Tootfinder

This one is around the corner from my office. I never suspected what it might look like on the inside.
https://www.instagram.com/zillowgonewild/p/DMMMikYumtR/

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7,636 likes, 461 comments - zillowgonewild on July 16, 2025: "me: lets go to Versailles Mother: we literally have Versailles at home Follow @zillowgonewild to never miss a wild home! Link in bio for the full listing! $4,000,000 | Alexandria, VA 6 bd, 5 ba | 3,183 sq ft | 2,042 sq ft lot Currently listed via @andrea.courduvelis and @nihalala @ttrsir Zillow Gone Wild season two premieres Friday, July 18, at 9:30 pm ET/PT on HGTV and streams the next day on discovery+ and HBO M…

Jad Tarifi, who founded Google's first generative AI team,
told Business Insider that he would not encourage people to get a Ph.D. to cash in on the AI hype.
"AI itself is going to be gone by the time you finish a Ph.D.
Even things like applying AI to robotics will be solved by then.
So either get into something niche like AI for biology, which is still in its very early stages,
or just don't get into anything [AI] at all," Tarifi said.

Early member of Google's AI team: It's too late to get a Ph.D. in AI
"AI itself is going to be gone by the time you finish a Ph.D.," Jad Tarifi, the founder of Google's first generative AI team, said.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Midlake:
🎵 Gone
#NowPlaying #Midlake
https://midlakeband.bandcamp.com/track/aurora-gone
https://open.spotify.com/track/7myBFDQIel9VMa4kGFaYg8

The game has gone from thrilling to grueling. Players look dog tired. Challenges getting looser.
England have gone passive and that's a risk. Sloppiness in the box and you can't have it close to goal. Sweden look like they could get a good bounce, a penalty, etc.
Hoping neither side sustains a substantial injury.
#SWEENG

SPAC Insider: SPACs are booming in 2025, with 74 blank check companies going public so far in 2025, raising about $14.7B and beating 2022 total of $13.4B (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/trump-tariffs-spac-ipo

SPACs hit $14.7 billion this year
74 blank check companies have gone public via deSPAC transaction this year.

woke up this morning fully expecting this bluesky post to have gone full-internet viral & mildly salty that it hasn't because it just made me snort again, so sharing it over here. #muppets #history

Did a little 9 mile loop this morning on the bike... Later on the way to work I spotted the progress of the new bike path on Lisbon Avenue. Lisbon has gone from a street I didn't even like to drive on to a street I look forward to biking on.
#mke #milwaukee

"Democracy may not exist, but we'll miss it when it's gone" – quoted by @…
Accidental Gods: People's Charter for People Power - with Katy Rubin and Oli Whittington of Our House
Episode webpage: https://

Nobody asked, ofc, but here’s what I think. Everybody says #Epstein was a smart guy, so there is no list. Not on paper, and if there was a digital one it’s gone. There are, however, records. Of a lot of stuff. It was reported today that 1000 FBI agents in New York were pulled off their regular duties, working 24/7 for most of March, scouring whatever documents there are specifically for references …

Stephen Miller, of course.
'Total nonsense': Trump official blasted over extolling 'wonders' of life 'when illegals are gone' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-immigration-2673339365/

I’m not quite sure what it says, but it certainly says something that prices for next week have *barely* gone up to take the train from Montreal to Toronto, despite the fact that Air Canada (the biggest transportation carrier between these two biggest cities in #Canada ) might not be operating those routes (due to a labour dispute).

I'm wondering if a dog would be a good idea when Mum's gone, partly as company for Dad but also because we would have capacity. I love this guy (should read his bio - he's perfect) and at least he's not called Max unlike half the other dogs available. That would cause big confusion in our house.

My first #podcast appearance has finally gone live. SAP's "The Open Source Way" is a regular podcast looking at various #floss projects. This week Karsten talks to Helge and myself about #qemu,…

The Open Source Way - QEMU
In this episode, Karsten Hohage talks about QEMU with Helge Dellar, SAP and Alex Bennée, Linaro. They talk about what is QEMU and how it helps the software ecosystem.  

