Tootfinder

"But but but AI can forecast the weather really well!"
Scientists:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec1433

Sources: Amazon's "sponsored prompts" for its Rufus AI assistant are yielding significantly lower traffic than traditional ads, but are more cost-effective (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazons-ai-chat-a…

Amazon’s AI Chat Ads Yield Data but Few Sales
The early batch of ads running on OpenAI’s ChatGPT has drawn a lot of attention in recent weeks. But marketers have also been trying out another new form of conversational ads offered by an existing advertising heavyweight: Amazon. Even there, marketers are only starting to get a read on how ...

It's Early, But It Appears Raiders Are on Track https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-it-early-but-appears-track

#CarlHeastie continues to be awful, but NYers maybe want to give his office a call to tell him to stop blocking the Stop Super Speeders bill. His office # is 518-455-3791, I just called and someone answered right away.
#StopSuperSpeeders

Mike Johnson ekes out wins, but at a cost (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2026/05/01/mike-johnson-ekes-out-wins-but-at-a-cost-00902393
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p1#a260501p1

WHY in 2026 am I having to flip switches in Setup to a "legacy" boot to get it to boot from anything but the network???
OK, so these aren’t exactly new nodes. Supermicro X11 boards with Nutanix firmware(?) that are designed to drop into a cloud infra setup. But we don’t have that.
The boot order SAYS try disks of all flavors but it just doesn't do that.
I blame IBM. This whole architecture was a botch from the start and has just gotten slimier as we've …

Jerry Jones not anticipating re-visiting trade with Raiders, but not ruled out https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jerry-jones-not-anticipating-re-visiting-trade-with-raiders-but-not-ruled-out

Arsenal are a great team, but they didn’t press for the win against a visibly gassed PSG side and it cost them dearly.
I think they are capable of accomplishing so much more in open play, but in my opinion, Arteta hamstrings them with pragmatism. And if you’re really good at set pieces and have an impressively strong defense? It makes sense to set up that way. I get it.
But when they need to push, can they? This finals loss says no.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year,
but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back.
Here's what's happening, and why it matters
https://skywriter.blue/@jacquelyngill.…

Tenets of a horror game:
- The world is like our own, but with a few twisted rules that create dreadful contrast. You must learn these rules to survive.
- A monstrous enemy is chasing you. It will attack you with powers that are deliberately unfair.
- Your attacks can't kill the monster. You have to outrun it. But if you get away, the game will contrive to have the monster catch up shortly.
Therefore Mario Kart is horror.

The hidden cost of Google's AI defaults and the illusion of choice
Google says it respects user privacy in AI, but the reality is not so black and white.
Many people are hoping—nay, praying—that the potential AI bubble will burst soon.
🫤 https://arstechnica.com/a…

The hidden cost of Google's AI defaults and the illusion of choice
Google says it respects user privacy in AI, but the reality is not so black and white.

It's probably a lost cause and also too short notice, but I'm still thinking about #AlgoApril, which I proposed back in 2022, but it's an incomplete list of prompts and sadly never took off...
https://github.com/alg…

RE: https://sauropods.win/@mike/116669267059864476
The article as a whole is basically a laundry list of usability complaints about specific software — a worthy list, but basically just a commiseration dump.
But the text @… quotes in the post? Frame that.

No Silver Bullet, But a Silver Lining? PETs and International Data Transfers
https://fpf.org/blog/no-silver-bullet-but-a-silver-lining-pets-and-international-data-transfers/
@…

But I would *definitely* like folks to analyze the frameworks they're working within. It's OK that it took this long to join the fight. But maybe ask yourself *why* it took so long.
What was it that others saw? Why were others able to see this coming months, or years, before you were? There have been people saying this would happen since the 70's. What information did they have that you didn't? Did you feel surprised when Trump won, each time? Why? What was missing from your analysis?
Is anything still missing?

Last fall I got depressed driving home one day because of all the trees being ripped out along Lisbon Avenue as they rebuild it, add traffic circles, bike lanes, and other improvements.
I was excited for the bike lanes but sad for the trees. (A lot of them were pretty tall.)
Well, today I went down Lisbon and they are planting a *ton* of trees. They're maybe 5 to 7 feet tall, but it's a start.
You plant trees for the future.

