Tootfinder

Here’s what happened in a N.J. city when some got $12,000, no strings attached https://www.nj.com/essex/2025/06/heres-what-happened-in-a-nj-city-when-some-got-12000-no-strings-attached.html?utm_source=Mastodon

Here’s what happened in a N.J. city when some got $12,000, no strings attached
A two-year pilot program showed the payments improved recipients' lives, contradicting critics who claim such programs discourage work.

“Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/06/where-to-put-focus-when-opening-a-modal-dialog.html
TL;DR: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, in…

Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog
TL;DR: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, including this one. This post is meant to help guide you, an intelligent and thoughtful and empathetic reader, figure out where you should set focus. The scenarios are non-exhaustive. Messages I’m artificially breaking these into…

Kirk Cousins felt 'misled' when Falcons drafted Michael Penix Jr.: Knowing Atlanta's plan 'would've affected my decision' https://www.nfl.com/news/kirk-cousins-felt-misle…

Dak Prescott: George Pickens gets ‘separation even when he’s not getting the ball’ https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dak-prescott-george-pickens-gets-separation-even-when-he-not-getting-the-ball

How to Know When the Frog Has Boiled -- Autocracy in America won't unfold the way you expect. (Damon Linker/Persuasion)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/how-to-know-when-the-frog-has-boiled
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p85#a250708p85

Planet-warming emissions dropped when companies had to report them. EPA wants to end that – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/planet-warming-emissions-dropped-when-companies-had-to-report-them-epa-wants-to-end-that/3717592/

When I say that the protesters were angry but not violent, I guess I should also say this:
In the sick imagination of white supremacy, for a Black or brown person to be angry •is• for them to be violent, by definition.
So when you hear people saying “they were violent,” those people are flat wrong — but they may also be describing something that is in fact completely real and completely consistent in their mind.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Stars:
🎵 Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It
#Stars
https://starsband.bandcamp.com/track/hold-on-when-you-get-love-and-let-go-when-you-give-it-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3QF9b4PhQnTChD08dJruWN

Monday jam: Josh Smith | When I Get Mine | #blues

When I Get Mine by Josh Smith
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Threatens Mobilization of Active-Duty Marines Against Protesters in Los Angeles

Such language is unprecedented in response to immigration protests.
The escalation comes just three days after the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre,
when Chinese troops crushed a pro-democracy movement with tanks and live ammunition
—a grim reminder of what can happen when a government turns its military on its own people.

This is so hard to digest.
They raise the one important question in parentheses:
"(Since when is keeping the planet habitable for humans too heavy a burden to bear?)"
Yea, since when? Do you want your oh-so-important "family business" to tragically die from heat waves, floods, and whatever else may come? Because of a little inconvenience? Go touch some grass. Learn from Ikaros.

European Central Bank Boldly Goes Where Others Fear To Tread - CleanTechnica
The European Central Bank has reaffirmed its commitment to include climate science in its policy making considerations.

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
When Saints Go Machine:
🎵 Fail Forever
#NowPlaying #WhenSaintsGoMachine
https://when-saints-go-machine.bandcamp.com/album/fail-forever
https://open.spotify.com/track/6zIpXfRuASVRcRF2YFyTnE

The Sound of Gunshot
https://www.revoluciana.net/the-sound-of-gunshot/

Async Rust: When to Use It and When to Avoid It
“Asynchronous” (often abbreviated as “async”) is a widely used term in computer science, but its meaning varies depending on the context. […]
🦀 https://fmoya.dev/posts/async-rust/

A connected network for whom?
About a year ago, I helped move some young relatives in and out of Boston, one leaving Chinatown, the other moving in on September 1 (locally, the day when most of the students renting in the area move in; it causes predictably awful traffic and parking problems).  Because of the parking problems, I did most of this help using a bicycle with a 300lb capacity.  

