Tootfinder

Ukraine's central bank holds key rate at 15.5%, lowers growth and inflation forecasts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/ukraines-central-bank-holds-key.html

YouTube gives Shorts creators access to new generative AI features powered by Veo 2, including an image-to-video tool and new effects (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/youtube-shorts-is-adding-an-image-to-video-ai-…

YouTube Shorts is adding an image-to-video AI tool, new AI effects | TechCrunch
The image to video feature lets creators turn a picture from their camera roll into a a six-second video.

Es ist bestätigt. Keine Chipproduktion von Intel in Deutschland. 😒 Intel begräbt die Pläne für das deutsche Halbleiterwerk in Magdeburg. 🏭
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10499163

This piece from @… does a magnificent job of explaining this. The longstanding US strength in technology and innovation is coming to a rapid and catastrophic end right before our eyes. It’s self-inflected, it’s immoral, it’s horrifying, it’s stupid, and it’s utterly preventable.
2/2
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascism-for-first-time-founders/

Transkriptions-Software und "FLINTA", das reicht von "Familie" bis "Printer".

Wildes Gerücht: iPhone 17 Pro mit anpassbarer Farbe?
Angaben aus China zufolge erwägt Apple ein Sondermodell für das iPhone 17 Pro. Angeblich orientiert sich der Look an Apples neuem Liquid-Glass-Design.
https://www.

Results of our “you are holding it wrong” game jam:
https://blog.la-terminal.net/winners-of-the-first-xogot-jam/

Winners of the First Xogot Jam!
The results are in! Our very first Xogot Game Jam has wrapped up, and we were blown away by the creativity and experimentation from everyone who participated.

Hulk Hogan es la nueva víctima de este 2025
👇🏻
#HulkHogan

The White House thinks two show runners who just signed a $1.5 billion dollar five year deal are hanging on by a thread? Yeah. Sure buddy.
This is the person in charge of US trade deals? 🤦‍♂️
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/white-house-s…

White House Slams South Park Over Donald Trump Parody Episode
Donald Trump's White House bashes 'South Park' as not relevant in a statement issued after the Season 27 premiere mocked the president.

By deporting foreign nationals to often unstable third countries,
the Trump administration is not only creating a novel class of exiles with little hope of returning to either the United States or their country of origin,
but also explicitly using these vulnerable populations as bargaining chips in a wider strategy of diplomatic and geopolitical deal making.

Opinion | Trump Is Building a Machine to Disappear People
The president’s use of migrants as bargaining chips will corrode international politics.

YouTube gives Shorts creators access to new generative AI features powered by Veo 2, including an image-to-video tool and new effects (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/youtube-shorts-is-adding-an-image-to-video-ai-…

YouTube Shorts is adding an image-to-video AI tool, new AI effects | TechCrunch
The image to video feature lets creators turn a picture from their camera roll into a a six-second video.

Interrailing round Europe while Vegan / Vegetarian - with lots of photos
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/interrailing-round-europe-while-vegan-vegetarian-with-lots-of-photos/

Trump's AI action plan is out which calls for, among other things, establishing an AI Information Sharing and Analysis Center (AI-ISAC), led by DHS, in
collaboration with CAISI at DOC and the Office of the National Cyber Director, to promote the sharing of AI-security threat information and intelligence across U.S. critical infrastructure sectors.

related: I figured I should see if I can cut down on the size of the remote media and came across this (fairly aged) post about pruning the caches.
https://ricard.dev/improving-mastodons-disk-usage/
So I have initiated:
# Prune remote accounts that never interacted with a local user
RAILS_ENV=production /home/mastodon/live/bin/tootctl accounts prune;
And the ETA is 33hrs on pruning 325,000 accounts!
lol. clearly I will not be able to do this in an interactive ssh session. I'll setup a cron for it to do its work silently in the background.
How did I miss this basic management?

tl;dr Sheffield is nice https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/23/not-all-grassroots-venues-are-struggling-sheffields-leadmill-may-be-closing-but-the-citys-diy-hubs-are-thri…

Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array is marking the 20th anniversary of its first scientific results, published in July 2005: #CHARA interferometer enabled the discoveries.

