Tootfinder

YouTube launches an AI Overviews-like carousel for searches related to shopping, places, and things to do in a specific place, for Premium users in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/youtube-adds-an-ai-ove…

YouTube adds an AI Overviews-like search results carousel | TechCrunch
YouTube is rolling out new AI-powered features to help users find content and information more easily, the company announced on Thursday.

What's in a "like"? Support art.
#SupportArt
https://muz4now.com/2017/whats-in-a-like-support-art/

What's in a "like"? Support art.
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"Scale AI left public Google Docs with sensitive details about thousands of its contractors, including their private email addresses and whether they were suspected of
'cheating.'"
https://africa.businessinsider.co…

Scale AI exposed sensitive data about clients like Meta and xAI in public Google Docs, BI finds
As Scale AI seeks to reassure customers that their data is secure following Metas $14

Scale AI used Google Docs to track work for customers like Google, Meta, and xAI, and left confidential AI training documents accessible to anyone with the link (Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/new

Scale AI exposed sensitive data about clients like Meta and xAI in public Google Docs, BI finds
As Scale AI seeks to reassure customers that their data is secure following Metas $14

Read through @…'s "signals" proposal and that's ... really weak.
Feels like it's just a bit of window dressing to keep to community busy while AI companies take everything they can find.
Like, why is that kind of signalling not part of the licenses? The promise of CC licenses was reuse by others (that is _people_…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fonda Rae:
🎵 Over Like a Fat Rat
#FondaRae
https://zrecords.bandcamp.com/track/fonda-rae-over-like-a-fat-rat-victor-simonelli-club-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5f4KeJAqyOA6GEgXsS4341

I started watching Midsommar today (thanks, @…) - I'm like, over halfway done - this movie could've been edited, man. SUPER slow burn. I mean they probably could've cut like, at least 30 minutes of this stuff.

I'd like to play on every golf course in America. What's that? Golf is ruinously expensive? I'd like to pee on every golf course in America.

@… Me too, but it really shines when you have to run a Ruby/PHP/Python app, because you don’t have to deal with the packaging hell.
I did consider making a Nix bundle for it, but… it felt like too much work.
I am considering switching from the Docker runtime to something like Incus, but I haven’t looked into it properly yet. I’ll keep the ima…

Look, what nobody understands is that everybody’s got their job to do. I got my job. In this case, it’s repairing vacuum cleaners. I like it or I don’t like it, but it’s my job.

Interesting thing about tomorrow's tarot show, rendering now, is that I upgraded from Blender 4.0 to blender 4.4 and it's quite a bit nicer to look at the timeline editor.
Was sad to find that the render time was up though. From about 3 seconds per frame usually to more like 12!?
Trying it with an old version I see that the lights and textures look way better with 4.4 than 4.0 though. A substantial step up in the way the show looks without me even doing anything other than waiting four times longer per frame.
Seems to be heavily dependent upon lighting now. The slow frames are like 12 seconds but the fast frames with minimal lighting and close up on the video are more like 2.
Looks too beautiful now to go back though. Upgraded my cloud-remote render machines too. We will render on four machines tonight. FOUR! The power of it all.
g3.4xlarge is no faster than g3.large but g6.xlarge seems to be twice the speed.
But hard to be sure really coz of the massive variance in time depending on the lighting.
Anyway, great show coming tomorrow. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I'm trying to do with it but tomorrow's show is the answer. Hide the angry bitter political rant behind a strange CGI tarot show. When the rant comes together well I like it.
https://wordcloudtarot.com/@wordcloudtarot/statuses/01JYFF0GQV1680Z0VG0YTFZDTP

#LEPROUS - Like A Sunken Ship
#nowplaying

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"A Lisp adventure on the calm waters of the dead C"
https://mihaiolteanu.me/language-abstractions
A clever exploration of what the C language would be like if it were more like lisp -- with all statements implemented instead as expressions, replaceable by u…

I wonder how this can be leveraged in our #VFX industry.
Can you position a company as the guys who’ll fix stuff that another team messed up because they thought they can do an effects shot with Midjourney but then ended up with nothing to show once the director wanted a simple revision like turning that object a tiny bit more or making the cool explosion more „swooosh“ instead of „wooosh“?

