Tootfinder

Ex-BC Coroner Testifies about Failures to Prevent Toxic Drug Deaths via @… https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/12/17/Ex-

Ex-BC Coroner Testifies about Failures to Prevent Toxic Drug Deaths | The Tyee
Lawyers for DULF are arguing the compassion club had to take matters into its own hands.

Don’t forget these 5: Too many 3rd down failures https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/don-t-forget-these-5-too-many-3rd-down-failures

Law360 reports that Hagens Berman LLC was sanctioned for submitting briefs created by LLMs (with gross failures). As a client, I would engage their liability.

Packers working to sign coach Matt LaFleur, GM Brian Gutekunst to contract extensions, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers-matt-lafleur-contract-extension-coach/

Gripped by a terrible #drought now entering its 💥sixth year,
#Iran’s cities are on the brink of what its meteorological organisation calls
♦️“water day zero”:
the boundary beyond which supply systems no longer function.
🔥This was crossed by

Don’t forget these 5: Too many 3rd down failures https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/don-t-forget-these-5-too-many-3rd-down-failures

Wollt ihr etwas unangenehmes lesen?
#AfD wirklich an diesem Land gelegen wäre, würden sie LKW stellen, die

How ‘day zero’ water shortages in Iran are fuelling protests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/how-day-zero-water-shortages-in-iran-are-fuelling-protests?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

How ‘day zero’ water shortages in Iran are fuelling protests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/how-day-zero-water-shortages-in-iran-are-fuelling-protests?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

can #LA have a Mamdani too? I'll join the DSA and canvas if I have to just please can we have a progressive mayor who actually gives a shit and doesn't fire our fired department chief as a scapegoat for her own failures

Fall of Huliaipole: Command Failures and Exhausted Defenders: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/fall-of-huliaipole-command-failures.html

💸 Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
#software

Software Failures and IT Management's Repeated Mistakes
Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.

Opinion: The events of 2025 exposed the enemy within our own borders - El Paso Matters https://elpasomatters.org/2025/12/29/opinion-2025-america-democracy-moral-collapse/

Opinion: After 2025, Americans must confront the cost of failed leadership and moral collapse
The events of 2025 revealed profound failures in American leadership and institutions, exposing how racism, bigotry and political complicity have weakened democracy and eroded the nation’s moral standing.

Do we have a name for when AI fails at itself?
For example, a YouTube video with “GPT" in the title and the auto/ai-generated transcript says “ChachiBt”, “Chachib”, “Chbt”, and probably other failures.

"Keir Starmer and senior ministers have been urged by Scottish Labour to “stay behind their doors” in Whitehall to avoid turning the next Holyrood election into a referendum on UK government failures.
Anas Sarwar, the leader of Scottish Labour, said the prime minister’s policy failures and missteps had left voters 'angry, frustrated and impatient'"
Well, he should know.
#ScotPol

"They often generate code that fails to perform as intended, but which on the surface seems to run successfully, avoiding syntax errors or obvious crashes."
AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
https://spectrum.iee…

AI Coding Degrades: Silent Failures Emerge
One AI coding assistant power user says the tools are hitting a plateau, and some are even declining. What's causing this unexpected twist in tech?

If you are watching CART via Otter•ai and need the scrollbars at all (to scroll, to see where you are in the page, etc), then you can fix the WCAG SC 1.4.11 and 2.5.5 failures by adding this CSS to the page:
```
.otter-scrollbar {
scrollbar-width: unset;
scrollbar-color: unset;
}
```

What I've Learnt
A podcast from journalist Deborah Blashki-Marks, a unique platform for International and national talent to delve deep into their own challenges, successes, failures, and life lessons...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-i

Packers expected to seek contract extension Matt LaFleur despite continued playoff failures, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers-matt-lafleur-contract-extension-coach…

Simple repair policies and decompositions for semi-coherent systems with simultaneous failures
Guido Lagos, Jorge Navarro, Hector Olivero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08786 https:…

If you ever thought the Nationals were interested in regional or rural communities.
" Warming above 1.5C will cause widespread crop failures and food insecurity, more extreme weather events, and the loss of between 70 and 90 per cent of the world's coral reefs"
https://share.google/4dQtUrWlU49vaQgBc

Can we tackle climate change without net zero? Here's what it really means
The Coalition is debating whether to dump its commitment to the net zero climate target. Here's what that term actually means.

