Tootfinder

Here We Goooo: Three keys for Cowboys against Vikings https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/here-we-goooo-three-keys-for-cowboys-against-vikings

Steelers aren't sweating playoff drought: 'We came here for what lies ahead' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47582334/pittsburgh-steelers-not-sweating-playoff-futility-here-lies-ahead-houston-te…

I completely disagree with the premise of this piece but I agree with it's overall conclusion… so this is awkward.
It's plain wrong for me to claim AGI is here and then only focus on LLMs being useful in a general sense.
Intelligence is only brought up as a segue to ask what technology ultimately should be used for.
Discuss the question at the end, for sure, but the first part is wholly unnecessary since the conclusion (here's the twist) is kinda general in its…

I often here about social media being bad for your mental health, but I find the way I use it (Fedi only) is good for mine.
It's fun as heck here! :3

Considering how often Windows updates break things and the silicon valley mantra 'break things and fix later' I wonder if that is a safe way of thinking tech. This pod goes through how Volvo unintentionally diaabled the cars breaks by an update.
https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/…

CES 2026 report: AI, autonomy, and robotic products are still finding their way, country-level booths are growing, Nvidia underpinned much of the show, and more (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software)
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/237-ces…

Finally it's here: Jupyter notebooks inside QGIS. I don't know about you but I've been hoping for someone to get around to doing this for quite a while.
HT @… via @…

In considering the extent and timing of additional adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate,
the Committee will carefully assess incoming data, the evolving outlook, and the balance of risks.
The Committee is strongly committed to supporting maximum employment and returning inflation to its 2 percent objective.

Hello there! Sorry I’ve been dumping annoying news things the last while here instead of chit chatting.
I really like it here and enjoy it, perhaps, most of any online text box.
But, regrettably, circumstances have conspired to require me to make a living. This takes up an inordinate amount of time. So, the best I have been able to manage is to drop newsy bits or Gist links.
I hope, like all of my vintage, that next month will quieten down a bit.

I’ve seen a lot of articles and posts about AI that use the term “like it or not” as in “like it or not, AI is here, and we might as well get used to it” and that is such bullshit.
Like it or not, ableism is here… like it or not, racism is here… like it or not, fascism is here.
No, fuck that, I will resist. I will speak out. I will fight back.
You do not have to roll over and accept the shit corporations and the existing power structure try to force upon you.
We can …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Bonny Doon:
🎵 I Am Here (I Am Alive)
#BonnyDoon
https://bonnydoon.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-here-i-am-alive
https://open.spotify.com/track/6yEXtOiGfQhs3TlnquwB4u

Here Technologies: Software für Navigation, ADAS und autonomes Fahren
Der Gedodatenanbieter Here Technologies zeigt auf der CES 2026 KI-gestützte Software für Live-Karten, autonomes Fahren und Fahrassistenzsysteme.

#Cars
I saw a #lamborghini on my way somewhere this morning, which I’d never seen around here before, and then on my way home I saw a #Maserati. Again not something I’ve seen around here before. What was…

The western US is in a snow drought. Here's how a storm made it worse #UnitedStates

Here We Goooo: Three keys for Cowboys against Vikings https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/here-we-goooo-three-keys-for-cowboys-against-vikings

Use of 'colonised' is particularly disgusting.
As a character in a David Edgar said,
"We are here because you were there'.
Not that Starmer, who feeds the migration moral panic, can give lessons here.
PM asks Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants'
https://www.

