Tootfinder

Sources: former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao is in talks to raise $1B led by a16z at a $5B valuation for his new AI hardware startup Unconventional (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/source…

Exclusive: Naveen Rao’s new AI hardware startup targets $5B valuation with backing from a16z, sources say
Former Databricks AI chief is raising $1 billion to build a Nvidia rival through a novel approach.

Folgt alle dem @… für Updates zum größten Fediverse Event in Deutschland 🚩

*gulp* I think I just found a good use case for LLMs.
Translate technocratic fash drivel like DHH’s blog posts into plain English, decrypting what’s actually behind all the carefully worded euphemisms and dogwhistles.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" ist erschienen
https://www.

Russia's oil, gas September revenues down 25% from last year amid high budget deficit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/03/russias-oil-gas-september-revenues.html

Environmental storytelling 💋
#Caturday

@… さすがに場所は選んだ方が……vivaldiでやる人にも思うけど……

i'm sorry what the fuck is the TCP MD5 option

i always forget how giant Aaron Judge is. beast

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team.
#USpol

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

Three of the four California counties empowered to inspect federal immigration detention facilities
💥have not done so,
and the fourth has conducted only basic reviews of food this year, records obtained by CalMatters show.
If they were checking, local officials would be providing an additional layer of oversight
at a time when the number of people held in detention centers has surged because of the Trump administration’s crackdown on unauthorized immigrants. 
✅ Tw…

California gave counties power to inspect ICE detention centers. They’re not using it
California's seven ICE detention centers have to open their doors to local health departments. So far, county officials aren't making much use of that power.

Ich fand den Beitrag vom @… auf dem #Fediday ja echt erhellend und toll. Aber leider wurde nicht angesprochen, ob jeder einzelne Post auch grundschutzzertifiziert ist. 😊

#sony #Nostalgie

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/world/asia/china-hack-salt-typhoon.html
‘Unrestrained’ Chinese Cyberattackers May Have Stolen Data From Almost Every American

‘Unrestrained’ Chinese Cyberattackers May Have Stolen Data From Almost Every American
Information collected during the yearslong Salt Typhoon attack could allow Beijing’s intelligence services to track targets from the United States and dozens of other countries.

Them: We need to add jira stories for the integration
Me, quietly to myself: "integration" is an anagram of "taint region"

Autoritäre Bundesregierung setzt die Parteikultur der Union durch. Arg hässlich.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/berlin/musiker-boehmermann-konzertabsage-100.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-de-de…

Alle Musiker canceln Auftritte bei Böhmermann
Nach dem großen öffentlichen Druck hat Jan Böhmermann den Auftritt von Rapper Chefket im Rahmen seiner Ausstellung abgesagt - nun verliert er auch die übrigen Musik-Acts. Einige der Künstler äußern sich.

Today we are launching Xogot for iPhone, along with a free edition.
The iPhone has been a challenging process for shrinking the UI even further.
Check the details on Joseph’s blog post:
https://blog.xogot.com/make-games-anywhere-introducin…

Make Games Anywhere: Introducing Godot for iPhone and Xogot Lite
Since the beginning of time, or at least since the launch of Xogot for iPad, developers have asked: “But can you put Godot on the iPhone?”

Release the Epstein files!
Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/03/treasury-department-trump-dollar-coin-00593368

Hey @…, I just installed #termux on a new #GrapheneOS device. When I did pkg upgrade, it automatically chose a Chinese mirror …

»Grossunternehmen machen 2FA falsch:
Zwei-Faktor-Authentisierung ist eine der besten Sicherheitsmassnahmen für unsere Accounts im Netz. Viele Grossunternehmen setzen aber 2FA zum Nachteil der Kunden falsch ein«
Danke für den Artikel @…, ich habe ihn erst jetzt entdeckt. Leider verstehen mMn viele Firmen die IT nicht ganz wie sie die einsetzen. Es…

A friend of mine who signed up for the Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon said the guy handing out race bibs was wearing a MAGA hat and she is fucking livid that the organizers were okay with that. I gotta find out who I can complain to about it.

