Tootfinder

This Zorro guy, he checked "Asian" and "African" on a college application form. Thinks he can get away with it just because his family is from India and he was born in Uganda. The nerve of these people.

Steve Bannon on Elon Musk's Big Breakup: 'Told You' (Rachael Bade/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/06/05/steve-bannon-trump-musk-rachael-bade-00391135
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p143#a250605p143

Raiders mourn the passing of Steve Mortara https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-mourn-the-passing-of-steve-mortara

Trump weaponizes words. His opponents should, too | Cognoscenti https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2025/06/03/donald-trump-big-beautiful-bill-political-rhetoric-steve-almond

Trump weaponizes words. His opponents should, too
In an era of agitated distraction, Americans latch on to simple catchphrases as a way of grasping complex realities, writes Steve Almond. Trump and Republicans use this to their advantage. Democratic and progressive leaders could do the same.

So we've got $170 billion here. What should we do with it? Cure cancer? End hunger? Nah, let's use it to be cruel to people. #maga

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff pushing to lift energy sanctions on Russia, Politico reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-pushing.html

Federal prosecutor reportedly quit over concern Ábrego García indictment was politically motivated
Ben Schrader resigned same day people-smuggling charges were filed against Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador, media report says
Kilmar Ábrego García returned from El Salvador to face criminal charges in US

3 Arts Entertainment buys OManagement, a talent agency that specializes in working with news and journalism talent, including Steve Kornacki and Kristen Welker (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…

3 Arts Entertainment Expands Into News With Acquisition of OManagement (Exclusive)
The talent firm founded by CAA and NBC veteran Olivia Metzger counts Craig Melvin, Harris Faulkner, Kristen Welker and Steve Kornacki among its clients.

Trump turns to one of his pardoned federal convicts for Bureau of Prisons deputy post.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/former-federal-inmate-pardoned-trump-tapped-bureau-prisons-deputy…

'There's no fraud': Steve Bannon says Elon Musk's DOGE cuts are a huge failure - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-elon-musk-fraud/

It appears that the Trump and Musk relationship is going through rapid unscheduled disassembly.

Steve Wright dies at 82: Former Packers OL was inspiration for Walter Payton Man of the Year trophy sculpture

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

I have to admit I didn't think the blow-up would be so fast and so intense.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/05/elon-musk-donald-trump-recession-impeachment-00390762

«My Legendary Girlfriend» de Separations, el 3er disco de Pulp, publicado en 1992, el último con un sello independiente y estuvo marcado por la incorporación del bajista Steve Mackey. Fue el preludio a la fama de la banda.
https://open.spotify.com/track/033YDZwlgopNae29ip7gY…

[OT, YouTube] CNBC interview with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak https://youtu.be/ck-f3qZVcWM

Finally got Google Maps app to display hotel prices in USD instead of Thai baht. Had to uninstall updates & reinstall. Bug has been around for years but Google is busy chasing AI slop.

Wow. The #bromance isn't just imploding, it's spinning into atomic fission. Steve Bannon just advocated for Musk's deportation, according to a post I just saw on another site.
#Musk #Trump…

Watching a Coliseum documentary. The presenter is going on about how alien the Roman taste for blood seems from a modern perspective.
I'm not even slightly persuaded that's true.
20% of our population clearly loves cruelty.

The US supreme court on Friday permitted DOGE, the so-called ‘department of government efficiency’, broad access to personal information on millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems while a legal challenge plays out.
At the request of the Justice Department, the justices put on hold US district judge Ellen Hollander’s order that had largely blocked Doge’s access to “personally identifiable information”
in data such as medical and financial records while …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Chris Malinchak:
🎵 So Good To Me
#NowPlaying #ChrisMalinchak
https://l-jay94.bandcamp.com/track/11-so-good-to-me-chris-malinchak-westfunk-steve-smart-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2v53W5gUEexmbI3tzvbtXv

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

Trump threatens Musk the same way he did Harvard (Steve Inskeep/Differ We Must)
https://steveinskeep.substack.com/p/trump-threatens-musk-the-same-way
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p146#a250605p146

@…
https://sfba.social/@bitterkarella/114627094456309304
Plus also all the other Lesbian Death Bed posts… @…

No kings in America.

To my fellow Asians:
All you free market, libertarian freakshows - you know who you are - that voted #Trump cuz #MAGA's racism would NEVVVVER come for you... consider this your wake up call.
▶️ Steve Bannon Suggests There Are Too Many

Steve Bannon Suggests There Are Too Many Asian CEOs In Silicon Valley
But Donald Trump says he wants them to stay because "we have to keep our talented people."

