Tootfinder

@… it’s only a dream it’s only a dream it’s only a dream it’s only a dream it’s only a dream

a feature that i wish was built into mastodon from the start & hope it eventually comes to heads.social. feel like being able to communicate only with people on your local server is one of the missing pieces in actually making local servers work. (i'd certainly be more apt to live-toot live shows/streams if i knew the readers were specifically the heads server.)

Former Rep. George Santos says he will only pay restitution if he's required by law (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/former-rep-george-santos-only-pay-restitution-required-law-rcna238446
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p45#a251019p45

Morgan Stanley: ad tiers account for 30% of Netflix subscribers and 50% of Disney subscribers; ad tiers accounted for all net subscriber additions in 2025 (Max Knoblauch/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/business/netflix-and-disne…

Netflix and Disney+ probably only added ad-tier subscribers this year, says Morgan Stanley
As streaming prices climb, ad-free subscribers are becoming a rarity.

Cowboys LB DeMarvion Overshown returns from knee injury to boost D: 'It's only up from here' https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-lb-demarvion-overshown-returns-from-knee-injury-to-boost-d-it-s-only-up-from-here<…

Morgan Stanley: ad tiers account for 30% of Netflix subscribers and 50% of Disney subscribers; ad tiers accounted for all net subscriber additions in 2025 (Max Knoblauch/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/business/netflix-and-disne…

Netflix and Disney+ probably only added ad-tier subscribers this year, says Morgan Stanley
As streaming prices climb, ad-free subscribers are becoming a rarity.

It Is Not Only Alright To Shame, And Ultimately Ostracize, Your MAGA Relatives, It Is Your Patriotic Duty As An American - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/it-is-not-only-alright-to-shame-and-ultimately-ostracize-your-maga-relatives-it-is-your-patriotic-duty-as-an-american/

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115746730662598273
FLOSS needs fewer corporations and more structures where the public (not only developers) can actually determine the path into the future.
FLOSS only means more than "Amazon and Microsoft ca…

"Aspiring American authoritarians will only win if they are allowed to do so. None of this has to happen. Both of these terrible possibilities, land war and self-terrorism, are signs of weakness rather than strength. They can be prevented, but only if we name them, and use their horror as the first step to describe something much better."
http…

Land War or Self-Terrorism?
Trump's Likely Next Step

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3m32bgggagk2t

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

There's a type of guy whose only contribution at work is sheer volume of outputs, whether or not they serve any purpose. #AI tools ask us, "what if everyone could be that guy?"
It turns out that the result is bad for everyone. Systems lose their ability to evaluate whether outputs are fit for purpose. Shared intent disappears.
Scaling up trash only makes more trash. Work tha…

All your problems are people problems (Don't Just Do Things, Part 2)
If you want to do strategy, you must be willing to do process transformation first.

Despite solid debut, DeMarvion Overshown is only going to get better from here https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/despite-solid-debut-demarvion-overshown-only-going-better

Your daily reminder that @… are only cunts on days with names ending with day.
“The European Commission will launch its long-awaited bid to simplify digital rules in an effort to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses and to promote European start ups in the global artificial intelligence race.”

It’s “fun” when the only instructions for some retrocomputing thing are in the form of an un-narrated video using Chinese on-screen text
People, please write blog posts again

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Drugdealer:
🎵 It's Only Raining Right Where You're Standing
#Drugdealer
https://drugdealerband.bandcamp.com/track/its-only-raining-right-where-youre-standing
https://open.spotify.com/track/5XLye2xYwqnq1aOFsbP1Ac

@… on dev.phanpy, I can't set "anyone can quote" it just switches back to "only you can quote". This a TBD?

I joined Labour 3 times.Never again.
"Questions arise for members of the Labour Party. Why would one join a party where being a member means only paying subs and having no voice? Why would one join a party which is itself host to the enemies not only of socialism but of mild social democratic reform? Why would anyone on the left join an organisation that required you to battle the party bureaucracy before you could battle the true political opposition?"

