Tootfinder

omg how absolutely awful. "dirty pictures," his history of underground #comix, was superb. (probably don't agree with his other politics but today is not the day for that.) https://

Brian Doherty, historian of the libertarian movement, dead at 57
The longtime Reason senior editor accidentally fell to his death from a park along the San Francisco Bay. He was 57.

While the watchword of the day is Mythos, there is a ton of other critical infosec news in today's Metacurity you should know, including
--US agencies court Anthropic AI for cyber defense despite Pentagon ban,
--OpenAI launches private test of its Mythos rival,
--Russian cyber group targeted a Swedish thermal power plant,
--Microsoft fixes 167 flaws on Patch Tuesday,
--Fake Ledger site linked to $9.5m crypto theft,
--McGraw-Hill hacked via Salesforce mi…

US agencies court Anthropic AI for cyber defense despite Pentagon ban
OpenAI launches private test of its Mythos rival, Russian cyber group targeted a Swedish thermal power plant, Microsoft fixes 167 flaws on Patch Tuesday, Fake Ledger site linked to $9.5m crypto theft, McGraw-Hill hacked via Salesforce misconfiguration, much more

Super Mario World: completed!
I didn't get lost again, but that was largely because the game's designers had finished messing around with the world map and everything was fairly linear from that point. I did find a couple of extra exits on Chocolate Island, but maintaining my aim of ignoring the red blinking markers and just pushing through to the end, I finished off Wendy and progressed through the shipwreck down to Bowser's hidden valley, previously submerged beneath…

My all time favourite since the day the pirated print of the CD landed in my hands (somewhere after 2001?)
🤜🏼💥🤛🏼
V.A. - Psycho-Tainment | Full Mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5qK4X9iT18

KI-Einsatz: Anspruchsvolle Aufgaben werden delegiert, Routine bleibt
Eine Untersuchung des KI-Entwicklers Anthropic zeigt, dass KI vor allem anspruchsvolle Aufgaben übernimmt. Dies führt zu einem „Deskilling“ vieler Berufe.

„Wir sollten Mastodon in die Presse bringen!”
„NICHT SO NICHT SO NICHT SO NICHT SO”
😂😂😂😂

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@maggiechapman/116235364724153163
“Just for fun”
Yeehaw, y’all. Pew, pew, pew!
I hope this sonofabitch suffers and we get to watch.

The Ides of MarchIntosh
#Marchintosh

Bluesky is completely down. Even the status page is dead. Very not decentralized. (edit: service restored after a multihour outage)

Prévoir un allongement de temps de trajet de 15 minutes environ pour le train suivant : -GAMO départ Paris Gare de Lyon 22h16, arrivée Montargis 00h07
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne.
Motif : panne de signalisation.
🤖 15/02 22:57

ASML says South Korea surpassed China as its largest market in Q1 2026, with shipments hitting 45% of net system sales, or €2.84B, up from 22% in Q4 2025 (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

@…

glaube in anderen ländern bezeichnet man das als korruption

"…Trump has now implored other nations, which he neglected to consult or involve in advance of the precipitous attack, to provide military assistance. Such help is not forthcoming."
potus spent a year alienating friends he now wants as friends. Every day potus is potus is a danger to the US.
https://

Trump Faces A Hobson’s Choice in Iran
The President believes he can escalate his way out of war, but we already know how this ends.

via @…

How a couple near Kyiv is saving hundreds of birds amid the sound of missiles | HOMO AMANS: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/how-a-couple-near-kyiv.html

#FPÖ will bei LK- und #Graz​er GR-Wahl punkten
https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3338026/
Nun, …

🥱 Tired: Merging
⚡️ Wired: Morging
Thanks, Microsoft Docs!
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow#git-flow

The EU digital age verification app.
Statement:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/STATEMENT_26_817
The technology (opensource):

