Tootfinder

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.

"S.F. public health department has to cut $17 million. No one is happy."
Really, "no one"? This is billionaire erasure. Billionaires are thrilled! They love that Mayor Lurie opposes the billionaire tax and the overpaid CEO tax, and is making cuts instead.
https://

S.F. public health dept. has to cut $17 million. No one is happy.
Community organizations facing cuts are fighting back .

We’re looking at global aggregation of blog tags again. Send your suggestions to @leaflet.pub
@kevinmarks.com any opinions or learnings you’d like to share from the Technorati days?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technorati
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The F*ck Or Suck Podcast
Every week Matt West and Wes Suradnya sit down to shoot the shit about health, fitness, building confidence, business, relationships, and whatever random chaos comes up once the conversation gets rolling...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/fck…

F-16 ammunition, air defenses — Netherlands announces $290 million Ukraine aid package: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/f-ammunition-air-defenses-netherlands.html

N.F.L. Said It Will Look Into Steve Tisch’s Ties to Epstein https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/sports/nfl-steve-tisch-epstein-giants.html

RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/116008143141431568
Matt is super knowledgeable about US elections, listen to him

US immigration lawyers, talent managers, and creators say influencers and OnlyFans models now dominate O-1B visas, which are reserved for "exceptional" artists (Ian Hodgson/Financial Times)

Zählt das noch als knapp verfehlt? 🧐 Teslas große Akku-Revolution bleibt vorerst aus! 🔋 Der 2023 geschlossene Milliardenvertrag mit dem koreanischen Kathoden-Hersteller L&F ist praktisch geplatzt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11126643

Yawn, another Btc-down-5% day. For those who watch this space closely, the spot price is regularly drifting down below the average price of the Btc in the MicroStrategy treasury. There’s a certain smell in the air…
#bitcoin

By any measure, the F.B.I.’s search of an election center in Fulton County, Ga., last week was extraordinary.
Agents seized truckloads of 2020 ballots, as Trump harnessed the levers of government to not only buttress his false claims of widespread voter fraud,
but also to try to build a criminal case against those he believes wronged him.
What happened the next day was in some ways even more unusual, The New York Times has learned.
Behind closed doors, Tulsi Gabbard,…

Gabbard Arranges Trump Call With FBI Agents After Georgia Election Center Search
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, brokered the call and President Trump directly questioned frontline agents on the inquiry, The Times has learned.

ICE lies.
CBP lies.
DHS lies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/portland-venezuelans-shot-border-patrol-court

added a new #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer applet, `control-clock`: a simple clock generator for when you just need to feed something into the XI pin of an MCU or something.
you can use it in combination with other applets!
e.g.: `glasgow multi probe-rs ... control-clock --clk A7 -f 2000`

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Fšrmacos:
🎵 Manual de una Pérdida
#Fármacos
https://farmacos.bandcamp.com/track/manual-de-una-p-rdida
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FDqMu6PH1HT27nM9q21Uh

Hegseth: Maduro 'f'd around and he found out' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5671213-maduro-captured-us-airstrikes-hegseth/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p68#a260103p68

Trump's tariffs has officially f-cked the U.S. automotive industry. Enter Canada's retaliatory response: 25% tariffs on American cars, parts & components.
Good job, Michigan, Kentucky & Georgia Trump voters. You just lost your biggest non-US market.
▶️ Canada’s New Tariffs Deliver Crushing Blow to U.S. Automakers...

GOOSEFISH
Community mascot options just expanded.
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Boris (@bmann.ca)
GOOSEFISH Community mascot options just expanded. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another
mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same
being who produces the impressions.
-- Marquis D. A. F. de Sade

How transport systems create opportunities for social interaction [pdf]:
https://assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-6716648/v1_covered_1a9fd1b9-eb52-4868-be5f-5898913f12e7.pdf?c=1761677086

#ODF: weitaus mehr als nur ein #Dateiformat - ein Baustein für verlässliche digitale Identität | ThinkPad-Forum.de

📊 Meine Top4-Beiträge der letzten Woche mit den meisten Boosts sind:
1. Die #Python Software Foundation hat 1,5 Mio USD #Förderung von US-Regierung abgelehnt.

«Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.»
Hannah Arendt (1969)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crises_of_the_Repub…

Crises of the Republic - Wikipedia

I see that Amazon will be releasing a fresh DVD of the long absent from streaming movie Dogma in a few days.
Where else can one see Alanis Morissette as god?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma_(film)

Dogma (film) - Wikipedia

Har brukt Qobuz i noen måneder nå, og anbefaler den. Jeg bruker ikke strŸmming (og hadde ikke Spotify fŸr) men ville ha en tjeneste hvor jeg kan kjŸpe og laste ned digitale musikkfiler i toppkvalitet og vite at jeg beholder dem selv om de forsvinner fra tjenesten (*host* Apple Music *host*). Qobuz innfrir, og en ekstra bonus er at de som abonnerer på strŸmmetjenesten får en betydelig rabatt på de albumene man kjŸper.
Dersom du ikke vil ha strŸmming, men heller vil at ekte mennesker lag…

An eclectic musical adventure...
Radio Paradise streams highly curated, eclectic mixes of music -- chosen by real humans -- with unparalleled audio quality.

Optimism about US democracy, with sports metaphors and statics nerdery: https://open.substack.com/pub/natesilver/p/dont-discount-american-democracys?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Don't discount American democracy's resilience
The U.S. has a highly popular democratic tradition, even as it battles an authoritarian element.

A galera da URSAL compraria esse muito fšcil rs.
@… @… @…

Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds #Africa

Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds
New research warns that Africa's forests, once vital allies in the fight against climate change, have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source.

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@BertoldScharf/115831923923189651
Als Exil-Süddeutscher schließe ich mich dem an. wtf hamburg

"People are trying BPC-157 and TB-500 for healing injuries by stimulating new blood vessel growth, oxytocin for improving eye contact (one OpenAI researcher called it “Ozempic for autism”), epitalon for sleep and retatrutide — a next-generation weight-loss drug still in clinical trials — for everything from appetite suppression to increased focus."

‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World
The gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the F.D.A.

the volume of the #39c3 talks opening animation is so f'ing annoyingly loud

Why I always go pick the food up myself. https://mastodon.social/@amirbkhan/115826283829344704

Amir Khan (@amirbkhan@mastodon.social)
Attached: 3 images Nothing like starting the year with a WHISTLEBLOWER confession from a BURNED-OUT, disgruntled - and rightfully ANGRY - Big Tech developer. Disgraceful Product strategy. Might be legal but screams immorality! This is Big Tech’s playbook: dehumanize workers, manipulate customers, and call it ‘disruption.’ I don’t care how “good” the service feels. As a consumer and a worker, it’s time to choose and redefine BETTER! Original Reddit post: https://www.reddit.c…

What happened to telegram on f-droid? Damn...

datewithdeath – 0H00x001222223333344d45N67777 8 ° 8 °8 i###pppAABCD,,,D,EF.F.F.F×
https://povertyelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/0h00…

Hungary’s Famous Thermal Baths Are Saving the Country’s Famous Grasslands from Desertification https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hungarys-famous-thermal-baths-are-saving-the-countrys-famous-grasslands-from-desertification/…

Hungary's Famous Thermal Baths Are Saving the Country's Famous Grasslands from Desertification
The Water Guardians blocked several channel switches along a canal, and brought thousands of gallons of spa water streaming down onto the land

My Power BI charts got good today - I think the reason is that I only used AI to get a function from a wonky API that has defeated me for two days. BUT I did not let any AI advice me on building tables. Note to self - don't let AI correct code, just put your head down and f**king correct it yourself.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RecordReview
Johann Sebastian Bach, David Blackadder, Laurence Cummings & Academy of Ancient Music:
🎵 Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047: III. Allegro assai
https://open.spotify.com/track/1w4tBnzdVmTI0gl8QPBczr

Schedule F won’t fix government’s performance management problems, report finds - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/schedule-f-wont-fix-governments-performance-management-problems-report-finds/411107/

Bills GM Brandon Beane defends Joe Brady hire amid turbulent offseason, fan backlash: 'F--- the outside'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bills-brandon-beane-defends-joe-brady-h…