A lot of my thoughts and personal perspective was shared on Twitter; now the online dumpster fire and harassment tool X.
I've made all of my tweets available on a separate server here: A lot of my thought and personal perspective was shared on Twitter; now the online dumpster fire and harassment tool X. I've made all of my tweets available on a separate server here:

Here is the Eurasia Group summery on risks faced by Canada.
#CanPoli #Trump

"These “prediction markets” take Zuckerberg’s “here are 12 photographs of eggs” philosophy to its logical endpoint. A way to capture one of the few parts of the human experience they haven’t been able to ingest into their mega-platforms. Here are 12 photographs of opinions, bet on which ones will come true."
(Original title: Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on)

If you ever thought the Nationals were interested in regional or rural communities.
" Warming above 1.5C will cause widespread crop failures and food insecurity, more extreme weather events, and the loss of between 70 and 90 per cent of the world's coral reefs"
https://share.google/4dQtUrWlU49vaQgBc

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
BLAKE: [To Avon] Now do you know what you're looking for?
AVON: [Shortly] Yes. [Moves off towards the equipment.]
BLAKE: [To Gan] All the equipment here?
GAN: All here.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/52 B7B6

Fascinated by people on here who openly say there using ChatGPT all the time, and think it won’t have consequences like people muting or blocking them.
It’s deeply creepy, similar to being overly religious or like hawking NFTs or having an AR-15 sticker on your car.
It just screams “I’m weird and don’t know it, stay away from me.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Struggling to navigate the Epstein files? Here is a visual guide | Infographic News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide?traffic_source=rss

#MarshallAllen interview (2024):
“the space age is here to stay,
there’s no place you can run away.
Run to the rock to hide your face,
rock cried out ‘no hiding place.’

Every now and then, some random white guy on the fediverse:
“Hey, everyone, I feel an inexplicably-urgent need to tell the whole world just what a complete piece of shit human being I am so here goes…!”

Michael Burry, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and Dwarkesh Patel on the future of AI, whether AI tools improve productivity, job losses due to AI, and more (The Substack Post)
https://post.substack.com/p/the-ai-revolution-is-here-will-the

Market share of Dutch car sales. The market for diesel cars here crashed after Volkswagen's Dieselgate scandal broke in 2015.
And then gasoline's share collapsed, from over 70% in 2019 to just 13% last year.
The winners: EVs (40% now) and hybrids (45%).

Korea has had it up to here with all these data breaches
Coupang beset on all sides after data leak sparks full-scale regulatory assault
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/n

So, is it getting quieter here in the #Fediverse; is it even dying?
That I don't know, but I can add some data: At least for @… it seems to be the opposite; the number of comments and likes keeps on growing.

Here we go....
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-emails.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0k8.4Ho2.21xwI_d85h1v&smid=url-share

Samples are here and Andrew's Back Room IC FA Lab has a new project: a large lot of HMCAD1520s from the ThunderScope project.
My lab assistant helped me catalog them and we got 30 in inventory before having to pause for dinner and bath time, which should be more than enough to get started. She had lots of fun picking up the parts, putting them in labeled tubes, and putting the tubes into the correct location on the sample tray.
For somebody who loves stickers as much as most …

(IIRC, the origin of that quote as far as anyone can tell is a now-deleted Tumblr blog, and I can find neither the name nor the link on the fly here right now)

Russian House in your country: Kremlin spies are hiding here! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/russian-house-in-your-country.html

Dang! Got a fruit fly in here (where did that come from, in January??) and it keeps landing on my screen, trying to make friends with my cursor! 🪰

Here are 7 reasons why the Bears are the NFL's comeback kings https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47583384/chicago-bears-caleb-williams-comeback-ben-johnson

Good technical writing is hard. Here's some tips to make it less hard.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/good-technical-writing

I'm a little behind with posting my recent photos. but here you see one of my favourite lokal "afternoon hills".
This is one of the RARE hills, where I often walk without camera. But that day the clouds were so low that I just brought it - hoping for some exceptional shots... Exceptional for the location - not wordlwide exceptional ;-)
Enjoy!
#photography

When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.

