Tootfinder

https://thedailytism.com/carrie-autistic-woman-left-terrified-after-watching-horror-movie-called-sex-and-the-city-2/

Dallas Cowboys Make Interesting Left Tackle Change Worth Monitoring at Minicamp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-make-left-tackle-change-worth-monitoring-minicamp

Scoop: How the left plans to start winning primaries again (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/19/democratic-primaries-congress-house-left-illinois
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p10#a260319p10

The Avant-Garde Never Left: Robert Hughes Described the Revolution and Then Declared It Over
Robert Hughes wanted it both ways. In the final moments of "The Shock of the New," his landmark 1980 BBC series on modern art, he declared the avant-garde dead and then, in the same breath, described its beating heart. He told us that the radical project of art was finished, that the market had swallowed it whole, that the institutions had filed its teeth down to nothing.

The Avant-Garde Never Left: Robert Hughes Described the Revolution and Then Declared It Over | David Boles, Blogs
Robert Hughes wanted it both ways. In the final moments of “The Shock of the New,” his landmark 1980 BBC series on modern art, he declared the avant-garde dead and then, in the same bre…

The Belgian Party of Labour shows how to successfully build a left-wing political movement. By Jürgen Klute.
https://europa.blog/en/the-belgian-party-of-labour-shows-how-to-successfully-build-a-left-wing-political-movement/

The Belgian Party of Labour shows how to successfully build a left-wing political movement - Europa Blog
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Why (and how) UPS trucks (almost) never turn left.
The policy started in the 1970s and is implemented by a dedicated software since 2004.
Its impact on workers’ political opinions remains unknown. ☺️
https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/world/ups-trucks-no-left-turns

After reading the article from The Ditch in relation to the Greens’ Galway West by-election candidate Niall Murphy and due to my own loose affiliation through a Vote Left Transfer Left campaign that he is also involved in, I felt a statement must be made.
The Ditch have highlighted the shares he purchased in his employer, Cisco, a company that is directly partnered with the Israeli government and assists Israeli military operations in Gaza.
1/3

"World Cup tickets are crazy expensive, so this airline built a campaign around it"
https://www.famouscampaigns.com/2026/05/world-cup-tickets-are-crazy-expensive-so-this-airline-built-a-campaign-around-it/

They say pictures say more than a thousand words — what does this picture make you feel?

Milan-based legal AI company Lexroom raised a €42.9M Series B led by Left Lane, after raising a €16M Series A in September 2025, taking total funding to €62.7M (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/itali…

Italian AI LegalTech startup Lexroom raises €42.9 million Series B eight months after €16.2 million Series A | EU-Startups
Lexroom, a Milan-based LegalTech startup focused on civil law jurisdictions, today announced a €42.9 million ($50 million) Series B round, eight months

This was the most satisfying build. Tamiya 1:20 Honda RA272, the first Honda to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix (Mexico 1965, driven by Richie Ginther).
1.5 liter transverse V12! I left the engine cover off because I couldn't bear to cover it up. Neither could the people who designed the model's box.

It’s Monday morning. Three days left to work this week. Then a long weekend off. Going to be busy though. Final garage clearout on Thursday, and then waste collection coming on Friday. It will be good to have a cleared-out garage, and front yard too! The only thing left will be how to get rid of all the old paint.

“Trump is trying to pay his way out of the war he started,” wrote New York-based political activist Melanie D’Arrigo
Critics were quick to note the irony in the plan reportedly being considered by Trump, who has frequently accused former President Barack Obama of giving Iran “$150 billion in cash,” an inaccurate claim referring to the “high-end estimate” of Iranian funds that were unfrozen after the lifting of sanctions,
much like what the Trump administration is reportedly consi…

'Trump wants to pay them?' Observers baffled after White House's Iran deal plans leak
Onlookers and critics were left baffled Friday after the Trump administration’s plans for ending its war against Iran were leaked by two U.S. officials and two additional insiders familiar with the White House’s negotiations.As reported by Axios on Friday, the Trump administration is reportedly cons...

