Tootfinder

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/587678/hipkins-speech-like-lump-of-jelly-filled-with-sentiment-says-willis Huh. Haven't read the article on the address, but wonder how it compares 'lump-o-jelly' that happen…

I often like music where it sounds like the singer is really suffering. Like, it audibly sounds like he or she is having a really bad time. Many of those are my favorite bands

Richard Dawkins Biomorphs

Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are "unfair", as it takes "20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time" to train a human (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-

Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunch
"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

I like my blog posts, the way I like my AGENTS.md: crisp

Sell Like You
The podcast that's here to revolutionise your approach to sales, I'm Harriet Mellor...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sell-like-you/

Senators move to ban sports betting on prediction markets like Kalshi, Polymarket -- first bill of its kind (Marc Vartabedian/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/23/business/senators-move-to-ban-sports-betting-on-prediction-markets-like-kalshi-polymarket-first-bill-of-its-kind/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p105#a260323p105

Projecting What the Raiders' First Three Rounds May Look Like https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-projecting-what-first-three-rounds-may-look-like

At least 70% of things I read about people doing with "AI" assistants like "Open Claw" are basically things people have been doing with deterministic, secure tools like Home Assistant for years.
Oh you can tell your bot to dim the lights via WhatsApp chat? Welcome to 2015!

🧠 Human-like Working Memory from Artificial Intrinsic Plasticity Neurons
#ai #llm

Human-like Working Memory from Artificial Intrinsic Plasticity Neurons
Working memory enables the brain to integrate transient information for rapid decision-making. Artificial networks typically replicate this via recurrent or parallel architectures, yet incur high energy costs and noise sensitivity. Here we report IPNet, a hardware-software co-designed neuromorphic architecture realizing human-like working memory via neuronal intrinsic plasticity. Exploiting Joule-heating dynamics of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs), IPNet physically emulates biological memory v…

A hilly landscape that looks like spiderwebs when viewed from orbit holds clues to the history of water on ancient Mars.
For about six months, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region full of geologic formations called boxwork,
low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy hollows in between.
Crisscrossing the surface for miles, the formations suggest ancient groundwater flowed on this part of the Red Planet later than scientists exp…

I wonder if the folks who are like "Hey look! I built an app with AI!" understand what supporting an application and supporting customers/users of an application is like.
I fear it's similar people who adopt a cute puppy and then later it sinks in that they'll need to care for a dog over its entire lifetime.
Of course some people just give up on their adopted puppy and surrender them. How many applications will be abandon-ware within a year or two?

You know the classic story of the foolish employer who paid software developers per bug fixed? If you haven’t, you can guess the outcome: program called off when one developer “fixed“ hundreds of bugs in a single day (that they’d intentionally introduced).
This is just like that, except not like it at all: the “fake bugs” — ICE agents abducting random people to make a buck — are the •intended• effect.

Vamos con la música en otro viernes de lanzamientos. Partimos con lo nuevo de The Damned, «Not Like Everybody Else», disco que incluye un cover a «See Emily Play», de Pink Floyd, que no les quedó nada mal. 👌🏻
https://album.link/s/28pRfoAGlowiuGus9h4lBq

Moods.
“Make me a webpage that feels like West Coast rain, fog and the cry of a Raven in the mist”
zebra-spin.exe.xyz:8000 https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3maquda4e5c2d

Boris (@bmann.ca)
Moods. “Make me a webpage that feels like West Coast rain, fog and the cry of a Raven in the mist” zebra-spin.exe.xyz:8000

Why does calling out a hallucination feel like calling someone’s kid "ugly"?
We’ve stopped treating AI like software and started treating it like a protégé. Here’s why criticizing an algorithm has suddenly become so personal.
https://www.ocrampal.com/why-criticizing-a

Why Criticizing AI Feels Like Criticizing Someone’s Child
I’m not questioning the usefulness of LLMs and AI in general. What I am questioning is its ability to achieve intelligence. Large Language Models (LLMs) are remarkable tools—tools to augment one’s intelligence—just as a search engine, or Wikipedia have done before them. I use them daily.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Winter:
🎵 Just Like a Flower
#Winter
https://daydreamingwinter.bandcamp.com/track/just-like-a-flower
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Fj9auUJgsgbNJvTkjkiQq