La circulation est momentanément arrêtée de Biblio. F.Mitterrand vers Juvisy Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : prolongation des travaux sur le réseau ferroviaire dans le secteur de Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
🤖 03/12 05:44

Aber wenigstens der Verbrennungsmotor wird gerettet! </zynismus>
https://www.heise.de/news/Umwelttechnik-auf-dem-Vormarsch-EU-im-Rueckstand-11099183.html

And all of those App Stores could be using an app Lexicon, and get curated for unique needs, with social signals and ownership details.
https://bsky.app/profile/davatron5000.bsky.social/post/3m6fkly5krk2w

ACARS drama
Ground to Air Message:
WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU REGARDING YOUR PLANES EXTENDED WARRANTY
Area: Washington DC, USA
Type: Airbus A320neo
A: #⁠a68bc80691f
F: #⁠fc25519c061

I suggest we call this “The Epstein Files War”.
#Epstein #Venezuela

Spin interferometry in a beam of ultracold molecules
R. A. Jenkins, M. T. Ziemba, F. J. Collings, X. S. Zheng, F. Castellini, E. Wursten, J. Lim, B. E. Sauer, M. R. Tarbutt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00713

What’s everyone getting sworn in on?
I’m going with the Dial-a-Pirate code wheel from Monkey Island.
https://www.oldgames.sk/codewheel/secret-of-monkey-island-dial-a-pirate

Tech workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly experimenting with gray-market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, for improving focus and more (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/bus…

‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World
The gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the F.D.A.

Some of the nation’s top health officials and Donald Trump have cast doubt on a vaccine that doctors call lifesaving.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned whether babies should continue to receive the vaccine on their first day of life,
arguing that the disease is mainly transmitted through sexual contact and sharing needles.
But the virus can also pass from mother to child at birth.
In September, Mr. Trump said that he thought children …

Hepatitis B Vaccine, Once a Public Health Win, Is Under Threat From RFK Jr.
Rates of the disease have fallen since 1991, when all newborns began receiving the shot. An influential panel is scheduled to vote Thursday on eligibility for the vaccine.

Police, jail, and banning stuff seem to be this board's/mayor's only "solutions" to the public health crisis of addiction, and not, for example, voluntary treatment: we still lack enough treatment facilities to accommodate every San Franciscan who comes in ready and wanting help to kick their habit.
This policy is particularly dumb because of its obvious harm to nightlife. People want to be able to buy snacks when they leave the club.

S.F. supervisors say late-night store ban is working. Not so fast, say criminologists. 
Researchers urge caution on policy implications, as San Francisco supervisors use study's results to push for a broader late-night ban.

WTAF
https://ottawa.place/@stephanie/115832001829839888

From the excellent Standard Ebooks, “Read 20 of the best books entering the public domain in 2026”. Seriously, check ’em out.
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026

How fragmented sanctions prolong the war and empower Russia’s defense industry: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/how-fragmented-sanctions-prolong-the.html

F-16s scrambled, flares deployed to intercept plane near Mar-a-Lago (Emily Mae/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/f-16s-scrambled-intercept-plane-near-mar-a-lago/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p43#a251201p43

#Wärmepumpen sind aktuell das meistverkaufte #Heizsystem in Deutschland.
Durch staatliche #Förderungen können Eigentümer einen erheblichen Teil der Kosten für Einbau und Inbet…

Meistverkauftes Heizsystem derzeit: So läuft die Förderung für Wärmepumpen
Wärmepumpen sind zurzeit das meistverkaufte Heizsystem Deutschlands. Durch verschiedene Förderbeträge können Hausbesitzer bei Einbau und Inbetriebnahme einen großen Teil der Kosten einsparen. ntv gibt den Überblick.

Fuck you Google: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115827988336467719

Furst Haugen forstår tydeligvis ikke hvordan politikk virker. Ved å «nekte å ta side» så *har* NRK tatt side. De har tatt side med de som mener det er helt greit at et land som begår et aktivt folkemord får lov til å renvaske seg gjennom en festlig musikkonkurranse. Den falske påstanden om å «ikke ta side» vil alltid bekrefte overfor overgriperen at den kan fortsette som fŸr uten konsekvenser.
Skam dere, NRK!
Israel får delta i Eurovision – NRK Kultur og underholdning

Israel får delta i Eurovision – flere land boikotter
Det ble ingen avstemning om Israels deltakelse.

