Tootfinder

Pacific Freedom Forum Chair Robert Iroga says Pacific countries are facing a "critical moment" for press freedom, as journalists face lawsuits and prosecution (Kate Lyons/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/…

Putin unfazed by Trump's threats, plans to fight on in Ukraine, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/putin-unfazed-by-trumps-threats.html

Beto O’Rourke to Gov. Gavin Newsom: “We have to make sure that we fight, and not just fight back, but take the fight to them."
From: @…
https://www.threads.com/@vincedm…

Vince D. Monroy (@vincedmonroy) on Threads
Beto O’Rourke to Gov. Gavin Newsom: “We have to make sure that we fight, and not just fight back, but take the fight to them. And I just got to say, on behalf of the folks that I’m working with, and listening to accross the state of Texas, we are so damn proud of you and grateful to you for taking this fight to them.”

Brought a Gun to a Knife Fight: Modern VFM Baselines Outgun Specialized Detectors on In-the-Wild AI Image Detection
Yue Zhou, Xinan He, Kaiqing Lin, Bing Fan, Feng Ding, Jinhua Zeng, Bin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12995

Brought a Gun to a Knife Fight: Modern VFM Baselines Outgun Specialized Detectors on In-the-Wild AI Image Detection
While specialized detectors for AI-generated images excel on curated benchmarks, they fail catastrophically in real-world scenarios, as evidenced by their critically high false-negative rates on `in-the-wild' benchmarks. Instead of crafting another specialized `knife' for this problem, we bring a `gun' to the fight: a simple linear classifier on a modern Vision Foundation Model (VFM). Trained on identical data, this baseline decisively `outguns' bespoke detectors, boosting in-the-wild accuracy …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Flaming Lips:
🎵 Fight Test
#TheFlamingLips
https://situationsmke.bandcamp.com/track/the-flaming-lips-fight-test
https://open.spotify.com/track/54rjFgfinUbYW7lm0EsjST

Thousands are expected to gather in cities and towns across 34 states on Saturday
for a national day of protest against Republican redistricting plans in Texas and elsewhere.
“Fight the Trump Takeover” will be anchored in Austin, Texas, with other sites spread nationwide.
“Texas House Democrats are blocking a redistricting vote in the Texas House right now to Stop the Trump Takeover,”
a website for the protests says.
“But Trump has made it clear that he’s not st…

Are you in #Prague ? You must visit my talk entitled:
Disobey: #FOSS tools to fight back!
https://pretalx.linuxdays.cz/linux…

FOSS tools to fight back! LinuxDays 2025
Everyone is trying to control your communication. The reasons vary from simple curiosity to pure commercial interest, all the way to using it to control one's thoughts. Are there any ways to fight back, and why are free software and open-source tools a good alternative to the ones you use? As cypherpunks, do we have the obligation to help people be ready for the worst, or should we only take care of ourselves? In this talk, I will cover my experience with fighting back against #chatcontrol …

let-them-fight.gif
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114699647300764490

The EU (still) wants to scan
your private messages and photos
it’s not too late to act:
Reach out to your Representatives.
#chatcontrol #privacy #CSAM

Samsung Electronics Chair Jay Y. Lee wins a full reprieval from South Korea's Supreme Court in a protracted fight over fraud and stock manipulation allegations (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/south-…

We have to fight with everything we have against the awful "Chat Control" proposal. It is very easy to explain why it is a very bad idea but because the subject is child abuse, everybody loses rational thinking capabilities it seems. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-contr…

Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Control now! The Chat Control 2.0 proposal in detail Changes proposed by the European Parliament

Manny Pacquiao trains at 'amazing' Raiders facility before big fight https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/boxing/2025/07/16/manny-pacquiao-boxing-raiders-training-mario-barrios/85242975007/

Find someone who fights for you like catholics fight for unborn children.
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/aerger-nach-predigt-erzbischof-goessl-spricht-von-missverstaendnis,Ur6bz2L

Ärger nach Predigt: Erzbischof Gössl spricht von Missverständnis
Der Bamberger Erzbischof Herwig Gössl hat sich nach dem Ärger um seine Sonntagspredigt zu Wort gemeldet: Er spricht darin von Missverständnissen und bietet der Juristin Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ein persönliches Gespräch an.