I've noticed how people who are 'left' in their politics are happy to identify themselves that way. People on the 'right', however, seldom identify themselves that way, as it tends to reflect poorly on them - 'right' connotes selfish, bigoted, greedy, mean, cold, ignorant, religious, pragmatic rather than principled... I propose we adopt new terms for the political spectrum rather than 'left'<->'right', namely 'noble'<->'ign…

Watching an episode of Friends and noticed another friend no one talks about.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tornado Wallace:
🎵 Left at Sunset
#TornadoWallace
https://tornadowallace.bandcamp.com/album/left-at-sunset
https://open.spotify.com/track/7igsV6G1m9raV4mY1UqlEy

This fence, which you last saw me working on more than a week ago, is still not fully stretched. Working on your own is slow, and working whilst not in good health is slow. I'm getting there.

So much has happened in cyberworld since Friday, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Leaders warn that AI bug hunting outpaces humanity’s ability to defend systems,
--Malware strain Fast16 sabotaged nuclear weapons development years before Stuxnet surfaced,
--Grafana Labs rejected hackers' extortion demand,
--DeFi protocol Verus lost nearly $12m in ongoing exploit,

Leaders warn that AI bug hunting outpaces humanity’s ability to defend systems
Malware strain Fast16 sabotaged nuclear weapons development years before Stuxnet surfaced, Grafana Labs rejected hackers' extortion demand, DeFi protocol Verus lost nearly $12m in ongoing exploit, Hotel check-in system left 1m passports exposed, Gas station gauge systems hacked, much more

Sometimes academics can have a bad idea.
https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116595784587511044

Joseph Cox (@josephcox@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 2 images New from 404 Media: researchers planned to stick cameras on preschool teachers to then train AI models. Cameras would capture everything the teacher saw, including, obviously, the children. Here's the document given to parents, left many questions, like how to opt out https://www.404media.co/researchers-wanted-preschool-teachers-to-wear-cameras-to-train-ai/

A #waymo in front of me just signaled right then changed lanes to the left.
Sooo safe! Robots never make mistakes! 🫠

He's right about the customs union. But rejoining the EU would not be on the same terms we had when we left it. A generally bad and distracting idea.
Schengen, on the other hand would be worth considering.
Sadiq Khan says Labour should pledge to rejoin EU - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62g2…

Sadiq Khan says Labour should pledge to rejoin EU
Downing Street has repeatedly said the government will not rejoin the single market or customs union.

The dark side is pulling me in 😆

Ever wondered what makes SFPs go? Wonder no longer.
I need to print this out and hang it up in my lab to go along with the rest of the series, just need to take some measurements and figure out how large.
(Art commissioned from Usanekorin from Collateral Damage Studios, not on fedi AFAIK)

<heart breaking heart breaking heart breaking> 😢
▶️ No One Could Get Near Her…Then Someone Left This Comment
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oSQu58vw4jQ&si=RJe-jiaRoiLL22mN

So, Tuesday was my last day at Fleet, and I'm in full swing of both catching up on a few contract client things that had been left hanging for an extended period and also going through the process of interviewing for a full-time role at a few different places.
If you want me as part of your team, drop me a DM. I'm four interviews in at one place, an interview plus (as of a few minutes ago) a take-home in at another, and one interview in at a third so fingers crossed I'll ha…

Barney Frank's Second Coming Out (James Kirchick/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/barney-frank-book-left-trans-rights/687192/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p35#a260517p35

Now streaming on Knowledge:ORIGINALS
E.J.Hughes only wanted to be left alone to paint. He made hundreds of paintings in his 70 year career and lived long enough to hear on the telephone that one of his paintings fetched over $1m in his lifetime. Not many humans have that experience!
#BCArtist

@… dude, what desk?
I see approximately 4"² free, to the left of the keyboard 😉

Still don't know what's happening with the wee one. There was a MEETING today but we haven't heard the results yet. I am leaving for Civic in an hour, and husband was planning to drop my friend and me off at the nearest Rapid bus stop before making his way north to pick up the wee one from preschool. Left a message at CYF explaining our movements and that we need to know what's been decided (if anything) but haven't heard anything yet. Interesting times.

(LinkedIn) In a review of 55 cases of cortical blindness, vivid imagery was repeatedly preserved despite complete or near-complete bilateral V1 damage. When imagery was impaired, lesions extended beyond V1, often into ventral temporal cortex. https://www.

