Tootfinder

Databento, which sells financial data feeds, raised a $97M Series B led by NEA, taking its total funding to $127M, and says it is "profitable every month" (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortu…

Christina Qi left behind a hedge fund trading $7 billion a day for a farm in Utah. Her new startup just raised $97 million to rival Bloomberg
Databento serves everyone from student traders to the world's largest hedge funds—and counts Nvidia and OpenAI as customers.

Nithya Raman has "a master’s degree in urban planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" - I'd vote for her
Incumbent LA Mayor Karen Bass will face a challenge from the left in November | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/incumbent-la-mayor-karen-bass-will-face-a-challenge-from-the-left-in-november/

'Mild panic will set in soon': GOP donors left to wonder about Trump's $300 million war chest (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/09/mild-panic-will-set-in-soon-gop-donors-left-to-wonder-about-trumps-300-million-war-chest-00913096
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p16#a260509p16

Cowboys’ 1st-Round Pick Gets Concerning New Update https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-guyton-left-tackle/

😢
#USpol

Djokovic, 39, came through a stern test from No. 3 seed Félix Auger-Aliassime — as well as a left leg issue and a closing roof.
39-year-old seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic came through a five-set, five-hour epic Tuesday on Centre Court
to defeat Félix Auger-Aliassime 7-6(10), 3-6, 6-3, 6-7(4), 7-6(4) and advance to the semifinals, six minutes before the 11 p.m. curfew.
There, he will face his toughest hurdle yet on the path to a record 25th Grand Slam title i…

Novak Djokovic beats Félix Auger-Aliassime at Wimbledon in five-set epic
Djokovic, 39, came through a spirited test from No. 3 seed Félix Auger-Aliassime — as well as a left leg issue and a closing roof.

Crowd waits for fireworks by food vendors in Little York; that day I thought about a Martin Prechtel quote to the effect that "the feast the only ritual"
#photo #photography #littleyork

@… @… great podcast episode! I believe this is the first time I've heard Brett’s voice… which sounds strange for how long I followed your work.
The episode made me realize that I don't really know how I could create key chords to group together subset of shortcuts. Or even if it's possible at all; which might actually be the case.
For example, let's assume we'd want to have all Moom shortcuts under Hyper W. Then Move left would become `Hyper W Left Arrow`.
What do you think?

The Los Angeles fires are just the latest example of left-wing violence (Zachary Faria/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4557757/los-angeles-fires-latest-example-left-wing-violence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p40#a260508p40

from my link log —
Async Rust never left the MVP state.
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/async-rust-never-left-the-mvp-state
saved 2026-05-04

Async Rust never left the MVP state - Blog - Tweede golf
I've previously explained async bloat and some work-arounds for it, but would much prefer to solve the issue at the root, in the compiler. I've submitted a Project Goal, and am looking for help to ...

Bad news from Kerala.
But it's happened before and the left will be back.
India loses its last left-wing government after five decades | Politics News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/4/in…

India loses its last left-wing government after five decades
Kerala in India, which gave the world its first democratically elected communist government, has voted the left out.

Found an old recipe book from Marfa, TX among my aunt's old things.
Some things are best left undisturbed.

Roe deer bucks competing for territory this morning #photography #Dorset

Giants signing DT D.J. Reader to help fill vacancy left by Dexter Lawrence https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-signing-dt-d-j-reader-to-help-fill-vacancy-left-by-dexter-lawrence

WhatsApp for macOS had a broken reaction icon for several releases now and I wonder how much slop is piled on itself so they can't fix such an obvious visual glitch

If public libraries didn't exist
current centrists — everyone right of Mamdani and left of McCain — would be telling us that they're "unrealistic"
and the rest of the right would scream about "socialism!"
And the rightists would be correct

Seven seats left to be distributed from the list votes. All from Highland.
The end result could be beautiful, or a total disaster. I feel ill.

🚨 New paper on #cycling #politics: Right-wing Votes Relate to Delays in Bicycle Network Development
…

Postglacial farming (2025)
(The last farm lands before the valley turns into a canyon and glacial landscape further up...)
#MountainMonday #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography

Transit first city.
(Yup, we missed the entire green cycle)

On the way to @…, again with @…; day two.
#tdose

One more photo from my recent blog post ( https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/caves-and-meadows-day-1-in-the-frankische-schweiz/ ). This one is from a cave that colapsed long ago and left this impressive structure.
And believe me, the green was…

Today I learned Musk launched his own AI-powered Wikipedia because the real Wikipedia is “too left leaning”. The dude is mental.