Fired prosecutor warns colleagues to resist giving in to Trump era 'political interference' (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/03/fired-prosecutor-trump-era-political-interference-00593426
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p111#a251003p111

¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
#SzenenEinerEhe

'Attacking the science': WA Ecology director slams Trump's climate policies • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/10/04/attacking-the-science-wa-ecology-director-slams-trumps-climate-policies/

One of my biggest surprises even as a chat bot moderate is how many people actually hate programming and can’t wait to stop doing it.
And I guess how many are into glorified gambling.

All-time high temperature in Japan: 41.8°C.
The old record (41.2°C) was from last week...
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/japan-sets-record-high-temperatures-worries-mount-over-rice-crops-2…

Der neue #Windpark Olsberg-Antfeld von #MVV liefert ab sofort grünen Strom für rund 23.000 Haushalte.
Mit vier Anlagen des Typs GE 5.5-158 und 22 MW Gesamtleistung ist es bereits der zweite MVV-Windpark im #Hochsauerlandkreis

MVV erzeugt grünen Strom mit weiterem Windpark in Olsberg | Windkraft-Journal
Das Mannheimer Energieunternehmen MVV sorgt für noch mehr Energie aus Erneuerbaren: Im nordrhein-westfälischen Hochsauerlandkreis hat MVV einen weiteren Windpark ans Netz gebracht. Mannheimer Energieunternehmen MVV treibt Stromwende voran Zweiter Windpark im nordrhein-westfälischen Olsberg in Betrieb Grüner Strom für ca. 23.000 Haushalte (WK-intern) - Der Windpark Olsberg-Antfeld produziert ab sofort klimafreundlichen Strom für knapp 23.000 Haushalte.

Where do people publish images such that they are citable, FAIR and browsable?
I‘d like to publish my drawings under a CC-BY license for reuse but I am struggling finding a good place for that.
#FAIRprinciples

The Vegan Logic Test: If You Believe These 6 Things, You’re Nearly There https://veganfta.com/blog/2025/09/24/the-vegan-logic-test-if-you-believe-these-6-things-youre-nearly-there/?utm_source=Mastodon

The Vegan Logic Test: If You Believe These 6 Things, You’re Nearly There
People have some serious issues when the word ‘vegan’ comes up. It can trigger defensiveness. But have you considered that you may, in some ways, think like a vegan more than you previously thought?

1997-2016 Instruction ⚖️
2016 : premier procès.
2017 : Spatz condamné Š 4 ans avec sursis. Les cadres sont déclarés « sous emprise ».
2020 : deuxième procès, 8 mois d’audiences. Verdict : Spatz coupable d’emprise, violences et abus sur mineurs, mais seulement 5 ans avec sursis.

It’s 83F in #detroit #michigan at 6 PM ON October 4th.
This is not normal

Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches. :-)
-- Larry Wall in <199709021744.KAA12428@wall.org>

At 3:00 UTC Saturday the "24 Hours of the #Planetarium" online event begins, with new streams starting every 4 hours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkq-i57J_LY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHf0Sv1c2WM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kDL8_cobtE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC2pCZttA68
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Q8uN9iBq4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMmDUswjVsY
In one playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkq-i57J_LY&list=PLqscU0F-NkNTEtXqzbT92y-zFWjA_Ie6o&index=9 - and see https://iauoutreach.org/global-projects/100-hours-of-astronomy for the "100 Hours of Astronomy" project this is part of.

There’s just an astonishing number of things that are marvelous done at the scale of research study and somewhere between silly and catastrophic done at the scale of an entire society….

who else is excited for the new thomas pynchon novel in three days??

When should you use #PHP Enums, and when shouldn't you?
https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/on-the-use-of-enums

Looks like #bluesky really works hard to speedrun being Twitter 2.0 by having the CEO having Muskian Meltdowns. 👌
https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115311658328349605

According to PubMed, scientific interest in visual prostheses is waning https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term="visual prosthesis"&filter=years.1995-2025&sort=date&timeline=expanded

I don't know if a person who uses Hello Kitty toilet paper would do so because they like Hello Kitty or because they don't.