A connected network for whom?
About a year ago, I helped move some young relatives in and out of Boston, one leaving Chinatown, the other moving in on September 1 (locally, the day when most of the students renting in the area …

“Innovation” https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/114802683878143883

Meanwhile in Dwarf Fortress, construction of the temple to Bisek Cavernmoth, god of darkness and the night, has hit a stumbling block when my stonemason took it upon himself to decorate it with a statue of a slug.
Even more disturbingly, this appears to be a therapeutic endeavour for young Vutok.
#DwarfFortress

I think the root of the “AI” evil is when AI researchers in the 1960s recognized that they outrageously underestimated the complexity of the human mind.
They became utterly humiliated by their self-congratulatory promises from the 1950s that AGI was just a few years away—and then went full goblin mode that’s lasting to this day, even if the original researchers (like Minsky*) died long ago.
*probably raped children on Epstein’s island

Sonnet 074 - LXXIV
But be contented when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away,
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to thee:
The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being d…

I had skipped that video by Folding Ideas when it came out because I wasn’t interested in the topic. Saw it referred to in a blog post recently so I watched it. Highly recommended because *spoiler* of course there‘s a twist halfway through. Kinda like when he meticulously disproved the flat earth in another video.
https://www.

In which I argue that arguments about whether #genAI is useful or not are the wrong arguments. The important issues are what it’s for and what it costs.
Having very unkind feelings about the people pushing it.
https://www.

The Real GenAI Issue

When do World Models Successfully Learn Dynamical Systems?
Edmund Ross, Claudia Drygala, Leonhard Schwarz, Samir Kaiser, Francesca di Mare, Tobias Breiten, Hanno Gottschalk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04898

When do World Models Successfully Learn Dynamical Systems?
In this work, we explore the use of compact latent representations with learned time dynamics ('World Models') to simulate physical systems. Drawing on concepts from control theory, we propose a theoretical framework that explains why projecting time slices into a low-dimensional space and then concatenating to form a history ('Tokenization') is so effective at learning physics datasets, and characterise when exactly the underlying dynamics admit a reconstruction mapping from the history of pre…

When There Is No Decoder: Removing Watermarks from Stable Diffusion Models in a No-box Setting
Xiaodong Wu, Tianyi Tang, Xiangman Li, Jianbing Ni, Yong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03646

When There Is No Decoder: Removing Watermarks from Stable Diffusion Models in a No-box Setting
Watermarking has emerged as a promising solution to counter harmful or deceptive AI-generated content by embedding hidden identifiers that trace content origins. However, the robustness of current watermarking techniques is still largely unexplored, raising critical questions about their effectiveness against adversarial attacks. To address this gap, we examine the robustness of model-specific watermarking, where watermark embedding is integrated with text-to-image generation in models like lat…

Sources: Musk's feud with Trump will complicate xAI's attempt to raise $5B in debt, and might increase lending costs or cause some lenders to walk away entirely (Eric Platt/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/57d5b733-9060-44fe-94c3-41a600ebb079

Elon Musk’s feud with Donald Trump muddies xAI debt raising for Morgan Stanley
Bank was close to lining up $5bn for artificial intelligence group when US president and billionaire attacked each other

Remember when YouTube only showed ads on your videos if you were a YouTube Partner or if you specifically allowed them to on a per-video basis? I remember when I finally reached the criteria to start making money off my videos and then they changed the criteria, so no more chance for money, but I still have ads on my videos that I can't turn off. I like creating videos to share but it kinda kills the vibe when I know I'm basically an unpaid YouTube employee, and my videos will only e…

When Numbers Mislead Us
Arthur Charpentier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03628 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.03628

When Numbers Mislead Us
The belief that numbers offer a single, objective description of reality overlooks a crucial truth: data does not speak for itself. Every dataset results from choices-what to measure, how, when, and with whom-which inevitably reflect implicit, and sometimes ideological, assumptions about what is worth quantifying. Moreover, in any analysis, what remains unmeasured can be just as significant as what is captured. When a key variable is omitted-whether by neglect, design, or ignorance-it can disto…

Managers were starting to understand that velocity on its own has no value. But then along came #AI and said "but what if we made that velocity 10x?" and they fell for it all over again - because they only have a surface level understanding of the work.
The logic of the feature factory has permitted #genAI

AI saved the feature factory
When outputs are valued above all else, hallucinations and slop aren't bugs — they're features.