Another essential thread from @… ...
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114733317506784669
pluralistic@mamot.fr - A major problem with letting billionaires decide how your country is run is that they will back whichever psycho promises the lowest taxes and least regulation, no matter how completely batshit and unfit that person is:
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/nations-are-people
--
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/billionaires-eh/#galen-weston-is-a-rat
1/

"Bondi received at least 22 fraud complaints against Trump U. Her office announced she would consider joining a lawsuit initiated by the AG of NY involving potential tax fraud charges against Trump. 4 days later, And Justice for All, a political action committee established by Bondi to support her re-election, received a $25k donation from Trump. Bondi subsequently declined to join the lawsuit."
**Haunted by Epstein, Trump spirals further out of control**- Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/17/haunted-by-epstein-trump-spirals-further-out-of-control/

i used to be the guy who made fun of ppl who wouldn't leave emacs because of magit and now i'm the guy who won't try jujutsu because of lazygit

https://www.theverge.com/news/712638/alphabet-google-earnings-q2-2025-ceo-sundar-pichai-ai?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Air Liquide has taken final investment decision on its 200MW green hydrogen project at the Port of Rotterdam, after securing subsidies from the Dutch government.
23,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year, using electricity from offshore wind. To be operational in 2027.
https://w…

Clouds and More from the Finger Lakes
#nature #photography
https://muz4now.com/2025/clouds-and-mo…

Clouds and More from the Finger Lakes
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Ich habe das Thema bisher kaum oder nie öffentlich angesprochen. Andrea und Frank tun das und schreiben viele richtige Sachen. Einige Gedanken rund um das Thema Krebserkrankung. #Krebs
http://st…

Einige Gedanken zum Thema Krebserkrankung
Ich habe das Thema bisher kaum oder nie öffentlich angesprochen. Andrea und Frank tun das und schreiben viele richtige Sachen. Einige Gedanken rund um das Thema Krebserkrankung.

You know it won't be long now when you see stories like https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/23/sharepoint-targeted-by-chinese-threat-actor-hackers-says-microsoft

Luttons ensemble pour les droits des enfants et contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles !
Un appel du cœur pour que les violences Š l'encontre des enfants mineurs soient prises au sérieux et deviennent une réelle priorité de nos sociétés.
https://chardonsbleus.org/luttons…

The dove pair that nest in our eaves just successfully raised these two chicks. They were alone on the nest yesterday and were gone today. They raised a single chick on the same nest earlier this year. Very clean, we see the family return every year. #naturephotography #birdphotography

Trump Administration Plans to Give A.I. Developers a Free Hand (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/technology/trump-ai-executive-orders.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p87#a250723p87

At least people across academic disciplines are selling themselves out to "AI" bullshit.
Here: Let's get some software make wrong autocompletions of Latin texts and call it scholarship, while probably poisoning our knowledge corpus for years to come…
https://archive.ph/U0ePh

Work has been busy as hell this week and I feel like crap, and have not had a chance to take a break until now... well, later today anyway.

Der Gatte meinte, weil Habilitationen unter Frauen überproportional gesunken seien, müsse ich das jetzt bis zu HabiI durchziehen.
*hysterisches Lachen*
Nein.
#SzenenEinerEhe #ProjektMaster

"Caught between a fossil fuel past and a green future, China’s coal miners chart an uncertain path"
#China #FossilFuels

from my link log —
Servo revival 2023-2024.
https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-revival-2023-2024/
saved 2025-01-07 htt…

Ich würde gern Matrix (das offene Kommunikationsprotokoll für Echtzeitkommunikation, nicht den Film) mögen, aber der Reifegrad der Clients macht es einem echt nicht leicht.

Kremlin indicates Putin-Zelensky meeting unlikely before August amid ongoing Russia-Ukraine negotiations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/kremlin-indicates-putinzelensky-meeting-unlikely.html

Bezahlchips: Verbraucherzentrale mahnt Festivalveranstalter ab und klagt
Viele Festivals sind bargeldlos: Besucher können nur mit Chip zahlen, den sie aufladen müssen. Das generiert Zusatzkosten, Restguthaben werden oft einbehalten.

