Tootfinder

"Revealed: Only a third of national climate pledges support ‘transition away from fossil fuels’"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Revealed: Only a third of national climate pledges support ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ - Carbon Brief
Only around a third of the latest country climate pledges submitted to the UN express support for the “transition away from fossil fuels”.

Trying to read a post claiming GitHub’s decision to purge toasts is *bad* for accessibility, even though it's on perennially inaccessible Medium.
And it’s behind an authwall.
Fine, I’ll sign in.
Oh, it’s actually behind a paywall.
Oh well. It’s not meant for me. Or anyone.

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #rochester, in the auditorium at the masonic temple. fall ’75, show #4. audience tape of the 2nd set only: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GgRQhR1hVk [1/2]

I play a #solitaire #cardGame called Yukon. The rules and a typical start point are attached.
The fewest moves I’ve taken to complete 1 game is 76. I’m guessing the fewest possible moves would be 52. A perfect deal. My question is, how do I calculate how many different deals would turn out perfect…

Living in a capitalist society makes me simultaneously hate and understand some things.
Back when the Sunday shopping ban was set in Poland by one of the right-wing parties (with some exceptions for petty capitalists, of course), I was outraged. Why are they forcing their religious customs on me?! But nowadays, I do realize that in a capitalist society, where employment laws are full of loopholes and employers explicitly punish employees for taking a day off, an obligatory no-business day is the only way.
On top of that, after living next to a supermarket for a few years… this is literally the only way to have a quiet day, without cars driving, and car doors slamming all the time. And of course night time deliveries, because you obviously can't lose day's business over such things.
And what I hate even more are these multi-day holidays and long weekends, where suddenly all my routine falls apart, and I can't really enjoy holidays while the train timetable is randomly punctuated. But then, I do realize that obligatory multi-day holidays are the only way for many people to simultaneously have a day off and be able to meet their families and friends.
I'm not really compatible with the world I'm living in.
#AntiCapitalism #ActuallyAutistic

Was discussing w/ friends how I think Mamdani would perform as mayor. I was curious to see what prediction markets had to say. Surprised that only Kalshi had any on post-election acts; Polymarket and Manifold only on election itself. (I don't really use them; is this typical?)

Windows NT Beer: Comes in 32-oz. cans, but you can only buy it by the
truckload. This causes most people to have to go out and buy bigger
refrigerators. The can looks just like Windows 3.1 Beer's, but the
company promises to change the can to look just like Windows 95 Beer's --
after Windows 95 beer starts shipping. Touted as an "industrial strength"
beer, and suggested only for use in bars.

We have come full circle from "of course we only use AI for prototypes" over "AI is amazing but obviously it needs experts checking on the output and extensive refactoring" to "let's just ship the slop".

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Steve Monite:
🎵 Only You
#SteveMonite
https://yeahhbuzz.bandcamp.com/track/steve-monite-only-you-yeahhbuzz-turbo-booty-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3d7lH2ppf2aIELQXY4nagn

This is so much "AI" reporting: Claims about potentials and/or threads. I'd just like to have grown-up conversations about tech again :(
"The actual current user base for evil chatbots is the cyber security vendors, who scaremonger how only their good AI can possibly stop this automated hacker evil!"
(Original title: AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!)

AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!
A chatbot is a wrapper around a large language model, an AI transformer model that’s been trained on the whole internet, all the books the AI vendor can find, and all the other text in the world. A…

A US judge rules Kalshi's sports-betting contracts are subject to Nevada Gaming Commission enforcement; Kalshi argues they should be regulated only by the CFTC (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."
—Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Spending a few hours with old girl Violet as her humans needed to go out but she's terrified of the constant fireworks we have at the moment.
Normally I only walk her so she's spent ages by the door looking at her harness and crying, but finally she settled down.
Not too many fireworks yet but it's only 5pm. If it gets bad she'll be shaking and panting and I may have to give her morphine 😢

At the Climate March in The Hague. As the climate crisis deepens, it's not much of a theme in the Dutch election campaign.
I heard it's because climate is 'only' the #4 concern of voters. But why not ask questions on #4 in the debates?
While immigration is talked up, climate is silenced down.
#klimaat