Novel Phases of a Baryon-Dense QCD-like Theory
Yang Bai, Carlos Henrique de Lima, Daniel Stolarski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18964 https://

Novel Phases of a Baryon-Dense QCD-like Theory
We investigate the phases of a strongly coupled QCD-like theory at finite baryon chemical potential using s-confining supersymmetric QCD deformed by anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking. Focusing on the case of three colors and four flavors, we identify novel phases including spontaneous breaking of baryon number and/or parity. Both first-order and second-order phase transitions are observed as the baryon chemical potential is varied. These findings may offer insights into possible phases of…

I love stories like this. If I could live life over again, I'd be a research historian to work on projects like this. The mural and the car fascinate me, and I wish there were a way to recover the mural. #WW2 #history

Prediction for today from 2016:
"The United Kingdom is now the region’s foremost knowledge-based economy. We lead the world in biotech, law, education, the audio-visual sector, financial services and software. New industries, from 3D printing to driverless cars, have sprung up around the country."
https://www.

What Britain looks like after Brexit
You’re reading Reaction.

New bounds on Axion-Like Particles in the Ultraviolet from Legacy Data
Elisa Todarello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19962 https://arxiv…

New bounds on Axion-Like Particles in the Ultraviolet from Legacy Data
We use legacy data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) to search for a spectral line from the spontaneous decay of axion-like particle (ALP) dark matter. The HST data consists of blank sky observations taken with the Faint Object Spectrograph in the 165-240~nm wavelength range, while the IUE data consists of observations of the Virgo Cluster obtained with the long- and short-wavelength spectrographs, covering 195-325~nm and 123-200~nm, respecti…

Paper 1 has been resubmitted! Yay!
Paper 2 now open and it looks like the editor killed all my darlings...
Boo!
But luckily prepint servers exist, so you can read it here in full unedited glory...
https://hal.science/hal-05024130v1/document
Shh, 🤫 don't tell Nature. 😜

Don't Hash Me Like That: Exposing and Mitigating Hash-Induced Unfairness in Local Differential Privacy
Berkay Kemal Balioglu, Alireza Khodaie, Mehmet Emre Gursoy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20290

Don't Hash Me Like That: Exposing and Mitigating Hash-Induced Unfairness in Local Differential Privacy
Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a widely accepted framework for privacy-preserving data collection. In LDP, many protocols rely on hash functions to implement user-side encoding and perturbation. However, the security and privacy implications of hash function selection have not been previously investigated. In this paper, we expose that the hash functions may act as a source of unfairness in LDP protocols. We show that although users operate under the same protocol and privacy budge…

Looks like the rain will hold off so I can bike to the bagel shop this morning.
➡️ #mke #milwaukee

Cat with cat ears

A recent post about a library publishing guidelines on citing genAI got me thinking about when that might be appropriate (rarely) or not (almost always), and what those cites should look like when they are needed. I have a new post talking about why genAI output shouldn’t be cited in most cases and, for when they must be, giving examples from common style guides.

Citing material generated by LLMs and chatbots
A recent post on Bluesky lamenting a university library publishing guidelines for citing generative AI (genAI) got me thinking about why one would want to do that in the first place and then, assuming there's a valid reason, what that citation should look like. So, that's what I'm exploring today.

Direct High-Resolution Imaging of Earth-Like Exoplanets
Slava G. Turyshev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20236 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Direct High-Resolution Imaging of Earth-Like Exoplanets
We have surveyed all conventional methods proposed or conceivable for obtaining resolved images of an Earth-like exoplanet. Generating a 10x10 pixel map of a 1 R_Earth world at 10 pc demands ~0.85 uas angular resolution and photon collection sufficient for SNR >= 5 per "micro-pixel". We derived diffraction-limit and photon-budget requirements for: (1) large single-aperture space telescopes with internal coronagraphs; (2) external starshades; (3) space-based interferometry (nulling and non-nulli…

I feel like I've made this joke before, but...
Sometimes ceci est une pipe.