This looks like fun... Looks like tix are $15
"How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera"
https://news.ucsc.edu/2026/02/questions-that-matter-lessons-on-the-good-life-from-a-star-trek-opera-i…

Questions that Matter: Lessons on the good life from a Star Trek opera-in-progress
For the past decade, an eclectic group of professors, staff members, and show-business professionals has been working hard to bring a Star Trek opera to vibrant life. Now, they are inviting the public to delve more deeply into the philosophical heart of their interstellar project. Their talk, “How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera,” challenges the audience to consider a deceptively simple question: What do we need to lead a fulfilling life?

New Jersey is the winter home to three types of seals: harp, gray and harbor, said Jay Pagel, stranding coordinator at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine.
"This is kind of like Florida for them," Pagel said.
Seals spotted around New Jersey's icy coast https://share.google/VpW5Lk80Bg1WNOaRa

Shot/chaser
Billionaires like Lurie and his buddies prefer philanthropy to taxes because they decide how much to pay and how it's used. We should not believe for a second that it has anything to do with helping non-rich San Franciscans. #sfpol

Political candidates are like pets. Okay, it's very exciting, you brought a new one home, but like, are they even housebroken? You've still got to train them, take care of them... And it's heart-breaking, but sometimes things just don't work out and you need to return them to the shelter.
Oh, you purchased rather than adopted? Well there's your problem.

For this #silentSunday I remembered one of our rare vacations to the sea.
I really like this photo. I feel like looking into the endless horizon, but still have a grounding element in the photo so that I'd never feel lost.
#photography

I don't know who needs to hear this, but don't be like my former client and pull the CPE down and throw it in a field with standing water "to make it easier to deinstall" and not even inform me.
Waterproof like a raincoat, not waterproof like a submarine...

Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions (Mike Sorrentino/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsungs-galax…

Samsung's Galaxy S26 Phones Will Work With Apple's AirDrop, Much Like the Pixel 10
AirDrop support will start with the Galaxy S26 this week and is planned for more Galaxy devices later.

Cowboys' Javonte Williams Deal Looks Like a Steal Next to Saquon Barkley https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-javonte-williams-deal-steal-next-to-saquon-barkley

TR-49 (2026) from inkle is a Type-Help-like that's.. ok. the beginning is a little rough, there isn't a clear hook like Type Help. the dialog and surface story is meh. the deeper story is better. in a few places the game is overly helpful: your notebook will summarize facts you've found that you might not have realized you've found. ~4-6 hr to reach an ending, another ~1-2 hr to find all the endings. each ending is caused by some single action you can undo; no other branching…

#ShitPost #ShitPosting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Ah, don't watch this. It's like listening to a nice old lady you once knew, but now she's lost her mind and a demon speaks through her. People like her deserve compassion, not ridicule ->
She wants the Hispanics trading kids at the food pantry deported - Ben Palmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuXNipVrxvM

Collecting the Shards
Over the past few weeks, I have published several new books. From the outside, that can look like some kind of creative superpower. Like I locked myself in a room, drank a heroic amount of coffee, and sprinted through a stack of fresh manuscripts until the world blurred and the covers appeared. That is not what happened.

Collecting the Shards | David Boles, Blogs
Over the past few weeks, I have published several new books. From the outside, that can look like some kind of creative superpower. Like I locked myself in a room, drank a heroic amount of coffee, …

The fact that Anthony has been looking for work for an extended period is an indictment of the whole IT employment scam. @… https://tilde.zone/@sirwumpus/1159397382639…

Safari? More like Beachball.

Amidst all the buzz around things like Gas Town and Ralph, etc. there are some bits of actual substance that promise to actually empower coders — and potentially shift the power dynamic away from Big AI, while making it easier to create software just by describing ideas in plain text. I've been thinking of the idea as "codeless" software creation, for lack of a better term (the jargon doesn't matter, I just needed a name to talk about it) and would love your thoughts!