RE: https://mastodon.online/@davidsirota/115225863778306458
Exactly. Sanders was right all along. The MSM has gone to hell and the real news, real analysis, and real interviews are all happening on other, smaller, *people-funded* media outlets.
S…

📉 Bitcoin's 'Mempool' Nearly Empty as Prices Trade Near Lifetime Highs
... although Bitcoin's price remains high, the evidence is the Bitcoin network is dying as transaction volume collapses and miners struggle
#bitcoin #crypto

BTC News: Bitcoin's 'Mempool' Nearly Empty as Prices Trade Near Lifetime Highs. What Next?
Almost all of Bitcoin's actual users have gone away, one observer said, warning of a major crisis.

But...why is it gone?

Find the hidden animal in this photo. Please excuse the state of the garden. Between the bunnies, the raccoons, the squirrels and the weeds nothing has gone to plan.

Prosecutor's release 42,000 word response to That 70's Show star #DannyMasterson's appeal to be released from 30 yr #California #prison term on forcible rape & drugging charges.
The details are not prett…

Sick children no longer welcome in the USA.
Christian values are long gone there….
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-gaza-laura-loomer-medical-visas-hospital-1235410184/

Trump Cuts Off Medical Visas from Gaza After Laura Loomer Meltdown
Donald Trump stopped all visas from Gaza, including for humanitarian and medical aid, after Laura Loomer freaked out about children getting care.

Cowboys to sign former Broncos' third runder, UFL champion to help injury-riddled position https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/08/18/cornerback-michael-ojemudia-intends-to-sign-with…

15 minutes ago there was something that I remembered I needed to sort out, but of course by the time I'd got up and started making a move it had completely gone from my mind.
"I know", I thought, "if I don't think about the thing it's bound to come back. I'll log on and scroll through Mastodon for a moment".
Anyway, long story short, I have wasted 15 minutes on Mastodon and still have no clue what I needed to do.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #The6MixWithMaryAnneHobbs
V.I.V.E.K:
🎵 Gone W3st
#VIVEK
https://tectonicrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/v-i-v-e-k-gone-w3st

So DHH has gone fully open right winger? Maybe that gets people to stop sharing and reading his takes.
If you still share that motherfucker's writing or advertise his business rethink your whole life decisions and move to the woods or something.

This Tempeh Parmesan Recipe Has Gone Viral For A Reason #plantbased

Viral Tempeh Parmesan Recipe Is a Win for Vegan Cheese Lovers
Can tempeh make a convincing plant-based parmesan? Vegan YouTuber Merle O'Neal puts a viral TikTok recipe to the test.

HOW has that not gone in?!? Two more posts, to make it 3 for Spain.
#ESPSUI #EURO2025 #fedifc

‘This country’s gonna fall on its face. There’s nobody coming to save us’: Boston punks Dropkick Murphys take on MAGA
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/16/this-countrys-gonna…

“On Monday afternoon, NIH’s chief operating officer, Eric Schnabel, was escorted out of the building just three months into his new job. … Schnabel’s departure was so abrupt that some staff showed up for meetings with him Tuesday only to be told he was gone, an NIH employee said.” (free link) https://wapo.st/4nMhcs5

Whenever I see those bombastic headlines/YouTube thumbnails about someone being "destroyed", this comic strip comes to mind. (Original link http://wondermark.com/c1209/ but the website seems to be down)

The UK has ramped up the use of facial recognition, AI, and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/t…

Has Britain Gone Too Far With Its Digital Controls?
British authorities have ramped up the use of facial recognition, artificial intelligence and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach.

But the two, TWO falls in disgrace from the cabinet didn't sound any kind of warning.
PM: I would never have appointed Mandelson had I known full Epstein links
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx25xn2e8zqo

PM: I would never have appointed Mandelson had I known full Epstein links
The PM says a due diligence process was gone through before Lord Mandelson was appointed US ambassador.

It might be cool to see this reading list as a @… -ish fedifeed
A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online | Open Culture

A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online
Dan Pelzer died earlier this year at the age of 92, leaving behind a handwritten list of all the books he'd read since 1962. His family had it digitized, put it online, and now it's gone viral, somewhat to the surprise of those of us who'd never heard of him before.