This wasn’t a headline I expected to read, but it kinda makes sense. Connie Chan has been milquetoast in her criticism of Israel compared to Saikat. She supports the Block the Bombs Act, but conspicuously left open the option of supporting so-called “defensive” aid like Iron Dome. Makes sense AIPAC would want the general election to be her and Wiener, not Saikat and Wiener.

Super PAC Network Backing Connie Chan Received Hundreds of Thousands from AIPAC
AIPAC’s United Democracy Project, along with its offshoot DMFI, has funneled money to a network of Super PACs now backing the San Francisco supervisor.

But first, needed to walk to nearby grocery store to buy a malbec. Opted for the San Uberto 2024 because it was the cheapest. But also got a bottle of Cordero Con Piel De Lobo 2025 for me, not the flies, because I liked the label. #wine #swarthmore #alcohol

wild polyrhythmic overload & double-drummer extended technique pulse-out at roulette with goat, from japan. like horse lords or Zs but maybe even more ecstatic & tightly wound. opening was YPY, who i've played on my radio show, but don't think knew was goat guitarist koshiro hino. #nyc

Danny MacAskill at it again on his home turf (where he is, needless to say, something of a local hero). There's an official movie which is all polished, But I like this 'Making Of' more.
Apparently this was made five years ago, but I'd missed it until now.
#BikeTooter
#Cuillin

New solar generation record again for today... 67.5 kWh produced, 158.8 consumed, 16.4 exported, for net import of 91.3 kWh.
There's one day left in the month still, but it's looking pretty good compared to March:
* 0.73 -> 1.2 MWh production
* 5.0 -> 4.5 MWh demand (maybe this is from less heating? I don't have any instrumentation on my heat pump right now so no easy way to break down heating demand, but it pulls ~5 kW when it's running)
* 10.3 -&g…

Hey folks,
here's one of the photos from my recent blog post - just in case you didn't want to read the blog post ;)
Thsi was a weeka go - before winter returned. I've some winter photos from the weekend but I haven't finished them yet .. stay tuned ;)
#hiking #mountains

RE: https://mastodon.social/@yaelwrites/116647387354163140
This is really great "actual use"
But read with context: this what an investigative journalist does. This is very prudent in their line of work, and the threats that come with being a journalist who can incur the ire of powerful people and entities are in play here.
You really have to have a bit of a threat model to make good choices. A few things are universal, with little to no downside, but remarkably few.

i read that “the reg-nr: attribute adds official company registration numbers to organisation objects maintained by the RIPE NCC. This helps clearly identify organisations, especially when names are similar or identical”
which reminds me of the time cambridge university had to provide registration documents to ripe
it’s a charity, but as a special case it isn’t a registered charity
it has a royal charter, but as a special case it isn’t on the privy council’s list
in t…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116323988457621690
Women's sports are not immune to this but a way better space. I know telling people to like something different isn't a strategy, but if you are looking for something new what a great time to ge…

Just finished "You Made A Fool of Death with Your Beauty" by Akwaeke Emezi. I liked a ton of things about it but a few other things bothered me a bit, and I kinda feel like I need to read more of Emezi's work to figure out how I feel. There's a lot of grief and a lot of joy in this book, as well as some nice deep truths about relationships and grief, but maybe also some deep-feeling not-quite truths?
#AmReading #ReadingNow

As I've said, I want to make a version of my "My Tech"-site, but this time not for country of Origin, but Open vs. Closed Source.
But before I start, I need two emojis for both. Any ideas? I really think the emojis are important and they should be easily recognizable. What can I use for #OpenSource and what for

My Tech Origin
Find out where your software comes from — and share it.