Huh, think I might've figured out why one (but only one) of my NextCloud instances loses contact with the OnlyOffice instance on the same host... Figured out it *might* be because of frequent polling that's resulted in the Mailcow instance (also on the host, as I'm trying to economise) is seeing it as making too many connections and is temporarily fail2banning it nightly. I've added the host's IP(v4&6) to the Fail2Ban whitelist... 🤞 it's still connected tomorrow!<…

Help me, Fediverse. You're my only hope.
I need the BEST over the top #vaporwave background that runs for several minutes. It should take me down to the Parallax City where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly.
Maybe a movie. Or a demo. Should run on Linux. It's for a performance by the #coffeebots

If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it.
No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation.
Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
https://www.

Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

»You already have a git server:
If you have a git repository on a server with ssh access, you can just clone it.«
Actually, this is only logical and correspondingly simple, but you should also use this. Now I came across this with the help of a link to this guide.
🧑‍💻 https://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/

Heltec LoRa 32 v4 was one of my Christmas presents, works like a charm, only just ordered a better antenna to be less lonely 😃
#meshcore #lora #nerd

Not only Lemmon but also #comet #SWAN has been imaged by Kimiya Yui from the #ISS: in https://x.com/Astro_Kimiya/status/1982242913389015085 it's peeking through the space station's solar arrays. (AFAIK this is a first, *two* comets getting imaged from the ISS at the same time.)

wow the only person who brought up Sunset Dunes/the former Great Highway at Lurie's D4 listening tour was someone who supports the park.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-listening-sunset/

Lurie, in Sunset ‘listening mode,’ says he’ll tap a supe for the long haul
Daniel Lurie asks merchants, recall leaders and community groups who they want to represent them, and talks about upzoning

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

It only takes baking one loaf of bread to make the house smell wonderful for hours.

#ReleaseThursday #OpenSourceXmas A little present (to some of you)... Been meaning to release these recent additions before the holidays, but only getting around to it now. The most important new things are these:

from my link log —
A very fast 64–bit algorithm to convert day numbers to broken-down dates.
https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-date-64
saved 2025-11-26 https://

Billboards telling troops to obey only lawful orders go up near Florida military base | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/troops-billboard-campaign-florida-orders-b2890691.html

Top court rules EU nations must mutually recognize same-sex marriages
The Court of Justice of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday that any refusal to do this 'is contrary to EU law' and 'infringes not only the freedom to move and reside, but also the fundamental right to respect for private and family life.'

Top court rules EU nations must mutually recognize same-sex marriages
The Court of Justice of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday that any refusal to do this 'is contrary to EU law' and 'infringes not only the freedom to move and reside, but also the fundamental right to respect for private and family life.

State of Local News report: in the past four years, monthly pageviews at the 100 largest newspapers fell by 45% , and only 11 experienced any readership growth (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-medil

In Medill’s latest State of Local News report, a “festering, 20-year-old problem” looms larger than ever
“Digital news sites don’t come close to replacing the number of newspapers and journalism jobs being lost. And the digital news providers are almost entirely concentrated in metro areas, leaving vast swaths of the country with little to no access to local news.”

Lewis Perelman hatte es 1992 schon drauf:
„The mission of hyperlearning is not only vision but action. HL's purpose is to enhance the human user's ability to direct the potent technology of the smart environment, lest the human be reduced to technology's object.

Wow. In a series of astronomical photos of the night sky, they found >100,000 star-like objects suspiciously only present in some images.
You could think they're just satellites (e.g. Starlink). However, the photos had been captured 1949–1957, before Sputnik was launched (1st human-made satellite)!
Remarkable: The “transients” were 68% more likely 1 day after a nuclear-bomb test! (That “argues against bomb debris … as a plausible explanation.”)

As if that were the only problem.
Kamala Harris 'concerned' she did not ask Biden to quit race
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj412zgvy4do

Kamala Harris 'concerned' she did not ask Biden to quit race
The former vice-president tells the BBC she is not sure whether it was “grace or recklessness” that stopped her speaking up.

#Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by #Rust
https://blog.cloudflare.com/20-percent

When I started programming I had one big disadvantage: no Internet. No looking up stuff online, no asking questions, no easy download of tools, only printed books and magazines (and even those hard to get)…
When I started programming I had one big advantage: no Internet. Whatever I created could not expose any security hole, any personal data, everything just run locally, and the biggest fear was that the police would come for my pirated copy of Sokoban – or even worse that the disk it…

The only game I enjoy playing over and over again. I just update the hardware every decade. #tetris #Nintendo #nintendoswitch

Abuse and #Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade https://www.info-buddhism.com/Abuse_and_Buddhism-Behind_the_Smiling_Facade-Anna_Sawerthal.html

Abuse and Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade
Buddhism in the West is in a crisis. For years, it had benefited from a reputation too good to be true. Only now are victims of sexual abuse, corruption and cultic behaviour finally beginning to speak out.

@… @…
My code is only (especially?) ugly if I didn't pair.

I saw someone at the grocery store wearing a hoodie. I could only read the back, which said, "No one likes us. We don't care."
I immediately thought, "That has to be #Philly."
It was.

I often reflect on life without social media or online accounts, living simply with only what I have left on TailsOS, yes, even sending and receiving emails through it.
#TorNetwork #TorBrowser #Tor

>Driving lorry yesterday.
>Put cruise control 65km/h on 80km/h road (could have gone faster but it was post-shift refueling duty so I just chilled road was kinda wonky).
>Moped on the bikelane.
>It catches up.
>It passes you.
>It gaps you.
>Suddenly see a cop car.
>*laughs*
(Mopeds are only allowed to go 45km/h, so if it overtakes me when I go 65km/h, it's defo not going 45km/h).

Blogged about my new take on Hierarchical data in CLI, scripts and code. And a look into the future direction I want for solving a particular configuration management use case.
https://choria.io/blog/post/2025/11/25/hierarchical_data/

the only time I've ever been on a podcast was while undercover as my Qsona (I have been posing as a qanon person on multiple platforms for like 8 years now) talking about how I "infiltrated" antifa lmao
#lore

I did a wee bit of volunteering this morning - nothing energetic. Walked home (just missed the rain) and did my washing - but didn't clean the bathroom. I didn't do it only because I didn't want to but the sore finger was my very excellent excuse to myself.
Husband spent a few hours making chilli (happy dance) so that's what we're having for dinner.
All things considered it was a successful Sunday.

The reviewer praises the volume for its breadth, while remarking that it is still worth noting that only three of the nineteen chapters are by women, which, he notes, is three more than the second volume he discusses in the same review.

moreno_sociograms: Moreno's sociograms (1934)
Relationships between pupils in a classroom. A directed edge exists if the source wants to sit next to the target. Each child can only choose two others.
This network has 32 nodes and 64 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
https://networks.ske…

Just biking home the other day. I think I'm supposed to be more alarmed at this, but given that I handled it with yards to spare, I'm not sure this was really a problem: https://vimeo.com/1140994018?fl=pl&fe=sh
Note that I was only going 12mph, and my fingers were resti…

Donnie continues to attempt to create problems so that he can claim he's the only one capable of solving them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/gun-violence-prevention-non-profit-grants-disqualified

It is impossible to do this for Trump in place of Reagan, because none of the apologies apply. It is impossible to come up with nine positive aspects of Trump, even trivial ones. He's a repulsive human being who is only tolerated because he has money and power. https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/1154354453

Mark Dominus (@mjd@mathstodon.xyz)
Attached: 1 image @realhackhistory@chaos.social

@… @… I am in the cave, too. I use Evolution, but only because I like the interface more than Tbird, not because it's great.

'Only begun to fight': Texas Senate race heats up as Republicans brace for a runoff (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/texas-senate-race-republicans-brace-runoff-rcna245613
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p32#a251125p32

🎲 The NBA gambling scandal, explained by an actual gambler
#sports

The NBA gambling scandal, explained by an actual gambler
43 thoughts about the biggest betting scandal in years. Not only is it not surprising, but it looked suspicious in real time.

Sustainability is current just a privilege. Only achievable by those who can afford it. Therefore it needs to be widely and generously subsidised.

