Tootfinder

I kept the gray colour it came with but switched to a softer and less plasticy looking leather strap.
It works but may get grubby, really fast.
#WristCheck

Trump’s “two weeks” statement was just one aspect of a broader effort at political and military misdirection that took place over eight chaotic days,
from the first Israeli strikes against Iran to the moment when a fleet of B-2 stealth bombers took off
Trump seemed almost gleeful in telling reporters that he could make a decision “one second before it’s due,
because things change, especially with war.”
All the while, Trump was making blustery statements indicating he…

How Trump Decided to Strike Iran
When Israel began its assault on Iran, President Trump kept his distance. But within days he was on a path that led to an extensive bombing mission aided by political and military ruses.

All #trixie, shiny and new.
Well not that new, I kept hitting dist-upgrade until it stopped complaining. Dropped a bunch of the extra apt repos and everything seems to be up now. Screen sharing now works out of the box in #wayland and I shall wait to see how stable

Can Recombination Displace Dominant Scientific Ideas
Linzhuo Li, Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15959 https://arxi…

Can Recombination Displace Dominant Scientific Ideas
Scientific breakthroughs are widely attributed to the novel recombination of existing ideas. Yet despite explosive global growth in scientific labor and publications -- creating more opportunities to reconfigure knowledge -- the rate of breakthroughs has not kept pace. To investigate this disconnect, we analyze 49 million scholarly works from 1960 to 2024 using measures of atypical recombination and disruptive innovation. Contrary to recombination theories, we find a robust negative correlation…

How to Dress and Undress your Home
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/06/dressing-and-undressing-the-home/

How to Dress and Undress your Home
Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.

“Our parents kept us carefully isolated - from birth - from even witnessing examples of other children being disrespectful, and even the faintest disobedience gets slapped out of you starting as a baby.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/aella/p/the-joy-is-not-optional…

Today in chatbot uselessness: I was looking for a sentence I knew existed in my bank's website, explaining the procedure for one very specific action. The bank refuses to receive email and does not have a search function; both have been replaced by a chatbot. The bot insisted I must have misspelled my question, and kept directing me to a completely irrelevant page.
Luckily, back in 2014 I saved a PDF file which contained the answer. Once I looked it up, ctrl-f solved my problem in …

New post on our family learning blog, "USAFA Letter: 13 August 1990"
#USAFA

USAFA Letter: 13 August 1990
My mother, Angie Fryer, kept meticulous records of every letter I sent home as a cadet at the US Air Force Academy from 30 June 1988 to 27 May 1992. She also kept numerous other related news articl…

Toller Artikel: Klimaanpassung durch Textilien
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/06/dressing-and-undressing-the-home/

How to Dress and Undress your Home
Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.

this makes me so happy, if only lebron kept posting these

Gotta drive 50km with my own car (and fuel) in my (would have been) free time because one of my colleagues used an insurance form in the truck but never replaced it.
So when I needed one (hit a wall at a customer while backing truck into the tight ass space without mirrors - sun kept blinding me), there was none so I now have to go back there to get the paperwork sorted...
Lovely...

today i cycled along a dried up stream. found a couple pools of water remaining. loadsa white butterflies drinking from the bank. and a gret fat dragonfly that kept fucking off every time i pointed my camera at it. i was there for ages but could not get a shot. i could just imagine - "NO PICTURES you scrawny ol' bastard, fuck off" so i rode around for a hour or so, came back and finally got this shot. ha ha
🦟

Watching this episode I kept wondering how they recreated the Golden Globes so realistically. I assumed heavy use of CGI but nope. Just clever tactics and huge effort.
https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/the-studio-recreated-golden-glo…

'The Studio': How the Apple Series Recreated the Golden Globes
Yes, ‘The Studio’ did restage the Golden Globes from Scratch. Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and team explain how.

In 73/74 my first job was in a car accessory shop and paint factors, for the magnificent sum of £10.50 a week.
One of its few attractions was that it also sold 8 track music and for weeks I'd play "Holland" by The Beach Boys.
It may not be the strongest album but it kept me warm.
#Music

