Tootfinder

A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/20/josh-woodward-google-gemini-ai-safety.html

Google was at risk of losing its dominance — until it promoted this AI executive
Josh Woodward, a 16-year Google veteran, is tasked with running the Gemini app and going head-to-head with OpenAI in the booming generative AI market.

Trump legt Mondlandung per Dekret fest
Mit der Mission Artemis 3 wollen die USA wieder Astronauten auf den Mond bringen. Das hat US-Präsident Trump jetzt auch schriftlich festgelegt.
https://www.heise.d…

Quick update to my WezTerm config:
• Now draws an unmissable deep-pink border around the active window if the active session is a remote one via SSH so you can easily tell when you’re on your own machine and when you’re not.
https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/bra…

Blick auf die schöne neue Medienwelt 2025 (soweit ich sie nutze).
#rundfunk

Schöne neue Medienwelt, Ausgabe 2025
In meinem Blog finden sich einige Beiträge zu meiner Mediennutzung im Wandel. 2013 habe ich einen langen Beitrag dazu geschrieben, warum ich mit Zeitungen nicht mehr so richtig viel anfangen kann. 2020 geht es dann um die Wiederentdeckung der täglichen Lokalzeitung und um das neu angefangene regelmä

It's movie night! You know what that means #VelociPastor

Ukrainian forces push back Russian troops near Novopavlivka: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/19/ukrainian-forces-push-back-russian.html

Wie haben die Bahn, S-Bahn und BVG das eigentlich früher gelöst mit all den Personen im Gleis, ärztlichen Versorgungsfällen und was sonst passiert?

RE: https://activitypub.blog/2025/12/17/7-8-0-happy-holidays/
“Social Web Reader” 👀🤔👀🤔

Someone argued with me that using higher level programming languages is just like vibe-coding because "C has race conditions"

:3

Guess I need to go to New York to try this push pop sushi.

The Guardian is a mixed bag, but I do appreciate the US edition — among other things for its willingness to write headlines without cowardice.
This is currently the top story on their home page.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/20/epstein-files-release-strategy-trump

Good evening to everyone except this clown car of politicians trying to close the city's third most popular park (and apparently not talking to each other about it)
https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-alan-wong-sunset-great-highway-ballot-mea…

Supervisor Alan Wong says he’ll back measure to bring cars back to Great Highway
Supervisor Wong called both supporters and opponents of Sunset Dunes about his decision. One key person did not receive a call.

Hey @…:
Das mit dem KI-generierten Zeugs ist für ein Medium, dass sich der Wahrheit verschrieben hat, natürlich schon ganz grundsätzlich problematisch. Aber, was geht denn da unter

https://www.justice.gov/epstein

it’s kinda wild that there’s still no widely supported file format for video files that allows multiple subtitle tracks. at this point apple's insistence on not supporting mkv can only be seen as a political decision?

Netflix acquires avatar creation platform Ready Player Me to let its subscribers carry their personas and fandoms across games; the startup raised $72M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/netflix-acquires-gaming-avatar-maker-read…

Netflix acquires gaming avatar maker Ready Player Me | TechCrunch
The gaming startup will allow Netflix subscribers to create avatars that can extend across gaming titles.

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body.
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html
(Doesn’t have an RFC number yet but has been approved, will get one in a few weeks.)

Falls jemand noch mongolischen Obertongesang für die Weihnachtsplaylist braucht.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEu7xIEaXWo

Ich könnte sehr viel zum @uebermedien -Artikel zu Schröders Dogwhistle in der Welt sagen. Oder auch einfach ein altes Zitat von @gedankenkarrussel rausholen, der einen Teil davon übernimmt.

software complexity sells via developer ego
happy holidays!

Exclusive: Trump appointee inspired by conservative media outlet to push for probe of Democratic congressman (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/trump-appointee-inspired-by-conservative-media-outlet-push-probe-democratic-2025-12-20/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p61#a251220p61

Würden die #Fahrradfahrenden bitte die Liebenswürdigkeit besitzen und ihre 5000-Lumen-#LED-#Frontscheinwerfer korrekt justieren?
Ich würde gern nicht 100 m lang geblendet werden.