Only in the Netherlands?
Car driver gets 31st fine for holding a phone in his hand while driving. Police: "Yeah, that's why we had a serious conversation with him; next time, he may get obligatory education".
That's it. Just the regular fine. See you next time. Who cares?
https://nos.nl/l/2591244

Hardleerse weggebruiker krijgt meer dan 30 boetes voor vasthouden telefoon
De politie hield gisteren een controle in de provincie Utrecht, onder meer met een touringcar. Tachtig mensen werden betrapt met een telefoon in de hand.

why is the linux input subsystem so fucking bad
i've _never_ had installing libinput fix anything. the only thing it does is break shit that worked before

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

Even though I accidentally went up the wrong branch of the Northern Line on Saturday then spent ages getting to Waterloo & City line at Bank only for them to close the gates on me since the last service had just gone, resulting in me being an extra hour late at home… it still only counted as tapping in and out at the same places I intended so still cost the same: £7.00.
Thanks TfL.

This has only happened once before, but today I have two big stories appearing in two publications.
The first, an exclusive which just kind of dropped in my lap, is my latest CSO piece, which reports that foreign threat actors infiltrated the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), a manufacturing facility that produces roughly 80% of the non-nuclear parts in the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
Experts say this incident underscores the need to protect operational techn…

Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
A foreign actor infiltrated the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City National Security Campus through vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s SharePoint browser-based app, raising questions about the need to solidify further federal IT/OT security protections.

Some fantastic suggestions in the replies to this cry for help regarding our #AppleGlut.
I started with the marvellous suggestion 🙏of @… of a clafoutis like apple sharlotka. Absolutely delicious 😋
That's going in the family food canon.
The next batch of stewed apple mousse is also almost ready for freezing. Only 7 crates to go 😳...
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115237087584724588
Ruth_Mottram - Have picked around 120kg of apples from a single tree (variety is Pigeon - smallish, red, good keepers, often used at Christmas in Denmark), but no way we'll manage to eat them all before they go bad. Your suggestions for recipes with apples?

My dear fellow developers, is there any single phrase that makes you want to just punch someone faster than “Can’t you just…?”
NO, WE CAN’T JUST. THIS PROBLEM IS ACTUALLY HARD, AND YOU ONLY THINK IT’S EASY BECAUSE YOU DON’T EVEN •SEE• THE PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The BDFL model of OSS governance is •us• saying “Can’t you just…?”
Sorry. We’re doing it too. Sorry to break it to you.
12/

"...there isn’t enough new housing to make a dent on affordability. "
What I don't understand is why journalists keep framing this as a simple supply and demand - if only we let developers build, the price will come down.
When the reality is developers will build if and only if one condition is met: Buyers (or landords) will pay a price that meets the developers profit targets. And we see evidence of that in the timelines looking at selling price vs construction…

S.F. upzoning plan heads to committee for final amendments
At Monday's meeting, amendments will range from excluding historical buildings to increasing the percentage of larger, family-friendly units.

"...there isn’t enough new housing to make a dent on affordability. "
What I don't understand is why journalists keep framing this as a simple supply and demand - if only we let developers build, the price will come down.
When the reality is developers will build if and only if one condition is met: Buyers (or landords) will pay a price that meets the developers profit targets. And we see evidence of that in the timelines looking at selling price vs construction…

S.F. upzoning plan heads to committee for final amendments
At Monday's meeting, amendments will range from excluding historical buildings to increasing the percentage of larger, family-friendly units.

Fave hike of 2025... Ahh memories... Only 5 weeks ago, but already feels like a lifetime ago...
#WildWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

»The Privacy Theater of Hashed PII:
A 2020 MacBook Air can hash every North American phone number in four hours«
Good article that clearly shows that only hashing alone is not yet data safe. That's where HMAC belongs at the SHA-2 min. but also not to save passwords and the same.
🤷 https://

The Privacy Theater of Hashed PII
It takes a 2020 Macbook Air four hours to hash every North American phone number

The SSDs in my storage cluster that I bought for a bit under $800 a while back are now over $1300, a >50% price increase.
I'm only at 60% ish usage so hopefully I can keep my rate of data growth in check until the bubble pops. Otherwise I'm either gonna have to pay scalper prices for more NVMe or add some spinning rust back in.
At the rate things are going I've probably got a year or two before things get tight.

