Tootfinder

"chatbots over-rely on this kind of sensory-immaterial conjunction because[IT] impresses people passing superficially over a text--exactly the kind of fake-deep crowd-pleaser for which L.L.M. output is being fine-tuned."
(Original title: Will A.I. writing ever be good?)
https://maxread.substa…

Will A.I. writing ever be good?
Some notes on A.I. writing

"NOT everything that is worth reading is a book. A good programmer’s library (I will let you decide whether that is a good library owned by a programmer, or a library belonging to a good programmer) includes essays, scholarly articles, videos, magazines, blog posts, podcast episodes, and more. This month, we are going to read an Easter egg in a programming language."

Tim Peters
Not everything that is worth reading is a book. A good programmer's library (I will let you decide whether that is a good library owned by a programmer, or a library belonging to a good programmer) includes essays, scholarly articles, videos, magazines, blog posts, podcast episodes, and more. This month, we are going to read an Easter egg in a programming language.

Are mozilla's fork any good?
#browser

Writing a good #CLAUDE.md
https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md

An ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good. Judge Sara Ellis all but told us today would happen.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/ice-agent-killed-renee-nicole-good-ellis-opinion

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

QB Bo Nix on Week 14 win vs. Raiders: 'We did a good job controlling the football' https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/qb-bo-nix-on-week-14-win-vs-raiders-we-did-a-good-job-controlling-the-football

The labour and resource use requirements of a good life for all
#economy #environment

Optimal Good-Case Latency for Sleepy Consensus
Yuval Efron, Joachim Neu, Ling Ren, Ertem Nusret Tas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06023 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Optimal Good-Case Latency for Sleepy Consensus
In the context of Byzantine consensus problems such as Byzantine broadcast (BB) and Byzantine agreement (BA), the good-case setting aims to study the minimal possible latency of a BB or BA protocol under certain favorable conditions, namely the designated leader being correct (for BB), or all parties having the same input value (for BA). We provide a full characterization of the feasibility and impossibility of good-case latency, for both BA and BB, in the synchronous sleepy model. Surprisingly…

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
SZA:
🎵 Good Days
#SZA
https://justyayy.bandcamp.com/track/sza-good-days-instrumental
https://open.spotify.com/track/3YJJjQPAbDT7mGpX3WtQ9A

On the subway yesterday someone sitting next to me was scrolling through either twitter or bluesky; I couldn't tell which, and I didn't want to obviously stare. But it was incredibly tempted to turn to them and say, "Have you heard the good news? The good news about John Mastodon?" If only I had literature with me!

Overamplifying the audio track of streaming ads was one of the more nefarious (& annoying) ways to grab viewer's attention.
I guess now they'll simply have to rely on creating a good ad & a good product. 🙄
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sfvkd

Victim in ICE Shooting Is Remembered for Her Kindness (Christina Morales/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/renee-nicole-good-minneapolis-ice.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p5#a260108p5

The good, the bad, and the ugly from a Cowboys' loss in Detroit https://insidethestar.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-from-a-cowboys-loss-in-detroit

As the head of a non-profit, I would never do this sort of thing. This is just nauseating. Good money intended for a good cause going to support bad actors.

It's good to know that I still have the software testing juice

Why Sam Darnold's quiet performance could be a good sign for Seattle: Quick Outs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6945134/2026/01/07/sam-darnold-seahawks-49ers-playoffs-quick-outs/

Call 1-202-762-1401 for a good time 😉

Computing Envy-Free up to Any Good (EFX) Allocations via Local Search
Simina Br\^anzei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05429 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05429

Computing Envy-Free up to Any Good (EFX) Allocations via Local Search
We present a simple local search algorithm for computing EFX (envy-free up to any good) allocations of $m$ indivisible goods among $n$ agents with additive valuations. EFX is a compelling fairness notion, and whether such allocations always exist remains a major open question in fair division. Our algorithm employs simulated annealing with the total number of EFX violations as an objective function together with a single-transfer neighborhood structure to move through the space of allocations…

Sinking balls of krill food could be good news for the planet
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-balls-krill-food-good-news.html

Gakpo has shown you can drive on the Leeds defense from the left side, so the second half screams for bringing on Ngumoha or Chiesa. Both can play incredibly directly.
Gakpo is a lightning rod for criticism while the side is struggling, which i think is a bit unfair, but there are some nuggets of truth in it. His decision making is inconsistent and his chemistry with Kerkez nonexistent.
Otherwise a mostly good half. Not enough shots, but fewer from outside the box which is good.<…

Qualityslop

Good news, everyone! The password has been updated to "LouvreWinter2025!" and is now compliant with our password change policies.

