Tootfinder

Google's and Accel's joint AI startup accelerator Atoms picked five Indian startups from 4K applications, saying ~70% of rejected applicants were AI "wrappers" (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/goog…

Google, Accel India accelerator chooses 5 startups and none are 'AI wrappers' | TechCrunch
Google and Accel say about 70% of AI startup pitches tied to India were "wrappers" as they reviewed more than 4,000 applications for their Atoms cohort.

Vernetzte Fabriken im Visier: Cyberangriffe kosten Autobranche Milliarden
Ein Weißbuch der Denkfabrik CAM und von Cisco zeigt: Die Schadenskosten sind explodiert, wobei vor allem die Zulieferer als schwächstes Glied der Kette gelten.

Boycott daylight savings by sleeping 20 hours a day
#Caturday

Trump DOJ Moves to Limit Ethics Investigations of Lawyers
https://www.jdjournal.com/2026/03/04/trump-doj-moves-to-limit-ethics-investigations-of-lawyers/
You can leave a comment on this. A REAL THING THAT HAS REAL IMPACT here: …

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116233732811021061
It may come as a shock to you but humans believe in all sorts of bullshit

«Instagram is killing its end-to-end encrypted chats - here's what changes May 8:
Instagram will end support for end-to-end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026. What the feature does, how it works, and what users lose when it goes.»
Instagram has never been safe, because although it uses encryption, the clearly visible metadata says a lot about something.
💬

Instagram is killing its end-to-end encrypted chats - here's what changes May 8
Instagram will end support for end-to-end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026. What the feature does, how it works, and what users lose when it goes.

Time to dust off your pretty little bonnets, Browncoats. It's baaaaack! (kinda)
✅ Nathan Fillion Says ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development With Co-Stars Set To Reprise Roles
https://deadline.com/2026/03/nathan-fillion-firefly-animated…

Nathan Fillion Says ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development With Co-Stars Set To Reprise Roles; Concept Art Revealed
Nathan Fillion says 'Firefly' animated series is in development with costars to voice their original roles. Concept art revealed.

Entwicklung der #Nabenhöhen von #Windkraftanlagen an Land in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Die kleinste registrierte

"Darmstadt. Unbekannte Täter hatten es zwischen Dienstagabend und Mittwochmorgen gegen 7 Uhr auf eine Kindertagesstätte in der Kurt-Schumacher-Straße in Darmstadt abgesehen. Als Beute ihres Einbruchs stahlen sie kurioserweise eine einzelne Wurst. Die Schäden des Einbruchs sind dennoch erheblich, so die Polizei Südhessen."

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@shafik/115896957373436161
“Research preview” is marketing speak for “the intern vibe coded a cool demo, check it out!”

"Acting is experience with something sweet behind it."
—Humphrey Bogart
#acting #coaching #inspiration

You have to remember that what we think of as mere tooting, the establishment considers jiving with the code jockeys in cyberspace

What do you even us a computer for?

404 Sleep not found

Also interesting: #Goddard and the Invention of the Liquid Fueled Rocket" from 10 days ago, stressing his (non-)interaction with the public and colleagues. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnNIMT1RBGs = the "Robert Goddard First Launch Space Centennial Kick-Off Announcement" by the city of Worcester, Mass., from February and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJp6DHhfkKw = the video "Beyond Rockets" mostly on futuristic ideas.

Entering the canyon
(Half an hour earlier we were sitting and basking in the sun at the top of those cliffs on the left...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

from my link log —
Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager in River.
https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/
saved 2026-03-15

I made a veggie baked ziti with zucchini. It was pretty darn good

Has anyone ever tried to use UV gel nail polish as soldermask or silkscreen material when reworking a PCB? How does it handle e.g. soldering in close proximity?

I solved today's #TiledWords puzzle!
🦀 “Invertebrates”
🕒 4 minutes, 51 seconds
💡 0/3 reveals used
∗️ 58 moves used
https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/2026-03-14…

Tiled Words
A daily word puzzle with a twist

The Santa Barbara City Council passed a temporary rent freeze
in a 4-3 vote on Tuesday,
putting a halt on rent increases for up to a year
while the City Council works toward drafting a more permanent rent stabilization ordinance
to be considered later in 2026. 
The rent increase moratorium will be officially adopted next week
and would be effective 30 days later.
The council failed to get the fifth vote needed to qualify for an urgency ordinance,

Santa Barbara City Council Passes Temporary Rent Freeze
Council will adopt a moratorium on rent increases while the city drafts a permanent rent cap.