Fight Chat Control – Protect Digital Privacy in the EU: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos.
The "Chat Control" proposal would mandate scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and digital security for all EU citizens.
🇪🇺 https://

WATCH: Mike Vrabel breaks up another Patriots practice fight, this time with Vikings on his 50th birthday

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/watch-m

‘Songwriters are at the bottom of the earning scale – and that is unfathomable, inexcusable and disgusting’ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide…

‘Songwriters are at the bottom of the earning scale – and that is unfathomable, inexcusable and disgusting’
Shelly Peiken on writing classic hits for Meredith Brooks, Christina Aguilera and many others, as well as her fight for songwriters’ rights, ignoring the algorithm, and not being an asshole

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Satellite jamming and spoofing set back global shipping,
--AI is inherently janky,
--Salvadoran gender freedom advocates fight oppression with digital training,
--A new sector arises to fight AI false positives in Chinese universities,

Best infosec-related long reads for the weeks of 6/28/25 and 7/5/25
Satellite jamming and spoofing sets back global shipping, AI is inherently janky, Salvadoran gender freedom advocates fight oppression with digital training, Sector arises to fight AI false positives in Chinese universities, Uncovering the venality of a nudify app, so much more

🪦 “It’s killing us”: Following workplace death, Amazon worker at JFK8 in Staten Island speaks out on unsafe working conditions
#work

“It’s killing us”: Following workplace death, Amazon worker at JFK8 in Staten Island speaks out on unsafe working conditions
The WSWS is urging workers to take matters into their own hands and organize a rank-and-file committee to investigate this and other needless incidents at JFK8 and fight for workers’ control over safety.

When the military is deployed to quell overwhelmingly peaceful protest,
when elected officials of the opposing party are arrested or handcuffed,
when student activists are jailed and deported,
and when a wide range of civic institutions
– non-profits, law firms, universities, news outlets, the arts, the civil service, scientists
– are targeted and penalized by the federal government,
it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that our core freedoms are disappea…

Q&A with Amy Lanzi, CEO of marketing and ad agency Digitas, on digital marketing, AI's impact on advertising, the creator economy, and more (Hank Green/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

How brands and creators are fighting for your attention — and your money
Guest host Hank Green sits down with Digitas CEO Amy Lanzi to demystify digital marketing and explain why the fight for your attention has grown so fierce.

Okay! 3D printed sign handle for your protest sign to fight fascism is now available!
#3Dprinting

3D Printed Sign Handle
Hold your sign up high...

This feels like a never ending fight 😩
And it’s so transparent, no more privacy for thee*
*unless you’re an EU politician 🙃
#Privacy

Characterizing Phishing Pages by JavaScript Capabilities
Aleksandr Nahapetyan, Kanv Khare, Kevin Schwarz, Bradley Reaves, Alexandros Kapravelos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13186 …

Characterizing Phishing Pages by JavaScript Capabilities
In 2024, the Anti-Phishing Work Group identified over one million phishing pages. Phishers achieve this scale by using phishing kits -- ready-to-deploy phishing websites -- to rapidly deploy phishing campaigns with specific data exfiltration, evasion, or mimicry techniques. In contrast, researchers and defenders continue to fight phishing on a page-by-page basis and rely on manual analysis to recognize static features for kit identification. This paper aims to aid researchers and analysts by …

So it turns out that electing neoliberals to fight fascism isn't a great strategy.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Alabama Shakes:
🎵 Don’t Wanna Fight
#AlabamaShakes
https://alabamashakes.bandcamp.com/track/dont-wanna-fight-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JF65QwbU9rtZrLYLLnNE7

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OKC Cult Leader Robert Spatz Faces Renewed Legal Pressure Over Abuse Claims Since 2019, six survivors brought forward allegations of severe abuse, including ...

Thousands gathered in cities and towns across 34 states on Saturday
for a national day of protest against Republican redistricting plans in Texas and elsewhere.
“Fight the Trump Takeover”
was anchored in Austin, Texas,
with other sites spread nationwide.
In Austin alone, more than 5,000 protestors gathered at the city’s capitol in a show of defiance.
Videos and photos on social media showed protestors holding various signs that read:
“Abbott is a vot…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Alabama Shakes:
🎵 Don't Wanna Fight
#NowPlaying #AlabamaShakes
https://alabamashakes.bandcamp.com/track/dont-wanna-fight-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JF65QwbU9rtZrLYLLnNE7

LOOK: Bengals fight during practice after Joe Burrow gets hit by first-round pick Shemar Stewart

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-be

Q&A with Amy Lanzi, CEO of marketing and ad agency Digitas, on digital marketing, AI's impact on advertising, the creator economy, and more (Hank Green/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

How brands and creators are fighting for your attention — and your money
Guest host Hank Green sits down with Digitas CEO Amy Lanzi to demystify digital marketing and explain why the fight for your attention has grown so fierce.

