Tootfinder

Amazon adds Clips, a feed of TikTok-like vertical short-form videos, to Prime Video's mobile home page for select US customers on iOS, Android, and Fire devices (Will Shanklin/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2168176/prime-video-is-adding-a-tiktok-like-feed/

Prime Video Is Adding A TikTok-Like Feed
Your wish for a vertical recommendation carousel has been granted.

Saints' Alontae Taylor ready to test market: 'I definitely feel like I’m the best free-agent corner' https://www.nfl.com/news/saints-alontae-taylor-ready-to-test-market-i-definitely-feel-like-i-m-the-best-free-ag…

«mkcert: A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.»
Does any of you use this and how good is it in WebDev production to use it for local tests etc.?
🔐 https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

GitHub - FiloSottile/mkcert: A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like. - FiloSottile/mkcert

That kind of coverage achieves something even individual posts on social media cannot: it was not just the people with lots of followers, not just the people favored by the recommender algorithm or the tides of popularity, but instead a broad cross section of whoever was out there.
I don’t know who’s offering coverage like that in Iran like that right now. It may not exist. But even the BBC article at the top — filtered, edited, formatted, and tidied to sound like a BBC article, but still individual voices of people who are living through it — even that is welcome.
/end

Like the Moon on Water — #futurism

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.

It's so funny and weird, I keep seeing these things about modern oi punk getting stale or uninteresting in places like France, etc, and I'm like.. really? Where? Which bands? 😂 I only see and hear really amazing stuff coming out of the oi scene lately all over, like- even more great stuff than I've ever heard before 🤔
#punk

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Cruise Control:
🎵 Like A Bell
#CruiseControl
https://503cruisecontrol.bandcamp.com/album/like-a-bell
https://open.spotify.com/track/6yGNYysLj1MXfCApNQWCOb
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

10 Lazy Vegan Dinners That Still Feel Like Real Food #plantbased

10 Lazy Vegan Dinners That Still Feel Like Real Food
Try these lazy vegan dinners for nights you need a simple pasta, traybake, or simple comfort food recipe that feels like real food

Now We Know What a Modern War Looks Like (Lloyd J. Austin III/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/opinion/iran-has-shown-us-what-modern-war-looks-like.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p31#a260407p31

Google launches the $100 Fitbit Air, a Whoop-like screenless wearable, with Gemini-powered features like Google Health Coach, available May 26 (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2166645/the-google-fitbit-air-is-an-ai-infused-take…

The Google Fitbit Air Is An AI-Infused Take On Whoop Wearables
It's basically a small Fitbit Inspire without a strap.

Kirk Cousins on 4th NFL stop with Raiders: ‘I’d like to still do this’ https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/04/08/kirk-cousins-on-4th-nfl-stop-with-raiders-id-like-to-stil…

I hesitated quite a bit about whether I should even write about this. Hope you don’t think that I’m completely crazy. 😵‍💫
Thanks, @… for the final push.
https://finest.day/po…

What my ADHD thinking would sound like - Finest Day
Okay, this might sound pretty silly to some people, but whatever. Here’s how I experience it: If I had to use music to describe to some more neurotypical brain how...

Hand‑drawn #QR codes
https://sethmlarson.dev/hand-drawn-qr-codes

When I was little I decided that Pizza Hut was actually Pizza *Hunt*.
Instead of ordering food like a normal restaurant when it was your turn you'd go out in the back where there would be a bunch of live pizzas rolling around an enclosure on their crusts like tires. The waiter would hand you a bow and arrow, you'd pick the pizza you wanted to eat, shoot it, then they'd cook it up for you.

I have some sketches of an essay that I need to write, but I think it's worth brain-dumping a bit more in the mean time.
#LLMs are an attempt to make tech grow forever. But like, how many "your mom/a friend, but done by a precarious worker instead" apps do we really need? Everything right now is in the AI grift hole, but there's almost nothing of interest (even if you ignore the ethical concerns). Like, no, I don't fucking want a robot to lie to me about my groceries. That doesn't sound like a useful feature. There's a lot of useless shit being pumped out to prop up the bottom line, and a lot of people just want to be able to use their old phone for more than a couple of years.
No one is happy with this. No one wants this. Except the billionaires who are forcing us all to drink the capitalism koolaid, because they'd rather exterminate life on earth than live in a world where they experience consequences.
Nothing grows forever. That's not how literally anything in reality works, or has ever worked, at all in history. Some people think that the universe itself may work like that, but that's only an educated guess. Finite things don't grow forever. Every organism, every society, every technology, every dynamic and adaptive system we have ever known goes through a growth phase and then goes in to a stabilization phase. Or, following a Malthusian pattern, grows until it reaches a catastrophic point and collapses. Like lemmings. Or reindeer. Or cancer.

