Tootfinder

Oil price up by little more than $1 per barrel this morning. Market doesn't believe Iran will actually close the Strait of Hormuz.

I hate this timeline

hold on. holdonholdon
the Schmitt trigger, the one used in basically all digital electronics, is inspired by a biological object? More specifically, _the_ squid giant axon?? I can't believe I'm only learning this now despite hearing a lot of things about Schmitt triggers _and_ squid giant axons!

I can't believe how buggy Sequoia is. Spotlight isn't working - and look at this goddamn mess of a menu in the user guide 😮
I should have stayed with Sonoma.

I believe this is the first coverage to acknowledge that Lurie’s budget seems to treat a “temporary” new jail as permanent
“representatives from the People’s Budget Coalition lined the second and third floor balconies of City Hall’s rotunda. They held yellow posters reading ‘No new jail! No cuts!’ referring to the continued funding for the jail annex in San Bruno.”

Hundreds protest S.F. budget cuts, packing City Hall chambers
Protesters unfurled banners in the San Francisco City Hall rotunda reading "Stop cuts" that were quickly taken down by sheriff's deputies.

I can't believe it's 2025 and we're still doing this. #AbolishStateDOTs
https://lemmy.world/post/31872843

California highway project will ‘dump half a billion dollars into the ocean’ - Lemmy.World
Caltrans has proposed a $500 million project to widen a wine country highway that the agency said could be underwater in 25 years. Members of the California Transportation Commission will decide at a public meeting beginning Thursday whether to award Caltrans and local agencies a $73 million grant that would cover some of the cost to widen Highway 37 — a roadway linking Vallejo to Sears Point across the Napa Sonoma Marsh, much of which is only one lane in each direction. In the long term, Cal…

“What we ultimately want, and what we believe we need, is a commons that is strong, resilient, growing, useful (to machines and to humans)—all the good things, frankly. But as our open infrastructures mature they become increasingly taken for granted, and the feeling that “this is for all of us” is replaced with “everyone is entitled to this”. While this sounds the same, it really isn’t. Because with entitlement comes misuse, the social contract breaks, reciprocation evaporates, and ultimately the magic weakens.”
Very glad to see that @… is working to address the deep challenges that have arisen at the intersection of the open movement and corporate AI.
https://creativecommons.org/2025/04/02/reciprocity-in-the-age-of-ai/
h/t @…

"My feathered friend, your cage
must drive you to rage sometimes…
To think that you have aged
staring at nothing but beige walls
She says "you know, our lives
aren't so different as you would believe.
All are in prisons of some kind,
tethered by the stories that we weave."
- Halie Loren, "Yellow Bird"
h/t Dav Pilkey, "Dog Man: Big Jim begins" h/t my daughter

Like Trump himself, those attracted to his administration don't actually believe in their own talking points. They just want power. #uspol

Thank you! Great history! Great Prmary sources. Great interpretations that modern minds can see and believe. It's a bunch of posts, AND they're all worth it.
#History #USHistory #Independence

Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco (@Deglassco@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image It was known, then, that the British would leave. The war was all but lost. The colonies would no longer be colonies. For white Loyalists, exile was bitter. For Black Loyalists, it was not exile. It was escape—or re-enslavement. 4/20 Image. Boston King, “Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher. Written by Himself, during his Residence at Kingswood-School,” Methodist Magazine, March-June 1798.

"JK Rowling, the UK transphobe, urged her 14.3 million followers on X this weekend to photograph and disseminate images online of people they believe to be transgender who are in public restrooms."
‘Radicalized’ Rowling Calls for Bathroom Vigilantism — Assigned
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/redicalized-rowling-bathroom-vigilantism

As is so often the case, the people in my life I believe need to read this book, are exactly the ones that would be most resistant to it.
So far though, great intro to the world of AI hype. Looking forward to finishing it.
https://bookwyrm.social/user/Hanse00/gener…

I, for one, believe that isolationism is a great mistake and will make us all poorer as humans.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/trump-harvard-international-students

"Deep down in his heart, I believe Trump knows he’s an incompetent a**hole."
Dear Mr King. You are incorrect about the Heart ❤️ part

Right-wing America believes in 'replacement theory'. It's not theory, and they don't have to 'believe' it. They should know it's real, as America has been at it for hundreds of years already. In fact, America is responsible for the largest example of population replacement in modern history, virtually wiping out the original indigenous people.

