Tootfinder

Era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ is here, UN report says https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/20/era-of-global-water-bankruptcy-is-here-un-report-says

Four-point field goal is here: UFL trying to shake up football with several bold new rules for 2026 season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/four-po

Cowboys on Pickens contract: 'We love him, want him here' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-on-pickens-contract-we-love-him-want-him-here

The AI Compute Crunch Is Here (and It's Affecting the Entire Economy) https://www.404media.co/the-ai-compute-crunch-is-here-and-its-affecting-the-entire-economy/

I read this, and I thought, she should try the Fediverse. But then I thought again. I present as male here (because I am). So would I see this misogyny here even if it was a problem? So I'd like to ask, would young women actually be better off here?
> I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous | The Guardian

Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says "we've achieved AGI", on running Nvidia, AI scaling laws, OpenClaw, future of coding, data centers in space, China, and more (Lex Fridman)
https://lexfridman.com/jensen-huang-transcript

Just decades from now, millions of people all over the world will be forced to move because of climate change.
In his new book,
"Shelter from the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration",
acclaimed journalist and migration researcher Julian Hattem reports from the front lines of the environmental apocalypse,
taking readers on a journey from the South Pacific to the Indian subcontinent,
to the Mediterranean.
TRNN Editor-in-C…

‘The era of climate migration is already here’
“Worldwide, natural disasters drive people out of their homes more than twice as often as war and other conflict… The era of climate migration is already here. We're just finally starting to realize it.”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Brian Eno:
🎵 Here Come the Warm Jets
#BrianEno
https://scobey.bandcamp.com/track/here-come-the-warm-jets

How is this even a vineland-3 question??
[edit: I'M WALK'N HERE! I'M WALK'N HERE!]

In other news, I'm now posting my #PostScarcitySoftware development log on my blog, in case anyone is interested. Which, if you're sane, you won't be. #Lisp

Abstract Ancient Oaks
(spotted during yesterday's evening hike, hoping to turn this into a series...)
#NaturePhotography #Tree #Abstract

Idea I've floated over there (and on twitter) that I want to float here:
ATProto / Bluesky for social media is *bad* actually. Worse than here and even Twitter, precisely for the reason people might think it's better.
By "verifying" and rebroadcasting everything in a more precise way, you make it more dangerous by creating "better surveillance"
Mastodon ends up being better due to plausible deniability

Come here fishy!!
I have good intentions. :neocat_evil_3c:

Anyway, here's an old computer

15,000 people singing to call on ICE to leave their jobs!
🎵🎵🎵
Oh-h-h, It's okay to change your mind,
Show us your courage,
Leave this behind,
It's okay to change your mind,
And you can join us,
Join us here any time
🎵🎵🎵
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVEuV1hkvjG/

Singers on Instagram: "15,000 people singing to call on ICE to: quit your jobs! Show your courage! Lay down your weapons! Leave this behind! 🧊 Singing with Brandi Carlile was awesome - but what we’re really about is taking it to the streets. Join us for our National Weekend of Action Feb. 28 / March 1 by find your local group at tinyurl.com/groupslistSR (linked in bio) and contact them directly to join an action near you. ⭐️ We sing to protect and care for our communities in the face of rising authoritarianism. Always and forever we say: ABOLISH ICE. Who in your life can you start a conversation with about abolishing ICE? Send them this video and invite them to join you at a Singing Resistance action near you! 💌 Song: Annie Schlaefer It’s okay to change your mind Show us your courage Leave this behind It’s okay to change your mind And you can join us Join us here anytime"
31K likes, 307 comments - singingresistance on February 22, 2026: "15,000 people singing to call on ICE to: quit your jobs! Show your courage! Lay down your weapons! Leave this behind! 🧊 Singing with Brandi Carlile was awesome - but what we’re really about is taking it to the streets. Join us for our National Weekend of Action Feb. 28 / March 1 by find your local group at tinyurl.com/groupslistSR (linked in bio) and contact them directly to join an action near you. ⭐️ We sing to prot…

Cowboys on Pickens contract: 'We love him, want him here' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-on-pickens-contract-we-love-him-want-him-here