Apple announces its 2025 App Store Award winners and names visual planner Tiimo as the iPhone App of the Year; many of the winning apps have AI integrations (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/04/ai-finds-its-way-into-apples-top-apps-o…

AI finds its way into Apple's top apps of the year | TechCrunch
Although Apple has continued to avoid naming a dedicated AI app or AI chatbot as its app of the year, AI was showcased among this year's winners.

Saskatchewan
#photography

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Chopin, Sibelius and Mendelssohn from Slovenia
The RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra are joined by pianist Dejan Lazić for Chopin's Piano Concerto no 2 in F minor, as well as Mendelssohn's 'Reformation' Symphony and Finlandia.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ml8r

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
D’Angelo:
🎵 Alright
#DAngelo
https://crazyups.bandcamp.com/track/alright-f-alcott
https://open.spotify.com/track/6aoDP6J8OfYlCPasrZqjeS

La circulation est momentanément arrêtée de Juvisy vers Biblio. F.Mitterrand Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : prolongation des travaux sur le réseau ferroviaire
🤖 03/12 04:58

I always blame Chief Justice Roberts personally for every evil thing Trump does.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115828303474605896

Aber wenigstens der Verbrennungsmotor wird gerettet! </zynismus>
https://www.heise.de/news/Umwelttechnik-auf-dem-Vormarsch-EU-im-Rueckstand-11099183.html

On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.”
And
“Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.”
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/pro…

Boris (@bmann.ca)
On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.” And “Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

END OF THE KREMLIN'S "SHADOW FLEET" – EU blocks Russia's tankers, China & India refuse oil!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/end-of-the-kremlins-ampquotshadow.html

2025 KFF Marketplace Enrollees Survey (KFF)
https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/2025-kff-marketplace-enrollees-survey/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p53#a251204p53

Sleeping on the job used to be frowned upon.
But a Pew Research Center survey found that 34% of Americans take daily naps.
According to experts, 30 minutes or less of catnapping can “restore alertness, enhance performance and reduce mistakes and accidents” in the workplace.
In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy caught some extra z’s in early afternoon to keep up his stride.
And NASA pilots take in-flight naps as short as 26 minutes to enhance performance and alertn…

Midday Power Naps: 7 Reasons To Sleep On The Job In 2025
Scientific-backed research shows that midday power naps at work can be a game changer in your mental alertness, energy and productivity—even the company's bottom line.

@… 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!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Stereolab:
🎵 Fed Up With Your Job
#Stereolab
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/fed-up-with-your-job
https://open.spotify.com/track/6aIK6jmjQUqlX6NOKXEgDQ

3 Florida House Republicans are exiting Congress. Now the mess begins. (Kimberly Leonard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/03/florida-house-republicans-elections-00760624
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p87#a260203p87

Lions fan accused of using racist language in DK Metcalf altercation files $100 million defamation lawsuit

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/lions-fan-defamation-lawsuit-dk-…

Thread of videos from @betaworks.com Demo Day last month, focused on new interfaces for computing enabled by or used for LLMs.
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m7h2osvsy22u

Boris (@bmann.ca)
Thread of videos from @betaworks.com Demo Day last month, focused on new interfaces for computing enabled by or used for LLMs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

The Trump regime is part of a long project,
funded by an ever-changing group of filthy rich right-wing White people.
One of their first overt steps was taking control of SCOTUS.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115828…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Stereolab:
🎵 Fed Up With Your Job
#Stereolab
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/fed-up-with-your-job
https://open.spotify.com/track/6aIK6jmjQUqlX6NOKXEgDQ

Florida Republicans quickly back Trump after Maduro's capture in Venezuela (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/03/florida-republicans-trump-maduros-venezuela-00709581
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p36#a260103p36

Good lord, Usenet still exists?!? https://newsgrouper.org/tops

RE: https://phpc.social/@Crell/115998212669441825
Great post, and exactly how I feel

Excellent lazy-Sunday reading: “Asteroids that spin really fast” by astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh: https://tritonstation.com/2026/02/01/asteroids-that-spin-really-fast/
The Vera Rubin scope is discovering huge numbers of asteroids and some of them are weird. …

