Tootfinder

Kid wants to go to the park so I can't set up my new toy until later, but it's here. Look how cute!

Out of curiosity I fired up Twitter to see how GAAD was going over there, and the very first thing I saw was a 7-tweet image thread from BrowserStack with no alt text on the images.
So two lessons learned:
1. BrowserStack chooses to stay on MechaHitler’s CSAM-generating site, and
2. BrowserStack is bad at performative acts.
Oh look, TinyMCE too!

Another way of addressing the question of what the path back to the EU might look like is to ensure that the EU is swallowed up from the east
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy42x3g7r89o

UK waters down new Russian oil sanctions as fuel prices rise
The change reflects increasing supply concerns over certain fuels due to the effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Scene - walking down the sidewalk in front of a bunch of brick apartment buildings w/ my wife, kids, & MIL.
me: *notices new scaffolding and turns around to look up at the building*
me [muttering to myself]: "ah, looks like they're repairing the [brick] lintels.."
9yo: *pats me on the back and rotates me back around*
9yo [in a very patient voice]: "c'mon let's keep it moving"

If there was ever any question if 300lb Fat Putin had lost all sense of reality...
From: @…
https://www.threads.com/@newrepublic/post/DYhx7uOFHKw…

The New Republic (@newrepublic) on Threads
At the press conference, Trump picked up a poster-board mockup of the ballroom and began to ramble. “It’s so beautiful,” Trump said, holding the mockup. “See, I look so thin. They’ll say, ‘Oh, he’s gotten so thin.’ It’s because I’m holding this." https://trib.al/OysWLVr

Just finished "Snake-Eater" by T. Kingfisher (@…). I'd read and thoroughly enjoyed her "Digger" webcomic, and found this book to be quite enjoyable too. There's something indelibly heartwarming about an anxious character growing to feel more comfortable and self-assured, especially when escaping and unlearning emotional abuse, and I'm certainly a sucker for heartwarming characters. I like the way that Kingfisher has taken time to talk about and try to avoid cultural appropriation, in a way that I feel is reasonable, although of course I'm not an expert judge of the nuances and I'm biased by having liked the book, so I'm willing to be told things are complicated in that regard it others judge differently. I also really liked the window dressing of a vaguely solarpunk future society, in a book that's not at all about that society. I'd love to see Kingfisher write something focused on how that society could work (or maybe she already has?).
Probably going to look up some of Kingfisher's fantasy books soon.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

My copy of #DigitalAccessibilityEthics showed up! I spent my fika ego-surfing my own chapter.
Look at all those real, verified, not hallucinated citations! That’s more than you’ll see in some think-pieces or government reports or research studies!
You deserve well-sourced content. Treat yourself.

A look at Business Insider's shift from aggregation and toward scoops under EIC Jamie Heller; original content now makes up 80% of output, up from 40% in 2024 (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/business-insiders-big-bet-against-agg…

Senator Susan Collins of Maine said in a new interview that she did not “regret” her vote to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018
but was “disappointed” that he later helped overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
“I do not regret that vote,” Ms. Collins, widely seen as the most vulnerable Republican senator up for re-election this year,
said when asked about the episode by News Center Maine.
“I do disagree with Justice Kavanaugh’s…

Susan Collins Laments Roe’s Fall but Doesn’t ‘Regret’ Confirming Kavanaugh
Ms. Collins, a Republican in Maine facing a tough re-election battle, defended her vote to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh as Democrats look to capitalize on it politically.

Sparky summing up the weekend. I could really use some sun and warmth to work up a bit of vroom. #catsofmastodon

When the housing is 100% adorable.
(“Happy Home” by Timur Fork, in Osaka, Japan as photographed for Hi Fructose magazine issue 75)

3 Points: Tyler Smith in rare company with early success https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/3-points-tyler-smith-in-rare-company-with-early-success

You too can look *and feel* this cool for the low, low price of $29.99

A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026…

A Peter Thiel-backed startup makes a surprising bet: Putting reporters in statehouses
State Affairs combines media and technology at a time when tensions between the two industries are at a fever pitch.