Real Housewives of Pompeii
#RomanEraTVShows #HashTagGames

Geilster neuer Emoji in der aktuellen Beta 😂

Heavy Metal - China controls much of the strategic metals needed for just about everything modern. And they have now instituted ways to turn things off and on with most countries in the world dependent on this flow.
#China won this war without firing a shot
https://no01.substack.com/p/china-usa
Yeah, it’s substack, I really wish people who should know better with such great content wouldn't do it on substack. (I don't pay)

Willen we echt bloemen geven die met pesticiden zijn bespoten? In de kerk komt het gesprek op gang - Nederlands Dagblad
https://www.nd.nl/leven/duurzaamheid/1309182/willen-we-echt-bloemen-geven-die-met-pesticiden-zijn-bespoten
'Een uitbundige bos bloemen voor in de kerk, die na de dienst wordt weggegeven. Het hoort er in veel kerken bij. Maar het ongemak over deze gewoonte groeit, omdat bij de teelt bestrijdingsmiddelen worden gebruikt. Vijf kerken organiseren een avond over pesticidenvrije bloemen.'
Best wel een terechte vraag vooral ook door de rol die zo'n bos speelt.

I love how housecats are just teacup tigers. Like- all cats act exactly the same. They all have the same mannerisms, instinctual grooming routines, etc. And it's wild. Literally.
#Caturday

The SF Chronicle's senior meteorologist says your phone weather app is wrong and underestimating how hot it's gonna be in the city the next couple of days (high 80s, possibly 90 in parts). https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather-forecast/arti…

🛸 Grüne Gase für Gasheizung statt Wärmepumpe
⚡️ Rückkehr zur Atomkraft durch SMR (Small Modular Reactor)
⛽️ eFuels statt eAuto, um weiterhin Verbrennungsmotor zu fahren
🚝 Magnetschwebebahn für den Nahverkehr
Das sind aktuelle Slogans aus der Union. Keiner kann kurzfristig realisiert werden, keiner löst laut wissenschaftlicher Expertise unsere Klima-Probleme, alle schaffen neue Probleme, alle verzögern funktionierende Lösungen.
Alles sind Bullshit-Konzepte.
U…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/116077099779578567
Baby ausweisen, weil man Nazis mitreden lässt.

🥱¼🥱
mrrrgnnn tootles 🖖 fedizens
☕☕(☕)

I made a veggie baked ziti with zucchini. It was pretty darn good

Jürgen Habermas has died.
An interesting thinker but ultimately he put his weight behind the Washington consensus.
I wrote this short piece 12 years ago, the first in a series that never happened!
Habermas and the Pit | Uncommontater
https://uncommontater.net/2014/04/02/h

Habermas and the Pit
This might be the first of an occasional series of mini summaries of the work of influential thinkers. First:  Jurgen Habermas Good on: Concept of legitimation crisis. Recognition that there a…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/116233337546354410
El sol no se queda atorado en el Estrecho de Ormuz, ni se le compra a dictadores

Its starting to fuck with me how much the omnipresent youtube ai slops portray everyone's insides as fixed so aggressively. Elvis presley is just that, popped out the womb innately causing 8 year olds to faint in his crowd then THIS happened every single day.

