Tootfinder

The thing this reply guy doesn’t get, the thing that’s so crucial to this moment, is that being correct about the law counts for absolute diddly shit in the moment. The law is slow. The law comes later…if ever. With these people on our streets right now, the only thing that matters in the moment is what people believe: what they believe the law is, what they believe is safe, what they believe they can get away with, what they believe they are capable of doing.
The law is slow. The law catches up later. Belief is •now•.

A post from the archive 📫:
What about Jevons paradox?
#musings

If you are up this late, maybe you want to stay up later. Go ahead, read my latest essay, What Did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons?
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/what-did-vibe-coding-just-do-to-the-commons/

What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...

What we know about Russia’s offensive in Siversk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/what-we-know-about-russias.html

Reminder: You can let Mozilla know what you think about AI and other stupid shit.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922
(Edited to fix li…

Building AI the Firefox way: Shaping what’s next together
Hi everyone, We recently shared how we’re approaching AI in Firefox with user choice and openness at the center of everything we build. We’ve heard from many of you who’d prefer not to have AI in your browser at all, and we get it: We will soon provide additional settings for you to control how AI i...

"What are the biggest climate polluters near you?"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Pollution

What are the biggest climate polluters near you?
Use these tools to find out.

Warning: kissing fascist ass may result in liquid glass.
So my phone tricked me into updating to iOS 26 (nice one, asshats). And wow: it really is a case study in form over function. Gratuitous, meaningless aesthetics and motion. Decoration, not design. “Look what I can do!”
Oh well, if it gets me using my phone less, that’s a good thing, I guess.
But the next time you hear someone from Apple talking about design, please feel free to laugh in their damn faces. What a sad j…

I'm going to go back to my social media break, but before I do I'm going to leave you with a thought experiment.
Imagine we're in the middle of the second American Civil War. What do you wish you had done to prepare? What do you wish you had done to bring the regime down faster? What do you wish you had done to avoid this ever happening?
Got some ideas? Think about them. Talk them over with friends. Ok... Now what can you do right now? Ok, now do it.
#USPol

Dolphins-Steelers on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from Pittsburgh's 28-15 win https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-steelers-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-pittsburgh-s-28-15-win

What happened to Trevon Diggs? Details behind Cowboys CB's injury and return timeline https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/what-happened-trevon-diggs-details-cowboys-injury-ret…

Tape Talk: What stood out on film from Cowboys-Vikings https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tape-talk-what-stood-out-on-film-from-cowboys-vikings

What if.. what if we kissed by the digital calipers? 🥺⁠👉⁠👈

Read it from the former MEP who was the European Parliament's rapporteur for the CO₂ emission performance standards for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-end-goal-accounting-trick-w…

From End Goal to Accounting Trick: What a 90% Target in 2035 Really Means
A 90% CO₂ target for 2035 sounds close to zero. In practice, it creates significant room for plug-in hybrids and combustion-engine vehicles.

What the Trump Administration Is Buying With CBS's Reputation (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)
https://www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-trump-administration-is
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p102#a260116p102

from my link log —
What engineers can teach (and learn from) programmers.
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/crossover-project/what-we-can-learn/
saved 2021-01-22

Remember Firefox OS? Of course you don't.
Well, they tried to do "for mobile what we did for the web" and utterly failed—while neglecting their core product.
Now they’re all in on “doing for AI what we did for the web”.

"forget the “high” and “low” labels, lean into what comes naturally, study what you love, and hope for the best."
I heartily agree!
We have to stop calling some jobs ‘low skilled’ - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/9034d6d6-a333-487d-b4a7-de294be67e8b

What Ukrainians actually think about ceding Donbas to Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/what-ukrainians-actually-think-about.html

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: I know what you mean.
ARTIX: I'm sorry, sir.
[Leylan walks towards the exit to the Flight Deck]
LEYLAN: I'm going to my quarters. Anything I should know?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/24 B7B2

Comic: Santa's Cookies
— by comicss.art
What is delicious on the website and what is not is explained in an understandable way by Santa Clous for everyone.
🎅 #santa

Dispatch from the occupation.
What life is like in Minneapolis now.
#minneapolis

Dispatch from the occupation
What life is like in Minneapolis now

Electronics touchers: what is your biggest UI/firmware gripe with your current test equipment (scopes mostly, but interested in what you have to say about other stuff too)? Does ngscopeclient fix it?
I'm always looking for things ngscopeclient can do harder, better, faster, or stronger. Or that existing instruments just don't do at all.

Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying?
Wouldn’t that be better PR?
Unless maybe it’s all a big scam.
-- @ambientheat.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/ambientheat.bsky.social/post/3lyvo6edkrk27

MJ (@ambientheat.bsky.social)
Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying? Wouldn’t that be better PR? Unless maybe it’s all a big scam. 🧐

Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #IETF . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!

IETF@40
Forty years ago today, 21 people gathered in San Diego, California for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force.

"Deep Research, Shallow Agency: What Academic Deep Research Can and Can't Do"
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/how-agentic-are-academic-deep-research

Stupid San Francisco question: what does the M in OMI stand for again?
Oceanview, M______, Ingleside. I can't think what fits in the blank. Maybe @… knows.

""From my home office, running Bluehood in passive mode (just listening, never connecting), I could detect:
* When delivery vehicles arrived, and whether it was the same driver each time
* The daily patterns of my neighbours based on their phones and wearables
* Which devices consistently appeared together (someone’s phone and smartwatch, for instance)
* The exact times certain people were home, at work, or elsewhere
None of this required any …

This sentiment expressed by @… below and the aspect of slowing down is also very much part of my own reasoning for getting back into analog print making. The other large part is the conceptual overlap with (and my love of) process-based art in general. It was exactly that what has drawn me to generative/algorithmic/procedural/kinetic approaches/concepts for most of my l…

Christopher Cookson (@figwit@pixelfed.nz)
Another hand coloured #cyanotype, this time of kōwhai flowers. I'm not sure whether this counts as #fineart or #adultcolouring but it is definitely a unique reproduction of one of my photos. What really draws me to this #altprocess for #photography reproduction is that it takes time, and even though I can produce multiple prints from the same negative, each one will be visibly unique. In an age where billions of photos are taken but most will never leave a digital device, slowing down and impo…

Kristi Noem, Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security, didn't know what Habeas Corpus was.
She literally thought it was the exact OPPOSITE of what it is & got embarrassed on the Senate floor.
#KristiNoem #trump

The Men's Fertility Nutrition Podcast
Explores what really affects sperm health and male fertility, and what men can actually do about it, hosted by Alex Hardy...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mens-fertility-nutrition/…

Great call to action by Dariusz Jemielniak in Nature: academics should contribute to Wikipedia, and such work should be recognized.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00075-0

The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us | Nature
Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet. Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet.

Join the Sylius team next Thursday for a 2025 recap and a sneak peek at what's in store for 2026.
I'm personally excited to see what they have planned, and I think you should be too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW4FANNyWCg

HTTP API behaviour that makes me think you know what you're doing:
- 👍 respond with `201` (not `200`) on a successful resource creation request
HTTP API behaviour that makes me think you really *don’t* know what you're doing:
- 👎 respond with `201` if an object with a key that conflicts with this resource creation request already exists
(Spoiler: respond with `409`; or at least a non-successful status so I don't have to parse it out of the human-readable `…

Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional - Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon -

Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional
Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon

C’mon people. More of us need to vote for the Argument Clinic here! @… https://toot.wales/@HannahHowe/115736004264460692

Interesting dynamic will be what happens when all of these criminal government agents realise what kind of accountability is waiting for them unless they solidify absolute power @… https://…

Minnesota governor Tim Walz tells people to “hit record” when they see ICE.

Two Years of Building AI in Firefox | Tarek Ziadé
https://blog.ziade.org/2025/12/05/two-years-of-ai-at-mozilla/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/research-cuts-fuel-scientific-brain-drain-american-science-shattered/ "A large part of what we loved about the United States i…

Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind
“A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there”: Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave the U.S. behind.

Chicago is getting a place for sickos
#fedifc

Tape Talk: What stood out on film from Cowboys-Vikings https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tape-talk-what-stood-out-on-film-from-cowboys-vikings

Sadly, the whole rest of the world also gets what you voted for.
Yay, democracy! @… https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115726775853906216

What the fresh hell is this?! My replacemet work Thinkpad arrived yesterday, and it's got some god forsaken faux-metallic grey finish!
Thinkpads are supposed to be *black*
What on earth are you doing Lenovo?!
#thinkpad

Vibe coding is the single biggest transformation since ChatGPT 3.5, it is one of the biggest transformations since the dawn of computing. It will thoroughly transform Open Source. We are not ready. #VibeCoding #OpenSource

What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...

