Tootfinder

Why China is quietly buying Russian weapons, explained: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/30/why-china-is-quietly-buying.html

America's Test Kitchen agrees to purchase recipe site Food52 for $6.5M; Food52 said a sudden cash sweep by its lender, Avidbank, forced it into Chapter 11 (Jonathan Randles/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

WHOA. There's a boycott going on right now.
✅ We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!
#amazon

Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B , after approaching the startup during a fundraising at a $2B valuation; Manus CEO Xiao Hong will report to Javier Olivan (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-buys-ai-s

Using devices as long as they work is literally the exact opposite of “hoarding”, which would be buying a new phone every year and ending up with a hoard of them.
Let’s not use words that were deliberately used in bad faith to blame consumers for problems producers have.

The Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons, has developed a reputation for buying tech companies past their peak and aggressively cutting costs.
The firm acquired Evernote in 2022, followed by Meetup and WeTransfer in 2024, and AOL and Eventbrite in 2025.
Layoffs followed many of those deals. In September 2024, just months after being acquired by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer laid off 75% of its staff.
Just months after Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last ye…

So bad people are almost being paid to attend. Republican clubs buying the tickets en mass and offering them for free.
🤣🤣🤣
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/melania-trumps-film-struggles-sell-234538656.html

How am I supposed to fit all my books into such a tiny, tiny bookshelf? I don’t. In reality, I’ve resorted to buying e‑books— not because I prefer them, but because I’m rapidly running out of storage space, bookshelves, and places to hide the growing stacks. And don’t listen to anyone claiming I ran out of space years ago. Absolute nonsense.
I simply need a house for my books. A house just for books.
I wonder what that would be called…

I've been buying megacorp brands so I'm happy to find such guides :)
https://www.boycottbuddy.app/

Best gas masks | The Verge #gasmasks #antifa

Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/malicious-llm-tools-cybercrime-wormgpt-kawaiigpt/

Happy Friday. Hope you’re able to participate by not buying anything today or by rallying/marching. And if you have to spend money to make things go, then do it. If you feel this enterprise is useless or un-American then, fine. As you were.

If you can't accomplish most of what you want to do in a homelab with VMs on a laptop or docker containers on a 16GB Raspberry Pi, and RAM prices are what's keeping you down, consider buying some old-ass server or Dell workstation instead. You'll pay more in power, and performance won't be cutting-edge, but REG ECC DDR3 is under $1/GB on AliExpress, and you can still slap a 5090 into into the box if you insist (with some degree of PCIe throttling that shouldn't bother you…

🛒🚫 We Ain’t Buying It — Black Friday Boycott
https://weaintbuyingit.com/

Colleges are now buying players.
▶️ Paid to Play: Understanding College Sports in 2025 [FULL EXCERPT] | ESPN360
#nil

Sources: Barry Diller expressed interest in buying CNN in H1 2025, before WBD said it would spin off cable networks; a WBD spokesman says CNN is not for sale (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/barry-d…

"As Joy-Ann Reid put it in an Instagram video: “Dear retailers who’ve decided you don’t like diversity, equity, and inclusion, or you really love ICE and you have no problem with them busting into your establishments to drag people away: Here’s the thing. We ain’t buying it. I mean, for real, for real, we ain’t buyin’ it.”
She explained: “We’re gonna spend our money with businesses who actually respect our dollars, respect our communities, and respect our diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are going to buy from people who respect immigrants, who respect immigrants’ rights, and respect freedom and liberty. We are going to buy from establishments that respect our right to vote and our right to live in a free society. And if you ain’t that, we ain’t buying it.”
“Let’s show them our power,” she told listeners. “Let’s show them what we can do together.”"
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-25-2025

2025 NFL playoff hunt: Buying and selling 18 potential Super Bowl contenders https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-playoff-hunt-buying-and-selling-18-potential-super-bowl-contenders

Just looking at the amount of work that went into this thing trying to sell something the core audience isn't buying shows how badly Mozilla chose when it comes to the new CEO
https://bsd.network/@dch/115968952449549217

I'm sitting at Zurich Airport waiting to pick someone up. Next to me sits a German person who has propped up their iPad on their suitcase. They are in a video conference with several people from banks and legal, discussing tax "optimization" from Germany by buying real estate in different US states and pretending to live elsewhere. On loudspeaker.
"Don't make a bank account, don't change your drivers license. We have checklists we can provide you."

