead open 3 days at red rocks, playing afternoon shows in an attempt to avoid the usual evening rain. fun daylight photos/videos. late summer ’85, show #6.
soundboard: https://

I really can’t think of AI agents as anything other than malware with articles like these:
#AI #tech #LLM

Adjusting the timing of food assistance payments could affect crime rates
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-adjusting-food-payments-affect-crime.html

Solidarity Statement of the Persaudaraan Pekerja Anarko Sindikalis (PPAS) on the People’s Resistance August – September 2025
https://redandblackanarchists.com.au/solidarity-statement…

Best practices are contextual.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/best-practices

Vooral van belang is de vraag: kan er geregeerd worden zonder links (en zonder PVV uiteraard)?
CDA VVD JA21 D66 BBB SGP CU = 71.
Nee dus, zelfs niet met 7 partijen.
Maar ja, het is maar een peiling.

La CAQ continue de couper dans le transport en commun.
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/2025-09-06/transport-collectif/guilbault-serre-la-vis-pour-la-derniere-fois.php

To The Edge – piano and poetry improvisations
#PianoImprov #ImprovPoetry

To The Edge - piano and poetry improvisations
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The German public news programme #Tagesschau just reported that, how surprising, Ukrainian tanks provided by Germany have been destroyed (throughout the war).
Yeah… they weren't meant to be exhibited in a museum, y'know. 🙄 Only in the last sentence, they stated that #russia has lo…

YouTube Tricked Me Into Using AI, and it Sucked by icklenellierose
#youtube

First day without rain.
Right after work we brought our car to some maintenance and drove back by bike. Well not the direct way, but a fun way 😊
It felt really good!
#cycling #BikeTooter #getoutside

@… Yessssss
Have an amazing time!

Well i can't work or play piano for a while so, um, what's good and really long with many seasons that I haven't seen? Haven't seen much on Apple TV I guess, or HBO.
Have seen Severence and will finish Andor today.
#tv

If the Olympic committees (worldwide and in the US) had any integrity they would cancel the 2028 Olympics in LA or move them to another less repressive country. For instance, China is now less repressive than the US and it has Olympic venues left over from the last time.
"Trump announces he will lead White House taskforce for 2028 LA Olympics"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Francis of Delirium:
🎵 Ballet Dancers (Never Love Again)
#FrancisofDelirium
https://francisofdelirium.bandcamp.com/track/ballet-dancers-never-love-again
https://open.spotify.com/track/62WWqdJXqd6FSq6eCWNoTJ

Well, that's another 28 months of #VPN - Incredible coincidence that my previous subscription ended just now lol.

Ich werde das Wochenende einfach ausschliesslich mit „kucken“ verbringen. Bin noch nicht so sicher, ob mein Hirn das hinbekommt, was der allerbeste Optiker überhaupt mir eingeschliffen hat. Solange ich mich nicht bewege und die Welt auch nicht, geht’s 🤓
Ah: Früpensionierung wäre eine Option, einfach wo sitzen und langsam kucken

Alle Jahre wieder 🤩🍎
Das tapfere Apfelbäumchen am #klexenhaus liefert allen Widrigkeiten zum Trotz brav ab,langsam muss ich ihn abernten bevor die Stürme es tun.

Oh my God, they riled Donny! The 15 biggest South Park scandals … ranked https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/05/oh-my-god-they-riled-donny-the-15-biggest-south-park-scandal…

Both #stratosphere balloons launched today in Bochum, Germany, could be recovered quickly (one from a tree, the other from a field) and the storage cards are in good shape, with 50 GBytes of data including e.g. hi-res video of the explosion of one of the balloons. Stay tuned ...

Extrem kurzweilige Serie: #DeptQ 👍
#netflix

Cardinals vs. Saints odds, prediction, bets: Proven model reveals free 2025 NFL Week 1 picks for Sunday

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cardina

P.D.Q. Bach - Prelude to Einstein on the Fritz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpL0J5l5qEE&list=RDNpL0J5l5qEE&start_radio=1
For the record, Glass and Schickele were close friends.

💢 Anti-establishment versus authoritarian populists and support for the strong(wo)man
#politics

Frontiers | Anti-establishment versus authoritarian populists and support for the strong(wo)man
This paper contributes to the growing demand-side literature on populism by investigating how different types of populist attitudes shape support for strongm...

Spent some time comparing and I still prefer DxO PhotoLab to Capture One. They’re both really nice, though, damn. #photography

The militia cleared unhoused camps to make room for their tents;
"An additional $5 million for a tent city has been approved, ... along with $600K in air conditioning rental & more than $500K for land mobile radios."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/na

With no end in sight, National Guard troops deployed to DC grow weary
With each phone call home, the troops describe a mission unlike any other.