Im Forum der @… gibt es eine lebhafte Diskussion zu #Mastodon bzw. zum #Fediverse. Dort wird unter anderem kritisiert, dass es hier zu ernst zugeht und Memes bzw.

Hi @… @… people!
If you'd like to support encourage software and community development of Strudel, Tidal and sibling projects, now would be great time!

I just realized how tired I am.
Anyway, weekend soon!

RE: https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/5848/
I wrote about the photo walk I did last sunday. I guess I'll post the photos in the next couple of days separately as well.
On location I didn't expect too much, but I came back with a couple of beautiful

Typhoons vacuum microplastics from ocean and deposit them on land, study finds #environment

Typhoons vacuum microplastics from ocean and deposit them on land, study finds
Tropical storms such as typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are Earth's most powerful weather systems. Born over warm oceans, they travel thousands of kilometers to land, traversing waters now polluted with plastics, from coastal runoff to the vast oceanic garbage patches.

For everyone already sworn into this 119th Congress,
there was no excuse.
There is no excuse.
The refusal to act,
to even start to pound the drum for Trump's impeachment,
is an abdication of their own declared duty to the nation
and destructive in and of itself.

Oaths Of Office, And How Everyone Not Moving To Impeach Trump Is Violating Their Own
Until very recently the only member of Congress excused from not having moved to impeach Trump was Rep. Grijalva, because until someone swore her in there was nothing she could officially do. But f…

"Aspiring American authoritarians will only win if they are allowed to do so. None of this has to happen. Both of these terrible possibilities, land war and self-terrorism, are signs of weakness rather than strength. They can be prevented, but only if we name them, and use their horror as the first step to describe something much better."
http…

Land War or Self-Terrorism?
Trump's Likely Next Step

I used to live in a house by the freeway. When I went anywhere, I had
to be going 65 MPH by the end of my driveway.
I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights. Now it looks
like I'm the only one moving.
I was pulled over for speeding today. The officer said, "Don't you know
the speed limit is 55 miles an hour?" And I said, "Yes, but I wasn't going
to be out that long."
I put a new engine in my car, but didn…

S&P Global: data center deals hit $61B globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled YoY to $182B, with Meta raising $62B debt since 2022, ~50% of that in 2025 (April Roach/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/data-center-deals-…

Data center deals hit record $61 billion in 2025 as AI valuation risks and funding concerns grip investors
Hyperscalers are increasingly turning to outside capital in the form of debt to fund the energy-intensive infrastructure.

Must admit I did not have Tommy Wiseau in Idiocracy 2 on my 2026 bingo card.
#Melania

Bundesrat fordert Digitalabgabe: Tech-Giganten sollen Medienvielfalt finanzieren
Die Länderkammer macht Druck auf die Bundesregierung und fordert eine Sonderabgabe für globale Online-Plattformen, um die private Medienlandschaft zu stützen.

Diese neuen linken Bundestagsabgeordneten sind nicht wie die früheren Bundestagsabgeordneten.
#Gaming
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSexc9UjBGy/?igsh=MXVzcm5iYmFvZGl…

Is there a “vibe coding” joke mug with 7 handles

RE: https://mastodon.social/@LanceJZ/115753199788467220
Me after working (an hour) at the Hard Day factory

The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the supposed problematic links to China (Karl Bode/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok

TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…

#FotoDerWoche mit weihnachlichem Stuttgarter Stadtbild.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2025/12/photo-of-the-week-eckensee-stuttgart/

Photo of the week: Eckensee, Stuttgart
Ja, ich weiß, den abendlichen Eckensee hatte ich vor kurzem schon mal als Foto der Woche - aber eben nicht mit diesen dramatischen Wolken und dem raytracing-affinen Wellen samt Spiegelungen des Riesenrads.