Codeless: From idea to software
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

It breaks my heart a little bit when someone asks me for restaurant recommendations in Iceland, but they don’t like seafood or lamb!
Like I’m just not gonna recommend Rosso Pomodoro or Hereford!

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
RASHEL: Perhaps that creature drove the people away.
COSER: I doubt it. Raw materials ran out more like.
RASHEL: Perhaps that was the only one.
COSER: Perhaps, perhaps! Just get on with it, will you?!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/397 B7B3<…

Like the Moon on Water — #substack

Like the Moon on Water: Rethinking Heroism in an Age of Noise
Real heroism isn’t thunderous—it’s quiet, practiced, and often unseen. How stories train us for empathy, courage, and the moments that truly matter.

Is this like Nintendoland?

Power loom built by T. Larmuth & Co., in Manchester, around 1860 - now at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.
> "By the early 19th century, new machines like this power loom could make cloth more quickly and cheaply than people. Groups of angry handloom weavers raided cotton mills at night. They burnt and broke power looms to protest against the new technology."
This aspect of the Industrial Revolution is now being breathlessly repeated by those who s…

Talarico: “Every single person bears the image of the sacred; every single person is holy — not just the neighbors who look like me or pray like me or vote like me. 2,000 years ago, when the powerful few rigged the system, that barefoot rabbi walked into the seat of power and flipped over the tables of injustice. To those who love our country, to those who love our neighbors: It’s time to start flipping tables.”
Panicking Trump proves he sees a real threat - Raw Story
https://archive.ph/yb2sh#selection-1069.0-1069.405

Ouch. What smells like a combination of corruption, arrogance, and ignorance in Vancouver civic staff around planning for False Creek South. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/17/Vancouver-Handling-False-Cre…

Vancouver’s Handling of False Creek South Is Officially a Scandal | The Tyee
The city’s auditor general found ‘serious mismanagement of public funds’ and more to criticize.

if a bot left a comment like this on my issue i would track down its authors and commit axe murder

Did something break safari performance in macOS 26.3? between ChatGPT.com lagging on typing (like, hanging for ~500ms), and now racefans.net hanging for 250ms on scrolls, it feels like something is broken.

Urban Demons V 👻
城市鬼魂 V 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

The cat printer was running low on ink.

I know that following a hashtag is part of the Mastodon protocol itself, but since I'm in @… the majority of the time - it feels like it would be cool to:
- Offer a "follow for a week" / month option
- "We'll ask you when time's up"
mechanism (maybe the ask part is configurable? maybe the client could also just handle it when next it runs?)
I hit this time and time again for moment in time events where during the thick of it, I'm invested and interested - conferences, world news, etc - but after which there's no more signal in the hashtag and it's just detritus putting load on a server somewhere.
Ideally this is something that should be in the protocol itself, but it feels like similar to quote replies that @… could bring a better user experience in advance of adoption of something like that

Moment of Gratitude, this time for GitHub.com
I have been having fun with claude-code and have been using github in ways I did not know existed (like hosting docker images), and so easy! (and, I think, for free)
Thank you GitHub!
https://brewster.kahle.org/2026/02/01…

The closing ceremony of the Winter #Olympics was good, but could have been a lot more, a mini review:
https://boxd.it/dgmEyz

A ★★★½ review of Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Closing Ceremony: Beauty in Action (2026)
Sadly it's becoming the norm to put all the eggs in the Opening ceremony basket, so I wasn't expecting much. While I like it and it was certainly better than the last two closing ceremonies of winter games, I feel it has a lots of wasted potential. The opera fantasy segment was great but I think it fell a bit short, the Roman arena was superb but didn't build much on it, the musical show was fun but not much besides that. Still, I like it, and I think it was a great Olympic Winter Games. See yo…