@… @… I spent 3 years being really into Rust but the shenanigans they have to get up to in order to make async work are horrifying, both in the language and for the user.
I have now gone back to Haskell.

People keep trying to point to an event where the "right/left" political violence thing got out of hand. You cannot point to anywhere in US history where the right hasn't been murdering leftists. It has never happened.
They've been talking about civil war since they lost the last one, and most of US politics before that was just trying to prevent the first one.
There isn't a wave of right/left violence. Right wing violence has just gone unchecked for so long, and been so accepted, that now they're killing each other regularly. The Trump assassination attempts were all from the right. #CharlieKirk was killed by another fascist for not being fascist enough.
Fascists have so completely taken over that they see each other as legitimate targets because they've run out of "leftists" worth murdering. That's the story. That's what people can't wrap their heads around.
Everyone is worried about the right wing response, worries about right wing escalation, but they called for civil war over the cracker barrel logo. They're already maxing out their base. All the proud boys and other Nazis are already hired by ICE. They're also already going as hard as they can. They don't need any excuses. They have total control of everything. This bumbling mess is *the best they can do.* They call for civil war every few days.
We're not seeing a war between the left and the right. We're seeing a war between the right and the far right, where both side opportunistically punch left when they can and liberals help them justify their actions.
#USPol

Chargers' Greg Roman expects RB rotation: One-back offense has gone way of 'prehistoric creatures' https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-greg-roman-rb-rotation-prehistoric-creatures-najee-harris-omarion-hampton

Cowboys to sign former Broncos' third runder, UFL champion to help injury-riddled position https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/08/18/cornerback-michael-ojemudia-intends-to-sign-with…

Guess 5 was stupid. I knew one of the letters was wrong. Should have gone straight to guess 6. #Wordle
Wordle 1,488 6/6
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@… Hello! 👋 I saw this game and thought of you! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1977610/Long_Gone/ :)

Long Gone on Steam
Decades have passed, play as a survivor stranded in an old suburban neighborhood. Explore the secret lives of people Long Gone through their forgotten belongings and platform through overgrown streets in this 3D pixel narrative adventure inspired by games of old. Oh, and watch out for the zombies.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Banditos:
🎵 Long Gone, Anyway
#Banditos
https://banditosbama.bandcamp.com/track/long-gone-anyway-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/5eKElbadHlVDD85cVWKGqR

Several times this half, defending midfield Atleti players have moved to block off the passer to prevent the return pass or the run. Smart, but dark artsy. Has gone unpunished.
#LFC

Perspectives, Needs and Challenges for Sustainable Software Engineering Teams: A FinServ Case Study
Satwik Ghanta, Peggy Gregory, Gul Calikli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12466 ht…

Perspectives, Needs and Challenges for Sustainable Software Engineering Teams: A FinServ Case Study
Sustainable Software Engineering (SSE) is slowly becoming an industry need for reasons including reputation enhancement, improved profits and more efficient practices. However, SSE has many definitions, and this is a challenge for organisations trying to build a common and broadly agreed understanding of the term. Although much research effort has gone into identifying general SSE practices, there is a gap in understanding the sustainability needs of specific organisational contexts, such as fi…

I only know one song of theirs, but that’s on me.
There is a bypassable paywall on this article.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/16/this-countr…

With DevCon and Cream City Code gone, That Conference gone, and 5 LAKES Front never happening, there aren't any developer conferences left in the #Milwaukee area. 🥺

Warum es keine gute Idee für NGOs, Organisationen, Initiativen ist, sich auf Instragram zu konzentrieren, zum 126. Mal:
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/moderation-gone-wild-instagram-sperrt-accounts-politischer-organisationen/…

Regardless of the weather, the cyber world is always hot, so check out today's Metacurity for the crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--M&S and Qantas leaders remain mum on ransomware payments,
--M&S chairman says two other British companies' ransomware attacks have gone unreported,
--5.7m customers impacted by Qantas attack,
--US sanctions DPRK man for IT worker scheme,
--DoJ seeks to bring COVID hacker to US,
--Rubio im…