This is incredibly exciting!
Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist https://behavioralscientist.org/is-it-all-a-fluke-lessons-from-playing-god-…

Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist
It’s easy to believe that small, chance moments don’t make a material difference on our lives and societies. But a long-running evolution experiment suggests that life’s course may come down to the random details.

Now I just want to see giant kangaroos
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-24/australia-once-had-giant-kangaroos-experts-what-happened-to-them/105205566

Australia once had giant kangaroos — here's what experts think happened to them
A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less mobile, which they believe, along with a change in climate, led to their extinction.

I've submitted my slides for my #LightningTalk at #TNC25
Don't believe everything you read in a #SAML assertion
Quite excited for it now 😎

Well if Niels can do it, so can I! 😆
You can now support my work on #Jellyfin for #Roku using Buy Me a Coffee.
Your donation helps me continue development and helps me buy essential dev tools - such as new remote batteries. You wouldn't believe how quickly I go through these thi…

“We believe the powerful should be made less powerful.”

If you favor impeachment and removal, I’m with you. Honest question: do you seriously believe the Senate would •ever• vote to remove on principles alone, absent the population applying massive and sustained political and economic pressure? Really? Really???
If you favor a general strike or other form of sustained nationwide uprising against fascism, I’m with you. Honest question: you want Trump out, right? You realize that every single way of doing that other than impeachment is even harder, right?
Do not split.

“The Americans must understand—any US military incursion will undoubtedly lead to irreversible consequences.”
Experts believe one of the repercussions of US military adventurism against the Islamic Republic would be the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran controls.
According to Tanker Trackers data, more than 80 percent of oil passes through this narrow strip 
-- and if it’s closed, the global economy and energy sector will be dealt a heavy blow.
Most multi-nation…

Strait of Hormuz closure in event of US aggression against Iran to paralyze world economy
As regional tensions escalate amid the Israeli regime’s brutal aggression against the Islamic Republic, the possibility of the closure of Strait of Hormuz is a possibility, according to experts.

I can't believe I'd turn away from my Rotring 600--with the original ink color indicator, no less--but I have, completely, in fact off-to-eBay completely. Hail Drehgriffel!

"Objective-C is a West Coast language. Objective-C is a hippie. You throw stuff at it and it just trusts you. “Peace maaaaaannn… if you say this is an NSArray I believe you…” and it leans back in its armchair, smoking weed, listening to Marley, Floyd, Doors, or Janis, looking at you with deep eyes, telling you stories about Buddhism and how important is ecology, and that tonight they are going to a retreat in the beach to pray for Yemanjš and the salvation of dolphins."

The Developer Guide to Migrate Across Galaxies
This is the presentation I gave at the second App Builders Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 25th, 2017.

last of us s2e2
brain will not believe that was only 53 minutes holy shit

This is incredibly exciting!
Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist https://behavioralscientist.org/is-it-all-a-fluke-lessons-from-playing-god-…

Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist
It’s easy to believe that small, chance moments don’t make a material difference on our lives and societies. But a long-running evolution experiment suggests that life’s course may come down to the random details.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Summer Aviation:
🎵 I Believe In Sunshine
#SummerAviation
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hmrRUfQtPSQIja4POdeHu

Towards Stream-Based Monitoring for EVM Networks
Emanuel Onica, Claudiu-Nicu B\u{a}rbieru, Andrei Arusoaie, Oana-Otilia Captarencu, Ciprian Amariei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16095

Towards Stream-Based Monitoring for EVM Networks
We believe that leveraging real-time blockchain operational data is of particular interest in the context of the current rapid expansion of rollup networks in the Ethereum ecosystem. Given the compatible but also competing ground that rollups offer for applications, stream-based monitoring can be of use both to developers and to EVM networks governance. In this paper, we discuss this perspective and propose a basic monitoring pipeline.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar says authorities believe suspect in 'politically motivated assassination' is still in the Midwest (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/klobuchar-says-authorities-believe-suspect-politically-motivated-killi-rcna213118
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p35#a250615p35

