Tootfinder

Camera glasses that can attach to something like an Android handset via USB cable, and act like a UVC-compliant webcam? https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/camera-glasses-that…

No Jim McMahon, it's perfectly OK to disincentive car use, especially where aviation is concerned.
'Manchester Airport shouldn't become like Gatwick' - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ne

'Manchester Airport shouldn't become like Gatwick'
The airport has come under fire in parliament

Raiders HC Pete Carroll sounds like he knows his job is in danger https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/12/16/raiders-hc-pete-carroll-sounds-like-he-knows-his-job-is-in-dang…

Random thought of the day: if someone wanted an EV *fast* charger at/near home, how much would the power company charge for all of the necessary infrastructure?
Like, putting a megawatt supercharger on a random residential block that's currently only wired with like 7200V single phase.
I feel like you'd probably have to run a new medium voltage line all the way out to the nearest substation. Judging by what I was quoted to run fiber a shorter distance you're talking &…

Governor Walz Tells it Like It Is - UPDATED with detail about the right-wing rally this weekend
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/15/2363564/-Governor-Walz-Tells-it-Like-It-Is

I love how Fediverse apps like #Peertube and Mastodon are connected and you can like videos from Mastodon. However, the user experience sucks. If I'm on a Peertube page I need to have an account on that server to be able to like videos.
To avoid that, I need to paste the Peertube URL into Mastodon's search to see the video's post and I can like it from there.

You know if you have a platform like a YouTube channel and if you like your audience, many of which are in the crosshairs of the fascists, you could spare a few words in your videos to tell fascists to get fucked.
This isn’t called “getting political”, this is called “basic human decency”.

GPI SPHERE detection of a 6.1 MJup circumbinary #planet around HD 143811: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/10/aa57104-25/aa57104-25.html -> Rare image of Tatooine-like planet is closest to its twin stars yet: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/12/rare-image-of-tatooine-like-planet-is-closest-to-its-twin-stars-yet

"Software is no longer seen as an asset, as something to care for, to maybe even take pride in. It’s a throw-away product. Like a napkin. Just get one quick, wipe your mouth and throw it away. Like a novelty t-shirt."
(Original title: Software as Fast Fashion)
https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-a…

Software as Fast Fashion
Clothes have never been cheaper. These days a t-shirt is often cheaper that a decent cup of tea in a cafe. The wonders of capitalism. At least that is how it is often described. And when you point at the underpaid, gruesome labor that people in poorer regions of the planet have to do to […]

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

@… F. Scott Fitzgerald sounds like I really don’t like a guy named Scott Fitzgerald

Re: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@imp3tuz/115552260205239405
Itch.io bundles are always a great deal and (like this one) support important causes.
You'll find like 10 new videogames or zines or solo RPGs that you never would have encountered otherwise that are really cool.
Looks like this bundle is set to go live November 28 with applications still live through November 21.

A plant that looks like a fungus,
lives like a parasite,
and clones itself in the dark
—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s strangest experiments.
At the foot of moss-covered trees in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan,
as well as within the subtropical forests of Okinawa,
an unusual organism emerges from the forest floor.
It is often mistaken for a mushroom,
yet it is actually a rare flowering plant that produces some of the smallest…

Hey Mastodon, can you please help me out here?
Which is the best *free tool* to organise a community of school parents in Italy?
For now they consider a GoogleDoc for documentation (just 4-5 pages for now) a Facebook page (to organise the discussions in threads). I'd like to propose a free alternative
People involved could be 10-30. There should be some sort of collaborative document management (like a wiki), and ideally a space for discussion (like a forum).
Id…

. @… "found over 40 cases of agents using chokeholds and other moves that can block breathing. 'I felt like I was going to pass out and die,' said a 16-year-old citizen."

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

The Crew Motorfest: on the horizon
The new Crew game has joined Game Pass, so I thought I'd give it a go. At first it felt like I was playing Forza Horizon 2, but after a while it felt more like Forza Horizon 4. It's just so familiar, but with a slightly worse driving model, and more unlikeable characters in longer cut scenes. I've still got a third of FH4 and most of FH5 to complete, but maybe I'll get around to trying this some day - through probably they'll turn …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lil B:
🎵 Like a Martian
#LilB
https://breakfastbeats.bandcamp.com/track/lil-b-like-a-martian-breakfast-beats-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0rmWy8NPxzxXrlqyuQooR9

I don't like the Dutchman. He's a crocodile. He's sneaky. I don't trust him.
-- Jack "Legs" Diamond, just before a peace conference
with Dutch Schultz.
I don't trust Legs. He's nuts. He gets excited and starts pulling a
trigger like another guy wipes his nose.
-- Dutch Schultz, just before a peace conference with
"Legs" Diamond.

