Tootfinder

The GPS system on a small medical plane that crashed into a mountainside last month in New Mexico
malfunctioned because the military was jamming that signal throughout the area at the time
although pilots had been warned to expect that, according to federal investigators.
Four people died in the pre-dawn crash on May 14 that sparked a wildfire that burned for weeks in the rugged Capitan Mountains around Ruidoso where the plane was trying to land that night.
The Nationa…

Military jamming disrupted GPS on plane that crashed in New Mexico
Federal investigators say the GPS system on a small medical plane that crashed into a mountainside last month in New Mexico malfunctioned because the military was jamming that signal throughout the area, although pilots were warned ahead of time to expect that. Four people died in the pre-dawn crash on May 14 that sparked a wildfire which burned for weeks in the rugged Capitan Mountains around Ruidoso. The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report on the crash Wednesday…

Are we trading one #environmental catastrophe for another under the disguise of #EnergySecurity? The reality on the ground at #Japan’s biomass plants include dangerous

Concerns grow over ‘green’ biomass power in Japan after spate of accidents
For the past decade, Japan has been expanding the use of woody biomass for power generation to replace or be mixed and burned with coal. The country is now the second-largest wood pellet consumer in the world after the U.K. But there are concerns that burning wood pellets or palm kernel shells to generate electricity […]

'Never before have 11,000 hectares burned this early in the summer in southern France in at least the past 20 years'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/arti

'Never before have 11,000 hectares burned this early in the summer in southern France in at least the past 20 years'
Researcher Julien Ruffault argues that land-use policies are crucial to adapting to fire seasons that are becoming more intense, longer and more extreme as a result of global warming.

SCOOP: Trump's Iran War Has Burned Through Well Over 90% of Key Long-Range Missiles (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)
https://zeteo.com/p/scoop-trumps-iran-war-has-burned
http://www.memeorandum.com/260817/p104#a260817p104

i burned 4 openai resets, burned all my kimi k3 credits, put some extra credits into deepseek, burned all grok credits in one day.. 😂
needed a 2nd openai sub, had to upgrade my claude sub 🙈
yep... someone will say that's the price of slop coding, but i give a shit...
for me, it was an experiment - and a damn insightful one, in the best possible way 🧑‍🎓
orchestrating a fleet of agents running for several days isn't that easy, believe me 😓
the next leve…

Australia's plastic exports may deepen health risks in Indonesian communities #Australia

Australia's plastic exports may deepen health risks in Indonesian communities
A new commentary in BMJ Global Health, co-authored by the George Institute, reveals that Australia exported 22,333 metric tons of plastic waste to Indonesia in 2023–24 alone, part of a wider crisis that has seen the country take in more than 200,000 metric tons of imported waste it cannot safely process. Up to 80% of it ends up burned or dumped.

The Chinese Massacre: One of Los Angeles' Worst Atrocities
In Santa Ana stands the site of a former Chinatown that was burned down
in one of the most brazen acts of officially sanctioned anti-Asian violence in Southern California
until the World War II-era incarceration of Japanese Americans.
This Chinatown once included lodging, drugstores, curio shops, two Chinese wash houses and a vegetable garden and barn.
Chinese workers built most of the irrigation c…

When Santa Ana Burned Down Its Own Chinatown
Behind what used to be Santa Ana City Hall is a parking lot and lofts that was once the location of Orange County's largest Chinatown — until the city council ordered it burned down.

Over 25 Billion Tokens of Fable and Sol 65.6 burned to create a web interface to 143 GB, 12,613 files, and 92,000 pages of PDFs. http://CCRU.is-lost.org now live on my basement server. Some things are behind login. PM me for access.

Docs: OpenAI burned through $3.7B in Q1, on revenue of $5.7B, and ended the quarter with $73B in cash and marketable securities vs. $40B at the end of December (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-burned-3-7-bill…

OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026
OpenAI burned through $3.7 billion in the first quarter, more than half its $5.7 billion in revenue, according to documents the company shared with shareholders. Both cash burn and revenue tripled from the same period the previous year, signaling how even with strong AI demand, making money from ...

So excuse me if I'm a killjoy, but I can't really get behind that symbolism.
Here's your regular reminder...
https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too
This isn't to say that I don't want change. I just *actually* want change.