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #UltimateCalm
Steve Reich & Steve Reich:
🎵 Drumming: Part II
#SteveReich
https://open.spotify.com/track/4hJsHaZxYyfUEvNRWKlbDU

DC Steve Wilks collaborating with Aaron Glenn to make Jets more aggressive, physical https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45392937/new-york-jets-steve-wilks-aaron-glenn-collaborating-scheme

Hah, RNZ Jesse Mulligan is interviewing another scientist I know, former colleague Steve Pawson - the second in a week (last week it was Nicola Sullivan re spiders)... That's Aotearoa for ya.

Some good venting by Steve Klabnik about the sorry state of significant chunks of the AI debate today:
"What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized. This isn’t a “the middle is always right” sort of thing either, to be clear. It’s more that both the pro-AI and anti-AI sides are loudly proclaiming things that are pretty trivially verifiable as not true."

Cancer was Joe biden's cause, therefore Trump must side with cancer.

To paraphrase Barry Scwartz: The Paradox of Choice – Why More Is Less
With the continuous glitz of KDE, Hyprland, dwm, Slackware and Gentoo as daily drivers it's the time of year to start winding down.
Also because I've been revisiting Steve Anelay's videos (OldTechBloke, sorely missed) I'll spend a month on the Mate desktop, starting this Saturday.
But what to run it on? Help me make a choice, appreciated 😎

An interview with Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech's next chapter, meeting in 1997, Steve Jobs, Apple, Powell Jobs' io investment in 2019, AI, and more (Matthew Garrahan/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f0a45b0-a3cc-4e1c-be71-1b7b42958d4…

‘Humanity deserves better’: Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech’s next chapter
After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again

I watched a video of the ukrainians blowing up Soviet era aircraft and I have to wonder: why are there tires scattered all over the wings and top surfaces of those planes?

Let us remember who we are - The Warning with Steve Schmidt
https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/let-us-remember-who-we-are

recline into your evening with last night's frow show on @…, peaceful uneasy feelings for a hot stupid summer, including new sounds by terry riley, marshall allen, jonathan richman, joseph allred, steve gunn, alan bishop, bob dylan & barbra streisand, & more.

Fun fact: people with "Nazi tendencies" are known as "Nazis."
the-more-you-know.gif
https://journa.host/@w7voa/114775416325488889

Atomic scale structure and dynamical properties of (TeO$_2$)$_{1-x}$-(Na$_2$O)$_{x}$ glasses through first-principles modeling and XRD measurements
Firas Shuaib, Assil Bouzid, Remi Piotrowski, Gaelle Delaizir, Pierre-Marie Geffroy, David Hamani, Raghvender Raghvender, Steve Dave Wansi Wendji, Carlo Massobrio, Mauro Boero, Guido Ori, Philippe Thomas, Olivier Masson

Atomic scale structure and dynamical properties of (TeO$_2$)$_{1-x}$-(Na$_2$O)$_{x}$ glasses through first-principles modeling and XRD measurements
We resort to first-principles molecular dynamics, in synergy with experiments, to study structural evolution and Na$^+$ cation diffusion inside (TeO$_2$)$_{1-x}$-(Na$_2$O)$_{x}$ (x = 0.10-0.40) glasses. Experimental and modeling results show a fair quantitative agreement in terms of total X-ray structure factors and pair distribution functions, thereby setting the ground for a comprehensive analysis of the glassy matrix evolution. We find that the structure of (TeO$_2$)$_{1-x}$-(Na$_2$O)$_{x}$ …

Steve Bannon launches a fierce public challenge against Fox News for its pro-war stance on Iran, accusing it of propaganda and calling for a FARA investigation (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/22/2025/steve-bannon-goes-to-war…

Steve Bannon goes to war with Fox News
“The Murdochs don’t put America’s interests first,” Bannon told Semafor Sunday.