I can't believe I have to code a banned CSAM queries redirect because mastodon obviously can't handle CSAM properly (if they are searching for it, it means it's there).
https://github.com/Kukei-eu/kukei-masto/commit/589f221b4be91…

I can't believe it, but the Trump regime is actually using its abusive legal practices to do the right thing, for once!
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/breaking-trump-doj-launches-criminal-35260670

Trump DOJ launches criminal probe into Andrew Cuomo over 'COVID cover-up'
The Trump DOJ has launched a criminal probe into former New York governor and NYC mayoral front-runner Andrew Cuomo over allegations he lied to Congress about decisions made during the COVID-19 pandemic

I'll be damned
With the fear in us
We chose the violent side of things in all
We always have chosen blood and gore above others
I'll be damned
With the fear in us
We walk with silent mouths throughout it all
We believe what we think we saw, it's coming
Unforeseen, the violence of this dream
This nightmare we conceived
The falling of this world we try to kill
Instead these empty words
Fills up th…

Krugman continues:
❝While there is a cadre of Trumpist true believers who will obey the Leader under any circumstances, most of those doing the dirty work of undermining democracy and the rule of law are cowards and opportunists. They’re willing to participate in the destruction of America as we know it because they believe that many others will do the same. As a result, they believe that they are unlikely to face any personal consequences for their actions and may even be rewarded for their lawbreaking.
And what of those who oppose Trumpism? While there are heroes willing to take a stand against tyranny whatever the personal cost, most anti-Trumpists are reluctant to stick their necks out unless they believe that they are part of a widespread resistance that will grant them some measure of safety in numbers.
In other words, the victory or defeat of competitive authoritarianism will depend to a large extent on which side ordinary people believe will win. If Trump looks unstoppable, resistance will wither away and democracy will be lost. On the other hand, if he appears weak and stymied, resistance will grow and — just maybe — American democracy will survive.❞
2/

Nothing I’m trying to write is "flowing"...it's all laborious.
I'm encouraged by "Your labor isn’t a sign of defeat" from @… wherein she quotes Verlyn Klinkenborg:
"if you accept that writing is hard work, And that’s what it feels like when you’re writing, Then everything is as it should be. Your labor is…

Feedbackless Feed
A (non)social feedbackless feed to nowhere

Microsoft pushing their "AI" into every piece of software/service remind me why when I see a comercial campaign pushing really hard a product I tend to believe that the product is really crappy

Paris s'éveille
Hype, the world’s largest hydrogen taxi operator, is to cease operating its fleet of hydrogen taxis in the Paris area
When the reality of #hydrogen costs hits home (and you still don't want to believe it)

'A form of oligopoly' | World’s largest hydrogen taxi operator hurls accusations at supply giants as it quits H2 in Paris
Hype argues that Air Liquide and TotalEnergies have presided over doubling of H2 prices in four years — which it says is blocking a credible path to green hydrogen use

I mean I knew that Musk was a giant loser but you won't believe how pathetic he can get. I am about to be finished reading "Character Limit" and the stories in there are something else. He is a small, damaged, complete loser of human being. wow. So much external power and money, yet he is a miserable twat. So many stories... will have to attach some here

Michael Sweater is at it again:
https://sweater.substack.com/p/new-comics-and-some-news
I find it hard to believe he has less than 250 subscribers (hint, hint). FWIW, there are another 3 (better drawn) pages to this story covering his angsty meta-narrative about soci…

"Metaobject protocols: Why we want them and what else they can do"
Gregor Kiczales, J.Michael Ashley, Luis Rodriguez, Amin Vahdat, and Daniel G. Bobrow
Published in A. Paepcke, editor, Object-Oriented Programming: The CLOS Perspective, pages 101  118.
The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993.
" In more recentwork, wehave pushed the metaobject protocol idea in new directions, and wenow
believe that idea is not limited to its specific incarnation in CLOS,…

Ashton Jeanty Details Phone Call That Led Him to Believe Raiders Would Draft Him https://www.si.com/nfl/ashton-jeanty-details-phone-call-led-him-to-believe-raiders-would-draft-him

Victory Cafe is open today, which is Victoria Day! So we will hold Tech Pizza Monday tonight! #Toronto #tech #pizza

An alternative and more radical reading would be that the US government conquered indigenous nations and the failure of the US government to maintain legitimacy means a default return of authority to those nations. You know, default to #LandBack.
But, again, I don't actually believe in the justification for authority that took the land in the first place so that's an idea for someone else to explore.
Perhaps those #50501movement folks, or people who actually *believe* in America might find value in contemplating some of these ideas as they face down their dictator.

