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.

The Left is Good Governing Itself into Obscurity (Brian Tyler Cohen)
https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/the-left-is-good-governing-itself
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p40#a260509p40

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/

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

😢
#USpol

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

'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

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.

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).

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

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.

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

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…

"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 …

Claude Fable has made June into a month in which those of us doing advanced research with AI have to ask ourselves, if we are Charlie in Flowers for Algernon and we know we only have 12 days left, what are our priorities?

Finished “The Language of Liars” by S.L. Huang.
Ro is a linguist trained to jump into the mind of a Star Eater — a mysterious species whose ability to mine a critical element makes interstellar travel possible. When he succeeds, he finds a civilization far more complex than anyone prepared him for.
Colonial justifications corrupt everything they touch. Once the “lives are at stake” argument becomes available, there’s no moral high ground left.
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Language of Liars
A story of secrets, body jumping, and the power of lang…

🇺🇦 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

: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

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

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...

@… right to left is diabolical!!

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
- Communication channels (socials, video, emails, ...)
- Presenting and speaking
- Focus on real value
- Involving allies
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📅 Application…

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

The Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow. But now the Supreme Court — Chief Justice John Roberts’ Court — has effectively ended much of what’s left of the Voting Rights Act — setting the stage for voters of color to be silenced.
Now it’s up to us to defend the freedom to participate in our democracy. The actions we take now will help determine whose voice gets heard and which communities get locked out of political power. 

I just gave to Fair Fight Action! Lead with Stacey Abrams
Together we are leading the fight for fair elections. But the only way we will win on this issue is with your support.

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

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

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

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!

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).

"The near-empty parking lot that surrounds Oakland’s Coliseum BART Station is a great, gray ghost... Staff in BART’s real estate division view much of the system’s parking infrastructure as potential land for transit-oriented development"
But the market doesn't want to invest in housing in Deep East Oakland. Even though it's needed, it's not profitable. We need social housing everywhere! Housing is too important a need to be left to the market!

And yet another reply, “But the human brain works just like an LLM!”
Yes, famously we fully understand how human brains work, maybe just some minor details left to figure out.

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

Every now and then I have one of those days where I discover all of these marvellous people on the Fedi and they're nearby (in some sense, whether physical or by interests) and they've been here for a couple of years and I don't know them. It's delightful! It's way more delightful than when there were only a few thousand people!
I do feel sad when I look at all the amazing folks who were here but left. I hope they all come back.

Have been waiting for the siren test all morning but still nearly jumped out of my skin - especially as colleagues had helpfully left half a dozen mobile phones on their desks in the open office...
😱

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.

I was asked by @… how some of the elements of the #LeftWordle Share Text that gets posted are modified. I have attached two images. The first is the settings modal which is accessed by clicking the gear icon to the far right on the header line. The second is an example of th…

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.

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

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

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.

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

"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

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

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

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

'I'm horrified by the prospect of a Reform mayor': Greens' candidate Geraldine Coggins on why she's running for mayor - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manch…

'I'm horrified by the prospect of a Reform mayor': Greens' candidate Geraldine Coggins on why she's running for mayor
Geraldine Coggins says Labour has left Greater Manchester vulnerable to Reform and believes only the Greens can offer real change. The mayoral hopeful sets out her plans for housing, high streets and why she thinks experience matters

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

Smooth, polished and clear talk by @… "Open by Design, Sovereign by Choice" with some fun interactions today at @…
#tdose

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

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

"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

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

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

(Dutch, government) Through the Tulip Fund, The Netherlands attracts 29 top US scientists who left under Trump's budget cuts https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2026/07/07/eerste-internationale-wetenschappers…

Eerste internationale wetenschappers via het Tulp Fonds naar Nederland | Rijksoverheid.nl
Het Tulp Fonds dat in 2025 door OCW en NWO in het leven werd geroepen, biedt internationale toponderzoekers de kans om hun onderzoek in Nederland voort te zetten: enerzijds omdat wereldwijd de academische vrijheid onder druk staat, anderzijds...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News Service)
https://courthousenews.com/mother-of-m

Mother of Musk children testifies about OpenAI board role in tech billionaire feud
"When the father of your babies starts a competitive effort and starts recruiting from OpenAI there is nothing to be done," former board member Shivon Zilis texted a friend about her resignation.

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

Obama judge clears left-wing group to fly ominous flag aimed at Trump on his own turf (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-judge-clears-left-wing-group-fly-ominous-flag-aimed-trump-his-own-turf
http://www.memeorandum.com/260602/p91#a260602p91

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/

Couple poses in front of little pond north of Dwyer Memorial Park while celebrating nation's birthday
#photo #photography #groupportrait

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

Dak Prescott has one Cowboys question still waiting for an answer https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dak-prescott-cowboys-left-tackle-concern/ea79f2f05f7564508cd1e2e6