A Late Collaborative Perception Framework for 3D Multi-Object and Multi-Source Association and Fusion
Maryem Fadili (VeDeCom, IRSEEM), Mohamed Anis Ghaoui (VeDeCom), Louis Lecrosnier (IRSEEM, ESIGELEC), Steve Pechberti (VeDeCom), Redouane Khemmar (IRSEEM, ESIGELEC, IRSEEM)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02430

A Late Collaborative Perception Framework for 3D Multi-Object and Multi-Source Association and Fusion
In autonomous driving, recent research has increasingly focused on collaborative perception based on deep learning to overcome the limitations of individual perception systems. Although these methods achieve high accuracy, they rely on high communication bandwidth and require unrestricted access to each agent's object detection model architecture and parameters. These constraints pose challenges real-world autonomous driving scenarios, where communication limitations and the need to safeguard p…

Elon Musk vs. Steve Bannon War Explodes With Prison and Deportation Threats (Tom Sanders/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-vs-steve-bannon-war-explodes-with-prison-and-deportation-threats/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p162#a250701p162

Hmong are victims of discrimination in Laos to the point that they have to hide their ethnic identity. Hmong people are in Minnesota because they helped the USA in the Vietnam War. They are valuable and contributing members of the community.
https://www.startribune.com/…

Computer science programs at Carnegie Mellon and other US universities are rethinking how to incorporate AI into curricula, including a focus on AI literacy (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/technology/computer-science-…

How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?
Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology.

Laura Loomer's White House access erases the line between the fringe and mainstream (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/laura-loomers-white-house-access-erases-line-fringe-mainstream-rcna210863
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p51#a250604p51

Shooting, five victims, Old Navy at Abercorn mall in #savannah
According to police scanner.

If you ever wondered how the Romans got to be such horrible people that they staged gladiator fights and animal spectacles, just look around.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Steve Christensen:
🎵 Before It's Gone
#SteveChristensen
https://stevechristensen.bandcamp.com/track/before-its-gone

Noticed a bunch of colorful "buscar trabajo" signs along the road today. I figure the phone number is a direct line to ICE.

“I never would have expected to see Richard Epstein, Steve Calabresi and [former Yale Law School dean] Harold Koh all on the same brief on a major issue. But here they are, together, opposing ‘taxation by proclamation.’ Donald Trump brought them together.”
'Anti-Trump': Expert claims conservative heavy-hitters have now abandoned MAGA - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/conservative-scholars-trump/

Trump slammed as the
‘slowest learner in presidential history'
amid 'humiliating failures'
https://www.rawstory.com/2671938487/?cx_te

Trump slammed as ‘slowest learner in presidential history' amid 'humiliating failures'
MSNBC analyst Steve Benen pulled no punches Monday in a stinging op-ed that dissected Donald Trump’s latest presidential frustrations, calling the MAGA leader “gobsmacked” by the realities of foreign policy.“I’m surprised by the degree to which the president is surprised,” Benen, a producer for "The...

I've been binging the Vikings series on Netflix. Constantly Googling historical characters for their true stories. It's rubbing my nose in the utter failure of AI, which clearly can't tell the difference between fiction and reality.

After House Republicans ignored her appeals, Lisa Murkowski's vote looks even worse (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/house-republicans-ignored-appeals-lisa-murkowskis-vote-looks-even-wors-rcna216750
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p136#a250703p136

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman warns against companies trying to game the site with AI-generated content, saying "human verification is top of mind for us right now" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a86fb03a-8781-40b5-a077-1d677e546ecf

Reddit vows to stay human to emerge a winner from artificial intelligence
Chief Steve Huffman warns of ‘arms race’ to protect its devoted online communities from AI-generated content

Saw a comment from an old magat claiming that shiftless lazy young men were selling food stamps.
Food stamps haven't existed for years.
Magats believe crazy shit.

If the poors want health care they should just launch their own lines of fragrances and mobile phones.

They're not building an Alligator Alcatraz in the hot, fetid swamps of Florida.
They're building Alligator Auschwitz.

Trump is a national emergency.

Forsyth Park, Savannah

155. What District Court Critics Aren't Telling You (Steve Vladeck/One First)
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/155-what-critics-of-district-courts
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p115#a250602p115

Forsyth Park, Savannah

RFK Jr's team adds new errors to its 'MAHA' report, making the fiasco worse (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/rfk-jrs-team-adds-new-errors-maha-report-making-fiasco-worse-rcna210319
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p70#a250602p70

“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

Trump and Bobby Brainworm are galloping down the trail toward Soviet-style repression of science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repression_of_science_in_the_Soviet_Union

Trump isn't removing "illegal immigrants."
He's manufacturing them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-revoke-legal-status-500000-immigrants-r…

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dnacsxh4tk6zqxhyt5i7hahh/post/3lqd2cmlgpc2g

I Fought To Keep VOA Independent. Now It's Gone. (Steve Herman/The Fulcrum)
https://thefulcrum.us/media-technology/voice-of-america
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p96#a250701p96

Bobby Brainworm cancels research on Bird flu vaccine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/hhs-moderna-bird-flu-vaccine-funding/

JD Vance on Republican megabill: ICE funding matters, 'everything else' is 'immaterial' (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jd-vance-republican-megabill-ice-funding-matters-everything-else-immat-rcna216181
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p38#a250701p38

I think America was greater when the CDC was the global gold standard and not a pathetic political tool.