Thus far OLF seems to be going well, (at least from a back of the house standpoint). Got my meshtastic display / presentation setup with a working live node to demonstrate communication and environmental sensor support. A good number of folks asking about the tech, which is always fun!
Oh yeah, and the occasional cosplayer in full attire wandering through is good entertainment too.
#Ohio

well in the UK duty on wine varies according to the alcohol percentage, so £2.44 if it is 11%, up to £3.32 if it 15%.
So given other costs the amount actually paid to the vineyard for cheap plonk can be derisory.
I do have to differ slightly about your seeming rejection of the possibility of good white wines, though agree with Tom that finding a good Chardonnay takes care, especially on my budget.
Disclaimer: I have no no wine diploma, but my dad was the Wine and Spirit Manag…

In an attempt to embody what have recently been described as “male virtues” I’ve unsubscribed from the NYT. There’s still good material in their product but I don’t need to have my day ruined by clicking on the wrong “Opinion” link.
PS1: It’s now easy to unsub.
PS2: No, I’m not serious about “male virtues”, it was a lowlight in a piece I’m not gonna link to or mention the title of, don’t want to ruin anyone else’s day.
PS3: My hope that there still exist reasonable conservat…

material for mkdocs is very very good overall but this option feels like a fever dream
> alternate style
> the only supported style
> defaults to not using it
???

Two screenshots of the lock screen on my iPhone 17 Pro whose difference confounds me. In one the contrast is good and I can read the numbers on the pad, but the time and battery status are hidden. In the other, the key pad is pretty much invisible but I can see the time and battery. I have no idea how to trigger the contrastier one; it just sometimes does this.
Is this phenomenon known? Explicable? It's as if the new UI is sometimes ashamed to show how unreadable it is and compensates before hiding again.
Somebody made this happen. Any idea why?

An overview of detailed AI usage reports from OpenAI and others, as Microsoft's AI for Good Lab estimates that 15% of the world's working population is using AI (Financial Times)
https://ig.ft.com/ai-personal-assistant/

Whatever happens to our democracy, history will remember our 3 good SCOTUS justices as a voice of clarity when civil society was unraveling around them.
Future generations will point to their writing and say, “Look at this. It’s not like people didn’t understand what was happening at the time. They knew perfectly well.”
EDIT: I said Sotomayor at first; this is Jackson!! “What would you do with a brain if you had one, Paul?” I’m sure I have no idea.
https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner/115504618482036124

Congrats! The @… team hit their initial “maintenance” goal. The next unlock is working on federated groups.
Help fund their campaign!
https://indieweb.social/@bonfire/11566

Me: "A good bike light is $100!?"
Me after spending $50 and 10 hours building my own bike light: "Oh, okay."

pgp_strong: PGP web of trust (2009)
Strongly connected component of the Pretty-Good-Privacy (PGP) web of trust among users, circa November 2009.
This network has 39796 nodes and 301498 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/pgp_strong

Good ol' Roger Williams makes it into the London Review of Books! https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/letters

Good to repeat.
The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’ | TechPolicy.Press
https://techpolicy.press/the-eus-fine-against-x-is-not-about-speech-or-censorship

The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’ | TechPolicy.Press
The €120 million fine under the Digital Services Act is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, writes Stanford's Daphne Keller.

I guess it's a good first step https://toot.cafe/@tomayac/115309411832537447
But I've also been waiting for *years* (`prefers-color-scheme` was introduced in 2019), for:
- light/dark-mode `theme_color`
- light/dark-mode `background_color`
- light-dark-mode `ic…

@… @… I think @… had a very good reply here:

Any good way to download youtube videos these days? every site seems super spamy.

