Tootfinder

“So I would advise and caution against purchasing an AI toy for Christmas and think about other options of things that parents and kids can enjoy together that really build that social connection with the family, not the social connection with a parasocial AI toy.”
Many of these toys are happy to engage in discussions inappropriate for children, such as dangerous activities or sexual practices. Some are programmed to cause addiction.

Minneapolis Public Schools closed schools because they deemed it too dangerous for students to be there on Thu and Fri.
Tomorrow morning, students go back to school. My question: what’s changed? Is it not still dangerous?
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When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.

This is such a dangerous document: conflating trillion-dollar centralised platforms with federated and, possibly in the future, peer-to/peer platforms or even personal web sites is one of most braindead policy suggestions I’ve ever read (and I’ve read quite a few).
#EU #DSA

The Trump regime is acting like a cornered animal: aggressive, panicked, snarling and biting.
This makes them dangerous. It does not, however, make them victorious. Be clear on the difference.

2025 MAINE 2 - TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS ON DANGEROUS WEAPONS POSSESSION
GENERAL
BALLOT MEASURE
estimates
73% of votes counted
Yes. wins.
AP race call at
6:55 p.m. on. Nov. 4, 2025.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/r

Maine Question 2 results 2025
Live Maine question 2 election results over adding a potential ‘red flag’ law in the state.

The Supreme Court Is About to Hand Trump Insidious New Powers (Mark Joseph Stern/Slate)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/supreme-court-trump-dangerous-power-humphreys-preview.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p79#a251204p79

What do people think about the "dark forest theory of the internet" ? https://www.ystrickler.com/dftrevisited/

Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons

Was there a massive leak of a dangerous greenhouse gas in Iceland🇮🇸 in 2011 - or was it just a data📈 reporting error? European emission databases show that the Norðuršl aluminium factory🏭 in Iceland released 60 tons of SF₆ in 2011 — but no such emissions in any other year. It's so much that it is hard to believe this really happened. And that is not the only odd thing I found in emission databases.

Errors and Inconsistencies in European Emission Data
Factories that suddenly have emissions a thousand times lower than before, unexplained data gaps, and inconsistent CO₂ emissions from different data sources are some of the issues one finds when having a closer look at the European Union's emission databases.

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/

Basically, what the US has announced, rather unambiguously, is that the only way its actions can regulated is through superior military might.
This is a very dangerous thing to announce in a world when you are one of approximately 200 countries. Regardless of whether you currently have the most lethal military of not.
Anyone know what happens to that one asshole at a game of Monopoly if the rest of the players decide to team up against him?
Not saying it will happen. But re…

Well worth signing if you live in California
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/let-the-people-decide-give-us-a-vote-on-autonomous-vehicles?source=direct_link&

Let the People Decide: Give Us a Vote on Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have flooded San Francisco’s streets, raising serious safety and traffic concerns for residents, pedestrians, animal advocates, and local businesses. In 2025 alone, both Waymo and Zoox recalled over 1,200 vehicles due to crash risks. AVs have also blocked emergency vehicles, caused traffic jams, and created dangerous situations for people walking, biking, and driving. Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft already made traffic worse, accounting for about half th…

20 points of peace: chance for Ukraine or step toward dangerous compromise?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/points-of-peace-chance-for.html

another annoying side effect of the rent being too damn high: out of business storefronts (& their absentee landlords) don't shovel the snow/ice off their sidewalks. lotta dangerous patches out there! #nyc

Today's #TuneTuesday is #PedalPowerSongs, tunes about bikes. This is dangerous territory, involving two of my favorite things. I'll try to control myself.
Among other things, this tune is about the city wanting to kill those of us who aren't travelling by car.
Bomb The Music Indust…

While this may be a good idea, I personally would not want to get anywhere near a so called "venture" backed by Vinod Khosla, not no way, not no how.
"One of America’s most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-sol…

One of America’s most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes
Tapping energy from “superhot rock” could produce cheap, clean, constant energy almost anywhere — if drills and wells can survive infernal heat and pressure.

Trump's Immigration Forces Deploy "Less Lethal" Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p90#a251125p90

"The world is heading to add 57 superhot days a year, but study indicates it could have been worse"
#Climate #ClimateChange

The world is heading to add 57 superhot days a year, but study indicates it could have been worse
The world is on track to add nearly two months of dangerous superhot days each year by the end of the century, with poorer small nations hit far more often than the biggest carbon-polluting countries, a study released Thursday found.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Cities Aviv:
🎵 Most Dangerous Game
#CitiesAviv
https://open.spotify.com/track/1HhpLKJCX1K8vbNU6QGhRY

Signature of climate change: Nearly half of harmful wildfire smoke exposure linked to human-caused warming https://phys.org/news/2025-12-signature-climate-wildfire-exposure-linked.html

Signature of climate change: Nearly half of harmful wildfire smoke exposure linked to human-caused warming
Across the western U.S., wildfires and the dangerous smoke that results have increased in frequency and intensity since the 1990s—that much is clear. Surprisingly less clear are the exact reasons why: While greenhouse gas-related global warming is often cited as a culprit, to what extent can this claim be quantified?

Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers https://www.404media.co/metas-ray-ban-glasses-users-film-and-harass-massage-parlor-workers/

Dangerous week for La Voix to have a bad performance, with all the other dancers bringing their A game. 😥#strictly

SNAP benefit cut-off dangerous for people with chronic illness #food

When SNAP benefits run out, 'people can die,' say health experts
“People can die” from even short gaps in nutrition and food access, experts say ahead of SNAP benefits not going out in November in at least 25 states.

USpol
Was just having a conversation with someone about how "50%" of the country voted for Trump and in reminding them it's way less took the time to look up the numbers. In 2024 Trump got 77.3 million votes in a country of 340.1 million people. That's 22.7% of the people. ~21.5% of the people are under age 18, so 263.6 million adults. Trump got the vote of 29.3% of them. Some of those adults aren't eligible to vote, but when discussing social dynamics, they matter just as much, as do kids... Even of the people who voted for Trump, many were not at all MAGA fanatics (even if they at minimum had a seriously warped worldview and dangerous politics of one kind or another).
The truth is, almost no president has ever had a huge popular mandate, because our society is engineered to let a minority political class retain most of the power while giving the illusion of influence to the masses.

John Bolton's Espionage Act case may be much more dangerous for him than the Comey and AG James prosecutions — and this is why
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/john-boltons-espionage-act-case-may-be-much-more-dangerous-for-him-than-the-comey-and-ag-james-prosecutions-and-this-is-why/

South Africa Warns Trump's G-20 Snub Sets Dangerous Precedent (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-28/south-africa-warns-trump-s-g-20-snub-sets-dangerous-precedent
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p51#a251128p51

FYI
* Tornado Warning for...
Central Santa Cruz County in northern California...
* Until 100 PM PST.
* At 1219 PM PST, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a
tornado was located 7 miles south of Santa Cruz, moving north at 35
mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage
to roofs, windows and…

NFL Delivers Harsh Punishment for Hit That Injured Cowboys WR https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/nfl-delivers-harsh-punishment-ryan-flournoy/

“The spread of dangerous infections that do not respond to antibiotics has been increasing by
as much as 15 percent a year”,
says the WHO.
“The less people have access to quality care,
the more they’re likely to suffer from drug-resistant infection.”
https://kottke.org/25/10/0047706-th…

Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes Gets Blunt Words From Raiders’ Pete Carroll https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-message-chiefs-patrick-mahomes/?adt_ei=[email]

Joe Rogan Rips Trump for Setting a 'Dangerous Precedent' (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-rogan-rips-trump-for-setting-a-dangerous-precedent/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251017/p16#a251017p16

QB Stock Market Week 17: Caleb Williams Keeps Defying QB Logic https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-17-caleb-williams-keeps-defying-qb-logic

Congresswoman Ilhan Omarhas warned that Donald Trump’s repeated personal attacks and dehumanising rhetoric
are fuelling a climate of political violence that could have dangerous consequences.
Speaking days after the president called for her to be thrown out of the country,
Omar said Trump’s incendiary language reaches “the worst humans possible” and encourages them to act.
“We’ve had people incarcerated for threatening to kill me,”
“We have people that are being…

Over the last decade, America’s roads have become more dangerous,
with serious crashes increasing by nearly 20 percent since 2013.
Approximately 94 percent of crashes are the result of driver behavior
like speeding, impairment or distraction
— behavior that can be detected and corrected by a new generation of machine learning-enabled dash-cams.
Seamless integration between machine learning, IoT management and the cloud allows these cameras to improve safety in r…

Anti-abortion activists have been trying to convince the broader public that medication abortion is dangerous for years,
but their latest argument is a decades-old asinine conspiracy theory.
In a June 18 letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin,
25 House Republicans asked the agency to study the alleged
“byproducts” of Mifepristone
(the first medication administered in a medication abortion regimen)
in water systems.
…

GOP Lawmakers Are Using a Wild Conspiracy Theory to Attack Medication Abortion
House Republicans are now talking about combing through sewers in search of microscopic evidence of our abortions.