Tootfinder

RE: https://ipv6.social/@jornane/115991666253093526
One thing that the AI craze will do is destroy people's ability to talk to each other and collaborate

Tether says it generated over $10B in net profits in 2025, down from $13B in 2024, and says it holds $193B in assets backing the $186B USDT in circulation (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/387908/tether-rakes-10-bill…

Justice Department opens civil rights investigation into Pretti shooting
The Justice Department said Friday it has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis last weekend,
a reversal from its handling so far of shootings involving agents during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

“We’re looking at everything that would shed light on that day,”
Deputy Attorney General
Todd Bla…

Justice Department opens civil rights investigation into Pretti shooting
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s announcement signals an apparent shift from its handling so far of shootings involving agents.

Like so often, regime change is a goal of the attacks on Iran. Makes you wonder what kind of new regime Trump and Netanyahu have in mind.

Some night shots from #Graz

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Social Media: Was gute Kommentare wirklich ausmacht.
Oft sind Kommentare irritierend, haben anscheinend keinen Bezug zum Beitrag oder sind sogar beleidigend. Das verwirrend viele Menschen, lässt sich jedoch leicht erklären: Viele wissen nämlich nicht, dass es für #Kommentare im Internet

Social Media: Was gute Kommentare wirklich ausmacht
Lerne mit dieser einfachen Checkliste, wie Du hochwertige Kommentare auf Social Media schreibst – für mehr Respekt, Reichweite und Relevanz.

Frohes neues Jahr euch allen! Möge es ... werden ...

Operation Podcast
An official WA Police Force Podcast...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods

☝️BUND Bundesverband Broschüre:
Ökologie in falschen Händen? Rechtsextreme Vereinnahmung erkennen und ihr begegnen
Rechtsextreme Akteur*innen engagieren sich im Natur-, Umwelt- und Klimaschutz, unterwandern Initiativen und vereinnahmen ökologische Anliegen für ihre Zwecke. Diese Broschüre unterstützt Engagierte im Natur-, Umwelt- und Klimaschutz dabei Rechtsextreme Einflussversuche frühzeitig zu erkennen, zu reagieren und klare Grenzen zu ziehen.
⚡Download:

Liebes Fediversum,
Von Herzen alles Gute für 2026!
Möge es uns Frieden, Gesundheit, Hoffnung und Zuversicht bringen. 🤗🥂🍀🎇

@… I dream, quite regularly, of a friend I lost touch with decades ago. In these dreams, I am often lost at his parents' home.
I awoke from one such dream an hour or so ago. Very lost. Every time this happens, I resolve to make contact. Each time, the resolution becomes a little stronger.
I know what my New Year's Resolution is.
May…

Fas 1 studie genomförd. Jag är lite tveksam till långtidseffekter från mediciner som ökar på energiförbrukningen. Men spännande att se vart det leder.
https://www.su.se/nyheter/nyhetsartiklar/2025-06-23-nytt-lakemedel-for-di…

Beim Aufräumen gefunden: Baujahr 1985, originalverpackt, unbenutzt -
#IBM Modell M!
Mein' ja nur :-)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lykke Li:
🎵 Lucky Again
#LykkeLi
https://open.spotify.com/track/0n63xAny4NjxRNgKnboEp8

How much should we worry about delivery times in big Signal group chats revealing info about the whereabouts of the recipients?

Week 18 Injury Report https://www.chiefs.com/news/week-18-injury-report-chiefs-vs-raiders-x3400