Researchers tested Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI agent on 67 mathematical problems and found that it discovered improved solutions to about 20 of them (Adam Zsolt Wagner/@azwagner_)
https://x.com/azwagner_/status/1986388872104702312

Adam Zsolt Wagner (@azwagner_) on X
Really happy to share our new paper on using AlphaEvolve for mathematical exploration at scale, written with Javier Gómez-Serrano, Terence Tao, and @GoogleDeepMind's Bogdan Georgiev. We tested it on 67 problems and documented all our successes and failures. 🧵

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115505473401296834
The worst launch was the first Starship.
It destroyed the launchpad during lift off, a while later went out of control because of engine failures and loss of thrust vector control and as cherry on top the system designed to destroy it (flight termination system) also failed.
This was declared a "success" by SpaceX.

The chanciness of time
John M. Myers, Hadi Madjid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08611 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08611 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.08611
arXiv:2511.08611v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Digital network failures stemming from instabilities in measurements of temporal order motivate attention to concurrent events. A century of attempts to resolve the instabilities have never eliminated them. Do concurrent events occur at indeterminate times, or are they better seen as events to which the very concept of temporal order cannot apply? Logical dependencies of messages propagating through digital networks can be represented by marked graphs on which tokens are moved in formal token games. However, available mathematical formulations of these token games invoke "markings"-- global snapshots of the locations of tokens on the graph. The formulation in terms of global snapshots is misleading, because distributed networks are never still: they exhibit concurrent events inexpressible by global snapshots. We reformulate token games used to represent digital networks so as to express concurrency. The trick is to replace global snapshots with "local snapshots." Detached from any central clock, a local snapshot records an action at a node during a play of a token game. Assemblages of local records define acyclic directed graphs that we call history graphs. We show how history graphs represent plays of token games with concurrent motions, and, importantly, how history graphs can represent the history of a network operating while undergoing unpredictable changes.
toXiv_bot_toot

What Brock Bowers Continues to Prove Despite Raiders' Failures https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-brock-bowers-continues-prove

Largest Number of Driving Test Failures
By April 1970 Mrs. Miriam Hargrave had failed her test thirty-nine
times. In the eight preceding years she had received two hundred and
twelve driving lessons at a cost of L300. She set the new record while
driving triumphantly through a set of red traffic lights in Wakefield,
Yorkshire. Disappointingly, she passed at the fortieth attempt (3 August
1970) but eight years later she showed some of her old magic when she w…

Offseason failures among 5 top reasons Cowboys' 2025 season derailed https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/11/5-things-went-wrong-dallas-cowboys-2025/88102574007/

#Chronic #hunger affects 673 million people
– about 8.2% of the world
– driven by poverty, broken food systems & inequality.
GIJN’s new guide shows how to dig into systemic failures:

Global Investigative Journalism Network (@gijn.org)
Chronic hunger affects 673 million people – about 8.2% of the – driven by poverty, broken food systems & inequality. GIJN’s new guide shows how to dig into systemic failures: https://twp.ai/9PXveB

Taking notes from the successes and failures of the Russian revolution, a group of anarchists (including Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist militant who was critical in defeating the Tzar's army and who later also fought the Red Army) wrote a document titled the "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists." This document came to be known as "The Platform." It remains one of the most important first-hand revolutionary documents, outlining a clear revolutionary plan.
I've taken this, the Viable System Model from cybernetics, and my own organizing experience, to describe an organization to confront the current set of crises.
This continues to build on the stuff I have been writing, but it's a lot less high level theory and a lot more specific.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-microservices
As always, editing notes (typos, grammar, spelling, etc) are always welcome, as are any questions. My ADHD brain tends to go a lot faster than anything else, so I have a tendency to drop words and have a lot of trouble catching them later. Between my ADHD and mild dyslexia, it can be pretty hard for me to catch when autocorrect gives me the wrong word.
A lot of folks have already been super helpful in offering their editing support, and I'm really grateful. Writing this has felt collaborative, and it should. On the one hand this comes from my own experience and research, but on the other I'm also voicing things that have come from conversations here. This has all been a bit of my voice and a bit of the federated world, and I'm really appreciating that.

