Tootfinder

Insider trading steering military decisions and politicians betting on their own campaigns. Prediction markets could be the most dangerous new technology since ChatGPT—especially for this administration. My new Substack at https://jonippolito.substack.com

Neue Aktion der #Sozialheldinnen: Mach vom 20. Juli bis 20. August beim #WheelmapSummer mit, trage Infos in die #Wheelmap ein und hilf Rollstuhlnutzenden dabei, neue Sommerlieblingsorte …

House Republicans on Wednesday made another attempt to answer Donald Trump’s demand for new restrictions on voting nationwide
by linking the measure to an unrelated spending bill and passing both largely along party lines.
The effort was the latest attempt by congressional Republicans to pass the Save America Act,
which would ban mail-in ballots and impose new identification requirements on voters when they register and cast ballots.
While the Trump administration ha…

House Republicans resurrect Save America Act by adding it to spending bill
Effort is latest attempt to pass bill that seeks to ban mail-in ballots and imposes voter identification requirements

I have a theory…
Red/Browners want to be seen as “nice people” who are on the side of the masses. But they are actually only on the side of people just like them whom they proclaim to be The Masses. Fascists who don’t want to be thought of as such because that’s a bad word. @…

Raiders Get New Vita Vea Trade Update From NFL Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/new-vita-vea-trade-update-insider/

from my link log —
mold: a massively parallel linker.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23228
saved 2026-08-27 https://dotat.at/:/USPYY.html

mold: A Massively Parallel Linker
Linking is a critical step in the software build process that combines compiled object files into a single executable or shared library. Despite decades of engineering effort, link times remain a significant bottleneck in the edit-compile-debug cycle, particularly for large C++ programs. Existing linkers exploit limited parallelism, leaving most CPU cores idle during linking. We present mold, a Unix/Linux linker that applies data parallelism systematically across the entire linking pipeline. We…

Empirical flare energy limits for the largest historical sunspots / Linking solar magnetism, extreme solar particle events and stellar superflares: #Superflares: https://www.mps.mpg.de/sun-new-evidence-of-superflares?c=2169 - the giant sunspot of 1947 had the potential to trigger a massive solar flare.

FFS
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/10/harry-potter-fans-force-relocation-of-430m-undersea-cable-to-avoid-dobbys-grave

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

And this "Save to Recollect" browser extension makes my replacement of Raindrop complete!
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/save-to-recollect/fbmplkcoeijdokdlidejallnpcmiobjk
I used the importer to bulk add from Ra…

Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like "rape video" and "child video" and linking to Telegram channels (Divya Arya/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgm4e0316zo

India: Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material, BBC finds
The ads use terms including “rape” and “child video” and link to content on the messaging app Telegram.

Don't hold your breathe waiting to receive your election bribe
https://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3mv6faofi2k2x

Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social)
Got this text just now: “President Trump just authorized a $5,000 check for William Kristol - but you need to confirm your official approval in the next 10min.” With a link to some GOP site I’m not linking to. Trump’s policies and politics aren’t working. It’s down to a promised check in the mail.

Bookmarked: TEI-NER Pipeline — Automatisches Entity-Linking für historische TEI-Editionen http://tei-llm.histomatiker.de/ #GND #LLM…

Q&A with Saifuddin Ahmed on his study linking short-form news video use to preference for Ronaldo over Messi and what the findings might mean for journalism (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/what-sho

#CDR (carbon dioxide removal) & #HealthEquity suggest CDR such as DAC and BECCS maybe are not the panacea technology advocates assume.
Residual emissions may perpetuate community-scale inequalities in US air pollution | Nature Climate Change

Residual emissions may perpetuate community-scale inequalities in US air pollution - Nature Climate Change
The scale of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) could determine the extent of co-emitted air pollutants in net-zero scenarios and potential health impacts. By linking a series of models and datasets, researchers find that low-CDR pathways lead to a more equitable distribution of health benefits across the USA.