Okay, so I've been talking about the ways that Big AI directly harms kids. But what can we *do* about it? Here are some things you can do, at work and and your kid's school, to take action today, complete with scripts to follow: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action…

Taking action against AI harms
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Want to help people in Gaza suffering through a genocide perpetrated by Israel and supported by many of our own governments?
Here’s a list of everyone we’ve verified using video calls with links to their fundraisers, ranked by how much they managed to raise in the last week:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

How We Got Here
Business history is wilder than you think. Join finance journalist and digital storyteller, Chris Kohler, as he delves into the corporate moments that were too ridiculous to make up, but too important to ignore...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/…

I was told this technology was here to stay, and not going anywhere!
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/openai-shutting-down-sora-ai-video-app-1236546187/

Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora
The studio giant will no longer move forward with its OpenAI investment, as the AI company exits the video generation business.

Love seeing these. Let’s get a full #StickerCheck thread going over here: https://front-end.social/@Wilto/116125967162644914

I have recently been introduced to “idolatry” as an analytical tool we can use to understand our present moment, not just an old-timey sin from 3000 years ago or whatever, and that feels…relevant here. https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116454484451690762

Washington wants your 3D printer to spy on you - here's the bill
#3dprinter comes with spyware,

I know many on here do not like Reddit. I mostly am on it for a few forums that do not exist or are dead on here.
And some light reading. I love to browse the Writing Prompts.
Go down to the post beginning with
The scream was not a sound Alton had ever heard a human being make.

The cold and wet can get annoying at times but the views here never get old #pnw

Excited to try out the new Ubuntu Long-term support release! 26.04 - I'm downloading it now. Here's @… providing an excellent summary of new stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYxtL0AW2g

NFL Draft day is here: Mike Vrabel to miss final four rounds, plus final mocks and bold predictions

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-draft-2026-vrabel-counseling…

Here's what you need to always by #organic spinach; kale, collard, and mustard greens; strawberries; grapes; nectarines; peaches; cherries; apples; blackberries; pears; potatoes; blueberries
https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/dirt…

Do you think all AI-generated images posted here on the Fediverse should be behind a content warning?
1/2
#genAI #AISlop #Fediverse

Following a comment on here about how the Japanese milk bread I made yesterday resembled Newfoundland white bread (which also contains milk), I dug up a recipe. Breakfast is looking promising yet again.
#bread #baking

The #Texas races are turning out a bunch of unintentional hilarity and I'm here for it.
This is their latest attempt to smear #Talarico.
Even enabler class Republicans like Cornyn, who know better, are high on their own supply from so many years of blatantly pandering to Nazis.

Scary Austin (@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image The #Texas races are turning out a bunch of unintentional hilarity and I'm here for it. This is their latest attempt to smear #Talarico. Even enabler class #Republicans like Cornyn, who know better, are high on their own supply from so many years of blatantly pandering to Nazis.

Now here's a platform I could vote for!!
https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1529375/story_image/TMW2026-02-26colorXL.jpg

> for a large share of actual product work, the person who can say "here is what done looks like, prove it without seeing my rubric" is more valuable than the person who can write the code.
> Implementation is what AI is getting good at. Knowing whether the result actually solves the real problem is not an engineering judgment call, it is a domain judgment call.
Reposting to call out those two quotes and agree that this matches my experience as a staff developer…

Friends with teenage or young adult sons - do you talk to them about the language they see online and in person?
From: @…
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/

"Current reporting accurately notes that ZionSiphon requires only a minor fix to its targeting logic to execute. But, even with that fix, the follow-on code is riddled with logic errors and invalid assumptions and would fail to achieve its intended objective. In other words, the error in targeting logic is only one of many problems."
My favorite: "This post avoids specific technical details, as Dragos is not in the business of fixing malware for adversaries." 😎

OTOH, here's Gemini suggesting I rewrite my email to say "strange" instead of "queer", thereby completely altering my meaning. Dumb.