Experts warn loss of USAID endangers the fight against deadly TB:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis/experts-warn-loss-usaid-endangers-fight-against-deadly-tb

How to Fight Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences: Joint Recommendations of the IMU and the ICIAM
Ilka Agricola, Lynn Heller, Wil Schilders, Moritz Schubotz, Peter Taylor, Luis Vega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09877

How to Fight Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences: Joint Recommendations of the IMU and the ICIAM
These recommendations were formulated by the authors in close collaboration with the IMU Committee on Publishing (chaired by Ilka Agricola) and have been endorsed by the Executive Committee of the IMU and the Board of the ICIAM in May/June 2025.

Give cats food in three bowls, and they'll line up to one of them, because *obviously* the food in that one must be better.
The real art is to give cats food in a single bowl, respecting proper order and interleaving, so that everyone is fully fed, there are no fight and nobody walks back offended.
#cat

The 30-minute workout that could slash cancer cell growth by 30% #health

The 30-minute workout that could slash cancer cell growth by 30%
A vigorous workout can spark anti-cancer proteins, cut cancer cell growth, and help survivors fight recurrence by reducing inflammation and improving body composition.

Nicki Minaj offers Dez Bryant $10 millon to fight her husband after fight on social media https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/nicki-minaj-offers-dez-bryant-10-mil…

One of the RV dwellers Lurie plans to displace is a staffer helping Joel Engardio fight his recall. #sfPol
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/11/l…

Lurie has a plan to get RVs off the streets. RV dwellers say it's cruel and misguided
The residents react to City Hall's voucher proposal: "That's a step down."

I hope he's wrong: "It's going to spread from city to city, and then to the suburbs, and then to rural areas, until Trump feels like he has complete authority over local law enforcement"
'These are dangerous times': Lawyer reveals Trump's plan behind his D.C. takeover bid - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/these-are-dangerous-times-lawyer-warns-trump-escalating-fight-with-law-enforcement/

Signs on Capital Crescent Trail next to Kenwood. (Neighborhood that led successful fight to partially reverse road diet on Little Falls Parkway, road where prior to road diet cyclists & pedestrians crossing on trail were repeatedly hit, one killed, by drivers.)

US ethnic cleansing and what to do about it
Reposting link to source article instead of screenshot of tweet that had no alt text:
Data on arrests shows that ICE was heavily engaged in racial profiling in LA, because their arrest numbers fell by ~66% after that were ordered to stop making arrests based just in factors like skin color, with place, or language spoken.
#ICE #USPol

"‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/10/srebrenica-bosnia-genocide-remembered

I emailed all 14 Irish MEP's regarding the "Chat Control" proposal.
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ @…
I have received a grand total of 1 response (outs…

Voice actors fight for protections against AI in the halls of power
https://radiotoday.com.au/voice-actors-fight-for-protections-against-ai-in-the-halls-of-power/

Voice actors fight for protections against AI in the halls of power
The impact of Artificial Intelligence on voiceover artists is back in the national spotlight, with representatives from The Australian Association of

I've often wondered "Who is behind all these evil US policies?" MAGA had the answer all along 🤦‍♂️
=====
"But it is not clear that will silence MAGA voters who backed Trump in part because they thought he would lead the fight against an elite group of pedophiles controlling the country."
https://

July 13, 2025
This weekend saw the development of an extraordinary rift in MAGA world.

Falcons' Penix involved in practice fight vs. Titans https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45966844/falcons-michael-penix-jr-involved-practice-fight-vs-titans

Hanna #Perekhoda: ‘The fight for freedom in Ukraine is intimately linked to the global struggle against fascist forces’
https://voxeurop.eu/en/hanna-perekhoda-ukraine-war/

Does he know Barbara Streisand? 👀 https://mstdn.social/@Nigel_Purchase/114844866507960483

Fight the Right (@Nigel_Purchase@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image #OrangeOaf #Trump #Corruption

Sources on key Microsoft-OpenAI clause: OpenAI decides when AGI and "sufficient AGI", capable of $100B in profits, are reached, and Microsoft can't build AGI (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-and-openais-agi-fight-…

Microsoft and OpenAI's AGI Fight Is Bigger Than a Contract
A key clause in Microsoft and OpenAI's deal embodies the raging divide between AGI true believers and those who think it's still a long ways off.