Goodwills (thrift stores) around here sometimes bag up & sell groups of older 45s (that you can only see either side of because of the sealed bags). I took a chance on one because it had this Wings 45 I could see on the outside, and I SCORED with this Chairmen of the Board single. Fuckin LOVE 'Give Me Just a Little More Time'. One of my favorite songs. 🔥
#McCartney

Bandwagon.fm — Better Social for Musicians. Connect to Your Fans on the Fediverse
Bandwagon is 100% open source, so nobody can lock you in to their platform. Start here, then you'll be able to migrate your account or self-host your Bandwagon data anywhere.
🎶 https://bandwagon.fm

If you're in #tech and struggling to figure out what your career look like now — this piece is my answer. You've heard "it's here to stay" or "it's better than nothing."
Reject these frames.
Look at the system being built around you. Manufacturing validation for "inevitable" success. Rewriting our roles from human-centered creative to featu…

Does anyone here know of any sources of inspiration for single page iPhone Home Screen layouts?
I’ve looked on Reddit and Tumblr but haven’t really found anything clean and minimal 😎
#iphone

Here we are, it's Wednesday, your weekly dose of geekiness!
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/110/

I have written why local police, possibly SWAT, must engage, detain and arrest ice. The alternatives are all worse.
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforcements-challenge-uphold-the-law-even-against-the-feds/

Here are the agencies that were cut the most by Trump, new data shows (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/10/federal-cuts-trump-agencies-data/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260110/p50#a260110p50

JFC, TESTIFY... but here's what's missing from this Bill Burr 'school pickup' bit:
1) The 'guide' is an unprintable 188pg PDF & you gotta use AI to summarize it & find anything in it.
2) The fingerwagging condescension you get when you pay private school tuition is enough to hulksmash everyone.

Braise, stew, soup... is a spectrum to some.
Here is the fix: Just call it a #brewp.
No need to fighter over terms.

I hate taking phone calls. And especially if they are unscheduled. I screen calls, and when I'm stressed and working hard taking even taking calls from acquaintances and friends just doesn't work. If you're anything like me, here's your reminder that you're not alone and that telephonophobia is more common than you may think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_phobia

trumpaccounts [insert joke here]
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115537635292378434

And I'm off. Holidays/Vacation/Ferien/Urlaub here I come! #1337

*clicks on Indeed.com unsubscribe link*
*gets caught in an infinite loop of cloudflare 'click here to prove you are human' bullshit*

@… Yes, here:
https://mastodon.acm.org/@mxp/116052036617979532
Thanks for this cool tool!

@… Yes, here:
https://mastodon.acm.org/@mxp/116052036617979532
Thanks for this cool tool!

"Another priority is the issue of free speech, which they regard as very important. The way to understand this, I think, is that it's mostly a question about moderation on social media and that they don't like that."
I think you are much too kind here, @… .

Johnny Harris (he doesn't seem to have a presence here) has a really good video out right now on public transportation in Switzerland. "By law, every village in Switzerland, which has people living all year round, they have the right of public transportation. It can be a train, it can be a gondola, it can be a bus. Whatever." That's pretty cool.
#Switzerland #PublicTransportation #JohnnyHarris

If you ever wanted to know how these #AI datacenters can be financed, here is the explanation:
A creditworthy tech company (Meta, in this example) creates a "special purpose vehicle" #SPV, a box, where they put all the risk and all the debts coming with it.
Then they create a financia…

"We're here to love one another." Wonderful feature on YDS/ANS alum Ali Hager '25 M.Div., Pastor of West Avon (Conn.) Congregational Church, in Valley Life magazine.

The temperature here in Manc is pretty crazy; it's 9c, last week about the same time was about -6c and last Monday I had to deal with defrosting a pipe.

Talking #water in Hsinchu: the biggest reservoir and cleanest stream here in the mid-north of #Taiwan is connected with the Science Park. It serves the #semiconductor industry. A bit is for agricu…

Also my #infosec friends could learn a thing or two here from disaster prep if this isn't already a familiar idea.
Do you have a MISL for a large scale cvss 9 0-Day that's being exploited in the wild? Have you run a table top? You fucking should. Especially since we've all been through that shit several times now. You should absolutely have a clear plan of what's gonna happen, and your whole team should be able to respond.

legacy code, OH:
junior engineer, bright-eyed: "once your fixes land, my broken job should be fine, right?"
staff engineer, staring into middle distance: "the [redacted] pipeline contains many ancient evils that are best left undisturbed. And yet... here we are."
staff, a few minutes later: "Our team now owns this pipeline; my fingerprints are on the doorframe."
junior: "it looks like your changes just landed! shall I try again? cros…