@… Fun fact: Espresso House has been expanding to Germany in recent years. I don't like it. I remember that I always found it a quality coffee chain in Denmark Sweden. I think they're doing something different here, or I'm hallucinating.
In any case: Espresso House in Sweden is, as far as I remember, also quite expensive, I guess you could say they…

Highlights from #Git 2.54
https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-54/

Will AI Kill Open Source?
Will AI kill Open Source? Is it already happening? Or is this just another clickbait title? Well, let’s see. First of all, I am writing this by hand without the help of any artificial intelligence. There is only human intelligence involved here. […]
⚛ https://www.agilejava.eu/…

Will AI Kill Open Source?
Will AI kill Open Source? Is it already happening? Or is this just another clickbait title? Well, let’s see. First of all, I am writing this by hand without the help of any artificial intelli…

St. Patrick was a gentleman
who through strategy and stealth
drove all the snakes from Ireland.
Here's a toasting to his health --
but not too many toastings
lest you lose yourself and then
forget the good St. Patrick
and see all those snakes again.

I'm sitting here in so-called communist Vietnam, reading about Trump's goons killing another American in minneapolis, and I just want to scream out loud. What the f is happening to america?

the default drop down for "screen blank" is so weird. Also not sure why "screen blank" and not "screen lock".
here is how you set a custom time: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1042641/how-to-set-custom-lock-screen-time…

I loved Soderbergh's Ocean's 11. Here's a breakdown of what made his work so entertaining.
▶️ yeah... no wonder they made two more after this - Soder Cinema
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zfmbhnKt3M4&si=bjCP7POhzBT9mwFw

For today's #MountainMonday I want to share this view again that we had when we were hiking through this beautiful forest.
More about it here:
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/reflect…

Here it is "nine plus four?" and the answer is "three." #shelsilverstein
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/806566590995988481/homework-machine-the-homework-machine-oh-the?source=share

Looks like ICE took their name a little too literally, out here melting human beings in Minneapolis!
#ICE

If you need any reminder why you should get rid of Twitter, here is a great explanation why.
https://youtu.be/p7ZG_xWYLzI?si=u0hsHACFUWupvTR2

Ever wondered what the NFC aerial (that allows for touchless payments) looks like inside your credit/debit card?
P.S. I do think its stupid that N26 choose to write account details on this card. I generally favour numberless cards anyway but here it is doubly annoying since its possible to read the details from either side of the card.

I still had more to say about the whole #cultpunk thing, so here's an expanded essay. I feel like it should probably be a Zine, if anyone has any thoughts on publishing it.
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/on-gods-and-governments

Not sure what in the 26 years I've been using it for buying and selling basically nothing but weird (and often obscure) music and collectibles would have suggested to eBay that I'd ever be into some shit like 'luxury fashion', but it's 2026, and here we are

It is great to see how much innovation surrounding electric HDVs comes from logistics companies themselves. Here: how refrigerated trailers (with diesel generators) are being converted to be powered directly from the battery of the electric tractor.
https://gree…

Electrically powered diesel cooling units now in use

Hi Seafarers!
Please help improve crisis intervention after critical incidents on board.
Here is a survey by WMU:
https://wmuhq.questionpro.eu/SEACARE
Please share!

Sometimes I feel that I could have my introduction much better. So I'll leave another piece here, and maybe one day I'll be able to find it again and use somewhere…
I'm a radical. I believe that every human has a right to dignity in life. Yes, even these people who allegedly "are too lazy to work".
I believe that everyone deserves safety, that nobody should be cold or starve, that everybody should be able to use a toilet or wash themselves, have access to healthcare and public transportation.
I think that restricting access to drinking water and toilets is a crime against humanity. The latter is also plain stupid, because it only leads to people using other places as toilets.
I'm so tired of the postsoviet labor cult (a kind of Polish thing). Seeing labor as a value in itself. Everyone must work, and it doesn't matter whether the work is actually beneficial, or outright harmful.
And last of all, I can't tolerate smokers. There is no excuse to harm yourself and everyone around you, just to satisfy your stupid addiction. And I'm also talking of all the random people who breathe all the toxins because smokers think they deserve to smoke everywhere, all the time.