C3.ai founder and CEO Thomas Siebel steps down due to health issues related to an autoimmune disease that resulted in visual impairment in early 2025 (Hanh Truong/Silicon Valley Business Journal)
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2025/07…

An Office for Civil Rights complaint filed against Smith College
raises questions about how women's colleges will navigate Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-trans campaigns.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/instit

Women’s Colleges Face a Unique Challenge Under Trump
An Office for Civil Rights complaint filed against Smith College raises questions about how women's colleges will navigate Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-trans campaigns.

Spotify and Netflix launch a minigolf game within Spotify's app to promote Happy Gilmore 2, marking Spotify's first partnership for an in-app gaming experience (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/spot

Spotify takes a swing at gaming with a mini golf game ahead of ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ release | TechCrunch
Netflix and Spotify teamed up to launch a golf-inspired game as a way to promote “Happy Gilmore 2,” which premieres on Netflix this Friday.

The horror of the mass starvation in Gaza and Sudan right now is beyond words. It’s hard to even know what to say about it.
These two famines have in common that they are the result of scorched-earth military campaigns targeting specific ethnic groups. All famines are human-made in this modern world, but these famines are •intentional•.
Who are we, we humans with our so-called civilization, if we still after all these years of trying cannot stop genocides in progress?

It's crazy that Ozzy and Hulk died within days of each other. It would have been hard to find two more gigantic stars in the 80s who were known by all, young and old. #RIP #hulkhogan

Trump Signs Order Banning "Woke" AI Models [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/trump-signs-order-banning-woke-ai-models-video/

Happening now: CISA Director nominee Sean Plankey is finally getting his confirmation hearing. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/nominations-11/

Nominations - Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
Nominations of Pedro Allende to be Under Secretary for Science & Technology, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Sean Plankey to be Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Paul Ingrassia to be Special Counsel, Office of Special Counsel; Charles Arrington to be a Member, Federal Labor Relations Authority; Christopher Fox to […]

House Dems prepare to force more Epstein votes (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/23/congress/dems-prep-more-epstein-votes-00469723
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p81#a250723p81

A deep Search for Ethylene Glycol and Glycolonitrile in the V883 Ori #Protoplanetary Disk: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14905 (and two slightly older papers) -> The evolution of life may have its origins in outer space: https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2025-05-v881-ori - astronomers find signs of complex organic molecules (precursors to sugars and amino acids) in a planet-forming disc.

@… ist das informelle Treffen heute ausgefallen? War eine halbe Stunde verspätet und der Raum war abgeschlossen.

heise | iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, Apple Intelligence: Wie sich Apples neue Systeme schlagen
Frisches Design, mehr Intelligence, hilfreiche Funktionen – Apple stellt seine Betriebssysteme auf neue Beine. Was sich für Nutzer bald ändert.

TIL the term “fat structs” which seems to relate more to data bloat while “god classes” that I use for that too, appears to be mostly about behavior? I guess that makes unrestricted ORM fetches fat structs. 🤓
I wonder why I haven’t noticed the word before, but I suspect it’s because we don’t use the term struct in Python (or Java).

Georgian-Ukrainian electronic music festival ICKPA returns to Kyiv amid shared resistance to Russian imperialism: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/georgianukrainian-electronic-music-festival-ickpa.html

Aus für TechniSat im Vogtland – 70 Beschäftigte betroffen
Seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre produziert der Elektronikhersteller Technisat im Vogtland unter anderem Radios. Damit ist zum Jahresende Schluss.
https://www.…

In a memo, Satya Nadella addresses the "enigma" of layoffs while "Microsoft is thriving", saying the transition into the AI era "might feel messy at times" (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/in-new-m…

URGENT! Umerov – on the results of negotiations with the Russians in TURKEY #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/urgent-umerov-on-the-results.html

For millions in US mobile home parks, clean and safe tap water isn't a given
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-millions-mobile-home-safe-isnt.html

Here's my piece on the White House AI action plan if anyone is interested. Got a whole bunch of people to thank but I'm going to do that tomorrow morning.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4027604/white-house-ai-plan-heavy-on-c…

White House AI plan heavy on cyber, light on implementation
Well-received for its cybersecurity provisions, Trump’s AI action plan could face hurdles in practice due to a lack of implementation hooks and the burden it adds to agencies navigating budget cuts, experts say.

