Tootfinder

Vineyard with dog. Sadly neither is mine.
#EnglishWineWeek #DogsOfMastodon

Italy nixes envoy's U.S. visit as leader Meloni "stunned" by Trump comments: "Neither I nor Italy beg" (Frank Andrews/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-giorgia-meloni-stunned-italy-nixes-tajani-visit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p37#a260619p37

The Box You Cannot Check
The clinic intake form on the clipboard at the front desk has two boxes next to the word "sex." A patient who is neither of the two options has been given three choices: pick one box and lie, write something in the margin, or refuse the form. The receptionist will not read the margin. Data entry clerks will not transcribe it.

The Box You Cannot Check | David Boles, Blogs
The clinic intake form on the clipboard at the front desk has two boxes next to the word “sex.” A patient who is neither of the two options has been given three choices: pick one box an…

Imo every company that neither has an account in the Fediverse nor the Atmosphere is missing a huge opportunity, ngl.
Even if it might not mean a lot of reach, at first, it probably improves your image to be here.
Just saying 😁

I've been talking before why money won't solve the burnout problem. But let's for a minute assume that you really wanted to help people maintaining #FreeSoftware by paying them. The problem is that:
1. You have to pay them a living wage.
While all monetary help is appreciated by developers, they need a living wage. Not "that should prevent you from starving to death" but the kind of money that can support a honest (but not lavish) lifestyle: pay the bills, feed your family, cover other living costs such as repairs, clothes, appliances, and let you save enough for future emergencies.
It's simple as that. If you can't do that, they're going to need a dayjob. If they're lucky, it won't collide with their #FLOSS work. If they're not, it will kill them. Or they'll fall somewhere in the middle, slowly burning out until they can neither maintain their projects, nor work.
2. You need to guarantee that the payouts will continue.
People need security. They're not going to stay unemployed, let alone quit their job or turn down a job offer, unless they either have good guaranties or substantial savings (or they're in a really bad shape and wouldn't be able to handle the job anyway). The job market is hell, and people just know that when the payments stop, they may not be able to find a job soon, let alone a good job. Even "passively" looking for a job can burn you out.
So yeah, one-off payments and pinky swears won't do. And it isn't even a matter of whether we can trust you; it's a matter if you'll actually be able to continue paying us. And honestly, I don't really know how to solve that. Perhaps by paying up front, but for how long? Finding a job may take more than a year, finding a good job may be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
3. It can't end up being a job.
Perhaps most difficult of all, these payments can't really come with explicit obligations. I mean, that's the whole point: you want to support FLOSS, not turn it into a corporate project. You want the maintainer to remain free and enjoy the work. That is unlikely to happen if their livelihood is now dependent on your satisfaction. And even if it isn't, I for example would still feel indebted to whoever's paying me to do FLOSS, even if they really didn't expect anything in return, and would fall into a spiral of guilt-inflicted burnout if I failed to maintain the software satisfactorily.
#OpenSource

Discovering functionally selective brain regions with a deep topographic multimodal model #AI #NeuroAI

Discovering Functionally Selective Brain Regions with a Deep Topographic Multimodal Model
Nearby neurons in cortex share similar response profiles, producing systematic spatial organization across sensory and cognitive systems. Recent topographic models reproduce aspects of this structure but remain unimodal and spatially constrain each layer separately, yielding fragmented maps that capture neither the contiguity of cortical processing streams nor their integration across modalities. We introduce Topo-Omni, a topographic multimodal model in which visual, auditory, and language/cogn…

Working in computer security, I've learned to be *real fucking careful* about this law and have heard of it being interpreted *very broadly.* If a client of mine described a system to circumvent access restrictions like this I would fire them. But assuming I didn't fire them, I would
1) tell them to shut it down immediately
2) tell them to talk to a lawyer.
LLMs, as a class of user, are clearly not authorized to access the information. By circumventing access controls, they have "knowingly accessed a computer without authorization." Those access restrictions exist to protect against various damages, including bandwidth use and "intellectual property theft" (another concept I'm not a fan of, but anyway). By violating those restrictions they could open themselves up to legal liability.
Now, IANAL. My job is to describe risk. That's a sufficient risk. It actually doesn't even matter if you'd win the case in the end, a lot of people just can't afford to fight.
But, in this case, it tends to be powerful people, for whom the law does not apply, abusing people who neither have the protection of the law nor the money to just ruin someone's life with a flood of lawyers.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

Neither a borrower nor a lender of a cup of sugar be
#neighborabookorproverb #hashtaggames

