Tootfinder

“Recently I read Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch and Algospeak by Adam Aleksic. The language we speak (and text) to each other is at the core of who and what we are, and the Internet is the strongest among the forces that channel and fertilize its growth. So there’s scope for plenty of books on the subject. Both books educated and entertained, one made me angry.”

Hmmm. #ATmosphereConf wrapped, is this anything?
@olof-loves-ai.bsky.social will you join us in Vancouver in March? Would love to have you submit to the CFP: news.atmosphereconf.org/3m6z2b7ovyk2i
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Boris (@bmann.ca)
Hmmm. #ATmosphereConf wrapped, is this anything? @olof-loves-ai.bsky.social will you join us in Vancouver in March? Would love to have you submit to the CFP: news.atmosphereconf.org/3m6z2b7ovyk2i [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Israeli data security startup Cyera raised a $400M Series F led by Blackstone Growth at a $9B valuation, up from $6B after raising $540M in June 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/08/cyera-c

Exclusive: Cyera CEO Yotam Segev on raising $400 million and why the stakes in cybersecurity are getting higher
Just six months after fetching a $6 billion valuation, cyber startup Cyera has raised $400 million at a $9 billion valuation.

Mayor Jacob Frey tells ICE to 'get the f-- out of Minneapolis,' rejects DHS self-defense statement (Louis Casiano/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayor-jacob-frey-tells-ice-get-f-out-minneapolis-rejects-dhs-self-defense-statement
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p98#a260107p98

Attensity!
https://attensity.net/
h/t @…

Attensity!
A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement

Inside a Camp for Aspiring N.F.L. Kickers https://www.nytimes.com/video/the-athletic/100000010575641/inside-a-camp-for-aspiring-nfl-kickers.html

Yes.
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Boris (@bmann.ca)
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Laurie Penny is very near the top of my list of favorite living writers. She has started a how-to-write-well series, entitled (for obvious reasons) “How to Write Like A Person”; intro here: https://open.substack.com/pub/lauriepenny/p/ho…

How to Write Like A Person
Announcing a new seminar for 2026.

You don’t mess with sorority girls! | The Rookie
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-LmTHuGAOg

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lo_fye/116195346441912355
Agree so hard

Occasionally I have mocked the IT practices of my older daughter's school, but at least they don't hide behind a https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/.
They send emails from accounts which can receive emails. This is the way.

A collegue and I have been doing a lot of testing with Opus 4.6 since yesterday. I spent $23 in a single prompt using /fast btw, insane! Anyway, the agent team functionality is cool to see, but I was underwhelmed by the quality.
Overall, I haven't noticed much improvement against Opus 4.5 at individual tasks. But when using agent teams, the quality is more like Sonnet 4.5's. It is not that smart.

F*ck cancer, and hope for future cures: Century-old tumours could reveal why more young people are getting bowel cancer - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgxpv9k822o

Century-old tumours could reveal why more young people are getting bowel cancer
Bowel cancer in people under the age of 50 is increasing worldwide and scientists are striving to find out why.

GIMME AN F!!!

"Israeli F-35I Shoots Down Iranian Yak-130" == The most powerful and modern fighter jet today shot down sub-sonic fighter jet from 2002.
https://theaviationist.com/2026/03/04/f-35i-downing-yak-130/
Kinda reminds me of Poland attacking german tanks on ho…

�L-MEM-BAD, bad memory
VMS-F-PDGERS, pudding between the ears

The noted banjo player Béla Fleck has canceled three performances scheduled for next month with the National Symphony Orchestra, or NSO, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Fleck, who has won 18 Grammy Awards and often performs with symphonies around the country,
is the latest artist to cancel engagements at the Kennedy Center amidst many administrative and curatorial changes at the Washington, D.C. arts complex.

Please someone open a bike shop in the Excelsior. The whole neighborhood lacks one.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-excelsior-empty-storefront-grant/

S.F. City Hall offers to fill empty storefronts in the Excelsior
A few dozen storefronts remain stubbornly vacant on the business corridors in the Excelsior. And oftentimes, the villain is plumbing.