This slide from the #coronagraphs symposium in Boulder from the talk by Sam van Kooten is quite enlightening: it shows two processing steps of a #PUNCH WFI composite, on the left still dominated by the F corona i.e. #ZodiacalLight i.e. interplanetary dust (just as seen in the Artemis II eclipse images) while on the right the - at such distance from the Sun muuuch fainter - K corona has been brought out which traces the Sun's magnetic field.

This morning I have mostly been truing the sawmill bed. The ground had obviously shifted a bit over winter, and it was no longer cutting perfectly true.
It's now cutting much better, although I am going to need to get my blades sharpened.
#TheJoyOfCrofting

A tiny eye implant invented by a Stanford scientist is helping blind people read again https://archive.ph/9uSfP "Patients can’t see immediately and need months of training with the glasses to teach their brain to recognize this new form of vision. They also generally recover a narrow field of central vision — so…

One of my favorite features in my primary Mastodon client (Mona) - that it has a counter showing me how many posts are left until I get caught up (also, ofc that it remembers where I was)

"Pauciloquy is not always economy; sometimes the most expensive word is the one left out."
A.Word.A.Day --pauciloquy
https://wordsmith.org/words/pauciloquy.html

that was fun! i caught all the walleye today :p

Sitting outside after work with a drink. How civilised 🍹

Apparently "CO2 is Plant Food" advocates ignore the other impacts of CO2 - such as extreme temperature and precipitation variability.
"Lollato estimates this year’s Kansas wheat production may be closer to 200m to 220m bushels, far below the 10-year average of 317m bushels, according to Kansas Wheat, an advocacy group. In 2023’s drought year, Kansas harvested 201m bushels, and 29% of planted acres went unharvested, the most since 1951."
‘The worst time for whe…

Apparently "CO2 is Plant Food" advocates ignore the other impacts of CO2 - such as extreme temperature and precipitation variability.
"Lollato estimates this year’s Kansas wheat production may be closer to 200m to 220m bushels, far below the 10-year average of 317m bushels, according to Kansas Wheat, an advocacy group. In 2023’s drought year, Kansas harvested 201m bushels, and 29% of planted acres went unharvested, the most since 1951."
‘The worst time for whe…

Excuse the mess, but there will be gaming/streaming _soon_...also broke out the Sony PVM-2530 which is an absolute unit even if there some slight color issues.
#gaming #streaming #retrogaming

Kenyan Court allows landmark BP toxic waste lawsuit to proceed https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/kenyan-court-allows-landmark-bp-toxic-waste-lawsuit-to-proceed/

Kenyan Court allows landmark BP toxic waste lawsuit to proceed
The Environment and Land court at Isiolo has ruled that a class action lawsuit against British oil giant BP can proceed to a full hearing, in a case that alleges toxic waste left behind from oil exploration in the 1980s contaminated groundwater in northern Kenya, killing more than 500 people and thousands of livestock. The […]

It is 2037.
You are being paid $7250/hour for your services. (Before you get too excited, a can of cola costs $129, and so does 15 seconds of LLM tokens.)
There are not many left who can do what you do. You are the tradesperson of your time. It's messy work unclogging these metaphorical pipes, but someone's got to do it.
A decade of nothing-but-vibecoding (artisanal “acoustic" performances aside) has left the world in tatters. The Y2K38 problem looms.
The…

I4C Trouble with Daly and Wallace
"A brand new political podcast from Ireland's two best-known independent left wing MEPs, straight from the belly of the EU beast. Unfiltered by mainstream media they grapple with the problems at the very heart of the European project.
Vampires preying on humanity & the planet...the US military is the World's biggest threat ...we are joined by investigative journalist Abby Martin to discuss her mind-blowing film 'Earth's …

Mitch gets left holding the bomb
#DavidHasselhoff #AngieHarmon
Baywatch Nights 1x13 - Payback
#RandomBaywatch