SEC filing: Nvidia acquires Intel shares worth $5B, carrying out a transaction announced in September, buying 214.7M shares for $23.28 each (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/nvidia-takes-5…

I’m learning about the Nipah virus outbreak in South Asia.
I’m getting the same feeling that I had in late December 2019, which led me to tell my wife to start buying toilet paper.
#nipah #covid #pandemic

Sources: BMG, a division of Bertelsmann, is weighing a bid for music rights investor Concord in a deal that could value Concord as high as $7B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/bertelsmann-is-said-to-conside…

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@padraig/115224732193029812
I solved this issue by buying the Japanese version of Metal Resistance from Discogs. :D

Oh, here's an interesting perspective on buying #books. #reading

Saw two different groups of protestors out in the cold on the way back from buying toilet paper

participating in the JavaScript ecosystem continues to feel like living in a house that’s on fire and all of your roommates are just buying their own fire extinguishers and pretending that it’s just a temporary bout of really hot weather

If you are buying a new computer, there's no need to throw the old one away. I was really surprised last year how many items found another owner.
Nothing to get rich of, but avoid unnecessary e-waste
https://www.locked.de/how-i-gave-my-old-computer-parts-a-s…

India continues to support Russia's genocide in Ukraine by buying sanctioned oil.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/25/indias-top-refiner-quietly-returns-to-russian-oil-with-shadowed-supply-route-d…

"Dutch government bodies were unpleasantly surprised by news that an American tech firm has acquired the Dutch cloud company Solvinity, the Financieele Dagblad reported.
Several governments opted for working with Solvinity precisely to reduce dependence on American technology firms"

NFL power ratings: Patriots vs. Seahawks Super Bowl spread not buying Drake Maye's chances

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-power-ratings-patriots-…

Disruptive CEO Alex Davis says Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq for $20B in cash; leaked email: Jensen Huang says Nvidia is not acquiring Groq (David Faber/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-g…

"Do your own research" is counter productive when you don't know how to research...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/scientists-explain-why-doing-your-own-research-leads-to-buying-conspiracies/

An update to my work-from-a-coffee-shop experiment.
I finally got out to a coffee shop with my iPad and Magic Keyboard, and am using this time to respond to emails.
The coffee shop seemed very happy with me buying a coffee and sitting here without restriction. So, that’s what I am doing.
Although they have free Wi-fi here, I am tethering to my phone… feels safer, although I guess I could VPN 🤔
I’m also meeting @… here for lunch, so that will be nice.
Best of all, I can access my NAS remotely, so I have everything I need 😅
#WFH #NotWFH #CoffeeShop

Popcorn, anybody?
Amazon Accuses Perplexity of Computer Fraud, Demands It Stop AI Agent From Buying On Its Site - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/04/1839231/amazon-accuses-perplexity-…

Watching videos about people buying mac minis specifically to run as headless agent hosts (eg Clawdbot) so that they don't have to worry about setting guardrails on their personal computers.

Sigh, the joys of owning a home. Needed minor project with a major cost comes first before my buying a new computer.

I've been thinking about the idea of building a new house instead of buying a new house in a few year. A lot of the homes in the neighborhood are at the back of the lot (right up against the alley). You keep the old house where it is, get the city to call in an Accessory Dwelling Unit, and then build a new house in the front of the lot.

"Brits still buying EVs, heat pumps and solar panels despite drop in polling support and political attacks, Sky News analysis finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #EV

We were grocery shopping this morning and when got in the checkout line an old geezer (at least as old as us anyway) sidled up and asked if we’d mind if he payed for our groceries. We said we appreciated his offer, but that there were very likely other people who’d be better targets of his generosity. Another old woman was behind us so we suggested maybe she’d take him up on his offer. She did. He does this every day for a couple weeks this time of year. Just buying 1 person’s food.