Neither Maignan nor Mendy look particularly confident. Maignan is lucky Jackson didn't near-post him, while Mendy seems reluctant to come and claim reachable balls and his defenders seem caught out by his hesitations.
#FRASEN #WorldCup

If you enjoyed the first episode of #BlairBraverman's new podcast #WhatToCarryWhatToBurn about how Ada Blackjack and the ship's cat survived on Wrangel Island. And if you wanted to know more about Vilhjalmur Stefansson and how he came to know about Wrangel Island and d…

Empire of Ice and Stone
...Damron’s able narration carries listeners through this arduous journey with a steady tone that lightens at moments of joy and becomes grave at times of deep sadness and loss. While the tale has all of the trappings of a great adventure novel, neither the author nor Damron let listeners forget that the toll here was real, human, and significant.- BooklistWill Damron sweeps listeners onto the Arctic ice with the ...

Working a new piece with an #acting #coaching client and choosing between #translations. They're very different in tone, and neither a perfect (that doesn't really exist) mimic of the origi…

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/

🚯 Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon
#computing

Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon
1.5 billion smartphones are sold annually, and most are decommissioned less than two years later. Most of these unwanted smartphones are neither discarded nor recycled but languish in junk drawers and storage units. This computational stockpile represents a substantial wasted potential: modern smartphones have increasingly high-performance and energy-efficient processors, extensive networking capabilities, and a reliable built-in power supply. This project studies the ability to reuse smartphon…

This was the most satisfying build. Tamiya 1:20 Honda RA272, the first Honda to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix (Mexico 1965, driven by Richie Ginther).
1.5 liter transverse V12! I left the engine cover off because I couldn't bear to cover it up. Neither could the people who designed the model's box.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Moses Sumney:
🎵 Neither/Nor
#MosesSumney
https://mosessumney.bandcamp.com/track/neither-nor-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5HWJLbAeG72MhYRxxHu3qO

"... we have the right to decide whether and how we want to use technologies. Ideally, this should be in a way that benefits us all...
The crux of the matter is that ethical behaviour does not come for free. Ethics are neither efficient nor do they enhance your economic profit. That means that by acting according to your values you will, at some point, have to give something up. If you’re not willing to do that, you don’t have values - just opinions."

from my link log —
CSS: the unavoidable bad parts.
https://matklad.github.io/2026/06/04/css-unavoidable-bad-parts.html
saved 2026-06-09

Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week
after refusing to participate in the Trump administration’s investigation of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.
The analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and Justice Department policies,
The couple was escorted out of their office. The FBI neither confirmed nor denied that the two analysts were fired.

FBI analysts fired after refusing to join Georgia 2020 election probe
The analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the Trump administration’s investigation was justified, sources told MS NOW.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@osnews/116122525545950174
@…
I'm neither mad, nor a user of GNOME, I'm happy …

eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is "neither credible nor attractive", in a letter from eBay Chairman Paul Pressler (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-…

U.S. and Iran Are Locked in a Stalemate That's Neither Peace Nor War (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-and-iran-are-locked-in-a-stalemate-thats-neither-peace-nor-war-8aac0066
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p15#a260512p15

#totp The remix of bond doesn't make much sense. But then neither did this bond.

A #Bellerby globe is on my wishlist, but I neither have the spare funds, nor the space to acquire one. So I just content myself with watching their social media reels. 🌏️
#maps #globes

Imagine the money we're saving now too...
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Yes yes yes, I realize that the 5/7/5 syllable count is neither necessary nor sufficient to make a poem a true haiku, and that syllable counting has very little to do with the classical Japanese form or its modern literary incarnations. But going by syllables alone makes the bit work!
Flaunting the rules
to crack a foolish joke —
summer vacation

RE: https://mamot.fr/@koantig/116897347825714848
I can attest to the fact that the ASF SpamAssassin Project will neither be AI-pilled nor fascist-dominated at any point while I remain involved. Either would be a surprise at any ASF project.
It will also ne…

Free Floating or Merely Detached? #FreeFloatingPlanets, we estimate that about one-half of the reported 'free-floating' Neptunes are not free but merely 'detached'" -> Detached but Not Alone: https://aasnova.org/2026/06/26/detached-but-not-alone/

I’m currently attending a workshop about organizing in my spare time and it clearly shows that we have to up our game in regards of our local #union structure.
It’s not enough that we *have* a group, we need to be more specific and systematic in our structure and in what we’re doing.
We can neither improvise resistance nor do it in isolation especially in this political climate.…