These are two REALLY gross flicks. Loved em. Some of the best, nastiest horror I've seen in a while. Sometimes you like something so much you need to buy physical copies. I try to be kinda picky and only keep physical copies of things I like a lot and might actually rewatch.
#horror #bluray

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Bombay Bicycle Club:
🎵 Always Like This
#NowPlaying #BombayBicycleClub
https://micsmith.bandcamp.com/track/always-like-this-ft-bombay-bicycle-club
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TjggLipg2gpywawJAlzVY

learn 👇

I've never used #Signal, since I don't like the idea of an app that's in any way bound to my phone number. But these days I sometimes feel like I ought to install it just to spite all the haters.
Not that I have anyone to talk to…

@… explains why Mastodon feels like it has a much brighter future than legacy social media really well here:
https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115560976942889…

I would like to get two 10x10x200cm wooden beams and cut them diagonally to get four very long wedges that I can use to raise my mattress base.
Is that doable or insane? And if doable, and if you're in #Berlin or #Germany, is it something I can ask Bauhaus or the like to do for me (in which…

Went ahead and resoldered the pins connecting the EPROM to the cart as it looked like I had rushed slightly when putting everything together. Got the SNES hooked up to the TV and after standard cartridge stuff the game fired right up! Looks like I can put the programmer away for the time being.
#snes #retrogaming

RE: https://masto.ai/@emsc/115555693939622093
If you're following a country hashtag in a seismically-active region like I do, you've probably seen earthquake toots like this. But I actually wonder how useful these are especially when the magnitude are in the…

Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-using-gemini-give-chatgpt-like-ans…

How Apple is Using Gemini to Give ChatGPT-Like Answers
In another AI win for Google lately, Apple announced on Monday that it will use Google’s Gemini models to power its artificial intelligence features, including an upcoming updated version of its Siri voice assistant.With Gemini powering its answers, Siri will have the ability to answer factual ...

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/

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VILA: [Pulls Orac's key] They don't write poetry like that anymore. What this electronic pain is trying to say is-
TARRANT: -is that unless we get a break, there's going to be a fatal foul-up.
VILA: Right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/52

I like to label the important things :3

Actually kinda like the new styling on the Safari tab & tool bars. *ducks for cover*

The Summerhall complex has been such a focus for linking art and science in #Edinburgh, usually on a shoestring budget, but many thanks due to Robert McDowell et al. since 2011.
Now disaggregation seems to be underway for the collections that were hosted there, like the Artiscience Library and the Demarco archive ... HT @…
At least the brewery and the distillery are keeping up traditional science practices 😉, like the only bar with gin on tap.
➡️ https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/15/a-cultural-evacuation-the-demarco-archive-leaves-scotland/

Patrick Mahomes ACL injury: What Tom Brady says the rehab process is really like for QBs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patrick-mahomes-acl-injury-tom-brady-rehab-advice/

So, both Drupal and Phoenix Nights are 25 years old. I feel that this is not a coincidence…
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jan/14/phoenix-nights-25-years-since-peter-kays-record-breaking-tv-c…

Folks, I am on a roll binding Apis to make it easier for Godot games to be awesome in iOS.
What Apis would you like me to add to my plugin?

Stuff just like this is happening all over the city.

gah why does am/pm exist
i keep using weird operations like "addition" on times given to me in this manner and end up with, like, 16am

Today I installed #ZorinOS on a Thinkpad which initially came with #Ubuntu, but was never upgraded beyond 20.04... It worked like a charm! Really appreciate the Zorin dev's work! This is a good OS for family and friends in need of Windows like OS!
The fingerprint reader even just worked out of t…

Someone posted about the Playdate and I was like "Oh yeah, that's a thing!" so I checked on the price and noped right out of there quickly.

You’re allowed to like things even if they are “cringe”, “lame”, “awkward”, “boring”, or “geeky”.
- Sincerely, someone who judges herself way too much for enjoying things (and is working on doing that less).

