Tootfinder

Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

Why OpenAI’s Fidji Simo Bought the TBPN Podcast Amid Crusade Against ‘Side Quests’
In recent weeks, Fidji Simo has burst into public view as the OpenAI executive bringing much-needed discipline to the AI startup, as it inches toward an initial public offering late this year. Last month, Simo—who is now CEO of AGI Deployment—delivered the sobering message to the company’s staff ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Donovan Haffner Quintet:
🎵 Necessities [Live at JPN]
#DonovanHaffnerQuintet
https://open.spotify.com/track/6MOEQCtAWNSCmvg3SFKF5y

RE: https://mastodon.social/@erikwesselius/116500936912004353
wow, that really makes vd Leyen look like a fool. what's not to like about this, the trade deal was a very bad thing (even a top bureaucrat quitting over it), we saw pictures of vd Ley…

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls US service members’ deaths in Iran ‘unnecessary’ and ‘unacceptable’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5762004-greene-criticizes-iran-operation/

Students presented their work in my Canadian history grad seminar today: 2 papers on hockey (obviously) - QC and ON pro women's hockey in WWI and 1900-20s men's hockey in BC (refrigerated rinks); a venerable QC cookbook (La cuisine raisonnée); women in the RCAF and (un)sanctioned leisure in the 1950s; the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant (the best building in Toronto?); police repression post-October Crisis; currency in BC mining towns; and Heritage Minutes (burnt toast!). 3 hours of …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Lime Garden:
🎵 23
#LimeGarden
https://limegarden.bandcamp.com/track/23
https://open.spotify.com/track/5cAyhQKcqRguYPryCL0rYj

The *other* potentially quite interesting April #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) has been recovered in morning twilight: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/34973 - it "has brightened nicely since my last observation on February 9 when it was in evening twilight at magnitude 13.3, magnitude calculations on the mornings of February 27/28 found the comet at magnitude 11.1 and 10.7 but I am sure the coma is a lot bigger and not fully reflected in these magnitude measurements."

#April #LastFM

Trump Will Lose the Birthright Citizenship Case. But in a Way, He's Already Won. (Stephen I. Vladeck/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/opinion/birthright-citizenship-case-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XlA.TXK6.GpypPU5KJpaS&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p105#a260401p105

Morning calisthenics on the internet (literally).
#Cockatoo #Canberra #Australia

Tax the rich for a fairer Britain #Britain

Tax the super-rich for a greener, fairer Britain
Britain is crying out for national renewal, and it’s climate solutions that can improve people’s lives starting tomorrow. Solutions that are achievable if those with the broadest shoulders - who also emit the most to pollute our climate - chip in and do their bit. I’ve joined Greenpeace in demanding a one-off National Renewal Tax on the super-rich 0.1% in the UK - with wealth over £10 million - to help rebuild our country. Will you also add your name?

"Launching the Agent Protocols Tech Tree"
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/02/23/agent-protocols-tech-tree/
"APTT is a visual, videogame-style tech tree of the evolving protocols supporting AI agents."

The Halton Region in Ontario has historically been slow to improve the safety of our roads -- leading to dozens of avoidable deaths, and thousands of injuries. Vision Zero policies can help fix this.
#VisionZero #haltonregion #onpoli

RE: https://mstdn.social/@scottmiller42/116501715905656441
Remember the dotcom boom pricing model? Sell it at a loss, expand the user base, for years with expectation that economy of scale will lead to profit.
The fact that they are converting to …

Dementia Donny
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: don't have me abducted.
#satire #potus45

He’s lying.
(You know who I’m talking about.)

Raspi-Aktie schießt nach Geschäftsbericht um 60 Prozent hoch
Der Raspberry-Pi-Hersteller wächst in fast allen Metriken und malt einen rosigen Ausblick. Die Börse zeigt sich ekstatisch.
https://www.

Ubuntu website is still out

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@samvarma/116331897650141726
Joke is on them, there won’t be a planet earth in 10 days when they try to land.

@… ちょっと小さくて見えにくいと思うけど、このへんのカスタム絵文字を無効設定しておいたからね。

The thing I would most like to see come from the Claude Code leak is not (just) that all the LLM-focused tools incorporate the features that were exposed, but that *bash itself* build in the things that Claude is trying to do with scripting, and make them part of the shell.

Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/meta-oversight-board-funding-cancel/

Exclusive: Meta has discussed ending funding to the Oversight Board
Shifting priorities and budget pressures could bring an end to the company’s experiment in independent governance, sources say

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

A Ministry of the future reboot where instead of an attack on a UN agency that changes the world, an attack strangling global oil and gas supplies leads to a massive acceleration in adoption of renewable energy sources...
https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/116507120772615928
CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social - "“Renewables already nearly match fossil fuels in global installed power capacity,” said Mr. Guterres in July last year adding that “there are no price spikes for sunlight… no embargoes on wind.”
Renewables are now “the foundation of energy security and sovereignty,” he said."
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/04/1167366

I sure wish @… could have been there for @…’s talk on contemporary serial art and Rogue!
#minnebar

Le trafic est perturbé entre La Fourche et Châtillon-Montrouge vers Châtillon-Montrouge en raison d'un incident d'exploitation .
🤖 02/03 23:23

Un train stationne Š Pont de Sèvres vers Mairie de Montreuil en raison d'une manoeuvre de train retardée .
🤖 01/04 23:23

Every post about so-and-so "brainstorming" with a chatbot to come up with some idea makes me sad that they don't have a real human thought partner to collaborate with.
#LLM #AI

Good lord.
Throwing it away... because a few of the worst people in the world have said horrible things.
#FirstNations #BCPoli
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/bc-tells-first-nations-it-wants-to-suspend-dripa/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Schiff: US had ‘simply no basis’ to launch Iran attack
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5761959-schiff-warns-iran-conflict-risk/

Iran Is Skeptical About Diplomacy for Now, U.S. Intelligence Says (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p103#a260401p103

Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- The first of two nights celebrating Young Artists
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and conductor Dalia Stasevska perform Holst's The Planets, John Williams's Star Wars Suite and Caroline Shaw's The Observatory.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vf1b

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Feng:
🎵 XY
#Feng
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DFKqhoeM3LGHTY4wIuS9V

If you’re using LLMs to help you with a specific thing when doing your job, they’re not doing the job for you.
Saying “an LLM is a software engineer” is like saying a hammer is an architect.
Just a complete categorical error.
If they actually fully replace you in your job, then you’re probably not doing your job; unless your job was to come up with plausible sequences of words not based on knowledge, skills or experience.

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116130113129035572
Hey everyone,
Thanks to two new anonymous patrons who contacted me via private message here with pledges for $35/month and $25/month, our monthly pledges for covering @…

Trump shares stark message after 3 US troops die in Iran: 'Could happen again' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2675515509/

Filing: PayPay is seeking to raise up to $1.1B at a valuation of up to $13.4B in its US IPO, selling nearly 55M shares priced between $17 and $20 apiece (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/p…

Democrats risk a historic upset in California (Jeremy B. White/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/01/democrats-risk-historic-upset-governors-race-00852708
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p106#a260401p106

Also a discussion in Denmark right now..
Radiolab: What is a Pig Worth?
And to whom.
Episode webpage: https://radiolab.org/podcast/what-is-a-pig-worth
Media file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/14/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dts.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/waaa.wnyc.org/758af4c0-a2c3-47ec-a2d8-05f41bfbde51/episodes/725f7958-636d-482c-a7d2-6aa6deb1dfdd/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=758af4c0-a2c3-47ec-a2d8-05f41bfbde51&awEpisodeId=725f7958-636d-482c-a7d2-6aa6deb1dfdd&feed=EmVW7VGp

The claim "you won't be replaced by AI, but by a person using AI" is nonsense. The Block layoff victims were some of the most productive, #llm pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what layoffs are about.
The layoff script goes, as always:
- overhire
- lay everyone off
- pretend it's because of

"AI layoffs" like Block's are a race to the bottom that have nothing to do with productivity.
You won't be replaced by AI, nor a person using AI, because backfills aren't real.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Snazzback:
🎵 Alice (feat. China Bowls)
#Snazzback
https://open.spotify.com/track/7rpSy330fNJJL4xJov9IAL

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Effie:
🎵 put my hoodie on
#Effie
https://open.spotify.com/track/5qgRXWcgFajtVeqt0t0ASo

"Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute, says Iran had offered major nuclear concessions and that Trump could have claimed a strong diplomatic victory, but instead pursued escalation to seek submission rather than advance US interests."
“Trump chose an avoidable war over a good deal.” | Israel-Iran conflict | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/1/trump-chose-an-avoidable-war-over-a-good-deal?traffic_source=rss

Trump interview: The King would have stood by me over Iran (Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/01/donald-trump-interview-king-charles-stood-by-us-iran-war/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p104#a260401p104

Caught up with For All Mankind, if this isn’t an allegory to [looks around] then idk