I'm not sure it's legal to have such a well-reasoned discussion of AI and tech employment, but in case it is: #linkTuesday

Since “Get Your War On” (the post 9/11 webcomic) came up as a subject on BlueSky, I’ve also been zipping through the old comics and JFC…”Plus les choses changent, plus elles restent les mêmes”
http://www.mnftiu.cc/2001/11/08/war4-4/

Near-record #nitrate levels in Des Moines, #Iowa-area rivers threaten drinking #water... "But the officials declined to explain what they believe has caused the surge in nitrate levels, which has historically been …

River pollution threatens Des Moines, Iowa's drinking water
Local officials are warning more than half a million Iowans in the state's capital city and suburbs that near-record level of pollutants in its rivers could make drinking water dangerous if immediate steps are not taken to reduce demand. But the officials are declining to explain what they believe has caused the surge in nitrate levels, which has historically been tied to runoff from farmland draining into Des Moines-area rivers. The water utility is issuing a first-ever ban on lawn watering fo…

Subjective Experience in AI Systems: What Do AI Researchers and the Public Believe?
Noemi Dreksler, Lucius Caviola, David Chalmers, Carter Allen, Alex Rand, Joshua Lewis, Philip Waggoner, Kate Mays, Jeff Sebo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11945

Subjective Experience in AI Systems: What Do AI Researchers and the Public Believe?
We surveyed 582 AI researchers who have published in leading AI venues and 838 nationally representative US participants about their views on the potential development of AI systems with subjective experience and how such systems should be treated and governed. When asked to estimate the chances that such systems will exist on specific dates, the median responses were 1% (AI researchers) and 5% (public) by 2024, 25% and 30% by 2034, and 70% and 60% by 2100, respectively. The median member of th…

israel has just announced that your own eyes are antisemitic. Please do not believe your own eyes.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

@… Seems like the rationale is that Iran was already going all-out for a bomb & threat of regime change is most likely way to get regime to back down. I don't believe anything Bibi says, but IAEA report & support from France, UK, Germans all suggest they had such intel on bomb project. Note also comments from JDCA & J Street.

I couldn't believe it when this happened, but true story!
https://mastodon.me.uk/@jsbilsbrough/114516425088003077

"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried [Kuno]. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but it is not everything. I see something like you in this plate, but I do not see you. I hear something like you through this telephone, but I do not hear you. That is why I want you to come. Come and stop with me. Pay me a visit, so that we can meet face to face, and talk about the hopes that ar…

I can't believe you can get 20 seasons of "NCIS" for $89. Man, we live in an amazing time.
▶️ Watch "NCIS: Seasons 1-20 (Bundle)" on Fandango at Home: https://www.vudu.com/content/browse/detail

BELIEVE in YOURSELF

As much as I’d love to believe that the 2024 election results were the result of covert ballot tampering, I land in @…’s camp here. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the evidence here isn’t extraordinary. It isn’t even passing.
Sorry. I’d love to believe it. But I don’t.
1/ https://federate.social/@mattblaze/114684093459547741