Happy new year from the German timezone ❤️

https://youtube.com/shorts/HCUoXz436QI?si=cPqzxvgUbFSyuAxI

🥳 New Kitten Release
This one fixes a bug that you would have encountered had you had an asynchronous component (component with asynchronous render method) nested more than one-level deep within synchronous components.
(Kitten’s html renderer transparently supports both synchronous and asynchronous render methods.)
So, this (taken from my unit test), for example, works correctly now:
```js
class AsynchronousOtherName extends KittenComponent {
async htm…

heise | Meta Ray-Ban Display im Test: Smartglasses mit Mini-Anzeige und Gestensteuerung
KI und Nachrichten direkt im Blickfeld, gesteuert über ein neuronales Armband: Wir testen die „Meta Ray-Ban Display“ auf ihre Alltagstauglichkeit.

2026 People and I’ll keep posting my scans of black and white films. 😂

Rescued an old Lenovo laptop (with #IBM logo) for a colleague. And patience is a virtue, isn't it - with 1GB RAM... #Linux #did

Meow

Blocking the work of MSF is absolutely depraved. Israel continues to fumble its way out of the community of civilized nations.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93…

Israel to halt operations of several humanitarian groups in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday that the organizations that will be banned on Jan. 1 did not meet its new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF by its French acronym, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with H…

We’re looking forward to the new year. As usual for the first Monday of the month, we’re hosting the first 2026 edition of Stickers Club. Visit the Luma link for details! https://luma.com/ozlbvyhw

Ostsee leidet - Eutrophierung, da war doch mal was? Ach ja, Düngemittel aus der Landiwrtschaft....
https://de.euronews.com/2026/02/23/ostsee-erholt-sich-kaum-nicht-nur-wegen-der-klimakrise

Ostsee unter Druck: Wie der Mensch das Meer erstickt
Trotz jahrzehntelanger Schutzprogramme erholt sich die Ostsee nicht: Die Wasserqualität bleibt schlecht, von einer echten Trendwende ist nichts zu sehen.

A look at the clash between Coinbase and Wall Street over the Clarity Act and whether crypto exchanges can offer stablecoin "rewards" (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-wall-street-a7895…

edit_wikiquote: Wikiquote edits (2010)
A bipartite user-page network extracted from Wikiquotes. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 5297 nodes and 27934 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps

To everyone's satisfaction I've been quiet over the last week and a bit.
That state of bliss will end soon 🤣
I got caught up in zfs, btrfs, encryption, bootloaders, Chimera Linux and Alpine, what have you. It's been a great ride, a challenging one and a shouting-at-clouds rollercoaster, all in one. Two options awaiting me, choice to be finalized today. Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD, even NixOS have become boringly reliable 😂!

The weather is not promising for fieldwork today, windy and snowy and cloudy, so it's time to sit indoors and listen to some Sibelius while I start to formulate some papers on our research findings so far...
#iQ2300

does vexriscv document the invariants it expects from the memory subsystem _anywhere at all_, or am i supposed to glean what the CPU expects from Scala code and their AXI/Wishbone/Avalon adapters?

@… thank you!

Can you do a favor for my friend @…? He was already having a lousy enough week with his car and his city falling apart when state troopers arrested his wife @… for protesting against the murder of Alex Pretti. (Arrested for what? AFAICT, they were just looking to make an example of some protestors. Just good old harassment via the legal system.)
Now the family has lost work and impending legal bills on top of that new transmission. I’m sure they’d appreciate it if you can chip in a few bucks:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-miriam-recover-from-legal-fees-and-lost-work

以前の招待URLだけど、まだ余裕あるので、fedibird.comに登録したい人は使うといいよ。
QT: https://fedibird.com/@noellabo/115285536695435253

Trump and Netanyahu launch their war and Canada, the Gulf States and Europe all sign up for it.
We are ruled by a bunch of pathetic criminals. Very single one of them.

Un train stationne Š Place de Clichy vers Châtillon-Montrouge en raison d'un ajustement de l'intervalle entre les trains .
🤖 01/03 00:21

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Stephan Micus:
🎵 Part 1
#StephanMicus
https://open.spotify.com/track/3iuZd0C2xtyzj3PbOTDMlL

"New datacentres risk doubling Great Britain’s electricity use, regulator says"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology

Dad taxi, 23:54, still waiting in the airport. Don't tell me I don't know how to party on a Friday night...

Schottenheimer explica la decisión de cortar a Trevon Diggs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/schottenheimer-explica-la-decision-de-cortar-a-trevon-diggs

Happy 2026!! 🎆🎉🤗💚

DEU: Ich wünsche euch allen ein gutes neues Jahr 2026! ✨
ENG: I wish you all a Happy-New-Year 2026! ✨
🕛 https://progressbarserver.appspot.com
:mastodon: @…

The big problem I have with government IT procurement decision makers - here in Aotearoa NZ and elsewhere - is that they *don't _revile_ US BigTech*. If they've paid the slightest bit of attention to their field, they know they have *every reason to do so*. So they definitely should. If they did, the world would be a better place, by far.
At present, our bureaucrats are licking the boots of the oppressors of their nations, the defilers of their sovereignty.

Bizarrely warm end of the winter, here in the Netherlands: average temperature in the last part of February (21-28/29) was more than a full degree higher than the previous record set just five years ago:
10.5°C, that's warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for April!
Peak was above 17°C.

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Welche #Zimmerpflanzen überleben auch in lichtarmen Ecken und sind dabei noch pflegeleicht?
Wer seine #Wohnräume oder #Büroräume begrüne…

Pflegeleichte Zimmerpflanzen: Die besten Arten für wenig Licht
Diese Schattenpflanzen brauchen kaum Licht und sind perfekt für Wohn- oder Arbeitsräume mit wenig Tageslicht.

The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa, reversing a designation imposed by the Biden administration in 2024 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/treasury-sanctions-intellexa-removed

Treasury removes sanctions for three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa
The Treasury Department on Tuesday took three people closely affiliated with the holding company behind Predator spyware off of a sanctions list, reversing their designation in 2024 by the Biden administration.

@… see, for example, <https://old.reddit.com/comments/1pf68ci/-/ntmz37p/?context=3> (you may need to click to reveal comme…

Versus: Ashton Jeanty concludes rookie season facing Chiefs' top-ranked rushing defense https://www.raiders.com/news/versus-ashton-jeanty-concludes-rookie-season-facing-chiefs-top-ranked-rushing-defense

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pit Pony:
🎵 Vacancy
#PitPony
https://pitponyband.bandcamp.com/track/vacancy-4
https://open.spotify.com/track/1HIqPRuKA2jjc6hvfFfKDj

Nächster Rückschlag für die Eurobike: Shimano sagt Teilnahme 2026 ab
Der Status Leitmesse bröckelt: Nach Bosch, Riese & Müller und ZIV sagt auch Shimano seine Eurobike-Teilnahme ab und will sich auf eigene Events konzentrieren.

Are you Quantum AI blockchain zero-trust triple-ratchet encryption ready? :neocat_woozy:

I've been yelling at YouTubers for several years now (since back in 2016) to say something—it's so good to finally see this.

Aktuelle Lage auf #Instagram:
Spaßvideo
Spaßvideo
Beitrag
Werbepause 5 s Wasa
Spaßvideo
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Reel-Teaser
Anzeige
irgend ein Reel
Story-Teaser
Spaßvideo
Anzeige
Beitrag
Beitrag
KI-Video
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Real-Teaser
Beitrag
Spaßvideo
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Spaßbeitrag
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Elon Musk says xAI bought a third building called "MACROHARDRR", reportedly adjacent to Colossus 2, that will take the company's training compute to almost 2GW (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

FDA Rare Disease Day 2026
February 23 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EST
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hosted Rare Disease Day,
a virtual public meeting, on Monday, February 23, 2026 in global observance of Rare Disease Week.
The theme is:
“Moving Forward. Looking Ahead. An Event for Patients.”
The goal of this year’s Rare Disease Day is to explore ways to engage and collaborate with patients and their communities to support and accelerate the development …

Democratic fundraising SMS spam:
“Life hasn’t always been easy. As the proud daughter of a union pipefitter and an F-16 fighter jet, I crawled my way up the broken glass of the capitol building steps to rein in greedy corporate lima bean cartel criminals. In this 10,000-word biographical essay, I will…”
Republican fundraising SMS spam:
“Stop ignoring us, you utter shitsack. Click here to pledge your firstborn daughter to Trump: […] Can he count on you? This is your last chance!”