Betrunkener in #Bassenheim fährt gegen parkenden PKW, überschlägt sich und flüchtet zu Fuß. Ist - wenn ich richtig vermute - aber auch ne super Stelle um Sichtfahrgebot zu lernen. Vorher enge Kurve im Loch mit Einmündungen, man ist also drauf konzentriert RvL zu waren, Geschwindigkeit zu managen, kommt dann ggf. mit Schwung um die Kurve und hat dann parkende Fahrzeuge auf seiner Spur. Ab…

NFL Week 5 roundtable: Dillon Gabriel's Browns debut, struggling Ravens, Chiefs-Jaguars https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6686914/2025/10/04/nfl-week-5-roundtable-browns-ravens-chiefs-jaguars/

Good morning to everyone except the people who set ticket prices for rail travel in the UK.

Manchmal hilft ja die Vogelperspektive. https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/feb/18/europes-population-crisis-see-how-your-country-compares-visualised

How long have I been doing this whole dev business? You know, I think that’s the first time I’ve ever used `git apply --reverse`

Dominion Voting settles its lawsuit against OANN for defamation over 2020 election rigging claims (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/1974233050373398656

Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) on X
Another 2020 media lawsuit just got resolved: Dominion Voting Systems has ended their lawsuit against OAN

'nacht allerseits, und schönes wochenende, trotz allem!

Apple's removal of ICEBlock raises questions about the limits of what the company will resist under the Trump administration's increasingly outrageous demands (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/10/iceblock_removed_from_app_store

Complying With ‘Demand’ From Trump Administration, Apple Removes ICEBlock From App Store
It’s rather chilling to consider what Apple would have done if the Trump administration had “demanded” a list of device IDs and user identities for everyone who had installed ICEBlock. Or what Apple *will* do if such a demand pops into one of their dimwitted but cruel minds.

The clunkiness and issues like broken replies makes Mastodon unsuitable for many basic social network things, like having near realtime conversations.
It’s fine for what I use it for, which is ranting about the tech industry, but my main activity is on Bluesky. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Russian strikes kill 1, injure 16, target Ukraine's energy infrastructure over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/03/russian-strikes-kill-injure-target.html

@… 動画を全部読み込まずにすぐに再生を開始できるし、コピーもされないから、使い分けると吉。

6 in. Still an out and two innings to go!!

Enormer Finanzanlage-Betrug: 9 Europäer verhaftet
Über 600 Millionen Euro in Kryptowährungen soll eine Bande eingenommen und gewaschen haben. In Deutschland, Spanien und auf Zypern klickten Handschellen.
https://www.

"Vomit first. Then try to make something pretty with it."
—Tatiana Maslany
#acting #coaching #inspiration

On multiple occasions, demonstrators sitting on the ground attempting to block ICE vehicles from carrying detainees into the Broadview facility
have been repelled by heavily armed ICE agents
using physical force, chemical munitions and rubber bullets,
evoking combat scenes

BUSINESS LEADER: We don't want to constrain our addressable market by getting too specific with our user persona. This product is for everyone!
DESIGNER: That's great! Let's talk about accessibility
BUSINESS LEADER: Oh, I didn't mean it like *that*
#a11y #UX

I learned about PsychoPy which is an open-source package for running experiments in Python (a real and free alternative to Matlab).
Anyone using it?
#python

»Wie viel Energie verschlingt ChatGPT?
Das Training von künstlicher Intelligenz benötigt jede Menge Energie. Das ist in Zeiten der Klimaerwärmung ein Problem.«
Und fast keine AI-User nehmen dies wahr, weil die Energieverschwendung nicht direkt in ihrem Zuhause ist. So entfernen wir uns auch von der Energiewende durch den überflüssigen stumpfen KI-Konsum — Marketing durch Verschweigung.
⚡

Wie viel Energie verschlingt ChatGPT?
Das Training von künstlicher Intelligenz benötigt jede Menge Energie. Das ist in Zeiten der Klimaerwärmung ein Problem.

"The highly competitive Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, now in its third year, is accepting applications from early-stage startups through November 15. Last year, hundreds applied and just 23 made the cut."
AWS, Nvidia, Crowdstrike seek security startups to enter the arena
https://www.

AWS, Nvidia, CrowdStrike seek security startups to enter the arena
: Last year's winner scored a $65M funding round on a $300M valuation

Veal-Fattening Pen:
Small, cramped office workstations built of
fabric-covered disassemblable wall partitions and inhabited by junior
staff members. Named after the small preslaughter cubicles used by
the cattle industry.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"

Was talking with an AI / NLP researcher colleague yesterday, who lamented the way that AI keeps flailing back and forth between states where (1) it’s an uphill battle to do good research because hype is at 11 and everyone is talking nonsense and (2) it’s an uphill battle to do good research because everyone thinks it’s an “AI winter” and won’t fund it.