Dybt forstyrrende om den opblussen debat om etnonationalisme i Danmark. Hvad med mig? Er jeg så dansk? Og hvad med mit bŸrn?
Genstart: Hvornår er man dansk?
Episode webpage: https://www.dr.dk/lyd/special-radio/genstart-2642056922000
Media file: https://api.dr.dk/podcasts/v1/assets/urn:dr:podcast:item:11802660101/31b9d1e5ac06cab41cb3bb3fb2ae6d56e33cde91bc36262cacdfbc3a208757ce.mp3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Reem Kelani:
🎵 Last Night, O Saud (Al-Baariha, ya Saud)
#ReemKelani
https://open.spotify.com/track/49adqLjPKuJABNVuaKf78Q

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Cat Stevens:
🎵 Here Comes My Baby
#CatStevens
https://open.spotify.com/track/4cgJeHcEx0KvwQ5sb4zxDQ

Vote On Trump's War Powers Expected On Tuesday - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/vote-on-trumps-war-powers-expected-on-tuesday/

Trump Has Discussed Firing Attorney General Pam Bondi (Tyler Pager/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/us/politics/trump-pam-bondi-future.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p102#a260401p102

18 years ago 😆😢

Judge Cannon’s ruling may not be the last word on Jack Smith - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/aileen-cannon-jack-smith-trump/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Jarvis Cocker:
🎵 Aline
#JarvisCocker
https://open.spotify.com/track/6KM2mJimGhfNLNbo3VBfhp

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Donovan Haffner in concert
In this Friday’s edition of ‘Round Midnight, Soweto presents music from London alto saxophonist Donovan Haffner and his quintet, recorded live at JPN 2025.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vbnf

Medicare portal database exposed Social Security numbers: Reports (Sarah Davis/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5860959-cms-publishes-social-security-data/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p55#a260502p55

Judge Cannon’s ruling may not be the last word on Jack Smith - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/aileen-cannon-jack-smith-trump/

I'm just waiting to hear how that attack on Ubuntu happened, was it a million script kiddies with openclaw?
(Is it "prompt kiddies" now?)

'Six months to catch up': What the shutdown cost DHS (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/02/six-months-to-catch-up-what-the-shutdown-cost-dhs-00903118
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p53#a260502p53

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Nico:
🎵 These Days
#Nico
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uCkIqD0VzQUijbs8WIizs

Waymo says it is continuing to "refine" its system preventing kids under 18 from riding alone, after adult riders reported new age-verification checks (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-trying-to-crack-down-on-solo-kids…

Waymo Is Trying to Crack Down on Solo Kids in Driverless Cars
As adult riders report new age-verification checks, the self-driving car company says it’s continuing to “refine” its system in places where kids aren’t allowed to ride alone.

Trump's Cuban American base is no longer guaranteeing him loyalty (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/02/trump-cuba-policy-florida-00902686
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p54#a260502p54

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Seu Jorge:
🎵 Starman
#SeuJorge
https://open.spotify.com/track/30ON4TnqmkZzxZSJnAZH4b

These Apple silicon chips are so efficient that my laptop palm-rests don't get warm anymore, they should build in heaters

Amazon adds a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to fulfillment fees for US and Canadian third-party sellers from April 17, as the Iran war drives up oil prices (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/amazon-add…

Amazon to add 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge for sellers as Iran war drives up energy prices
With the war in Iran now in its fifth week, Amazon said it's adding a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge for third-party sellers in the U.S. and Canada.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Abelardo Všsquez y Cumanana:
🎵 Préndeme la Vela
#AbelardoVásquezyCumanana
https://open.spotify.com/track/61IXAkgjeiVva00TRuYrny

The attack on Ubuntu took the ESM patch package server down which doesn’t have mirrors like normal Ubuntu packages.
I think they should rethink how their critical patch server has a single point of failure. 🫠

LinkedIn job posting data: companies added 640K AI-related jobs from 2023 to 2025 in the US, including 225K "head of AI" jobs, up 49% from the prior four years (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/wanted-head-of

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Rolling Stones:
🎵 Street Fighting Man
#TheRollingStones
https://open.spotify.com/track/51jnsY9d9kPv1sGw82L6Fe

🚨 running a linux server? don't wait to fix this 🚨
wonderful that the Ubuntu website is down on a day with a major exploit going around
anyway if you have linux servers, here's how to mitigate:
https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2026-005/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Bob Dylan:
🎵 Wigwam
#BobDylan
https://open.spotify.com/track/00cs7mlkTcIIoWnm8G0U0l

Sources: SpaceX is floating a $2T valuation to prospective investors in its IPO; SpaceX's acquisition of xAI reportedly valued the combined company at $1.25T (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-02/…

copy-fail? more like disclosure fail

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Velvet Underground:
🎵 Stephanie Says
#TheVelvetUnderground
https://open.spotify.com/track/341b9JIDHZ3oaMVNwS0OsA

Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for "low hundreds of millions of dollars"; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4fe4972a-3d24-45be-b9fa-a429c432b08e

Amazing piece https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis-2-pilot-victor-glover-whitey-on-the-moon-

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Cat Stevens:
🎵 The Wind
#CatStevens

The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the "exclusive" authority to regulate such markets (Alex Harring/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/prediction-mar…

CFTC sues 3 states over prediction market regulation
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it was suing Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois over its ability to exclusively regulate prediction markets.