What Raiders Need to See With Return of Geno Smith https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-need-see-return-geno-smith

What a sweeping new review reveals about Tylenol use during pregnancy (Jess Craig/Straight Arrow News)
https://san.com/cc/what-a-sweeping-new-review-reveals-about-tylenol-use-during-pregnancy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p127#a260116p127

Bengals gave Zac Taylor a secret contract extension in 2023, per report: Why that matters and what it means

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals

I'm wondering who the people are who plan, design, oversee construction of and finally manage these abominations.
When they get up in the morning, what are they asking themselves? What do they wish for? Who hurt them?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis

Meow you see me, meow you don't

from my link log —
What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical systems?
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/14/what-does-it-take-to-ship-rust-in-safety-critical/
saved 2026-01-15

What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical? | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Say what you will about state violence, but •orderly• state violence — an officer with a face and a badge, Miranda rights, an orderly booking, the constitutional phone call, the jail roster, the habeas corpus petition, a trial, a system, a process, maybe once in a blue moon consequences for officers’ most egregious abuses — is infinitely preferable to what ICE is now: a secret police with blanket immunity.

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: He What?
VILA: Blake!
[Group enters flight deck with Blake]
VILA: What about Del Ten?
CALLY: What about the beta particles?
BLAKE: They can wait.
https://

"What are transition credits? Philippines takes novel approach to coal phase-out"
#Phillippines #Coal #FossilFuels

Could ‘transition credits’ be the key to unlocking a coal-free Asia?
This novel take on carbon credits could cure Asia's coal addiction - but critics are sceptical.

3 What-If scenarios for Cowboys with two 1st rounders: Pick or trade? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/17/cowboys-mock-draft-what-if-scenarios-trade-back-first-round/88711…

“God gave us this incredible gift of an intellect and curiosity and an opportunity to explore how nature works,”
Dr Francis Collins, former director of National Institutes of Health said.
“And God gave us nature as well
and we get the chance through science to do that.
I think of science as glimpsing God’s mind.
Science is almost a form of worship because what you’re trying to do there is to be completely caught up in the awe of what we’ve been given in natu…

Francis Collins and Marc Siegel say medicine is a gift from God
“To have Christians be the group that was most resistant” to the Covid vaccine “really seems wrong here,” said former NIH Director Francis Collins.

Watch What They're Doing: Trump Threatens to Make War on the States (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/watch-what-theyre-doing-trump-threatens-to-make-war-on-the-states
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p154#a260116p154

TMW #DonLemon DGAF.
“You know what Donald #Trump? Fuck you. Just fuck all the way off. What an asshole & a small-minded, small dick shit to do. You are an immature child. You are a bigot, a fucking racist & a small penis asshole. Just hateful and delusional. Just fuck all the way off.&qu…

Everybody who wants to understand Generative AI should read articles like this.
#AI

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?
They’re the mysterious numbers that make your favorite AI models tick. What are they and what do they do?

❝
People played the Frozen soundtrack to drown them out
Lang appears to be yelling anti-Muslim phrases on his megaphone, but it’s difficult to hear what he’s actually saying. Dozens of people, including ones from the media, are around him as he stumbles from one side of the street to the other.
Jake Lang trying to hit people with what appears to be a curtain rod
Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall. He’s soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him.
Big ups to whoever got Lang with a water gun LMAO
❞
FYI, the temperature in Minneapolis is about 10°F / -12°C.
3/

D05 - Animals
CAPTAIN: One of our pursuit units engaged an unidentified planet hopper. They refused to obey a stand and be searched order and the pursuit commander opened fire.
SERVALAN: Why all the interest? What's one civilian cargo ship more or less?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/97

"Why global environmental negotiations keep failing—and what we can do about it"
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

Why global environmental negotiations keep failing—and what we can do about it
In the past year alone, four major environmental negotiations have collapsed.