My travels through Chicago: teargas, resistance and Trump's big immigration crackdown (Oliver Laughland/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/my-travels-through-chicago-tear-gas-resistance-and-trumps-big-immigration-crackdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p109#a251003p109

Coinbase applies for a national trust company charter, says it "has no intention of becoming a bank" and the charter will allow expansion in areas like payments (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Schonmal was vom #Igelstachelbart gehört? 🤔
Hab den noch nie gesehen, gehört, gegessen.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/igelstachelbart-ist-pilz-de…

Bedrohter Heilpilz - Igelstachelbart ist "Pilz des Jahres 2026"
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mykologie hat den "Pilz des Jahres 2026" vorgestellt: Es ist der Igelstachelbart - auch Yamabushitake, Löwenmähne, Pom-Pom blanc oder Affenkopfpilz genannt. Der Kultur- und Heilpilz gewinnt der Gesellschaft zufolge zunehmend an Bedeutung und Bekanntheit, ist aber im Bestand bedroht.

I hear some of the issues are being actively worked on which is great.
But: to have broadly successful and inviting social network, you gotta have both the people and the tech.

El Salvador's Journalists Association is moving its legal status out of the country in response to a new law that imposes a 30% tax on foreign donations to NGOs (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-nayib-buk…

Journalism association to leave El Salvador over government pressure
El Salvador’s Journalists Association is moving its legal status out of the country in response to a foreign agents law passed earlier this year. The law has been perceived as a way to pressure critical voices in the Central American nation. Founded in 1936, the association said Wednesday that to continue defending journalists’ rights and freedom of the press it would have to move to another country, which it did not name. The association announced plans in September to close its offices. E…

"Peanuts-Erfinder Charles M. Schulz und die großen Fragen des Lebens" https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/peanuts-erfinder-charles-m-schulz-und-die-grossen-fragen-des-lebens-100.html

Ukraine brings back 22 children from Russian-occupied territories: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/ukraine-brings-back-children-from.html

Bewerbungs-Datenpanne: EuGH lässt Schmerzensgeld für Sorgen und Ärger zu
Nach Datenschutzverstoß durch eine Bank: Ein Bewerber hat laut EuGH ein Recht auf Entschädigung bei einem Datenleck auch ohne konkreten materiellen Schaden.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
-- Daniel Knowles
https://

Daniel Knowles (@dlknowles.bsky.social)
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Unfortunately many of the underlying problems are unlikely to be fixed, like for example that not everyone sees all replies and that they are often severely delayed.

Was Flash from "The Dukes of Hazzard" non-binary?
"Initially referred to as a boy, Flash is later regularly a girl (despite an occasional male reference afterwards)."
https://dukesofhazzard.fandom.com/wiki/Flash

Flash
Flash is a pet dog owned by Sheriff Rosco Coltrane. She is a slow-paced Basset Hound and Rosco's loyal companion, who hates Hogg but loves the Dukes. She first appeared in the first official third-season episode "Enos Strate to the Top" (the season opener "Carnival of Thrills" was held over from the previous season), although she was not formally "introduced" in that episode. Flash's favorite food is "doggie num-nums," a type of dog treat that Rosco feeds her. Flash, unfortunately, passed...

ウチの子（スマホ）iPhone 11 Pro Maxなんですけど、ギリiOS 26の対象になってるけど、今回が最後かなーというところまで来てるんスよ。買い換え考えなくちゃいけないわね……。
それはそれとして、空き容量が足らずアップデートが落ちてこないのだわ。

Exclusive: ‘It’s scary’ - crypto workers under siege from North Korean hackers
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/its-scary-crypto-workers-under-siege-north-korean-hackers-2025-09-04/

Just added "The Emperor of 10,000 Taxes" to my @… bot. Tariffs are import taxes.
The Emperor of 10,000 Taxes first post on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@45names/11514

Please, please let this damned bubble burst so that this goes back to research-land where it belongs, and where we can have grown-up conversations again.