For those of you who like puzzle games... check out this charming new game from Draknek & Friends! @…
Steam: https://stor…

Having to use Mac instead of Linux for work soon, I finally found a concise article on the topic.
Most others are either about installing Linux on a Mac (interesting, but not my situation) or switching because they prefer Mac (uhh..) and want to use it as one.
I aim to create an workflow as similar to Linux as I manage, without having to juggle with VMs

The King's Lodge
(Not all kings built hunting lodges, even fewer built them on precipices like these, but some of Bavaria's last ones did and not just in one place... Not endorsing kings in any form, just admiring their choice of locations.... btw. the picture only shows the top half of the drop)
#MountainMonday

Me, a person very knowledgeable in history and literature, walking around Rome, realizing it's not at all like the flatter cities I've been in all month, and suddenly thinking literally this: "Boy, this place is hilly!" Gee, I wonder if there are any if so, how many. #Italy25

World’s Tallest 3D-Printed Structure Rises 4 Stories into the Air Like a Wedding Cake, Inspired by Local Bakeries https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/worlds-tallest-3d-printed-structure-rises-4-…

World's Tallest 3D-Printed Structure Rises 4 Stories into the Air Like a Wedding Cake, Inspired by Local Bakeries
The form of the structure is reminiscent of an ornate layered cake—a reference to the emigration history of confectioners from Graubünden.

Hello, Yes... I would like to talk to the manager about my bitter coffee beans!
#CoffeeFail

@…
That looks like some pretty great propaganda in favor of Our Guy

Scrolling through an online shop I just tried to fav a product like it was a @… feed.

Rather they are, amongst other things, that emails in Arabic be sent when Trust & Security moderates an account, so that recipients can understand how platform rules have been breached.
Given the extremity of the situation, this seems like an aggressively moderate ask.

I really like the fact that I live where I do.

Feels like time to get onboard with the new game in town…
#drupal #ai

Gonna start calling myself a "classical libertarian" because I feel like it's time to take some appropriated shit back.

This is one of my fave ever Tumblr posts:
https://www.tumblr.com/0hpartyb1/784389727648366592?source=share
I need this quality of stupid on here. Tbf, Linux reply guys are doing a lot of heavy lifting but could be more annoying?

Reblog by @0hpartyb1 · 11 images
💬 831  🔁 210568  ❤️ 154965 · all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overf…

it's so obnoxious that corporations worth hundreds of billions of dollars send shit like this to literal volunteers

hmm, what do you think the tariffs are on this $26 100mm party diamond? https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806863849173.html

Trump demands CNN reporter be fired and thrown out 'like a dog': 'She lied!' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-natasha-bertrand/

from my link log —
Thoughts on hashing in Rust.
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/thoughts-on-rust-hashing/
saved 2024-12-13

Thoughts on Rust hashing
In languages like Python, Java, or C++, values are hashed by calling a “hash me” method on them, implemented by the type author. This fixed-hash size is then immediately used by the hash table or what have you. This design suffers from some obvious problems, like: How do you hash an integer? If you use a no-op hasher (booo), DoS attacks on hash tables are inevitable. If you hash it thoroughly, consumers that only cache hashes to optimize equality checks lose out of performance.

Here’s what Florida state Sen. Ileana Garcia, a Republican and founder of Latinas for Trump, had to say about ICE’s raids:
This is not what we voted for…
I understand the importance of deporting criminal aliens,
but what we are witnessing are arbitrary measures to hunt down people who are complying with their immigration hearings
— in many cases, with credible fear of persecution claims,
all driven by a Miller-like desire to satisfy a self-fabricated deportation…

David Barton’s Defense of ICE Actions in LA is as Wrong as His History Lessons
David Barton's propaganda on current events is every bit as believable as his Christian nationalist history. 

Politics, elections — idea
How about we ban candidate banners entirely? Like, they can campaign any way they want, but they can't put these smiling nazi faces all over the place, and then leave lots of junk.
#politics

Subtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.

I'd really like some slightly warmer and dryer weather for camping plz. 5°C in drizzling rain isn't as much fun.

My favorite thing in politics: Money isn’t everything.
Money matters way too much, but results like these remind us that self-government is still alive.