Two girls running in Hammond Hill State Forest last Saturday at the Thom B Trail Runs
#photo #photography #running #sports

IMPRS doctoral researcher Meghna Dutta and her colleagues happily presenting their posters with possible Master thesis projects at the CIDAS market place on Göttingen Campus today. Meghna made a great poster, and the group is thrilled by all the exciting discussions they are having with students!
#GWDG #CIDAS

And it is a bloated, hard to use product. We moved to Adobe PDF from Foxit. Every boot it launches its crap to ensure you have a license. Multiple popups. Scanning the indexes stalls for 30 to sixty seconds just about every click. When I rebuild the documentation indexes after a release now takes several days where Foxit did it in an hour. And that is on a gigabit network. When on VPN it takes a full five days.

What's left from SCOTUS, and when to expect it
https://www.lawdork.com/p/whats-left-from-scotus

Added Power Grips (pedal straps) to my wife's #Brompton. Not going to say it's my nicest work, but I'm hopeful that it'll hold. I only drilled holes through the plastic reflectors; the metal is all intact. I can change that later if needed. #BikeTooter

Nice arrival sunset

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Avalanches:
🎵 Since I Left You
#NowPlaying #TheAvalanches
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DgFCys3XMrWZDngu1CrRy

Worried about the "violent rhetoric of the left", while the US government releases an image of what it would look like if they nuked Ireland, presumably to convey a threat.

Sonnet 048 - XLVIII
How careful was I when I took my way,
Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,
That to my use it might unused stay
From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!
But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
Most worthy comfort, now my greatest grief,
Thou best of dearest, and mine only care,
Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.
Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,
Save where thou art not, though I feel t…

"President #Trump lost. The war he waged against Iran promises to conclude in a humbling whimper with the signing of a cease-fire agreement later this week. The United States is left weaker—diminished militarily, strategically, economically, and perhaps morally." THE ATLANTIC

Trump in Defeat
The president went to war triumphant and will likely leave greatly weakened.

We are fucked.
#AMOC #ClimateChange

Sources: Ramtin Arablouei, co-host and cofounder of NPR podcast Throughline, left the network after it opened an investigation into his workplace conduct (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/business/media/npr-pod…

NPR Podcast Host Ramtin Arablouei Exits Amid Workplace Inquiry
Ramtin Arablouei, a co-host of “Throughline,” left the network after an employee made a human resources complaint about his behavior.

Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
He rejoined the company in January after a stint as co-founder of Mira Murati’s competitor, Thinking Machines Lab.

Does no-one at Anthropic test the iPad app? [1] It can’t be sized smaller than 2/3rds of the screen, and it’s lost the ability to show chats from other devices in the left nav — you gotta go to ‘Chats’ and pick it manually!
[1] Does *anyone* test their iPad App? 🤔

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"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

Cleveland Browns 2026 NFL Draft odds: Clear priorities at wide receiver, left tackle at No. 6 pick

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/cle

The exit of Eric Swalwell from the California governor's race changed the playing field
The latest poll by Emerson College shows Steyer and Becerra gaining steam,
picking up supporters that Swalwell left behind.
The poll is the first one since Swalwell dropped out of the race.
The economy is #1 issue among 41% of the voters, followed by housing affordability at 20% and threats to democracy at 10%, with crime and immigration each at 6%.

Key takeaways from latest CA governor's race polling: Steyer, Becerra gaining steam
This is the first poll conducted since Eric Swalwell dropped out of the race amid sex assault allegations.

Der Duft von Sonnenuntergang und Blüten
Das auf dem Foto war heute einer der „schlimmeren“ Radwege - einmal quer durch Montpellier, vom Süden in den Norden und weiter bis Jacou. Wir sind fast durchgängig wie in Kopenhagen auf geschützten Radwegen inklusive geschützter Kreisverkehre geradelt, haben ein bisschen navigiert, und unterhalten, die Aussichten genossen und einen genossen hier und jetzt zu radeln.
Schon stark was Montpellier, Copenhagenize und 3M hier geschaffen haben und …

#LeftWordle fans:
I have a page up at https://left-wordle.com/retire-words.html that contains my approximation of the current NYT Wordle's answer list.
If you're interested in …

Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Pet Shop Boys:
🎵 Left to My Own Devices (Introspective Extended Version)
#PetShopBoys
https://djsonixx.bandcamp.com/track/pet-shop-boys-left-to-my-own-devices-ext-intro-orig-remix-v-2-127-bpm
https://open.spotify.com/track/4bwXQApS6ZupSiwUa4otmQ

Habt ihr eure Ferien schon (um)geplant?
Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head tells the AP https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-europe-jet-fuel-flight-cancellations-birol-6e67fafd493861b3858de554…