CBS News report on ICE officer's injuries drew 'huge internal concern' (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/15/cbs-news-ice-officer-injuries
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p158#a260115p158

Les mots ont un sens, dit-elle, d'un ton convaincue

Very few of us remember a company named Palantir.
No I don't mean that satanic data gathering atrocity that we read about in the daily news-of-the-awful.
No, I mean the company in the mid 1980's that built networked image scanners (sort of like a network of "office" ink jet printers.)
One of the cool aspects of their products is that they had a test program that would exercise the pieces of the machine - it would drive the various stepper motors and make i…

Wow. I didn’t realize that they ever did that. They’re in Marquette after all, not out in the wilderness. Must be VERY bad. @… https://mstdn.social/@redcrew/116235079951…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Minutemen:
🎵 The Glory of Man
#Minutemen
https://thalassocracy.bandcamp.com/track/the-glory-of-man-by-minutemen
https://open.spotify.com/track/7fwuT8n8FPJGseqr38zJtE

Der Palantir-CEO sagt den leisen Teil laut: Alex Karp erklärt offen, seine KI werde die wirtschaftliche Macht „hochgebildeter, meist demokratischer Wählerinnen“ schwächen – und die von beruflich ausgebildeten Männern stärken. Malcolm Ferguson zeigt bei The New Republic, wie Tech-Macht und Kulturkampf zusammenfinden.
ht…

"Warum heißt das Ding im Auto eigentlich Navigationssystem und nicht Auto-Router?"
#haxkoleaks

Continuing the epic battle to fix TLS fingerprinting in Node (https://toot.cafe/@pimterry/114116204429611503), I opened two more PRs this week enabling cert compression in Node (

#section31 gar nicht mal sooo gut.

Regardless this good blog about the many aspects that make the midterms difficult to manipulate, I am not as optimistic as the author. The bottomline is Trump and his allies will pay with their freedom and personal wealth if democrats win the midterms and the elections after that, they simply can't allow that to happen... It puzzles me that after everything that already happened under Trump some people don't see this.

Worry, Don't Panic, Over Trump's Efforts to Subvert the Elections
America's system is quite foolproof but he can still try to delegitimize it

It's 5am and I am drinking tea and watching GMM because I am too sick to breathe right.

SCOTUS Declines to Hear LLM-Backed AI Case Regarding Copyright - Conservancy Blog
<https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/mar/04/scotus-deny-cert-dc-circuit-thaler-appeal-llm-ai/> @…

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/14/datacentre-boom-is-uk-ai-bubble-about-to-burst

Very quick hardware update on my homelab server. I swapped out ye olde DELL Optiplex 960 with its Intel Core 2 Duo for a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910x with an Intel Core i5-7500. I really only had to move the SSD over into the ThinkCentre, enable legacy boot in the BIOS and change the network interface name in the network config. That's was it. And now my peertube instance can finally run the latest official docker image. @…

On Knowledge Network
I highly recommend you see "500 Days in the Wild". Dianne Whelan made the six year journey along the Trans Canada Trail. The first person to traverse all 24,000 km of it. Quite an extraordinary story and well worth your time.

Takeaways from the 2026 Game Developers Conference: a high volume of job seekers amid layoffs, AI was the hot buzzword, more outsourcing than ever, and more (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Palantir-Chef Karp: „Wir unterstützen Kriegsführung und wir sind stolz darauf“
„There are no secrets“, so das Motto von Palantirs Konferenz, auf der die Software als Wunderwaffe inszeniert wird – vor allem für Militär und Gesundheitswesen.

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The funniest thing so far this year is that people create burner accounts to reply to me how I’m wrong and how great AI is.
Perfectly normal behavior.

frage mich wann CDU / CSU wieder asbest und bleihaltiges benzin einführen werden

In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes and LLM will dutifuly exfiltrate your data via a hidden prompt:
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files

Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection as a result of known-but-unresolved isolation flaws in Claude's code execution environment.

"You put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and recognise themselves inside it."
—Holly Hunter
#acting #coaching

Yesterday’s bread. Turned out okay, but I still think I can do better. It took a long time for the second proof so I’m wondering if I did something wrong.
#food #baking #bread

The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed a class action Thursday against the Trump administration,
accusing immigration agents of racially profiling members of Minnesota’s Somali and Latino community
throughout the ongoing surge of federal enforcement in the Twin Cities.
“Over the past six weeks, the Trump administration has increased its deployment of federal forces by the thousands,”
the ACLU said in a press release.
“Masked federal agents in mil…

‼️Die #Petition
"Erhöhung der Mehrwertsteuer auf Böller und Feuerwerk auf mindestens 38 % vom 11.01.2026"
hat bisher 131 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29869 Unterschriften bis zum 09.03.2026.