Just imagining: if when I was buying that orange Alegro in the 90s someone had said to me, "I bet you hundred to one that thirty years from now you'll pay the price of this car just to get your new one filled with piss" I think I would have taken that bet, then apparently lost it.
😆

Silver surged past $75 an ounce for the first time on Friday,
propelled by strong industrial and investment demand,
persistent supply shortfalls,
its recent designation as a U.S. critical mineral,
and a wave of momentum-driven buying.

Went to go get my 2010 VW Tiguan inspected. Have a cracked spring that will cost me $300.
The poor bastard in front of me had a 2022 Jeep. Needs an entire engine rebuild/new at $20K.
I don't think I'm ever buying a newer car. 2010 or lower for me from now on.

I know it’s not @…’s fault, but dang.
Considered buying the $6 pack of stickers, until I saw that shipping for them was $29.99.

Trump Moves to Ban Big Investors From Buying Single-Family Homes (Alyssa Lukpat/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/trump-moves-to-ban-investors-from-buying-single-family-homes-13e06f61
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p91#a260107p91

Trump signs executive order barring Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5698163-trump-executive-order-wall-street-single-family-homes/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTy4y3VDpS0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Really good save from the Marseille keeper. Surprised he was so disciplined, as I was buying pass all day.
#LFC

@…

I detest buying a new phone.

Besides the lower ethical impact, the lower coupling to US big tech surveillance and control (with /e/OS), the lower environmental footprint and buying European, I am looking forward to keeping the

@…

I detest buying a new phone.

Besides the lower ethical impact, the lower coupling to US big tech surveillance and control (with /e/OS), the lower environmental footprint and buying European, I am looking forward to keeping the

As inference splits into prefill and decode, Nvidia's Groq deal could enable a "Rubin SRAM" variant optimized for ultra-low latency agentic reasoning workloads (Gavin Baker/@gavinsbaker)
https://x.com/gavinsbaker/status/2004562536918598000

ugh reviewing legacy code that is the equivalent of dealing with a plumbing leak by buying a lot of mops

"Governments must implement taxes on the super-rich now and prioritise reducing inequality. The world cannot continue on this obscene trajectory.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/21/mi…

„One tactic of fascism is to shift the scales of political alignment: centrists become stalwarts of the radical left; moms become ‚domestic terrorists.‘ Everyone with a whistle becomes antifa. And actually, that last part is correct—or at least it should be. A general strike has been called for Friday, January 23. With luck, thousands of Minnesotans will join in on what many further left are already doing: stopping business as usual and withdrawing their consent from fascism. Among many thin…

US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to "destructively scan" up to 2M books with a hydraulic "cutting machine" led by an ex-Google exec (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/2…

This has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n

I have become so used to not owning anything (beyond my electronics) that I feel anxious at the idea of buying big things like a car or even a house. When I used to have my own bike I was always going to check on it whenever I heard a noise outside. Eventually I moved on to those shared bikes and that's much more relaxing..
How do you all deal with owning things? If you own a car, or a flat / house, are you actually more happy than if you were renting it? If it got stolen or damaged in…

Paolo Ardoino says Tether now holds ~140 tons of gold, worth ~$23B, has been buying one to two tons a week, and plans to keep doing so for the next few months (Jack Ryan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Speaking of Netflix buying Warner Bros for $83 billion… Remember when Blockbuster passed on buying Netflix for $50 million? (Do you even remember Blockbuster?) What future is YOUR business missing? What future are your ways of seeing actually keeping you from seeing?

Pot lights are a mistake, an architectural foible that’s ubiquitous because it makes a place look glamorous when you’re walking through thinking of renting/buying it. Looks good in photos too. And they’re fine for cooking or reading because you’re looking down. But for activities like conversation or chilling in front of the screen, they glare annoyingly. Nice glass wall or ceiling light fixtures are way easier on the eyes.