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, -- since crystals require intense heat to form and these “dirty snowballs” spend most of their time in the ultracold Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud.
Now, looking outside our solar system, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has returned the first conclusive evidence that links how those conditions are possible.
The telescope clearly showed for the first ti…

NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals
Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, since crystals require

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Low:
🎵 Just Like Christmas
#Low
https://wereonlyhumanonce.bandcamp.com/track/low-just-like-christmas-instrumental
https://open.spotify.com/track/4zMP6aieSmWQNFdp3O4Owv

Poland's BELZEBONG have a new LP that just came out, so my neighbors have been hearing it, too. Do you like insanely riffy, instrumental Sabbath-like doom metal? Of course you do.
https://belzebong.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-is-high

that's just "that's just [fill-in-blank]slop, you only like it because it's [fill-in-blank]"slop, you only like it because it's another terminally online cliche to automatically reach for when u have nothing, only relatively recent and therefore hasn't been 100% run into the ground (until now)

'Looks Like He'll Go to Algeria': DHS Plans to Rearrest and Deport Columbia Encampment Leader Mahmoud Khalil (Meghan Blonder/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/campus/looks-like-hell-go-to-algeria-dhs-plans-to-rearrest-and-deport-columbia-encampment-leader-mahmoud-khalil/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260122/p153#a260122p153

Cowboys' Javonte Williams Deal Looks Like a Steal Next to Saquon Barkley https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-javonte-williams-deal-steal-next-to-saquon-barkley

🤕 The first headbutting paravian: Bird-like dinosaur likely used thick skull to win over mates
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-headbutting-paravian-bird-dinosaur-thick.html

The first headbutting paravian: Bird-like dinosaur likely used thick skull to win over mates
Whether it's digging up weathered bones from a paleontological site or reexamining forgotten trays in museum and university collections, the study of dinosaurs still throws up something new.

The Book Lives Three Times: How Seneca Got Reading Wrong by Getting It Right
You finish writing a book and the manuscript sits there, cooling on the screen like bread pulled from an oven. It is done. It is no longer yours. This is the part no one tells you about authorship: the moment the final sentence locks into place, the book begins its first death, because it has stopped being a living negotiation between you and the language and has become, instead, a fixed…

The Book Lives Three Times: How Seneca Got Reading Wrong by Getting It Right | David Boles, Blogs
You finish writing a book and the manuscript sits there, cooling on the screen like bread pulled from an oven. It is done. It is no longer yours. This is the part no one tells you about authorship:…

If you ever feel like you aren’t achieving as much as you want to, just remember there are people out there who are content with having read just one book in their lives, convinced it means they know everything there is to know about the world.
That said, try not to dwell on the fact that they’re the ones running the world right now or you might feel bad again.
(Sorry, I clearly shouldn’t be writing inspirational posts.)

“perl is like marx: great at identifying the problems, terrible at formulating the solution”
https://bsky.app/profile/amyhoy.bsky.social/post/3mhqnia5w4k2e

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
SOOLIN: It's no use, he's cut off.
AVON: Damn.
VILA: Well that is it. With those ships out there we can't wait.
SOOLIN: They might not be looking for us.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/435 B7B4

Adam Kinzinger:
I saw a stupid post with a picture of The Art of the Deal, saying,
“If you want to understand Donald Trump…” blah blah blah.
And I’m like, actually, if you want to understand Donald Trump,
we need the rest of the Epstein files.
https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.soc<…

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)
Kinzinger: I saw a stupid post with a picture of The Art of the Deal, saying, “If you want to understand Donald Trump…” blah blah blah. And I’m like, actually, if you want to understand Donald Trump, we need the rest of the Epstein files.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Neggy Gemmy:
🎵 I Don't Feel Like Dancing
#NeggyGemmy
https://neggygemmy.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont-feel-like-dancing
https://open.spotify.com/track/3xqSaH3yTAQPjF3kFW0esW

It's wild how those `agents.md` files (or similar other prompt extensions) look like. Written as if you were talking to a person with punctuation and appeals to cognition and honesty.
You are seeding values to a stochastic system pushing it into desirable areas in a hypergraph, not teaching a colleague.

