Tootfinder

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

Moving services to the EU
Like a lot of Europeans, I realise that the US isn't a reliable partner anymore.
I am just talking about myself here, and not my employer, or my family.
I do use a lot of services that are based in the US, and some I will probably not migrate in the near future.
But when I receive a bill, it is a good moment to consider if it is a candidate for migration.

Just wondered why I have quite some referrers to my blog from DNIP.ch - and was super glad to see that they recommended my "How to migrate mails from GMail"-guide.
https://dnip.ch/2026/01/20/dnip-briefing-56-geld-und-geiz/
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DNIP Briefing #56: Geld und Geiz - Das Netz ist politisch
Die Redaktion präsentiert jeden Dienstag die Geschichten, die sie bewegt, aufgerüttelt oder zum Nachdenken angeregt hat. Heute u.a. mit nicht gespartem Geld,

Time to Migrate
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate
"Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s going downhill. Where by “downhill” I mean any combination of “less useful”, “less safe”, or “less fun”. T…

Varnished the shelves. At least until I ran out of varnish anyway. Stained the first half of the bed. The stain takes ages to dry. Will have to flip and stain the other half tomorrow. Varnish on Tuesday if more has arrived. That dries much faster, might even get two coats on both sides during one day. Then I can have a bed on Wednesday?
At which point I will know the maximum height for a mattress. The bed is pretty low because to determine the height of the doors for storage at the end of the bed, I measured my old bed. Which was apparently lower than most, being a waterbed frame with a spring mattress in it.
So total bed height has to be under 50cm and a mattress can take 30 or more of that. But with this low bed I might even have room for a topper.

"chatbots over-rely on this kind of sensory-immaterial conjunction because[IT] impresses people passing superficially over a text--exactly the kind of fake-deep crowd-pleaser for which L.L.M. output is being fine-tuned."
(Original title: Will A.I. writing ever be good?)
https://maxread.substa…

Will A.I. writing ever be good?
Some notes on A.I. writing

Yesterday, I wanted to quickly post something on my blog when I realized that my blog generating process was broken after upgrading to Debian 13.
So I had to analyze the situation, got lost in my complex shell script hell and decided to merge it into one single script without lots of dated stuff.
Next I realized that one of my own libs has a minor issue with Python 3 strings: had to migrate to raw strings to get rid of very valid warnings.
Well, I could not publish that lib…

Is anyone else’s Wii Fit U minigame ranking data getting like migrated to their old (nnid) account after rebooting or something?
I’m not sure if it’s because I renamed the old mii to like “Luana-nnid” and the new one is “Luana” or what, maybe it’s a game bug ignoring the hyphens or something and sending the ranking to the oldest account with the same name??
I thought I was getting crazy bc I never played this minigame level on the old account and the ranking was set to that, so I took a screenshot and then today the ranking I got on that day was also stolen by the old account
#WiiU

I am curious about tree migration efforts to get ahead of climate change caused forest dieoffs.
I live towards the southern end of the California coast redwoods. As the climate warms the cool-foggy zone that these trees need will be moving north.
But for trees that take a thousand years to mature, they can't move their range northward at the needed rate.
(I hear that there is a similar issue with sugar maples.)
Anyway, I am wondering if there are planting/propaga…

left my tea to steep and set a reminder to go grab it but I was misheard