"ICE has been using “brake-checks” as pretense for detaining observers. Another observer car pulls up and my city council member steps out. He strides up to the Wagoneer, blowing his whistle. (Absolutely everyone is confronting ICE—I’ve encountered my old boss from the local cafe scuffling with agents, too.) Someone on the street starts filming and the bicyclist we know in the chat as “small fry” shouts at the agents to get out of Minneapolis."

I dreamed I bought a new Discworld book (about a novelist!).
Hardcover, for 14€, because it had been published some time earlier and I had wanted to hold off buying The Last One.
I wouldn't mind a jaunt in that other reality to bring it back, really.
#GNUTerryPratchett

"I’m Naomi Alderman, I co-created Zombies, Run! with Six to Start and I’ve been lead writer since the first episode. I am incredibly delighted to be taking ownership of the game. This isn’t a big corporate takeover, it’s me buying back the game I made and love so I can look after it. Every Runner Five means so much to me, and I want to make sure the game continues to be a welcoming home for all of you for… well, I hope, forever. Forever is the plan."

Magat "influencer" is butthurt that poor Americans are buying "luxury seafood."
Shrimp grow wild. They currently cost $3.90 a pound at my local provider, about half the price of hamburger around here.
You do have to pop their little shrimp heads off yourself, but they boil up to make a nice seafood broth.

I stopped buying books (or anything, really) from Amazon years ago, when it became apparent the working conditions at their many processing centres are appalling and they were actively busting unions. I have never regretted that stance, and I have always been able to find the books, etc. I need from other sources.
I hope more authors — and big name ones too — will follow this lead.
#BoycottAmazon

«“One SIM card can be used for hundreds of different platforms,” said Dek. “Vendors recoup SIM costs by selling high-demand verifications for apps like Facebook and Telegram, then profit from the long tail of other platforms.”
Additional analyses show global stocks of fake accounts are highest for platforms such as X, Uber, Discord, Amazon, Tinder and gaming platform Steam»
#FakeProfiles

Jefferies: Tether, which said it held 116 tons of gold in September, is "the largest holder of gold outside central banks", buying 26 tons in Q3 and 24 in Q2 (Bryce Elder/Financial Times)

California lawmakers made major changes to the state’s car-buying rules this year,
including a  controversial rewrite of the state law that allows buyers to get their money back if they are sold a defective vehicle
and a new right to return a used vehicle within three days.

Stephen Jones Sends Bold Message on Cowboys’ Trade Deadline Plans https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/stephen-jones-buying-selling-trade-deadline/?adt_ei=[email]

Hey Now! Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025): Buy Now!
Hey, there! Welp, it's that time of the year again -- yes, time for us to ask for the indulgence of your continued, kind, support for this blog by buying our eBook -- Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025) -- to show your support so we may continue to publish this blog without advertising while still being able to cover our yearly, ongoing, online publication costs…

I've been enjoying living with my record collection again (my parents decided a few decades of dust from their house was enough). While I bought most of my LPs at the Salvation Army, almost all my 7 inches - except for one I recall very clearly buying at record show at Serb Hall (a story for another day) - came from Atomic Records, #Milwaukee's much regretted mecca for underground music. This o…

Information Manipulation is a market.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index

On the other hand, Tesla owners are buying/keeping their death traps even after knowing this now, so sad trombone.
#tesla
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z6ruj

US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to "destructively scan" up to 2M books with a hydraulic "cutting machine" led by an ex-Google exec (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/2…

Democrat Khanna refloats bill to block investors from buying up homes after Trump proposal
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/18/trump-khanna-housing-investor-ban.html

It'll be interesting to see how long this takes to cover the whole UK train network - basically allowing anyone with a contactless payment to travel without buying tickets in advance.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/simpler

THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!
I think the SFTP server is down again. Expected files not in our INBOX and it happens on a semi-regular basis and usually after a weekend.
On my Linux box I had a very simple CHRON setup to run a specific BASH script. On my work WIN11 machine I have automated running a specific program every Monday morning checking for a specific item.
It should be trivial to do the same on the servers instead of buying software to verify that the servers are w…