What a lovely writeup on the #OS wars in the 80ies, their legacy and corporate politics background:
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/aftermath-of-the-kernel-wars/

Aftermath Of The Kernel Wars
During the 1980s and 90s, computer companies waged an open war for supremacy. We are witnesses of an age that could be described as post-apocalyptic. The dust has settled for the past 20 years, with a small ignition of hostilities around 2010, between members of the mobile duopoly and some late challengers. But to a large degree, we can say that the Kernel Wars are over, and we are privileged observers of their aftermath. But everyone was surprised to discover the winner emerging from the ashes…

It's Early, But It Appears Raiders Are on Track https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-it-early-but-appears-track

I don't program in C or defend that language, but each time I read someone complain about the need to manage null-termination and such in C, I wonder if they'd have similar complaints about assembly programming. Sure, C is "higher level" than assembly but only barely? 🤔
#programming #reasoning

Re my previous “On Target” post; here’s a post in the thread that inspired it. Solomon is preaching the truth this morning.
“Do men need a language of worth empowerment and identity? Absolutely
But a man's sense of self is not greater than a woman's actual life
Read it again”
https://

Solomon (@solomonrmissouri.com)
Do men need a language of worth empowerment and identity? Absolutely But a man’s sense of self is not greater than a woman’s actual life Read it again

@… thanks. Previously published with a different title:
I've used Linux for decades, but I'd switch to FreeBSD for this one feature
Via <https://www.

Well, this is an #Anthropic quote from February (which is in #AI terms ancient history) but I do find it hilarious.
You may have heard the first part of the quote but I do think that it gains with the sentences after:
"we don’t know if the models are

Zionists come in all shapes and sizes but they all share one thing in common: they’re all complicit in genocide.
#zionism #israel #genocide

You might be delighted to learn about German antifascists' love for humorous #antifa slogans. My attempt at translating some:
“Twitter down, but popular: Mastodon for Antifa”
(pronunciation: 'un-tea fuh, stress on 1st syllable)
“High up there, but popular: aircraft pilots' Antifa”
“Masked and vaxxed, but popular: Covid-19 Antifa”
“Long ago, but popular: B…

Tropical forest loss falls in 2025, but world still off track on deforestation goals
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/tropical-forest-loss-falls-in-2025-but-world-still-off-track-on-deforestation-goals/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Baby Rose:
🎵 But, Nvm
#BabyRose
https://babyrose.bandcamp.com/track/but-nvm
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ktnXbGn8XERn7H3LXWvJG

Sonnet 127 - CXXVII
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,

Another tale of the closed web: a common thing on Instagram is that it doesn't send out Co-Post requests when you do it too often or they don't like you. It's one of the aspects or levels of being “shadowbanned”.
I often work with various kinds of accounts to publish my essays on Instagram to get more exposure. For example, pages dedicated to criticizing the police (useless.cops) or accounts showcasing ICE activity in Minnesota (MNicewatch) for my essay on Renée Good…

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[fake powtaw wink]

New Swift Playgrounds on iPad was updated recently with Liquid Glass design and a newer Swift!
It was updated a month ago, but I had been distracted - great source of inspiration!

I don't often go to the movies, but being able to share #projecthailmary with my wife and son was awesome. Some differences with the book, yes, but I didn't hate them. It had all of the same emotional impact as the book, and they kept the ending intact. Highly recommended.

An NFL Draft prospect went viral. But a winding road and bet on himself put him on the map https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7162334/2026/04/01/jaffer-murphy-nfl-draft-kicker-70-yarder-utsa/

AirPods Max 2 review: comfortable, excellent sound quality, and lots of new features, but retains the same design, pricey, and only one hearing health feature (Billy Steele/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/apple-ai…

Apple AirPods Max 2 review: Better late than never
The H2 chip delivers a host of new features for the AirPods Max 2, but it's time for a comprehensive redesign on these pricey headphones.

Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.
John Adams, Founding Father US, 1776

> "The whole social contract of Dubai involves a wilful blindness to the proximity of suffering and violence. After all, Gaza is geographically close."
I guess "geographically close" is relative, but no-one ever talks about London in the context of it being geographically close to Libya.

Expat influencers sold Dubai to the world and were paid to look the other way. Now the dream is crumbling
The Maseratis are borrowed, the helicopters rented by the hour. But deep down Dubai is a lonely place, built by oppressed people

Chatterbox Turbo is amazing! Long are gone the days I had to use Google #TTS / Speech Synthesis to listen to my ebooks. First it was Kokoro TTS, then F5-TTS but now Chatterbox Turbo is king. It sounds realistic enough, but the best thing is that it is Fast. I did an entire ebook in about an hour and a half.
Perfect for the

Jerry Jones not anticipating re-visiting trade with Raiders, but not ruled out https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jerry-jones-not-anticipating-re-visiting-trade-with-raiders-but-not-ruled-out

That's one way to expand police surveillance, but it is apparently happening all over the country.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/31/silicon-valley-milpitas-doorbell-cameras

Silicon Valley city to give residents doorbells equipped with cameras
Milpitas approves measure to distribute smart doorbells and says residents can upload footage to police database

I really like Google Search’s stated mission to “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” but I’m curious what organizations do y’all think are most ideally invested in that mission?
Wikipedia seems like an obvious one. Internet Archive seems like another. Any others?