We've started a #Fluxer community for #Nix, #NixOS and the wider ecosystem:

Bluesky is said to have "skeet" and Mastodon "toot" but just now I saw someone on Bluesky use "blute" (Blue toot?) which I kind of like. (I suppose "bleet" would have sounded too sheepish. (bleat) 😂)
I've never felt comfortable with post, because it sounds like you are sending a letter - and I hate both skeet and toot and don't use them.
Personally, I would have preferred to retain "tweet" and "retweet" - two well…

"Does your #AI Agent need a Workflow Agent?"
Hilarious and informative episode of:
"In Bed With The Right: Episode 122 – Tech’s Vibe Shift and AI Discourse"
Episode webpage: https://rss.com/podc…

Episode 122 -- Tech's Vibe Shift and AI Discourse | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
A few months ago, as part of the research for his forthcoming book What Tech Calls Governing, Adrian took a drive down Highway 101 from San Francisco to Palo Alto and back. This episode is about what the billboards along that stretch of highway tell us about Silicon Valley, about our tech elites, and about how technology is remaking society (it's not in the way you think).If you'd like to buy Adrian's book, it's available for pre-order in the German edition only for now.If you'd like to check o…

Manage the Heat Maltese Style - Avoid your home overheating in summer by using your windows and blinds like the Maltese do on the Med! #BeatTheHeat - https://m.earth.org.uk/manage-the-heat

Manage the Heat Maltese Style
Avoid your home overheating in summer by using your windows and blinds like the Maltese do on the Med! #BeatTheHeat

🦇 Humans show bat-like skills using mouth-click echolocation
(... and where is the bat-man?)
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-humans-skills-mouth-click-echolocation.html

Humans show bat-like skills using mouth-click echolocation
It may sound like a scene from "Nosferatu," but research from the University of East Anglia shows that humans can use bat-like echolocation skills to judge the distance of objects. The new study reveals that, just like bats navigating in the dark, humans too can rely on the echoes of mouth clicks to gauge how far away objects are. While humans may not match the precision of these nocturnal navigators, the study, published in Experimental Brain Research, shows that with simple tools like mouth c…

Catching up on a few stray pods this morning:
🎧Career in Ruins - archaeology with Derek Pitman and Lawrence Shaw. I like the practical and career-focussed slant to this.
🎧Tides of History - er, history. I like the way Patrick Wyman weaves it into a personal story.
🎧Front Row - general cultural stuff that I can feel remote from in my day to day.
🎧Film Stories - Simon Brew is a great presenter and really draws you in to what went on behind the scenes of the films we all kn…

What will football look like in the future?

It’s what I believe since the beginning of the Iran bombardment.
Trump thought he could do like Venezuela. Quick change of power, put an ally in place, no occupying military force needed. Looks like a hero. That’s what he wants for Cuba too.
But now he’s in deep shit. Every day the war continues without a change of power, he looks like a loser. War is not popular and oil price is skyrocketing, the entire opposite of what the game plan was to get mid term votes.

Like the whole fart-shite about “make your own custom movies!” is a soup-to-deez-nutz power-fantasy wankery of tech bros who have a sad that they’re not as cool as “the creatives”.

Sometimes I like to use my evil powers for good :ablobcatangel:

I wonder if folks in the US realise that when folks elsewhere see a photo like this we see fascism.
Not proto-fascism, nor maybe fascism, not is-he-really-doing-a-Hitler-salute fascism but here-and-now, full-fat, entire-chested fascism. @…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell Williams:
🎵 Drop It Like It's Hot
#NowPlaying #SnoopDogg #PharrellWilliams
https://djraydomingo.bandcamp.com/track/snoop-dogg-pharrell-williams-drop-it-like-its-hot-x-aint-nothing-like-blend
https://open.spotify.com/track/1UubCpq26oWAtC4KxJFTNN

Function-oriented Make-like declarative workflows for R #rstats

GitHub - ropensci/targets: Function-oriented Make-like declarative workflows for R
Function-oriented Make-like declarative workflows for R - ropensci/targets

On the one hand, LLMs are planet-destroying bullshit machines, gaslighting our sense of reality by spewing an endless supply of hallucinations.
On the other hand, they can provide a brief yet overwhelmingly mild sense of satisfaction when you convince them to do something silly.
#LLMs #DonnieTurnip

