Tootfinder

"This project started as a search problem and ended as something more. The most important result isn’t which neighbourhood tops the rankings - it’s the realisation that platforms now quietly structure survival in everyday urban markets. London’s restaurant scene is no longer organised by taste alone. It is organised by visibility that compounds, rent that rises when discovery arrives, and algorithms that allocate attention long before consumers ever show up. What looks like “choice” is increasingly the downstream effect of ranking systems."
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates

Fertig aufgestellt und bereit für die #KommunalwahlBY2026 ist unsere gemeinsame Liste Menschen für Gauting/Piraten🚀🏴‍☠️
Da wir bereits mit 3 Gemeinderäten in #Gauting vertreten sind müssen wir auch nicht sammeln!
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Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs,
unless subscribers are using older casting devices.
An updated help page on Netflix’s website, first reported by Android Authority, says that
the streaming service “no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices,”
and instead directs users to navigate Netflix using the remote that came with their TV hardware.
The change seems to have rolled ou…

Netflix kills casting from phones
Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices.

It's f#ck*ng unbelievable what effort it takes to re-install a d%mbsh!t tool like SnippingTool* on Windows 11 .. especially when offline.
Seriously... installing W11 last week (it took me 2.5 days as I tooted last time) ... and configuring it to be even usable in some kind freaked and stressed me out so much... I grew grey hair in my beard.
When I shaved on sunday it was a real WTF moment.

As Google's YouTube TV and Disney continue a contract dispute, customers have lost some access to DVR files and digital movie purchases via Movies Anywhere (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

YouTube TV’s Disney blackout reminds users that they don’t own what they stream
“This is a hard lesson for us all.”…

A #MiniMoon that wasn't: the 'asteroid' 2025 US6 - https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25UL8.html, retracted in https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25UM3.html - has been swiftly ID'd as the Chinese lunar test satellite Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) B: https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/115959056#msg41014. Here is its fun orbit around the Earth in an animation: https://bsky.app/profile/tony873004.bsky.social/post/3m44my3hgis24

Sailing the high sea.... 🏴‍☠️
Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs....
While piracy gives you better quality, offline availability, zero ads or tracking. Go piracy..
https://www.theverge.com/news/834655/netfl

MPAA reveals the why of movie ratings.
This makes it easier for people to chose what rating to aim for when re-writing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/movies/movie-ratings-sex-violence-drugs.html

How Much Sex, Drugs and Violence Can Be in a PG-13 Movie?
The movie ratings board has pulled back the curtain on how it approaches hot-button topics, including nudity, marijuana and guns.

the most excellent @… has posted his tapes from the very tasty looking fly around festival from august, with a bunch of great contemporary acoustic improvisers (powers/rolin, elkhorn) & a few songwriters (myriam gendron, joan shelley). looking forward to getting autumnal with a bunch of these sets soon.

Wait — Mamdani’s going to meet Trump at the White House, days after Trump hosted, and approved, Khashoggi-murdering Mohammed bin Salman? Is he not worried MBS was giving Trump dismemberment tips?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/19/trump…