»Align to page«. And then the object snaps on either 0.07cm or -0.02cm off the left page border. Microsoft Office, enterprise grade software. #uxfromhell

In this key by-election, it is essential to defeat Reform Ltd. That means putting aside reservations about Burnham.
Other left parties, in this case, must stand aside
Andy Burnham faces perilous race to win Makerfield byelection, allies say | Labour | The Guardian
htt…

Are you planning flying in the coming months? Consider train...
"The executive director of the International Energy Agency, said there would be flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies from the Middle East were not restored within the coming weeks.
KLM, part of the Air France-KLM group, said on Thursday it would cut 160 flights in the coming month because of high kerosene jet fuel prices."

Propaganda of the deed generally does the opposite of what it's supposed to do: it alienates rather than activates, destroying the movement it comes from. Until it doesn't. Until it actually sparks a revolution.
But there is a prerequisite for a successful revolution. That is an alternative system to pivot into as the old one collapses. That alternative is *far more dangerous* than any one-off action, up to and including literally killing a king or an emperor.
People will eventually rise up. That's just a matter of time. The question is what's left after everything gets burned down. That's a far more important question than, "is it happening?" It's happening (sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly), what's next?
Hierarchy manifests complexity beyond its ability to manage. We're seeing that now, we will see it more. Distributed authority is more stable. Build a distributed society within the burned out warehouse of the hierarchical one.

This article has the merit of showing that academics don’t have to adopt genAI uncritically, but it treats the uncritical adoption as the default, portraying those that take a more reflective approach as “refusing to use generative AI.”
Shouldn’t the burden of proof be on the AI advocates? And shouldn’t academics’ arguments go beyond regurgitating the companies’ advertising and trite claims of “it’s the future, use it or you’ll get left behind”?

This article has the merit of showing that academics don’t have to adopt genAI uncritically, but it treats the uncritical adoption as the default, portraying those that take a more reflective approach as “refusing to use generative AI.”
Shouldn’t the burden of proof be on the AI advocates? And shouldn’t academics’ arguments go beyond regurgitating the companies’ advertising and trite claims of “it’s the future, use it or you’ll get left behind”?

This article has the merit of showing that academics don’t have to adopt genAI uncritically, but it treats the uncritical adoption as the default, portraying those that take a more reflective approach as “refusing to use generative AI.”
Shouldn’t the burden of proof be on the AI advocates? And shouldn’t academics’ arguments go beyond regurgitating the companies’ advertising and trite claims of “it’s the future, use it or you’ll get left behind”?

After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-aft…

Fisker went bankrupt and owners built open source car company from the ashes
After Fisker's bankruptcy left 11,000 Ocean EVs orphaned, a 4,000-member community reverse-engineered software, hacked CAN buses, and kept their cars alive.

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 ...

"DB will let you down. It will also, more often than the internet would have you believe, deliver you eight hours of clean uninterrupted thinking time at 250 km/h across a country, drop you within walking distance of your next meeting, and occasionally reroute you down the left bank of the Rhine at golden hour as an apology. The trick is to plan for the first and enjoy the second.'
The most useful hints I've ever seen for our summer holiday planning...
https://blog.hofstede.it/a-field-manual-for-three-years-on-deutsche-bahn/

Finally, Volkswagen is launching a V2G tariff in Germany. It is now scheduled for launch in Q4 2026.
Although Volkswagen was the first German car manufacturer to release bidirectional charging functionality in their vehicles, they are now behind BMW, Mercedes and Ford (whose EVs use VW technology) in terms of announcing an actual charger and tariff bundle.

Wonderfully grown-up from Ken Loach about Your Party https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/17/ken-loach-your-party-infighting-jeremy-corbyn-zarah-sultana but the @…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Woods:
🎵 Moving to the Left
#Woods
https://open.spotify.com/track/74NCGV3sWtLtub4p4b1BRe

It's funny to me how yes I was like "Tomorrow I need to do X and then Y and afterwards I should do Z, if there is any spare time left" and today I just stare into the void while trying to remember what I wanted to do.
(It's actually not funny, it's hella annoying 🫠)