@… You seem to apply a strict definition of "safe"/"secure" meaning nothing counts below absolute perfection, which is more of an argument about linguistic/semantics of the wording used, rather than the technical benefits of the language.
Rust has features that broadly improve quality and reliability too, eg. sum types help catch mistakes in sta…

RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/116078142963705558
Jeepers. I had no idea this had been made public yet. I don't know if I will be able to stomach watching it.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116071868206490125
...and happy 33rd anniversary to The Brundles[1], the commercial Atari 8bit clone I wrote and co-designed for a publisher in 1993 (and that without ever even playing the original :)

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@cark/116376816149693879
Für alle die Single-Author-Threads nicht so cool finden wie ich: hier gibt es mit @…

Schon lange nicht mehr in meinem Studienort #Tübingen gewesen. Heute zu einem Konzert mit Patenkind in der Stiftskirche. Ist einfach ein toller Ort um zu studieren.
@…

@… die Trendbots sind leider nicht besonders schlau - unser @… ist da keine Ausnahme. Sie greifen nur die Trends von mehreren Server auf und "käuen sie wieder". Als Betreiber kann man da n…

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.

Real Housewives of Pompeii
#RomanEraTVShows #HashTagGames

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/116409644340174563
Hat die russische Propaganda nicht mehr genug, AI, um einen sauberen englischen Satz aufs Papier zu bringen?

Die SBahn ist nicht voll, es drängen sich einfach nur sehr sehr viele Menschen in den Türbereich, statt sich im Zug zu verteilen.
Und vielleicht sollten wir einfach Züge ohne Wände und Sitzplätze bauen. (Nur teilweise ernst gemeinter Lösungsvorschlag)

"Plenty of people saw Epstein for what he was and stayed far away. But for others, his proximity to the rich and the powerful were evidence that whatever he had done, it couldn’t be that bad. After all, look who he was dining with! The network made Epstein both legitimate and valuable. It enabled his abuses and, for a time, insulated him from their consequences."
**Opinion | Ro Khanna Is Shaken by What He’s Learned From the Epstein Files** - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/rdbFB#selection-865.100-865.463

@… ahahahah that’s incredible. makes me want to feed in 60 minutes of TB-303 acid bloops and gurgles and see what literature Youtube auto subtitles creates

Der geplante #Solarpark Weltersburg-Guckheim hat einen Zuschlag in der #EEG-Ausschreibung erhalten.
Auf dem Gelände der ehemaligen Tongrube „Erna-Marie“ entsteht eine 16-MWp- #Freiflächenanlage

Google bevorzugt Websites, die ein Thema in der Tiefe abdecken. Nicht in der Breite. 🎓
Ein Fahrrad-Blog der über Krypto schreibt, wird dafür nicht ranken. Egal wie gut der Artikel ist. Google traut ihm das Thema schlicht nicht zu.
Umgekehrt: Wer 30 starke Artikel rund um Fahrradreparatur hat, rankt für neue Artikel zum Thema schneller und höher. Das nennt sich Topical Authority.
Google vertraut Spezialisten deutlich mehr als Generalisten. Tiefe schlägt Breite. 🕳️

RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/115132373119885378
I'm getting super impatient over here.

Interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OV0_Pd-OAs

Not sure why any church would ever follow me, but hoo boy, are you in for some treats 😂

Freund sucht Büro/Praxisräume im Bereich #Bochum Ehrenfeld/Innenstadt Süd/Wiemelhausen...

RE: https://front-end.social/@shadeed9/116233867407521680
Beware of the newly emerged dangers posed by domain hoarding!

The Damned - Not Like Everybody Else (Full Album) 2026
Been listening to this album and enjoying it more than I expected. It's nice hearing these voices in a contemporary setting. Anyone know how their other recent albums are? So many! I've not kept up. I just wanted to check out these covers, but now i'm like these guys are still really good!
#music

Sin petróleo, sin turismo, sin insumos, ¿cušnto puede aguantar Cuba?
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/cuba/cuba-eeuu-embargo-periodo-especial-trump-petroleo-mexico-venezuela?utm_source=feed

Sin petróleo, sin turismo, sin insumos, ¿cuánto puede aguantar Cuba?
No es la primera “emergencia nacional” en la historia de la Revolución, pero el estado de deterioro económico en el que se encuentra Cuba, hace que la posibilidad de resistencia demostrada en otros periodos sea mucho más limitada.

