Tootfinder

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pointed Sticks:
🎵 What Do You Want Me to Do?
#PointedSticks
https://pointedsticks.bandcamp.com/track/what-do-you-want-me-to-do-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/4YwZWMrSUHdA6geIA8d2mj

Do you have the ability to write code for Apple platforms? Do you know what MDM / device management is? Do you understand what Compliance is? Do you care about being able to use a Mac or iPad or iPhone for work or school?
Does the idea of dealing with the bugs that can crop up from things like "this needs to be reliably managed like a server, but a human randomly sleeps it mid-process and when it wakes up it's in a different country!" sound interesting to you?
If so - come be my direct co-worker!
Need to be able to be based in/work within the US, but the team itself is fully remote. Multiple positions open.
Feel free to DM me with questions
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200628824-0836/software-engineer-test-infrastructure

Sonnet 094 - XCIV
They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces,
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others, but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itsel…

Join us for a casual Scrappy Hour bike ride on Sunday, August 31st. 🚴‍♀️
We'll roll out from Rocket Baby just after 9am and head to the Domes... There's about four or five of us so far but we welcome anyone to join us! 🚴
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNvbxVRXHS1/

Scrappy Hour on Instagram: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW Cactus Club- meet 8:30a; wheels up 9:00a EAST SIDE/RW The Daily Bird-meet 9:00a; wheels up 9:15a TOSA Rocket Baby- meet 9:00; wheels up 9:15a Then, we SHBBQ at South Shore Park! We’ll bring some dogs and veggie alternatives. A couple sides. And a cooler of mixed bevies. We’ll bring a couple grills too. Last year our gang showed up with some really delightful offerings! There was homemade bread, and baked goods and side salads. It ruled. So feel free to bring what ever you would like to share with everyone. It will be much appreciated. Bring a baseball mitt and we’ll have a catch. Have a frisbee, bring that too. If it’s hot, good luck keeping me out of that lake, so bring your suit. If you have any questions, as always hit us up and we’ll try to answer. All our love, SH ✌️🚲🏃‍♂️☕️ #coffeeoutsidemke #scrappyhourmke"
107 likes, 8 comments - scrappyhourmke on August 24, 2025: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW …

What's Fear Got To Do With It
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods…

Interessante, isto.
(mesmo que o abacate, francamente, fosse muito dispensšvel. É um sorvedouro de šgua, aquilo)
https://eco.sapo.pt/2025/08/28/do-emprego-ao-rendimento-um-raio-x-a-agricultura-algarvia/

Do emprego ao rendimento, um raio-x à agricultura algarvia
Radiografia à atividade agrícola no Algarve mostra que setor está em forte crescimento, gera riqueza, emprego, apesar da escassez de água na região.

Do the Cowboys have new Nike 'Rivalries' uniforms for 2025? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/28/do-the-cowboys-have-new-nike-rivalries-uniforms-for-2025/85868058007/

This charge is so baseless, the comparison to genocide, the wholesale slaughter of populations. Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave, kindly leave, go out? Did others? Do you want me to name all the genocidal leaders of history. Just go one by one. Did anyone do this? Did they say “go out so we can come in”?
— Benjamin Netanyahu, 26.09.2025 [

✨ Celebrating a decade of "users-asking-Mozilla-to-not-do-awful-things-yet-they-do-exactly-that" ✨

Trump Demands Military Party Do-Over, Maybe Going To Dig Up Corpse Of Ashli Babbitt
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-demands-military-party-do-over

'DO IT!' Trump Pushes Chuck Grassley Hard to Ditch Senate 'Blue Slip' Tradition, Get Appointees Confirmed (Bob Hoge/RedState)
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/07/29/do-it-trump-pushes-chuck-grassley-hard-to-ditch-senate-blue-slip-tradition-get-appointees-confirmed-n2192247
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p147#a250729p147

Is it so hard to not compliment a fascist? Apparently so.
FFS! https://norden.social/@SheDrivesMobility/115450690359236978