Zu sagen das Stolpersteine nicht ins Stadtbild gehören, wäre eine Aussage welche zu recht ein Skandal auslösen würde. Aber zu sagen das Menschengruppen nicht ins Stadtbild gehören oder dieses unschöner machen, eine Ideologie welche das letzte mal dazu führte, dass wir schlussendlich Stolpersteine brauchten, ist in der deutschen Mainstream-Politik längst angekommen.

Ukraine strikes at Russian oil, forcing oil refineries to halt operations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/ukraine-strikes-at-russian-oil.html

I think https://github.com/zachleat/import-module-string is one of the best things I’ve built this year (even if no one else does 😅)

Media groups hail ruling to unseal AG Ken Paxton's divorce records (Dallas Morning News)
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/12/19/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-wife-divorce-hearing-judge-collin-county/?sailthru_id=63e05a053049ef033a04daa9
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p85#a251219p85

1/ Last year I had to spend time with someone who votes far-right.
I could have avoided all political discussions but I gave it a try - knowing about the risc!
At some topics I said: I don't want to discuss that, I have a strong opinion there but let's skip that please.
At other topics, the discussions got heated until I said: waait. We don't need to fight. We agree to disagree. But none of us can change it. Our duty is to vote, not to fight each other. And I d…

2025 LLM Year in Review: shift toward RLVR, Claude Code emerged as the first convincing example of an LLM agent, Nano Banana was paradigm shifting, and more (Andrej Karpathy/karpathy)
https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-review-2025/

2025 LLM Year in Review
2025 Year in Review of LLM paradigm changes

Deutsche nach Kurz-Trip ins All wieder zurück auf der Erde
Nach mehreren Verschiebungen waren erstmals zwei Deutsche mit einer Blue-Origin-Rakete im Weltall – eine der beiden ist querschnittsgelähmt.
https://www…

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115748612376238550
The EU should think very seriously about visa requirements requiring vaccination certificates from USians before permitting entry.
Unlike five years of social media history, this will actually keep people saf…

What’s really amazing about vibe-coding is how people are replacing programming languages which are strictly deterministic with human speech which is highly ambiguous and expect programming to be faster and better.
“Well only use it when you’re already an expert!”
None of the people starting their careers using this technology are experts yet, nor will the ever be.
And within some finite amount of time nether will you, the expert, be an expert anymore.

I Can Believe It's Not Butter, But Choose Not To

Und damit hier niemandem langweilig wird:
Graphene oder Lineage?
Warum? Was funktioniert gut für Euch, was nicht so?
(Und weil's hier womöglich voll wird gleich: Guckt gern, was andere schon schrieben und bezieht euch darauf. Be nice! 🧑🏻‍🎄)

Sources: ByteDance is on track for ~$50B profit in 2025 after generating a ~$40B net income in the first three quarters, surpassing its internal target for 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-19/tik…

The Delaware Supreme Court rules that Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla CEO pay package, worth around $56B when it vested, must be restored, ending a years-long fight (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/musk-tesla-pay-delaware-supreme-court.html…

Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package must be restored as court rules cancellation was too extreme
Shareholder Richard J. Tornetta brought the suit, accusing Musk and the Tesla board of a breach of fiduciary duties.

The energy market in Europe must get rid of its dependence on Russian resources – says Zelenskyy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/the-energy-market-in-europe.html

Decided to be lazy today and only do a small rehab-cycling later with my wife.
Yes I'm not always super sporty ;)

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Österreichs Höchstgericht: Personalisierte Werbung Meta Platforms’ unzulässig

RE: #dotMeow

We can now add "6. Vibe-Code as Much as Possible" to this list

Whatcha thinking about there, kitty?

„Wer am Handy spielt oder das Wetter checkt, dessen persönliche Daten könnten womöglich bei deutschen Nachrichtendiensten oder Strafverfolgungsbehörden landen.“ - @…
Was wir im Bundestag so machen: Solche Sachen ausgraben. Hier konkret Donata Vogtschmidt plus Team.