Finished “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison, the only short story she ever wrote.
Two girls, Twyla & Roberta, bond as roommates for a few months in a shelter at age 8. They lose touch but encounter each other later in life, always at odds.
Morrison tells us one girl is black and one is white, but intentionally removes all racial clues and language. Brilliant thought experiment, of which, why do we care? Does it matter?
4.5/5 stars, rounded up ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Recitatif
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the…

Clowney among 3 2026 free agents the Cowboys should re-sign https://insidethestar.com/clowney-among-3-2026-free-agents-the-cowboys-should-re-sign

The WebSerial specification is on of those web APIs implemented only in Chrome so far; Mozilla have revised their standards position from "harmful" to "neutral" when they established the mechanism addon-gating, but are merely open to patches.
But an add-on, "WebSerial for Firefox" already fills the gap well. The caveat compared to any Mozilla sanctioned approach is that it needs a local helper, but that is well managed through the native-messaging-hosts me…

GitHub - kuba2k2/firefox-webserial: WebSerial API Polyfill for Mozilla Firefox browser
WebSerial API Polyfill for Mozilla Firefox browser - kuba2k2/firefox-webserial

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Wraithe/115617586681174816
Hank Hill voice
I’ll tell you whut:
If this dude got 50 years for stealing/defrauding $1.2million in Fajitas, you can only imagine what penalties I think should rightfully be dropped on the…

For the next 4 weeks I’m only working Monday & Tuesday, then off until Jan 6. Bliss!
I am popping into the office today to help with next week’s office move though, so another day TOIL due

With a FreeBSD pkg repository configuration file set to use quarterly for the one and only repo:
― why is latest (not quarterly) used for bootstrapping?
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/1a36d21e9c6d3bc363cee7ecfe779595#file-2…

The Only Area the Raiders Are Not Having Massive Struggles In https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-patrick-graham-rob-leonard

I saw a handful of videos online about this particular ev1. When they crushed the majority of them (they were originally only leased, never sold), they gave away a few to museums, and they gave away a few to universities with a stipulation that they never sell them. It sounds like a university stopped knowing that they owned it, had it towed, and the towing company went through the process
of legally selling it at auction. GM didn't care enough to claim ownership.
#EV1

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers https://edintone.com/work-housing-health/ In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe O

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers - Miscellanea Edintone
In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe Operatives Trade Union had 13,104 members; officials estimated that only 5% of adult workers were outside the union.

0 days since someone in my replies engaged in Apple bashing
With all their faults, it's the only company supporting their computers and phones with software updates and hardware repairs for a reasonable amount of time.
E.g. iOS 26 works on 6 year old phones and you can get spare parts or service for even older phones from Apple (e.g. iPhone 5 from 2012 is classfied "vintage" by Apple, which means they still service it).

Nvidia says it is "delighted by Google's success" and it has "made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google", but "Nvidia is a generation ahead" (@nvidianewsroom)
https://x.com/nvidianewsroom/status/1993364210948936055

NVIDIA Newsroom (@nvidianewsroom) on X
We’re delighted by Google’s success — they’ve made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google. NVIDIA is a generation ahead of the industry — it’s the only platform that runs every AI model and does it everywhere computing is done. NVIDIA offers greater

"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
—Ben Kingsley
#acting #coaching

A read-only text field is focusable. And confusing to users.
If you add `tabindex="-1"` and/or `pointer-events: none`, admit it’s wrong and make it plain text instead.
If you use it anyway, style it so it’s clear (good luck). Here are my shitty styles: https://adrianroselli.com/…

Under-Engineered Text Boxen
Others in this sorta-series: Under-Engineered Custom Radio Buttons and Checkboxen Under-Engineered Toggles Under-Engineered Toggles Too This is the latest, and not last, in my informal series of posts on under-engineered controls. Generally I am looking at the minimum amount of CSS necessary to style native HTML controls while also retaining…

Kim Stenger has a condition called complete sensory neuropathy.
She's the only living person that has no sense of touch, pain or temperature.
Stenger was diagnosed with the condition at birth.
Doctors thought she would be in a vegetative state.
-- She proved everyone wrong.
"I have my JD, my law degree, and I currently work at our county prosecutor's office," Stenger said.
"I do criminal law research and writing.
"I had t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Hatchie:
🎵 Only One Laughing
#Hatchie
https://hatchie.bandcamp.com/track/only-one-laughing
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Du13F2WwqWucRqFRspWq9