Stephen Miller accused of 'incitement to violence against judges' with new 'purge' comment (David McAfee/Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-violence-purge-judges/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p65#a251004p65

Die Gemeinde #Borchen startet das Förderprogramm „Handeln für den #Klimaschutz“.
Gefördert werden Maßnahmen wie #Photovoltaik,

Klimaschutz-Förderung der Gemeinde Borchen wurde beschlossen - Gemeinde Borchen
Der Rat der Gemeinde Borchen hat die Förderrichtlinie „Handeln für den Klimaschutz“ mit großer Mehrheit beschlossen. Mit dem Förderprogramm sollen Impulse für Bürgerinnen und Bürger zur regenerativen Energieerzeugung, Ressourceneinsparung und somit zur Reduzierung von Treibhausgasemissionen gesetzt werden.

Australia broadens its social media ban for under-16s to include Reddit and Kick, which join Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, and YouTube (Clare Armstrong/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/reddit-and-kick-added-to-c…

Reddit and Kick added to child social media ban
Reddit and Kick will be included in the world-first social media ban for children under 16, which begins next month.

Russian attacks kill 1, injure 33 in Ukraine over past day, target gas infrastructure: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

An interview with Sam Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman on the tepid initial reception to GPT-5's launch, scaling, reinforcement learning, AGI, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-says-the-gpt-5-haters-got-it-all-wron…

Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All Wrong
OpenAI's CEO explains that its large language model has been misunderstood—and that he's changed his attitude to AGI.

The reason why people left to Bluesky or never started on Mastodon in the first place is that it still feels like a clunky web app from 2015 (and native phone apps are broken in many waysj, plus being brigaded by the HOAs here is exactly a fun and welcoming experience.

The authoritarian strongmen Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping
have mused on how organ transplants might lead to immortality,
during a brief exchange of small talk caught on a hot mic at a military parade.
https://www.

Every day is a new opportunity to ask how fucking bad it will get until things start changing for the better.

「クマ超怖い」
「何とかならないの？」

"Donald Trump's clampdown on the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau earlier this year has compounded IT security lapses at the agency through the cancellation of contracts"
US CFPB data security 'not effective' after Trump clampdown, watchdog report says

Wow. I actually find this (via @…) •more• compelling than the MITR study it mentions. Despite the latter being more rigorously conducted, this one take a holistic approach that’s difficult to refute. https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115142592402628516

I really want the quote post feature already on my instance so I can diss myself

"Should we use this rope to get down from the roof, or should we use the latter?"
"I prefer the ladder."

@…
:kumakowai:

The Chicago police chief says that 75% his force is dedicated to crowd control, and that his officers were gassed by ICE while investigating a car running into a pedestrian
https://www.turtlediaries.net/p/ice-in-chicago

ICE in Chicago
Plus Tom Homan's promise about Tom Homan

US federal prosecutors allege that three cybersecurity professionals carried out ransomware attacks on at least five US companies in 2023 using ALPHV ransomware (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/incident-response-ransomware-professionals-charge…

Prosecutors allege incident response pros used ALPHV/BlackCat to commit string of ransomware attacks
The alleged cybersecurity turncoats attacked at least five U.S. companies while working for their respective employers, officials said.

social media, n.
A website for people to block each other.

Today I did not bike to work, and it felt weird. The last time I drove the car to work was September 10th, so I made it 16 work days in a row by bike. And of course we're still in the Week Without Driving. Sigh... You can't win them all!

Anyone know if there's any new extras in the Tron 4K release? Or is the same old "Making of Tron" from 2002?

An SUV carrying ICE agents had been blocked in traffic by a man on a scooter for about 30 seconds
when suddenly the agents tossed canisters out their windows that quickly began expelling smoke onto the streets, Denton said.
Aside from “people yelling at them, telling them to leave, and a lot of honking,
no one was attacking the agents,” said Denton, who lives in Logan Square.
“There was no reason for them to do that,” he added.
“It’s upsetting to see people bei…

The three words you can whisper into the ear of any support AI chatbot to get their attention
credit card chargeback

The White House’s former top Latin America official has said
he fears the US could stumble into a protracted guerrilla war in Venezuela
after Donald Trump ordered a military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea,
killing 11 alleged drug traffickers.
Tuesday’s controversial strike off the Venezuelan coast – which was reportedly carried out by an attack helicopter or Reaper drone – came after Trump ordered a major naval deployment to the region,
ostensibly to comb…