Wikipedia folk, are FullFact articles considered good references? There are some debunked statements I want to link to from an existing page that lists some anti-vax claims

Renee Nicole Good

This John Catsimatidis guy can just F right off. If he cared so much about the birds he could have sent trucks to have them taken away... of course.. good luck with US Border agents letting birds in that have been exposed to Avian Flu and have an active CFIA cull order on them.
I feel bad for the people who feel so connected to the birds themselves. Some people simply won't understand and I feel sympathy for them. But the owners of the ranch have always known better and they have used this to raise money and increase their profile.
And now we get the crocodile tears as the adults have finally taken over.
I hope this is the last we ever hear about Universal Ostrich.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394

Great American Axiom:
Some is good, more is better, too much is just right.

A short clip from the weekend:
It was indeed a bit cold up there but it was really good to get out and get my feed on the mountain 🙂
My wife gifted me some warming pads and gosh was that comfortable to have warm soles!!! Just on the way down, they shifted slightly and caused a little blister. That's something to improve. But on the way up is was great

Someone sent my husband and I a box of chocolates with no note and we have no idea who it’s from….
It looks really good but I’m too suspicious to touch them 😅😅
Making the rounds asking family and friends to figure out who sent them!!

This is also a good way to make the protests actually valuable. The #NoKingsDay protests let people see how big the resistance was. It informed a section of the elite that their best bet was to resist rather than comply. The shutdown is already hurting the economy. The an economic blackout could be enough to break it... and we're all still waiting for the AI bubble to pop. It's gonna get really hot, really fast.
The great thing about the economic blackout as a strategy is that they don't have a mechanism to compel people to buy stuff. So it turns out that "make the economy scream" is a two player game. Go fucking figure.

Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/portugal-updates-cybercrime-law-to-exempt-security-researchers/

Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers
Portugal has modified its cybercrime law to establish a legal safe harbor for good-faith security research and to make hacking non-punishable under certain strict conditions.

Math people: If I have a bunch of sampled data that I've found a local maximum on, and I want to interpolate the peak location to sub-sample precision, what's a good way to do that?
I know how to interpolate a zero crossing linearly but this is a bit more complex, I feel like I'll probably want to fit a sinc or gaussian or something to the data somehow?

It's a good question about the French public AC charging infrastructure: why? Caught between unreliability and high time-based pricing, who does it serve? Not those who need it, I would say.
https://www.numerama.com/vroom/2134433-bor

Coûteuses et capricieuses, le grand mensonge des bornes de recharge publiques à charge lente
On installe des bornes lentes, sauf qu’entre les pannes, les tarifs absurdes et le matériel douteux, la recharge publique ressemble encore trop à un parcours du combattant. Voilà de quoi nourrir l'édito Watt Else du jeudi 4 décembre. Les bornes AC (ou courant alternatif) représentent 80 % des 180 000 points de

Things are looking good now. 🥰
I am being fortunate. 🥠 (for real)
I have invested heavily and taken a big risk the last few months.
Classic me, not the easy way - but the super hard one.
Now things are paying off well!

Now perhaps might be a good time for the reminder of a truth always obscured:
Black People (not Black "women" -- ALL BLACK PEOPLE - you have to watch how they do black men dirty here) are the practical always-voting correctly BASE of the Democratic party -- which in turn makes them the moral center of voting in America.
#uspol

Good morning! It might be cold outside, but at least there isn't any new snow this morning.

Good luck to this campaign.
One of my best cycle tours followed the Wye valley to the sea at Chepstow.
It is a scandal what's been done to this rural watercourse.
River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrj4q

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit
Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

A good list of good book covers from 2025
https://www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2025/12/10/notable-book-covers-of-2025/

Josh Johnson talking about the New York election from the day before. He called it. He explained why Mamdani won perfectly. And he’s funny af. This is about 1/2 hour of good laughs. My belly hurts from laughing so much right now. Watching this will be a good way to celebrate. https://youtu.be/YAwzlt_afZg?si=SxZ84w

Here's a very interesting read about life as an academic and how you're never "good enough":
Under pressure: Becoming the good enough academic
By Milena Tekeste. Some quotes below (I removed citations for smoother reading):
"I learned publishing in specific journals would lead to tenure. It was the first time that anyone had sat me down and explained “…

Does AG Pam Bondi think she’s auditioning for the VP slot in Trump’s unconstitutional third term?
Here’s the mashup from today’s shitshow you definitely didn’t ask for. But this important point: she’s reading off a script.
Someone actually wrote this garbage and thought it was good to go.
https://…

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
Does AG Pam Bondi think she’s auditioning for the VP slot in Trump’s unconstitutional third term? Here’s the mashup from today’s shitshow you definitely didn’t ask for. But this important point: she’s reading off a script. Someone actually wrote this garbage and thought it was good to go.