The 'Boy Crisis' Is Overblown (Jessica Grose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/girls-boys-school-performance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk8.6mKP.TZqSP1WGOvK-&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p83#a250723p83

Feuerprobe für Liquid Glass: Public Beta von iOS, iPadOS und macOS 26 verfügbar
Später als gewöhnlich bietet Apple öffentliche Vorabversionen seiner nächsten Systeme an. Das viel diskutierte neue Design stellt sich einem Millionenpublikum.

“This role will take up a portion of my time; but it’s not replacing anything. Everything I’m currently doing will continue, and I’m able to maintain things as before.”
oh to be young and optimistic again 🥲

@… Kennst Du? https://youtube.com/shorts/z7cSi9civ5g?si=czkmnicQ8cIYKjqG

Figma makes its prompt-to-app coding tool Figma Make available to all users, after initially launching it in beta for Full Seat users earlier in 2025 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712995/figma-make-ai-general-availability-annou…

Figma’s AI app building tool is now available for everyone
Figma Make, the prompt-to-app coding tool that Figma introduced earlier this year, is now available for all users after launching in beta earlier this year.

Kolomoisky embezzlement case to be sent to court: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/kolomoisky-embezzlement-case-to-be.html

Record-breaking 'gigantic' deep-sea limpet species named after ONE PIECE character
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-gigantic-deep-sea-limpet-species.html

U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS (Stephanie Nolen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/health/pepfar-shutdown.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p85#a250723p85

heise | iPadOS 26 im Hands-on: Neustart für das iPad
Apple bringt MacBook-Funktionen auf das Tablet, Nutzer können mit vielen Fenstern gleichzeitig arbeiten. Kann das iPad damit über sich hinauswachsen?
https://www.

i’ve made it thru Mathematik für Informatiker 1–3 so legally I don’t have to do math ever again

Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26, with its new Liquid Glass design language (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/695142/apple-public-betas-liquid-glass-ios-macos-26…

Apple releases public betas of its new software updates with Liquid Glass
Apple has officially released the first public betas for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and more.

Over 1,300 residents remain in embattled Pokrovsk, governor says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/over-residents-remain-in-embattled.html

“A Historic Day”: the World Court’s Big Climate Opinion - Legal Planet
https://legal-planet.org/2025/07/24/a-historic-day-the-world-courts-big-climate-opinion/

Capitol agenda: Johnson tries to contain Epstein dissent (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/23/congress/johnson-epstein-files-maxwell-comer-massie-democrats-00469083
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p84#a250723p84

Indian company sent explosives to Russia despite US warnings, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/indian-company-sent-explosives-to.html

Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung has The View in his sights - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/07/24/reichsminister-fur-volksaufklarung-has-the-view-in-his-sights/

Kremlin’s logistics under threat: How Ukrainian drones are disrupting Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/kremlins-logistics-under-threat-how.html

Johnson defends House GOP Epstein strategy amid legislative chaos (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/23/congress/johnson-defends-epstein-strategy-00470275
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p80#a250723p80

US senator Lindsey Graham criticises Zelensky's signing of anti-corruption law: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/us-senator-lindsey-graham-criticises.html

She survived abuse and left her faith. Now, she gives religious trauma survivors a voice on YouTube.
https://religionnews.com/2025/07/23/she-survived-abuse-and-left-her-faith-now-she-gives-religious-trauma-survivors-a-voice-on-youtube/

Bondi briefed Trump that his name was in Epstein files (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/bondi-trump-epstein-list-files
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p2#a250724p2