#CDR (carbon dioxide removal) & #HealthEquity suggest CDR such as DAC and BECCS maybe are not the panacea technology advocates assume.
Residual emissions may perpetuate community-scale inequalities in US air pollution | Nature Climate Change

Residual emissions may perpetuate community-scale inequalities in US air pollution - Nature Climate Change
The scale of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) could determine the extent of co-emitted air pollutants in net-zero scenarios and potential health impacts. By linking a series of models and datasets, researchers find that low-CDR pathways lead to a more equitable distribution of health benefits across the USA.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/2]:
- Music Interpretation and Emotion Perception: A Computational and Neurophysiological Investigation
Lyberatos, Kantarelis, Zioga, Anagnostopoulou, Stamou, Georgaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01982 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/114623887921808883
- Selective Prediction Reduces the Negative Effects of Automation Bias Overall but Increases False ...
Jabbour, Fouhey, Banovic, Shepard, Kazerooni, Sjoding, Wiens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07617 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/115015501954907821
- Sighted by Default: Addressing Implicit Vision Assumptions in Real-Time VLM Assistance for BLV Users
Yi Zhao, Siqi Wang, Qiqun Geng, Erxin Yu, Jing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00945 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/115490927925171769
- UXCascade: Scalable Usability Testing with Simulated User Agents
Steffen Holter, Eunyee Koh, Mustafa Doga Dogan, Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15777 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/115943802965989174
- Does Explanation Correctness Matter? Linking Computational XAI Evaluation to Human Understanding
Gregor Baer, Chao Zhang, Isel Grau, Pieter Van Gorp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25251 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/116300187728326082
- Beyond Screenshots: Evaluating VLMs' Understanding of UI Animations
Chen Liang, Xirui Jiang, Naihao Deng, Eytan Adar, Anhong Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26148 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/116492495199874264
- Quieting the Cobwebs: Browser Interaction for Visual Floaters
Kenneth Ge, Jinglin Li, Shikhar Ahuja
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12739 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/116571803728109358
- Patients With Personality: Realistic Patient Simulation through Controlled Diversity and Selectiv...
Moritz Schlager, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17441 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/116764285920198987
- TailVis: Expressive Chart Refinement Preserving Data-Binding Integrity
Yumin Song, Seokhyeon Park, Soohyun Lee, Aeri Cho, Hyeon Jeon, John Joon Young Chung, Jinwook Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25386 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/117002258150815192
- How Usable Are Geospatial Foundation Models? A Systematic Evaluation of 89 Models
Robin Young, Artyom Gabtraupov, Kenzy Soror, Srinivasan Keshav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03804 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/117041905504697955
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A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs)
that would capture not only the license plate of passing vehicles, but also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars,
-- potentially letting law enforcement identify specific drivers or passengers.
The technology, called #SignalTrace…

This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

I’ve stopped linking to Vispero / TPGi, even replacing links in old blog posts as its leadership memory-holes good content.
Yet another reason not to writer on others’ sites, too.
Also, no idea why every link in this thread is through LinkedIn, but they all point to https://a11y-tools.com/blog/category/t

Is #GoogleScholar being weird for you too?
I'm searching stuff there and it's usually good but recently is really not giving me the correct results.
For example last time I was searching for an article of mine and it kept linking to the preprint instead of the peer-reviewed version. Today I'm looking for a paper that usually comes up with two specific keywords and it just doesn'…

Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism (Beth Mole/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/report-white-house-drafting-executive-order-linking-vaccines-and-autism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260808/p2#a260808p2

will be sharing various karaoke-able MIDIs from FurbNET while i actually add detection of and linking to the ones that *are* karaoke-able
https://www.furbnet.com/karaoke92984_Im-Gonna-Be-500-Miles.html

Confused by sentinelone.COM not even linking to the customer interface at sentinelone.NET much less offering a login. Also disables user-side functionality such that it smells like a scam. Lots of “AI” bullshit all over both.
The latter links back to the former, so it’s not impersonation. Just stupid.
Also stupid: Boss and I are both unable to log in or use the password reset function, so I guess things are just going great… Seems like AI is working out perfectly for them.

Glyphosate: Cancer, liver disease, endocrine disruption and other health concerns #health

Glyphosate: Cancer, liver disease, endocrine disruption and other health concerns
Studies linking glyphosate, the key chemical in Roundup herbicides, to cancer, liver disease, endocrine disruption and other illnesses.