Interesting how many right AND left leaning posts I’m seeing about prepping for nuclear fallout. Wondering if this really was the past MAGA wanted to return to.
Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
A Tribe Called Quest feat. Norman Cook:
🎵 I Left My Wallet In El Segundo
#NowPlaying #ATribeCalledQuest #NormanCook
https://open.spotify.com/track/6aeht0QSwiZN1esYfniHxr

Sources: White House unease over Mythos has left some administration officials fearful that the change represents a reversal of its hands-off AI policy (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/trump-ai-anthropic-mythos-regulation-2378971f

:neocat_confused:

Decent overview of why people will say "Britain's infrastructure is state owned, just not by the British state".
There's so much anger over the energy situation in the UK, and the right wing press has, to some extent, managed to channel it into resentment against "green policies" rather than economic policy.

Why “Green” Britain Is Still Dangerously Exposed to Energy Shocks
How decades of poor decision making has left Britain at the mercy of the markets

@… right to left is diabolical!!

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人类踪迹 - 萬代瞻仰 ⛩️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky LUCKY SHD 400 (6x6)
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crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

“History is a bill we keep dodging. The North won the Civil War, the South won the memory. Reconstruction was left for dead, white terror became law, and Jim Crow swaggered in through the breach. That was a political decision to walk away before the work was finished, to protect comfort over Black lives. America pays interest on cowardice, generation after generation, and the bill never shrinks.”

This is insane. I read few days ago how Dawa Sherpa was left behind on Everest. He was considered dead and nobody was sent to rescue him because the mountain had been closed already (late in season).
He found his way back alone after 6 days
#everest

There is exactly one killer feature left.
Code search.
Nobody else really nails that for your entire company-wide code search, unless you structure carefully to enable it.

There are just a few days left to apply for the OSPARK Bootcamp (June/July 2026).
If you are working on an Open Research initiative, service, or infrastructure and want your work to reach the people who need it, this program is designed for you.
Topics:
- Defining goals and audience
- Voice and brand
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- Focus on real value
- Involving allies
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It's an incredible thing to have something in my head and then in my hands, or seeing myself wear it in a mirror. It was even more surreal to imagine a space and then be standing in that thing from my imagination.
It still feels a bit hard to believe seeing photos from #Neotropolis last week - this place that people have these cool photos from is the place that previously existed onl…

Graham Platner ends U.S. Senate campaign in Maine
Graham Platner,
the populist political newcomer who Democrats had hoped could flip a critical U.S. Senate seat in Maine,
ended his campaign Wednesday night
after a woman he previously dated publicly accused him of sexual assault.

“We believe for the movement to continue, it can’t be me
and for that reason, we are suspending campaign operations,”
Platner said Wednesday night.

The development, a…

Graham Platner ends U.S. Senate campaign in Maine
The Democratic nominee left the race following an allegation of sexual assault. Maine Democrats have until July 27 to choose a replacement candidate to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R).

yall think if i left completely made up comments like this enough i could slowly write history to be whatever i wanted like a more folkloric form of wikipedia joke butterfly effect

Wife's traveling. She left a few days ago and I'm single-parenting for 2 weeks, so naturally:

Are there any excuses left why the US still supports the government of Israel?
(I do support the right of the people of Israel to have their own peaceful sovereign state - a right that I also accord to the the Palestinians. It is the government of Israel that ought to be hanging it head in shame and that deserves international opprobrium.)
"Israeli officer shown throwing stun grenade into car during West Bank raid"

Israeli officer shown throwing stun grenade into car during West Bank raid
Border police officer under investigation after CCTV footage shows him shouting at car’s occupants and throwing device

"An (economic) serial killer is on the loose, and he’s murdering U.S firms left and right."
The ‘America First’ Corporate Graveyard
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-america-first-corporate-graveyard-trump-economy

UnHerd magazine, a hard-right magazine funded by Paul Marshall, has no time for free speech. It has a nasty piece belittling David Attenborough. I left a comment saying that the article was typical of the hard right's miserabilist sourpussery.
The comment has been deleted -childish miserabilists!