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over. https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

It's not "better" for BART to have been more dependent on fares for its revenue than other systems; that's why fares are sky-high, often more than the marginal cost of driving, and why it lacked resilience during a pandemic. Otherwise, many good points here.
https://missionloc…

BART: The worst-case scenarios are actually worse than you’ve heard
If voters spurn a November revenue measure, the biggest question isn't what stations BART may close. It's if BART will continue to exist, full-stop.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Stars:
🎵 The Night Starts Here
#NowPlaying #Stars
https://starsband.bandcamp.com/track/the-night-starts-here
https://open.spotify.com/track/2jBWraeAbImYmC7rRLPnXR

#SelfPromoMonday ( I just made up that hashtag)
Beside here on Sakurajima you can follow me at those places
on dice.camp (I don't post much there but I should) @…
on Bluesky I'm @kin…

Things I somewhat dislike about #Fedora Linux:
Its inconsistent approach to shipping new major versions upstream released as regular updates.
New major versions of kernel, firefox, thunderbird, and kde are regularly shipped as regular updates, mesa often as well (except when it's not 🙄) – gnome, libreoffice and a few other things otoh are never updated.
This "neithe…

Through all 7 types of coffee bean I can buy green here and roasted all manually (with a heatgun) and Ethiopia is the best.
Now to figure out some better way to get insights into timing and heat over time.
Don’t want to buy expensive roaster - cos then I need to buy 3 so have to get good with cheap methods.

Yep the squirrels here in Mass know Shits About To Get Real

There's really people on here who demand that "we should ban all packaging" and some other people are taking them seriously.

On this Monday morning, please spare a thought for those who are starting the week off in cold, damp tents surrounded by the rubble of their previous lives, trapped within the clutches of an ongoing genocide that is the collective failure of humanity.
If you want to help, here’s a list of verified Mastodon accounts of Gazans and links to their fundraisers, ranked by how little support they got last week to feed their families and cover the basic necessities of life:

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Sonny Curtis:
🎵 Love Is All Around
#SonnyCurtis
https://tuffcity.com/album/love-is-all-around-here-there-and-everywhere

TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

OK so... Silver nitrate, sodium chloride, and potassium bitartrate are all here.
First step will be conversion of silver nitrate to chloride. I have 25 grams but don't want to use too much at a time so I'll do 500 mg for the first run.
That's 2.95 mmol of silver nitrate so I need 172 mg of sodium chloride to be stoichiometric. But to ensure a 100% conversion of the expensive silver salt I'll add an excess, aiming for around 250 mg.
The reaction is 1:1 so a p…

Solarization: Most digital photographers only know the effect as Photoshop filter, but here it's happening chemically in the darkroom... Created by extreme overexposure (here ~3x longer of my usual exposure time), the darkest parts of the image have become inverted, which in Kallitype then (temporarily) turns into these amazing orange tones, whilst the mids & highlights remain normal neutral grays, depending on developer used... During fixing and (especially) toning, the orange would…

Tomorrow in my History of Here course - one of my department's intro classes - we'll be discussing letters written in response to early-20th-c speeding tickets. My favorite claims it's unfair since he'd sped with so many cars before and never gotten a ticket ("as this is the fifteenth car that he has been the owner of, and has never been fined for speeding, he feels that he is being imposed upon by the commission").

Excess and evidence: Excuses for speeding in the early days of the car
As the summer wanes many car owners think about enjoying one last road trip and police officers think about managing chaotic long weekends on the highways. As long as cars have been on the road, sp…

NFL Draft day is here: Sources point to early fireworks, a volatile top five and maybe even a QB trade-up

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-draft-intel-2026-order-rumors/

And for the very best political commentary on #Trump's antics this week, try here.
#Greenland
#Davos

Through the miracle of the internet, I can sit here in Savannah watching on my TV WCCO in Minneapolis enjoying videos of how bad the snow storm is in New York. Shadenfreude!

The For Keeps Illustration Archives
Here, I pull back the curtain on my life as a professional illustrator building my business and life as a sentimental person with a passion for celebrating and preserving our stories and human experiences...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.