Older paper but worth reading: "Our findings reveal that mechanisms embedded in modern E2EE messaging architectures – such as delivery receipts and multi-device support – can have significant implications on user privacy. Consequently, it is essential to balance functional requirements, usability and convenience with privacy and security, particularly in E2EE applications that are inherently privacy-sensitive per design."

Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
With over 3 billion users globally, mobile instant messaging apps have become indispensable for both personal and professional communication. Besides plain messaging, many services implement additional features such as delivery and read receipts informing a user when a message has successfully reached its target. This paper highlights that delivery receipts can pose significant privacy risks to users. We use specifically crafted messages that trigger delivery receipts allowing any user to be pi…

AliExpress is fine, but do they need to send a notification for every interaction with your package?
"Your delivery driver just farted near your package.” 💨📦

Go ahead and slam journalists when they deserve it. I certainly do.
But also realize that New York Times journalists Declan Walsh and Arlette Bashizi willingly traveled to an Ebola ward in the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to inform the world.
Many journalists are heroes.
(NYT gift link)
https://

Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social)
Go ahead and slam journalists when they deserve it. I certainly do. But also realize that New York Times journalists Declan Walsh and Arlette Bashizi willingly traveled to an Ebola ward in the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to inform the world. Many journalists are heroes. (NYT gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/world/africa/ebola-epicenter-congo.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.C8Iz.J6vIlQvN1_bV&smid=url-share

Jerry Jones not anticipating re-visiting trade with Raiders, but not ruled out https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jerry-jones-not-anticipating-re-visiting-trade-with-raiders-but-not-ruled-out

Is anybody using, or considering using, ngscopeclient on an ARM64 platform?
Would Debian aarch64 be a platform worth adding to CI and officially supporting? I think I can probably run it as a VM on the mac mini.
But I'm not sure what's out there that actually has the GPU horsepower to perform well. Like, I think somebody tried to build it on a raspberry pi and it *worked* but I'm not sure how useful it would be on something so limited.

I did say that in that essay that I wouldn't go off on the Zizian tangent, but like... I gotta for just a moment...
edit: wrong link, but that other one is funny too.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-zizians-how-harry-269931896/

So I had always thought that Erie liked to sit on laptop keyboards because of the warmth from the machine underneath.
But no, here she is sitting on a bluetooth keyboard (and it's not even on). She does it not for the warmth, but just to be a jerk. Though to be fair, I DID take her to the vet today, so I deserve it.
#CatsOfMastodon
(That's Clove in the backg…

Technically the Senate Dems *DID* concede the original demands to claw back ICE/CBP/HSI funds and to ban some of the Fash tactics used in MPLS and Chicago as conditions for any DHS funding.
But those were always sacrificial asks. They existed to be conceded. @…

David Nir (@davidnir.com)
Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

‘Wait, see’ may be Cowboys approach as June 1 arrives, but is it wise? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/05/31/dallas-cowboys-wait-see-june-1-deadline-2026/90330087007/

If you oppose Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine but support Israel’s genocide in Palestine, you might be suffering from racism. Talk to your doctor about racism today.

Finished reading "ADHD Is Awesome" by Penn & Kim Holderness.
Part memoir, part family story, Penn shares his ADHD journey while Kim offers the partner's perspective. They're clear that no two diagnoses are alike, but this is their story and experience.
Relentlessly positive — sometimes to a fault — but the practical strategies feel genuinely lived-in and earnest. A warm entry point for anyone newly navigating an

ADHD Is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD
Hi, friend! Welcome to the ADHD club. You're here beca…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Baby Rose:
🎵 But, Nvm
#BabyRose
https://babyrose.bandcamp.com/track/but-nvm
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ktnXbGn8XERn7H3LXWvJG