A nontopological soliton with a dipole chromomagnetic field
A. Yu. Loginov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20281 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

A nontopological soliton with a dipole chromomagnetic field
A non-Abelian gauge model with a complex isovector scalar field and a sixth-order self-interaction potential is considered. It is shown that it has a nontopological soliton solution. The features of this soliton include a monopole-like core surrounded by a Q-ball-like shell, the existence of radially excited states, and a long-range dipole chromomagnetic field. The properties of the soliton are studied using analytical and numerical methods. In particular, the asymptotic dependencies of the ene…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Some like city life. Some don't. Let's play!
#CityPerksSongsOrPoems

Men came to him with tears and their eyes. Sir, they said, you are truly a military genius. You blew up empty holes in the ground like no one has ever blown up empty holes in the ground before. #maga

Apple sparks a backlash from iPhone owners after pushing a notification from the Apple Wallet app that promoted a Fandango deal for Apple's F1 movie (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/iphone-customers-upset-…

iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing 'F1' movie | TechCrunch
However well-received the film may be, iPhone users don't necessarily want their built-in utilities, like their digital wallet, marketing to them.

When the Outlook "Like" button escapes on to the public Internet
https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/message/6LTS7KOK5LHQQKP5WGSMEQCFDXLWWCYY/

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really
good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change
their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really
do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are
human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot
recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
-- C…

#numpy is being aware of the many syntax/shape gotchas. This looks like …

DumPy: NumPy except it’s OK if you’re dum
reject clever

(For release)
Attention Media: Today, I completely OBLITERATED a hot fudge sundae.
Said me earlier, "It was really bad. It was devastating. It's obliterated. Like, you can’t get to the nuts & sprinkles. I think we all had a great victory here.”
Any claims otherwise is fake news.

An Earth-like Density for the Temperate Earth-sized Planet GJ 12b
Madison Brady, Jacob Bean, Ritvik Basant, Nina Brown, Tanya Das, Matthew Nixon, Rafael Luque, Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Michael Radica, Andreas Seifahrt, Julian St\"urmer, Lily Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20561

An Earth-like Density for the Temperate Earth-sized Planet GJ 12b
While JWST has provided us with the opportunity to probe the atmospheres of potentially-habitable planets, observations of the TRAPPIST-1 system have shown us that active stars severely complicate efforts at studying their planets. GJ 12b is a newly-discovered temperate (Teq ~ 300 K), Earth-sized (Rp = 0.96 +/- 0.05 Earth radii) planet orbiting an inactive M dwarf that might be a good alternate to the TRAPPIST-1 planets for atmospheric characterization. In this paper, we use MAROON-X radial vel…

Monday I ran the Boston Marathon, and I'm glad I did but boy, was it a long time getting there
#running

> The night was cold but gentle like an X-rated metaphor.
Meddling Kids (2017) by Edgar Cantero is what happens when not-the-Scooby-Doo Gang revisit their last case, 13 years ago in a town in Oregon, because it might have had more going on than just a villain in a lake monster costume. For one, why did the attic have a copy of the Necronomicon?
The dog (Tim) is a Weimeraner, doesn't talk, but does do heroic doggy things with his squeaky toy.

MS-IQA: A Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Network for PET/CT Image Quality Assessment
Siqiao Li, Chen Hui, Wei Zhang, Rui Liang, Chenyue Song, Feng Jiang, Haiqi Zhu, Zhixuan Li, Hong Huang, Xiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20200

MS-IQA: A Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Network for PET/CT Image Quality Assessment
Positron Emission Tomography / Computed Tomography (PET/CT) plays a critical role in medical imaging, combining functional and anatomical information to aid in accurate diagnosis. However, image quality degradation due to noise, compression and other factors could potentially lead to diagnostic uncertainty and increase the risk of misdiagnosis. When evaluating the quality of a PET/CT image, both low-level features like distortions and high-level features like organ anatomical structures affect …

I just read the story about the Italian kidnapped by a New York couple and tortured to disclose the credentials for his crypto assets - and the first thing that came to mind was XKCD 538 "Security" about the five dollar wrench.
Am I a bad person?
#xkcd538 #xkcd

Also, I’d be fine with a screwed battery cover if it meant greater water resistance. But it seems that the 6 has the same IP55 rating as the 5 so like what the fuck? The Fairphone 5 was prettier too I think, specially the sky blue color (that doesn’t seem to be available anymore unfortunately).
#Fairphone #Fairphone6 #Fairphone5

Robots and Children that Learn Together : Improving Knowledge Retention by Teaching Peer-Like Interactive Robots
Imene Tarakli, Samuele Vinanzi, Richard Moore, Alessandro Di Nuovo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18365

Robots and Children that Learn Together : Improving Knowledge Retention by Teaching Peer-Like Interactive Robots
Despite growing interest in Learning-by-Teaching (LbT), few studies have explored how this paradigm can be implemented with autonomous, peer-like social robots in real classrooms. Most prior work has relied on scripted or Wizard-of-Oz behaviors, limiting our understanding of how real-time, interactive learning can be supported by artificial agents. This study addresses this gap by introducing Interactive Reinforcement Learning (RL) as a cognitive model for teachable social robots. We conducted …

Had to half swim to the pontoon to try this thing out and wow. Worth it. This boat is unbelievable.
Like I saw the videos of it going 60km/h but it’s nothing like seeing it wow.