During an event in Auburn, Mass., Saturday commemorating the 100th anniversary of Robert #Goddard launching the first liquid-fueled rocket, a speaker mentioned that in addition to the four people involved in the experiment it was also accidentally witnessed by several local children - including this father aged 10 at the time: in the recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxYYXWYLzHs#t=1h15m30s he recounts his vivid story from 1:15:30.

/2
En ook: De stof stapelt zich op in de wormen, waardoor de ...
in plaats van
'De stof stapelt zich als het ware op in de wormen, waardoor de concentratie in die diertjes veel hoger is dan in de aarde om ze heen.'
Dr is maar weinig 'als het ware' aan, het gebeurt letterlijk.
/3
#PFAS

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Pulmonary Fibrosis (64) Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers (58) Judy And The Jerks (29) Meat Puppets (23) Taker (20). #myweekcounted 758 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ninlyricbot/116230962327277829
How I feel about the AI bubble

General query: are you anticipating the return of 1974 gas lines and perhaps even/odd gasoline filling days?
(I am.)
By-the-way, when that was happening I would go fill my car at midnight - a time when it was ambiguous whether the day was an even one or an odd one.

from my link log —
The 9 incompatible versions of RSS. (2004)
https://web.archive.org/web/20110726002019/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss
saved 2026-01-13

Deutschland testet „agentische KI“ in der Verwaltung: In 17 Kommunen sollen KI-Agenten Anträge prüfen, Unterlagen nachfordern und Entscheidungen vorbereiten. Das BMDS nennt es Modernisierung – tatsächlich ist es ein interessantes Experiment: Automatisierung gegen Bürokratie. #Golem
#KI

Wenn mit swapfiles arbeitet, dann nennt man die /pagefile.sys
#haxkoleaks

Javier Bardem sports anti-war pin, says 'free Palestine' at Oscars (Judy Kurtz/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5785620-javier-bardem-oscar-anti-war/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260316/p2#a260316p2

President Trump accuses Iran of using AI as a "disinformation weapon" to make fake images of wartime successes against the US, saying "AI can be very dangerous" (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Diese "heimlichen" und absolut unauffälligen Blicke auf das Tretlager
„DER fährt doch garantiert mit Motor!“ 🤣😜🤣
#rausgeschafft #day220

Southwest Airlines prices are utterly stupid. $950 for 2 people roundtrip from LA-to-Vegas? And now they're nickeling & diming for "selected seats". Geez, how did they get this bad?
Welp, "Skyscanner" airfare finder to the rescue!
https://www.skyscanner.com/

Billigflüge: günstige Flüge und Flugtickets buchen | Skyscanner
Vergleiche Billigflüge von allen großen Fluglinien und Reisebüros und finde die billigsten Tickets zu all deinen Lieblingszielen. Jetzt online buchen.

Reading many posts about "oh, how awful is GenAI , it was wrong and hallucinated", that is the nature of this technology folks... You have to think about the context where you are using it and implement it in a way so you can mitigate this risk, accept it, or choose NOT to use it.
#ai #hallucinations

Hoher Peißenberg (September 2024)
(From my series In The Lands Of Via Claudia Augusta, the ancient and most important Roman road through the Alps which connected the Po Valley in the south with Augsburg and the Danube as northern terminus)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

#whatimreading
#Horses, a 4,000 year genetic journey across the world, by Ludovic Orlando (translated). Somewhen somewhere in our past a group of people figured out domesticating horses for fun & profit. Their horses are ancestors to all horses today. The search for the first domesticated ho…

A tl;dr version might be, that no physical system can exist outside the universe, which for the purpose of measuring it is not finite; therefore no physical system can be simulated with arbitrary accuracy.

wenn sie... vom hauptbahnhof in münchen ... mit zehn minuten ... ohne dass sie am flughafen noch einchecken müssen ...
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/magnetschwebebahn-108.html

India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/14/india-doubles-down…

India doubles down on state-backed venture capital, approving $1.1B fund | TechCrunch
India’s $1.1B fund-of-funds will invest through private VCs to support deep-tech and manufacturing startups.