I really like the concept of noticing "greyed out options": perfectly reasonable if sometimes wacky things that you can do in a situation but that you accidentally treat as unavailable, like a greyed out option in a dialog box in software.
Once you start noticing them, you unlock a whole lot of self-awareness.
An example tonight from a moderation decision: someone who's kind of a jerk and often gets their messages blocked on the forum, and it's never quite over the line but often borderline. Do we ban the person or not?
Wait: there's a third option! We can send them a message and tell 'em to knock it off and contribute better.
Unlocking that not only gets you a lot more information as a moderator to decide whether to keep someone, but also gives them the opportunity to change their behavior.

ok this is funny that it happened on exactly that post but I'm honestly really really really appreciating that they're working on improving UX! can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!

Sonnet 141 - CXLI
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote.
Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted;
Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone,
Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited
To any sensual feast with thee alone:
But my five wits nor my five senses can
Dissuade one foo…

t’s happening again.
In a big American city, a young Indian American democratic socialist is trying to unseat an unpopular Black incumbent on a platform of housing affordability.
This time, the arena is not New York City but Los Angeles.
Nithya Raman, the insurgent, has fashioned herself as a Zohran Mamdani of the West.
Karen Bass, the embattled incumbent, is fighting to stay in office and make sure that lightning doesn’t strike on opposite coasts.
But the simil…

Los Angeles Voters Have No Good Option
The mayoral race is a staging ground for three of the most unfortunate tendencies in American politics.

Boxes filled with packing peanuts were like mimics for cats.

(I realize the Dark Crystal analogy might not land as widely as some others I might choose, but that image from the movie of the Skeksis extracting the essence from the Gelflings really just…captures a certain something about out present oligarchic moment.)
3/2

Two Dutch papers opening with a major forest fire in the Veluwe region. Rare in the Netherlands, but not unexpected after almost zero rain in April.

Shocked to find out that people you're speaking to expect eye contact. But if I do that, then how am I supposed to look out for predators, or edible berries?

I tried to write something up to talk about an idea, but it didn't quite work. I have a lot more I need to put into it. But I want to get an idea out, and, after talking with a person who pointed out some of the flaws in what I wrote, I think I can maybe write down the kernel of the idea here.
An acquaintance of mine did a deep dive on Operational Art and wrote his thesis (which prompted an earlier set of posts and an article I wrote for my professional-ish blog) on the intersection of the OODA loop and critical philosophy. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Kilcullen's Three Pillars model (after watching Andrewism's wonderful video) and Beer's VSM. The TL;DR of it is that there's a much better insurgency model. Of course, the insurgency model also works for a bunch of other things, because cybernetics lets you do all kinds of cool abstraction like that.
So as I was reading the essay of a comrade the other day, that model popped back into my head and I'm going to try to share what I can of it.
When colonizers came to the Salish region, they saw what they believed to be an untouched wilderness. They failed to see the ways in which Salish people tended the land. Indigenous fire practices were common on the northwest coast, and the suppression of those practices remains a problem. There is an interrelationship between an environment and the systems within it. Systems, like people, animals, and cultures, adapt to the environment. In doing so, those systems will also change the environment.
Social technology was invisible, so colonizers defaulted to either some kind of Rousseauvian or Malthusian model of these people. They were not, for the colonizers, people who had developed advanced social technologies to live in harmony with their world. They were, rather, people in "a state of nature."
The European influenced left continues to draw this Rousseauvian model, which continues through a lot of Anarchist revolutionary thought. European anarchists were heavily influenced by observations and theories around the behavior of indigenous people. The remnants of this thought still exist in the idea that the system must only be destroyed for us to be free.
This is the same obliviousness to social technology, that social technology actually exists, often informs both early colonizers and modern radicals.
It is through this obliviousness that we fail to recognize how capitalism is a social technology that is managed into existence and maintained, and how changes in the environment can threaten institutions that have become over-adapted to a specific version of that environment.
We can extend Kilcullen's metaphor of a "conflict ecosystem" through cybernetics into a much more rich model, populated by viable systems. The ecosystem itself has a fitness function, which drives adaptation within the environment. But all actors in the environment also affect it. Some try to manage the environment. Revolutions are often over who manages a social ecosystem, over who controls the social technology and what it does.
Once we see this dynamic at play, calls of "riot" and "revolution" make a whole lot less sense. Rather, the question becomes, "how do we change the ecosystem in such a way that it cannot be 'managed' at all?"
Graeber/Wengrow talked about Turtle Island indigenous social technologies in Dawn of Everything, such as the system of moieties and clans described in the book. So I have a good reading list as I think through this model, but I hope the "ecosystem" model is helpful (if not completely fleshed out).
I'd be interested in any critiques or thoughts to help develop this idea more.