It's stuff like this that scares the bejesus out of me.

"Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions"

https://nypost.com/2025/10/16/business/us-army-general-william-hank-taylor-uses-chatgpt-to-help-make-command-decisions/

I like looking to the stars thinking that, maybe, there is someone even dumber than I looking back to the stars thinking if someone is even dumber.

I'm looking at a bunch of open clipart icons and some of them have straightforward licenses like CC or public domain.
But others are using more software-oriented licenses like GPL or LGPL. I'm... not entirely sure how that is supposed to work.
If I load a GPL'd icon PNG into my application is that "dynamic linking" in a way that would require my entire application to be GPL? There's no code involved, no symbol manipulation, and the icon isn't compile…

Trump’s chief of staff acknowledges ‘score settling’ behind prosecutions of political rivals:
‘He will go for it’
– ‘In some cases, it may look like retribution,’
said Susie Wiles in a wide-ranging interview with Vanity Fair
Wiles also suggested the real goal of Trump's boat strikes is to topple Venezuela's Maduro
"He wants to keep on blowing boats up until [president Nicolšs] Maduro cries uncle. And people way smarter than me on that say that he w…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nine Inch Nails:
🎵 Head Like a Hole
#NineInchNails
https://gost1980s.bandcamp.com/track/nine-inch-nails-head-like-a-hole-gost-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ckd4YA4LcD3j50rfIVwUe

It looks like Nano Retina is back, or are they just trying to sell off their IP? No news since 2022 https://www.nano-retina.com retinal implant.
The clinical study https://

RE: https://freeradical.zone/@bitartbot/115548068127595582
I’m following this math-based procedural art bot and I like that I sometimes get Sierpiński triangles like this one on my timeline. 🔺️

There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr

Just finished "I'm Awful, Thanks" by Lara Pickle. A good story that serves as a guide to managing emotions, although it's actually a cute story too, not just framing for the mental health discussion.
That said, I feel like it doesn't get far enough into the details of accepting self-control as our only form of real control vs. understanding that some events outside our control aren't fair or are others' attacks, and trying to manage our own emotions as our only response is a disservice to ourselves and others. Even further, I suspect that the HR resolution depicted here, while not impossible, is less frequent than much worse outcomes, which is part of a larger pattern of systemic assaults on our mental health that aren't totally solvable with individual emotional regulation.
Sure, leveling up one's control of ones own emotions and learning to accept and manage a range of emotions is super useful and it's a good thing overall, but the systemic problems of late stage capitalism are real, and making it seem like everyone is responsible for managing their own mental health in the face of these problems helps avoid confronting them.
Still, it's a good book overall, with vibrant art and a well-structured plot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

I feel like they're fucking with subscriptions so I have to go to the Amazon site to fix it and maybe they'll sell me more shit? idk

Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
TRAVIS: You sent for me?
SERVALAN: You've lost some of your fire, Travis. Whatever happened to your pride?
TRAVIS: My pride, Supreme Commander?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/227 B7B6

Periodic reminder that I like cats :3

ICE Is Functioning Like an Occupying Army. I Know Because I Served in One.
https://truthout.org/articles/ice-is-functioning-like-an-occupying-army-i-know-because-i-served-in-one/?utm_campaign=davidaugust.co…

ICE Is Functioning Like an Occupying Army. I Know Because I Served in One.
Veteran-led protests against Trump’s National Guard deployments encourage soldiers to resist Trump’s illegal orders.

A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA.
The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium.
It shows no signs of resistance so far, offering hope in the fight against drug-resistant infections and paving the way for new approaches to antibiotic discovery.

Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It shows no signs of resistance so far, offering hope in the fight against drug-resistant infections and paving the way for new approaches to antibiotic discovery.

Philly GM: 'Hard to find great players' like Brown https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47622415/howie-roseman-downplays-aj-brown-trade-talk-says-eagles-wr-great-player

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Modest Mouse:
🎵 Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine
#ModestMouse
https://modestmouse.bandcamp.com/track/teeth-like-gods-shoeshine
https://open.spotify.com/track/5aUn8l6MaYrh9yNBzrLEBF

Self-help gurus like Tony Robbins, Gabby Bernstein, and Matthew Hussey are charging up to $99 per month to access AI chatbots that promise personalized advice (Sara Ashley O'Brien/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/style/ai-se…

🥳 @small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost version 9.0.1 released
Automatically provisions and installs locally-trusted TLS certificates for Node.js https servers (including Polka, Express.js, etc.) Unlike mkcert, 100% written in JavaScript with no external/binary dependencies. As used in Kitten¹
https://cod…

auto-encrypt-localhost
Automatically provisions and installs locally-trusted TLS certificates for Node.js https servers in 100% JavaScript (without any native dependencies like mkcert and certutil).