Packers claim Trevon Diggs one day after Cowboys waived the veteran cornerback https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/packers-claim-trevon-diggs-one-day-after-cowboys-waived-the-veteran-cornerback

systemd, journalctl, et cetera.
Last but not least―not last and not most:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1oeeed6/comment/nw5w2zz/>
＂I can't do anything like what's below with FreeBSD. "

Pro Picks: Panthers, Ravens will win their divisions; 49ers will edge Seahawks for NFC's No. 1 seed https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/pro-picks-panthers-ravens-will-win-their-divisions-49ers-will-edge-se…

Kuberkitties

If you're an American, I'd like you to watch Alec from Technology Connection here starting at about 1:16:30 (link contains jump to that time).
Ideally of course watch the whole video too, but the end here is I think really important because there's so few people who saying this so clearly.
https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?t=4594

With hard-caked snow and ice, MSP once again answers the question, “What would driving be like if there were no visible lane markers?”

Bahn will 2026 mehr als 23 Milliarden Euro ins Netz stecken
Bahn und Bund treiben mit Rekordsummen die Sanierung des Schienennetzes voran. Warum Fahrgäste trotzdem weiter mit Verspätungen und maroden Gleisen kämpfen.

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

Kenny Pickett and Aidan O'Connell Scrums | Week 18 vs. Chiefs https://www.raiders.com/video/kenny-pickett-aidan-o-connell-scrums-nfl-week-18-chiefs

One in four full-time workers in Britain would be “better off swapping wages for benefits“, according to new analysis which featured on the front of The Sun.
The report – published by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) earlier this month – resurrects the spectre of the ‘#welfare #scrounger’,
a hypothetical …

Would a quarter of workers really be better off ‘swapping wages for benefits’?
Over six million workers earn less than an unemployed person on benefits, according to the Centre for Social Justice. Is it true?

whyyyyyy do I still have to block people who post AI slop imagery into my timeline

What's the Fediverse alternative to sleeping?

Mano a Mano con Eric Stokes https://www.raiders.com/video/mano-a-mano-con-eric-stokes-nfl-2025

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

Oh, look at that! Pressure works — and i knew my fellow Minnesotans would be on the job, but I didn’t know just how fast!
cc @…
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/lawmaker-says-plan-for-ice-detention-center-in-shakopee-has-been-abandoned

RE: #SantaBarbara / #Goleta
Tonight - Feb 2…

So will they finally ship the PowerBook G5 in 2026?

A federal judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking Virginia from enforcing a new law restricting children's social media use, on First Amendment grounds (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/j

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

In a big win for protesters’ rights,
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.
The case, "Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs", arose after a housing protest in 2021,
during which Colorado Springs police arrested protesters for obstructing a roadway.
After the demonstration, police also obtaine…

Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data
In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, arose...

It's still amazing to me what's possible with modest equipment purely due to the availability of extremely sophisticated personal computers.
To make an image like this, I combine often dozens of hours of total exposure time in hundreds of images to average them out (this reduces noise and improves visibility of faint structures).

Dell stock closes up 22%, its biggest single-day gain since March 1, 2024, after the company gave an outlook for sales of its AI servers that exceeded estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Shuggie Otis:
🎵 Strawberry Letter 23
#ShuggieOtis
https://stpetersburg.bandcamp.com/track/shuggie-otis-strawberry-letter-23
https://open.spotify.com/track/2NXnBIYFPQPo7GSn3TEbpD

Across the country, people are organizing Solidarity Events to march, rally, gather, and raise their voices on February 28, 2026.
These local actions make the movement impossible to ignore, underscoring the fact that democracy belongs to all of us, not just those who can travel to Washington, D.C.
If there isn’t an event in your area, you can create one through Mobilize, our national organizing platform.
Hosting is simple: choose a location, set a time, describe your event, …

Solidarity Events
Find nationwide Solidarity Events supporting M4D. Local actions that build power, unite communities, and fuel the fight for justice.