Brian Schottenheimer says Cowboys have competition at left tackle https://insidethestar.com/brian-schottenheimer-says-cowboys-have-competition-at-left-tackle

Last night, off my balcony

Spring on the green roof.
#BloomScrolling

A Complete Characterization of Finite-Order Entire Solutions to Fermat-Type Partial Differential-Difference Systems in $\mathbb{C}^n$
Sujoy Majumder, Jhilik Banerjee, Abhijit Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05240 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.05240 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.05240
arXiv:2606.05240v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The primary objective of this paper is to determine the explicit existence form and structure of finite-order entire solutions in $\mathbb{C}^n$ of the following system of Fermat-type partial differential-difference equations: \[\begin{cases} \left(\frac{\partial f_1\left(z\right)}{\partial z_1}\right)^{n_1} (f_2 \left(z c\right)-f_1(z) )^{m_1}= 1,
\medskip \left(\frac{\partial f_2\left(z\right)}{\partial z_1}\right)^{n_2} (f_1 \left(z c \right)-f_2(z) )^{m_2}= 1, \end{cases}\]
for different choices of the positive integers $n_1$, $n_2$, $m_1$, and $m_2$, where $c=(c_1,c_2,\ldots,c_n)$. We characterize the precise structure of finite-order transcendental entire solutions and extend the results of Xu et al. \cite{XLL1} from the setting of $\mathbb{C}^2$ to the more general space $\mathbb{C}^m$. In addition, several examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and sharpness of the main results.
toXiv_bot_toot

i got half a litre of plain yoghurt yesterday, to eat with raspberries and blueberries
(very yummy, and not horribly sweet like ready-mixed yoghurts)
should have got more yoghurt because it’s already gone and half the fruit is still left!

A look back at Ted Turner's invention of global 24-hour cable TV news and how it dramatically changed politics, journalism, and civic engagement (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ted-turner-cnn-media-legacy-64660a245d5f52d1c466367e161bc…

Ted Turner changed the nature of news — and of those who consume it
Ted Turner’s death comes at a fraught time for cable news, which has struggled to retain viewership in an era of countless media choices and abundant streaming video. But people in the news industry left little doubt of Turner's impact. One called the discussion of it hyperbole-proof and another said he saw TV news as a global entity long before many of his contemporaries. The United States' first Gulf War against Iraq was a particular inflection point that showed both the capability of and t…

Anyone else got strong #Simpsons vibes when #ArtemisIII commander Randy Bresnik received an #InanimateRod, err, baton from Artemis II commander Reid Wisemann at the end of today's revelation event? Image on left a cropped still from the clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wavTKo1gH8 (and see https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-marches-toward-artemis-iii-mission-in-2027-names-crew-members/ and https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/ESA_astronaut_Luca_Parmitano_joins_NASA_s_Artemis_III_mission_as_pilot about the event).

Another angle on Maddie Walsh and the Blind Spots, I think the hardest working band in the Ithaca area
#photo #photography #maddiewalsh

OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/how-openai-s-voice-assistant-got-mo…

How OpenAI's voice assistant got more natural
While native device assistants have long left users wanting more, OpenAI's voice models have quietly been getting closer and closer to the assistants we've alw...

Rams' Alaric Jackson arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-alaric-jackson-arrested-on-suspic…

Trump on boos: NBA 'a little left wing,' but 'great' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/sports-gaming/5915942-donald-trump-nba-finals-new-york-response-boos/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p46#a260609p46

The sharply conservative Supreme Court that Donald Trump’s three appointees remade
is the first since at least the 1950s to
reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities
“There is no center now,” said political science professor Lee Epstein,
who performed the analysis with her Washington University colleague Andrew D. Martin and Michael J. Nelson of Penn State.

A yawning gulf has opened between the left and right flanks of the …

Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights
The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis conducted for The Post shows.

The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/08/openai-deployment-company-northslope-acquisi…

Exclusive: OpenAI deployment arm to acquire Northslope
AI companies are starting to do work that was traditionally left to consulting firms.