It remains silly that the "express" F train switches to its old routing on weekends (stopping at queensbridge instead of court st), despite being slower to do so and also confusing af for riders. Make it make sense.
#NYC #MTA

Bråkmakern-poden: FŸr og nå, anarkisme med Jan Bojer Vindheim - Bråkmakern-poden #8
Episode webpage: https://redcircle.com/shows/1b3d90e8-6277-48f0-ac6e-ba19304aec0e/episodes/d9a8cf86-3888-4297-98f8-264deeb6f873
…

Ach. Guck. Aber wenn Selbstvertreter das sagen, ist es 'zu ideologisch'.
https://www.fr.de/panorama/armutszeugnis-fuer-unsere-republik-bildungsforscher-kritisiert-deutsche-schulen-zr-94112863.html<…

Ich bemühe mich, in allem auch etwas Gutes zu sehen. Die #Landtagswahl in #BaWü könnte z.B. dazu führen, dass sich die #SPD für die Abschaffung der

‘End of NATO’ — Trump’s Greenland ambitions put Ukraine in a diplomatic bind: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/end-of-nato-trumps-greenland.html

Stephen Miller is simply the biggest f'ing dweeb.

Die Debatte um das #EEG2027 dreht sich um Kosten, #Förderung und den Umbau der #Energienetze.
Diskutiert werden flexiblere Modelle, mehr Systemdienlichkeit und eine stärkere Marktinteg…

Die Überarbeitung des Erneuerbare Energien Gesetzes 2027: Fluch oder Segen? · Leipziger Zeitung
Bei Änderungen im Erneuerbare Energie Gesetz (EEG) geht es für jeden einzelnen von uns, ob Verbraucher oder Nutzer, um die Energie- und Stromkosten und um

"I appreciate you for blurring people’s faces. Thank you for respecting the law, and people’s privacy." schrieb teotwaki@mastodon.online unter das Foto der fremden Radfahrenden.
Ich verpixel Fotos von Fremden, weil ich es nicht schaffe die Fotos zu machen und die Radfahrenden dann anzusprechen (bin offen für Ideen zur Problemlösung). Aber auch, weil ich mit meinen Fotos auf die Räder und die Kleidung blicken möchte.
Auch wenn die Fotos ohne Blur viel mehr her machen.

Thijs Lucas (@Thijs_Lucas@pixel.tchncs.de)
Queen #Copenhagen #København #Kopenhagen #Vesterbro #CycleChic #Radschick #Fashion #Cycling #Fahrrad #VelorettiBikes #Veloretti #Mixte #Panning #Mitziehen #FujifilmXT3 #Fujinon16f2_8 23mm | 1/60 | f/8 | ISO640

Ein richtig schöner #Tauferinnerungsgottesdienst mit drei Taufen war das heute.
Schaut selbst:
https://youtube.com/live/rgNtXHV9eMk?feature=share

The planets #Venus and #Saturn in #conjunction 1/2 hour ago over Bochum, Germany - easily caught with a hand-held bridge camera at 1/4 and 1/3.2 second, f/2.8 and ISO 800 but marginal even in 11x70 binoculars: bad sky transparency, caused mostly by Sahara dust AFAIK took its toll. At these images with the best *photographic* contrast the Sun was 8 1/2° below the horizon while Saturn and Venus were 3 1/4° and 3 3/4° high, with the latter 83 times brighter.

Fulton County argues FBI seizure of 2020 ballots shows ‘callous disregard’ for constitutional rights - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/08/fulton-county-fbi-seizure-2020-ballots-constitution-00770938

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Tropical F Storm:
🎵 Bloodsport
#TropicalFStorm
https://open.spotify.com/track/7f5CKG6ztLKCZ6k7GTTl2k

@… Ikke kun er I kommet med på fŸdiverset, men jeres “viewer” webside er bare dejlig. Tak for det!