Got the VM server upgraded to a ConnectX-6. For reasons I still do not understand, things didn't work the first time, but in a weird way - I could hit the management interface on the server but none of the VMs were able to reach anything through vlan interfaces on the CX6 (but would work fine if I bridged them to a non-vlan 1000baseT interface on the mainboard).
After several server reboots, jiggling and reseating of the card, etc. whatever software derpiness happened seems to have…

Finished "The Obake Code" by Makana Yamamoto. Malia, the galaxy's greatest hacker, is coerced by a gang boss into taking down a corrupt politician on Kepler Space Station — only to uncover something far worse.
Underwhelming.The world-building and AI supervillain are anemic. Malia's mental paralysis strains credibility. A trafficking subplot could work, but is incomplete.
Hard to dislike a space station cyberpunk story, but... 2/5 stars⭐⭐

The Obake Code
An all-new, stand-alone sci-fi caper from the author of…

Someday people will learn that LLMs don’t “hallucinate” but it’s inherent (and unfixably so) to them that they generate wrong strings of words.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/frontier-models-medical-advice-x-rays-cant-see

Idea: Mastodon should allow adding rel=me links to Mastodon profiles to allow an account to verify other accounts.
(Or maybe a specific rel=trust?)
This can be used to create a web of trust.
e.g., For Gaza Verified, we have verified about ~250 accounts so far using video interviews. But that sort of verification doesn’t scale. And if we trust these accounts to be people from Gaza, we should trust them to verify people they know from Gaza. So Gaza Verified and the 200 verif…

Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates and reports Q2 results above projections in China but below expectations in the Americas and Europe regions (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/ap…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@hex_m_hell/116671066403398988
This is another one for folks employed in the security industry. If you're close to "leadership," this may help you think about what your program looks like. But even if you're not, there are still things here that may help you think about what you do and how you do it.
I'm focused on my own paid work, but this should also be helpful to open source projects or other groups producing things that need security support.

RE: https://wetdry.world/@nelson/116497424225522370
Nelson once crinkled a snack bag, but didn't give me a snack when I came running :neocat_cry_loud:

I don’t know the individuals involved in this particular conference. What I do know is that there are people worldwide — including but not limited to a great many Jewish people — who have been working with all their might •not• to deny the trauma of others, to work toward true justice and peace. And I know that denying them space for their voices to be heard is a core part of how Netanyahu’s horrible war has been propped up for so long. Recognizing how multiple shared historical traumas shape present conflict seems to me like a good and essential first step.

Internal documents: Chinese company Geedge is working to build AI tools to predict those who could pose a political risk, but US chip controls hampered its work (Julian E. Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06…

China Aims A.I. at Predicting Who Could Pose a Political Risk
New research examines how a Chinese company struggled to develop its predictive surveillance technology while U.S. restrictions were in place.

Floor lion

Cowboys led charge, but entire NFC East got stronger through the draft https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/29/recap-of-nfc-east-draft-weekend-shows-division-will-be-co…

A Quiet, But Potentially Pivotal Player for Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-quiet-potentially-pivotal-player

Still as cis as ever, but I thought I'd show my support by posting an interesting transition metal compound from my lab inventory.
Here's a solution of tantalum chloride in ethanol/methanol, intended for sol-gel deposition of tantalum pentoxide thin films. You spin coat it on a substrate then heat in air; the chlorine swaps with an oxygen in atmospheric water vapor and you get HCl gas evaporating and Ta2O5 on the surface.

Sony confirms that some digital PS4 and PS5 games require a one-time online license check "to confirm the game's license", likely to combat refund scams (Gabe Gurwin/GameSpot)
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/playstat

PlayStation Users Report New Online License Checks, But Sony Quells Concerns
The problem appears to be affecting both PS4 and PS5 games purchased after March 2026.