An approximate history of my amateur phone photography:
1. Really poor photos. Unsavory interest in (low resolution) panoramas.
2. Photos get a little better. Sometimes they're HDRs (I suspect the camera app was set to "auto").
3. A new phone. Higher resolution and a gyroscope.
4. Switching to LineageOS, and therefore to #OpenCamera. HDR enabled unconditionally.
5. HDR does not always come great (compared to the stock Motorola app that doesn't work anymore). I enable saving component photos, so I could try getting a better quality combination using the PC. I never manage that.
6. I start experimenting with exposure correction (combined with HDR). Sometimes I do multiple photos with different "Eves" to choose the best one.
7. A new phone. Finally, given even the gyroscope was failing already.
8. I learn that Pixels have "HDR " that gets activated when you do standard mode photos. For a while I do both standard and HDR photos; also I compare the middle component image with the standard mode image. [https://opencamera.sourceforge.io/help.html#faq]
9. Before I reach any final conclusions, I read "What is HDR, anyway?" I disable HDR entirely, instead I save standard mode (i.e. HDR ) raw images (which presumably aren't affected by HDR ) [https://www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/]. Not that I ever managed to get anything good out of raws.
10. I discover that I can switch the lens. Today I've made my first photos, switching lens to get optical zoom 💪.

vielen fällt es schwer mit anderen ins gespräch zu kommen
da hilft oft ein icebreaker in form einer einfachen frage zb
"do you speak english?"
oder
"do you like rock music?"

"Please do not use Google AI to find out our specials. Please go on our Facebook page or our website,"
the restaurant wrote in a weary Facebook post.
"Google AI is not accurate and is telling people specials that do not exist
which is causing angry customers yelling at our employees."
https://

Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don't Exist
A restaurant is begging its customers to please stop using notoriously unreliable Google AI to ask about its menu items.

Re this post from @…:
It •is• overwhelming, and none of us can or should take on all the pain of the world. We can’t carry all that weight ourselves; we can’t fix it by carrying it.
It is essential that we all continue to make music, cook tasty food, post cat videos, do the daily mundane things, nerd out, laugh with the people close to us, all that.
We just need to hold space to remember that there is suffering in the world too. We do not turn away; we live in defiance of it.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@SnowyCA/115454954431006301

"People notice that while AI can now write programs, design websites, etc, it still often makes mistakes or goes in a wrong direction, and then they somehow jump to the conclusion that AI will never be able to do these tasks at human levels, or will only have a minor impact. When just a few years ago, having AI do these things was complete science fiction!"

Playing around with ngscopeclient and my beta thunderscope doing some performance measurements.
My fancy LeCroy scopes can only trigger at like 1-2 WFM/s at 20M point memory depth.
The ThunderScope will do 50.
*and* ngscopeclient on my work laptop paired with it can FFT that data, in real time, without slowing down as long as you don't also do peak searching (which I need to completely rip out and optimize to make faster and better).

#LB Eu tenho um amigo que diz que o formato do office é tão complicado que nem o próprio Office consegue abrir direito esses arquivos rs. E, de fato, ele vive reclamando que cada uma das diferentes versões do Office abre o mesmo arquivo de um forma diferente, introduzindo pequenas diferenças de formatação rs.

I know that in principle it's possible to compute the sine of an angle from first principles, because I'm pretty sure I could do it at school when I was twelve.
I know that in principle it's possible to compute the sine of an angle from first principles, because some clever bugger did it in 6502 assembly code fifty years ago.
Can I do it now in #Clojure

This is a safe thing to do here in coastal California:
When someone says "Thank god" you answer "You're welcome."
But it would probably not be a safe thing to do in Jesus Land.
By-the-way, very few people have caught onto my joke: When people ask my pronouns I say "I don't care what words you use as long as they are capitalized" (like in the Bible.)