What Can I Do Right Now to Defend Democracy and Fight Fascism?
https://www.peoplefor.org/what-can-i-do-right-now-defend-democracy-and-fight-fascism

What Can I Do Right Now to Defend Democracy and Fight Fascism?
Learn about ways you can take action right now to combat the spread of fascism in the United States.

I fuckin' hope so! https://beige.party/@Lana/115016489433222820

Why is the far right becoming more succesful in Europe? A good long read primer and how to fight back; The season for wildfires is lengthening and why Canada and the EU should spend more time together. #EuropeanCorrespondent really on the nose this morning...
https://elaine.mayoris.com/go/ifm3kj8tcubzj7g16zx35kyh6gqo0s24tx28kgo8839k/2866

EU to help Moldova fight hybrid attacks from 'agents of autocracy,' von der Leyen says ahead of September election: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/eu-to-help-moldova-fight.html

Podcast: How to Fight Back Against AI Bot Scrapers https://www.404media.co/podcast-how-to-fight-back-against-ai-bot-scrapers/

Hmm that was a fight.
Upgraded my webserver container to #debian trixie - easy (once I'd remembered how many nspawn setup worked).
Updated host Ubuntu VM - easy.
It reminds me it's still on #Ubuntu 22.04 and I should upgrade to 24.04 ...erm sure..
hmm, no networking...

Walking back to our car from the car show at Little York Lake we saw this couple holding hands with shirts reflecting a positive Christianity
#photo #photography #religion

Falcons, Titans fight breaks out in join practice with Atlanta QB Michael Penix Jr. at center of scuffle

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

Got a message from one of my neighbors:
“I’m getting desperate. How do we fight the regime?”
I told her I’m back in town tomorrow and we could meet up and discuss a plan.

Whoa. My @… talk was accepted. Come and join the only talk that will not be recorded.
https://pretalx.linuxdays.cz/linuxdays-2025/talk/KGHCKC/

FOSS tools to fight back! LinuxDays 2025
Everyone is trying to control your communication. The reasons vary from simple curiosity to pure commercial interest, all the way to using it to control one's thoughts. Are there any ways to fight back, and why are free software and open-source tools a good alternative to the ones you use? As cypherpunks, do we have the obligation to help people be ready for the worst, or should we only take care of ourselves? In this talk, I will cover my experience with fighting back against #chatcontrol …

Donald Trump is taking the fight to Vladimir Putin. Sort of. For now.
Trump’s deference to Russia’s authoritarian leader has been one of the most enduring geopolitical subplots of the past decade.
But his frustration with Putin has grown.
Last week, the president said the United States was taking “a lot of bullshit” from Putin.
Today, he authorized a significant shipment of U.S. defensive weapons to Ukraine via NATO and threatened Russia with new tariffs if the war…

Why Trump Suddenly Sounds Tougher on Russia
The real reason the president suddenly sounds tougher on Russia

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Mission of Burma:
🎵 Academy Fight Song
#MissionofBurma
https://testoftime.bandcamp.com/track/academy-fight-song-mission-of-burma-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/7jOWRM3Me16IP99EqgZzHN

Ravens' Wiggins sent off field after fight with Colts https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45909696/ravens-wiggins-removed-practice-fight-colts

On July 17th,
March in Peace.
Act in Power.
https://goodtroubleliveson.org/

Good Trouble Lives On
On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will take to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, voting rights, and dignity for all.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Public Enemy:
🎵 Party for Your Right to Fight (Blak Wax Metromixx)
#PublicEnemy
https://poisonedcandy.bandcamp.com/track/party-for-your-right-to-fight-live-public-enemy
https://open.spotify.com/track/0GeHyuLsR39CxwqxdMVKaN

🧲 Coffee fortified with iron—new microparticles can be added to food and beverages to fight malnutrition
... who'd a thought metal organic frameworks could be edible?
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-coffee-fortified-iron-microparticles-added.html

Coffee fortified with iron—new microparticles can be added to food and beverages to fight malnutrition
Around the world, about 2 billion people suffer from iron deficiency, which can lead to anemia, impaired brain development in children, and increased infant mortality.