If instead of “AI agents” it was called “spicy Markov chain cron jobs”, would it be as alluring?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Who:
🎵 A Quick One (Rushmore edit)
#TheWho

Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Globalstar to bolster its low Earth orbit satellite business; Apple's 20% stake in Globalstar is a complicating factor (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/abace066-fe93-4ff0-8378-d3c3eb49519c

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Mark Mothersbaugh:
🎵 Piranhas Are a Very Tricky Species
#MarkMothersbaugh

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Crystal Method:
🎵 High Roller
#TheCrystalMethod
https://open.spotify.com/track/4hkYg5nUZM5FTUnmuxANvi

Every time I read “frontier model“ I think about this:
https://youtu.be/qLrnkK2YEcE

Source: Cursor's annualized revenue topped $2B in February, doubling from three months earlier, and about 60% of the revenue is coming from corporate customers (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Lemon Jelly:
🎵 Space Walk
#LemonJelly
https://fringemusicarchives.bandcamp.com/track/space-walk-fma-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1bne4gsJshCv77LeKqQb1A

The US Treasury Department, State Department, and federal housing agency are ending use of Anthropic products; State Department says it will switch to OpenAI (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-treasury-ending-all-use-anthropi…

Thinking about all the rich assholes who moved to Dubai, which is in an ethnostate run by a minority of anti-democratic religious fanatics (90% of people in the country are immigrants), built on slave labor, without freedom of association and fueled by corrupt oil money who are now whining about “but I don’t care about politics why do I have to flee, I’m not one of the poors!!1!”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Duster:
🎵 Moon Age
#Duster
https://dusternumero.bandcamp.com/track/moon-age
https://open.spotify.com/track/74tDlAxO8vGECwUCaZHujI

Sources: US considers limiting Chinese companies to 75K Nvidia H200 chips each, less than half of what some want to buy; AMD MI325 chips also count toward a cap (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02…

Iranians turn to Starlink, decentralized messaging apps, and VPNs to circumvent an internet blackout; NetBlocks says connectivity is at 1% of ordinary levels (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/irani…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
America:
🎵 Moon Song
#America
https://jenniferterran.bandcamp.com/track/the-america-song

New York-based Ease Health, which is building an AI-native OS for behavioral health providers, emerged from stealth and raised a $41M Series A led by a16z (Vignesh R/Tech Funding News)
https://techfundingnews.com/ease-health-41m-series-a-behavioral-health-ai-os/…

Alibaba releases the open-weight Qwen3.5 Small Model Series in 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B sizes, claiming the 9B model rivals OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on some benchmarks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/ali

MongoDB reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $695.1M, vs. $670M est., and forecasts Q1 adjusted earnings per share below estimates; MDB drops 22% after hours (Angela Palumbo/Barron's Online)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/mongodb-e

Block is a poster child for the lack of operational discipline common among mid-tier public tech companies that lived on the largesse of cloud, mobile, and ZIRP (Om Malik/On my Om)
https://om.co/2026/02/28/block-tackle-job-cuts-the-ai-narrative/

Block & Tackle: Job Cuts & the AI Narrative
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block (the company formerly known as Square), went on X (the company formerly known as Twitter, which he co-founded) and shared a lower-case employee memo, candidly outlining hi…

Ted Sarandos interview on the scenario planning Netflix did before Paramount's final WBD bid, how if Paramount's deal closes there'll be cuts of $16B , and more (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

India, home to one of the world's biggest AI user bases, should treat local datasets for AI as a strategic asset to avoid training Silicon Valley for free (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Lime Garden:
🎵 23
#LimeGarden
https://limegarden.bandcamp.com/track/23
https://open.spotify.com/track/5cAyhQKcqRguYPryCL0rYj

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Blonde Redhead:
🎵 23
#BlondeRedhead
https://noah23.bandcamp.com/track/bald-deadhead-23-blonde-redhead
https://open.spotify.com/track/4h9pwQbHEz9HSGeOE8UMf4