I believe I have managed to prove my ID in order to comply with the new laws that say I have to prove my ID to own the business I own that I'm sure already asked me to prove my ID when I registered it.
First we tried the on-web version, but that apparently relies upon the corporates having managed to profile and track me, because it told me they had no questions upon which to base identification. Good I guess? My avoid-tracking systems must be working at least a bit?
Next we tried the android app, but apparently the phone I tried that with is too old and the app won't install.
So next option is turning up at a post office with a printed letter. I don't own a printer though, so had to have them post that to me.
Took the letter and a driving licence up to the post office today and "It's not going through" they said, pointing to a stalled progress bar on an android app on a tablet.
Um. Okay. So?
Just wait longer apparently. About ten minutes and it finally proceeded and the post office man took a photograph of me after asking me to disrobe of my robe, strip down to a teeshirt and jeans.
Not sure in what sense this has proven my ID any more than it was already proven to get the driving licence or company registration in the first place?
Apparently I now have government logins for "One Login" and for "government gateway" and they are not the same thing? But sort of are the same thing?
Can't say I really understand it. Expect they'll introduce a third government login when they do these Digital ID cards they're talking about.
God knows how I'm supposed to know which to use when the company tax records need updating in a few months.
#id #government #oneLogin

I am astonished that the #Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/
still supports or at least has an account on X (Twitter). They have at least one account here. @…
I have written them to express my dismay and have urged them to drop their X account with no response. I believe that it would help if as many of us as possible would write them to express your feelings about this.
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/contact/
Please boost.

The Way, and the Truth, and the Life - Pray As You Go
https://prayasyougo.org/prayer/the-way-and-the-truth-and-the-life-2684
Image generated by Wes Fryer using ChatGPT, edited with Canva for iOS.

The way, and the truth, and the life - Pray As You Go
Today is Friday the 16th of May, in the 4th week of Eastertide.    The Kyiv Chamber Choir sing the Credo: “I believe in one God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.” As I start this prayer today, can I join in with this strong...

seeing this makes me think there's a nonzero chance america's mainstream christianity literally melds and intersects with its business events in the future. book the killers as a walmart worship band till mr. brightside's as singable as the most enduring hymns.

This👇needs to be remembered. https://substack.com/@johncleese/note/c-125827219?r=e7vv

John Cleese on Substack
Steve Bannon illustrates the key point we made in ‘The Life of Brian’ - that people makes what they like of religious teaching Matthew 26,52 And then Jesus said unto him ‘Put your sword back into its place, for those who take the sword will perish by the sword” Steve Bannon has rewritten this as “Live by the sword, die by the sword” as though it was a command. I prefer Jesus’s warning of the consequences of violence Only a MAGA Christian could believe that Christ was inciti…

This👇needs to be remembered. https://substack.com/@johncleese/note/c-125827219?r=e7vv

John Cleese on Substack
Steve Bannon illustrates the key point we made in ‘The Life of Brian’ - that people makes what they like of religious teaching Matthew 26,52 And then Jesus said unto him ‘Put your sword back into its place, for those who take the sword will perish by the sword” Steve Bannon has rewritten this as “Live by the sword, die by the sword” as though it was a command. I prefer Jesus’s warning of the consequences of violence Only a MAGA Christian could believe that Christ was inciti…

If you believe you have actual technical blockers in this space, that your code simply can't run as arm64 architecture, feel free to reach out with your FB # or existing case information about it.

Flipper--you won't believe how much you can love a fish.
- "Flipper, That Fisheriffic Fish." Only in theaters.

Why Raiders' Maxx Crosby Didn't Believe He Belonged as Rookie https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-maxx-crosby-trent-brown-antonio-brown-richie-incognito

My whole body hurts watching this amazing man.
I’m glad he’s picking radishes so I don’t have to. I’m grateful for his work. I wish our economy valued his work as highly as mine. I haven’t worked that hard in decades or anywhere but on a farm…
I can’t understand how we have people so bigoted that they believe we need to rid our nation of the people who make it possible for us to eat well affordably, just because they are “foreigners” who haven’t got the right papers.

#RIP #SlyStone #RIPSly
9-minute medley from Sly and the Family Stone
"For a while you made us all believe"

Dallas Cowboys predicted to fix RB room with Notre Dame Heisman hopeful https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/dallas-cowboys-predicted-fix-rb-room-notre-dame-heisman-hopeful/ed44365e…

Hooray, parallel downloading of repository metadata was merged for #dnf! 🥳
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/issues/307#issuecomment-2…

«What “win the center” pragmatists would have us believe is that the shock of the Missouri ladies over the shabby treatment of one of their “good ‘uns” means that they share our common value of universal human equality, even though there is scant evidence that this value is shared. This seems to be standard rhetorical practice when one is a pragmatic “win the center” type.»
Applies to all places where parties try to beat the fascists by moving towards the right
https://www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-middle/

"Hard to believe, but it has been already almost 20 years since the days when Apple plastered the halls of its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with huge posters proclaiming “Redmond, start your photocopiers” or “Mac OS X Leopard: Hasta la vista, Vista”. The decade of the 2000s, coinciding with Steve Ballmer’s tenure as CEO, is widely perceived as a lost one for Microsoft, and one of the most visible signs of that decline was, without a doubt, the “Longhorn” saga."