Largest wildfire in Belgium's history: 27 km² burned and still rapidly expanding. Evacuations in several villages. #drought

Natuurbrand België wordt groter, in paar uur duizend hectare extra afgebrand
Zo'n 600 mensen uit twee dorpen zijn geëvacueerd. Aan de Duitse kant van de grens moeten mensen zich klaarmaken voor vertrek.

Wildfires on doorstep of Indonesia’s new capital as environmental and health crisis flares https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/wildfires-on-doorstep-of-indonesias-new-capital-as-environmental-and-health-crisis-flares/

Wildfires on doorstep of Indonesia’s new capital as environmental and health crisis flares
PENAJAM PASER, Indonesia — Indonesia’s escalating wildfire crisis has reached the outskirts of Nusantara, the new capital city under construction as the world’s fourth-most-populous country seeks to transplant its political heartland from a flood plain in Java to the island of Borneo. Fires in mid-September burned 30 to 40 kilometers (19 to 25 miles) from […]

Holy shit ICE agents are going to file so many workers’ comp claims for burned twigs and berries.
“ICE plans to outfit officers with electric shock gloves”
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/12/nx-s1-5929284/ice-plans-to-outfit-officers-with…

The Bay Area bridge remains burned as Maxx Crosby, 49ers rumors rage on https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/03/the-bay-area-bridge-remains-burned-as-maxx-crosby-49ers-rumors-rage-on/

🗣️ Captions run on-device via #Whisper (whisper.cpp) — model downloaded on first use, no cloud, no account, then styled and burned into preview and export
🎨 Backgrounds, gradients, padding, corner radius, shadow, blur, round or rectangular face cam, plus named editor presets that save look, cursor, captions and export settings

Playing the N*zi Card in the Third Reich (English captions burned in).
Don't worry, they are just concerned citizens.
Original: #comedy

This happened on a city street a few blocks away. #Fargo #NorthDakota From inforum dot com

"Plastic Overshoot Day: One-third of global plastic waste won’t be properly managed in 2026"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Plastic Overshoot Day: One-third of global plastic waste won’t be properly managed in 2026
The amount of plastic waste generated globally in 2026 so far has officially exceeded the world’s capacity to safely manage it, researchers have claimed. One-third of all plastic waste generated this year will likely be dumped, burned or littered.

Save the Glasgow School of Art!
“to accept a diminished future for [The Mack] would show a worrying lack of cultural confidence. When Notre-Dame burned, Paris didn’t scale down its ambition. Paris came out stronger afterwards.”

If you have an opportunity to visit a freshly-burned forest, look for pyrophilic beetles (e.g., certain species in Sericoda, Melanophila, Monochamus) and flies (Microsania). Some have specialized antennae for detecting smoke, others use infrared-sensing areas on abdomen or thorax to locate hot spots. #fire #smoke #weather #canada #beetles #coleoptera #insects #flies #trees #forests

About 5,000 homes have been evacuated and about 600 homes, businesses and other buildings have been destroyed by wildfires that remained uncontained Sunday in eastern Washington state, authorities said.
The fires burned more than 8.2 square miles (about 21 square kilometers) around Spokane, the second largest city in Washington,
and were among dozens across the western U.S. — stretching the ability of federal, state and local agencies to fight them.
No deaths have yet been …

Eastern Washington fires have burned 600 structures and forced the evacuation of 5,000 homes
The fires burned more than 8.2 square miles around Spokane, the second largest city in Washington, and were among dozens across the western U.S. — stretching the ability of federal, state and local agencies to fight them.

Platner really crashed and burned, huh. Like, literally *right* after winning the primary.
And like, in interviews, he said stuff like "Nothing worse will come out about me, everything's out there now." And things still kept coming out.
He should step down because we should not tolerate rapists and abusers in our society and government. This should not be controversial.

Amazon fires were almost nonexistent before humans arrived #Amazon

Amazon fires were almost nonexistent before humans arrived
The Amazon rainforest rarely burned before humans arrived. A 10,000-year record reveals how human-set fires transformed the forest over time.

@… @… We currently burn at least 10 calories of diesel for every calorie of food produced¹ by industrial agriculture.. Quite a lot of that diesel is burned in moving food from farm to warehouse and from warehouse to supermarket. of …

Remember back when building computers we burned a cd/dvd from a working machine and kept giant binders of install media? And then things changed and we could make a bootable USB device from whatever promotional 4GB stick people were handing out at tradeshows, but often it couldn't boot?
The working machines are now laptops which no longer have optical drives at all. Or USB A.
I found an old external dvd burner and have it running through a Thunderbolt3 hub that still has USB A ports.