After Super Bowl loss, what's in store for the Patriots this offseason? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47923377/what-expect-new-england-patriots-offseason-super-bowl-loss

🎪What friendship with PUTIN is worth – MADURO knows #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/what-friendship-with-putin-is.html

What’s Next for the Raiders: Pete Carroll, Tom Brady, and the NFL Draft QB Picture https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/what-is-next-las-vegas-pete-carroll-tom-brady-nfl-draft-qb-picture

A request for everyone: please don’t be this person. We’re going through a miserable time here in MSP, and reply guy snot does not make it better.
A •lot• of replies I got are about what is illegal, or should be illegal, or must be illegal, and…yeah, we know, believe me, we know. If what you’re offering is commiseration — as with most replies — I welcome that wholeheartedly! This sucks, and it’s nice to hear people say, “Yeah, that sucks.”
But please don’t come into my mentions to argue. Wrong time, wrong target.
https://mastodon.social/@wesdym/115731049092776077

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
AVON: Exactly. You have just made a prediction based on the known facts. A computer works on precisely the same principle.
BLAKE: But all you're saying is that prediction is not immutable fact.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/23 B7B4

The US is not fit to regulate a sock drawer much less what goes into orbit.

What display technology to use today, the dozens of kilovolts particle accelerator or the one heating gas plasma to thousands of degrees?

Mailbag: What system would fit personnel? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-what-system-would-fit-personnel

Shedeur Sanders' metrics weren't very good, but what is correctable by next season? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6970820/2026/01/15/shedeur-sanders-low-metrics-what-is-correctable/

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
SOOLIN: His personality, then.
ORAC: A better definition, but still not quite accurate.
AVON: Would it know how the booby traps on the orbiter are programed?
ORAC: As yet, I don't have enough data to answer that question.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/287

If you’re baffled by the chasm between “How could anyone support this kind of cruelty??” and “Society needs a Strong Father Figure with a firm hand,” well…
…look to who has endured abuse, who has only seen and abhorred abuse but not endured it, who has escaped abuse (and at what personal cost), who’s spent their life rationalizing and accommodating abuse, who is themselves an abuser.
Look at that, then look at what they think of Trump.

'Extremely demoralizing': Republicans respond to the bombastic Wiles interview (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/16/why-vanity-fair-aides-and-allies-wonder-what-wiles-west-wing-were-thinking-extremely-demoralizing-republicans-respond-to-the-bombastic-wiles-interview-00693821
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p136#a251216p136

What the Raiders Should Do About Maxx Crosby https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-offseason-means-maxx-crosby

This might be a good time for Minnesotans to read up on what the United States does to places it invades.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-department-investigating-tim-walz-jacob-frey-minnesota/

Mailbag: What system would fit personnel? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-what-system-would-fit-personnel

Ja'Marr Chase on Bengals' offseason expectations: 'Everybody pretty much knows what we need' https://www.nfl.com/news/ja-marr-chase-on-bengals-offseason-expectations-everybody-pretty-much-knows-what-we-need

Raider Nation Makes It Clear on What They Want to See https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-nation-makes-clear-what-they-want

“People want software that is fast, modern, but also honest about what it does.”
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
No, you muppet, people want tools that do what…

Mozilla’s Next Chapter: Building the World’s Most Trusted Software Company | The Mozilla Blog
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil

What Do 2026 Mock Drafts Reveal About the Cowboys? https://insidethestar.com/what-do-2026-mock-drafts-reveal-about-the-cowboys

What pending Aaron Rodgers decision means for Steelers' Mike McCarthy, Will Howard in 2026

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-updates-aaron-rodgers-will-howard/

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
ORAC: The words future, present, past are meaningless.
AVON: Define 'meaningless'.
ORAC: I have the capacity to predict events that have not yet taken place.
AVON: That is not what I asked.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/456 B7B3

What defensive scheme makes most sense for Cowboys right now? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/what-defensive-scheme-makes-most-sense-dallas-cowboys-right-now

What if NFL teams hired the opposite of the coach they fired? Applying the 'opposites attract' theory in 2026

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-coaching-search-o…

What is going on with Trevon Diggs and the Dallas Cowboys? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47315415/nfl-dallas-cowboys-trevon-diggs-injured-reserve

Month to Month: What we learned in November https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-november-x5593

Month to Month: What we learned in November https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-november-x5593

What's next for Dolphins after Tyreek Hill, Bradley Chubb releases? Tua Tagovailoa's future, new roster moves

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphin

With Rams-Bears' frigid forecast, what are the coldest playoff games in NFL history? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6977111/2026/01/16/nfl-coldest-playoff-games-ever/