Give the band in this photo a name:
▫️ Rage Against the Vaccine
▫️ Lady MAGA
▫️ Four Con Blondes
▫️ The Klanberries
▫️ Shilli Vanilli
▫️ Magadeth
▫️ Queensthirdreich
▫️ Cruel & the Gang
▫️ Bananascamma
▫️ Supertramps
▫️ Frankie goes to Nuremberg
▫️ The PussyGrab Dolls
▫️ Hateful Dead
▫️ Cage the Immigrant
#trump

Everybody builds.

Under R-party/maga theocratic principles it would be expected that those who benefit from this pay the costs. In other words, why should we taxpayers pay for this DHS expense when it benefits the airlines and the passengers?
(I'm saying this to demonstrate how much airlines love to offload expenses onto the taxpayers while keeping income to themselves. If these airline CEOs want this then what will they give up to us, the taxpayers. I could suggest lower salaries for CEOs, highe…

Airline CEOs urge Congress to fund Department of Homeland Security amid shutdown
The CEOs of the nation’s top airline companies are imploring Congress to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security and embrace a bipartisan solution to pay federal aviation workers, including airport security officers, during a partial government shutdown. In an open letter posted online Sunday and in The Washington Post, they noted that Congress should pass the Aviation Funding Solvency Act and the Aviation Funding Stability Act, which would guarantee air traffic controllers are…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/116240332176213124
“It’s not the revelation of Banksy’s identity that should be making headlines, but the three Reuters journalists who wasted months of their time on such a pointless and immoral hunt: Simon Gar…

Warum heisst Q6Q7 eigentlich noch nicht „Q six seven“?
#Monnem

Un train stationne vers Mairie de Montreuil en raison de l'actionnement d'un signal d'alarme .
🤖 16/03 15:57

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116411866604480276
I mean... did the bunker-dweller ever thought it might be because of him and his imperial ambitions?

underrated feature of #firefox: take high-res screenshots from websites: in console type ":screenshot --dpr 3 --fullpage" (via https://devtoolstips.org/tips/en/take-high-res-sc…

@… Richtig, genau wie mit der admin.ch-instanz …

@… Richtig, genau wie mit der admin.ch-instanz …

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
KI-Sicherheitsexperte kündigt bei Anthropic und sagt: Die Welt ist in Gefahr

Just once, I’d like to see one of these people fire back with “fuck you, lady, you’re a fucking fascist!”
https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2026/0116/1553395-white-house-press-briefing/

The NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/nist-narrows-cve-analysis-nvd/

NIST narrows scope of CVE analysis to keep up with rising tide of vulnerabilities
The National Vulnerability Database will now only analyze vulnerabilities in critical software, systems used in the federal government and those under active exploitation.

allbirds language models (large) will offer both men’s and women’s (US, UK) sizing

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/15/hacked-data-homeland-security
Another new feature of the DHS surveillance machine.

Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions
Records show DHS tech incubator spending large sums on partnerships that would expand surveillance capabilities

CALAIS, a trade and transit hub on the north coast of France, is also a portal to an underground world
—standing on the deck of a ferry as it arrives at the port city, you might spot people riding on the back of a 39-foot-tall, fire-breathing creature that’s creeping along the waterfront.
Part sculpture, part machine, part puppet, the dragon has become a beloved piece of interactive street theater—but its charming ways require the devotion of an entire entourage.

das bad ist frei

Ukrainian drone attack targets multiple Russian oblasts, Bryansk reportedly left largely without electricity: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/ukrainian-drone-attack-targets-multiple.html

Extended:
$13 Tees with everything else in my Threadless shop up to 40% off.
$13 price applies to select styles. Sale ends 3/23/26 at 5 PM CT.
#sale

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Playing around with MiniMax 2.5 a Chinese model, especially impressed with it’s ability to generate an office file with the contents you desire.
#ai

MiniMax M2.5: 更快更强更智能，为真实世界生产力而生

Starfleet Academy might be one to watch. First episode, one character says separating families is reprehensible.