It's before dawn on the 7th of January; I've written 10,000 words of a story that I first started actually writing on the 1st of January. It's about a God, a very old dragon, and how you reform a really sick society. None of what I've written yet is very good, but I have the bones of the whole story, including a satisfactory ending.
#AmWriting

"‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?"
#Climate #ClimateChange #AI

Good.
https://zeteo.com/p/democrats-demand-their-pound-of-flesh

🥩 Democrats Demand Their Pound of Flesh
Peter Rothpletz on Dems finally learning to use their leverage, Marjorie Taylor Greene showering Nancy Pelosi with praise, OpenAI's latest crisis, and 'Sandwich Guy' prevailing in court.

Star Trek: Prodigy is pretty good. Never heard of it before

Unpopular opinion, neither vi or Emacs is any good; real and proper programmers use JOE.

I played for Curt Cignetti. Yes, he’s never happy. Here’s why that’s a good thing https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6946280/2026/01/07/curt-cignetti-indiana-hoosiers-playoffs-cfp/

'Good grief': Bombshell doc leak exposes military 'cover up' of boat strike survivors - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/cover-up-navy-good-grief/

2025 NFL Power Rankings Week 10: How Good Are the Good Teams? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-power-rankings-week-10-how-good-good-teams

i'm writing proper docs for git-pages; does this style of writing look good? does it communicate the point well?
https://git-pages.org/running-a-server/

Oh good! Someone from the @… community can weigh in on the benefits.
Oh wait…
Anyway, sooner or later the time for computable reals will come. I'm still HODLing stock in continued fractions (and teaching them every year to my first-year students).

To be clear, the ICE attack at the high school happened in the afternoon, some 4-5 hours •after• they murdered Renee Good. ICE paused nothing when the news broke.
I want you to imagine what the day was like for all the observers out there: knowing ICE shot somebody, and continuing to observe anyway.

Milwaukee bike community is good...
Someone posted a photo of the bike that got stolen from their garage and another person replied "I have that same bike, but in a different color, and I don't ride it anymore... you want it?"

Good to remember that during the "peace negotiations" there is one party that keeps attacking and trying to conquer territory in Ukraine, that is Russia.
#Russia #agressor #Ukraine

Wow, #Gentoo moving from GitHub to Codeberg is cool. Haven't run Gentoo for years now but still have a soft spot for it (I learned so much running it as main driver).
I also use Codeberg für my code (and joined the association) but we can't just "move everything to Codeberg". That's neither sustainable nor a good model. We should have more associations like Codeberg t…

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

Really good explainer on company stock buy backs https://www.youtube.com/shorts/54qlq-1rQK8

Plan C turned out to be a nice day in the mountains. But Woah was there a chill wind. Good that I was prepared.
#hiking #wandern #mountains

Beautiful night in the woods. It didn't rain at all and we woke up to an awesome sunrise instead of the pouring rain we usually get. I'm not used to packing up my shelter and having it be dry.
Should be a good day of training.
#SearchAndRescue #SoOthersMayLive

That's good news.
"The Evers administration says it got full FoodShare benefits distributed before the Trump administration appealed an order on SNAP benefits."
#Wisconsin #SNAP

Welp, I hope there's something good on TV cuz I don't think I'm getting my arm back any time soon.
#dogs #sleeping

Today is Monday. 😪
A new week begins. 📆
And it is December. 🌨️
A good time for cuddles. 🤗
Have a cozy start into the week, y'all! 🧡

Things I could do without when editing:
-Pretentiousness (luckily quite rare). Dude, we get it, you're really smart. But most of us are more impressed by good ideas than pompous prose.
-Passive voice. How have you made it this far as a writer while attributing action to the universe instead of people? Buildings don't just get built. Books don't just get written.
-Footnotes. You've written 10k words that three reviewers like. I bet you could read the style guide…

Such a bummer when people lie for no reason.
Found out today that a client I previously ended our work with had lied to us about their plans and why they wanted to stop our engagement.
The truth wouldn’t have changed anything for us. We still would have parted ways on good terms and done our best to offboard. In fact, we would have been able to help them more by properly instructing people coming to take over.
So now that the lie came to light, long after the engagement ended, I have a bad taste in my mouth and no longer feel good about how things ended and or them as a past client.
I just wish they told the truth.