Does anyone know about opentherm ? Since enabling it on our boiler (ideal c30 with hive thermostat) the boiler only switches on for a few seconds at a time (not getting beyond 21 degrees c despite opentherm flow set to maximum) and the radiators don't heat up at all. The engineer says that's just how opentherm is. #opentherm

it’s kinda wild that there’s still no widely supported file format for video files that allows multiple subtitle tracks. at this point apple's insistence on not supporting mkv can only be seen as a political decision?

Hmmmm, well I went to start setting up a recording session for some Meshtastic radios only to realize that my OBS doesn't seem to support screen recording...
It loads the screen, but only for a few frames before it just stops. Doesn't seem to spit out any errors on the CLI and doesn't crash, it just stops receiving updates from Pipewire.
Tried both v32 from their Flatpak and v31 from the Debian 13 (Trixie) repo and both seem to have the same issue.
Any other De…

Freedom can only be the whole of freedom; a piece of freedom is not freedom.
---- - Max Stirner - ----

Die Deutsche Bahn hat laut @… europaweit einen "Spitzenplatz".
https://chuuchuu.com/2025wrapped

Frustrated with your phone doing stupid shit which you don't want it to? Me too. I've switched mine to only answer commands in some Chinese dialect. Which Chinese dialect? I don't know. I don't speak, write or read any Chinese.
I don't know that this will totally defeat it, but it's worth a try.

#proTip
You know how you’ll be walking along, minding your own business, and all of a sudden there’s a stone in your shoe? It’s only a little one and you can shake your foot without hardly breaking stride and get it to somewhere it doesn’t hurt so much or even hardly at all. But then it moves and you’ve gotta shake your foot again. Guess what. You can stop and take off your shoe and tip out the…

The only way I can describe my state of mind is: unfathomably sullen

from my link log —
Execute-only pages vs PAN (privileged access never) on arm64.
https://siguza.github.io/PAN/
saved 2020-01-07 https://dotat.at/:/CBAC3.h…

Film maker Duncan Jones is not happy with BlueSky, and thinks "we should built a new app" 🙄 Look at the response I got when I asked why not the Fediverse. I can't understand why Masto is seen that way.

Today I discovered the use of:
width: 0;
min-width: 100%;
This forces an element's intrinsic width to be 0, while its actual width is still equal to the parent's width.
As a result, the parent element's default width calculations will ignore this element and only consider its siblings.

The White House says the $100K H-1B fee will not be applied to renewals or existing holders of valid visas re-entering the US, only new applicants (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/20/trump-h-1b-immigration-visas

New H-1B visa fee will not apply to existing holders, official says
The $100,000 fee for the highly prized visa is intended to boost jobs for U.S. workers.

Only lawmaker to vote no on Epstein files calls it a 'principled' stand (Victoria Bisset/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/19/epstein-files-clay-higgins-no-vote/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p32#a251119p32

Despite solid debut, DeMarvion Overshown is only going to get better from here https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/despite-solid-debut-demarvion-overshown-only-going-better

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band open a 2-night superbill at winterland, their only time playing there, along with the keith & donna band & weir’s kingfish. all dead members present minus lesh & hart, though the only sit-ins happen on the 20th.
soundboard: https://archive.org/de…

Less than 48 hours after joining Bluesky,
the White House has already become one of the most blocked accounts on the social network.
According to ClearSky, which tracks Bluesky blocking stats,
the White House account is blocked by around 91,000 accounts, while being followed by only 10,000.
The only account that’s been blocked by more Bluesky users belongs to Vice President JD Vance, who joined back in June. 
While the various new government accounts hadn’t qu…

The White House is already one of the most blocked accounts on Bluesky | TechCrunch
The Trump administration is taking its social media attacks on Democratic opponents to an unlikely platform, with the White House and numerous other government agencies joining Bluesky on Friday.