audible – n. an Audi with Bluetooth 5.2

Donald Trump has finally unveiled his long-awaited framework for healthcare affordability,
almost a year and a half after announcing during a pre-election presidential debate that he had the “concepts of a plan” for healthcare reform.
The short document, titled
"the Great Healthcare Plan",
provides four headline objectives,
but few specific details as to how they will be achieved.
The Trump administration says it intends to lower prescription pri…

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Das #Klimaleugner und #Mythen Bullshit-Bingo.
#Familienfeiern können harmonisch sein – bis Onkel Herbert beim Thema

Das Klimaleugner und Mythen Bullshit-Bingo für Weihnachten und Familienfeiern
Weihnachten und hitzige Klimadiskussionen in der Familie? Wenn du absolut keinen Bock darauf hast, dann findest Du hier ein Klimaleugner-Bullshit-Bingo.

I keep wanting to call the show Star Trek: Starfleet Academy “Starfleet 90210” instead.

"Ich gleiche Können durch Temperatur aus"
#haxkoleaks

Strategie vieler Medien im KI-Zeitalter:
Bots blockieren
Abwarten
Hoffen
Ulrike Langer erklärt in News Maschinen, warum das ungefähr so tragfähig ist wie ein Paywall-Konzept ohne Leser.
#Journalismus #KI

U.S. oil soars past $100 a barrel as Iran war shows no signs of ending soon (Steve Kopack/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/oil-prices-iran-war-trump-wti-rcna263397
http://www.memeorandum.com/260316/p1#a260316p1

My favorite quote in Disney/Pixar's "Hoppers" is Mabel's line toward the end, practically pleading with the audience:
"I just want to work with people who... CARE."
Man, that's the ONE LESSON I've learned about life, work & happiness.
(1/2)
#hoppers #disney

I'm wondering who the people are who plan, design, oversee construction of and finally manage these abominations.
When they get up in the morning, what are they asking themselves? What do they wish for? Who hurt them?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis

"What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory"
https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf

#Iran closes airspace to all flights as foreign minister denies it plans to execute protesters
German airline #Lufthansa has said it will bypass Iranian and Iraqi airspace “until further notice”, Agence France-Presse is reporting.
The group, which includes Austrian, Brussels Airlines, Discover, Eurowings, Swis…

‼️Die #Petition
"Erhöhung der Mehrwertsteuer auf Böller und Feuerwerk auf mindestens 38 % vom 11.01.2026"
hat bisher 131 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29869 Unterschriften bis zum 09.03.2026.

Current and former senior employees say AWS is undergoing a strategic shake-up amid fears it is losing ground to competitors in securing corporate AI contracts (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/905df663-8c47-4e88-b6ff-24dd4bd46290
…

One of my fave scenes from "Two & a Half Men": Judith meets Camille... with Charlie on the keys. 🤣
#comedy #humor #twoandahalfmen

Senators vow to revive crypto bill (Jasper Goodman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/15/congress/senators-vow-to-revive-crypto-bill-00732862
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p157#a260115p157

CoinDesk Data: Binance's market share of spot crypto trading fell to 25% in December, its lowest since 2021, and it is also losing ground in derivatives trading (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…

The first vaccine was a lucky accident.
Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-golden-age-of-vaccine-development/

The golden age of vaccine development - Works in Progress Magazine
The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.

Some hacker adjusted the pedestrian crosswalk to bring you this important message.
(No, this is not AI. It's been done several times before.)
#fdt #trump #hackersforgood

Pentagon says it will 'refocus' Stars and Stripes content (Corey Dickstein/Stars & Stripes)
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-01-15/pentagon-refocus-stars-and-stripes-content-20415816.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p154#a260115p154

#Hoppers may be my all time favorite #Disney #Pixar movie. More than the Inside Outs, Up, Wall-E, Toy Storys, even Ratatouille - my fave for years.
There's a climactic, soul-crushing line that r…

Former Senator Kyrsten Sinema Accused of Affair With Member of Security Team (Annie Karni/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/kyrsten-sinema-affair-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E1A.hW6A.xI5-UOpitSdy&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p155#a260115p155