M&S and Qantas leaders remain mum on ransomware payments
M&S chairman says two other British companies' ransomware attacks have gone unreported, 5.7m customers impacted by Qantas attack, US sanctions DPRK man for IT worker scheme, DoJ seeks to bring COVID hacker to US, Rubio impersonated in AI voice effort, MSFT patches 137+ flaws, much more

Ukrainian people have gone through one of the most difficult paths in Europe, – ZELENSKYY #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/ukrainian-people-have-gone-through.html

AVweb, Aviation Consumer, IFR. KITPLANES, Aviation Safety are all gone. A dark time for aviation. A beacon of hope: Russ Niles has created a new site: AVBrief.
https://avbrief.org/so-long-avweb-hello-avbrief/
If you fly, or if you want to fly, or if you love flying, sign up…

Improving Neural Pitch Estimation with SWIPE Kernels
David Marttila, Joshua D. Reiss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11233 https://arxiv.o…

Improving Neural Pitch Estimation with SWIPE Kernels
Neural networks have become the dominant technique for accurate pitch and periodicity estimation. Although a lot of research has gone into improving network architectures and training paradigms, most approaches operate directly on the raw audio waveform or on general-purpose time-frequency representations. We investigate the use of Sawtooth-Inspired Pitch Estimation (SWIPE) kernels as an audio frontend and find that these hand-crafted, task-specific features can make neural pitch estimators mor…

You may know about #taskwarrior, but do you know #vit?
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/cli_task

Signal’s Secure Backups sounds like it uses the same mechanism that @… and I designed for completely private (yet company-stored) backups when we were at Matter.
They don’t (and we didn’t) get any of the user’s information, but they’re still able to store the backup data, opaquely, on their servers.

Introducing Signal Secure Backups
In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...

I never, ever want to hear an American say anything about Free Speech again. It's gone.

Julie's Gone
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Lovely to see the thought and care that’s gone into shipping the quote posts feature to Mastodon v4.5: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/
via @…

The federal government raised the price of stamps on Sunday.
The price of first class forever stamps is increasing by 5 cents, rising from 73 cents to 78 cents, according to Senior U.S. Postal service representative Marti Johnson.
It will also cost more to send a postcard in the United States -- that's going to run you 62 cents, up from 56 cents.
An international postcard went up by 5 cents to $1.70.

Cost of higher stamp prices now in effect, USPS says: Here's how much
The cost of stamps has gone up. A senior U.S. Postal Service representative called the jump a "rational and realistic approach."

Ok, time to sleep bc I already should’ve gone like two hours ago. Please fedi still exist tomorrow

ICE seems to have become the chosen employer of Proud Boyz and the rest of the wannabe SS groups.
"Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/proud-boys-militia-groups-t…

Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?
The Trump administration has left them with little to do.

Goodbye Vimeo. I'm gone.

Filing your taxes without paying extra for the privilege is apparently too "woke."
https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/irs-chief-says-direct-file-is-gone-other-audit-tech-is-coming

IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming
The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.

Conceptual conflation, in a bunch of paragraphs.
This is not how it works.
https://thenewstack.io/bare-metal-kubernetes-the-performance-advantage-is-almost-gone/
Supposed "hard" limits can as well be enforced with

Bare-Metal Kubernetes: The Performance Advantage Is Almost Gone
CIOs, platform teams, and architects today must seriously consider whether bare metal is still the right approach.

Civility & common sense has truly gone to hell: Obnoxious audacity has become the norm worldwide.
And you can thank all the societal leeches that live by the philosophy of, "If you don't ask, you don't get".
☑️ Starbucks asks customers in South Korea to stop bringing printers and desktop computers into stores as workers transform cafes into remote offices | Fortune

Starbucks asks customers in South Korea to stop bringing printers and desktop computers into stores as workers transform cafés into remote offices
“You can just go and have a cup of coffee, work there—but people are taking it a little bit to the extreme nowadays,” one Korean studies professor said.