Small actions are adding up this week.
Three home energy providers offered 17 GW of virtual power plant capacity to U.S. utilities, cutting costs by linking home batteries.
Kenya launched a national plan to restore mangroves and seagrasses through 2035.
A community forest project in the DRC slowed deforestation while supporting displaced families.
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Design G suggests the most modern, banknote-looking front sides for the future #Euro banknotes. Though, I really don't like the corporate-like vector stock images on the backs.
Design B, on the other hand, features very clean and informative illustrations of the European institutions' buildings on the backs. Architecture and banknotes are a dream team. Though, I'm not a fan of th…

U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September
-- the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passengers to drug trafficking.
Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was fatally shot on June 14 by a hitman in the city of Manta.
Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in which 36 passengers survived,
many of them recounting alleged torture by Americ…

“Zero Accountability”: Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes
U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September, while the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passengers to drug trafficking. Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was fatally shot on June 14 by a hitman in the city of Manta. Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in which 36 passengers survived, many of them recounting alleged torture by American gunmen in U.S. milita…

California launches a tool to serve as an "early warning system" for widespread AI-driven job loss, linking AI exposure with unemployment insurance claims (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Jerry Jones’ costly CB problem could push Cowboys back to 1st round https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-mock-draft-zabien-brown-cornerback-jerry-jones/cb259c3c2fb91184a34d77c4…

How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT
Aaron Chatterji, David Holtz, Neel Rakholia, Prasanna Tambe, Gawesha Weeratunga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12236 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12236 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12236
arXiv:2608.12236v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study how organizations use frontier generative AI by linking ChatGPT Enterprise account records to usage, worker roles, task classifications, and public-company financial data through March 2026. These linked data enable a privacy-preserving analysis of adoption, worker roles, and message-level tasks at scale: for instance, the worker-level sample we analyze at the six-month adoption horizon includes over 1,500 organizations and over 17 million messages. We document four facts about enterprise AI adoption and use. First, ChatGPT Enterprise usage has grown rapidly due to a combination of new firm adoption and growing intensity among existing adopters. Second, U.S.-based public company adoption is concentrated among larger, more valuable, and more R&D- and SG&A-intensive firms. Third, active use within adopting firms spans job functions and seniority levels, with especially high usage intensity among early-career workers. Fourth, ChatGPT Enterprise usage encompasses a broad range of knowledge work tasks, including writing, technical work, communication, and information synthesis. In aggregate, these results suggest that firms differ widely in the speed, breadth and purpose of their enterprise AI adoption, and that they are still actively learning how to integrate AI into organizational workflows.
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"It was a lack of leadership from the [Democratic] campaign to not engage at the level of the candidate when the other guy was showing up to have meals with people,” Berry said. It “was a night-and-day difference”.
One more example of how #Democratic "leaders" - the "moderates" and their highly paid consultants - failed at the fundamental task of engaging with the v…

Democrats ignored the uncommitted movement for Gaza in 2024. Now, it’s winning elections
By linking progressive politics with nominally Arab American issues, organizers are building winning coalitions

"It was a lack of leadership from the [Democratic] campaign to not engage at the level of the candidate when the other guy was showing up to have meals with people,” Berry said. It “was a night-and-day difference”.
One more example of how #Democratic "leaders" - the "moderates" and their highly paid consultants - failed at the fundamental task of engaging with the v…

Democrats ignored the uncommitted movement for Gaza in 2024. Now, it’s winning elections
By linking progressive politics with nominally Arab American issues, organizers are building winning coalitions

Raiders Get Clear Maxx Crosby Message Amid Trade Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-clear-message-trade-speculation/

Small actions are adding up this week.
Three home energy providers offered 17 GW of virtual power plant capacity to U.S. utilities, cutting costs by linking home batteries.
Kenya launched a national plan to restore mangroves and seagrasses through 2035.
A community forest project in the DRC slowed deforestation while supporting displaced families.
Sign up for the For People And Planet climate solutions digest:

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome It is a good week to notice how small actions add up. Many small actions, aligned, create something bigger. They are easier to see when we pause and look. Here are the ones we are watching now. Top Climate Solutions Of The Week From home batteries to coastal ecosystems,

Cleaner city air linked to better cognitive development in children https://www.earth.com/environment/cleaner-city-air-linked-to-better-cognitive-development-in-children/

Cleaner city air linked to better cognitive development in children
Cleaner city air could have benefits that begin before birth, with new research linking pollution policies to healthier brain development in children.

Not linking to this shit, you can find it easily.