I (miss) remembered this including FPS. (I don't see FPS listed now, thus the quick delete and edit. Apologies.)
FPS has worked with CBP in the past. FPS and CBP were "protecting" federal buildings back in 2020 during the George Floyd uprising.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-federal-police-are-kidnapping-and-brutalizing-protesters-in-portland/

The Surprising Lentil That Beats The Rest On Antioxidants And Fiber #plantbased

The Surprising Lentil That Beats The Rest On Antioxidants And Fiber
Discover why green lentils outperform other varieties in antioxidants, fiber, and metabolic health, backed by recent research

Cat was unimpressed by the Opening Ceremony. Me too.
#Olympics

Ach.
https://bsky.app/profile/kozarischer.bsky.social/post/3mbyneej2p22s

Markus Koza (@kozarischer.bsky.social)
Weil's draußen schneit u seit 1.1. ja #Zuverdienstverbot bei Arbeitslosigkeit gilt: Uns hat Schreiben eines Schneeräum-Betriebs erreicht. Solche Unternehmen haben typischerweise Arbeitslose bei Bedarf (Schnee) tageweise bzw. geringfügig f Räumdienste eingestellt (früher z.B. auch Wr. Linien) 1/2

BALD IST WEIHNACHTEN! 😃
#Schokohusaren
Die zahllosen Husaren-Rezepte auf dieser Welt haben eines gemeinsam: In der Mitte ist eine Delle mit #Füllung. 😍
Werbung: Das Rezept ist aus meinem

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116029936042827639
He’s very smart, this is a great idea

FreeBSD desktop installer script test: quick start
#FreeBSD

Auch Noam Chomsky ge-epsteinigt.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/noam-chomsky-epstein-ties-wife-apology?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Noam Chomsky’s wife apologizes for their ‘grave mistake’ in Epstein ties
Valeria Chomsky says Epstein had deceived them and they were ‘careless’ not to thoroughly research his background

#FOSS #BankID Er det noen som vet? plz boost.
FŸler mer og mer på at jeg må vekk fra Android. Min kinesiske mobil har en del nett-aktivitet som jeg ikke helt skjŸnner, og prŸver stadig vekk å dytte på meg "features" . Er avhengig av bankid på mobil, og en sånn autentiserings-kodegener…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Fall:
🎵 O.F.Y.C. Showcase
#TheFall
https://open.spotify.com/track/0CS0OxveMm2A3PQg6U8XTF

Lions coach Campbell grades himself: 'Freaking F' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47517197/campbell-grades-freaking-f-lions-underachieved

Scientists worry finalizing 'Schedule F' rule will further politicize NIH grant decisions (Anil Oza/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/nih-grant-reviewers-schedule-f-designation-politicizes-science/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p141#a260206p141

Oh, today is my iTunes Match-iversary. I pay Apple ~$30CAD annually for them to store and sync my 30 year old digital music collection of like ... 100GB and counting.
Looks like I wrote about it last year.
Most of my music purchases are Bandcamp/indie these days and uploaded to my home Ampache. https://bsky.ap…

Boris (@bmann.ca)
Oh, today is my iTunes Match-iversary. I pay Apple ~$30CAD annually for them to store and sync my 30 year old digital music collection of like ... 100GB and counting. Looks like I wrote about it last year. Most of my music purchases are Bandcamp/indie these days and uploaded to my home Ampache.

A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using labs' latest tools, thinking atrophy, and more, alongside boosted productivity (Siddhant Khare)
https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real

AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare
You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@davidakin/116036872766920155
David has a fabulously intelligent, informative daily political newsletter. He knows Substack ain’t great, but doesn’t know of any options.
Are there some?

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116036407755063167
Dawns on me that I should have said that this is not just *English* dictionaries, the non-English ones include the top two in the list.

A thread with info about ICE protests, vigils, and demonstrations
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115857694467412426

In discussion with some speakers we are looking to recruit for #ATmosphereConf, I said we have lots of really great tech talks, but also "how do we shine a path on the road ahead and equip community & builders with some approaches and mindsets"

Art of the (peace) deal: Ukraine teases $800 billion economic peace plan to keep Trump on side: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/art-of-the-peace-deal.html

Die Deutsche #Umwelthilfe hat erfolgreich gegen irreführende Werbung der #Stadtwerke #Fürstenfeldbruck geklagt.
Diese dürfen ihr

Klimaklage der DUH: Stadtwerke Fürstenfeldbruck stellen Werbung mit vermeintlich CO2-kompensiertem Erdgas ein
· Stadtwerke Fürstenfeldbruck erkennen Unterlassungsanspruch der DUH im Rahmen eines Vergleiches an· Ausgleich durch Waldschutzprojekte aus Sicht des Landgerichts nicht geeignet· DUH-Bundesgeschäftsführer Jürgen Resch: „Der vermeintliche CO2-Ausgleich suggeriert fälschlicherweise die Klimaneutralität des Erdgastarifs. Der Ablasshandel mit CO2-Zertifikaten muss aufhören.“