"Mint! L@@… STEVE JOBS"

Sources: SpaceX generated about $8B in EBITDA on $15B to $16B of revenue last year; Starlink accounted for about 50% to 80% of the total revenue (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/spacex-generated-ab…

Hands-on with Google's Auto Browse for Chrome: its ability to perform multistep tasks is noticeably better than similar tools but struggles with complex tasks (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-auto-browse-hands-on/

I Let Google's ‘Auto Browse’ AI Agent Take Over Chrome. It Didn't Quite Click
Auto Browse can shop for clothes, plan a trip, and buy tickets for you. Or at least, that's the idea.

A company owned by the President's family, is seeking approvals from a federal agency over which the President has total control
— including to hire & fire the people granting approvals.
The company, the deal, the entire process is corrupt to the core.
https://bsky.app/profile/vanholle…

Senator Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov)
This is unprecedented. A company owned by the President's family, is seeking approvals from a federal agency over which the President has total control — including to hire & fire the people granting approvals. The company, the deal, the entire process is corrupt to the core.

I hope that the members of said list step on LEGO bricks every day

Anthropic details an experiment on whether AI coding tools shape developer skills, finding that the biggest performance gap appears in debugging tasks (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Asbestos is here to stay! You better learn using it or you’ll be left behind.

Sources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the company at around $5.5B, including debt (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/onlyfan

The FBI says fraudsters bilked Americans out of $333.5M via bitcoin ATM scams from January through November 2025, up from roughly $250M in 2024 (Lucien Bruggeman/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/scammers-notched-333-million-bitcoin-atm-scam…

Scammers notched $333 million from bitcoin ATM scams in 2025, FBI says
The kiosks allow users to send cash to a digital wallet anywhere in the world.

A reflection on AI advances in the past decade and how scaling and time-horizon trends might point to far greater capabilities in the decade ahead (Zhengdong Wang)
https://zhengdongwang.com/2025/12/30/2025-letter.html

2025 letter
Zhengdong Wang’s personal website

Review of Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold: sturdy but poor camera performance and has some unique design flaws that make it even less polished than regular foldables (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

IDC expects shipments of PCs could shrink by up to 9% YoY in 2026 due to global memory shortages, as demand from AI data centers continues to outstrip supply (Zak Killian/Tom's Hardware)

IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market
Memory shortages are expected to have a serious impact on the PC and smartphone market.

Filing: Chinese AI startup MiniMax seeks to raise up to ~$538.5M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 25.4M shares at a price range of ~$19.40 to ~$21.20 per share (Shivangi Lahiri/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…

Sources: SoftBank has completed its $40B investment in OpenAI (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/30/softbank-openai-investment.html

Softbank has fully funded $40 billion investment in OpenAI, sources tell CNBC

China's draft AI rules have measures to protect kids, like time limits and parental consent, ban gambling promotion content, and add suicide chats restrictions (Osmond Chia/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dydlmenvro

Artificial intelligence: China plans rules to protect children and tackle suicide risks
The draft regulations are aimed to address concerns around chatbots, which have surged in popularity in recent months.

Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax is seeking to raise $600M from its Hong Kong IPO, set for January 2026, and has secured Alibaba and the ADIA as backers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/alibaba-…

Sources: China is requiring chipmakers to use at least 50% domestically made equipment for adding new capacity, in a rule that is not publicly documented (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-mandates-50-domestic-…

Sources: Satya Nadella is focused on the increasing AI competition from Amazon and Google; Microsoft Deputy CTO Dee Templeton says Nadella is in "founder mode" (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/255dbecc-5c57-4928-824f-b3f2d764f635…