The best part about all this age verification bullshit everywhere is that it's just going to inspire and push people to find ways around it. People will find ways, and they already are.

J'en peux plus des compagnies qui annoncent des horreurs (qu'il ont pourtant murement réfléchies) pour ensuite reculer en se vasntant d'ètre "a l'écoute"
Des chaines de télé locales qui veulent faire partenariat avec Amazon, du festival d'humour qui annonce le nom d'un violeur récidiviste comme tete d'affiche, des navigateurs qui deviennent "agentiques" ...

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
H.265-Patent: Nokia erzwingt Verkaufsstopp gegen Acer und Asus

Oh look, tax cheats. #epstein

RE: https://masto.pt/@tugatech/116239659667520957
Não aconteceria se usassem open source.

Anthropic says Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer that "improves how the model processes text", but "the tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens" (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/16/anthrop

Anthropic reveals new Opus 4.7 model with focus on advanced software engineering - 9to5Mac
Anthropic has announced its latest AI model with Claude Opus 4.7. The new version arrives two months after the previous...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/15/hacked-data-homeland-security
Another new feature of the DHS surveillance machine

Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions
Records show DHS tech incubator spending large sums on partnerships that would expand surveillance capabilities

Trump’s Memphis Crime Task Force Arrested Over 800 Immigrants, Records Show.
💥Only 2% of the Arrests Were for Violent Crimes.
Trump ordered a law enforcement surge in Memphis to end violent crime. -- But crime in the city has fallen steadily since 2023, hitting a 25-year low before the surge began.
The vast majority of the more than 5,200 arrests made by the Memphis Safe Task Force in its first four months have been for nonviolent crimes.
Of the task force’s 800 imm…

Trump’s Memphis Crime Task Force Arrested Over 800 Immigrants, Records Show. Only 2% of the Arrests Were for Violent Crimes.
Businesses closed. Churches emptied. Parents afraid to take kids to school. Advocates say what was supposed to be a crime-fighting effort is keeping a community in fear.

For 12 years, a couple from near KYIV has been rescuing wild birds #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/for-years-a-couple-from.html

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein

#yuffie #Garuda

Turning Point USA’s high school push in GOP states meets free speech and religion concerns | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/turning-point-clubs-high-schools-charlie-kirk-6ff5b410b6c5272e2203b6adac4a198c

Sources: Google is in talks with broadband operator Radiate to set up a JV to hold their fiber assets; Stonepeak Partners will invest $1B to support the deal (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/goo…

GOP is short for what?
Gang of Pedophiles?

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​

Korea's Fair Trade Commission is threatening to shut down Coupang's business altogether in connection with a massive data breach.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20260114/suspension-of-coupang-feasible-scena…

Suspension of Coupang feasible scenario, experts say
As the head of the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) reiterates warnings of a possible business suspension for Coupang over its massive data breach, expe...

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116229504319261743
"A core question we want to understand is where did matter come from.
And then, if you know about antimatter, it’s natural to ask, why is that not here?
The process is not understood and we are hunting f…

Ukraine says it hit Tamanneftegaz oil terminal in Russia’s Krasnodar region: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/ukraine-says-it-hit-tamanneftegaz.html

Barack Obama says aliens are real – but shoots down conspiracy theory about Area 51 | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/obama-aliens-area-51-conspiracy-b2920626.html

#SITUASION

Canada’s defence minister has signed an agreement at an international security forum to strengthen co-operation with Denmark on defence matters.
A news release from the Department of National Defence says David McGuinty,
along with defence ministers for Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands
have signed a memorandum of understanding for Canada-Denmark defence cooperation.
The release says the MOU covers areas including defence innovation,
industrial cooperatio…

Canada signs agreement for defence cooperation with Denmark
Canada's defence minister has signed an agreement at an international security forum to strengthen co-operation with Denmark on defence matters.