My wife just told me that she had the “privilege” to see pictures of machines she designed that were destroyed in Saudi Arabia. A refinery was hit and the flames were 30 feet above the highest stack in the plant. It burned for 3 weeks.
She designed them at least 20 years ago as a young engineer.
#iran #SaudiArabia

When OpenAI killed the ChatGPT app, I burned some Fable Sol 5.6 tokens to create an Electron wrapper for their website (mac only, tested on OS 26 only). The moment I was done, they dropped ChatGPT Classic. But you might prefer it, though, so here it is. CatGPT
https://github.com/abandoned-industrie…

‘To cover hate with more love’: Burned Pasadena temple’s mural restored after more antisemitic vandalism
The original graffiti was quickly removed, and a mural was commissioned in its place.
But to Leventhal’s surprise, the new mural was defaced with swastikas and a message reading,
“ZIONSIM IS NOT WELCOME.”
The word Zionism was misspelled.
“Ever since the mural was put up, I look at it out of pure joy,”
Leventhal, a senior director at the USC Shoah Fou…

Pasadena mural restored after antisemitic vandalism at burned temple
A defaced mural at the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center was restored after an act of antisemitic vandalism. Community members gathered in solidarity.

"Brazilian Amazon Sees Sharp Drop in Acres Burned"
#Brazil #Trees #Environment

Brazilian Amazon Sees Sharp Drop in Acres Burned

https://thenewinquiry.com/portrait-of-an-iranian-witch/

Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent's ambitious, GTA-like game Last Sentinel, which has burned hundreds of millions of dollars over six years (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Well, I made a good dent before the fog burned off and the time alarm went off to get onto other things. Got my workout. 🥵 💪
Just got to have it absolutely done by Monday, but I think I can definitely finish it tomorrow. 🤞
Got electrical conduit and wire yesterday! Plumber comes Monday afternoon!
#backyardProject #DIY #poolpond

August 24, 1814,
Historic Usians FINALLY pissed off Canadian brits so much (by attacking their city of York) that they sacked and burned Washington D.C.
(Come back! Help us in our hour of need. We LOVE you Canucks!)
#History is a bitch.

This is an unusual path to that answer. Guess 4 was burned to get some letter positions but it gave me different letters then I was expecting.
#Wordle
Wordle 1 892 5/6
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"The U.S. and its allies burned through more than 11,000 munitions, including large amounts of defensive missiles, in the first 16 days of the war alone, according to a March analysis by the Royal United Services Institute."
"Iran has fired between 8,000 and 9,000 drones and missiles at targets across the Middle East since the U.S.–Israeli war began in February, according to the official."

Iran Has Figured Out How to Overwhelm U.S. Air Defenses
As the U.S. runs short of interceptor missiles, Iran is carrying out strikes with a mix of attack drones and advanced ballistic missiles.

Beloved Big Sur destinations under evacuation orders as Timber fire burns more than 1,700 acres
Pacific Coast Highway is currently closed to nonresidents from Point Sur Lighthouse to Vista Point, according to the California Highway Patrol.
“The fire remains highly active, and conditions can change rapidly,” the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.
“We are respectfully asking the public to stay out of the area. Roadways must remain clear so first responders can wor…

Beloved Big Sur destinations under evacuation orders as Timber fire burns more than 1,700 acres
A wildfire in Big Sur has burned 1,700 acres and spurred evacuations that encompass iconic destinations such as Nepenthe restaurant, the Henry Miller Memorial Library and the Alila Ventana resort.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Frits Wentink:
🎵 Burned
#FritsWentink
https://cloneroyaloak.bandcamp.com/track/burned
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZouIrvdPxAYx4bGLYyJwC

Spain's three worst wildfires since 1961 happened in last two years #Spain

Spain's three worst wildfires since 1961 happened in last two years
The wildfire that engulfed Spain's Ávila region, northwest of the capital, Madrid, is now considered the largest in the country's modern history, with around 50,000 hectares (193 square miles) burned, the government said this week.