Dzwonię do UOKiK zapytać, dlaczego nie ma odpowiedzi na mój wniosek o udostępnienie informacji publicznej wysłany e-doręczeniami.
Dowiaduję się, że UOKiK ma skrzynkę odbiorczą e-doręczeń.... ale nie ma nadawczej. Jak pisze się do nich e-doręczeniami, to trzeba w treśći napisać jakiś adres mailowy albo papierowy, na który mają odpowiedzieć 🤡

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Margo Price:
🎵 Love Me Like You Used To Do
#NowPlaying #MargoPrice
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://margoprice.bandcamp.com/track/love-me-like-you-used-to-do
https://open.spotify.com/track/28520OoA1qXG46koPHUcSG

The problem with "you can just do things" is that other people can also just do things. You can get into an arms race of just doing things, or learn how to build shared intent.
One of those approaches is masculine and exciting. The other one actually works.
Guess which one AI-powered design & development tools encourage?

The social lives of ideas (Don't Just Do Things, Part 3)
No amount of outputs will help maintain unbroken intent all the way through to delivery.

Most of the responses seem to be for coders.
I hope I won’t ever need to do another sysadmin interview but I wonder how silly it would be to have someone using a LLM to respond.
I ask wildly open questions because I don’t care as much about what they know as I do about how they think. Come back with what reads/sounds like LLM output and I don’t care where it came from or even if it’s technically correct.

What the Raiders Must Do About Geno Smith’s Slump https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-geno-smith-kenny-pickett-chicago-bears-pete-carroll

Nikhil Banerjee - "Raga Komala Rishab Asawari / Raga Maluha Kalyan, Raga Mishra Gara" (1966)
"I do not compromise with anybody or anything else in the world. I do not care, I don’t care if anybody appreciates it or not; I don’t care. .... I want to really go beyond this materialistic world towards Space — there, no compromise. .... A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards Space.” - N.B.

#EroticMusings 18: Do you have a dedicated space and/or time for your work? How do you avoid distractions?
As a writer, it's really just the usual computer and I work on my erotic books whenever time and health permits (which is less often than I like). So no dedicated spaces.
Distraction is actually something good. I tend to hyperfocus and forget that I have bodily needs, …

🦗 Organic Edible Insects --- What Would It Take?
#insects #food

How do NFL coaches take their coffee? We're glad you asked https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6668240/2025/09/28/nfl-coaches-coffee-orders/

How do you feel sane in strange times? https://muz4now.com/2020/how-do-you-feel-sane-in-strange-times/

How do you feel sane in strange times?
How do you stay sane in these strange times? With so much grief and change, we will have to reach for new ways to stay okay.

Do LLM Agents Know How to Ground, Recover, and Assess? A Benchmark for Epistemic Competence in Information-Seeking Agents
Jiaqi Shao, Yuxiang Lin, Munish Prasad Lohani, Yufeng Miao, Bing Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22391

Do LLM Agents Know How to Ground, Recover, and Assess? A Benchmark for Epistemic Competence in Information-Seeking Agents
Recent work has explored training Large Language Model (LLM) search agents with reinforcement learning (RL) for open-domain question answering (QA). However, most evaluations focus solely on final answer accuracy, overlooking how these agents reason with and act on external evidence. We introduce SeekBench, the first benchmark for evaluating the \textit{epistemic competence} of LLM search agents through step-level analysis of their response traces. SeekBench comprises 190 expert-annotated trace…

New work laptop. I don't want to sign it into my #Apple account for obvious reasons.
Connect my Apple trackpad to the new work machine and it works fine.
Try to reconnect the trackpad to my personal Mac so I can do some homelab stuff over the weekend, not so fine. It shows up in the BT menu, but won't actually connect until I have the laptop forget the device.
Ok, I think, I'll just connect it wired since I only use the trackpad at my desk at home anyway.
That doesn't work because why would you want to be able to plug in a device with a wire and have it Just Work when instead you could get to fuck around with Bluetooth.
And of course I get to do the forget device bullshit again in order to use it with my work laptop today

Bra exempel på en av mina stora samtida pet peeves: varor som görs till subjekt och tilltalar en.
https://mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet/115453315237969031

Jim Stormdancer (@mogwai_poet@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image This burger is offering me a free burger. Is it offering itself, or has it enslaved the other sentient burgers, trying to make me complicit? Do I *want* to join this burger's rewards? What kind of life do the rewards have? The QR code isn't answering any of these questions. #food

I'm curious. Do you use a vi keybinding plugin in your browser? And if you do and it's not surfingkeys, why? ;-)

Do you know how to spell results?