This is an amazing thread, holy shit.
https://bsky.app/profile/eliothiggins.bsky.social/post/3mitbqzpvhk2x

Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social)
🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

Researchers: 5K web apps built using AI coding tools like Lovable, Base44, and Replit had little to no authentication, and ~40% of them exposed sensitive data (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/thousands-of-vibe-co…

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet.

my “Leather man” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions that I feel like are already answered by my last name

This seems like an appropriate soundtrack for tonight...
https://youtu.be/j3V1SKM0uVo

Southern California parents didn’t like the texts their teen daughter sent to boys;
They tortured her to death
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-06/socal-parents-tortured-their-teen-daughter-to-death

SoCal parents tortured their teen daughter to death over text messages
The parents were convicted last month of second-degree murder, torture and child abuse, among other criminal charges.

Israël probably won't like the idea of a two-week ceasefire as Pakistan has proposed to Iran and the USA 🤔, also a good time for Iran to recover a little, maybe import some weapons from Russia etcetera
#iran #usa #pakistan

This is m'y gaming account, you'll find content mostly in french, but I also share english youtube videos.
- Role player and dungeon master
- I like historical minis
- would like to wargame more but missing a partner
I blog about these matters at https://debellum.hirlimann.net

I need to find a job that lets me dress up like this guy from 3TEETH

Growing up in the 80s, my mom was a board member of a 2nd-wave feminist bookshop in Atlanta, so I thought all bookstores were queer-friendly, feminist spaces
As the funny fad of the Internet started to take off, I naturally assumed — for literally months, in the early 90s — that "Amazon" was an online lesbian separatist bookstore in the vein of the Whole Earth Catalog.
In retrospect, my imagined reality was SO MUCH BETTER than what we wound up with

why can't the mbta have dedicated bike cars on the green line and the commuter rail like this? is there an actual reason like platform length or something? https://www.reddit.com/r/transit/comments/wgri5b/light_rail_bike_car_stuttgart_germany/…

Put your name on your work and find like-minded people to share credit with. It is now on you to build not your brand, but the demonstration that you know what's going on.
It is going to be very hard to get a job by printing a list of skills at the top of your resume and hoping to get noticed. It already was and now it's worse than ever.
Be a person on the internet and by that I mean do not hide your person-hood. Your curiosity, your learning, your willingness to consider angles. Professional polish is something the clankers do better than us, because they are trained on all of us doing it.
If not putting your name on your learning, put a stable pseudonym out there. Be known by the work you do and even the mistakes you make and reconsider. Showing that your knowledge has _depth_ is now one of the most important things. We can all vibe up to a basic understanding. It's the people who can see where they went wrong, and course-correct that really are going to carry the day.
You no longer get to be perfect and only show what's finished and polished. And you're gonna have to show your work.

Reading the Israeli press is like reading nazi Germany's press.

There are a couple of good quotes in this blog post. Like
"The protocol fight is interesting the way medieval siege warfare is interesting — I'm glad someone's into it, but it has no bearing on my life."
https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fedi…

/2
Normally I don't like apps, but I make exceptions..

✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders
👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾
https://matthiasott.com/articles/webspace-invaders

Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott
There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking our servers wave after wave, systematically requesting page after page, relentlessly filling their data stores while we watch our access logs fill up.

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
https://www.wired.com/story/thousands-of-vibe-coded-apps-expose-corporate-and-personal-data-on-the-open-web/

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet.

Brazil prosecutors launch suit against meatpacking giant JBS over beef tied to slavery-like labor https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/brazil-prosecutors-launch-suit-against-meatpacking-gi…

Brazil prosecutors launch suit against meatpacking giant JBS over beef tied to slavery-like labor
SAO PAULO (AP) — Labor prosecutors in Brazil filed a lawsuit Wednesday against meatpacking giant JBS, accusing the company of buying cattle from farms where workers were held in slavery-like conditions. The civil action suit before a labor court in the northern Brazilian state of Para seeks nearly 119 million reais (about $24 million) in compensation, an […]

Even more Star Trek Adventures:
Every Star Trek episode with a Starfleet member on a Klingon ship: "I will impress the Klingons with how stoic, tough and warrior-like I can be!"
GM: "What is Kenna's last scene for this episode?"
Me: "Kenna came with a duffle bag filled to the brim. Now she rolls up her air mattress, the self-inflating kind, and she takes her pillow — one she crocheted herself — and goes to Lieutenant Lo'B's quarters.&quo…

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

by Ingrid Rice
https://www.instagram.com/iricecartoonist
https://caglecartoons.com/cartoon/307273…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Indigo De Souza:
🎵 Be Like the Water
#IndigoDeSouza
https://indigodesouza.bandcamp.com/track/be-like-the-water
https://open.spotify.com/track/0pAFmSSx6GO5FzMWAzSYfV

I think a lot about this tweet from like 16 years ago this gal posted who was an early mutual of mine on Twitter. She was like 'Girls, don't date rich guys. Get a job and make your own money so you can fuck poor, hot guys.'