Ich sage es meinen Mitstreitenden seit Jahren:
Die Revolution wird nicht auf den kommerziellen Plattformen passieren, denn vorher werden die Milliardäre euch stummschalten oder rauswerfen.
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/moderatio

I've been having more and more conversations with fellow tech workers about wanting to quit and work in something completely different.
Feels like the only thing stopping so many (including me) is that no other industry really feels stable or secure enough to be that much better at the moment.
Love for tech that these people used to feel, that I used to feel too, is gone. Extinguished. Drowned in schemes and forced adoption and normalized deceptive business practices.
https://mastodon.social/@alicetragedy/115009847096488775

So...those bendicks 🍫 mints I bought in May seem to have gone 🙂 Hmm, this ball weighs 42g and measures ~64mm diameter; For that diameter of solid aluminium I reckon it would be 370g, so much less dense than I guessed

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Violent Femmes:
🎵 Gone Daddy Gone
#ViolentFemmes
https://jeffravsten.bandcamp.com/track/violent-femmes-gone-daddy-gone
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mVoBnU3mxV5Q6n4DmOv6K

Most of the garden hasn't gone to plan this year. But the golden raspberries are coming in nicely. Picking them reminds me of advice a friend's grandfather gave me - you'll know it's ripe when the raspberry comes off easily. He always chastised us if we came back with juice-covered hands. #gardenthoughts

Last night J came across a hedgehog by the covered grid. I stood and watched it whilst she went to get water and some food.
I looked up into the kitchen and looked back and the hedgehog was gone.
I doubt it was needing food, they've taken from the bird food on the ground feeders in the past. It was more the water we were concerned about.

@… seems to have gone crazy. I follow the account but today the whole feed is full of mostly askubuntu notices. What happened?

Yeah, I had planned not to write any more of these since I had already gone after the big players. But this one poked me.
“#Accesstive Will Get You Sued”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/acce…

#Accesstive Will Get You Sued
I can’t actually assert the Accesstive overlay will result in a lawsuit, though there is a trend of overlays attracting lawsuits. Attorneys say overlays don’t protect from lawsuits, either. Regardless of the company making it, if you wonder if you should use an accessibility overlay, the answer is no. Accesstive’s…

Cross-Organizational Analysis of Parliamentary Processes: A Case Study
Paul-Julius Hillmann, Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Jan Mendling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10381 https:…

Cross-Organizational Analysis of Parliamentary Processes: A Case Study
Process Mining has been widely adopted by businesses and has been shown to help organizations analyze and optimize their processes. However, so far, little attention has gone into the cross-organizational comparison of processes, since many companies are hesitant to share their data. In this paper, we explore the processes of German state parliaments that are often legally required to share their data and run the same type of processes for different geographical regions. This paper is the first…

Imagine spending years as an intelligence officer, working diligently to subvert the Kremlin,
only to watch the US stand with Russia, Iran and North Korea,
as it did in February when it voted against a UN resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine.
In that moment, Tim Weiner said: “You come to the realization, if you hadn’t already:
‘My God, the president of the United States has gone over to the other side. He has joined the authoritarian axis.’”

'America is gone': Tiny act of kindness illuminates stark new reality of Trump's DC - Raw Story
https://archive.ph/WImQL

✅ #Facebook account is really gone!
It just took me two attempts 😊

Kafkaeske und undurchsichtige Prozesse - die indirekt auch Einfluss auf die politische Willensbildung haben, in NRW sind demnächst Kommunalwahlen. Ob ein Parteijugendverband da bei Insta auftreten kann oder nicht, dürfte eine gewisse Relevanz haben. https://netzpolitik.org…

Moderation gone wild: Instagram sperrt Accounts politischer Organisationen
Zahlreiche Kreisverbände der Grünen Jugend, der Linken sowie die Partei der Humanisten haben den Zugang zu ihren Instagram-Accounts verloren. Die Betroffenen können sich nicht erklären, warum. Der Versuch der Aufklärung ist eine kafkaeske Mission.

A look at the threats and harassment local reporters covering US extremism face and the importance of coverage of how extremists interact with their communities (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/local-reporters-dangers…

How Local Reporters Manage the Dangers of Covering Extremism
The extremism beat has gone mainstream—but in local markets, it’s still intensely personal.