#ICE Is holed up in a #Milwaukee bldg owned by a local Universisty and despite previous 2023 assurances it would soon move on , are now refusing to leave.
The local Milwaukee School of Engineering is now in an awkward position as it's planned expansion site is now engineered to be off limits to them as it is a…

ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It
The Milwaukee School of Engineering is largely powerless to kick ICE out of a building it wanted to turn into a new academic center, according to audio of a meeting obtained by 404 Media.

Fuchs' First Law of LLMs:
The fitness of LLMs to do a specific task is inversely proportional to how often LLMs are used to do that task

We are looking for a new CEO for Wikimedia Nederland. So is your Dutch up to speed, do you fancy a change and do you see yourself reflected in this: #GetFediHired

Army Parade 'Disappointed' Trump, So Navy Will Do One Too (Margaret Hartmann/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/army-parade-disappointed-trump-so-navy-will-do-one-too.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250828/p77#a250828p77

remembering __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED today

"So the next time you find yourself asking why you're being inundated with AI wherever you go, remember that the answer is that someone with millions of dollars to spare paid for it on the off chance that it will yield a nice return."
(Original title: a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth)

a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
Do you want ‘AI-powered social orbits,’ ‘autonomous recruiting firms,’ and an ‘AI-powered credit card?’ Too bad, you’re getting them anyway.

The US ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder says the EU must either prove that its digital rules, such as the DMA, do not punish US tech companies or change them (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b6d9fb9c-901e-42e3-9610-5a449247fd49

Thinking about #DiscoElysium succesors(?), including ones with heavy ethical concerns. A lot of them have gone for female protagonists: Good! There could have been a couple more leading women in DE. But the reveal trailers are mainly voiced by men... men berating or mocking the central character.
Longdue's Hopetown has a father figure voice over, berating the protagonist: "Who do you think you are? [...] You don't understand the forces at play" Infantalised, she doesn't get to respond.
ZA/UM's Zero Parades VO is also a man, initially flattering the spy protagonist "brilliant, relentless" ... then saying she came after him and "everything she touched, written into failure". Again, no chance for the female spy to tell her side of the story ... And there's an objectifying/threatening section about how her fair hair is like a dandelion. Tangeant: what's with the heavy/bad pseudo-German VO accent?
Do I bother mentioning DarkMath's XXX Nightshift? Yes, for once a woman's VO, but (as you'll have guessed from the name) a porn-like, male-gaze view of what a woman would say and think.
So, don't be fooled that a female protagonist means we're actually getting a woman's POV. It's just a cosmetic change. Dora Klindžić's https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rx3zlqzbjylvtyg6siikaouq experiences as a writer at ZA/UM show how women struggle to have a voice and stay employed in these types of studios. Many of the senior men she mentions are still at ZA/UM.

lol!
https://piefed.social/comment/8202026

A few days back I tweeted and blogged about the brand-new RFC 9839, and also published the first draft of tiny Go library to help enforce the subsets defined in the RFC. Got lots of useful input on the library and have progressed it enough to do a v0.8.0 release: https://github.com/timbray/rfc9839…

PSA: there is a PyPI phishing campaign ongoing! if you see a link to hxxp://pypi-mirror[.]org do not click it.
(i think it's already blackholed but on the off chance it's not, don't touch it)

What do you think? Did Venezuela just “thwart” a false flag?
“Venezuela says it has thwarted what it calls a CIA-linked plot to attack a US warship anchored in Trinidad.
It claims the US would have blamed Venezuela for the attack on the USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer, to justify aggression against it.”
Australia Broadcasting reporting: #usa #venezuela #war
Yup. Trump wants a confrontation.
No. Venezuela likely faking the false flag.