OpenAI announces ChatGPT for Teachers, designed for K-12 educators and school districts, and says it will be free to K-12 educators in the US through June 2027 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/openai-chatgpt-for-teachers-k-12-educators.html…

OpenAI rolls out 'ChatGPT for Teachers' for K-12 educators and districts
ChatGPT for Teachers will be free to K-12 educators in the U.S. through June 2027

Why does Russia want Donbas? 6 things to know about the region Ukraine is being pressured to give up: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/why-does-russia-want-donbas.html

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Waterfox positioniert sich als KI-freie Firefox-Alternative

SEC filing: Versant, preparing for a Nasdaq IPO, reports 2024 revenue of $7B, down from $7.4B in 2023, and 2024 net income of $1.4B, down from $1.5B in 2023 (Sarah Whitten/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/comcast-versant-annual-profit-public.html

Comcast spinoff Versant reports declining annual profit as it prepares to go public
Versant will trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker "VSNT" after its separation from Comcast.

RE: https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115745279326032857
The folks, here on the fediverse, who malign those of us that speak up for the human rights of Palestinians and against Israel’s ongoing genocide, who label us “antisemitic” for rejecting the antisemitic co…

I got the The Butterfly archetype! ❤️❤️❤️
I admit it made me smile (Not only because I like Butterflies but the analgy is just cute).
https://mastodon.social/@hikingdude/wrapstodon/2025/e845cf162e7b116a

This is, point for point exactly how all web applications are made

Ich hatte eine völlig falsche Vorstellung von Mainz.
Die Linke in Rheinland-Pfalz – Werben um die Landbevölkerung https://share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothek-audio-teilen.html?audio_id=dira_BF784B7EDCE311F0704648DF3755BF60…

Google advises some employees on visas, including H-1B visas, not to travel outside the US due to processing delays, following new social media screening rules (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-tells-visa-holders-stamp-le…

Google warns some visa employees not to leave the US due to 'significant' return delays of up to a year
The US State Department said it was "prioritizing thoroughly vetting" each visa case, which could cause delays.

Airbus sucht eine souveräne EU-Cloud
Airbus sieht bei sich einen großen Cloud-Bedarf: Dabei will der Flugzeughersteller aber unbedingt auf eine europäische Lösung setzen.
https://www.heise.de/news/Airbus…

29th Heavy Mechanized Brigade Insignia Unveiled: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/th-heavy-mechanized-brigade-insignia.html

The National Association of Broadcasters launches a campaign to support live sports on free broadcast channels as more big games move to streaming services (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/platform/broadcast/n…

NAB Launches Effort to Keep Live Sports on Broadcast Channels
The campaign comes at a time when fans are increasingly complaining about the cost of accessing games behind paywalls and the complexity of accessing the games

statistical collage
iterative pastiche
recursive potpourri

Online-Käufe: Gut sichtbarer Widerrufsknopf wird Pflicht
Ein Klick statt E-Mail-Pingpong: Ein neuer Widerrufsknopf soll Online-Käufer besser schützen. Was sich für Verbraucher und Patienten bald ändert.
https://www…

Trump suggests Zelenskyy give up territory? Ukraine responds sharply! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/trump-suggests-zelenskyy-give-up.html

„Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora“ hat eine zweite Chance verdient
Das „Avatar“-Videospiel „Frontiers of Pandora“ hat einen zu Unrecht schlechten Ruf. Eine kleine Anleitung, wie man darin Spaß haben kann.
https:/…

The Kansas City Chiefs launch Foolish Club Studios, a first for an NFL team, to produce scripted and unscripted content that "might only be sports-adjacent" (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/kansas-city-chiefs-studio-plans…

Kansas City Chiefs In-House Studio Plans: TV and Film Content
The Kansas City Chiefs are the undisputed NFL team of choice for Swifties — but the team’s ultimate goal is total world fandom domination.

AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence claims vision-language-action models learn to align human videos and robot data as pre-training is scaled up (Physical Intelligence)
https://www.physicalintelligence.company/research/human_to_robot

Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models
Exploring how transfer from human videos to robotic tasks emerges in robotic foundation models as they scale.