The thesis I was reading spent the majority of it's time focused on John Boyd's OODA loop as a tool for critical analysis in high pressure or constrained situations. Table top exercises could also benefit from using these steps to slow down the thought process, expose what's actually happening, and sharpen these tools.
So each step could start by observing (which is generally what the GM will tell you, but you may ask additional questions to refine observational thinking). What do you look for in any given situation? How do you gather data? What sources do you use?
Next you would orient. Talk through this out loud. What does that data mean? How this fit what you already know, or does it challenge your assumptions? Are you observing something related to a previous action? What does that tell you about your previous action or actions? How do you turn the data you observed into intelligence you can act on? How do your observations narrow the options for the next possible action?
Then you decide your action. But you're not simply deciding, you're coming up with a hypothesis that your action will test. Anything you do is an opportunity to learn something about the world, about your situation, about the accuracy of the model you're using to make decisions. What belief does your next action imply? How will you know if that action was correct or incorrect? What observations would challenge your hypothesis? What observations would confirm it? Are those mutually exclusive, or are there additional observations or actions you must make to clarify things?
Then act. Finish your turn by choosing your action or actions (individually or collectively). Perhaps take a moment to write down notes, like what your observations, your hypothesis, and if you think your previous hypothesis was confirmed or refuted. You can review these all later to refine your thinking.
By exploring these ideas in a safe environment, you can train your brain to run through the process at high speed when under pressure. This helps you avoid panic. It's a lot like slowly practicing marshal arts moves until they become muscle memory, which then just happen without thought when needed.

My latest article for Inquirer.net is now up and I took a look at the English Wikipedia article on the recent 7.8M 2026 Mindanao earthquake.
https://technology.inquirer.net/147392/diving-deep-into-an-earthquake-wikipedia-article
(Inqui…

Diving deep into an earthquake Wikipedia article
At 7:37 a.m. of June 8, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sarangani province. Ten minutes later, a Wikipedia editor with the username Dora the Axe-plorer created a

Had to get rid of some ants in the garden. My daughter was not pleased about this deathly maneuver but accepted it if we also set up grave stones for the ant’s memorial!
So if you need some crafts gravestones you know where to look for!
#RIP Ants

In this weeks round up of Asian tech we look at the woes afflicting India’s mighty technology sector, inconclusive outcomes at the Trump-Xi meeting over AI chips and rare earths, and SK Hynix’s expectations of joining the trillion-dollar club.

India’s tech juggernaut hits a wall - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the woes afflicting India’s mighty technology sector, inconclusive outcomes at ...

Oh! #FootpathFriday
One photo from the ruin of the castle #neideck which we visited.
I like castles and ruins not just for their look but because they offer a huge amount of information and history!
Well happy weekend! And happy reading

Isn't it weird how viaducts look so cool from a distance, but it's hard to see how cool it is when you're on top of one? Something something metaphor for life.
(This post brought to you by a train journey up the east coast of Scotland)

A follow up here on action items (assuming you’re already using trusted publishers OIDC to scope releases to a single GitHub Action workflow):
1. Look for any `pull_request_target` GitHub Actions workflows! (this allows external forks/code to run your actions with write access ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️)
2. Look for use of `cache` in your GitHub Actions release workflow (cache was poisoned/compromised by `pull_request_target` trigger)
Learn more about `pull_request_target`:

Fuckin' bike shop hours, man. Kids were up my butt all day, I finally get a few mins to look at the bike.. and I'm gonna need to get a bike shop to unseize the quick release skewer from the hub. But of course the bike shops all closed 15 mins ago at 5pm..

Last week, Dutch electricity transmission system operator TenneT published the yearly update on security of supply. It doesn't look good, with more hours of shortages coming up as soon as 2030. More dispatchable (gas) power plants would be needed to prevent that.
But..

ohhh look who just woke up and came to say hi

Ok. I have to accept that I have a problem. Despite a massive cull a few months ago, my current Firefox tab count, across 4 windows, has crept up to 2020. This madness has to stop. Problem is that for each one I want to close, I have to load it and look at it to make sure I can handle letting it go. I may be some time. Wonder where this activity would fall with regard to our national 'GDP'.