Maybe a bit controversial statement, but has democracy not already died in the US? Congress has no effective oversight anymore, GOP only listens to Trump, democratic party is totally ineffective. Rule of law is severely damaged.
#USA #democracy

An #earworm popping up in my brain lately. A poem I was made to memorize when I was 14. It re-emerges every couple years, for no reason I can figure. tbh, I usually only remember verbatim the first few lines or so, and have to look it up again. It’s one of those things, like advertising jingles from many years ago, that have lodged in my memory. 🎶You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush y…

Oak Woodlands has long been my favorite part of Golden Gate Park, but only recently have I come to appreciate Buena Vista Park for its own coast live oak forest... and even more recently noticed this enormous coffeeberry shrub at the bottom of the hill

Update: the only thing I didn't use yet is the scarf. Though technically I had the opportunity in Głogów, as it was quite windy.

"Christmas Island shrew officially declared extinct: IUCN"
#Animals #Shrew
https://

Christmas Island shrew officially declared extinct: IUCN
The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared officially extinct. It’s at least the fourth small mammal species to be wiped out from the island since the introduction of invasive species there a century ago. The Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura) was […]

The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine is s valuable resource but only 1/1000 users donate to its running costs.
You can join them.
Donate to the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/donate/

LLMs are basically a "Conversation Simulator" and just as useless as similar games like "Power Washing Simulator" or "Goat Simulator", only less fun

We joined with some friends this morning for a greyhound walk in Bedfont Lakes. I didn't have a hound to bring because the only one I can borrow now is Violet and she's too old to walk that distance. The three people we met up with had 5 dogs between them though, so Lynn let me keep hold of her boy Freddie.
I didn't take any photos because it was really cold and my hands were full! But here's a recent photo of Freddie.

@… I can already hear someone typing “Well akshually decaying nuclear material is here to stay”.
Only because we *decide* not to blast it into space.
@…

As judges face more threats, only the Supreme Court gets new security funds (Derek Hawkins/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/25/judges-security-funding-congress-supreme-court/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p31#a251125p31

Oh you thought the ordeal of being perceived was mortifying? Wait 'till you try being perceived by a state.
As its bureaucratic gaze lingers through the entrails of your medical, financial, scholastic, and social records, a deep disquiet oozes through your brain upon consideration of the labyrinthine antagonisms it may—or may not—inflict upon you. In service only to Capital, this entity has bequeathed immeasurable portions of suffering and death to those it threatens to protect, let alone to its ever-multiplying enemies, and now it is your turn to be found wanting, for in its incessant mechanical hunger, wanting is all that the state can conceive of.
#horror #capitalism #nationalism

REMINDER: Influenza has everything needed to kill people every year and produce a global pandemic every few decades forever. What keeps it at a low “just the flu” level is vaccination. One thing that kept the most recent surges from being more like 1918 is the CDC. What is left of the CDC is inadequate to that task. https://m…

🌞 Solar farms could double bumblebee populations through wildflower management
#solar

Solar farms could double bumblebee populations through wildflower management
Solar farms could become important refuges for bumblebees in Britain, a new study reveals—though their benefits only go so far.

Don’t worry, #LFC only host the team with the highest xG in the league next.

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
—Mikhail Baryshnikov
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Trump: “Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties, & thought he was the greatest guy on earth, only to ‘drop him like a dog’ when things got too HOT … Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!”
https://

Don’t Have To Apologize For Being Popehat Anymore (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
What a psycho. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Another way of saying those people were just murdered....
"The clips show some of the boats were already stopped at sea when they were detected, and the people onboard were potentially within reach of U.S. forces before they were blown up."

What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea
The military has released 21 video clips of U.S. attacks on vessels it says are trafficking drugs. But they tell only part of the story.

It’s funny how we had AI that can cure all diseases and solve all societal problems for years now and we still have diseases and the problems are only getting worse

San Franciscans! Here's a petition you can sign asking Mayor Lurie and the board of supervisors to fund social housing. You might have seen the flyers around the city.
We voted to fund it with 2020's Prop I, but for obscure reasons of state law, the use of the revenue wasn't legally binding, only intended. And then-Mayor Breed refused to do it. But we can fund it now!