Trotz Irreführung: Elon Musk erhält aberkannte Tesla-Aktien zurück
Das damals größte Wertpapierpaket der Geschichte für einen Manager war unfair und rechtswidrig. Dennoch spricht ein Berufungsgericht Elon Musk die Anteile zu.
…

Honestly his code isn’t even that amazing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115583672964172193

Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that a Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted (Chris Stokel-Walker/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91463942/sequoia-shaun-maguire-brow…

Sequoia's Shaun Maguire accused an innocent Palestinian of being the Brown shooter. Then he doubled down.
Online sleuthing is not, it turns out, among the noted VC's talents.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Volkswagen setzt bei Kleinwagen voll auf Elektroantrieb
https://ww…

ye olde tale of a guy who wrote some passable code 30 years ago for a game designed by other people who is now being a complete triple-A asshole, consistently for years

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Waterfox positioniert sich als KI-freie Firefox-Alternative

The Dutch government suspends its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, restoring control to its Chinese owner; a Dutch minister says the move is "a show of goodwill" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

Dutch Hand Back Control of Chinese-Owned Chipmaker Nexperia
The Dutch government suspended its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, restoring control to its Chinese owner and defusing a standoff with Beijing that had begun to hamper automotive production around the world.

Inspired design from IBM here

Peanuts-Franchise: Sony übernimmt Mehrheit an Snoopy und Charlie Brown
Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts-Franchise mit Snoopy, Charlie Brown und weiteren hat bei Sony ein neues Zuhause.
https://www.

Yay, Mastodon 4.5.1 (released last week) fixes the bug I reported! Really fast turnaround. Thanks ClearlyClaire! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/36775

iPhone Air teardown: clever use of space by placing the logic board above the 12.26 Wh battery, the same cell used in Apple's MagSafe Battery pack, and more (Elizabeth Chamberlain/iFixit News)
https://www.ifixit.com/News/113171/iphone-air-teardown

Apple’s Thinnest iPhone Still Stands Up to Repairs
To be honest, we were holding our breath for the iPhone Air. Thinner usually means flimsier, harder to fix, and more glued-down parts. But the iPhone Air proves…

Figma integriert Tools zur KI-Bildbearbeitung
Figma erweitert seine Designplattform um KI-Tools zur Bildbearbeitung. Sie isolieren und retuschieren Motive oder erweitern den Hintergrund direkt im Layout.
https://www.

This is extremely cool (or rather, hot), I live in the Sonoran Desert, this an ambient album based on it https://gregoryrolland.bandcamp.com/album/monsoon-mirage

CleanSpark shares jump 12% after the bitcoin miner expands into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain's president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers (David Pan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-…

CleanSpark Shares Surge After Bitcoin Miner Joins Pivot to AI
Shares of CleanSpark Inc. surged as much as 13% after the Bitcoin miner announced that it was expanding into date-center infrastructure and the hiring of Jeffrey Thomas from Saudi Arabian AI firm Humain.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Interne Chats der DB: "Zug fällt zur Verbesserung der Statistik aus"

ThinkPad guy has a... bear sitting out there with him

Super-Eliza oder Soziopath? Über die Gefahren der KI-Anthropomorphisierung
Der Psychologe John G. Haas erklärt im Gespräch mit heise online, warum KI-Companions helfen können, aber nie die Therapie ersetzen werden.

The claim "voting Republican does not cause for your dick to fall off" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possiblity that your dick falls off when you vote Republican.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bundesverfassungsgericht lehnt Beschwerde im Fall Modern Solution ab

Paketabgabe bei Nachbarn: Verbraucherschützer verklagen die Deutsche Post
Wo dürfen Paketzusteller Waren ersatzweise abgeben, wenn der Empfänger nicht da ist? Die Bedingungen der Post ermöglichen viel Spielraum und sind intransparent.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
BVG startet größtes Pilotprojekt für autonome Kleinbusse
https…

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wikipedia: Bot-Traffic tarnt sich zunehmend als menschlich