I don't like learning new things, such as:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/25/cod-shrinking-size-overfishing-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I don't like learning new things, such as:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/25/cod-shrinking-size-overfishing-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

(1/2) Here is the link to a webpage featuring the 32 InfoPics my 7th grade students created to advertise our local “World Refugee Day” on Saturday, June 21, 2025, as well as the overall, important work of Refugee Support Services (RSS) of Charlotte, North Carolina:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/c

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - RSS
These are InfoPics 7th graders at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, created in May 2025 to support and amplify the work of Refugee Support Services (RSS) of Charlotte, a local non-profit connected with our office of community engagement. Please use them to share about RSS, amplify

“What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash? You get what you f**kin’ deserve!”
— Joker (2019)
#Joker #Joker2019 #MentalHealth

Hello, fediverse!
I'm Ena, the new PR coordinator hired by the Mastodon nonprofit (@…). I've been recruited to help bring the fediverse to a younger, sexier, more diverse, more cutting-edge audience. According to our polls, using the original creator almost like a mascot is essential to keeping things simple and familiar for how the younger crowd …

WhatsApp has become a kind of AI marketplace where chatbots like ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Perplexity jockey for users' attention (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-competition-whatsapp-chatbot-battlegro…

Meta faces AI competition as WhatsApp becomes chatbot battleground
WhatsApp has become a battleground for AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity, challenging Meta AI.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Tanika Charles:
🎵 Here When You’re Ready
#TanikaCharles
https://tanikacharles.bandcamp.com/album/dont-like-you-anymore-here-when-youre-ready
https://open.spotify.com/track/40h7A6r6ZDoLQka2fQXMV2

Update on the watch that wouldn't charge and then came back from the dead 3 days later like Jesus.
I guess it's in heaven now. Charging worked for about 2 days then stopped working again and now it's been flat and dead in the cradle for quite a few more days.
☹️
Oh well.

Has anyone used Windhawk?
https://windhawk.net/
It's a tweak/mod installer for Windows. Like Cydia or SIMBL or Application Enhancer. Released in 2022.
I'm impressed by the number of mods they have listed. Each mod has visible source code, a single file with metadata in comments, l…

Ain't no party like an Orient Express party! This wagon is LIT!

CNN fires back as Trump demands reporter be fired and thrown out 'like a dog' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2672436709/

Low key struggling in knowing what to wear for our weather here in the UK. It looked like rain earlier, so I put a thin jacket over my tee, and nope... it didn't rain, but became too hot for the jacket.
Didn't look like rain just now, so I put a thin hoodie on over my tee, and again... too hot.
I know that if I don't take some kind of hoodie or jacket out, it will suddenly rain or get super cold 😎 ⛄ 🌧 ​😕
Maybe it's time to start taking my pink Pusheen umbrella around with me ☔

There are times when you're sitting on the toilet with tweezers in your hands, and suddenly realize what people would think if they saw you like that.
Also tweezers joined my everyday equipment. More convenient than nails.

Dewalt garden watering tools like hoses & nozzles & sprinklers (safe to get rained on all weekend) should not be colour coded the same as power tools (NOT).
#hottake #brains (It was the former.)

If you like the Bach(s) and appreciate organ music it's well worth signing up. It's free too!
This month's film is from the Bachfest - Prelude, pipes and pedals at Thomaskirche in #Leipzig. https://bit.ly/IOOFNews

For anyone outside the US "libertarian" in the US means "fash with a gas station katana." For anyone inside the US, "libertarian" means anarchist (and only actual anarchist, not oxymoronic fantasy politics like "ancap" or "anarcho monarchist" or whatever).