I wrote a wee response to John Swinney's piece in Saturday's @… . Full disclosure, I've offered this to both The National and to @…, and neither of them wanted to publish it.
But I still think it ne…

Dear John
You say that Peter Murrell is a criminal, and that the party is his victim. Yes, of course, indeed you're right; but the wider Yes movement is also his victim. He stole two thirds of the value of the independence war chest from the SNP, but the SNP had first appropriated that, along with the 'Yes Scotland' branding, the website, and Yes Scotland's data assets, from the wider movement.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@botgov/116703831136939407
soarc is a security of defense name, usvisabond is a treasury dept name, neither have content as of now

A week ago the story was "the US goalie went to Harvard and has this secret data analysis for blocking penalties that he won't reveal until he retires, we're so cooking" and now it's "the US goalie is a galactic-level blockhead who can neither stop nor kick when it matters".

@… thanks. Make a bug report, if you like.
Neither of the two open reports is a match: <

The war on Iran will likely end in American retreat | US-Israel war on Iran | Al Jazeera
#Iran #US #Israel #straitofhormuz
(Via @… )

RE: https://scholar.social/@olivia/116686922909322086
"Optimism of the will. Pessimism of the intellect." — Oh, that's a beautiful summary of my own current attitude too! Technology is neither magic, nor religion, nor inevitability and it's painful to observ…

Scrutinizing Zambia's New Cyber Law Regime in the Shadow of RightsCon
https://www.techpolicy.press/scrutinizing-zambias-new-cyber-law-regime-in-the-shadow-of-rightscon/

Scrutinizing Zambia's New Cyber Law Regime in the Shadow of RightsCon
Zambia's journey to a legislative framework for the online environment has been neither linear nor without controversy, writes Chilombo Mukena.

George Pickens 2026 Rumor Swirls, Don't Take the Bait https://insidethestar.com/george-pickens-2026-rumor-swirls-dont-take-the-bait

Fittingly for #DisabilityPrideMonth I got an announcement e-mail by my favourite LBS for an organized bicycle ride—without any text, neither in the text-only part 🙄 nor in the HTML part 🤬, just a picture embedded in the HTML part and of course without image description, too. 🤌
Do you think I should make them aware of this or should I ignore it 'cause "blind people don…

Just like Hitler didn’t carry out the Holocaust on his own, neither is Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza being carried out by Itamar Ben-Gvir and Netanyahu alone.
This is a nation state commiting a live-streamed genocide supported by the taxes of people in the US, the UK, and Europe (especially Germany).
We are all complicit and we will have to live with the collective shame for generations if we fail to stop it.
Stop the genocide!
Stop Israel!
Free Palestine!…

was gonna go out on bike. started to dot with rain though. got this snap before i went back indoors.
watermelons don't seem to have loads of black pips nowadays. they just have a few yellow ones instead. they don't taste good neither. wasps still like them though.
#wasps

Happy #solstice and #fathersday to those who celebrate both, or either, or neither. What a nice day. ☀️

Where Are the Deaf Children at Aladdin?
Yesterday I sat in the New Amsterdam Theatre for the interpreted performance of Disney's Aladdin. The show was fine. The interpreting was fine. Neither held my attention the way the audience did. It was Scouts Day. The hearing children came dressed as princes and princesses, sashes weighed down with badges, parents fussing over phones and snacks. The aisles filled with the small chaos that always attends a children's matinee.

Where Are the Deaf Children at Aladdin? | David Boles, Blogs
Yesterday I sat in the New Amsterdam Theatre for the interpreted performance of Disney’s Aladdin. The show was fine. The interpreting was fine. Neither held my attention the way the audience …

Another one I missed early today. Laptop battery was running out, I didn't have my charger with me, just a spare battery that was also dead. Go home, or stay and wait for it to die, neither have a great outcome for timing.
But wait: third option! I have an e-bike with a USB port just outside. I could go get the battery and use that and it DEFINITELY has enough charge to power my laptop.