Node.js devs, so picture this: you run `npm install` and you get a bunch of packages with audit errors.
The only thing I want to know at that point is what’s the root package that these dependencies belong to? (Running npm audit fix is a last resort as I don’t like it fiddling around with the dependencies of nested packages.)
It’s also not a straightforward thing to do, but it’s nothing jq and a bit of piping can’t fix:
```bash
npm audit --json | jq -r '.vulnerabil…

The archetypical "Enhance!" trope is of course from Blade Runner (1982), which is only 7 years later.

My harshness in a players-only meeting taught me the value of emotional intelligence https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6816952/2025/11/19/ndamukong-suh-nfl-vita-vea-dolphins-bucs-nfl/

Anyone here has any experience with a ToDo/Shopping list one can
- self host
- has an Android app
- allows sharing lists between users
?
(I have already googled, only interested in actual experience)
(EDIT: I am asking for an app because I want to be usable by another person who's not looking for an ideological project or an opportunity to learn markdown or how weird PWAs work. That's why a dedicated app would be a plus. )

@… the toggle is for me and only me

"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

Kids back then had it easy. To hack a pay phone, you just had to whistle into the receiver. But today, only highly trained opera singers can hit the 13.56 MHz frequencies necessary to whistle an RFID signature.

Any developer worth their salt knows that the outputting code is the easiest part of software development, and that code as an artifact has little value without everything that surrounds it: the people, the shared knowledge, the practices (both formal and informal), the infrastructure, the networks of trust, etc etc.
And yet!! like fools, we’ve got ourselves hung up on OSS licenses and copyright — the legal structures surrounding the code itself — as if code were in fact the only thing that really matters. As if we didn’t know better.
4/

Trump is cutting foreign aid. He's not the only one. (Carmen Paun/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/19/gobal-health-trump-rfk-who-tedros-00613700
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p58#a251019p58

So am I understanding this correctly that the upcoming NPM authentication and token changes mean our only publishing workflow options henceforth are either switching to OICD Trusted Publishing[1] via GitHub Actions or using granular access tokens. The problem with the former is that I wanted to migrate my projects to Codeberg soon (which isn't supported). The problem with the latter is that granular tokens are unsuitable for publishing packages from a large monorepo, since these tokens a…

thi.ng/umbrella

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Hatchie:
🎵 Only One Laughing
#Hatchie
https://hatchie.bandcamp.com/track/only-one-laughing
https://open.spotify.com/track/6DGgiVR1F2vX97iT0hhVkp

Progress! Now 3 VMs to upgrade to Trixie in the next day or two, plus my office workstation and core router which are scheduled for upgrade during the maintenance outage later.
And I only have 8 VMs to switch over to the new storage setup before I can work on upgrading the hypervisor.

Right, what odds would I get for a bet that the next UK government will be a Labour-Conservative coalition, justified to their supporters by both parties as 'the only way to keep out the extremists'?

Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe
we should think only about today.
Charlie Brown:
No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get
better.

Here's a quote from HuffPost:
"According to Bluesky analytics site VQV, the official White House account quickly became the platform’s second-most blocked profile, with around 95,000 users smashing the block button to presumably preempt their feeds being filled with AI slop and divisive rants.
"The only account with more blocks on the platform is Vice President JD Vance, who’s been blocked by more than 167,000 users since joining in June."

The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,
threatening the equal representation of Black voters,
and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm election.
The case concerns Louisiana’s six congressional districts,
two of which are majority-Black,
in approximate proportion to the Black population of the state.
A previous map that gave Black voters only one district in which the…

Will Supreme Court Gut Voting Rights Act & Weaken Electoral Power of Black Americans?
The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, threatening the equal representation of Black voters, and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm election. The case concerns Louisiana’s six congressional districts, two of which are majority-Black, in approximate proportion to the Black population of the state. A previous map that gave Black voters only one district in which they were a majority was ruled to have vio…

What’s really amazing about vibe-coding is how people are replacing programming languages which are strictly deterministic with human speech which is highly ambiguous and expect programming to be faster and better.
“Well only use it when you’re already an expert!”
None of the people starting their careers using this technology are experts yet, nor will the ever be.
And within some finite amount of time nether will you, the expert, be an expert anymore.