Frontline report: Russia builds metal cages around refineries as Ukrainian drone strikes expose air defense failures - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/01/frontline-report-2025-10-31/

OF COURSE!
LLMs do not have any knowledge They only have words. When "introspecting" they are actually just word-salading that like they do everything else. They can't SAY that so they make up plausible-seeming explanations.
BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THEY DO, EVER. https://mastodon.social/@arstechni…

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes Anthropic finds some LLM "self-awareness," but "failures of introspection remain the norm." https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/llms-show-a-highly-unreliable-capacity-to-describe-their-own-internal-processes/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Climate inaction linked to millions of preventable deaths each year, study finds #environment

Climate inaction linked to millions of preventable deaths each year, study finds
Climate change is ravaging the health of people around the world and policy failures are leading to "millions" of avoidable deaths each year, an international team of experts said Wednesday.

Briefly tabling the question of legality, of which I believe this to be a completely indefensible & illegal action, anyone even superficially versed in US history knows that the US has an inglorious track record of failures in attempting regime changes.
If the rationale wasn’t clear or defensible, how well thought out will the next steps be? This president is not exactly known for having detailed plans.
Improvising your way through a war? Recipe for disaster.

I decided to try to participate just a little in this weekend's #HamRadio ARRL sweepstakes CW contest to stretch my tyro skills. In a busy contest, I decided to set up not1mm and configure my radio for sending from a contest logger to try to reduce wasting time with nervous keying failures. Took three really broken exchanges (the first ones hand-sent) that made me feel bad for the other…

Underlings are so annoying!
Sometimes you can make this problem go away by exploiting weak labor power (see: factories, agriculture, sanitation).
Sometimes you can create a toxic org culture when information •only• flows down the hierarchy, so no pushback can ever reach your sensitive ears. (Public school administrations are rife with this.)
Sometimes you can do it by making your catastrophic failures look like a string of successes to the people up the chain. (Large corporations are swimming in this.)
5/

Looking back at all the successes and failures in my life, I can't help but be proud that at least the potty training thing stuck.

Creating triage #chatbots to address failures in critical #MentalHealth infrastructure isn’t a solution to the problem: it simply adds another hoop to jump through en route to adequate, human-mediated care and treatment. #health

During the Call for Failures at #hacklu on Wednesday, 22 October, I’ll be presenting:
“The cve-search design failure(s)”
Yep, the things I got wrong, the kind you only truly notice once you start implementing them.
#cybersecurity

A new report from the grassroots organization #RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not:
publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential campaign.
While the Democratic Party’s official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction’s
“

“The Blue Road to Trump Hell”: Norm Solomon on “How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy”
A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential campaign. While the Democratic Party’s official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction’s “Democratic Autopsy” looks at how factors like “service to corporate power, hostility to the progressive wing of the party, …

Here is the explanation of @… itself why it was down worldwide yesterday (again) and it styled a lot on the Internet.
»Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025:
On 18 November 2025 at 11:20 UTC (all times in this blog are UTC), Cloudflar's network began experiencing significant failures to deliver core network traffic. […]«
☁️

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.

On our Tesla we have noticed that the design and construction has tried new methods to save weight, but that those methods have not withstood the test of time (or weather).
For example we've had to replace some of the ball joints in the front suspension because they were not water proof and ended up corroding - a problem solved back in the 1960s by other car makers.
And now there's this...
"Half of Tesla Model 3s Failed Their Mandatory Inspections in Finland&qu…

Half of Tesla Model 3s Failed Their Mandatory Inspections in Finland
The Tesla Model 3, Model S, and Model X all ranked among the bottom five performers in Finland's mandatory vehicle inspections of 4-year-old cars

As promised, over the past few days I've been scouting for accounts on several Mastodon and Pixelfed servers related to #AltProcess photography & print making, in the hope to get more insights into each others' work/creations/experiences, successes & failures etc. Obviously the list below (in A-Z order) is NOT meant to be exhaustive in any way or form and if you feel you'd…

I am trying to print a spool winder at the moment. To be honest I do this for the last days already.
(Hope I did the simple present and present progressive right on this one, so my english teacher can be proud. ;-))
Various printing failures are driving me crazy. I just want a tool to transfer the wood filament from the large spool to a small one. It can't be that difficult.
So todays hashtag is

from Reece Martin Transit
The Transit "Experts" That Derail Transit.
My Grand Theory of North America's Transit Expansion Failures.
"saying that if Montreal was building major transit again in the 21st century it wouldn’t build a metro, because no city would is laughable, or painful, depending on ones state of mind when you read that."