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
—Jake Gyllenhaal
#acting #coaching #inspiration

«I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). […] You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it.»
/cc @…
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

In case anyone knows any good documents that explain in easy terms how email, smtp, and utf-8 work together, what exactly SMTPUTF8 and 8BITMIME do, and how that all works together with DKIM, I'd appreciate any pointers.

The Deputy Chief of Staff... is in charge of military strikes?
Do we even have a president?
https://bsky.app/profile/lukerussell.bsky.social/post/3lzxxxaabuk24

Luke Russell (@lukerussell.bsky.social)
The Deputy Chief of Staff... is in charge of military strikes? Do we even have a president? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-miller-venezuela-drug-boat-strike?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Over the weekend, I tried to understand TikTok. And the only way to try to understand something is to try to do it.
So I made a short piece about something I thought ought to have got more urgent attention during the Presidential campaign- the deepfake video that surfaced.

Who do I have to beg at Polyphony Digital to put the 1992 Toyota Previa minivan into #GranTurismo7

NRW, do your best!

"I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response. ... the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals."
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Smerz:
🎵 But I Do
#Smerz
https://smerzforyou.bandcamp.com/track/but-i-do
https://open.spotify.com/track/65zbeZZPu3lwWG9xsWQ7nq

Do you need inspiration how to present a dataset in a clear figure and what package to use? Check out #rstats #dataviz

From data to Viz | Find the graphic you need
A classification of chart types based on their input data format.

When Teams Embrace AI: Human Collaboration Strategies in Generative Prompting in a Creative Design Task
Yuanning Han, Ziyi Qiu, Jiale Cheng, RAY LC
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21731

When Teams Embrace AI: Human Collaboration Strategies in Generative Prompting in a Creative Design Task
Studies of Generative AI (GenAI)-assisted creative workflows have focused on individuals overcoming challenges of prompting to produce what they envisioned. When designers work in teams, how do collaboration and prompting influence each other, and how do users perceive generative AI and their collaborators during the co-prompting process? We engaged students with design or performance backgrounds, and little exposure to GenAI, to work in pairs with GenAI to create stage designs based on a creat…

“The only time that we diagnose intersex is if you show external signs, if you have genitalia that gives an impression” she explained. “And then, do you know what they do? The parents and the doctor choose the baby’s gender, and they perform genital reassignment surgery on the baby.
“That sounds like what [we transgender people are] being blamed for doing,”.
Jinkx Monsoon: It's really cis white men performing genital surgery on kids - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/jinkx-monsoon-its-really-cis-white-men-performing-genital-surgery-on-kids/

Psalm 58 is about the maga-klan... Here it is (slightly shorted to meet my Mastodon site's posting length limits.)
...
Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity?
No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
...
Break the teeth in their mouths, O God;
Lord, tear out the fangs of those lions!
Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall s…

Bible Gateway passage: Psalm 58 - New International Version
Psalm 58 - For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam. Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity? No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth. Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies. Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears, that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchante…

ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-university-building-as-a-deportation-office-and-the-university-says-it-cant-do-anything-about-it/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p98#a251028p98

HAHAHAHAHAHA
https://expresso.pt/inimigo-publico/2025-08-27-inimigo-publico-formula-1-no-algarve-sera-em-circuito-fechado-entre-a-via-do-infante-e-a-nacional-125-a7582661

Inimigo Público: Fórmula 1 no Algarve será em circuito fechado entre a Via do Infante e a Nacional 125
O primeiro-ministro, depois da F1, promete Jogos Olímpicos de inverno nas Penhas Douradas e a Volta a França em bicicleta nos Açores. Leia tudo n'O Inimigo Público