Nvidia and Intel sidestepping questions about manufacturing in their new deal only reinforces that Intel's best path forward is to spin off its foundry business (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/intel-nvidia-deal

Looking for a good dungeon crawler-y board game where the rules are simple enough to play it with smaller kids. (I have been playing a bit of Mice and Mystics with my 5 year old and he's super into the whole thing.
Any recommendations (only games you played, consider I know how to use internet searching)

Trump's response to 'No Kings' marches only proved the protesters' point (Stephen Collinson/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/politics/trump-no-kings-protests-vance-cia-analysis
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p5#a251020p5

"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

It's pretty ironic that part of the promise of cloud computing & CDNs was some form of geographical decentralization of resources, only then to end up with seemingly half the internet involving us-east-1 alone...
#AWS #Outage

just came across these 2002 tonic schedules while looking for something else & only wish i saved more. mostly embarrassed at how much i missed on these because I wasn't yet cool enough (specifically damo suzuki with cul de sac & multiple holy modal rounders gigs). #nyc

How to Topple Maduro -- And Why Regime Change Is the Only Way Forward in Venezuela (Elliott Abrams/Foreign Affairs)
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/how-topple-maduro?s=EDZZZ005ZX
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p61#a251120p61

Anyone using UTM/QEMU with a NT 3.51 VM?
I’m looking for correct network settings. It detects NE2000 ISA and assigns an IP but I can’t ping anything.
UTM mentions to set IRQ to 9 but that’s not an option I see (it’s set to 2).
Mainly I want to access a FTP server on the host computer to transfer files.
👉 I know how to use search engines, therefore please only make suggestions if you are personally familiar with this, thank you. 👈

A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes 3,000 AI-made podcasts per week and has 400K subs; an episode needs only 20 listeners to turn a profit (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/ai-podcasts-hosts-inception-point-ai/

An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week — and People Are Listening
An AI podcasting machine is churning out 3,000 AI-made episodes a week covering weather, biographies and even Charlie Kirk.

"This Week in Videogames spoke to a dozen professional concept artists in the wake of Vincke’s comments, all of whom currently or have previously worked in game development, ranging from indie studios to large AAA developers. All, without exception, said that ‌generative AI image tools had only made their lives more difficult – even when simply used as reference material."

Not only was airfield at Bagram built in 1950s by Soviet Union, but potus was one who wanted US out of Afghanistan.
“It was Trump's administration that signed the peace agreement with the Taliban that paved the way for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan near the end of his first term.”
Bad things may well happen to US soldiers if potus follows through on this.
quote source:

sometimes really just need to hear jimmie dale gilmore's voice (though "when the nights are cold" might be the only really transcendent moment for me). @…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115578233117718180
On second thought Internet Explorer 5.5 seems way too new for this laptop—I might reinstall basic Windows 95 again and only add Office '95.
Interesting though that it seems to run fine.

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/google-searches-police-access…

Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant
In a decision that only affects Pennsylvanians but could have privacy implications elsewhere, the state's Supreme Court ruled that police did not need a warrant to access a rape suspect's Google searches.

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
—Jake Gyllenhaal
#acting #coaching #inspiration

In Colorado, students taunted their Black classmates by playing whipping sounds on their cellphones and saying they should be shot “to make us a better race.”
The only two Black students in a small district in Ohio were called the N-word by white peers starting on their first day.
They got accustomed to hearing slurs like “porch monkey” and being told to go pick cotton.
And at a school in Illinois, white students included Confederate flags in their PowerPoint presentations …

Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

Google says the Gemini app is now able to detect images made by Google AI, with plans to roll out verification of video and audio (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/824786/google-gemini-synthid-ai-image-detection

Google Gemini is getting better at identifying AI fakes
Google is adding the ability to detect AI-generated images in the Gemini app, but only if they include Google’s own SynthID watermark.

"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

Democrats thought they could ride out the first Trump administration like it was any other Republican administration.
Events since should have disabused them of the possibility of doing it a second time
—as if January 6 did not happen,
as if the people who tried to destroy our government would not come back and be serious about finishing the job,