Hier sind die Folien meines :nixos: #NixOS workshops grade eben beim #Tübix2025:
https://no…

40 Hochzeiten haben mich gelehrt: Früher Beginn schlägt späten Start! 🎉
Wenn die Feier schon zum Mittagessen losgeht, entsteht einfach eine andere Stimmung als bei den "ab 15 Uhr Kaffee trinken"-Varianten. Die Gäste wachsen mehr zusammen.
Kennt ihr das auch?
#Hochzeit

Question: To you, what is the relationship between society and stories?
My aim is to discover more perspectives than what I'm familiar with.
Bonus: Include a description of a visualisation.
Example: recycle symbol between society & stories, mirror, time travel machine, etc.
Thank you! And let me know if you need more info!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Link Wray:
🎵 Walkin with Link
#LinkWray
https://open.spotify.com/track/2kpuqkwuwh2qgqHAoUitOW

Découvrez l'histoire poignante de 4 générations de victimes et de plus d'une centaine d'enfants sur https://chardonsbleus.org/contexte-4-generations-de-victimes-une-centaine-denfants-okc/ 💔

Contexte : 4 générations de victimes, Une centaine d’enfants
+ de 30 ans que des enfants parlent sans être entendu·es

The world would be a better place if Chris Rufo just got run over by a bus (ideally 10 years ago).
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3ltdt66yen22h

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
SEMAFOR: @nytimes.com published the hit piece on Zohran to not get scooped by… Chris Rufo🤔 (CRT fear peddler who offered $5K for proof of Haitians eating cats) “people are really upset” inside NYT. Again: the story itself is the scandal. https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2025/times-pushed-ahead-to-avoid-being-scooped-on-mamdani-columbia-story

Neuralink's Blindsight BCI targets blindness, as Musk teases "superpower situation" https://thedebrief.org/neuralinks-blindsight-bci-targets-blindness-as-musk-teases-superpower-situation/ After Dobelle, Arg…

Neuralink’s Blindsight BCI Targets Blindness, as Musk Teases “Superpower Situation”
Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.

#ListeningClub Skoden.

”This discourse has two sides; one is objectively true and the other one verifiably false. Therefore we must listen to both sides equally.”
—The Centrist Credo

Fico says Putin interested in meeting Zelensky outside Moscow, as Russian leader contradicts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/07/fico-says-putin-interested-in.html

We are a group of volunteers who love books,
like to have fun,
and believe everyone should have access to affordable personal health care.
All of our proceeds go to Planned Parenthood California Central Coast,
which includes six health centers in Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties.
https://booksale.…

Disney says it is "fully integrating" Hulu into Disney and plans to launch a "unified" Disney and Hulu app in 2026 now that it is Hulu's sole owner (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/hulu…

Hulu App to Be Phased Out; 'Fully Integrating' Into Disney+
Disney said it is "fully integrating" the Hulu service, which it now owns 100%, into its flagship Disney+ streamer.

Zohran Mamdani shared 'sick' video mocking Hannukah and 'cosplaying Jews,' advocacy group charges (Shane Galvin/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/us-news/mamdani-shared-sick-video-mocking-hannukah-advocacy-group/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p24#a250706p24

bereft of fucks is a blessing

Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI.

@… @… I’ve heard of those, are they good

Hegseth is a fool, you wouldn’t hire him for any serious job but the scary thing is he has serious power in his role.

Mastercard Claims NSFW Game Bans Aren’t From Them, Valve Explains How Mastercard Launders Its Control | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/mastercard-claims-nsfw-game-bans-arent-from-them-valve-explains-how-mastercard-launders-its-control/

HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML
Rethinking DOM from first principles
Cover Image: Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has succeeded, even on the server, the client still feels largely the same as it did 10 years ago.
🌐 https://acko.net/blog/html-is-dead-long-live…

HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML
Rethinking DOM from first principles

@… Do type refinements count?

My plane still hasn't taken off after a hour, because United Airlines had a *system wide* crash in the software that computes the cargo load and distribution needed for take off.
WHY THE EVER LOVING FUCK DOES SUCH A SYSTEM NEDD A NETWORK CONNECTION? YOU COULD HANDLE ALL THE NEEDED COMPUTATION ON A BLOODY PHONE IN THE CAPTAIN'S POCKET!
Are they using a gratuitous LLM or something? What the hell, United?

Some impressions from the double #stratosphere balloon launch in Bochum, Germany, today - more pictures in the album https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10230589908466338

#3GuteDingeDesTages
🙂 Zebrakuchen gebacken 🥧
🙂 Zebrakuchen gegessen 🍴
🙂 die neue 🧶 ist auf Granit fast unsichtbar

"I thought 'audiophile' headphones were only for chin-scratching posers... until I got a pair"
https://www.creativebloq.com/tech/headphon

These headphones have me hearing details in music I never knew existed
The Sennheiser HD 550s are a revelation, and a bargain at $270.