stanislav petrov didn't do this shit only for global superpowers to rearm again

1. Order two bags of cat litter.
2. The seller doesn't send it on time. No matter, you're not in a hurry.
3. Recall that they still didn't send it. Decide to resign.
4. Turns out they send it just before you resign.
5. The parcels come. Open the box.
6. Discover that the bag is damaged. Take a photo just in case.
7. Carefully take it out and check how damaged it is. Well, it's only ripped at the top, no point in returning it over that.
8. Notice they've sent the wrong litter (you've ordered non-scented) 🤦.
9. Call them asking whether there's a point in opening the other box. They say it's going to be the wrong litter too, just make a return request and attach photos.
10. You do that, requesting money return. They request you to make damage protocol from delivery company.
11. You do that. Maybe you'd agree to a 20 PLN discount for next shopping instead of returning two bags of the wrong cat litter?
12. They finally accept the return. And they prepare the return… for one bag 🤦.
So I was supposed to work less today. Instead, I've wasted a lot of time on dealing with damaged parcel and the vendor. And a lot of tape, so it wouldn't fall apart on the return journey.

Do Students Rely on AI? Analysis of Student-ChatGPT Conversations from a Field Study
Jiayu Zheng, Lingxin Hao, Kelun Lu, Ashi Garg, Mike Reese, Melo-Jean Yap, I-Jeng Wang, Xingyun Wu, Wenrui Huang, Jenna Hoffman, Ariane Kelly, My Le, Ryan Zhang, Yanyu Lin, Muhammad Faayez, Anqi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20244

Do Students Rely on AI? Analysis of Student-ChatGPT Conversations from a Field Study
This study explores how college students interact with generative AI (ChatGPT-4) during educational quizzes, focusing on reliance and predictors of AI adoption. Conducted at the early stages of ChatGPT implementation, when students had limited familiarity with the tool, this field study analyzed 315 student-AI conversations during a brief, quiz-based scenario across various STEM courses. A novel four-stage reliance taxonomy was introduced to capture students' reliance patterns, distinguishing A…

'We need the rookies to do everything they can': WR Troy Franklin on the rookies in Week 8 https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/we-need-the-rookies-to-do-everything-they-can-wr-troy-franklin-on-the-rookies-in-week-8…

And still: “Palestinians say”. It’s on video. All of it. To the world’s media: What do your own fucking eyes say? https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/115105303439614782

A.J. Brown discusses his relationship with Jalen Hurts, why he doesn't do drugs and more https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6758436/2025/10/29/aj-brown-jalen-hurts-relationship-life-no-drugs/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Deep Sea Diver:
🎵 What Do I Know
#DeepSeaDiver
https://thedeepseadiver.bandcamp.com/track/what-do-i-know
https://open.spotify.com/track/6zBgJe4BAzMrpxd63o3fKh

Weeks after the Trump administration attempted to remove VOA Director Michael Abramowitz from his position,
a judge ruled only an advisory board could do so.

• Complications: Trump can’t get the board in question,
the International Broadcasting Advisory Board, to do so,
because he fired the entire board shortly after taking office.

Tracking Trump: CDC leaders resign in protest; a Fed governor sues Trump; a judge blocks the firing of VOA’s director; and more
The 7 follows President Donald Trump’s second term.

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We are looking for a new CEO for Wikimedia Nederland. So is your Dutch up to speed, do you fancy a change and do you see yourself reflected in this: #GetFediHired

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?
This is a sign for how fucking atrophied our mental muscles are. How limited our space for thinking about how things should be.
You want to democratize "going to therapy&quot…

In a letter, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail; Google says its spam filters are not biased (Hans Nichols/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/28/ftc-google-gop-email-andrew-ferg…

Scoop: FTC chair warns Google not to discriminate against GOP email
Google insists that its spam filters do not discriminate.

@… what do we want??
are we going to do a “when do we want it?” poll next

Great bike ride today! We do a group ride the last Sunday of each month. Three different groups start from different places around the city and converge on a spot and we hang out for a bit then all ride back from whence we came...
#BikeTooter #ScrappyHour

Trump admin must restore school mental health funding: Judge
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/no-evidence-the-department-considered-any-relevant-data-judge-rubbishes-trump-admin-argument-that-it-can-do-what-it-wants-over-canceling-grants/

Did the Seahawks do it again? What's the key to moving on from a winning QB? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6672778/2025/09/29/seahawks-sam-darnold-geno-smith-russell-wilson/

Why do people hate?
#politics

Why do people hate? | CBC Radio
Even in the name of love, we can justify hatred, even murder, of the other. But why do we hate others? Scholars from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) have identified a list of 10 reasons why one group may hate another group. They also have suggestions on how to break the cycle of hate.