@… @… @… We can talk about this if you like!
I have almost zero downtime, on very sma…

Carroll Geometry Meets De Sitter Space via Holography
Chris D. A. Blair, Niels A. Obers, Ziqi Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19720 https://

Carroll Geometry Meets De Sitter Space via Holography
We explain how to relate the ideas of Carroll geometry, matrix theory on instantonic objects, and infinite boost limits of M-theory. Based on these new insights, we explore the implications for possible holographic constructions involving a de Sitter or flat space bulk. We show that Carroll-like geometry in a hypothetical de Sitter holography mirrors the recently realized important role played by Galilei-like geometry in matrix theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence. This also allows us to gener…

@… I’ve got to ask, ask it came up in the pub, how on earth does one go about getting a parrot these days? It doesn’t feel like something you get in the pet shop.

Cryptocurrency will never go away, because centralised payment providers do things like this:
"Fansly, a popular platform where independent creators—many of whom are making adult content—sell access to images and videos to subscribers and fans, announced sweeping changes to its terms of service on Monday, including effectively banning furries.
The changes blame payment processors for classifying “some anthropomorphic content as simulated bestiality.”"

Google unveils Gemini AI features, like select to search, for Chromebook Plus laptops like Lenovo's new $649 14" flagship with MediaTek's Kompanio Ultra chip (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/690885/googl

Chromebook Plus laptops like Lenovo’s sleek, new 14-incher are getting free Gemini AI features
Google adds new Gemini features like select to search to Chromebook Plus laptops. Lenovo’s Chromebook Plus 14 also debuts with a new processor for on-device AI.

IOW, if he was up against each one of the other candidates 1-on-1, would he win? Looks like...
Was Mamdani the "Condorcet Winner" in NYC mayoral primary? - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=150574

Ma! Ma! I can balance a beach ball on my nose! Just like Flipper!
- young Marjorie Taylor Greene

@… Yeah, they got some cool features in there, such as const array sizes… why not push the boat a little?
But I can see why they shy away from them; it’s not like we *know* how to do dependent types well yet, and Rust has already made a couple of big type system bets.
(I found myself wishing for “shared xor mutable” in Haskell the other day.)…

Indonesia changes rules to require e-commerce platforms like TikTok Shop to withhold income tax from sellers, instead of asking sellers to pay the government (Grace Sihombing/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

- You know what would make me happy?
- No, Dad. What?
- I'd really like to see somebody kick Jake Paul in the nuts.

Access to state funded financial aid isn't something that the feds can stop. The feds can't tell the states what laws they can write, nor punish citizens for following those laws (like sanctuary city laws).
Trump admin sues Walz, Minnesota over in-state tuition for immigrants | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-admin-sues-walz-minnesota-over-in-state-tuition-for-immigrants/

How AI is reshaping the perfume industry, as fragrance tech startup Osmo promises 48-hour sample turnarounds and incumbents like DSM-Firmenich embrace the tech (Arabelle Sicardi/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/691050/perfume-ai

How AI infiltrated perfume
Some say it’s innovation. Others call it erasure.

Pedro Pascal is what a Margaret Keane painting of Pedro Pascal would look like.

Supercell makes Brawl Stars available on WeChat and says Clash Royale is "currently being developed" for a September launch on the WeChat mini-game platform (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3315…

Tencent-owned Supercell to launch titles like Clash Royale as WeChat mini games
The video game Brawl Stars is already available within WeChat, while Clash Royale will exclusively launch on the messaging app in September.

Microsoft makes Windows 10's extended security updates free for an extra year for users who sync PC settings via a Microsoft Account and the Windows Backup app (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-ap

Microsoft makes Windows 10 security updates FREE for an extra year — but there's a catch, and you might not like it
Windows 10 users will have the option to continue receiving security updates for free beyond October 2025, so long as they sync their PC settings data with the cloud via a Microsoft Account.

Apple sparks a backlash from iPhone owners after pushing a notification from the Apple Wallet app that promoted a Fandango deal for Apple's F1 movie (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/iphone-customers-upset-…

iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing F1 movie | TechCrunch
However well-received the film may be, iPhone users don't necessarily want their built-in utilities, like their digital wallet, marketing to them.

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall, a Google Ad Manager tool to help publishers generate revenue beyond ads, including via micropayments (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-a

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue | TechCrunch
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.