Upgraded to a new phone and the posts on here aren’t getting better, might return it

As seen outside our home while walking my dog. I think it's part of the Lyrid meteor shower here in Los Angeles?
After it went behind the tree, it disappeared. You can see the airplane flying in the background as well.
https://abc7.com/post/lyrid-meteor-sho

RE: https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/116458442461704301
Almost as if there’s a pattern here or something: liars lie, murderers murder, thieves stealing people’s land and homes steal people’s land and homes, monsters committing genoc…

Anthropic announces an "auto mode" that enables Claude Code to make permission-level decisions while preventing destructive actions like mass file deletion (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-code-auto-mode/

How Claude Code's new auto mode prevents AI coding disasters - without slowing you down
Anthropic's middle-ground mode aims to reduce interruptions while protecting developers from destructive commands. Here's why I like this new option.

NFL combine 2026 is here: What to know about the schedule, draft order and top prospects

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/nfl-combine-2026-where-to-watch/

Exploring the Chinese garden at the RUB botanical garden. Always a fun stop when I'm here

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Ms Ray:
🎵 You’re Here
#MsRay
https://ms-ray.bandcamp.com/track/youre-here
https://open.spotify.com/track/5cYeoLbXMw5MORlZavHkyk

Tomorrow we're discussing policing in my "History of Here" course. We'll start in the 19th and continue through the turn of the 21st century. A key event: the killing of Michael Wade Lawson, a Black 17 year-old from #Mississauga, #Ontario, shot in the back by Peel Regional Police. Four years lat…

Donald Trump has agreed to comply with court orders to partially fund the "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program".
The food benefit, commonly called SNAP, goes back-nearly a century in the U.S.
https://www.msn.com/e…

It's "galaxy season" for astrophotographers (the Milky Way isn't well visible right now during the night, so a lot of nebulas aren't either).
Here's a "snap" I did two years ago of Markarian's Chain, a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Cluster.
🔭🧪 #astrophotography

After He's Gone.
(Chosen for #TextureTuesday, but also as addendum for the recent #WorldDayOfGlaciers...)
"He" is referring here to the Gepatschferner (masculine in German), one of the once largest glaciers in the central Alps (and still Austria's 2nd …

GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $30/1M output tokens, double GPT-5.4's pricing; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1M input tokens and $180/1M output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/openais-gpt…

Stephen Jones says Cowboys 'leaning toward' franchise tagging George Pickens: We want him here https://www.nfl.com/news/stephen-jones-cowboys-leaning-toward-franchise-tag-george-pickens

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Love and Rockets:
🎵 Here on Earth
#LoveandRockets
https://loveandrockets.bandcamp.com/track/here-on-earth
https://open.spotify.com/track/0qvjl2bKi8wDaIzIYQ13m6

Wonder if they ban foreign computer and phone motherboards from sale next, to force include age-check hardware and whatever spyware they want installed to check that you’re a good little plebeian
who here remembers the Clipper chip? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

The Most AI-Exposed Counties in America Are Not Where You Think
https://jakeprokopets.substack.com/p/why-the-most-ai-exposed-counties
Here is a county-level AI displacement model across all 3,204 US counties.
The Top 5 most exposed counties are a…

Why the Most AI-Exposed Counties in America Are Not Where You Think
A county-level model of AI workforce displacement built on peer-reviewed methodology, BLS data, and real deployment evidence. The findings surprised me.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Beatles:
🎵 Here Comes the Sun
#TheBeatles
https://sonnenwellen.bandcamp.com/track/the-beatles-here-comes-the-sun
https://open.spotify.com/track/3CPFHaVEHkkH26hAEPgMMp

So we have an alternative septic system (because we're on top of rocky hill), the system using an aerator (basically a motor that kicks in occasionally) and uses bacteria to break down waste quickly.
The aerator broke (well, the logic board did) and so we're having to replace it, and they're here today to do it.
Interestingly the old system (from ca. 2010) had a logic board and a computer and stuff—but the new system is all purely analog & draws much less power.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jesus Jones:
🎵 Right Here, Right Now
#JesusJones
https://theartsmixof.bandcamp.com/track/jesus-jones-right-here-right-now-the-art-mix-edit-kzp-rms
https://open.spotify.com/track/3fcGGP62sllcNEhuFJVYeC