Is...is there a Slack integration?
https://github.com/hotheadhacker/no-as-a-service

GitHub - hotheadhacker/no-as-a-service: No-as-a-Service (NaaS) is a simple API that returns a random rejection reason. Use it when you need a realistic excuse, a fun “no,” or want to simulate being turned down in style.
No-as-a-Service (NaaS) is a simple API that returns a random rejection reason. Use it when you need a realistic excuse, a fun “no,” or want to simulate being turned down in style. - hotheadhacker/n...

Just wondering when an european "Linkedin" will start or if there is already one available? We clearly can't trust a US company with all our personal data, relations, employers etc. ?
#linkedin #eu #privacy

As I thought of the game of Go this morning, I remembered that when Wikipedia started in 2001, I thought "oh, it’s something like Sensei‘s Library“, because that was the biggest and most active wiki I knew at that time.
https://senseis.xmp.net/

Friends, when I do things on the croft which I think are interesting, I usually post photos here.
Today, we have slaughtered, gralloched and quartered a bull. There are many photographs. There is a bit of blood, but actually not that much.
Would people be interested in photos, if I put content warnings on them?
@… , am I OK posting pictures of thi…

Heterogeneous participation and allocation skews: when is choice "worth it"?
Nikhil Garg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03600 https://

Heterogeneous participation and allocation skews: when is choice "worth it"?
A core ethos of the Economics and Computation (EconCS) community is that people have complex private preferences and information of which the central planner is unaware, but which an appropriately designed mechanism can uncover to improve collective decisionmaking. This ethos underlies the community's largest deployed success stories, from stable matching systems to participatory budgeting. I ask: is this choice and information aggregation ``worth it''? In particular, I discuss how such systems…

Great news. Canada is doing offering government services (commercial driver’s license tests) in Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin.
It’s a crime and a tragedy that indigenous languages are in danger of dying and everything that can be done to fight that is for the better, especially by governments using them.

Indigenous man's 'jaw nearly hit the counter' when told he could write driver's test in Ojibwe | CBC News
The former chief of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation got an early birthday surprise when he was finally able to do his written driver’s test in Ojibwe.   

When players like Tyrese Haliburton hit buzzer-beaters, it can be a sportswriter's nightmare https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6410716/2025/06/08/tyrese-haliburton-nba-finals-buzzer-beater-sports-writers/

Just bought a Trion T20 BGA256 devkit as my intro to the Efinix FPGA ecosystem. Who knows when I'll have time to play with it, but it's something I will physically possess and it's a lot cheaper than the Titanium board full of SERDES that I will be getting down the road if this works out well.

tech nerdery
I mean this: if every receiver just connected to its source when it was ready, and we hadn't made short-timeout stateful firewalls everywhere, we'd have to deploy SO MANY fewer weird one-off services just to receive something.
Instead we have to provision certificates and public facing hostnames to get communication going. Backend development is so much more complex and less robust because of it.

amazing! 🥺
this means that the 40mins monstrosity is performing (slightly) better than its predecessor in the first ~20h. When YouTuber brag about something being 1 of 10—this is what they mean.
please keep watching and liking—together we can break the algorithm 🥲
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiBIjouDGuI

Um, yeah...
White House security staff warned Musk’s Starlink is a security risk
https://wapo.st/459sFuR

White House security staff warned Musk’s Starlink is a security risk
The U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House experts worried about potential security breaches when they installed Musk’s Starlink internet service in the complex this year, three people said.

As Ukraine awaits stalled US weapons, Trump says he's 'helping a lot' in war with Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/as-ukraine-awaits-stalled-us.html

800.000 USD WTF
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaza-surveillance

Anyone else experiencing problems (again) with link previews (including thumbnail images) when posting from #Mastodon via #Bridgy to #Bluesky?
Have reported the issue to the team, hopefully it can be sorted b…

Fediverse => Bluesky: auto-generate embeds (with thumbnail images) for links? · Issue #1411 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
I do not know if this is a general problem between platforms or if it is strictly an issue between Mastodon -> Bluesky, but whenever I post an article (or other external link) on Mastodon the thumb...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Police:
🎵 When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
#ThePolice
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/when-the-world-is-running-down-you-make-the-best-of-whats-still-around
https://open.spotify.com/track/2e2P8zydI5GtcaVhTkOYa9

recent-ish reading/rereading. #books @…

When Trump encounters a demographic he doesn’t care for, he “disappears” them–in many cases, the very record of their existence.
Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age... including Jackie Robinson & Rosa Parks.
(taken from Catherine Rampell on BlueSky)
☑️ The people Trump is trying to delete from government records - Washington Post