Looking forward to getting translation of all the Bad Bunny words. Good show, immense cultural leverage. OMG Liam. #Superbowl

Why Purple Cabbage Might Be The Most Underrated Superfood #plantbased

Why Purple Cabbage Might Be the Most Underrated Superfood
Packed with antioxidants and fiber, purple cabbage is an affordable superfood that supports gut health, immunity, and longevity

RE: https://phpc.social/@ramsey/115840508587895842
Samesies

That #Superbowl pre-game show was kind of, um, woke.

Oil Remains Potent Geopolitical Tool, Decades After Energy Crisis (Rebecca F. Elliott/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/business/energy-environment/oil-gas-iran-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p24#a260309p24

Not obvious that the numbers mean the same thing or are comparable, but still: Wikipedia, “List of dictionaries by number of words”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dictionaries_by_number_of_words

Is there a “quick” to follow all the folks i follow on bluesky, over here? I know about the bridging bot, but is there a way to automate that?
Related, is there a way to automate reaching out to bsky folks that I follow that aren’t bridged with that bridging bot?

RE: https://flipboard.social/@coffeegeek/115946586003362286
Must-read.

When we were planning the August edition of @protocolsforpublishers.com we knew that being in the US wasn’t going to work for a lot of people.
@chadkoh.com is running with it & now has set a date for London in early February.
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Boris (@bmann.ca)
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RE: https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115860595238097654
Almost nobody needs a truck. And those that do don’t need big ones. Love this C15 and there’s also that Japanese truck.
Big trucks are for dicks.

TFW you notice that your Synology-local-backup to cloud-backup hasn't been working since you moved in October 2024 because you’d stupidly hardwired the Synology DNS to the former residence’s now-wrong 192.168. Would have been sad if the house burned down. Would have been nice if the Synology had complained.
Discovered this in the course of a search for a non-US (ideally Canadian) Synology-friendly cloud backup. Promising: eazyBackup and ionos.ca HiDrive.

Dem Podcast Star Jennifer Welch Gets Ovation from Hollywood at GLAAD Awards: 'F**k ICE. F**k Trump! Free Palestine! Save Trans Kids' (Warner Todd Huston/Breitbart)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/03/06/dem-podcast-star-jennifer-welch-gets-ovation-from-hollywood-at-glaad-awards-fk-ice-fk-trump-free-palestine-save-trans-kids/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260306/p129#a260306p129

RE: https://mas.to/@kissane/115771219606234540
A thoughtful consideration of thoughtfulness. With earthquakes and tsunamis. Recommended.

Air travel can be challenging!

DHS Officer Seen on Video Kicking Memorial Candle for Renee Nicole Good, Woman Killed by ICE: 'Don't Give a F--' (Liam Quinn/People)
https://people.com/dhs-officer-seen-kicking-over-candle-at-memorial-for-renee-nicole-good-11881658
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p102#a260108p102

Yes. A personal search engine, visualizer, and interface builder.
“look, the way grok is integrated into X is gross and stupid and bad, but i do believe having an LLM familiar help you navigate the dark forest of the internet is going to be the future — ideally this is on your device or through a trusted and secure host, but it will be immensely helpful”

dame (@dame.is)
look, the way grok is integrated into X is gross and stupid and bad, but i do believe having an LLM familiar help you navigate the dark forest of the internet is going to be the future — ideally this is on your device or through a trusted and secure host, but it will be immensely helpful

Trump admin moves to finalize return of Schedule F (Erich Wagner/GovExec.com)
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/02/trump-admin-moves-finalize-return-schedule-f/411239/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p137#a260205p137

Another dispatch from the implementing-regular-expressions front lines. Probably of interest to very few, but who knows. Includes thoughts on coding while old.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/01/Quamina-2026

Regexp Lessons

What the headline says: “Sleepy Mountain Lion Wakes Up Right in Front of Trail Camera” - several amusing px. https://petapixel.com/2026/02/04/sleepy-mountain-lion-wakes-up-right-in-front-of-trail-camera/

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt (Adam Gabbatt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/mamdani-snow-ice-freeze-storm
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p23#a260208p23

From New York to New Mexico: new Epstein files shed light on his sprawling ranch outside Santa Fe (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/epstein-files-new-mexico-ranch
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p38#a260208p38

RE: https://zeppelin.flights/@dmoren/116182750879464892
In general I find Apple’s hardware so good these days the upgrade cycle will be much longer for me. My iPhone 14 Pro, iPad Air, M3 MacBook Pro, AirPod Pro 3s are all fine for several more years.