@… also fun: https://www.osnews.com/story/144006/using-ai-to-manage-your-fedora-system-seems-like-a-r…

News spreads like wildfire via private messages from neighbor to neighbor, and there’s •so• much that’s no making the news:
Person abducted on this block. Convoy of ICE vehicles spotted on this street. Observer shoved by ICE. Person abducted on that block. Observer threatened with a weapon by ICE.
ALL DAY EVERY DAY

Currently wondering what it feels like to work so hard on an open-licensed typeface only to have it co-opted by very terrible and very famous people as part of their core brand identity.

desperately increasing the semver patch release one by one while looking back at the actions tab like a contestant on "the price is right"

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Amanda Blank:
🎵 DJ
#NowPlaying #AmandaBlank
https://djberlin.bandcamp.com/track/amanda-blank-might-like-you-better-saturate-retronome-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6630jJm4hZc35rtcj8SxIc

I like when people get in touch with me about interesting projects but not when it's super-complex and they would "ideally like it done by the first week of December" because there's no way that is happening.

“Talking about lethality and killing and blowing people up
— you know, it’s usually true that people who talk like that and pound their chest are the ones that did the least. …
You can’t be asked to do things like that,
which are not normal parts of the human experience,
and not have that weigh on you pretty heavily.” https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Steve Miller Band:
🎵 Fly Like An Eagle
#SteveMillerBand
https://belohnungszentrum.bandcamp.com/track/steve-miller-band-fly-like-an-eagle-belohnungszentrum-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3e0FzZjTXOUtiJGSClOBrI

I think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.

You know how you could protect people like Alice Wong and save lives?
Wear a fucking mask

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
BLAKE: [To Jenna] Get a locator fix on the signal.
CALLY: It's already pinpointed.
BLAKE: Well done. Alright, Avon, get kitted up. You too, Vila.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/2…

So how long until the Firefox logo becomes another AI company logo that looks like a butthole?
:firefox: https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/843883/ai-image-generators-better-worse

AI image generators are getting better by getting worse
AI image generators are getting way better at creating realistic fakes, by making image quality a little bit worse.

"IBM owns Red Hat which in turn runs Fedora, the popular desktop Linux distribution. Sadly, shit rolls downhill, so we’re starting to see some worrying signs that Fedora is going to be used a means to push “AI”."
(Original title: Using “AI” to manage your Fedora system seems like a really bad idea)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Temptations:
🎵 Treat Her Like a Lady
#TheTemptations
https://discobaredits.bandcamp.com/track/the-temptations-treat-her-like-a-lady-discobar-rare-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iMDtQVTT4gxlX12SHkzdq

"What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it’s not. A lot of the time it’s what makes you great."
—Emma Stone
#acting #coaching #inspiration

The recent election results proved something important.
Voters responded to candidates who spoke directly to economic pain.
When Democrats leaned into economic populism, they won.
They won by acknowledging reality, not sugarcoating it.
They won because they talked like people who know what a grocery bill feels like in 2025.
The mandate was clear:
tell the truth about the economy and fight for people who are getting squeezed.
And now comes Trump,…

THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS TRUMP WANTS YOU TO IGNORE
America is living through a cost of living crisis that is bigger than any talking point, any spin, any press event and the President is insulting our intelligence.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Metronomy:
🎵 The Bay
#NowPlaying #Metronomy
https://erolalkan.bandcamp.com/album/erol-alkan-reworks-scissor-sisters-i-dont-feel-like-dancing-metronomy-the-bay
https://open.spotify.com/track/2akjLHnHjDGsgqxuf48VYs

Today was… something. I woke with terrible leg pain, like the worst I’ve ever had. Tried everything to make it go away, nothing helped, I cried. When my partner awoke I asked if they could take me to urgent care. When we got there I was in such pain I could only lay flat on the waiting room floor. Eventually they saw me, I got a shot for the pain, got sent home with some prescriptions…
1/n

@… Looks like it loads now!