Alberta Premier is going to sicken and kill children in the name of ignorance and “owning the libs” for Trump and RFK
"the number of cumulative measles cases had as of Friday passed 1,179 in Alberta. The last time Alberta came close to that number was 1986. That’s when the province reported 843 cases. In sheer number of cases, Alberta virtually matches the entire United States, where vaccine skepticism is now official government policy. ”.
#Measles #Vaccines #ABPoli
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/07/07/Danielle-Smith-Queen-Measles/

Started watching Presence after seeing a few recommendations for it. I'm not usually into straight up ghosty type flicks but this one's done in a fairly unique way. Digging it.
#movies

Presence (2024)
A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways.

I'm a huge believer in having a hobby that forces you to focus on one thing. This summer I'm learning how to draw and paint wildflowers. It's absorbing and relaxing and even if the results are a bit rough, it forces you to really *look* at small details.
https://mastodon.art/@reinderdijkhuis/114815896842271008
reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.art - It's @ajroach42 's recent threads about addictive behavior in (mostly) kids (but he talks about adults and elders as well) that prompted me to evaluate my own online behavior, again. The line "… they'd rather do nothing, when doing nothing is causing them a great amount of distress, than have to put the work in to do something else" hit hard. More and more these past few months, that's been me, unless I make a very deliberate effort not to go down that path.

#PhanpySocial changelog ✨
🌟 Featured profiles (for upcoming Mastodon v4.4)
🔑 Revoke access token when logging out
📸 Respect server's media description character limit
🪣 Add indicator for exclusive lists
🧪 Sandbox https://

Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

When I searched for these hashtags, only WillfulStupidity showed a couple of results.
Here is a remembrance of a better day:
#WillfulStupidity < SelflessGrace
#StubbornIgnorance < GratefulConsideration

Customize what happens when you start R: #rstats #environment

Existentially closed measure-preserving actions of approximately treeable groups
Isaac Goldbring, Brandon Seward, Robin Tucker-Drob
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03195

Existentially closed measure-preserving actions of approximately treeable groups
Given a countable group $Γ$, letting $\mathcal{K}_Γ$ denote the class of {\pmp} actions of $Γ$, we study the question of when the model companion of $\mathcal{K}_Γ$ exists. Berenstein, Henson, and Ibarlucía showed that the model companion of $\mathcal{K}_Γ$ exists when $Γ$ is a nonabelian free group on a countable number of generators. We significantly generalize their result by showing that the model companion of $\cal K_Γ$ exists whenever $Γ$ is an approximately treeable group. The c…

Ah. Just when I thought I could travel home through the Baltics for a change. #Interrail

When Tucker steps out of the shower, he doesn't towel off right away. He likes to air-dry his balls.

Avoid the word "pedestrian." You marginalize a basic human activity when you give it a four-syllable Greek-derived name.
Say walk, on foot, foot traffic whenever you can.

I was really annoyed when they stole a made-up word from Stargate SG-1 and (more or less) used it as a drug name (Tremfya).
But now they've stolen "Manjaro" and are using it as "Mounjaro", a drug name.

@… Oooooooh
What happens when you hit a file? Does it get deleted?

from my link log —
When should a Java JIT compiler expand garbage collection barriers?
https://robcasloz.github.io/blog/2024/02/14/when-should-a-compiler-expand-garbage-collection-barriers.html
saved…

people tell you to believe in your dreams, but when you bring your imaginary friends they SOMEHOW don't like it

It's a rare occasion when someone actually publishes a review of one of my books, even in a tech publication, so I'm telling everyone. Fortunately it's even a *positive* review. https://diginomica.com/lessons-system-engineering-internet-and-why-it-ma…

Lessons in system engineering the Internet and why it matters today
System Engineering evangelists Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie analyze the system approach behind the Internet in their new book. A combination of first principles analysis, collaboration, luck, and a willingness to rethink a few assumptions enabled the Internet to become the most successful engineering project in history.