But adding actual real facts to the description would take effort.
Why exert effort when you can just tell fully automated lies that sound good?
(The lies don't sound good, it's the typical extremely mid LLM sentence construction.)

Think of this as a good place to start
— for you and your loved ones
— to expand your knowledge of indie news outlets
who are more deserving of your time and money than corporate, billionaire-owned media.
And feel free to add your suggestions in the comments.
https://www.thehandbask…

Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.

I hope the identity of Good’s killer is in fact revealed.
Let’s help with that by being very careful about what information we share, and making sure it’s good information. That’s hard, and we’ll all mess up I’m sure. But let’s do our best.
Now at least you and I both have a warning: if there’s a purported photo of Good’s killer, be careful and be skeptical.
/end

Fuck Elon and his money! (I was really hoping for more good news this week.)
We absolutely need to destroy the value of every company that asshole is associated with.
#USPOL

Kimi K2 Thinking is impressive, it is as at least as good as other top foundation models, fully openweights, 1 trillion parameters but only using 32B in a MoE setting. Also you can download and reuse it for free.
https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2

GitHub - MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2: Kimi K2 is the large language model series developed by Moonshot AI team
Kimi K2 is the large language model series developed by Moonshot AI team - MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

My bike came back earlier than expected so it's time to get a new winter virtual trainer subscription. I love(d) FulGaz: high-quality videos, great locales, zero gamification if you want it, good display. Has Rouvy broken that? Any similar alternatives? Otherwise I'm going to default back to them…

The critical role youtube thumbnail for ep1 is really good. It keeps coming up on my youtube homepage page.
#CriticalRole

And finally Bilbo comes to the end of is speech:
"I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT.
I regret to announce that - though, as I said, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among you - this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW.
GOOD-BYE!
#lego #hobbit

Think of this as a good place to start
— for you and your loved ones
— to expand your knowledge of indie news outlets
who are more deserving of your time and money than corporate, billionaire-owned media.
And feel free to add your suggestions in the comments.
https://www.thehandbaske…

Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.

The EU should make clear the people of Greenland are not "for sale". Ultimately the people of Greenland decide for themselves what is good for them that is not decided by the USA/Trump. We should support Denmark and Greenland in anyway we can.
#greenland #denmark

A friend of mine, who I'm pretty sure is left-leaning (meaning, in the US at least, a Democrat) asked me:
"Isn't democratic socialism different from actual socialism?"
Ohhh, where do we begin! But the good thing is, people are asking these questions... Not just straight up condemning "socialism" because of the name.
#USPOL

AFC Toronto are ready to step up in more competitions. They look good.

Just saw a toot about the #brexit and I only remember one thing from that time:
I admitted that I don't have much clue in international politics - but when Trump AND Putin said that the Brexit was a good thing, I knew that it was very likely to be bad for the EU and the UK.
#politics…

“He’s the scary bad cop to St. Nicholas’ good cop,
to stoke some fear in the naughty children and get them to behave better.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertain

Here comes Krampus: How the half-goat, half-demon became a cultural phenomenon
While Santa Claus’ dark counterpart was born centuries ago in Europe, Krampus’ recent explosion in the U.S. is all thanks to one Chicagoan who featured the beast in his comic zine 20 years ago.

Kimi K2 is another Deepseek moment it seems, only not everybody is noticing it yet. It will be interesting to see what the stock market will do on monday.
#AI #KimiK2

I was a bit slow in my thinking but the fact that grabbing Greenland also breaks NATO could actually be an extra reason for Trump to do it.... The alliance is one life-support anyway... Also there is good chance that the EU will struggle to reach consensus on a reaction, divisions will increase, all wins for Trump....
#NATO