Tootfinder

"Carmakers chose to cheat to sell cars rather than comply with emissions law, ‘dieselgate’ trial told"
#Cars #Vehicles #Emissions

I know all the bootleg phone cheat codes #tech #shanzhai

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
No Knock:
🎵 Cheat the Hangman
#NoKnock
https://noknock.bandcamp.com/track/cheat-the-hangman

Sounds like we need to find where the Cluely CEO is illegally living in his office in SoMa and throw him out. He's the guy who started the company with the motto "cheat on anything". https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/technology/san-francisco-rent-ai-boo…

Elizabeth Holmes
— who, not incidentally, stole hundreds of millions of dollars from investors
— is lobbying for a pardon from President Trump.
And why not?
Game knows game. Grift knows grift.
Of all the powers a president wields, few match his awesome pardon authority.
It is sweeping and life-changing. Idiosyncratic, resting wholly on personal whim, and irrevocable.
Once granted, it is impossible to reverse.
The power to pardon is also, like a…

Day 19 (a bit late): Alice Oseman
As I said I've got 14 authors to fit into two days. Probably just going to extend to 30? But Oseman gets this spot as an absolute legend of queer fiction in both novel & graphic novel form, and an excellent example of the many truths queer writers have to share with non-queer people that can make everyone's lives better. Her writing is very kind, despite in many instances dealing with some dark stuff.
I started out on Heartstopper, which is just so lovely and fun to read, and then made my way through several of her novels. The one I'll highlight here which I think it's her greatest triumph is "Loveless", which is semi-autobiographical and was at least my first (but no longer only) experience with the "platonic romance" sub-genre. It not only helped me work through some crufty internal doubts about aro/ace identities that I'd never really examined, but in the process helped improve my understanding of friendship, period. Heck, it's probably a nice novel for anyone questioning any sort of identity or dealing with loneliness, and it's just super-enjoyable as a story regardless of the philosophical value.
To cheat a bit more here on my author count, I recently read "Dear Wendy" by Ann Zhao, which shouts out "Loveless" and offers a more expository exploration of aro/ace identities, but "Loveless" is a book with more heart and better writing overall, including the neat plotting and great pacing. I think there are also parallels with Becky Albertalli's work, though I think I like Oseman slightly more. Certainly both excel at writing queer romance (and romance-adjacent) stuff with happy endings (#OwnVoices wins again with all three authors).
In any case, Oseman is excellent and if you're not up for reading a novel, Heartstopper is a graphic novel series that's easy to jump into and very kind to its adorable main characters.
I think I've now decided to continue to 30, which is a relief, so I'm tagging this (and the next post that rounds out 20) two ways.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen

NFL Week 5 cheat sheet: Will Eagles unleash A.J. Brown? Browns rookie QB to debut in London vs. Vikings

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee

@… <https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-cheat-sheet-for-linux-admins/> is very appealing, thanks.
Anyone: can there be a memorabl…

It is beyond his comprehension that some people don't always want to cheat to win.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/indiana-republicans-redistricting

Indiana Republicans reject effort to redraw voting maps in rebuke to Trump
Measure to redistrict, which would add two GOP-friendly seats, failed 19-31 after 21 Republicans joined 10 Democrats

I have colorized my dual-operator CW #POTA script and turned it into a cheat sheet with an example on the reverse side, centered so you can print it duplex and cut it out if you like.

• Dual-OP-CW-POTA-Cheat-Sheet.pdf if you just want to print

OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce "confessions", or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/0<…

OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior
Large language models often lie and cheat. We can’t stop that—but we can make them own up.

Cheat-Penalised Quantum Weak Coin-Flipping
Atul Singh Arora, Carl A. Miller, Mauro E. S. Morales, Jamie Sikora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03218 https://arx…

Cheat-Penalised Quantum Weak Coin-Flipping
Coin-flipping is a fundamental task in two-party cryptography where two remote mistrustful parties wish to generate a shared uniformly random bit. While quantum protocols promising near-perfect security exist for weak coin-flipping -- when the parties want opposing outcomes -- it has been shown that they must be inefficient in terms of their round complexity, and it is an open question of how space efficient they can be. In this work, we consider a variant called cheat-penalised weak coin-flipp…

Fantasy football injuries, cheat sheet Week 4: Rookies, backups move into star roles https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6655213/2025/09/25/fantasy-football-injuries-cheat-sheet-nfl-week-4/

The people at Nature really have gone full LLM brain rot: «AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?»
You'd think that the people working at a "renowned" science magazine would understand enough science to not prescribe agency to a statistical method, but apparently here we are…
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1
/HT @…

"Battlefield 6": EA zeigt sich mit Kampf gegen Cheater zufrieden
Die meisten "Battlefield 6"-Partien sind frei von Cheatern, schreibt EA. Zu verdanken sei das auch der Secure-Boot-Pflicht.
…

