Tootfinder

I walked into this nice house yesterday, marched the family living there out at gunpoint, murdered all the neighbours, and took the whole block for myself.
Calm down, calm down, my name’s Israel.
Ah, right, no worries, you don’t have to apologise. I can see why you were confused and thought you might have had to get angry at me before you realised who I was. It was a silly mistake, think nothing of it. We both know you’d never criticise anything I do… you’re not antisemitic.

The Palantir manifesto summarized

After some days work, I finally made my first unassisted warp, and got it on the loom and threaded up - 189 ends. It seems I had only one small mistake in the threading, just had to swap two threads. Can't wait to explore some lift patterns with this ! #weaving

I made the mistake of asking Claude to suggest some updates to my steganography lecture and now I am stuck reading an inch of papers this weekend.

Just made a mistake on page 40 of a #LEGO build that turned out to be wrong, but it didn't interfere with anything until page 242. It was a but janky, but thankfully I didn't need to unbuild everything in between to fix it. Lego puts a huge amount of attention into the design of their instructions, but things like this are pretty hard to catch. I was building quickly and assumed a beam should go on symmetrically when actually it needed to be off-center.

How social media influencers have become a magnet for political campaigns and groups in the US that want to push their priorities without disclosures (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

Political Money Is Flowing to Influencers. But From Whom?
Social media stars have become a magnet for campaigns and political groups that want to push priorities without disclosing where their money is going.

I’ve been working on some Python code for a few days now… just an hour or so in the evening as time allows. I could probably use some AI Slop Generator to quickly kick out what I need, but that’s not gonna happen.
No, Nope, No Way.
I actually *want* to write the code, and understand it, and know that every choice was mine, even if I make mistakes along the way.
If I publish it I want it to be from me, not from me and the AI Slop Generator and every codebase it ever stole …

I'm in the market for a reliable sewing machine—I want to replace my old Singer. I made a mistake at first, buying an old Bernina Virtuosa with mechanical/electronic issues (luckily returned).
A sewing machine repairman told me that early digital Berninas are risky, and he recommended a mechanical Bernina 930, 1030 or 1031.
A serviced vintage Bernina 930 is now on hold for me at a dealer.
Anyone here with Bernina 930 experience? #Sewing #Bernina #SewingMachines

I updated my page on mosquito-control tips to include Thermacells (I own 2), plus added a section on the Mosquito Magnet and Biogents Mosquitaire (neither of which I've tested but I have some thoughts). #mosquitoes https://colinpurrington.com/fighting-mosquitoes/

I can image a developer parallel to the first, too: the human still using all their skills and experience, but with the machine catching mistakes, providing context and validation and vigilance that is •orthogonal to• testing and type checking and code crafting and — the big one! — actually •thinking• about the problem.
That’s a regime I imagine developers would feel a lot better about. And I know there are people out there pursuing it! But they’re not the ones dominating the conversation.
4/