It's truth in advertising when the braided UHMWPE product page shows it unraveling! 🤣
I've learned that plasma lighters are great tools for cutting light gauge synthetic cord. They are basically small hot plasma knives that cut slowly. Works for UHMWPE, nylon, polyester, and more. Also PET cable sheath, which is otherwise highly motivated to spontaneously disassemble itself.

Event2Audio: Event-Based Optical Vibration Sensing
Mingxuan Cai, Dekel Galor, Amit Pal Singh Kohli, Jacob L. Yates, Laura Waller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03273

Event2Audio: Event-Based Optical Vibration Sensing
Small vibrations observed in video can unveil information beyond what is visual, such as sound and material properties. It is possible to passively record these vibrations when they are visually perceptible, or actively amplify their visual contribution with a laser beam when they are not perceptible. In this paper, we improve upon the active sensing approach by leveraging event-based cameras, which are designed to efficiently capture fast motion. We demonstrate our method experimentally by rec…

Delays, reshoots, and inflation have driven up the budgets of this year's summer blockbusters, with Superman costing $400M when including marketing spends (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.co…

Would You Pay $400 Million for This Movie?
Between delays, reshoots and rising costs, this year's summer blockbusters are racking up astronomically high price tags when factoring in marketing costs. Can the box office keep up?

When a company doesn't adhere to RFCs 2142 or 9116, but you still tryna reach out.
A tale in two acts.
#BugBounty #BountyBegging #RFC2142

Covariance test for discretely observed functional data: when and how it works?
Yang Zhou, Jin Yang, Fang Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04962 https://

Covariance test for discretely observed functional data: when and how it works?
For covariance test in functional data analysis, existing methods are developed only for fully observed curves, whereas in practice, trajectories are typically observed discretely and with noise. To bridge this gap, we employ a pool-smoothing strategy to construct an FPC-based test statistic, allowing the number of estimated eigenfunctions to grow with the sample size. This yields a consistently nonparametric test, while the challenge arises from the concurrence of diverging truncation and disc…

When the Nazi start supporting you, it’s not because they stopped being Nazi, it’s because you’ve become Nazi.
#germany

Many professed concerns from the right about Israel or antisemitism are expressions of American identity politics and nativism
-- more than they are statements of genuine concern for the safety and well-being of minorities.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/if-not-now-when/

If Not Now, When? Contextualizing the White Supremacist Threat to Muslims and Jews
Much ink has been spilled in recent months debating comments by U.S. Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) regarding Israel. People have argued, sometimes in good faith, that they used antisemitic tropes, unintentionally or not. However, this discussion has lacked necessary cultural and social background to make

When I first started working on mobile apps, the iPhone didn’t exist yet. We were writing J2ME code for devices like the Motorola Razr. And wow did the UI on those things suck.
By “suck,” I mean byzantine navigation and confusing state drenched in useless, gratuitous graphical flair. I mean UI designed for eye-catching ads and splashy demos — not for making the thing clear or pleasant to use.
It was design centered on how people imagined the the device made them •look•, not on what •experience• it created for them.
1/

Is this feasible everywhere?
Maybe not, depending on population density and geography.
However, it's not a big mystery where floods will happen and we figured this out long ago—there's no reason anyone should live there and we know in advance when they happen to evacuate anyone being temporarily around.

Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

White House security staff warned Musk’s Starlink is a security risk
The U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House experts worried about potential security breaches when they installed Musk’s Starlink internet service in the complex this year, three people said.

One way I see LLMs harming workers is workers being assigned impossible tasks on the assumption that "AI can do it" then holding them to account when it can't. Human takes the fall, AI takes the win.