A look at Atlassian and Twilio earnings beats, with early signs of Atlassian's AI response success and Twilio becoming a picks-and-shovels layer for AI agents (Jason Lemkin/SaaStr)
https://www.saastr.com/atlassian-and-twilio-crush-the-q…

Atlassian and Twilio Crush the Quarter, Accelerate. Is the SaaSpocalypse Over?
So this week two of the more important bellwether names in B2B software reported earnings. And neither of them just “beat.” Both accelerated. Materially. At $7B and $5.6B+ run rates res…

I'm neither from New York City nor Jewish so take this with a grain of salt but to my taste Fox & Lion makes some of the best bagels in SF. Wildly underrated

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Jogging House:
🎵 Neither
#JoggingHouse
https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/track/neither
https://open.spotify.com/track/2RKKc1fIhJBzk36tT5KplT

#lfc
Slot manages games confusingly, to me, but also to the team. It's a feeling of neither stick nor twist. He doesn't like the quarterback game he thinks it's low % football and seems to prefer the two passes forward, one sideways, backwards, forwards.
It's overly safe.
I accept the Sala summation, Liverpool has always been better with high tempo, heavy metal pre…

All presidents lose.
Trump loses more often, on more things, than most.
I usually begin by following the analysis of Richard Neustadt, the presidency scholar who wrote the 1960 classic “Presidential Power.”
Neustadt advised presidents to increase their influence by building a strong presidential reputation and by doing what they can to be popular with voters.
Trump has consistently done neither.

Opinion | Trump Has Become What He Feared
“Trump loses more often, on more things, than most.”

Working with an #acting #coaching client on refining and discovering different vocal qualities, and they spoke with a voice neither of us knew they could do. So cool to see them finding new stuff like that, new tools. Great to hear.

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli:
This is the final report to be printed by the host newspaper.
Now Giorgio and Alla are alone and without support as they report from the killing fields of Ukraine.
Their final article explains the evolution of war in Ukraine, and is important for understanding the changes happening in our world.
Please support their work and share the friend link to bypass the paywall:

The War Does Not Retreat. Neither Do We.
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Colleges and universities are a weird mixture of “nobody can tell me what to do” free-for-all and unlistening top-down mandates. The mix varies a •lot• (my institution leans pretty hard to the first) — but neither one is amenable to creating the kind of environment I describe in the previous post.
And as commenters note…this isn’t just higher ed. I mean, higher ed institutional culture •is• quite distinct from corporate culture — I’ve experienced plenty of both! — but what I’m describing is also the reason your online banking probably sucks.
5/

"The roster, used by the Chaplain Corps, no longer excludes The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from those identified as Christian faiths, as was the case in a version released Friday. That’s because the directory no longer categorizes any faith groups as Christian."
https://www.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@swick/116455985982945725
See, files were not the best of ideas, neither do I think every damn thing should be abstracted as a file, nor are the APIs that great. Sorry folks.

@… well, thanks for beginning with such an extremely negative edge case example.
Have you any other wild stereotypes or prejudicial pigeonholing on your mind?
Note that I'm neither pro-AI nor anti-AI.

There's a new kid in town: neuro-symbolic AI (for text production)
And I surely have the best friends:
One I often cite for his phrase „LLMs are neither exciting nor scary, it’s just math.” The other one I just love for “Oh, symbolic AI, that’s easy, just first order logic or use Prolog”

Outside the AI bubble, a backlash has been brewing for some time
— and not only among students booing pro-AI commencement speakers.
Just 10 percent of Americans say they're thrilled about the future of AI, a Pew poll found in March;
that same month, some 80 percent of registered U.S. voters in an NBC poll said neither Democrats nor Republicans are doing a good job on the AI front.
That number also appears in an April survey of white-collar workers:
80 per…

The AI vibe shift is real: Why the backlash is growing
As 'tokenmaxxing' dies out, Silicon Valley is having second thoughts.

"...and we'll always be Brady Feigl."
#Doppelganger

First visit of the season to the town pool. Not a Kate Winslet in sight, but then again I'm neither unemployed nor studying for the bar exam myself.

2026 NFL draft grades: All 32 rookie classes ranked, favorite picks and Day 3 sleepers https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-grades-all-32-rookie-classes-ranked-favorite-picks-and-day-3-sleepers

Gerrymandering explained.
#gerrymander #gerrymandering #cheating #graphic

That Void musl install was so good and quick that'll patiently wait a couple of days for a minor Cosmic issue (has to do with the custom Void repo, not with Cosmic itself) to be resolved. Can you imagine? Neither could I 😜

@… not impressed by a YouTube video embedded in a page that does not link to what it's promoting. Neither does the YouTube description include a link.
Direct:
https://chathub.gg/

Colombians voted in a presidential runoff election on Sunday
According to preliminary results, a hard- right White House-backed conservative has a razor-thin lead.
With 99.99% of votes counted,
Abelardo de la Espriella had won 49.66%, according to data from the national registry office.
De la Espriella claimed victory and said he would govern for "all Colombians."