Here's the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a submarine base, as seen from the deck of the elevator bridge
#photo #photgraphy #cranespotting

Getting a good #aurora here in Grass Valley. (6 second Night Sight Android photos, so this is much brighter than what my eye sees. But I can see it!)

not that anyone asked, but here's a chart of UM LSA grade inflation over the past 25 years
taken from
https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/academics/lsa-academic-policies-and-procedures/grading-and-transcript-n…

i love tryna become an adult i love weighing the direction america's been going and shit like the trans passport situation against all the connections i have here

Seeing a tiny hint of aurora here from southern Arizona on long exposure (10s)

Welcome to the Fediverse, new people and critters!
Don't forget to watch @…⁠'s helpful orientation video to get you started here. :blobcatbusiness:
https://

i'm very pleased that git-pages/Grebedoc has prompted people to consider including it in other projects (tangled) or develop similar services (wisp.place)
it was always meant to be a "Here is how I solved this problem. It is now solved" type of project, and seeing this happen means i've succeeded

I think it is very important for all of you to know that there’s a trollish little group of right-wing evangelical fash who are staging a sad little “crusade” rally here in Minneapolis
and their last poster contained the word “immegration”
and the latest one bemoans “the erogion of our heritage”

Liquid Ass… seriously, who at Apple thinks the readability here is improved and that this looks good?

Last night was a very good night to be among fellow Democrats from across the county. Here is what we did:
Eileen Higgins blew out the Miami Mayor’s race, winning by 19 points, 59.5%-40.5%.
In the last two years we’ve flipped Florida’s two largest cities, Jacksonville and Miami, and Mayor-Elect Higgins will be the first Dem in this office in almost 30 years
In a Georgia state house special election our candidate Eric Gisler flipped a Trump 12 district, 51%-49%
Albuque…

The toy aisle is still full of gender bias. Here's how to navigate it these holidays
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-toy-aisle-full-gender-bias.html

5 Linux servers that let you ditch the public cloud and reclaim your privacy - for free
European Union countries are moving away from American tech giants to run their own clouds and servers to control their digital destiny. You can do this, too. Here's how.
💻 https://www.z…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Weezer:
🎵 The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
#Weezer
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/the-world-has-turned-and-left-me-here-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/06isZAG9Bgm4jhPj7V0Rhx

Claude Opus 4.6 has added value for finding vulnerabilities, ofcourse it is Anthropic telling you to buy Anthropic 🙂 , still a well documented blog that makes it plausible that LLMs have a role to play here, as also confirmed in other blogs/with other models.
Bughunting is one of the those functionalities where the weaknesses of GenAI are not a problem. All agree, this is not only a hype.

Here's how Browns QB Shedeur Sanders is making progress https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47280047/how-cleveland-browns-quarterback-rookie-shedeur-sanders-making-progress-offense

The Senate is set to vote on two rival health plans. Here's what's at stake for Americans (Ali Swenson/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/health-care-affordable-care-act-senate-vote-e143b36cc01b4d7f27a1c07e17d1583c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p50#a251211p50

I never thought I'd be so captivated by a guy doing automobile paint jobs but here we are.
▶️ Asking Strangers to Paint THEIR Car… - Marko
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2VpeYoLobwc&si=FAjjWwPB5D9_5K23

Government proposes yet another revision to the NPPF (Planning Framework) for England and Wales.
Here's what we said about the last one.
Open Letter about NPPF to GM Labour MPs | Steady State Manchester https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/01/1…

"With its duel cassette deck, users can enjoy listening to their favorite music on two cassette tapes simultaneously"
eBay's "AI" at work, extremely valuable information here

Source: to catch leakers, OpenAI security staff use a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack, email, and docs by cross-referencing news articles with access logs (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-uses-chatgpt-catch-lea…

This, however, is not sufficient. We are under siege, and we need protection.
I don’t know the answers to any of the questions in this thread, but I do know this: There is no patience left here in Minneapolis.
Leaders had better take visible, concrete action to •actively defend• the city — especially schools — if they want this city to hold together.
10/