Dave Plummer
Hard to believe as it is, it has been already almost 20 years since the days when Apple plastered the halls of its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with huge posters proclaiming "Redmond, start your photocopiers" or "Mac OS X Leopard: Hasta la vista, Vista". The decade of the 2000s, coinciding with Steve Ballmer’s tenure as CEO, is widely perceived as a lost one for Microsoft, and one of the most visible signs of that decline was, without a doubt, the "Longhorn" saga.

#NoKings demonstration, Huntington, New York, 14 June 2025.
I do believe this is the first time I have honestly said that I'm proud of my town.

glass: ordered set data structure for client-side order books
Viktor Krapivensky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13991 https://arxiv.org/p…

glass: ordered set data structure for client-side order books
The "ordered set" abstract data type with operations "insert", "erase", "find", "min", "max", "next" and "prev" is ubiquitous in computer science. It is usually implemented with red-black trees, $B$-trees, or $B^+$-trees. We present our implementation of ordered set based on a trie. It only supports integer keys (as opposed to keys of any strict weakly ordered type) and is optimized for market data, namely for what we call sequential locality. The following is the list of what we believe to be …

Well, I've passed a milestone - my garden work shoes are now, I believe, more Shoe Goo than original parts.

#AI poses a threat... that you trust in it too much, use it incorrectly and mess up your company, career or life. You're better off thinking of it as an artificial content generator than anything #intelligent.

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

Yes, word processors can transform your endnotes into footnotes. They can even do it before you submit to a journal that only publishes articles with the latter. Try it. You can do it. We believe in you.
XOXO
The editors

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

Occasionally, I am inclined to start an email with: "I am a freelance journalist, and I have some questions about this and that. I believe you know who I am, because my previous investigations and articles caused so much trouble for your organization/company."

#linktipp
They Looted Companies — Now They're Looting the Government
Most executives are no longer rewarded for building durable businesses or contributing to the real economy—they’re rewarded for how efficiently they extract value from the companies that they control.
“Because these people have gotten away with looting corporations, they’ve come to believe it’s their right …

It’s hard for me to explain just how disruptive it’s been to be without a reliable and trustworthy browser or password manager, recently.
I can’t believe it’s 2025 and I can’t find either of those, and I spend so much time trying to make this experience as good as I know it can be, from the before-everything-got-hostile times.
I’m so tired.

I had a bad day and made a mistake, but I chose to do the right thing and move forward.
Proud bisexual, gender-fluid, autistic anarchist committed to building a world based on mutual aid, solidarity, and freedom for all.
If you believe in challenging power and creating change from the ground up, let’s connect and let’s grow this movement together.
Now, here I am, feeling stronger and ready for better days ahead.

Hey, it’s Monday again. That means we are hosting Tech Pizza Monday again! Same place (Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W.), same time (6 PM), same…actually, the menu changed recently, so the pizza is different than it has been in the past.
Word on the street is that there will definitely be a hardware demo. Cool, right?
#Toronto

"The border is no longer the focus. Now, the White House wants you to believe that the crisis extends to nail salons, hardware stores, farms, and restaurants across the country."
Trump is escalating an immigration crisis he promised to resolve
https://reason.com/2025/06/11/the-trump-administration-is-escalating-an-immigration-crisis-it-promised-to-resolve/

Rigor in AI: Doing Rigorous AI Work Requires a Broader, Responsible AI-Informed Conception of Rigor
Alexandra Olteanu, Su Lin Blodgett, Agathe Balayn, Angelina Wang, Fernando Diaz, Flavio du Pin Calmon, Margaret Mitchell, Michael Ekstrand, Reuben Binns, Solon Barocas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14652