NFL on Thanksgiving cheat sheet: Everything you need to know to impress relatives for holiday games

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-on-thanksgiving-cheat-sheet-eve…

@… bookmarked, thanks.
A little discussion (straying into comparable pages): https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/

Here's an example of #YouTube's invitation to cheat by having #AI make videos for you. The suggestions are terrible, and the details, when you expand them, are even worse. #YouTube is corrupting knowledge, s…

NFL Week 5 anytime touchdown scorer top 100 cheat sheet: Back St. Brown, Jeanty, Cook at DraftKings

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl

...and, here we go, resulting script available here: https://github.com/cooljeanius/MiscellaneousScripts/blob/master/cheat_at_kusari.sh

Day 16: Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt
Okay so this is cheating, but they're co-authors of multiple books together, and there's no way for me to separate their contributions... I've already got too many authors I'd like to list, so why not?
I read their book "Does My Body Offend You?" and absolutely loved it; it's a celebration of teen activism while also being a deep exploration of feminist issues through practical situations that bring out the complicated side of things, which the authors refuse to reduce back to a simple formulaic answer. It has a supporting cast of appropriately-complex male characters that help in exploring the nuances of issues like the line between female empowerment & male gratification, and it brings race and macho culture into the conversion as well.
CW for sexual harassment & deep discussion of the resultant trauma.
I'll cheat again here to sneak in mention of two male authors whose work resonates with theirs: Mark Oshiro's "Anger is a Gift" has a more pessimistic/complex take on teen activism along with a gay romance (CW for racist cop murder), while Jeremy Whitley's graphic novel "Navigating With You" deals with queer romance & disability, while having a main character pairing that echoes those from "Does My Body Offend You?" in a lot of ways. Another connection (to non-men authors this time) is with "Go With the Flow" by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann. Their graphic novel about teen activism and periods is a bit more didactic and has a much lighter tone, but it does necessarily have some overlapping themes.
To bring it back to Cuevas & Marquhardt, their writing is great and their ability to discuss such complex topics with such nuance, all wrapped up in a story that feels completely natural, is amazing to me, and makes their book feel like one of the most valuable to recommend to others.
In writing this I've realized a grave oversight in the list so far that I'll have to correct tomorrow, but I'm quickly running out of days. The didn't-quite-make-it list is going to be full of more excellent authors, and I'm honestly starting to wonder whether it might actually be harder to name 20 male authors I respect now that I've found the sense to be mostly somewhere between disgusted and disappointed with so many of the male authors I enjoyed as a teen.
#20AuthorsNoMen (cheating a bit)

I might have spent a little too much time last night on making my #kde plasma config declarative with #nix plasma-manager - pretty happy with the emoji desktop icons and the cheat sheet tho
https://github.com/marcusramberg/nix-config/blob/main/home/plasma/default.nix

NFL Week 4 cheat sheet: Packers' Micah Parsons returns to Dallas, plus Ravens meet Chiefs in do-or-die matchup

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl…

Learning to Look: Cognitive Attention Alignment with Vision-Language Models
Ryan L. Yang, Dipkamal Bhusal, Nidhi Rastogi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21247 https://

Learning to Look: Cognitive Attention Alignment with Vision-Language Models
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) frequently "cheat" by exploiting superficial correlations, raising concerns about whether they make predictions for the right reasons. Inspired by cognitive science, which highlights the role of attention in robust human perception, recent methods have sought to guide model attention using concept-based supervision and explanation regularization. However, these techniques depend on labor-intensive, expert-provided annotations, limiting their scalability. We …

El Cheeto is tearing down the East Wing of the White House.
He says, of course, that he isn't. But he is.
And he promises to preserve historical elements and artifacts.
But he won't - does anyone remember when he was trying to get New York to allow him to build the horrid "trump tower" on the site of the then existing Bonwitt Teller building (a building full of and covered by art deco works)?
Well back then El Cheat-o promised to preserve those Bonw…

NFL Week 4 anytime touchdown scorer top 100 cheat sheet: Bank on James Cook, Nico Collins, Courtland Sutton

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl…

🚨 NEW STRONG BAD EMAIL. NEW STRONG BAD EMAIL. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. PLEASE PROCEED TO HOMESTARRUNNER.COM IN A CALM AND ORGANIZED FASHION. I REPEAT: THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨
https://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210-robots
And now, some taggin (for visibility)

NFL Week 3 anytime touchdown scorer top 100 cheat sheet, parlay: Jacobs, Jeanty, Evans 796 parlay

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

NFL Week 3 cheat sheet: QB injuries, winless teams on the brink and matchups that could shape the season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-3-preview-storylines-qb-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
The Cribs:
🎵 Cheat On Me
#TheCribs
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Z63HeCpXg0GDDtYQGgYX3