Tulsi Gabbard running solo 2020 election inquiry separate from FBI investigation (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/tulsi-gabbard-2020-election-investigation-ed
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p66#a260203p66

eleven dance songs I made
by imaginary prisons https://blog.bmann.ca/3m6pzjjct722k

eleven dance songs I made by imaginary prisons - Boris Blog
Another Other People's Music find via Ether Diver

We’ll all be better off for this. Thanks @… !
https://www.threads.com/@evanprodromou/post/DS6GRm6EZ12

Evan Prodromou (@evanprodromou) on Threads
In 2026, I'm going full time on the Social Web https://evanp.me/2025/12/30/working-full-time-on-the-social-web/

Blocking the work of MSF is absolutely depraved. Israel continues to fumble its way out of the community of civilized nations.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93…

Israel to halt operations of several humanitarian groups in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday that the organizations that will be banned on Jan. 1 did not meet its new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF by its French acronym, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with H…

DHS's account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: 'A smear campaign' (Sam Levin/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/portland-venezuelans-shot-border-patrol-court
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p148#a260202p148

Idly working on my Quamina state-machine-based pattern matcher. (https://github.com/timbray/quamina)
Hit a bug that smells like an infinite loop. Looked closer. Hmm, seems like my code traversing a dinky little 4-state automaton thinks it needs to consider 25,165,824 possible state transitions. Need …

GitHub - timbray/quamina: Home of Quamina, a fast pattern-matching library in Go
Home of Quamina, a fast pattern-matching library in Go - timbray/quamina

…and that’s a wrap.
Great series.
#StrangerThings

Maybe a roving band of angry orcas will take them all down. https://mstdn.social/@edwilk/115811938936066718

Ed Wilk antifascist (@edwilk@mstdn.social)
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No, Gander is not a “rug pull”.
The crowd equity funding is closing, I think with ~2400 or so Canadian investors including myself, all on the same terms.
Some people didn’t sign paperwork when they got the chance at an earlier offering.
Join us at #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver in late March if you’d like to meet the Gander team in person

ATmosphereConf News
News from the ATProtocol Community Conference, aka ATmosphereConf. March 26th - 29th, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Qobuz’s policy on AI-generated music.
#music #genAI

1/ I hate Bitcoin with a probably-unhealthy intensity and have a hook set up so I get notified on big moves (e.g. down 5.3% today). When they come in I glance at the chart and occasionally get stuck for a few minutes. Stock markets have been explained as an argument between buyers & sellers as to the correct value of the underlying real-world thing. But…
#Bitcoin

GOG @gog.com is getting acquired by its original co-founder Michał Kicińsk
the idea for GOG in 2007 “bring classic games back to players, and make sure that once you buy a game, it truly belongs to you, forever.”
https://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-ac

GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you | GOG.COM
Hey everyone, GOG Team here.

Saskatchewan winter study.
#photography

Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience.
This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.
https://www.

Hey @… here's a screenie of a page linked from masto in Phanpy. How do I get it to open in a real browser so I can come back to it later? This is totally fatal to the way I work.

Blacksky is interesting: https://blackskyweb.xyz
Also, they have transparent finances, which I care about really a lot: https://opencollective.com/blacksky

Build Community Online with Decentralized Tools | Blacksky
Decentralized tools to build community online. The intercommunal net where communities govern, pool funds and stay safe on their own terms.

#genAI

Vancouver city council calls on feds to address headlight brightness | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-vehicle-headlight-brightness-safety-concerns-9.7061810

Vancouver city council calls on feds to address headlight brightness | CBC News
Advocates say car headlights are not only too bright, but also too high up on larger vehicles, sometimes aiming at eye level. They say the lights blind other drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.

Daring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves
#USpol

The Names They Call Themselves
*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.

A report from down in the photography trenches in Minneapolis: https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/6336791578/john-abernathy-pierre-lavie-protest-photographers-ice-minneapolis-thrown-leica

@… Fediverse says hi!

The “Just coffee, black” meme brutally deconstructed: https://knowyourmeme.com/videos/433740-just-coffee-black
h/t @…