Tootfinder

Hmmm, he want want to chat with farmers on this one.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/trump-says-he-will-put-very-severe-tariffs-on-canadian-fertilizer-if-needed/

a beautifully weird mckenna-ish mystery: chinese mushrooms that reliably bring the little people, but don't seem to contain any psychoactive elements (& yet obviously do) https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-cau…

Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.

Total Cohort Fertility Rate and Total Period Fertility Rate for Ireland, using birth data up to end 2024. Consistent downward trend in both, the relative pause in the middle of the TPFR decline is associated with large net in-migration (including of young women) during the Celtic Tiger.
#mastodaoine

A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/hearing-aid-startup-ai-fortell/

New Hearing Aid Company, Foretell, Brings in Steve Martin and Others as Fans
AI-powered startup Fortell has become a secret handshake for the privileged hearing-impaired crowd who swear by the product. Now, it wants to be in your ears.

Meta is essentially one big scam/fraud.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

Relative to many, my life is very good,
-- in that I am alive and housed, fed, sometimes employed.
I am healthy and loved.
Still, I am about to lose my entire mind over the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) website,
and the fact that someone,
probably a bot farmer,
has already used my 16-year-old son’s identity to establish a fraudulent account.
This is a common scam,
one that was fortunately detected before any money changed …

FAFSA Is Breaking Me
I think I have been holding it together in the face of everything we can’t stop talking about—the killing and the dying, the explosions and the terror, the eggs and the bird flu and the shameless ghouls ruining the good parts of our country, the weapons and the

Liebe @… hallo Herr #Merz, werte CDU und SPD:
Elon Musk attackiert die EU und damit unsere Basis für ein friedliches Zusammenleben und wirtschaftliches Wohlergehen. Wer jetzt noch auf X / Twitter aktiv ist, macht sich zu Komplizen. Für staatliche Ac…

Keine Macht für Oligarchen: Bundesregierung endlich runter von X
Staatliche Kommunikation ist keine gewöhnliche Werbung, sondern Teil der demokratischen Grundversorgung. Wenn Regierung und Behörden sich an Plattformen binden, die Hass, Desinformation und intransparente Algorithmen dulden oder fördern, stärken sie Strukturen, die demokratische Öffentlichkeit beschädigen.  Ein Ausstieg aus X ist das notwendige Signal, dass demokratische Werte und Grundrechte Vorrang vor kurzfristiger, vermeintlicher Reichweite haben.  Mit dem Wechsel zu offenen, dezent…

Ich halte den #ÖRR grundsätzlich für eine sehr große Errungenschaft 👍
Um so mehr empört es mich, dass unter JEDEM Beitrag auf tagesschau.de UNBEZAHLTE (!) WERBUNG (!) für Apps des Meta-Konzerns platziert wird, die schon für unzählige Skandale verantwortlich waren und offenkundig eine Gefahr für die Freiheitlich demokratischen Grundordnung darstellen. Das ist das Gegenteil von digitaler …

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p17#a251106p17

An interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/kenya-china-ai-workers/

The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.