I like AI. I like robots. I love machine learning automation. I don't like it when their use cases are replacing people, spying on or profiling people, prosecuting people, submitting people into subscription, creating "art", "videos", "pictures" and scumbag "memes", warfare, propaganda, disinformation, deepfakes of any kind, ads, trolling, pumping up stocks, just plain wrong search results that force you to waste twice as much time to confirm they …

Gah, I love Bjork. What IS it about Bjork. This music, man, her more recent ones (currently listening to 'Utopia' from 2017) the style.. I just shouldn't like something like this, but I DO

A lot of their strategies are like spammers and phishers: they’re kind of stupid, they’re kind of lazy, but they just spend all day trying — and they only have to catch somebody off guard once. And so while they lazy it up, we have to remain in a state of ceaseless vigilance…because as we all know from phishing scams, everybody slips up eventually.

Urban Demons IV 👻
城市鬼魂 IV 👻
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite

How to factory reset your cat

Fernando Mendoza is Already Sounding Like a Raider With ‘Vegas-Like’ Response https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/fernando-mendoza-vegas-like-response/

I like people who aren't afraid to spend a lot of money. (As customers, I mean.)

From Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq

The #Texas races are turning out a bunch of unintentional hilarity and I'm here for it.
This is their latest attempt to smear #Talarico.
Even enabler class Republicans like Cornyn, who know better, are high on their own supply from so many years of blatantly pandering to Nazis.

Scary Austin (@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image The #Texas races are turning out a bunch of unintentional hilarity and I'm here for it. This is their latest attempt to smear #Talarico. Even enabler class #Republicans like Cornyn, who know better, are high on their own supply from so many years of blatantly pandering to Nazis.

Were Israel to shoot a Western journalist, the journalist would be like “I guess I was Hamas, oh, well, I guess I’ll die.”
I use “journalist”, here, very loosely. @… https://

Assal Rad
Israel is the world’s leading killer of journalists, they killed one of your own, and you still use “Israel says” to try to justify it. What a shameful post.

Cats still like to crash out on these iBooks

AI tools like Claude Code have transformed coders' lives, and AI labs are now eyeing a bigger goal: automating everyone's lives and winning the non-coder market (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/claude-code-cu

Donald Trump Is Nothing Like Robert Mueller (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/03/donald-trump-nothing-like-robert-mueller/686498/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyQNGZ4alI4M6yx0DryA8xHw
http://www.memeorandum.com/260321/p55#a260321p55

The "AI" bubble currently cannot pop because tech has nothing else to land on.
Metaverse was dropped after a few months like a bad habit because everyone could pivot to "AI". But there is no new story available right now.

Stay warm out there!

UPDATE: The kids met their fundraising goal! Looks like they’re going to Space Camp!!
Thank you, thank you to all here who supported the fundraiser. I don’t have access to the fundraising data, but based on a conversation with the lead organizers, it looks like the Mastodon contribution was a substantial one.

Software engineer: “George Lucas is an asshole for changing like three scenes in his 20 year old movie 30 years ago.”
Also software engineer: “I fundamentally change my app like 3 times a week!”

How Russia-linked crypto exchanges, like Bitpapa, Exmo, and others help Russian entities move money across borders, bypassing banking oversight and sanctions (Elliptic)
https://www.elliptic.co/blog/russia-linked-cryptocurrency-services-and-sanctions-e…

Russia-linked cryptocurrency services and sanctions evasion
Despite growing enforcement, several cryptoasset exchanges continue to enable Russian sanctions evasion through wallet obfuscation and ruble-to-crypto trading.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116274161758622263
“Companies like SpaceX have stated repeatedly that their method is to “move fast and break things.” They are now close to breaking the atmosphere, the night sky and anything on the ground …

Master of disguise

You'd think that Gracenote must be one of the oldest APIs still working but there's basic Internet protocols that are way older, like NTP or DNS

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/116121085193035222
Can someone explain to me like I’m five why the fuck Hungary is still in the EU?