1 Cowboys Rookie Remains Unsigned Ahead Of Minicamp But It's Not Caleb Downs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/1-dallas-cowboys-rookie-unsigned-ahead-minicamp-not-caleb-downs

A Quiet, But Potentially Pivotal Player for Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-quiet-potentially-pivotal-player

Meta says Q1 family daily active people fell 20M QoQ to 3.56B, vs. 3.62B est., due to internet disruptions in Iran and WhatsApp access restrictions in Russia (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/meta-q1-earnings-report-2026.html

Meta stock drops as capex, user growth numbers come in below Wall Street estimates
Meta beat on revenue, but showed disappointing user numbers and its capital expenditures were below estimates.

'Surprised' Dee Winters Right At Home With Cowboys But Has A Lot To Learn https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/surprised-dee-winters-right-at-home-with-dallas-cowboys-a-lot-to-learn

The jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some platform design features as defective, distinct from what Section 230 was created to protect (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/social-media-trials-230-content-design/

Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?
The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech

Letters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-says-its-robotaxis-are-sometimes…

Tesla Says Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Driven by Remote Humans
The electric-car maker says it happens rarely and at speeds below 10 mph. But the disclosure—in response to a US senator's questions—occasioned a call for more transparency.

Musk v. Altman: the judge told Musk's lawyer she did not want talk of AI's existential threat seeping into the trial, focusing instead on OpenAI's founding (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/technology/openai-trial-elon-musk-…

Elon Musk’s A.I. Claims of Danger Face Limits in OpenAI Trial
One of Elon Musk’s abiding fears is that A.I. could one day threaten humans. But the jurors deciding his suit against OpenAI probably won’t hear about it.

Alphabet's stock climbed 10% on Thursday and 34% in April, its best month since 2004; Meta's stock plunged 8.5% on Thursday, its steepest drop since October (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/alphabet-meta-stock-ai-capex-spend.html

Meta tanks 9%, Alphabet climbs 7% as each company raises capex spend
Both Alphabet and Meta said they expect their capital expenditures to keep growing this year, but investors sent Alphabet's shares up, while Meta's stock slid.

A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a "vision-force-action model" incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-…

When Robots Have Their ChatGPT Moment, Remember These Pincers
From sorting chicken nuggets to screwing in light bulbs, Eka’s robots are eerily lifelike. But do they have real physical smarts?

China's EV makers are competing on in-car AI features; ByteDance says its Doubao AI is used in 7M cars across 145 models, including from Mercedes, Audi, and VW (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/china-ev-ai-fea…

China’s EV price war turns into AI arms race beyond cheaper cars
Chinese EV firms are rapidly rolling out in-car AI features to gain an edge, but as the price war drags on, those technologies are quickly becoming commoditized.

Standard Intelligence, which is developing computer use AI models, raised $75M led by Sequoia and Spark at a $500M post-money valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/standard-intelligence-rides-neola…

Standard Intelligence Rides Neolab Fervor with Computer Use Model
Pedestrians in downtown San Francisco are used to seeing Waymos navigating the streets. But two months ago, people in the South Park neighborhood saw something new: a Toyota Rav4 driving around with a laptop propped on the dashboard.The laptop was running a new breed of AI model, known as a “ ...

Samsung rolls out blood pressure monitoring for Galaxy Watch 4 and newer models in the US, requiring a traditional upper-arm blood pressure cuff and a new app (Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsung-galaxy…

Samsung Galaxy Watch Gets Blood Pressure Monitoring in the US, With One Major Caveat
The globally available feature is finally rolling out in the US, but you'll need to buy extra hardware to use it.

Antenna: bundles make up 33% of new major streaming service subscriptions in the US, and 28% of all subscriptions, up from just 10% of new subscriptions in 2024 (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/…

Streaming TV Bundles Grow in Popularity
Companies and their customers are embracing bundled streaming packages — but for different reasons.

A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed 1 in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)
https://www.…

America Has a Pangram Problem
AI-detection tools are getting better. But they still aren’t good enough.

Why "Dark Output", the AI-generated economic value that is currently invisible to national statistics, may be one of the hardest measurement problems in history (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/ai-dark-output-the-visible-cost-of…

AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output
Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history. AI "Dark Output" could end up being the majority of economic activity, but a challenge to measure