Another CEO got killed? That’s awful, all they did was guide the use of resources to make the world a better place. They helped not only shareholders, but employees and everyone else have a better life and a great chance to have basics like shelter more easily. Right? Who would do that.
#USpol

I genuinely do not understand how small-minded these people are.
Honestly can't fathom this.

Why Commanders Don't Sign NDAs (Mark Hertling/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-military-commanders-do-not-sign-nondisclosure-agreements-ndas
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p44#a251029p44

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An ex-OpenAI staffer of four years says it isn't doing enough to protect users, especially those with mental health issues, and needs to offer more than words (Steven Adler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/opinion

Opinion | I Worked at OpenAI. It’s Not Doing Enough to Protect People.
A.I. companies need to do more to show the proof behind their claims.

@… @… do you think this approach will work at work too

for whatever I do in the future as open source I'll use "woke" as name for the main branch
like seriously, if you run an open source project, consider inclusive branch names, including ones that make fun of fucking nazis

Bikes with tiny wheels always look so weird to me. (I mean weird as a 6 foot tall adult. I rode 20" BMX bikes when I was a kid.)
Do these 20" bikes feel like riding a "normal" bike? Is it weird? Is it just me?
#biking #bikeTooter

The NFL's 10 worst quarterback situations: Where do Giants, Browns, Saints rank? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6579588/2025/08/28/nfl-quarterback-worst-situations-giants-browns-saints/

Why do courts provide months and months those who lose obvious cases?
Here the court gives El Chimpo more than six weeks to comply. That's nonsense.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/most-trump-tariffs-are-not-leg…

2025 fantasy football draft tips: 18 must-know Do's and Don'ts https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-fantasy-football-draft-tips-18-must-know-do-s-and-don-ts

"Where do I set the hands of the clock?"
-- Les Tremayne as The King
"Oh that -- you can set them any place you want."
-- Frank Baxter as The Scientist

(from the Bell System film "About Time")
https://github.com/eggert/tz

GitHub - eggert/tz: Time zone database and code
Time zone database and code. Contribute to eggert/tz development by creating an account on GitHub.

'We can do as we want': Trump boasts he can deploy troops to US cities however he likes - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/the-right-wing/trump-us-troops-2674239614/

Essentially this is abusive behavior and the only way out is to break the cycle.
This doesn't preclude valid criticism, but each party in this must recognize that the other parties aren't them and do not have the same audiences, the same requirements for rigor, or the same style of communication.

I say it after every shooting, but it doesn't need to be this way in America. There is much we can do to make America safer. We just choose not to.
Live updates: Grand Blanc, Michigan, church shooting and fire | CNN
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At least 1 dead and 9 others wounded after shooting at Michigan church
At least on person was killed and nine others wounded in a shooting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan, according to police. Follow for live updates.

When your opponent is Donald Trump you escalate in response to threats;
you don’t try to appease him.
Jerome Powell must do everything in his power to compel the conventional wisdom of market traders to more adequately “price in” the degradation of the rule of law.
This must include tying the rule of law and the threats to the constitution to the credibility and standing of the Federal Reserve itself.
Powell’s term expires in less than a year anyway.
If defe…

Powell Will Hang Separately: The Federal Reserve Has Already Failed its Duty to Lisa Cook and the Constitution
This is a free Notes on the Crises article. A reminder to readers that the various activities run out of the still-new Notes on the Crises office cost money, while an enormous amount of time and effort goes into my writing and my constant dedication to refresh and deepen my

An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line.
All they have to do is keep it secret
—and agree to restrictions on their content.
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secre…

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.