RIVM update rioolwaarden en percentage positief.
Met een forsere stijging dan vorige week. Het gewogen gemiddelde is bijna 300 en daarmee is deze 17e golf al hoger dan de vorige, die bleef begin juni onder de 275.
Zeven nieuwe dagen in de data: 28 juli t/m 3 augustus, met 75%-15% van de meetstations.
#qp2t

What's your favorite Dr Pepper flavor?
I'm all in on no flavor.
#thisUiMakesNoSense #drPepper

2025 Week 1 NFL bets, odds, free picks, predictions, lines: Model backing Packers, Jaguars

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-week-1-nfl-bet…

RETVRN

Adalytics finds 9,000 pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M views from July to May (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/t…

YouTube Pirates Are Cashing In on Hollywood’s Summer Blockbusters
More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.

He is such an asshole

@… a ha, yes! I love it!

July 5, 2025 -- Yesterday afternoon, President Donald J. Trump signed the nearly 1,000-page ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-5-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p18#a250706p18

#MAGA #FAFO
Dr. Oz: Trump's Tariffs Promise More Expensive Prescriptions | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/08/dr-oz-americans-wil-pay-more-presrciption

"Workers who are presented as "undocumented" will be taken to the camps. Perhaps they will work in the camps themselves, as slaves to government projects. But more likely they will be offered to American companies on special terms: a one-time payment to the government, for example, with no need for wages or benefits. In the simplest version, and perhaps the most likely, detained people will be offered back to the companies for which they were just working. "

Concentration Camp Labor
Cannot Become Normal

@… @… @… I’m not sure how either of those solutions separates concerns more than Radicle. It is, eff…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic,
announced in a statement Tuesday that
❌ $500 million worth of vaccine development projects -- all using mRNA technology -- will be halted.
The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections

RFK Jr. pulls funding for vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses
The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.

Punchbowl News plans to launch weekly YouTube show Fly Out Day, aiming to be a "modern political show that is very in the moment" with "sharp interviews" (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2025/punchbowl-news-ex…

Punchbowl News expands to video
The Capitol publication is launching a weekly YouTube show called “Fly Out Day.”

'The American system is being destroyed': academics on leaving US for 'scientific asylum' in France (Ashifa Kassam/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/05/academics-leaving-us-scientific-asylum-france-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p12#a250706p12

Wir haben den Wels nicht von unseren Eltern geerbt, sondern von unseren Kindern geliehen

Newsom is offering a new approach to the info-wars
—and an answer to MAGA authoritarianism.
https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1958355880455659918?t=P8zkoP0gjoLvjdWm67GGUQ&s=19

Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) on X
Donald Trump is trying to rig the election. He knows he is going to lose. It’s why he is asking his lapdogs in states around the country to find congressional seats for him.

Parallelwels

MAGA Congressional Candidate Calls Texas Floods 'Fake': It's 'Murder' (Kenneal Patterson/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-congressional-candidate-kandiss-taylor-calls-texas-floods-fake-its-murder/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p9#a250706p9

Wie ist die welspolitische Lage?

Israeli soldiers fired gunshots into the sky.
That was the signal:
Move forward.
The crowd surged as one.
There were no organized lines, no distribution points
— just scattered supplies thrown from trucks or dropped by parachute.
People climbed over each other to grab whatever they could before it was gone.
I wished I had the muscle to fight my way through, to claim a small box of pasta or a can of tuna.
But my body has been malnourished for m…

In Gaza, Aid Is a Tracking Device Distributed by People With Guns and Drones
Hunger in Gaza isn’t accidental — it’s managed. It’s enforced. And now, aid is being militarized.

How Trump's policies are reshaping immigration enforcement in Puerto Rico (Nicole Acevedo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/immigration-raids-ice-puerto-rico-trump-dominicans-rcna216080
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p10#a250706p10

Ich hätte gern ein paar Orcas, die sozialen Kontakt suchen.

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Greene to introduce 'weather modification' bill (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5386499-greene-to-introduce-weather-modification-bill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p4#a250706p4

Neues von den Orcas: Tauchenden Menschen bieten Orcas immer wieder Nahrung an. Das Anbieten von Orca-Jagdbeute geschieht wohl, um mit Menschen zu interagieren — vermutlich aus Neugier, Spieltrieb oder um Beziehungen aufzubauen.
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-29805-001.…

Exclusive / Times pushed ahead to avoid being scooped on Mamdani Columbia story (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2025/times-pushed-ahead-to-avoid-being-scooped-on-mamdani-columbia-story
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p48#a250706p48