War has changed: Ukraine’s tech pioneers are leading the fight West can’t afford to ignore: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/war-has-changed-ukraines-tech.html

Two-time national champ Stetson Bennett IV delivers in Rams roster fight: 'More mature and comfortable'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/two-tim

The Marin Community Foundation sold 13.4M Figma shares for $440M in the IPO; source: the foundation had received the shares from Figma co-founder Evan Wallace (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/02/figma-ipo-surpris…

Figma IPO’s surprise winner is a charity with 13 million shares—and a famous backstory that sparked a bitter feud over an oil fortune decades ago
The Marin Community Foundation netted $440 million as the IPO's largest selling shareholder. The philanthropic organization is itself the product of a previous generation of big business—and a famous legal fight for control of the money.

Climatologist Michael Mann and vaccine expert Peter
say we’re in an
“antiscience superstorm.”
It’s a movement that has upended federal health agencies,
defunded research and weaponized social media and AI
to advance its agenda.
And now, some of the nation’s most vocal antiscience figures are in major positions of power.
We talk to Hotez and Mann about their daily battles against disinformation,
their personal toll and what we can all do to …

Leading Climate and Vaccine Scientists on How to Fight Antiscience | KQED
We talk to Hotez and Mann about their daily battles against disinformation, their personal toll and what we can all do to counter the antiscience threat. Their new book is “Science Under Siege.”

Panthers' Xavier Legette ejected after fight; Dave Canales admonishes WR for putting team at 'disadvantage'

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
The Westerlies:
🎵 Fight On / The Royal Band
#TheWesterlies
https://open.spotify.com/track/134xKarQHaYhehXv5T01DX

Forthcoming book
by Bernie Sanders:
Fight Oligarchy.
“Sanders explains how the United States today is an oligarchic society in which a small handful of multibillionaires exercise enormous economic and political power.”
https://bookshop.org/p/books/fight-oli

Ravens' Wiggins sent off field after fight with Colts https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45909696/ravens-wiggins-removed-practice-fight-colts

We're fighting to
⭐️make Citizens United irrelevant.
Let us know what you think
>> https://transparent-elections.org/l

Transparent Election Initiative - Our Fight Against Corporate Money in Politics
Join our fight for transparent elections. The Montana Plan uses state constitutional authority to keep corporate money out of politics and restore democracy to the people.

If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education,
the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article

Apathy Over Attacks on Higher Education Needs to Change
If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society

In recent months, immigration agents, often masked, have arrested and detained undocumented people at court hearings, school drop-offs, and in one case, shortly after a mother gave birth.
💥The agency has, under many administrations, separated children from their parents, and denied people contact with lawyers and family members. 
⚠️ And some high-profile cases seem politically motivated, as well:
In early March, ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil,
a graduate student …

ICE raids push immigrant communities into the shadows, hindering environmental justice efforts
Noncitizens may no longer feel safe showing up to public meetings to fight harmful local policies, advocates say

Ravens CB Nate Wiggins removed from joint practice with Colts after fight breaks out https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6537081/2025/08/05/ravens-colts-fight-nate-wiggins/

A missile strike in the Caribbean and National Guard deployments are pushing the armed forces beyond their traditional mission.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/09/the-military-wasnt-built-to-fight-crime/6…

The Military Wasn’t Built to Fight Crime
A missile strike in the Caribbean and National Guard deployments are pushing the armed forces beyond their traditional mission.

Dez Bryant gets into social media feud with Nicki Minaj; rapper offers him $10 million to fight her husband

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dez-bry

Trump’s all-out assault on immigrant communities and the rule of law
escalated to new heights when federal agents beat and arrested
David Huerta, a prominent labor leader and president of the Service Employees International Union
– United Service Workers (West),
while Huerta and others were observing an ICE raid in Los Angeles, CA, on June 6.
Huerta was released from federal custody, but he is still being charged with felony conspiracy to impede an officer,

EXCLUSIVE: David Huerta, union leader beaten & arrested at ICE raid, speaks out
In his first public interview since he was beaten and arrested by federal agents in June, David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union - United Service Workers (West), speaks about the status of his case and the roles unions must play in the fight against fascism.

Patriots coach Mike Vrabel gets bloodied in training camp fight, tells WR 'You should have seen the other guy'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

Ravens-Colts joint practice: A fight erupts, Indy's QB battle rages on and more takeaways from heated session

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