Tech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/15/big-tech-whist…

Tech whistleblowers face million-dollar debts, job loss and isolation
After exposing the harms of Big Tech, many whistleblowers say they faced poor job prospects and isolation in Silicon Valley. They have no regrets.

New rug

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Metronomy:
🎵 The Bay
#NowPlaying #Metronomy
https://erolalkan.bandcamp.com/album/erol-alkan-reworks-scissor-sisters-i-dont-feel-like-dancing-metronomy-the-bay
https://open.spotify.com/track/2akjLHnHjDGsgqxuf48VYs

This was written 50 years ago.
I wonder if in 25 years there will be situations like this in science about the Trump and AI years.
(Weizenbaum, Computer power and human reason, 1976)

The US threatens economic penalties against European companies like Spotify, if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/business/economy/us-eu-tech-penalties.html<…

U.S. Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight
The Trump administration singled out European tech firms by name and promised economic consequences Tuesday unless the E.U. rolls back tech regulation and lawsuits.

sup

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ya Tseen:
🎵 Like Honey
#YaTseen
https://yatseen.bandcamp.com/track/like-honey-feat-anel-figueroa-2

"At first glance what you see is a sleek, 17.0-pound portable."
They don't make them like they used to.

Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-venture-capital-big-fun…

In A.I. Boom, Venture Capital Firms Are Raising Loads More Money
Lightspeed Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture firm, has amassed more than $9 billion to invest in artificial intelligence. That is its biggest haul.

Holy cow, that's a big dog!!

I feel like we are witnessing the #moronification of government.
Add violence/genocide and not too different from the Khmer Rouge
-- Kendyl Hanks
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.

FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social)
HHS Secretary RFK Jr: "This idea that you should trust the experts, a good mother doesn't do that"

Living on a hill without direct fiber or cable sucks sometimes.
At midnight our main ISP crapped out completely and then in the morning I manually switched to our super-slow backup ISP (like 8Mbps down, 1Mbps up) but that one also intermittently craps out.
Main ISP says it should be fixed soon, their "internet chassis" at another location shit the bed and they need to replace multiple pieces of hardware.

Ashley St. Clair, mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sues xAI, alleging Grok refused to stop making sexualized deepfakes of her, amid custody disputes (Peter Senzamici/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/15/us-news/elon-musks-baby-…

Elon Musk’s baby mama Ashley St. Clair sues X for AI sex deepfakes: 'like this nightmare will never stop'
Elon Musk baby mama Ashley St. Clair is suing his AI platform, Grok, for refusing to stop making sexually explicit deepfake images of her — including phony pictures of her as a nude child — and the…

Scientists say that AI has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool, and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is, for now, a moot point (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technol

Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?
Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115900896398619371
Yay, the "good" (still very slow but not like molasses) Internet is back! ~18-hour outage.
Hope those techs are getting some sleep now.

Internal documents: Meta earned $18B in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10% of its global revenue, with $3B linked to fraudulent ads like scams (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-tolerates…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115554833586408997
While this is satire, there are so many actual people like this on social media

Wrt to a certain article going around today:
I think if your parents are abusive and/or say or do certain abominable things and you don’t cut them off, there’s something wrong with you.
Which would make perfect sense being raised by people that were abusive to you.
Gotta break the cycle. If you don’t do it for yourself, think about how it affects people you love like your partner or children.

YouTube revises policy to allow full monetization of nongraphic videos on sensitive issues including abortion, self-harm, suicide, and domestic and sexual abuse (Sam Gutelle/Tubefilter)
https://www.tubefilter.com/2026/01/15/youtube-sensitive…

YouTube removes the guesswork by expanding monetization for controversial content - Tubefilter
YouTube is allowing creators to more effectively monetize videos that touch upon sensitive subjects like abortion and domestic abuse.

Today we're gonna find out together how well a 30-year old lithum-ion battery charges.
This is a Hitachi battery that doesn’t have any direct modern replacement; it’s almost identical to a Sony NP-FM50 but ever so slightly thinner so the Sony batteries just barely don’t fit into the Hitachi camera this is for.
I’ll probably fry to modify a 3rd-party replacement for the Sony batteries by sanding it down, needs to be shaved off by like <1mm.