Two woman running a vendor booth at the Ithaca Festival, one with animal ears
#photo #photography #groupportrait

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

OK, I have a horrible bug in `read`, which seems to be looping on the first character after a left parenthesis -- and I can't see why. But I got only four hours sleep last night and I am not taking enough care of my body, so it's time to stop work for the day, have a bath, and rest.
(Yes, I have voted).
#SelfCare

#ARVO2026 today, May 6, 2:30-2:45pm room 403 talk 4493 in Emerging technologies for low vision: Comparing tactile & auditory sensory substitution on visual cortex recruitment in the early and late blind https://

Cowboys' Left Tackle Competition is Exactly Why They Need Taylor Decker https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-left-tackle-competition-exactly-why-they-need-taylor-decker

Good morning.
#goodmorning #bayern #bavaria

Steps Into The Unknown (2025)
(Actually a lie, since this was taken on the way back, just before sunset, but it was "into the unknown" a six hours earlier... These steps of the only partially secured path are leading up to around 100 meters above/along the increasingly more steep and narrow canyon. The rocks/slopes on the left go up almost another 2000m [out of view, of course]...)
#FootpathFriday

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI "regulation without transparent or complete rules" and "businesses can't plan" without rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/09/microso

Microsoft’s Brad Smith on Washington’s AI policy: ‘Regulation without transparent or complete rules’
The Trump administration's access restrictions on two advanced AI models have left companies confused about the government’s AI policy.

"Long a major progressive influence in New York politics, the Working Families Party has released its first national platform ever—and it has the likes of Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna on board."
The Third Party That’s Pushing the Democrats Left | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-04-27/third-party-thats-pushing-democrats-left

As a person who goes out as-a-fox most days I just love seeing kemonomimi at events like the Ithaca Festival
#photo #photography #ithaca

Maxx Crosby focused on recovery, moving on with Raiders after nixed trade: 'Water under the bridge' https://www.nfl.com/news/maxx-crosby-focused-on-recovery-moving-on-with-raiders-after-nixed-trade-water-under-the-bri…

Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern

Couple out for the 4th of July at Little York Lake wearing matching patriotic shirts
#photo #photography #july4

#goodmorning from my walk to the rail station.

A G3 #GeomagneticStorm Watch has been issued for 8 Jun, and a G2 geomagnetic storm Watch has been issued for 9 Jun for the anticipated arrival of the CME that left the Sun on 6 Jun: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1409418054545387

Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern

Are Latter-day Saints Christian? The U.S. Defense Department doesn't appear to think so. (Tamarra Kemsley/Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/06/06/lds-church-left-off-defense/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260606/p32#a260606p32

I spent the drive up to Little York working on a lecture about the magic of blessings which primed me such that every time someone said "Enjoy the 4th of July" it exploded in my brain like a firework
#photo #photography

Tyler Guyton, Cowboys' 2024 first-round pick, competing with Nathan Thomas for starting LT job https://www.nfl.com/news/tyler-guyton-nathan-thomas-cowboys-starting-left-tackle-competition

Given the ease with which many of Trump's false statements are debunked,
I think it's unlikely that he aims to deceive anyone.
No one really believes that Trump has stopped eight wars, defeated inflation, brought gasoline prices below US$2, cut a deal with the CEO of Sharpie or has 100% approval for his military incursion in Iran – all things he has said.
As he is not attempting to deceive, Trump isn't lying when he makes such claims. Rather, he is doing someth…

As a philosopher, I’m convinced that Trump isn’t lying − he’s doing something worse
Donald Trump’s false claims about the Iran War, Epstein files, tariffs and inflation have left some supporters who have traditionally believed all he says...

Cowboys Confirm 2-Man Competition at Left Tackle: 'We're Going to Make Tyler Earn it' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-competition-left-tackle-tyler-guyton-nate-thomas

So far #kitsunekamen has the rule that we only talk with the mask up until we've got a voice ready which is 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 different
#photo #photography

Tyler Guyton reacts to Cowboys opening up left tackle competition https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-guyton-reacts-to-cowboys-opening-up-left-tackle-competition

🤩 My son Elliot standing on a fence post and making the hand gesture from 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟
#photo #photography #elliot #portrait

Cowboys Tyler Guyton Shuts Down Injury Controversy Amid Benching Talk https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-guyton-bench-injury-narrative/

Dak Prescott will only go as far as his left tackle situation allows https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-dak-prescott-left-tackle-tyler-guyton-training-camp/21ee840cbbae83574ef5…

Cowboys Still Have Big Offensive Question Mark After NFL Draft https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/left-tackle-tyler-guyton-drew-shelton/

Cowboys' Left Tackle Competition Could Emerge During Offseason Program https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-left-tackle-competition-could-emerge-offseason-program