Tootfinder

I've spent most of today -- while I really should have been working on other things -- building a little search engine for @yogthos' Cryogen blogging engine, which is what I use for my blog.
I can now generate an index very fast; the index I'm currently generating is too big, and doesn't have enough metadata, and consequently the search side can't return that metadata, but I'm very pleased with progress for one day.

elboob
A site search engine for Cryogen with search on the client side

From reporting about last night's World Series Game 6: This is the kind of amazing act that makes someone a professional. Not only the sensory ability but also the ability to act on it in a fraction of a second. And it completely changed the game's outcome.

Burrow on drought: 'Something's got to change' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47465910/joe-burrow-bengals-drought-got-change

"Year-end ‘good news’ as flat-headed cats reappear in Thailand after 29-year absence"
#Thailand #Animals

Year-end ‘good news’ as flat-headed cats reappear in Thailand after 29-year absence
Flat-headed cats haven’t gone extinct in Thailand after all. A population is clinging on in the peat swamp forests of Princess Sirindhorn Wildlife Sanctuary, in the country’s south, after eluding detection for nearly three decades. Camera traps set up by wildcat NGO Panthera and Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) picked […]

EZB peilt Einführung des digitalen Euro 2029 an
Seit Jahren wird getüftelt, nun geht der digitale Euro in die nächste Phase. Bis Verbraucher damit bezahlen können, wird es aber noch dauern.
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Sad Bovino.
A key figure in the unlawful ice violence and the disappearances of people, gregory bovino is sad.
🧵 1/2
#satire #USpol #ice

I’m all set for tonight.

Prop. 50 looks likely to face a barrage of legal challenges
David A. Carrillo, executive director of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law,
said that if Proposition 50 passes, he expects a barrage of “see what sticks” lawsuits raising California constitutional claims.
They stand little chance of success, he said.
“Voters created the redistricting commission,” he said.
“What the voters created they can change or abolish.”
Attorneys might also br…

This is a genuinely good idea, and I'd urge you to sign it. Make #AI generated works immediately identifiable. It would be interesting also to require a similar 'watermark' in generated texts -- perhaps a particular sequence of whitespace characters.
#generativeAI
H/t

Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent
As AI generated content becomes increasingly realistic, we think laws should be put in place to prevent misuse. All such media should carry a permanent watermark or disclosure, alongside a blanket ban on using anyone’s likeness in AI-generated content without consent.

"[Scotland is] almost exactly as wealthy as the eurozone countries but we’re exporting wealth at twice the rate of even the most indebted poor countries. Can I get you to reflect on that – Scotland is rich like Europe but leaks wealth much, much worse than sub-Saharan Africa...
Since devolution, the cumulative total of the wealth we have exported is now well over £280 billion" -- Robin McAlpine