Which NFL Draft prospects are headed to Indy? Here's the full 2026 combine list

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/nfl-combine-2026-prospects-full-list/

China Banks Told to Reduce US Treasury Holdings. Here's What That Means. - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/treasury-bonds-china-holdings-yields-impact-markets-sell-america-geopolitics-2026-2

Feds bring woman to U.S. to face charges, then say she's here illegally (Salvador Rizzo/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/12/10/extradition-deportation-belarus-russia/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY1MzQyODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY2NzI1MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjUzNDI4MDAsImp0aSI6IjMwOTQ1Y2FmLTU2ZWEtNGExZS04OGM1LTRkODczMWVmMGQzNiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9kYy1tZC12YS8yMDI1LzEyLzEwL2V4dHJhZGl0aW9uLWRlcG9ydGF0aW9uLWJlbGFydXMtcnVzc2lhLyJ9.SVULKQ4ubX7PaPpEnIzw9yJD1Kee_z5KDDh9w1ok0xs&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p2#a251211p2

Lego says its Smart Brick is "here to stay" but "does not mean that we're leaving our core proposition behind", after criticism of abandoning non-digital play (Tom Phillips/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles…

RE: https://wandering.shop/@aleen/115701646025358372
Life is like a hurricane here in Duckburg /
Rule 34 and aeroplanes, it's a duck-blur /
Might solve a mystery /
Or rewrite history!

Chiefs could be eliminated from NFL playoff contention in Week 15: Here how it could happen

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-could-be-eliminated-nfl-playoff-conten…

Some guy dressed in camo driving a black pickup truck was creeping around the neighborhood today, systematically photographing people’s houses. Neighbors spotted him at one intersection earlier, then a few blocks over a few hours later.
Just another normal one here in Minneapolis.

They're calling it for Wilson; here's Fox's look-down-their-nose:
Seattle socialist Katie Wilson leads mayor race in new polling data | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/leftward-lurch-second-socialist-leader-ready-rule-another-iconic-american-city

needless to say even a whiff of possible pedophilia should be an immediate resignation
functioning democracies should have an extremely high standard for politicians in high offices, independent of any legal action
there's plenty of other people who can do the job which don't come with the baggage
(yes I know that the word "functioning" is doing a lot of work here)

Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ($220) review: better hardware and software, and Alexa is an improvement, but no camera cover and ads in the future (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/818814/amazon-echo-show-11-8-alexa-…

Mac Jones confirms Kyle Shanahan wanted to draft him to 49ers in 2021: 'He wanted me to be here' https://www.nfl.com/news/mac-jones-confirms-kyle-shanahan-wanted-to-draft-him-49ers-2021

If you’re wondering how you can help…
If you’re in MSP: talk to your neighbors, find the people who are doing organizing work, and get involved. Find something and show up for it. Info & resources here: https://monarcamn.org
If you’re elsewhere in the US: talk to your neighbors •now• about what’s happening, and get your support networks set up •before• this comes to where you live — unless of course it already has, in which case see above.
If you’re not in the US, spread the word about what’s happening here. Make the shame of ICE known internationally.

Mike Vrabel's message to Patriots on turnaround leading to playoffs: 'We're not here just to get here' https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-vrabel-s-message-to-patriots-on-turnaround-leading-to-playoffs-we-re-not…

This is at Selby & Western, between Nina’s and W. A. Frost.
Some context for out-of-towners: this is a fairly affluent neighborhood, fairly white, mix of renters and homeowners, lots of lavishly restored 19th- and early 20th-century brick buildings and popular restaurants. There are old railroad tycoon mansions a few blocks away on Summit Ave. The St. Paul cathedral is just up the street.
If you were trying to preserve a sense of safety and normalcy among the comfortable and the influential in order to survive an upcoming election, this is the sort of place you’d tell your secret police goons to steer clear of.
Photos are from here: https://bsky.app/profile/andrewkarre.bsky.social/post/3melwi55orm2w