Yet one more way motor vehicles are bad for your health. (and if, as I suspect, tire noise dominates, EVs won't help)
Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise
https://www.theguardian.com/soc…

Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise
Pioneering study linking noise pollution to Parkinson’s finds 3% increase in risk for every 11.5dB rise in noise levels

Yet one more way motor vehicles are bad for your health. (and if, as I suspect, tire noise dominates, EVs won't help)
Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise
https://www.theguardian.com/soc…

Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise
Pioneering study linking noise pollution to Parkinson’s finds 3% increase in risk for every 11.5dB rise in noise levels

ESPN suggests Cowboys as fit for $8.3M Dolphins All-Pro https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/20/cowboys-named-trade-candidate-for-dolphins-lb-jordyn-brooks-by-espn/906…

I rarely link to videos that convey information that could have been a few paragraphs of written text, but this one is good enough that I’m linking to it. Lots of good thoughts in here that add to what I wrote upthread, expressed in a very accessible way.
One worth nothing: the remarks at 4:30 about how the “alignment” framing obscures things we’d normally call “unreliable” or “broken.”
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/117032480870736138

This is the most detailed picture of a human cell ever made 🧪
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX1CGIZMKJs/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

Sam Bousaba on Instagram: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building proteins by linking amino acids together. In eukaryotic (human) cells, a ribosome typically adds about 5–10 amino acids per second (not ~20). Since a single cell can contain millions of ribosomes, protein production is massive—resulting in millions to tens of millions of peptide bonds formed per second per cell. The microtubules act as an internal transport network. Motor proteins such as kinesin move along these tracks, carrying cellular cargo. They “walk” step by step using ATP, at speeds of roughly 500–1000 nanometers per second. Each cell contains a dense network of these filaments, with many motor proteins moving simultaneously. Just beneath the cell membrane lies the actin cortex, a dynamic meshwork that helps maintain cell shape and resist mechanical stress. This structure is continuously remodeled—assembled and disassembled—allowing the cell to adapt to its environment. Now scale this up. Across ~37 trillion cells, each containing millions of ribosomes and hundreds to thousands of mitochondria, your body is constantly producing energy in the form of ATP. Total ATP turnover is enormous—roughly equivalent to your body weight in ATP recycled every day. The DNA in a single human cell, if stretched out, measures about 2 meters. Across all your cells, this would span distances comparable to traveling from Earth to the Sun and back many times (the exact multiple depends on assumptions about cell count and DNA packing). None of these processes are under conscious control. They began when you were a single cell and have continued uninterrupted ever since."
62K likes, 2,387 comments - scienceoftheuniverse on May 2, 2026: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building prot…

Trump HHS funded study linking 'gender ideology' to 'left-wing authoritarianism': report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-transgender-ideology/

So there’s a terrible opinion piece going around (not linking to it) that Gen Z women have supposedly some sort of mass psychosis because (allegedly) more of them use mobility aids than previous generations did.
Literally everyone is one slip on the sidewalk or one trip over cat or one viral infection or one [thousands of other reasons] away from a (at least a temporary) cane or wheelchair.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sidewall effects on the onset of interfacial Holmboe waves in stratified exchange flows at high Schmidt number
Guilherme Siqueira de Aquino, Metten M. de Lange, Adrien Lefauve, Matias Duran-Matute
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19565 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19565 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19565
arXiv:2607.19565v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Predicting the onset of interfacial instabilities is central to understanding turbulent mixing in natural and engineered stratified shear flows. Here, we study the onset of travelling Holmboe waves in confined exchange flows along a slope. Earlier stratified inclined duct experiments have mapped this transition, and stability analyses based on measured or prescribed profiles have explained their emergence. However, a predictive criterion linking forcing, geometry, base flow, and wave onset was still lacking. We closed this gap with a long-duct, sharp-interface asymptotic theory for the three-dimensional laminar exchange flow, including the effects of sidewall friction. The resulting analytical solution naturally identifies a confinement-adjusted Froude number, $Fr^*$, which unifies the effects of forcing and confinement into a single measure of the effective laminar exchange flow. Using this solution to parameterise sidewall drag in a practical width-averaged model, we perform linear stability analyses and numerical simulations at high Schmidt number. Together, linear stability analysis, direct numerical simulations, and existing experiments across a range of duct widths show that wave onset is accurately predicted by an approximately constant critical value of $Fr^*$. Deviations arise only in very narrow ducts, where sidewalls influence instability not only by modifying the laminar exchange flow but also by directly damping perturbations and delaying wave onset. These findings provide a predictive criterion for wave onset, reconcile long-standing discrepancies among experimental configurations, and establish lateral confinement as a fundamental control on the transition from laminar exchange to wave-driven mixing in stratified shear flows.
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Solid example of the #GOP where #EveryAccusationIsAConfession
And, as with their lies about #Abortion and #ClimateChange

‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report
HHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conducted

Solid example of the #GOP where #EveryAccusationIsAConfession
And, as with their lies about #Abortion and #ClimateChange

‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report
HHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conducted