Why’d they call it “agentic AI” when Russian roulette was right there?
(Ah, because Russian roulette doesn’t destroy our habitat, drink all our water, and doom our species. I get it now, my bad.) https://front-end.social/@ariel/114675226611700916

Ariel Salminen (@ariel@front-end.social)
Attached: 1 image “Cursor […] tried to delete some old files, didn’t work at the first time and it decided to end up deleting everything on my computer, including itself.” 😶‍🌫️ https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in-my-computer/103131

"In the end, little was done. When catastrophic floodwaters surged through Kerr County last week, there were no sirens or early flooding monitors. Instead, there were text alerts that came late for some residents and were dismissed or unseen by others."
Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/texas-flood-warnings-sirens.html

When a woman named Tur marries a man named Dokoupil, she does not hyphenate.

50 years ago today, sunday in the park with garcia & saunders, back in palo alto with kingfish & the rowan bros., benefit for the institute for the study of nonviolence, founded by ira sandperl, once a literal benefactor when he ran the nearby peace center, crash zone for garcia & hunter circa 1961. 1st garcia/weir shared bill outside the dead? audience tape:

The US Ambassador to Canada is a gas lighting, lying nutcase like his Administration.
“"Coming to the U.S., that's a decision for the Canadians to make. Searching devices and all of that is not a well-founded fear. We don't do that. America is a welcoming place," he said.
"I've heard that from Americans coming into Canada as well, OK? Saying, 'You know, we've not received a warm reception when we've gotten to Canadian customs,'" he said.”
#usa #canada #never51
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/border-device-searches-us-ambassador-1.7555350

In Defense of the Middle Class:
When entrepreneur, NYU Business professor, philanthropist & UCLA Bruin 👌 Scott Galloway breaks down how the biillionaire class is destroying America... and how this will end.
#economy #america

British photographer, 60, shot by police at #LA riots. ”I had a press ID round my neck, a large camera, a video camera … I was making a point of making myself visible as media,” he told The Times.

British photographer, 60, shot by police at LA riots
Nick Stern said that he was covering the anti-ICE protest when what doctors believe to be a ‘sponge bullet’ hit his thigh

When your penguin spirit takes a nap because Microsoft Edge showed up.
#Windows #Microsoft #MicrosoftEdge

@… Whatever works!
I like Omen by Prodigy when I want to smash through something.

Analysis – When your LLM calls the cops: Claude 4’s whistle-blow and the new agentic AI risk stack
🤖 https://venturebeat.com/ai/when-your-llm-calls-the-cops-claude-4s-whistle-blow-and-the-new-agentic-ai-risk-stack/…

When your LLM calls the cops: Claude 4’s whistle-blow and the new agentic AI risk stack
Claude 4’s “whistle-blow” surprise shows why agentic AI risk lives in prompts and tool access, not benchmarks. Learn the 6 controls every enterprise must adopt.

Travis Kelce on Travis Hunter: Opponents will try to wear out Jaguars rookie when he's on defense https://www.nfl.com/news/travis-kelce-travis-hunter-opponents-wear-out-jaguars-rookie-defense

When unvaccinated families present with measles at healthcare centres, doctors sometimes struggle to even discuss vaccination with the parents, Hussain said.
“It’s really hard to even approach the conversation.
I would ask: ‘How come you aren’t [vaccinated]?’
And they will say: ‘Oh, we’re exempt’
or ‘We’ve had this discussion before and we just don’t want to,’” she said

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.

Oh, the arguments we had! There was a marketing person — quite a good one, and a good person too — who just couldn’t see it, who fought the dev team tooth and nail on this. She finally relented when @… wrote a brief positive plug for our app, and made her realize that the landscape had changed and her J2ME-world design instincts just didn’t work in this new iPhone market.
(I’m not sure that company ever really made the shift. They struggled with and eventually dropped their general consumer app, and concentrated quite successfully on some pro markets where features ruled all.)
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WATCH: Joe Flacco has hilarious response to Shedeur Sanders when asked if he's ever hit this dance move

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/watch…

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When I use a virgule I feel I have failed.

Voting Republican means voting for lower wages. I mean, why pay America's workers when you can enrich billionaires, amirite? 🙄
From: @…
https://www.

The Intellectualist (@the_intellectualist_official) on Threads
In 2025, 21 states—mostly Democrat-led—raised their minimum wage, while 20 Republican-led states kept the $7.25 federal rate. Washington leads at $16.66, followed by California ($16.50) and Connecticut ($15.69), highlighting sharp political and regional divides.