Kinda related to #Gentoo, so cool" or "they stopped using it, so sad". And I'm like, "why should we care?"
Do they donate money to Gentoo? They don't. And if they did, it would probably come with obligations making this not worth it.
Do they contribute back? Rarely, and if they do, they are unreliable. They benefit more than we do. They just want to dump the packages they need, quickly duct taped together, so that we would maintain them going forward. Their employees rarely reveal that they're paid to do this, and if they do, it's not so they'd be held to higher standards, but to emphasize their importance: "you must placate us."
Well, sometimes they hire Gentoo developers. It's nice that these developers get some gratification for their work, especially if they're able to continue contributing on work time. But in the end, company priorities win. We are either left with loads of new packages with no maintainer and unclear significance, or a Google employee who appeared every once in a while to dump a bunch of ChromeOS patches and never bothered handling the fallout.
So, sorry, but I'd rather care for volunteers who want to make Gentoo better, than companies who see some profit incentive in it.
PS. I'm probably focusing too much on the negative aspects, and we likely had some positive interactions that are far less known and usually don't meet with such fanfare.
#FreeSoftware

The Trump administration purged the State Department of its oil and gas experts last year,
-- prior to launching its war on Iran,
--including people who would be responsible for examining scenarios related to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
By the time the layoffs were over,
the only people left in the energy bureau were people specializing in critical minerals and clean energy,
the administration said in a notification to Congress at the time.
The pe…

Oil and Gas Experts in State Department Fired in DOGE Efforts Prior to Iran War
The administration laid off people responsible for modeling scenarios like the Strait of Hormuz closure, reporting says.

I remember speaking to someone who, maybe a decade ago, worked at a ride share app company.
They left shortly after a meeting in which the company was looking at ways to slow cities from investing in their public transport.
On its face a business or technology might not be objectionable, but there's an inevitability to the direction that investment demands.

Cowboys $96 Million Star Makes Feelings Clear on Position Change https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-smith-left-tackle-guyton/

Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/star-google-ai-researcher-shazeer-j…

Star Google AI Researcher Shazeer Joins OpenAI
Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told some staff Wednesday. Shazeer, who left Google in 2021 to cofound a chatbot startup, Character.AI, rejoined Google’s AI team DeepMind in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fred again..:
🎵 Last 1s Left
#Fredagain

Amazing turnout for the Affordable Housing Guarantee Act kickoff in Dolores Park! Together, we’re going to make sure the voters’ will to tax the rich to fund affordable housing gets respected!
I mostly left the taking of photos to others but here’s one of @… psyching us up

Ray drops a VERY sobering look at Xbox's business. In 2018, Xbox acquired dozens of studios to create compelling games to drive Xbox & Xbox Game Pass.
After 8yrs, what have they got to show for it?
Now you know why they're cutting game studios left & right.
▶️ What is going on at Xbox today?? - Xbox Ready

Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic limited the release of its latest model Mythos to select companies and organizations (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/anthropic-apple-microsoft-europe-left-in-the-…

European regulators sidelined on Anthropic superhacking model
New AI tech could pose major cybersecurity risks but many European regulators have limited oversight.

Cowboys Called Out for ‘Competition’ at Key Position https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-guyton-competition-position/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Murkage Dave & KONOPINKSY:
🎵 Generation Left on Read
#MurkageDave #KONOPINKSY
https://murkagedave.bandcamp.com/album/generation-left-on-read
https://open.spotify.com/track/4fZWZkdfQoI2T5tCzGFOla

A profile of Hany Farid, the world's leading deepfake expert, who recently left the Bay Area for Vermont.
"I can’t stand this place anymore... These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d

In Age of AI, World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes
In the age of A.I., Hany Farid is struggling to prove what’s real before the internet decides for itself.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Thundercat:
🎵 What Is Left to Say
#Thundercat
https://thundercat.bandcamp.com/track/what-is-left-to-say-feat-the-lemon-twigs
https://open.spotify.com/track/3enDijqNJTZuAQpj1Jm6q6

To some extent, Mohamed Hussein knew he was preparing to enter the lion’s den.
But he made the decision to attend the Republican Party of Texas Convention
to confirm for himself that he had a place in the GOP,
even as members of the party have railed for months about the urgency of ending Sharia Law and the so-called “Islamification” of Texas.
What he found was a party that didn’t want him.
He arrived with hope but left in tears after being told explicitly that …

A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears.
Muslim delegates and attendees hoping to participate in the state Republican convention were shunned and rejected by members as they espoused themes of party unity ahead of the November election.

Trump Calls Xi a 'Friend.' But He Left China Without Any Breakthroughs. (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/world/europe/trump-xi-china-summit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260516/p38#a260516p38

I love how California poppies close up in the evening like they’re tucking themselves into bed.

