Tootfinder

This was a nice surprise. Many thanks to Will Wonks / Igloo Mag for the fascinating and encouraging review of ‘Habitations’! =)
“…Across the album, Logan unites bold experimentation with deep emotional resonance, moving seamlessly between complexity and clarity, chaos and calm. Each track offers a universe full of spectral sound, each transition a bridge between moments of wonder and enduring reflection. From the vibrant energy of its opening stutters to the meditative, elemental quiet…

Fox News-Pilled SCOTUS Invents Wild Hypotheticals to Justify Curtailing Right to Vote by Mail (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-hypothetical-voting-by-mail-grace-period
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p101#a260323p101

Forget describing new species, how often are we adding new genera, families, orders, and classes? New higher-order clades are often "hidden" as symbionts or in less-accessible habitats
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2530656123

Way back in the late 1980's my cat once brought one of these to our front door. (We live in Santa Cruz county along an ever-running creek - rather the natural habitat for garter snakes.)
(Our office was located next to a site that had hundreds if not thousands of common garter snakes - enough that a state herpetologist lept back upon encountering a mass-of-snakes scene right out of an Indiana Jones movie.)

Stunning California snake endangered since the 1960s prepares to make a comeback
Listed as endangered since 1967, San Francisco garter snakes are found only on the Peninsula and in northern Santa Cruz County.

Mit dem Cyber Resilience Act zieht die EU die sicherheitspolitische Notbremse für digitale Produkte. Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik erklärt, was das heißt: Security by Design, Update-Pflichten, Meldewege. Klingt selbstverständlich – war es aber nicht. Ab 2027 gilt: Wer vernetzt verkauft, haftet auch für Sicherheit.
@bsi_bund@social.bund.de
#CyberResilienceAct

The uncertain brightness and tail(s) development of #Kreutz #comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is one thing - see the curves in https://astro.vanbuitenen.nl/comet/2026A1 and https://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2026A1/2026A1.html for guesses and https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2688 for the current value which is ~8.5 mag. - but the viewing geometry is the other: here it is for 51.5° North (my place Bochum) and 22.5° South (Windhoek) as the view is much better from the southern hemisphere.
The table first gives the elongation (angle between comet and Sun in the sky) and the phase angle (the angle Sun - comet - Earth) which nearing 180° can lead to significant boost of brightness by forward scattering on dust.
And this is followed by the altitude of the comet at the solar depressions given in the top line, for Bochum and Windhoek: sunset and end of civilian twilight and for the latter also the end of nautical and astronomical twilight, i.e. the onset of night. Also of importance is the angle of a hypothetical dust tail (simulated in https://hdr-astrophotography.com) after perihelion, also much better in the South: https://britastro.org/section_news_item/c-2026-a1-maps-a-kreutz-group-sungrazer - but first MAPS has to survive the latter *and* release a lot of dust at the right time ...

Hypothetical George Pickens Trade Lands Cowboys Prime NFL Draft Pick From AFC Team https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/hypothetical-george-pickens-trade-dallas-cowboys-prime-nfl-draft-pick-afc-team

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gedeonm/115942181548221988
We could have more of this but folks would rather destroy our habitat and commit genocide.

Kennedy Plan to Test a Vaccine in West African Babies Is Blocked (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/health/hepatitis-b-vaccine-africa-study.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260122/p142#a260122p142

I remember reading cases of "wrongful birth" in which children sued their parents for withholding care (or using voodoo "natural' style medication) resulting in the child being damaged for life.
Seems like that notion - child's rights vs parents - ought to be expanded.
"It’s not just vaccines — parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns"

New parents are shunning proven preventive care for their infants in effort to be 'natural'
Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other safe and routine care for babies. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that refusals of vitamin K shots rose steeply between 2017 and 2024. Those shots can prevent potentially deadly bleeding. A subsequent research review found that U.S. parents who declined vitamin K shots were 90 times more likel…