What the Trump Administration Is Buying With CBS's Reputation (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)
https://www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-trump-administration-is
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p102#a260116p102

In recent months, DDR4 and DDR5 RAM and SSD prices surged dramatically due to an ongoing AI chip shortage and panic buying; some RAM kits now cost 3x as much (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies release alleged wiretap of Yulia Tymoshenko discussing vote-buying with an MP: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/ukrainian-anticorruption-agencies-release-alleged.html

Thread about gifting (or buying yourself) a telescope and avoiding getting something terrible.
(sorry for Bluesky link but I’m auto-removing posts on Mastodon, this is from last year)
https://bsky.app/profile/thomasfuchs.at/post/3lbx2egm5222k

Robinhood plans to launch a futures and derivatives exchange with Susquehanna in 2026 and says it's buying MIAXdx, which clears and executes derivatives trades (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Angor is a crowdfunding protocol for nostr and bitcoin.
Dan here is building it. Kickstarter without middle men.
Accountability is key. What stops the fund raiser just fleeing with the coin?
Funds are programmed to be released in stages, time locked in a multisig.
So if they aren't meeting milestones, investors can withdraw. If the founders are buying lambos instead of building, just cash out at that point.
Permissionless and decentralised, no servers except nostr relays and bitcoin nodes. No third party's claiming 30 percent fees. The system is a nostr client scanning relays for investment object types. Allowing investment into the funding contracts and subscription to updates.
#nostr #nostrshire #angor

Meta's win over the US FTC may mean Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others can resume buying startups to stay ahead of the pack, after a slowdown under Lina Khan (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/meta-ruling-silicon-valley…

Sources: Axel Springer has considered buying about a dozen media businesses in the US, including TED Conferences, TechCrunch, the 1440 newsletter, and more (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/me…

If you need some *good* stories about *good* people to lift your spirits...
▶️ Finding People with No Customers, Then Buying Them Out - Steven Schapiro
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IpkQ20i5qhs&si=GoCEFR1hvjH2B5gm

Sources: Netflix has told WBD management that it will honor WBD's contractual agreements to release movies in theaters if it's successful in buying the company (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-o…

$50 parking, $28 nachos, $24 hot wings, $10 drinks.
Some of the reasons I stopped buying season tix to #college #football games.
✅ What happens when college football games are only for the rich? Some faithful fans are finding out - The Athletic

Sources: Standard General hedge fund founder Soo Kim has been in talks with a major WBD shareholder over potentially buying or investing in the WBD TV networks (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2edd5517-ee6c-41e6-ae3c-c0aedb433e98

Thoma Bravo co-founder Orlando Bravo says the slump in software company valuations over threat of AI-driven disruption is creating a "huge buying opportunity" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8c2a5c48-17bf-4baa-9bbf-ac6cbe9279ca

Sources: Starz is interested in buying Hearst and Disney's A E, the owner of its namesake channel and the History channel, but A E is seeking a wealthier buyer (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Netflix CEOs say the WBD deal won't fail because "we understand these assets that we're buying" and they're not buying to compensate for business deterioration (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/netflix-execs-warner-bros-deal-1236…

A look at Michael Saylor's Strategy, known for buying bitcoin via creative financing strategies, as its stock trades way below its peak amid the crypto downturn (Rob Copeland/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…

CBS News' credibility, built over decades, is being used now to launder political narratives that wouldn't survive scrutiny if they came from right-wing media (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)
https://www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-trump-administration-is

AWS signs a two-year supply deal with Rio Tinto to access its Arizona copper mine, the US' first new source in 10 years, as AI data centers create huge demand (Ryan Dezember/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Sources: carmakers find a workaround for chip shortages amid Nexperia's internal battle, buying wafers from its Dutch arm and then shipping themselves to China (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bb384dae-e927-469e-bd7f-c82b7760b9f5

Coinbase reopens app registration in India after an over-two-year pause, letting users make crypto-to-crypto trades, and plans to open up crypto buying in 2026 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/07/coin