@… Oh, I get that. Sometimes you need to push through.
I like to pair program when I hit a wall like that. Not sure if that works for you or not, but it might be something worth considering.

I remember in particular one phone that used an •animated fire background• to indicated the currently highlighted menu item. It was just embarrassing.
The iPhone was such a breath of fresh air. Of course it was eye-catching too — but what really made it soar was the •experience•. You can see it in that famous launch demo when Jobs does the “slide to unlock:” the audience absolutely loses it, so much that he has to repeat it.
Why? Because you could sense, even from the demo, that the experience was wonderful.
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“Today, we’re doing copper,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.
“I believe the tariff on copper, we’re going to make it 50%.” He did not say specifically when that tariff would take effect
Trump also said he would soon announce tariffs “at a very, very high rate -- like 200%,”
on pharmaceutical imports.
And we all hang on the words coming out of his mouth, despite knowing that they were ripped from his ass, without passing though his brain

Trump says he will impose 50% tariff on copper imports

This kind of user-centered design was utterly baffling to the people steeped in the pre-iPhone mobile market. The shop where I’d being doing that mobile app work set out to make their iPhone app. We’d try to create clear, simple, information-focused UX that was a pleasure to •use• for its intended purpose, not just a pleasure to •look at• in a demo, and…
…we’d get pushback. Soooooo much pushback. “Can you add more graphics?” “It looks too boring!” “Shouldn’t it do something when you shake it?”
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Wimbledon organisers have apologised after the electronic line-calling system on Centre Court was turned off in error and missed three calls in one game.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova said a game was 'stolen' from her after there was no 'out' call when a Sonay Kartal backhand went long in the first set of their fourth-round match

Wimbledon 2025: Organisers apologise after missing three calls after electronic line-calling system deactivated in one game
Wimbledon organisers apologise after the electronic line-calling system on Centre Court is turned off in error and misses three calls in one game.

Totoro spoilers
Re the quoted post from @…:
The very first time I saw My Neighbor Totoro, it was because a friend cajoled me into attending the student anime club’s showing with absolutely no context whatsoever except “you •have• to see this movie, Paul.” I had no idea what genre it was. I had no idea that it was a movie considered suitable for kids. The last anime I’d seen was IIRC Ghost in the Shell; I was ready for anything.
When Mei went missing, I thought, “omg, is this a tragedy? I think this story is a tragedy!” The whole time they were looking for her, I was absolutely terrified. I thought for sure they’d found her sandal. I still tear up when they find her now, on every rewatching.
I’m so glad for that first viewing. It’s a much better movie that way. When you’re expecting an innocent movie about cute forest plushies, you see that. But when you see that it could be a tragedy — the mother’s shadowy illness, the lost child — it hits hard. https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/114792748619083661

Netanyahu suggested that new plans for the forced relocation of refugees to other countries would give Palestinians
the “freedom” to choose.
But what Palestinians actually want is “the freedom to return to the places from which their families were expelled,”
says Peter Beinart, editor-at-large at Jewish Currents. “
"What kind of freedom is it when you have an area where most of the buildings and the hospitals and the schools and the bakeries and the agriculture …

“Freedom to Choose”?: Peter Beinart Slams Trump-Netanyahu Plan for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this week in Washington, D.C. Trump and Netanyahu are discussing Israel’s war in Gaza, with Netanyahu suggesting that new plans for the forced relocation of refugees to other countries would give Palestinians the “freedom” to choose. But what Palestinians actually want is “the freedom to return to the places from which their families were expelled,” says Peter Beinart, editor-at-large at Jewish Curre…

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard is
“completely unnecessary,”
after Trump said late Saturday that 2,000 members of the guard would be deployed.
“Our city has experienced massive civil unrest before,”
she said in an interview with a Fox local affiliate,
referring to riots that took place in L.A. in 1992, when more than 50 people were killed and thousands arrested.
“If you want to see it happen again, then you h…

Trump threatened to deploy National Guard in L.A. amid protests over immigration raids
Trump signed a memo to federalize 2,000 National Guardsmen, arguing the deployment is necessary to combat the “lawlessness” in Los Angeles.