NFL Draft overreactions from Week 1 college football: Arch Manning overrated? Bill Belichick's NFL hopes gone?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/dra…

Also I've just realised that the flag-shaggers seem to have gone back in time and painted over Zoe Ball. #totp

Let's conclude the "checks&balances" of US democracy are truly gone, nobody can or will stop Trump in militarizing Washington DC. The rest of the world is watching the fascist dictator Trump in action.
Apparently city government is no longer relevant or in charge...Democrats in Congress don't lift a finger, they should walk out and obstruct everything in government they can....
#trump

🍑 Georgia has gone from luxury to necessity for Democrats
#politics

Georgia has gone from a luxury to a necessity for Democrats
Luckily for them, Jon Ossoff has an edge.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Violent Femmes:
🎵 Gone Daddy Gone
#NowPlaying #ViolentFemmes
https://jeffravsten.bandcamp.com/track/violent-femmes-gone-daddy-gone
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mVoBnU3mxV5Q6n4DmOv6K

I just don't know where today's gone. I was up early to get a few things done before it got really warm, and I blink and it's 4pm.

Oregon wood treatment company pleads guilty to polluting river, violations have gone on for years https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/oregon-wood-treatment-company-pleads-guilty-to-polluting-riv…

@… I see that one as gone, fwiw! https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk

30 minutes of disciplined plodding (and occasionally walking) to stay inside HR zone 2, followed by 30 minutes of ignoring HR and #Running however I wanted.
Threatened to rain and had two or three teasing drops, but it instead stayed ruefully humid. Be gone, summer, and bring on fall and blessedly cooler running temperatures!

Missing Ukrainian student found dead in Italy in apparent suicide, authorities say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/missing-ukrainian-student-found-dead.html

I drove past the old Fox Bay Cinema and it looks like the sign is gone.

Gas has gone up a buck since January.
'Costs are down!' Trump declares inflation 'solved' as gas and grocery prices soar - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/inflation-under-trump/

How the Trump administration undermined its own strategic position
A Secret Program Allowed VOA to Broadcast Television into North Korea.
Now It’s Gone.
https://www.cjr.org/news/trump-lake-secret-program-voice-of-ame…

A Secret Program Allowed VOA to Broadcast Television into North Korea. Now It’s Gone.
How the Trump administration undermined its own strategic position.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Roadhouse
Jessi Colter:
🎵 Why You Been Gone So Long
#JessiColter
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zcRHzwpBPw0RxERFB0UmF

A Star Gone Missing: Afghan Singer Vanishes In Country Where Music Is Forbidden
https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-singer-zulala-hashemi-taliban-music/33472476.html

Sources: 19-year-old Edward Coristine, who has gone by "Big Balls" online and was one of the first technologists hired as part of DOGE, has resigned (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-coristine-doge-resigned-us-government/…

‘Big Balls’ No Longer Works for the US Government
The technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency who's gone by the name "Big Balls" online, has resigned, the White House tells WIRED.

Most of the returnees declined to talk to reporters as they were whisked away by their families.
A handful answered questions, providing the first accounts of what had happened from the perspective of those who had been detained.
Two of them described hearing about the raid before it happened.
Some said they had gone to the United States on a visa waiver program or had traveled on a business visa,
and expressed confusion about why they had been detained.
The …

Freed South Korean Workers Return From the U.S. to Tearful Cheers
The workers, whose detention in a workplace immigration sweep set off outrage in South Korea, expressed both relief and anger.

IRS Commissioner On Direct File Program: ‘It’s Gone’ | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/07/irs-commissioner-on-direct-file-program-its-gone/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
James Brown:
🎵 Since You Been Gone
#JamesBrown
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The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program.
During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,”
adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out
https://news.bloombe…

IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming
The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.

IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’ | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/717308/irs-direct-file-gone-billy-long-trump-administration

Heather Cox Richardson:
Under Trump, the NSC has gone from being a body that can give the president advice to one designed simply to advance the president’s agenda.
And that is the point of the dismantling of modern government systems under Trump
-- to give him and his loyalists the power to control the country.
On July 3, Charlie Savage of the New York Times reported on letters Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote to companies like Google and Apple,
claiming Trump …

July 6, 2025
At least 80 people are dead and more than 40 are still missing in Central Texas after almost a foot (30 centimeters) of rain caused flash floods overnight on Friday.