3 Points: Tyler Smith in rare company with early success https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/3-points-tyler-smith-in-rare-company-with-early-success

@… I never heard of omarchy, I suspect that I shouldn't look it up :-)

A look at Specs, which have a battery life of up to four hours per charge, and an interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel about the AR glasses (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91559773/snap-specs-2026-ar-glasses-evan-spiegel

Oh, look, it’s a dickhead.
Hey, dickhead, how goes?
Being a dickhead, you probably don’t care that Palestinians are blocked from setting up fundraisers for themselves as part of the West’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide. But hey, facts don’t care that you’re a dickhead so it’s still true.
If I could GoFundMe you a fucking conscience, I would.
Dickhead. @npub1k06ctulq8rcaen067tt6z3y6gxrqtsuje5em5lcn009zfpp0t7gqf0zyu9@momostr.pink

Virginia’s new House map is dead.
Democrats think they can still flip these seats.

Republicans won the redistricting war in Virginia, but several lawmakers remain vulnerable.


Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Virginia) says his party has a chance to pick up one or two U.S. House seats in Virginia in November.

Even after a Supreme Court ruling on Friday put a final stop to Democratic efforts to redraw Virginia’s congressional maps,
the state will remain central to the part…

Virginia’s new House map is dead. Democrats think they can still flip these seats.
Republicans won the redistricting war in Virginia, but several lawmakers remain vulnerable.

Jonah Laulu and Atonio Mafi visit Australia and New Zealand https://www.raiders.com/news/jonah-laulu-and-atonio-mafi-visit-australia-and-new-zealand-2026-offseason

Look I'm mostly not saying coding agents are good or bad (they're both, it's too complex to sum up as one or the other, and even on net, that's tough) but it sure is interesting how the really bad economics of so many parts of the tech industry are shaken up by it and definitely not all for the worse.

@… planesona fursuit https://www.instagram.com/p/DZQsWwxxzVa/

Poe Productions / CFStudios on Instagram: "Look up in the sky! It's a plane! It's a fursuit! IT'S A PLANE FURSUIT?!? ✈️ Strafe is one of the COOLEST suits we've ever made! 💥 He's an F-14 Tomcat jet with glowing eyes, huge claws, muscle padding, big wings, tons of minky details, plush engines, AND detachable missiles! 🤯 This was a DREAM project and we're so happy to bring him to life! Follow @spiritbomber9 for ALL THE GOOD STUFF! #fursuit #fursuitmaker #furryart #furryfandom #furryart furryartist planefursuit furries plane fighterjet f14tomcat"
9,461 likes, 96 comments - p0e_productions on June 6, 2026: "Look up in the sky! It's a plane! It's a fursuit! IT'S A PLANE FURSUIT?!? ✈️ Strafe is one of the COOLEST suits we've ever made! 💥 He's an F-14 Tomcat jet with glowing eyes, huge claws, muscle padding, big wings, tons of minky details, plush engines, AND detachable missiles! 🤯 This was a DREAM project and we're so happy to bring him to life! Follow @spiritbomber9 for ALL THE GOOD STUFF! #fursuit #fursuitmaker #furryart #…

#teapots ! I think this might be the last of my loft pottery; these are all for sets where we've found other pieces of. Heck, we've got an entire table and a few boxes of recovered pottery from up there.

RE: https://chaos.social/@janbeta/116669616394146155
Saying this over and over again: if you have an audience please speak up so the people who look up to you know they’re not alone and encourage them to speak up as well.
You might lose a few assholes on the way, which is good actually.

Alright, finally done with the important bits. Got the scenes finished up for the most part, just gonna give up on chat. However, routing looks good as do the levels. Even the CRT line effect turned out pretty well though it's not gonna be exact. However, it does strongly resemble my JVC and I'd rather have that look on stream instead of the crunchiest/crispiest pixels possible.
#streaming

Does anybody know if #boing_boing dot net has gone belly up? Doesn’t seem to have been updated since June 9 when I look at it.

Ohoho what is that I hear behindst me, mayhaps I TWIMST aroumd and take an peep for mineself

After giving up on every DMARC service I trialed I gotta say just passing the stuff - after summarization - into Claude and asking it to tell me interesting things wins by any measure.
> 2026-05-11 had an unusual Fastmail-direct spike (17 msgs vs the daily 1–2 baseline) — worth a quick look if you weren't expecting that volume of personal mail.