The 100baseT1 decode benchmark is dropping below real time when I have a lot of traffic on the link. Do not want.
Sooo now to figure out how to either double the speed of the decode or steal some more time from something else along the critical path like the edge detector or CDR filters that I've spent a ton of time optimizing.
It looks like the workload scheduler might be a weak point here: the greedy algorithm makes the eye pattern run as soon as data is available, which ma…

A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, using tactics like memory manipulation via "Summarize with AI" buttons (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying
Companies like Google and OpenAI are leaning into AI-powered search tools. The SEO industry is responding with new tactics and tricks.

Free-agent LB Kyle Van Noy would 'really like' to play with Fred Warner, 49ers: 'They've got something cooking' https://www.nfl.com/news/free-agent-lb-kyle-van-noy-would-really-like-to-play-with-…

A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, via tactics like hiding instructions behind "Summarize with AI" buttons (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying
Companies like Google and OpenAI are leaning into AI-powered search tools. The SEO industry is responding with new tactics and tricks.

Maxx Crosby posts farewell to Raiders organization: 'I feel like I let y'all down' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7097626/2026/03/07/ravens-maxx-crosby-raiders-farewell/

When Tucker Carlson begins to sound like the voice of reason within the Republican party, you must flee your solar system immediately.

This all sounds like nitpicking, but the definition and meaning of words is important if we want to be able to talk about these things.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Heavy:
🎵 How You Like Me Now?
#TheHeavy
https://axelvicious.bandcamp.com/track/the-heavy-how-you-like-me-now-axel-vicious-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0kHwTHf8ye0mSd66pwcrEN

When I got in to tech, things felt fragile. After years of trying to fix things, I spent more years feeling as though the information apocalypse was immanent. Everywhere I turned, something was broken horribly. I can't even count the number of times I've just had to be like, "oh fuck. That's really bad. I knew it was bad, but like... oh fuck."
We have *all* had our identity stolen. I don't even know how many times my social security number has been in a data breach. How many of my medical records are on the market? But yeah, sure, let's accelerate that.
The problem was never that we couldn't find problems. The problem has always been "leadership" being unwilling to invest in fixing them. The problem has always been this mind-set of growth-at-any-cost.
I tuck these things away in my brain, and they sit there gnawing on my sanity, like little RFK worms.

Cuteness singularity

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/116362146726772749
Watch as MEPs start knocking back drinks with folks from Palantir at their favourite pubs around the parliament in the coming days. (Like they already do with lobbyists from Google, Microsoft, etc.)…

This is a showstopper for me.
There’s a whole Russian doll of concerns. The innermost one is stuff like “What is this actually good for?” and “What are effective strategies for using it if one does use it?” But on the outside are the showstoppers: astronomical power and water usage, grotesquely unethical training data sourcing, and the hideousness of the people who own all this and stand to gain.
I might actually have fun tinkering with that innermost nesting doll…maybe…but it’s hypothetical for me. First I have to get through all the many outer layers, and I’m already done and gone at the very outermost one.

How lidar and other tech developed for autonomous vehicles is now used in smart city systems, in-home elder care services, and major shipyards like Rotterdam (John R. Quain/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/business/autonomous-vehic…

After Stumbles, Technology Meant for Self-Driving Cars Finds a Second Act
After a crush of promises in 2016 that autonomous cars would soon rule the road, companies whose tech underpinned them have shifted to other industries, like managing shipyards and city traffic.