Cowboys Center Out For the Season After Neck Surgery https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/matt-hennessy-season-over-neck-injury/

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.

AP Exclusive: Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head warns (John Leicester/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-europe-jet-fuel-flight-cancellations-birol-6e67fafd493861b3858de5548aa77703
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p93#a260416p93

Jacob Rodriguez Gushes Over Christian Parker, Dallas Cowboys Staff Ahead Of NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/jacob-rodriguez-gushes-over-christian-parker-dallas-cowboys-staff-nfl-draft

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s abrupt exit from the race for California governor
— then his announcement he would leave Congress
— left his rivals scrambling to lock down his former supporters in a crowded contest with no clear leader,
injecting more turmoil into the campaign to lead the nation’s most populous state.
Swalwell’s decision to suspend his campaign Sunday followed allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman twice,
including when she worked for him…

Swalwell exit leaves California governor's race in disarray
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s abrupt exit from the race for California governor left his rivals scrambling to lock down his former supporters in a crowded contest with no clear leader. Swalwell's withdrawal injected more turmoil into the campaign less than a month before mail ballots go out to primary election voters. The congressman's decision followed allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman twice, including when she worked for him, that were published Friday in the San Francisco Ch…

Sources: 50 researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex…

The SpaceXAI Exodus: More Than 50 Recent Exits as Meta, Thinking Machines Hire Staff
Call it the SpaceXAI exodus. More than 50 researchers and engineers working on xAI’s Grok models have left the AI lab since SpaceX acquired it in February, through layoffs, firings and voluntary departures, according to several people with knowledge of the moves. These departures come on top of ...

Cowboys Sign Former Raiders Starting Edge Rusher https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/charles-snowden-signed-defensive-end/

Europe has “maybe six weeks or so” of remaining jet fuel supplies,
the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging interview,
warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.
IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of what he called
“the largest energy crisis we have ever faced,”
stemming from the pinch-off of oil, gas and other vital suppl…

AP Exclusive: Europe could run out of jet fuel within weeks, IEA warns
The head of the International Energy Agency has warned that Europe has about six weeks of jet fuel left. In an interview Thursday, Fatih Birol told The Associated Press of his concerns about possible flight cancellations if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war. He described the situation as the largest energy crisis ever, with potential significant global repercussions. The Strait of Hormuz closure affects oil, gas, and other vital supplies. Birol predicts higher gasoline, natural gas, a…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Thundercat:
🎵 You Left Without Saying Goodbye
#Thundercat
https://thundercat.bandcamp.com/track/you-left-without-saying-goodbye
https://open.spotify.com/track/52EW9hDF3NLRRlrDziCmrG

Nate Thomas opens up about Cowboys' open competition at left tackle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/nate-thomas-opens-up-about-cowboys-open-competition-at-left-tackle

Nate Thomas opens up about Cowboys' open competition at left tackle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/nate-thomas-opens-up-about-cowboys-open-competition-at-left-tackle

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Left Cross:
🎵 The Blood of Mars
#LeftCross
https://open.spotify.com/track/1i6d9KAcg7EA60bWIwJlk9

Sources: Jensen Huang was left out of President Trump's China trip to avoid unwanted scrutiny and awkward conversations about the sale of Nvidia chips to China (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/12/2026/nvidia-snubb…

Exclusive: Nvidia snubbed from Trump China trip to avoid ‘awkward conversations’
The president left Jensen Huang out of the CEO delegation to dodge political tensions around chip sales to China.

Rep. Harriet Hageman insists that there is no racism on the right
and that the Aryan Nation, Nazis, and KKK are all "far-left groups" 
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/rep-harriet-hageman-insists-there-no-racism-right…

Rep. Harriet Hageman Insists There Is No Racism On The Right
Rep. Harriet Hageman insists that there is no racism on the right and that the Aryan Nation, Nazis, and KKK are all "far-left groups"

Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
They were all sitting unprotected at public URLs, with no password or access control of any sort.
If I sent you a link, you could have looked at someone’s passport.
“We have to do something about it as fast as possible, because people will find this and resell it.
It will do damage,”
Sammy Azdoufal told me in May.
Azdoufal is the security researcher who used Claude Code…

Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Cannabis Club Systems, also known as Nefos Solutions, left passports and photo IDs potentially exposed on the public web.