Soviet-era An-24 plane crashes in Russia's Amur Oblast, all 49 on board feared dead: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/sovietera-an-plane-crashes-in.html

Candace Owens doubles down after she's sued for claiming French first lady is trans: "You're sick" - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/candace-owens-doubles-down-after-shes-sued-for-claiming-french-first-lady-is-trans-youre-sick/

Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed (David Pozen/Balkinization)
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p174#a250723p174

Russian glide bombs strike Kharkiv residential high-rise building, injuring at least 33: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/russian-glide-bombs-strike-kharkiv.html

Texas Dream Act repeal leaves undocumented students in limbo
https://19thnews.org/2025/07/texas-dream-act-repeal-undocumented-students-tuition/

Anti Tank and Drone unit joins 19th Corps: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/anti-tank-and-drone-unit.html

Federal appeals court issues another blow to Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship (Devan Cole/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/federal-appeals-court-birthright-citizenship
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p180#a250723p180

Ukraine war latest: Ukraine, Russia hold third round of peace talks in Istanbul: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/ukraine-war-latest-ukraine-russia.html

MO AG Sues Planned Parenthood Over Abortion Pills - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/mo-ag-sues-planned-parenthood-over-abortion-pills/

Trump birthright citizenship order "unconstitutional," appeals court rules (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/24/trump-birthright-citizenship-order-unconstitutional-court
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p176#a250723p176

China covertly supplying drone engines to Russia despite sanctions, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/china-covertly-supplying-drone-engines.html

I don't think it's anti-semitic and I don't like the purist mindset that insists he refute something he never said
Josh Shapiro Says Zohran Mamdani Fails to Condemn ‘Blatantly Antisemitic’ Rhetoric - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/josh-shapiro-zohran-mamdani.html

House Panel Approves Spending Bill That Rejects Some Trump Foreign Aid Cuts (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/politics/house-spending-trump-foreign-aid.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p178#a250723p178

US approves possible $172 million support package for Ukraine’s air defense system: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/us-approves-possible-million-support.html

Small issue of standing, but whatever:
Kim Davis Petitions SCOTUS To Overturn Obergefell - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/kim-davis-petitions-scotus-to-overturn-obergefell/

Dehumanization of opponents – the core strategy of Russian propaganda | Hate Speech: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/dehumanization-of-opponents-the-core.html

Why Does Anyone Think Trump Will Uphold His End of a Bargain With Columbia? (Suresh Naidu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/trump-columbia-deal-professor.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p177#a250723p177

Marjorie Taylor Greene is spreading lies about Ukraine’s protests. Russia is taking note.: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-spreading.html

"A Texas man is suing a California doctor over his girlfriend’s alleged abortion across state lines — the latest in a string of cases meant to test the laws that have helped people get care."
Telehealth abortion access could be challenged nationwide in Texas lawsuit
https://19thnews.org/2025/07/telehealth-abortion-texas-lawsuit-federal-court/

Josh Shapiro joins Mamdani pile-on, saying candidate failed to condemn antisemitic rhetoric (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/23/josh-shapiro-mamdani-pile-on-antisemitic-rhetoric-00473345
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p1#a250724p1

1 killed, 1 injured as Ukrainian drones attack Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, hit Sochi, oil depot: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/killed-injured-as-ukrainian-drones.html

Community rallies in protest after local church calls for killing LGBTQ people - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/community-rallies-in-after-local-church-calls-for-lgbtq-people/

Ukraine, Russia carry out another prisoner swap as third round of Istanbul peace talks concludes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/ukraine-russia-carry-out-another.html

Zelenskyy: Ukraine prepares for NEW prisoners EXCHANGES with Russia #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/zelenskyy-ukraine-prepares-for-new.html

Heroes at HOME! Ukrainians return from Russian captivity – new stage of the EXCHANGE #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/heroes-at-home-ukrainians-return.html

Negotiations in ISTANBUL: the meeting of the Ukrainian and Russian delegations HAS ENDED #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/negotiations-in-istanbul-the-meeting.html…