I felt a bit sad today as I saw makers I know posting things like "I had Claude write the code for me."
It may be due to my DIY roots, but I want to do as much (and learn as much) as possible in the creative process.
The idea of handing that off to AI does not entice me in the least.
#AI #FuckAI

It is not surprising that Israel and the USA bomb Iran like they bombed Gaza, not caring about collateral damage or civilian lives... They just want to completely destroy the country and don't care about what happens after that.
#usa #israel

Learn in public. Write and talk about what you learn. Discover it like archaeology even though it's barely six seconds old. Talk to the people who were there before you, and ask them what they were thinking,
Don't take for granted that people are oracles who will tell you what's good or not. That ship sailed long ago with everyone wanting us to make them an app and make them rich while they gave us only ideas and expected us to do the work.
Instead you have to want to learn and show that you're doing it, and be willing to make messes and mistakes and own them. Because if you're just vibing, you won't get it.

Since 2004,
René Redzepi has been rewriting the rules of fine dining,
preaching sustainable eating and
creating jewel-like plates that earned #Noma three Michelin stars
and landed it five times at No. 1 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants List.
For effectively transforming the nation into a culinary destination, Mr. Redzepi was knighted by the queen of Denmark.
🆘 Dozens of f…

At Noma, Accusations of Past Physical Abuse
Dozens of former employees say René Redzepi inflicted physical and psychological violence on the staff for years.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Barry Can’t Swim:
🎵 The Person You’d Like to Be
#BarryCantSwim
https://barrycantswim.bandcamp.com/album/the-person-you-d-like-to-be
https://open.spotify.com/track/7645Cs9rO3J1OD2O3CQ10P

Why extremely athletic tight ends like draft prospect Eli Stowers should welcome change to wide receiver

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-nfl-draft-ath…

As for other things, like looking up medical advice, "traditional" search engines on the Internet worked much better than any LLM to get you to trustworthy sources of information.

X overhauls its Creator Subscriptions with new features including exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, and a shareable subscriptions card (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/x-re

X revamps Creator Subscriptions with new features, like exclusive threads and shareable cards | TechCrunch
X is rolling out a series of new features for creators, like the ability to offer paid threads and other marketing tools.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Mary Hanson Scott:
🎵 Life Like Butterflies
#MaryHansonScott
https://maryhansonscott.bandcamp.com/track/life-like-butterflies
https://open.spotify.com/track/3sh9Ac4BGawKxcLFyQwCPM

I’m not sure what sets us up to have better LMSes, but I don’t think institutions building them in-house is a viable answer.
One long-successful direction I like that has been gaining ground of late is course-specific web sites. I’m cheering the rise of static site generators, and hoping they continue to creep outside the confines of the techiest among us. A course site is not an LMS, but moving course •content• mostly out of the LMS simplifies the problem considerably!
/end

OK so checking tracking it looks like the 4U case for the VM server is coming Tuesday, so is the power supply. The heatsink isn't due until Friday.
But I might re-case the box even with the existing heatsink when the PSU/case come in. It will let me swap some PCIe cards around, and hopefully improve thermals at least a bit with the larger fans and better airflow even before the big heatsink comes in.

Good explanation what Mythos is and what it's not, it did impressive things like finding a 27 year old bug in Open BSD. So please don't say that AI/LLMs can only reproduce their training data....A myth that won't go away. On the other hand Mythos still has many of the characteristics that make AI/LLMs problematic, it still makes mistakes, is not AGI or self-improving.

cheers
(I drink like two glasses of wine once every six months, no need to worry.)

Keep going back to this one. It's like, sludgy, synthy, grimy, catchy punk/post punk. This is JFK Ultra and their new single "Judge Judy Executioner" b/w "Classicide". Hope we get a full album: https://knifehitscollective.bandcamp.com/album/jfk-ultra

I don't feel like I need to translate this for Americans #USPol #NLPol

Canada’s left-leaning
New Democratic Party (NDP)
has elected a new leader,
someone whose campaign drew comparisons to the politics and style of U.S. figures like
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani.
On March 29, the NDP elected
Avi Lewis on the first round of balloting
with 55 percent of the vote in his first successful political campaign.
The NDP was decimated in the April 2025 federal election.
Former leader Jag…

In Echoes of Corbyn, Insurgent Candidate Wins Canadian Party Leadership
Avi Lewis now leads the New Democratic Party after a campaign reminiscent of left-leaning politicians in the US and UK.

OpenAI says GPT-5.4 produces presentations with stronger, more varied aesthetics and makes more effective use of its image generation tools (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/i-hope-you-like-spreadsheets-because-gpt-54-love…

I hope you like spreadsheets, because GPT-5.4 loves them
OpenAI is releasing a new model today, and like GPT-5.2 before it, GPT-5.4 is all about professional work.