as if they actually hadn’t written it all down in a manifesto and published it.
The result is that, as In These Times…

The Case for the Forever Shutdown
Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

For everyone already sworn into this 119th Congress,
there was no excuse.
There is no excuse.
The refusal to act,
to even start to pound the drum for Trump's impeachment,
is an abdication of their own declared duty to the nation
and destructive in and of itself.

Oaths Of Office, And How Everyone Not Moving To Impeach Trump Is Violating Their Own
Until very recently the only member of Congress excused from not having moved to impeach Trump was Rep. Grijalva, because until someone swore her in there was nothing she could officially do. But f…

Nearly a million chickens packed the barns at Howe’s Hens last Christmas Eve when the first of them tested positive for bird flu.
The deadly virus spreads so fast that even if only one hen is infected,
farmers are legally obligated to kill all of the others.
Massive mounds of carcasses soon appeared outside the Ohio egg farm, covered in compost. 
The slaughter wasn’t enough.
The virus tore through industrial barns in Darke County
and moved on through one …

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.

When you claim the unilateral authority to pay troops out of money specifically allocated for other purposes,
surprising things happen in the law.
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D.M. Ridley (@ridleydm.bsky.social)
It follows, however, that every single thing that is closed, and every person who is not paid, is Trump's and only Trump's fault. By his own logic, he could pay them, and he has decided not to.

“This is the first time we’ve tested this kind of triple-action therapy for head and neck cancer patients whose disease has returned after treatment. Amivantamab is a smart drug that not only blocks two key cancer pathways but also helps the immune system do its job.
“Unlike many cancer treatments that require hours in a hospital chair, amivantamab is given as a simple injection under the skin. This makes it faster, more convenient, and potentially easier to deliver in outpatient clinic…

The law runs against one of the hallmarks of modern public health:
that a person’s full participation in society depends on their willingness to follow certain rules.
The new Idaho law flips that on its head.
It not only removes the obligation to follow such rules,
it makes the rules themselves illegal.
The new law sets Idaho apart from even conservative-leaning South Carolina,
where two schools recently quarantined more than 150 unvaccinated children a…

𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: Boebert gives up. Reports lowest fundraising haul EVER.
Lauren Boebert just reported her Q3 fundraising numbers and what she raised is 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨.
From July 1 to September 30th she only raised $𝟭𝟭𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀.
These are abysmal numbers.
The scandals have added up.
She is now so radioactive that even her most depraved MAGA large dollar donors are jumping ship.
⭐️𝗧𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲,
a labor leader and relentless fighter for working people,

Trisha 4 Colorado
The hometown candidate who can beat Boebert

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) plans to force a vote Wednesday censuring
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.)
and removing him from several committees, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Democrats have repeatedly threatened such a move against the embattled Florida Republican,
but only as a retaliatory tactic to quash GOP censure measures. Mace wants to do it for real

Republican to force vote on ousting GOP Rep. Cory Mills from committees
Republicans have fumed as Democrats have repeatedly withdrawn their censure measures against the embattled Floridian.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D)
is telling political allies that she is
likely to run for the Senate,
with some expecting an official announcement in the coming weeks.
Party leaders have been pressing the term-limited Mills to challenge Sen. Susan Collins,
the only GOP senator representing a state carried by former Vice President Kamala Harris

Scoop: Mills "likely" to run for Senate to try to defeat Susan Collins
Party leaders have been pressing the term-limited Mills to challenge GOP Sen. Susan Collins.

A cyberattack targeting check-in and boarding systems disrupted air traffic and caused delays at several of Europe’s major airports on Saturday.
While the impact on travelers appeared to be limited,
experts said the intrusion exposed vulnerabilities in security systems.
The disruptions to electronic systems initially reported at Brussels, Berlin’s Brandenburg and London’s Heathrow airports
meant that only manual check-in and boarding was possible.
Many other Eur…

Cyberattack disrupts check-in systems at Europe's major airports
A cyberattack targeting check-in and boarding systems has disrupted air traffic at several major European airports. On Friday night, the attack hit a service provider affecting airports like Brussels and Berlin's Brandenburg. Brussels Airport says the incident has forced manual check-ins, causing significant delays. Berlin's airport operators cut off connections to the affected systems. London Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, reports a technical issue with a service provider. Collins Aerospa…