Tootfinder

I continue my practice of writing back to posts on social media. Also its antidote: writing back to works of art served up at random. It’s a little like surfing, taking the waves as they come. It’s a little like dancing. It’s one way to reclaim my attention, one way to stay alive to the present.
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More Fresh Hells & A Few Heavens
Brief responses to social media posts (hells) and random paintings (heavens).

Die globalen #Treibhausgasemissionen steigen weiter. Der Höhepunkt ist noch nicht erreicht. 🤮
Bleibt dieser Trend unverändert, ist das CO2-Budget für 1,5 Grad in wenigen Jahren aufgebraucht. Nur zehn Länder planen bislang ein Ende fossiler Energien. Für wirksamen #Klimaschutz

Höhepunkt der CO2-Emissionen noch nicht erreicht
Während Delegierte aus aller Welt in Bonn die nächste Klimakonferenz vorbereiten, offenbart ein neuer Bericht die fragile Lage des Weltklimas. Die Forderungen nach einem Umsteuern werden immer lauter.

A new study has found that AI chatbots are having a surprisingly minor impact on employee earnings and work hours.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/ai-chatbots-yet-to-prove-their-worth

AI chatbots yet to prove their worth
A new study has found that AI chatbots are having a surprisingly minor impact on employee earnings and work hours.

Just set up an instance of Uptime Kuma out of spite because Uptime Robot want to quadruple their prices.
1) It's really good! I like it!
2) I know you all hate the LLMs, but compared to having to read and understand the entire fucking Linux network stack all the way to the bottom in order to make a simple change, having Microsoft Co-pilot on hand to walk me through it made it take a couple of hours instead of several days.

I've never written a novel or any other intensely-plotted work of fiction, but anyone who has read or watched it played a lot of stories can probably also recognize that some authors just aren't good at endings. They're great at setting things in motion, at keeping the twists and turns coming, at the soap opera style of drama. But they just don't have the craft necessary to tie things together into a satisfying conclusion. I imagine it's much harder than the process of getting things going out keeping them moving, since you both have to wind down all the various threads you've spun up and balance satisfaction with believability.
I just finished Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi, and it has a bad ending. The beginning is fine, the middle has plenty of drama to keep you wanting to see what happens, but the ending is murky, unsatisfying, and manages neither veracity nor satisfaction (even discounting the biggest next step that might reasonably have been left there to make room for a sequel).
Given the other issues with the book, from poor politics, to inauthentic characters, to a techno-optimism that feels as bitter in this moment as it is far from the mark in its predictions, I can't recommended it, despite having read through to the end.
#AmReading

Retired LT Terron Armstead: I'm cool never having to face 'different' Jared Verse again https://www.nfl.com/news/terron-armstead-retired-left-tackle-jared-verse-different

There’s a second theory, not mutually exclusive, about the frozen job market having to do with resentment from corporate leadership about the sudden surge in labor power in 2020. Someone (maybe @…?) referred to this as a “captial strike.”
I’m not sure how much economic sense that theory makes — but I am sure that corporate leadership is often impulsive, petty, and irrational, and frequently does things that make no economic sense. I can’t elucidate the theory well, but it’s thing I’m keeping my eye on.

With friends having kids, its fascinating how some will tell me
- "No travels plans for the next 3-6 years, until he/she is big enough."
While others are
- "See you next month! We want to travel a lot while he/she can still be a free lap child"

“Briefing shall [..] include the legal authority upon which Apple contends that it can ignore this Court’s order having not received a stay from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal”
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us…