I nearly missed the fact it's been a year since I translated @… Meta in Myanmar series to Polish.
A year later, I can confidently say that series radicalized me quite a bit.
I've hated Meta products for a while, so not much has changed in that department.
However, re-reading the story of Rohingya ethnic cleansing over and over again made me grow plenty of sheer anger within me.
Anger over general injustice in the world and stuff.
My third 'era' of photography, involving documenting local activism, with particular attention to oppressed or marginalized groups (tenants, Palestinians, Belarusians - to name just a few) wouldn't have happened if I hadn't had my moment of disillusionment about the whole system we live in.
All of that because I started noticing familiar patterns I haven't been aware before. All stories that involve oppression, genocide, ethnic cleansing or any other kind of systemic cruelty started rhyming to me. Only the context and the environment kept changing.
Literally everything about my current life has changed around April 2024 and only now I'm ready to take a look at that.
Anyway. To all of you who want to read that once again:
Full series in Polish:
https://blog.lukaszwojcik.net/pl/meta-w-mjanmie/
Web Archive copy of the above:
https://archive.org/details/meta-w-mjanmie-pl
Original in English:
https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

Grr wanted to add a vagrant freebsd machine but It kept not adding ssh keys. password config did not work. While the fedora base ismage worked.
What do you use to run FreeBSD VMs on linux?
#freebsd #vm

Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen: Sand, Wind and Inference
Michael S{\o}rensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14389 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14…

Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen: Sand, Wind and Inference
This paper reviews Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen's research in the first decades of his career. The focus is on topics that he kept returning to throughout his scientific life, and on papers that he built on in later important contributions. First his early contributions to the foundations of statistical inference are reviewed with focus on conditional inference and exponential families, two topics in which he had a lifelong interest. The second half of the paper reviews his research on wind blow…

I finally got rid of the old bed I’d kept since moving in, so the room feels pretty empty right now.
I’m in the process of reorganizing everything and plan to turn this space into my own anarchist sanctuary.
Soon, I’ll add a bookshelf and more anarchist art to the wall, right next to the communist hammer and sickle symbol.
#Declutter

"My experiences of connection with God and others in the church have kept me coming back. I am hoping against hope that the 21st century church can be an experiential community for the future, a place that more and more people can turn to for a mysterious experience of eternal resonance."
—S. Slade Hogan ’22 S.T.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections, which asks whether Christianity is losing its religion.

Combined Public Service Announcement and Today I Learned: if you have `CLICOLOR=1` on macOS, if you do an `ls` of a directory which is inside iCloud Drive, evicted files (i.e., those that cannot be immediately used, but need to be downloaded first from iCloud) show with a grey background… see below:
First, both files are in iCloud, but not locally available. They have a dotted cloud icons in the iCloud Status field of the Finder window, and a greyed background in the output of the `ls` …

Cowboys rookie Donovan Ezeiruaku optimistic about contract talks https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-rookie-donovan-ezeiruaku-optimistic-about-contract-talks

'Given that the average electric drill is in use for just 15 minutes each year, and is kept in storage for the rest of the time, it’s clear that many household items don’t really need to be owned at all' - @alexjgnana https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.

Raiders GM John Spytek Drops Truth Bomb on Tom Brady Relationship https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-gm-john-spytek-truth-bomb-tom-brady-relationship/?adt_ei=[email]

Ravens RB Keaton Mitchell: I feel like I'm better than before 2023 knee injury https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-rb-keaton-mitchell-i-feel-like-i-m-better-than-before-2023-knee-injury

#WordWeavers May 29
Have you ever doubted you'd finish a draft? If so, what kept you going?
All the time.
I finish what I start, I'm stubborn like that. Stupidly stubborn, one might say even. It is not a virtue, I can tell you.

uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.

Inward and Outward Spillover Effects of One Unit's Treatment on Network Neighbors under Partial Interference
Fei Fang, Edoardo M Airoldi, Laura Forastiere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06615

Inward and Outward Spillover Effects of One Unit's Treatment on Network Neighbors under Partial Interference
In settings where interference is present, direct effects are commonly defined as the average effect of a unit's treatment on their own outcome while fixing the treatment status or probability among interfering units, and spillover effects measure the average effect of a change in the latter while the individual's treatment status is kept fixed. Here, we define the average causal effect of a unit's treatment status on the outcome of their network neighbors, while fixing the treatment probabilit…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06307 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Model Predictive Control is Almost Optimal for Restless Bandit
We consider the discrete time infinite horizon average reward restless markovian bandit (RMAB) problem. We propose a \emph{model predictive control} based non-stationary policy with a rolling computational horizon $τ$. At each time-slot, this policy solves a $τ$ horizon linear program whose first control value is kept as a control for the RMAB. Our solution requires minimal assumptions and quantifies the loss in optimality in terms of $τ$ and the number of arms, $N$. We show that its sub-opt…

Strange. Tried out the new Cosmic spin of #fedora42 and it just wouldn’t connect to Wi-Fi. Kept rejecting my password. Switched to KDE Plasma Mobile and it worked fine. Odd that the DE would cause errors like that.