Ubicquia, which provides software to utilities, cities, and companies to manage energy infrastructure like transformers, raised a $106M Series D (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/02/23/ubicquia-106-mill…

Exclusive: Ubicquia raises $106M for smart energy infrastructure
67 Capital and Marunouchi Innovation Partners led the round.

The main recourse for challenging #racial #profiling
is through the
"Federal Tort Claims Act",
which allows people to sue the federal government
for harm caused by federal employees,
said Thomas A Saenz,
the president and general counsel at
the "Mexican American L…

Pirate cat guarding their booty

Saying it again, anthropomorphized "chatbot" user interfaces to LLMs should be illegal.
There's zero reason these interfaces have to be like this—other than companies making people addicted to them.
This is wrt to a WaPo article (tw:child abuse, child suicide) , here w/o paywall: https://archive.is/GUIEF

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ethanschoonover/115935180169971454
Folks, if we do everything like the US does in the EU, one day this could be us.
So think big, people, think big and remember: continue with business as usual. We can do this! I …

The EC's EU Inc. proposal is a missed opportunity, leaving national courts to interpret corporate rules, and it seems like Brussels has pre-emptively aimed low (Martin Sandbu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/976be519-6dfc-4529-9ab7-4f676787f455
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Basically these rakes use heavy-gauge metal spiral-wound wire to grab on to pet hair, it's kind of magical to see your rug change color lol.
Get one with a long handle so you don't need to bend over.
Note: can't use them on some types of of rugs, like wool or silk; so read the instructions/warnings!

Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduce bipartisan legislation to ban sports betting on CFTC-regulated prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket (Krystal Hur/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

ElevenLabs launches an album of original tracks made by artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel in "collaboration" with its Eleven Music AI model (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/elevenlabs…

ElevenLabs' Eleven Album Features AI Songs From Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel
ElevenLabs launched 'The Eleven Album,' a partnership with artists like Liza Minelli and Art Garfunkel to 'co-create' original music with its AI-based model.

What really makes me irate about how LLMs are marketed and sold is that if these companies instead spend their time and money to make highly specialized versions for them we could have amazing and actually helpful tools without the ick.
This could both work much better for many use cases (for example for correlating documents and giving a list of results like a search engine instead of tedious palaver) and they wouldn't need to steal data (Professor Bender calls it succinctly "datasets too large to care")[1].
But they're pursuing "AGI" (which is provenly impossible to do with LLMs) and endless growth.
[1] https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116109627131276897

Snap updates its Family Center tool to let parents view daily screen time averages and a breakdown of time spent by specific app segment like Snap Map (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/snapchat-gives-parents-n…

Snapchat gives parents new insights into teens' screen time and friends | TechCrunch
With these new features, Snap is likely looking to appease regulators and parents over concerns about safety and screen time on its platform.

A look at the challenges some AI developers face in building models to extract trillions of high-quality tokens from PDFs, which are hard to parse, for training (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/882891/ai-pdf-parsing…

How many AIs does it take to read a PDF?
For all of the AI industry’s advancements, the major models like ChatGPT and Claude still struggle with PDFs, one of the oldest and ubiquitous file formats.

Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800 creatives launch "Stealing Isn't Innovation" to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…

Hundreds of creatives warn against an AI slop future
The Stealing Isn’t Innovation campaign — supported by artists like Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and George Saunders — warns of a future filled with AI slop.

Anthropic rolls out a computer use feature for Claude Cowork and the Claude Code desktop app, in research preview on macOS for Pro and Max subscribers (Blake Stimac/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/claude-control-your-comput…

Anthropic's Claude Can Now Control Your Computer
The developer is boosting Claude's agentic capabilities in an apparent effort to compete with platforms like OpenClaw.

Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8-12, which will be an online event free for developers, with an in-person event at Apple Park on June 8 (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/23/apple-announces-wwdc-2026-dates/

Apple Announces WWDC 2026 Will Take Place June 8 to 12
Apple today said that its 37th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to begin on Monday, June 8 and end on Friday, June 12. Like WWDC 2025,...