The Transit "Experts" That Derail Transit.
My Grand Theory of North America's Transit Expansion Failures.

Trump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/203619/donald-trump-cancels-release-gdp-economic-report

The Defense’s Failures Highlight Matt Eberflus’ Move Upstairs https://insidethestar.com/the-defenses-failures-highlight-matt-eberflus-move-upstairs

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The 5th Dimension:
🎵 Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
#The5thDimension
https://open.spotify.com/track/2r5seNRSheLITyH4cevy2O

How many more Cloudflare failures do we need to realize that the centralized internet it’s a bad idea?

Funny how of all the injustices and failures of accommodation in the world, Mastodon collectively decided that alt text supremacy was the crusade it would be remembered for

Human-centered identity systems were never designed for the coming wave of autonomous AI agents. With identity failures the leading cause of most major cyber incidents, CISOs must quickly rethink how to account for the identities of new AI agents.
Check out my latest CSO piece.
Many thanks to Jim Alkove of Oleria, Ric Smith of Okta, Steve Stone of SentinelOne, Pete Clay of Aireon, Vijay Gajjala of Oleria, Carey Frey of TELUS, and Ely Kahn of SentinelOne.
Rethinking identit…

Rethinking identity for the AI era: CISOs must build trust at machine speed
Human-centered identity systems were never designed for the coming wave of autonomous AI agents. CISOs face a reckoning over how to rebuild identity systems to counter the risks.

Russia’s defense minister Andrei Belousov faces Putin's ire over air-defense gaps and military logistics failures: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/19/russias-defense-minister-andrei-belousov.html

"Ofwat letting water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sewage #Pollution

Cowboys' playoff chances plummet after loss in Detroit https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-playoff-chances-plummet-after-loss-in-detroit

Several of you have sent me very kind replies checking in about guilt / shame / my well-being.
Please don’t worry about me! I’m not in some kind of guilt spiral here. (“Shame” in the OP was too strong; “regret” would have been a better word.) I’m not beating myself up; I’m reflecting. I’m an engineer, and when something breaks or fails, I want to understand the failure so that I can help prevent similar failures in the future. Nobody’s perfect, but everyone can learn!
6/

The collapse of two US firms, First Brands and Tricolor,
has shone a light on private credit and its growing influence in the global economy.
The failures have led to ballooning losses at traditional banks,
and, coupled with worries about the health of US regional banks,
have raised concerns about weak lending standards and potential threats from an opaque corner of the so-called "shadow banking" sector

Trump just combined America's 2 greatest foreign failures and sold it to the media: expert - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-venezuela-2674243446/

Freedom for Animals has delved into the dark world of the bird of prey industry for a second time, to carry out a major new investigation as part of our Tether and Torment campaign.
This comes seven years after our landmark 2018 report first brought national attention to the hidden suffering behind the industry, and exposed the continuing welfare failures in UK bird of prey centres.

Tether and Torment 2
Undercover investigation into Bird of Prey Zoos in the UK. Read our new report, published 2025.

Ukraine hasn't only struck Russian oil refineries so hard that there is a fuel shortage in Russia. Russia has diluted the gasoline so bad that cars start to break.
So if you finally get your hands on a working fuel pump, the ridiculously expensive fuel you get, destroys your engine.
https://news-pravda.c…

Raiders’ Mark Davis Gets Surprising Message Amid Dysfunction https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/mark-davis-surprising-message-dysfunction/?adt_ei=[email]

The federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention,
has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to
“abuse people with impunity”, experts warn.
Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures
– at the same time as the gov…

Jerry Jones addresses Cowboys defense, insists Matt Eberflus isn’t sole problem https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/jerry-jones-addresses-dallas-cowboys-defense-insists-matt-eberflus-isnt-sole-problem