France's wildfires already are the most widespread in modern records. (In other 'news', climate deniers in the UK and from the Trump regime deny the severity of the situation).
https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no-europe-is-not-hav…

Instead of •judging• people who are stuck between a rock and a hard place, we all — but especially us tech folks! — should spend some time •actually learning• what’s locking people in to a platform going bad. There are some answers in the original QP. Here are some guesses of my own:
- Is prohibitively hard to migrate their catalog / inventory?
- Are they unsure how to proceed?
- Are they burned out on platform switching?
- Do they have some larger process that really, really works and are loath to abandon it?
- Do the alternatives not provide the same functionality?
- Will they lose contact with their supporters if they switch?
- etc.
Those are all made-up guesses, but they're all examples of •perfectly good reasons• for someone to be resistant to switching.


Wildfire smoke is once again pouring across the United States
following a weekend of new blazes across Canada’s British Columbia.

A total of 11 new fires were reported across that province,
where a state of emergency was declared on Saturday,
with thousands forced to evacuate near Summerland,
located about 40 miles north of the British Columbia-Washington state border.

The largest fire in this region, called the Bald Range Fire,
had burned throug…

Wildfire smoke is once again pouring across the United States
A weekend of new blazes across Canada’s British Columbia has created new smoke that is now wafting into the United States.

I think there was an article on this in Smithsonian magazine - very cool tech being used, now aided by AI...
Scroll Burned in 79 AD Volcanic Eruption Finally Deciphered Using AI - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/06/27/1825220/scroll-burned-in-79-ad-volcanic-eruption-finally-deciphered-using-ai

British Columbia declared a state of emergency on Saturday
as a fast-moving wildfire destroyed homes, trapped residents and forced more than 20,000 people to flee communities along Okanagan Lake in western Canada.
The premier, David Eby, announced the emergency as more than 100 wildfires burned across the province,
nearly half of them out of control in hot, windy weather and prolonged drought.
The entire community of Summerland,
home to about 12,000 people,

‘Explosive’ wildfire forces 20,000 people to flee as British Columbia declares state of emergency
Fast-moving fire displaces people in western Canada, burning homes as it races through towns on Okanagan Lake

500 km² burned in what has now become Spain's largest wildfire in record, near Ávila, west of Madrid.
https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/ultima-hora-incendios-incendios-madrid-avil…

Última hora de los incendios | Los incendios de Ávila y Madrid suman más de 77.000 hectáreas arrasadas y el Gobierno no descarta nuevas evacuaciones

Wildfires raging across southern Europe have forced thousands to flee their homes
and prompted officials to ban spectators from a stage of the Tour de France,
amid warnings of “powder keg” conditions after a record-breaking early summer heatwave.
Hundreds of firefighters are tackling blazes that have burned through almost 20,000 hectares (49,500 acres)
in Portugal, Spain, France and Greece.
Strong winds are forecast to fan the flames and temperatures are expect…

Wildfires rage across southern Europe, forcing thousands to flee homes
Tour de France spectator ban as country along with Spain, Portugal and Greece faces ‘powder keg’ after heatwave

Climate bills are coming in: 153 houses destroyed by climate-fueled wildfires in the village of Le Porge, not far from Bordeaux.

Nearly 98,000 hectares burned in France, a 'historic record' says government - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/nearly-98-000-hectares-burned-in-france-a-historic-record-says-government

Far-left 'Squad' Dems mix up Jewish colleagues in botched attack -- then get burned by their own votes (Alec Schemmel/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/far-left-squad-dems-mix-up-jewish-colleagues-botched-attack-get-burned-own-votes
http://www.memeorandum.com/260723/p66#a260723p66

Area affected by wildfires in Europe could almost triple due to climate change #Europe…

Area affected by wildfires in Europe could almost triple due to climate change
Increasingly hot, dry and windy conditions could substantially extend the area affected by wildfires across Europe, according to a new study led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) with contributions from the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research. In a low-emissions scenario (SSP1-2.6), the researchers calculate that roughly 39% more land would be burned per year by the end of the century compared with today's average. In a high-emissions scenario (SSP3-7.0), it would b…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117190801244768725
Last year, the Dragon Bravo fire burned 149,399 acres along the North Rim
and forced the North Kaibab Trail to close.
As the trail gradually reopened this year,
the Park Service warned of an elevated pot…