Nach etwas Recherche (die man von Journalist*innen erwarten könnte) geht es um ein Videointerview, das JJ wohl dem spanischen Medium abc.es gab.
ABC hat 50 Sekunden als Short veröffentlicht:
#esc #eurovision #Israel #jj

Control Signaling for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How Many Bits are Needed?
Anders Enqvist, \"Ozlem Tu\u{g}fe Demir, Cicek Cavdar, Emil Bj\"ornson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03929

Control Signaling for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How Many Bits are Needed?
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can greatly improve the signal quality of future communication systems by reflecting transmitted signals toward the receiver. However, even when the base station (BS) has perfect channel knowledge and can compute the optimal RIS phase-shift configuration, implementing this configuration requires feedback signaling over a control channel from the BS to the RIS. This feedback must be kept minimal, as it is transmitted wirelessly every time the channel ch…

Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of False Positives in Algorithmic Travel Surveillance
Alina Wernick, Alan Medlar, Sofia S\"oderholm, Dorota G{\l}owacka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00218

Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of False Positives in Algorithmic Travel Surveillance
International air travel is highly surveilled. While surveillance is deemed necessary for law enforcement to prevent and detect terrorism and other serious crimes, even the most accurate algorithmic mass surveillance systems produce high numbers of false positives. Despite the potential impact of false positives on the fundamental rights of millions of passengers, algorithmic travel surveillance is lawful in the EU. However, as the system's processing practices and accuracy are kept secret by l…

Days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid shots would be removed from the federal immunization schedule for children,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated advice that largely countered Mr. Kennedy’s new policy.
The agency kept Covid shots on the schedule for healthy children 6 months to 17 years old, -- but added a new condition.
Children and their caregivers will be able to get the vaccines in consultation with a doctor…

CDC Issues New Advice on Covid Vaccines for Children That Contradicted RFK Jr.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the vaccine would no longer appear on the childhood immunization schedule. C.D.C.’s update counters his policy.

I just returned a Ledvance Smart Twist bedside lamp because it kept going offline every other day. I didn't even want a smart lamp but it was the one that spoke to me the most in terms of looks.
Why are IoT devices so badly designed?

I remember thinking somewhere around the mid seventies that Springsteen and the E Street Band, was like a version of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy.
But Phil Lynott did it with a lot less verses.
And this was from this side of the Atlantic, it took a long while to appreciate Springsteen more, perhaps 30 years longer.
Maybe because I kept Van Morrison (another Irishman), so close from the early 70's.
And then again watching this 75 gig on BBC 2 I'm mostly thinkin…

#WordWeavers May 29
Have you ever doubted you'd finish a draft? If so, what kept you going?
All the time.
I finish what I start, I'm stubborn like that. Stupidly stubborn, one might say even. It is not a virtue, I can tell you.

You ever read the Declaration of Independance and wonder if Trump is working off it like a checklist? I mean, there's a lot that just couldn't apply but some of it...
"For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:"
"For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:"
Huh, pretty familiar. And when folks protest that last one?
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."
I mean, I have *a lot* of issues with that document and many others but it's interesting to see how this all rhymes.
#50501movement #NoKingsDay #Trump #ICE

The Python library "YFinance" decided to force an upgrade. They did this by making the old version report a rate-limit error on every request.
Confusing.
Would have been better if they reported a "old version not supported" error or something instead. So that wasted some time.
That upgrade had dependencies which have dependencies upon a newer version of Python, so needed a whole OS upgrade really.
Which failed. Bricking the Rasp PI it was running on.
Oh well, complete rebuild of the whole machine and software it runs from scratch then.
That took all day yesterday. At the end I notice that the touch-screen doesn't touch. Needs drivers.
The drivers haven't been upgraded in six years. They brick the machine again when trying to install them on Debian Trixie.
Luckily, I kept good notes and could rebuild it all again much faster with no mistakes and knowing what to do and all the required custom software changes already made and saved.
So now I spent a whole day on annoying upgrade work because a single Python library decided to break the old version, and my Rasp Pi has no touch-screen. Which isn't ideal for a machine mostly operating as a fancy light switch for all the LED strips in the house.
This happens all the time in software. Millions of man hours wasted, so much hardware dumped because the drivers get abandoned.

In other news: Microsoft abandons Windows 10 any day now. Good luck to everyone faced with doing that lap on the upgrade treadmill.
I still have more work to do to bring up this RaspPi's software to where it was, but it'll have to wait, other things to do. At least it's back to sending me the nightly finance report and controlling the LED strips. If without a touch screen now.
#software #upgradeTredmil #python #microsoft