Colombia election: Hard-right candidate claims victory
Right-wing presidential candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, won 49.66% of the Colombians' votes, according to preliminary results. Outgoing President Gustavo Petro said "neither candidate can be declared president."

Your metro app is displaying timetables as pdfs it loads from the metro website. But it won’t provide a way to copy that URL for sharing and neither does the smartphone‘s built-in browser when it’s displaying the pdf.
This is the time where we thought we‘d have flying cars.

Hmmm the Garmins look interesting!
The Venu 4 (and Forerunner 970, tho that’s way too big for my wrist and more expensive) have most of what I want, and their phone app is optional!!
Not sure exactly what features I’d be missing with no phone connection (specially considering that it has no lte/mobile data), tho the phone app supports both iOS and Android so maybe once Bluetooth on Waydroid is a thing I could get that to work too!
I don’t think I’d be missing anything from my current Apple Watch (s5) or even from newer AWes other than the Ultras (which are also too big for my wrist, and too expensive). The Ultras have a depth sensor for diving which is really really cool, while the FR and Venu aren’t water resistant enough for that (Garmin has a way more specialised smartwatch for that, with a mostly non-overlapping featureset).
Both the FR and the Venu are rated for swimming, which is cool, but neither of those are proper for diving (I don’t really dive, tho that’s something I’m interested in trying out in the future). I think it should be safe enough for when I go around swimming in the pool or beach tho? Well, I don’t usually keep my Apple Watch on when swimming anyway. It’s just nice to know that if I were to get more sportive about that it’d be a possibility.
I think the only disadvantage of the Venu compared to the FR is the lack of a Maps app, tho that’s totally fine ig. Also no HR while swimming and less storage. The FR is 2mm bigger than my current 45mm s5 apple watch, and I already find this too big. The Venu has a 41mm option which is what I’d get if I decided to go for it.
OH AND THEY BOTH HAVE SUPER PRETTY COLOR OPTIONS, INCLUDING A LAVANDER ONE FOR THE VENU!!
(the FR has lots of very pretty options too!!)
This is mostly just brainstorming rn, but does anyone around here have any experience with the Garmin smartwatches? It’d be nice to see opinions from someone who owns one of them :3
#Garmin #SmartWatch #Fitness

I’m feeling something about this which is definitely neither empathy nor sympathy.
It’s entirely OK to blame the victim when the idiot victim is a corporation. We need more Schumpeterizing… @… https://

It’s a great outside the boot pass from Mo.
Neither Jones nor Salah seemed to celebrate in the moment. The doubt of the VAR decision? Odd.
#LFC

Neither the War Nor Trump's Deal Terminated the Main Threats in Iran, Analysts Say (Neil MacFarquhar/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/us/iran-us-peace-deal-nuclear-program-threats.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p7#a260621p7

Fittingly for #DisabilityPrideMonth I got an announcement e-mail by my favourite LBS for an organized bicycle ride—without any text, neither in the text-only part 🙄 nor in the HTML part 🤬, just a picture embedded in the HTML part and of course without image description, too. 🤌
Do you think I should make them aware of this or should I ignore it 'cause "blind people don…

Took a the leap and added a Ko-fi link to my link aggregator.
Just gonna say it once, as I'm neither good at promoting myself, nor am I good at asking for help.
I'm also not in severe need of financial assistance, rn, so don't worry.
Just felt like giving an option.
No obligations.
Love y'all ♥️

Well that was, let's be honest, mostly pretty dire. A few gems among the dust though.
I think there are only a couple of episodes next week, neither of which are from the 21st century. So it all might be OK. See you then? #TOTP

RE: #Toronto — as uninformed of facts of their own biology as they are of LLMs 😔
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/820416653013696512?source=share
Science and Policy mix like oil and water: even if you shake vigorously, the result resembles neither.

Is this the world’s first major war in which nobody, from the very bottom to the very top, has any idea what they’re doing?
T Snyder: “Americans wanted to put him in power, Israelis wanted to kill him, each goal contradicts the other, both are illegal, neither is achieved — that’s our ‘foreign policy.’”

Early War Goal Was to Install Hard-Line Former President as Iran’s Leader
An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.

Scrolling through the internet searching for signs of life of #CAcert I found https://nerdcert.eu/ from @…. Looks very interesting, but not much activity neither.
@…

RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/116788482103574580
I like the worldview that Sue is building in this thread. Here’s a way of looking to the future that prepares us for action in a psychologically healthy way, that is neither complacent nor paralyzingly doom-focused.