#XOXOExtreme #JumpingIdols

Medical examiner believes the death of man in ICE custody was #homicide, recording says

A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being
🔥choked to death by guards
at an ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.

Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.

Deaths in ICE detention centers have occurred with increasing frequency in recent months,
as Trump’s immigration crackdown floods these facilities with record numbers of detainees.
At least 30 people died in detention last year
— the highest in two decades
— and Lunas Campos is one of four who died in the first nine days of 2026 alone, according to ICE,
which posts information about all detainee deaths on its website.
Medical examiner believes death of Ca…

Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.

#Suimi

Trump vowed to “take” Cuba
as the Caribbean island plunged into darkness under a total power blackout
linked to a crippling oil embargo imposed by Washington.
After nearly seven decades defying the United States,
Havana’s communist authorities are under massive pressure from a Trump administration.
“You know, all my life I’ve been hearing about the United States and Cuba. When will the United States do it?” Trump said.
“I do believe I’ll be…having the honor…

Trump vows to 'take' Cuba as the island reels from US-imposed oil embargo
Donald Trump said he thinks he can ‘do anything’ he wants with the island as it suffers with power blackouts.

A federal judge in Boston on Monday stalled major parts of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to remake vaccine policy in the U.S.,
saying the Trump administration had likely violated the law. 
Judge Brian E. Murphy issued a preliminary ruling finding that Kennedy’s reconstitution of a key vaccine advisory panel,
and changes made to the childhood vaccine schedule in January,
were likely illegal.
Specifically, he ruled, those policy changes violated…

Federal judge stalls health secretary RFK Jr.’s overhaul of vaccine policy
Breaking: A federal judge on Monday stalled major parts of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to remake vaccine policy in the U.S.

Trump Admin Planning to Spend Over $38 Billion to Buy Warehouses and Convert Them into ICE Jails
https://bsky.app/profile/democracynow.org/post/3meyknueukp25

Democracy Now! (@democracynow.org)
Trump Admin Planning to Spend Over $38 Billion to Buy Warehouses and Convert Them into ICE Jails https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/16/headlines/trump_admin_planning_to_spend_over_38_billion_to_buy_warehouses_and_convert_them_into_ice_jails

A new mortgage crisis is quietly hitting those who can least afford
This week, there was yet another warning that many homeowners might be headed for trouble.

💥The mortgage delinquency rates for lower-income households are surging,
according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data, which recently released its Household Debt and Credit report for the fourth quarter of 2025.​

🔥According to New York Fed data,
the 90-plus-day mortgag…

A new mortgage crisis is quietly hitting those who can least afford it
This week, there was yet another warning that many homeowners might be headed for trouble.

HISTORIC DAY in Middle East and Caucasus
1-MIDDLE EAST
Unprecedented heat for this time of the year with
37C Minagish KUWAIT
36 Al Wafra,35 Kuwait Int. AP
Record hot nights everywhere
Min. 23.3 in Israel
first tropical night in February at
Al Qaysumah SAUDI ARABIA
https://

Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social)
HISTORIC DAY in Middle East and Caucasus 1-MIDDLE EAST Unprecedented heat for this time of the year with 37C Minagish KUWAIT 36 Al Wafra,35 Kuwait Int. AP Record hot nights everywhere Min. 23.3 in Israel first tropical night in February at Al Qaysumah SAUDI ARABIA tbc part2

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in rallies around the world
to show their solidarity with anti-government demonstrators in Iran
whose continued protests have been met with brutal and deadly repression.
On Saturday, Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last shah,
addressed a crowd of 200,000 people in Munich,
telling them he was ready to lead the country to a “secular democratic future”.
Pahlavi urged Iranians at home and abroad to continu…