Rigor in AI: Doing Rigorous AI Work Requires a Broader, Responsible AI-Informed Conception of Rigor
In AI research and practice, rigor remains largely understood in terms of methodological rigor -- such as whether mathematical, statistical, or computational methods are correctly applied. We argue that this narrow conception of rigor has contributed to the concerns raised by the responsible AI community, including overblown claims about AI capabilities. Our position is that a broader conception of what rigorous AI research and practice should entail is needed. We believe such a conception -- i…

It does say something about the sheer magnitude of the No Kings protests that we could for a moment believe the photo was in fact from yesterday.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy
tweeted:
“Important to remember that Trump isn’t trying to heal or keep the peace.
He is looking to inflame and divide.
His movement doesn’t believe in democracy or protest
– and if they get a chance to end the rule of law they will take it.
None of this is on the level.”

Why, Microsoft? Why would you take the ability to pin a shortcut to the taskbar out of Windows 11 ?!?!?
It is impossible to believe that you can squeeze profit out of this dumbfuckery, so you are either the most incompetent nest of shitheads the world has ever known, or just evil. It's a tossup...

Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain
https://theonion.com/evolutionists-flock-to-darwin-shaped-wall-stain-1819570078/

Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain
DAYTON, TN—A steady stream of devoted evolutionists continued to gather in this small Tennessee town today to witness what many believe is an image of Charles Darwin—author of The Origin Of Species and founder of the modern evolutionary movement—made manifest on a concrete wall in downtown Dayton.

today's "I can't believe I wasted half a hour on this" computer issue: whether Wireshark validates the Ethernet checksum in packets depends on the capture format you're using
.snoop: nope, and ignores all settings including "always check FCS"
.pcap: yep
saving a .snoop file as a .pcap file makes it immediately check all FCS

#AI poses a threat... that you trust in it too much, use it incorrectly and mess up your company, career or life. You're better off thinking of it as an artificial content generator than anything #intelligent.

THE NASTIEST PARTS OF YOUR BODY!
You won't believe number 17!

Last night’s Tech Pizza Monday was amazing, assumes whoever is posting to this account, who wasn’t there. We’re looking forward the next one on, you guessed it, Monday night at 6 PM Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W. #Toronto #tech

You know, there are a lot of people of Jewish religion or descent among those in LA being assaulted by DHS/ICE/LAPD.
Since, apparently, any act that is in opposition to Jews is now full, irrefutable, and instant proof of antisemitism I believe we have clear proof that FFOTUS and gang are actively and overtly antisemitic and deserving of instant deportation.

I’ve seen estimates of 5 million and 4-6 million by direct event-by-event accounting, and of 10-11 million by looser estimation. Wherever it lands, yesterday is shaping up to be one of the largest protests in US history, maybe •the• largest.
And I think — believe it with me, envision it — I think we’re going to break that record soon.

Raiders' Patrick Graham and Rob Leonard Believe in Malcolm Koonce https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-malcom-koonce-patrick-graham-rob-leonard-pete-carroll

Oh, absolutely, I live in Norway, because apparently, people need proof before they believe anything these days. Next time you see me, I’ll be casually dropping the phrase “Norsk Syndikalistisk Forbund” in perfect Norwegian, just to remind you that I’m not a figment of your imagination but a real, live, radicalized-by-proxy Norwegian who reads obscure early 20th-century syndicalist newspapers in my spare time.
Don’t worry, I’ll also make sure to quote both Emma Goldman and Rudolf Rocke…

Toronto’s best pizza-themed tech meetup, not to mention the best tech-themed pizza meetup, happens tomorrow. Same time as usual (6 PM), same place as usual (Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W.), same day of the week as usual (Monday). If you have a free and open hardware demo, we will shower you with attention! RSVP, or don’t, at the Luma link! #Toronto

In my heart I believe . . .

Can’t believe Denmark actually has a small anarchist commune like Freetown Christiania. 😎 Didn’t expect to find something like that close to home! Ima check out their website and add it to my RSS feed.
The more you know: https://www.christiania.org