I'm in this picture and I like it

I still wanna know what Neil Concelman did.
Like, I get that BNC isn't the best RF connector - it's big, bandwidth isnt great, they can be kinda floppy. But naming the connector after your desire to bayonet him seems a bit extreme.

Friends over the weekend tried making some brownies with a vegan egg substitute but no modifications to accommodate that. The oils separated completely and they got a weird sludge that became increasingly tar-like as it cooled. I referred to them as “vibe-coded brownies,” and everybody was just like “ha, yep”

X overhauls its Creator Subscriptions with new features including exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, and a shareable subscriptions card (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/x-re

X revamps Creator Subscriptions with new features, like exclusive threads and shareable cards | TechCrunch
X is rolling out a series of new features for creators, like the ability to offer paid threads and other marketing tools.

Trying to set up an AMD GPU test VM and it's absurdly slow. Like seconds per frame.
Debugging this will be interesting lol. The nvidia ones didn't do this

Has anybody used Coolify? Have experiences or impressions to share?
I’m looking for a way to do some low friction, lightly managed hosting of small department-internal stuff and student-made web sites / apps in a way that doesn’t get us too entangled with one vendor.
On the one hand, Coolify looks like it might offer some of the same benefits as Heroku, but without the lock-in (and impending platform death). On the other hand, it gives me strong “What exactly am I installing here?!” vibes.

Slop is not good, actually.
Literally the definition of the word slop is "content that is worthless".
It cannot be good—if it would be good, it wouldn't be worthless and then by definition it's not slop.
Now if you, for example, use LLMs to generate code that actually serves the function you want it to serve (let's say while prototyping something), it's not slop, but perhaps experimental or prototype code.
If it's something you generate for other people like for production code and it's not reviewed, then it's slop—it's worthless _even if it works_ because you don't know if it actually works and didn't take the care or responsibility required to make a work product.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fcukers:
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Sources: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro, which wants to sell updated versions of 1990s consoles like the Nintendo 64, is in talks to raise funding at a $1B valuation (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/77e330a5-8e59-4a36-b08b-c18010a2383b

Palmer Luckey’s $1bn pitch to reboot 1990s video game consoles
From AI weapons to Game Boys, defence tech billionaire is in talks to raise funds for new gaming venture ModRetro

By far the most vital coverage during that time came from @…, who spent those chaotic nights with all hell breaking loose just roving the streets, sticking a microphone in everyone’s face and live-streaming it.
It was some of the rare coverage that actually felt like the reality I was living through. And lots of us were glued to it in the wee hours, wondering what was happening out there, wondering •who• was out there and what they were thinking, wondering if our own families were in danger.
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Sources: Meta has an internal leaderboard dubbed "Claudeonomics" where employees compete on AI-token usage and earn rewards like "Token Legend" status (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-employees-vie…

Meta Employees Vie for AI ‘Token Legend’ Status
Employees at Meta Platforms who want to show off their AI superuser chops are competing on an internal leaderboard for status as a “Session Immortal”—or, even better, “Token Legend.” The rankings, set up by a Meta employee on its intranet using company data, measure how many tokens—the units of ...

A favorite dental assistant who long worked on my teeth once mentioned that she’d also had Pete Docter in her care at an orthodontia clinic when he was young, and she still vividly remembered his teeth — not in a good way or a bad way, just in a “she’s a professional and every set of teeth is unique” kind of way.
I thus feel a bizarre kinship with him, and cringe extra hard every time he puts his foot in his mouth like this, thus presumably undermining not only his reputation but also his orthodontic work.

X is rolling out worldwide automatic post translation powered by xAI's Grok models, and updates its iOS image editor to add tools like drawing and blurring (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/x-is-rolling-o…

X is rolling out automatic translation and photo editing powered by Grok | TechCrunch
New automatic translations and photo editing on X are powered by the company's flagship AI model.

A profile of Simile, which offers "agentic twins" modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research for companies like CVS and Gallup (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/can-ai-r…

Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5, its first model, which can control robotic hands that it designed in-house to do tasks like cooking (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/khosla-backed-…

Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows | TechCrunch
Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, but also a demo showcasing a set of robotic hands performing complex tasks.

Google is updating Gemini to add a UI that triggers support hotline referrals and a "help is available" module when chats indicate potential crises like suicide (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Waterloo-based Mappedin, which uses AI and LiDAR to create and maintain 3D digital maps of indoor spaces, raised $24.5M, bringing its total funding to $35M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/04/…

Exclusive: Mappedin raises $24.5M for indoor digital mapping
It helps create 3D digital maps of indoor environments like airports and stadiums.