MAGA star Steve Bannon plays outsized role in Trump's Iran decision: Sources (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/maga-star-steve-bannon-plays-outsized-role-trumps/story?id=123054297
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p33#a250621p33

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

Pakistan may have withdrawn its nomination of Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace prize, but maga-bot Buddy Carter, once again having no actual ideas of his own, steps up to fill the breach.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administr

An American breakfast

I get the value of positive reinforcement but when my smart watch applauds me for getting out of my chair it seems that the bar may be set a bit low.

Is it possible to have a woke sleeper cell? Just wondering.

Fear is the primary tool the fascist uses to obtain and retain power.
So keep an eye on your neighbor, he might be part of a sleeper cell.

This is the real America: Immigrants with the courage to move halfway round the world to build a new life.
Also, dim sum.

Reopening Alcatraz as a prison is a really dumb idea, but I think it might be possible and probably appropriate to reactivate a few cells for the current occupant of the White House.

I keep seeing this meme about how great it was in the old days when Democrats and Republicans worked together politely. This nonsense is spread by people too young to know, or too old to remember, McCarthyism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

I really don't see how blowing up and empty hole in the ground is going to rescue Trump's failed presidency.

I've moved on from re-binging "The Last Kingdom" to re-binging "Vikings."
I love historical fiction movies but at some point the forever-burning torches and ubiquitous candles start to bother me. The trouble is that cold darkness doesn't film well.

Pity the poor billionaire who will never be happy, never be satisfied, never achieve whatever he is hoping to achieve, because there is never ever going to be enough. The greed eats away like a cancer and the rest of the world will suffer for it.

The great Dr. Demento is retiring.
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/dr-demento-retiring/

Insurance companies call it Medicare Advantage because that's how they take advantage of Medicare.

My wife is traveling in Europe, so I went to Costco by myself for coffee beans. Dangerous! I foolishly bought the giant bag of shredded rotisserie chicken. How am I supposed to eat all this?

Trump's only real policy is revenge against his perceived enemies, which at this point means the vast majority of Americans.
We are all targets.

I have to wonder whether any of the DO SOMETHING crowd has ever canvassed for votes.
Sitting around and posting social media demands that somebody else DO SOMETHING isn't going to get the job done.

The Roman emperors manipulated the public with brutal spectacles.
Some things never change.

Oh hell no. Facebook is jamming this sick bastard into the "People you may know" feed. Some programmer's idea of a joke?

https://medium.com/@marisajporto/we-are-at-a-cliff-ukrainian-journalists-warn-of-local-news-collapse-without-funding-8c5c08a34b1e

https://medium.com/@marisajporto/we-are-at-a-cliff-ukrainian-journalists-warn-of-local-news-collapse-without-funding-8c5c08a34b1e

Omg. I thought this was satire. It's not.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

Trump's jihad against immigrants is a massive fraud staged by a reality TV entertainer for the pleasure of bitter and ignorant fans who want to see cruelty and care nothing for the law. Obama expelled more foreigners without breaking the law, car windows, or heads.

I generally don't like making fun of names, but Pete Kegsbreath is an exception.

Assassination suspect apprehended in Minnesota
https://www.startribune.com/melissa-hortman-shooting-vance-boelter-suspect/601373342

These little things are not accidents. The Army band playing John Fogerty's "fortunate son" was a finger pointed at Donald Trump. The Department of Defense meme that included two Russian flags was a finger pointed at the people of the United astates.

He'll keep it up until Americans won't be allowed to travel.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-weighs-adding-36-countries-travel-ban-memo-says-2025-06-15/

Scores?
Does NBC not require headline writers to have basic English literacy?

Well, this day is off to a shitty start. It appears that some magat militia moron is trying to kill DFL legislators in Minnesota.
https://www.startribune.com/brooklyn-park-police-searching-for-suspect-in-multiple-targ…

My sister was on Medicaid, tethered to an oxygen concentrator, shuffling around with the help of a rollator for several years before she died. Trump would have made it happen faster, had she not beat him to it.

The magats are claiming the resistance to ICE is organized.
Like organizing is a bad thing.