Fund San Francisco's Social Housing Program with Prop I Property Transfer Tax Revenue, as Promised!
In 2020, San Francisco voters passed Prop I which levied a transfer tax on properties worth over $10 million dollars. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution assuring voters it was their intention to spend the revenue from the new tax on a Social Housing Program. Social Housing is housing that is municipally-owned (or non-profit owned), permanently affordable, and available to a wider mix income than traditional public housing. Mayor Breed overruled the Board of Supervisors a…

In other news, Ed Davey (UK Lib Dems) was vacuous about the #Budget2025. Could only prattle about 'growth' and the EU.

I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic

'Absolute violence and worse is the only thing that should happen': How social media drove the Citywest riots (Conor Lally/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/10/25/amplified-hateful-content-how-online-anger-was-stoked-into-rioting-at-citywest/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p18#a251025p18

The White House Office of Management and Budget
issued a memo threatening significant layoffs
if the government shuts down on Oct. 1
and instructing federal agencies to develop a plan for retaining only essential staff,
-- even after operations resume.

It’s a cruel maneuver using federal workers, who have survived earlier cuts initiated by Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service, as pawns.

What to do if a federal government shutdown freezes your paycheck
It’s not just federal workers who would take a hit, but contractors and the businesses that depend on them.

LLMs never make mistakes or hallucinate, as this presupposes they actually know what they’re doing—they don’t: they have no concept of what words mean.
They don’t even deal with language, as they generate chains of big numbers based on statistical correlations.
The resulting transformation into human-readable text is always only a statistical approximation of what a real answer could maybe look like.
By sheer chance sometimes LLMs are even correct (usually for trivial things); however above a certain length of answer it is always wrong.

I don't envy "vibe coders". I mean, let's for a minute assume that their vision is not a pipe dream, but an accurate prediction of the future.
For a start, what's their plan for life? Driving a tool whose primary selling point is that anyone can use it. And I'm not even talking about all the inside competition. I'm talking of people realizing that they can cut the middleperson and do the coding themselves.
The way I see it, vibe coders are a bit like typists (with no offense to typists). Their profession is a product of a novelty. And just like typists largely disappeared when typewriters and then computers became commonplace, so are vibe coders bound to disappear when vibe coding becomes commonplace.
And are true programmers going to become obsolete? Well, let me ask you: did the proliferation of cars and corresponding self-service skills render car mechanics obsolete? On the contrary. The way I see it, the proliferation of slopcode will only make competent programmers ever the more necessary.
What vibe coders are saying is basically this: "This new automated self-service kit makes car maintenance so easy. Car mechanics will become obsolete now. Everyone's just going to hire *me* to run this kit instead."
#AI #LLM #VibeCoding

What began as a modest workplace amenity for public servants has metastasized into a taxpayer-funded citadel of privilege
— a Capitol Hill concierge service offering the kind of round-the-clock care and personalized access that, in the private sector, is the sort of luxury care only millionaires can afford.
All the while, the nation’s public health care system lists beneath it. 
When a lawmaker collapses, Washington treats it like a national emergency.
In 2012, Senator…

Congress Enjoys Ultra-Luxe Health Care as It Fights to Gut Yours
Congress has ensured its members receive ultra-luxe health care as Republican keep the government closed over stripping it from Americans.

The whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.

Something has definitely changed in Democratic rhetoric just in the last couple of weeks.
Officials are now suggesting that ICE agents are committing crimes and should be held accountable
— which is very different from simply objecting to a policy shift.
It’s fair to say this is a result not only of the street-level thuggery that has been so apparent,
but the mounting evidence that top Trump officials feel unconstrainedby the law, judges, or any established authorit…

ICE is out of control and beyond repair
This agency needs to be stripped down to the studs. Dems should start preparing now.

Musk rode into Washington with big ambitions of slashing government spending by trillions of dollars.
Instead, during his brief time in DC, government spending actually increased,
and he left behind many burned bridges.
https://www.theverge.com/news/827390/doge-

DOGE is no more, and in its wake, only chaos
After Musk was chased out of DC, a power vacuum at the head of DOGE caused chaos and ultimately led to its dissolution.