Rare books about to be burned (sorry, I mean pulped) by Anthropic.
Picture by the Washington Post, found through this post: #books #AI #techbros #tech

When Keith Jarrett turned up at the Opera House in Cologne at the end of January 1975 to perform a concert of solo piano improvisations on the promise of a Bösendorfer grand piano,
he despaired at the actual instrument he’d been given to play on
—a baby grand that would clearly require multiple attempts to stabilise its tuning,
with pedals that didn’t even move up and down properly.
He had arrived already burned out,
suffering from a chronic back condition that …

Reassessing Keith Jarrett’s famous Köln Concert
It produced one of the most significant recordings of the 20th century, celebrated in two films this year. But our fussy veneration of that evening go...

The #HawkFire stands at a little over 15,000 acres burned,
prompting expanded evacuation orders across northwest #Reno and the North Valleys.
Approximately close to 90,000 residents live within the mandatory evacuation and evacuation warning zones.
The fire was listed at 0% containment as of 5:30 a.m. M…

Reno Hawk Fire updates Monday: 10,000 without power
The Hawk Fire continues to burn in northwest Reno on Monday, canceling classes for Reno-Sparks K-12 schools and at TMCC. Here's what to know Monday.

The hunger for tinkering affordances helps explain the ubiquity of spreadsheets in the business world. [long subthread left as an exercise for the reader]
It also helps explain the traction of the “AI Agent” marketing. I can’t think of a technology that’s simultaneously done a better job of removing barriers to user-designed automation and done a worse job of helping people anticipate and deal with the consequences of automation. (Security and data integrity are two of the big places where attempts at deep tinkering affordances have crashed and burned.)
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Mother nature’s version of a double tap is a second wildfire at a town that was essentially burned off the map in 2021.
About the only good thing here is there are very few people impacted as most of the town has not been rebuilt yet despite all the initial hand ringing and nice words from BC politicians.
#climateEmeregency #bcwildfire #bcpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lytton-saw-creek-wildfire-evacuations-9.7243091

The Trump administration’s white nationalist ethnic cleansing project is in a dangerous new phase: “quiet and steady.”
They tried a shock and awe approach, and that crashed and burned in Minneapolis. It’s over…for now. But they haven't stopped kidnapping people. Instead, ICE and DHS are making their operations as invisible as they can, targeting people who were already on the edge of invisibility for all of us, and hoping we don't notice.
Abolish ICE. Gut DHS. End this terror.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/21/immigration-agents-arrest-june-data

This is so incredibly good it deserves to be reproduced in full: 😆 🔥 😆
“Carney pointed to a map of North America, half of which had been accurately but artistically burned away.
“It is our intention for the pipeline to cross over Saskatchewan and British Columbia, but if they prove too charred already then I plan to divert the pipeline and profits through the Northern states, as part of my next round of capitulations to Trump in CUSMA negotiations.”
Danielle Smith, smiling so wide that many in the audience naturally assumed she was thinking about forcing trans children to dig the pipeline infrastructure themselves, stated that she fully supported the project being moved up before her province was so full of smoke it couldn’t exist anymore.
“This is a great day for Albertans, and none of the rest of you traitorous fucks,” Smith stated, flipping off any reporter who looked like they were from east of her province. “The sooner this gets done, the sooner I can start looking for new ways to hurt endangered wildlife and complain about how no one ever gives Alberta anything.”
#carney #canpoli #cdnpoli #abpoli #climatechange #bcwildfire #endfossilfuels #traitor #theAmericanFascist #trans
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/08/carney-vows-to-fast-track-west-coast-pipeline-before-entire-west-coast-burns-to-the-ground/

Had a decent sleep last night after a long day. Got up before 6AM so that I could start the sprinklers on time.
(We are allowed 6-9AM/PM alternating days but I only water in the mornings because watering when it is still 32°C at 8PM is dumb)
While they were going I got going on another dirt-moving session. Over 3 hours! The sun was blocked by clouds for much of it so that helped a lot. Managed to get the space cleared for the 2nd shed. The whole back part of the yard is nearly level. It’s amazing just how much lower one side of the yard was from the other!
Another couple days of moving dirt and leveling and the dirt mountain should be spent!
Lunch and naptime. 2000 calories burned 😝 💪
Started to feel some pains in hands, thumb, back. Body knows… so I stopped :)
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #gardening #dirt #portalberni #clay