I mean, spam sucks obviously, but occasionally one leaks through the filters that makes me smile.
There’s a URL in the signature which I whimsically followed, the headline there is: “The place where you can build and buy a whole qubit.”
#xml

'People would attempt to flee': Concern grows over possible Cuba collapse (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/following-venezuela-raid-fears-grow-of-economic-collapse-in-cuba-00714716
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p129#a260107p129

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@emd/116183119035053665
Managed to get a flight home tomorrow! Long day but I’m glad they didn’t risk flying on a broken plane.
Now to get some refunds for upgrades I wont get to use.

“Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”

Fulton County argues FBI seizure of 2020 ballots shows 'callous disregard' for constitutional rights (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/08/fulton-county-fbi-seizure-2020-ballots-constitution-00770938
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p54#a260208p54

Android has excellent notification management. Long-press and make others like this buzz or be silent or just be disallowed. Somehow Facebook has worked around this and now always buzzes. I keep FB around to keep in touch with less technical branches of the family but this is intolerable.

RE: #Statamic crew is crushing it!

Tl;dr: LLMs are shit at citations.
AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles
https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles
AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/health-2g9ldae7z/-/a-I4-7HfQDQv2jzCcpFVcaCA:a:3199692-/0
This is amazing!

Hey, I'm in the Epstein files! Er, in a "Popular in your network" email from <info@twitter.com> in February 2016. The redirect URLs are broken so I can’t even figure out what I said that was popular: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 11/EFTA0…

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

“Welcome to the first Long Links of this so-far-pretty-lousy 2026. I can’t imagine that anyone will have time to take in all of these, but there’s a good chance one or two might brighten your day.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/03/Long-Links
This ti…

Long Links

RE: https://legal.social/@malteengeler/116183021196976940
McSweenys and The Onion speak the truth.

Every airport should strive to be like AMS Schipol.
So easy, everything flows nice, very well signed.

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116184859339152340
“Funny”

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@kgw/116026567123149891
Extreme, but beautiful drives in Canada

The big Ticketmaster anti-monopoly trial is spinning up: https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/the-ticketmaster-monopoly-trial-starts

The Ticketmaster Monopoly Trial Starts
It's not a tech company, but Live Nation is one of the most prominent monopolists in the U.S. The government's case against the live entertainment firm will reverberate. And it started yesterday.

Saskatchewan
#photography

Shame on Inter Miami for sucking up to that guy in the White House. Especially given that most of them are brown-skinned foreigners, as in leading candidates for arrest, incarceration, and deportation by ICE if they weren't elite athletes. Feaugh.
The US Women’s national hockey team, on the other hand, had sufficient class to blow off their invitation. Good on ’em.
#soccer

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116177954803428148
Yes! Having said that, npm has terrified me for years.

People who love cameras & #photography tend to be even more obsessive about lenses. This is particularly true in the #fujifilm ecosystem where I live. If you are a bit lens-focused (😉) you will really enjoy this video, where a couple of Fuji lens insiders talk about lenses they might hypotheticall…

Intelligent Life of Earth - Existential Comics
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/644

Intelligent Life of Earth
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Not a huge fan of David “LNG” Eby but I’m with him on this one. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/eby-alberta-separatist-group-treason-9.7071107?cmp=rss

B.C. premier doubles down on calling Alberta separatist movement seeking U.S. support 'treason' | CBC News
Calgary-based data analyst John Santos warns that that kind of language could push people toward separatism.

The year is 2026 and I just fixed some broken Perl code. Living in the future, baby.
#perl

@… Does this screenie exhibit a bug? Note the lonely "Followers" text at the bottom.
Best of the New Year to you and yours, and thanks for all the fine work!