I guess that if you look up too many things (prices, dimensions) on the hardware store's website, they think you're a bot and softblock for a day.
If you go to the store, they might not have the thing in stock, but "you can look it up online".

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

This is the most accurate and funniest review of Buc-ees I've ever seen. And if you don't know what Buc-ees is, look it up.
(By https://www.instagram.com/Erosbrousson)

A look at State Affairs, whose statehouse coverage is used to train LLMs powering a Bloomberg Terminal-like product; it's raised $70M and has 76 editorial staff (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

A Peter Thiel-backed startup makes a surprising bet: Putting reporters in statehouses
State Affairs combines media and technology at a time when tensions between the two industries are at a fever pitch.

If you want to see how the costs of high fuel prices are adding up for Americans, look to local media (Allison Fisher/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fuel-files-rising-gasoline-oil-and-fertilizer-prices/if-you-want-see-how-costs-high-fuel-prices-are
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p70#a260512p70

Newly-ecolosed male chalcid wasp (Eurytoma sp.) using its forelegs to remove the pupal sheath from one of its antennae. The long setae on each flagellomere will fluff up to give the antennae a bottle-brush look. From eastern redbud seeds. #wasp #chalcidoidea #hymenoptera #eurytoma #insects #nature #entomology #macro

If you're a #Nationwide bank customer / member in the UK you might want to have a look at this for our current voting options:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/…

Nationwide could have first customer on board for nearly 25 years
James Sherwin-Smith will be up for election after securing more than 250 nominations to run alongside existing directors

As I listen to the Revolutions podcast mini series on 1848, it's hard not to fixate in the ways in which the Liberal obsession with nationalism and national borders planted the seed for the genocides that followed. Liberals are still confused by why genocide is a persistent problem, as though liberalism itself should have fixed it. "We must establish more liberal institutions," they believe, "like the ICC, so that we can hold people accountable."
But genocide is simply a property of nations and borders. Nations have always be arbitrarily drawn and diverse groups of people have always lived together. I grew up with the balkanization of post-soviet Russia and post colonial Wars in Africa. Conservatives (that is, classical Liberals) would talk about how these people were simply uncivilized or somehow genetically predisposed to conflict. But the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides were similar to the Liberal violence implicit in nationalism from the beginning. The Bosnian Genocide was quite specifically a product of the Liberal nationalism of 1848.
There are still people in the world whose culture is defined by migration. These cultures do not recognize the legitimacy of borders because borders make their culture impossible. The very existence of these lines, and their necessary enforcement, is genocidal to pastoralists and other migratory people.
You literally cannot have borders and not be committing genocide. Concepts of national identity just add to the genocidal push, targeting ethnic minorities. Ethnicities defined by not having a nation of their own, such as Roma and non-zionist Jews, are, like pastoralists, permanently threatened by these imaginary lines.
And now, people look at the genocide ICE is carrying out, at the terror and murder, and they blame Trump. But Trump is simply the avatar of forces far beyond his comprehension.
Every liberal needs to look at their beliefs and realize that these murderous policies are implicit in the very concept of a nation.

OK, this is a pretty damned cool instrument I’d never heard of.
It also made me look up when Mozart was born, because for some reason I don’t think of his lifetime and Franklin crossing for some reason.
https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/116732747110000857

Kinda' amazing that you can type this in and get a full, good (yes, I checked) summary of all the goings-on, far better than anything I can find in my (US) newspapers.

I must need to look up the definition of a "good deal."
Go home #discogs, you're drunk.
#vinyl #music

Hey Friends, an update on my condition. I am doing much much much better! Healing is going to take some time but I am grateful that 5 months of debilitating pain seems to be gone.
This has been one of the worst years of my life. I am thankful to my friends, family, and employer for being there for me when I needed help.
If you are in pain please look into relief, advocate for yourself, and do not give up until you have answers and (hopefully) solutions.

This is the Pain (Post-Op Week 1)
Finally, relief!

An HST Wide-field Survey of the #GalacticBulge - Overview, Strategy, and First Results: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae53e8 -> Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2026/news-2026-201

Interesting look at state of the art performance wireless.
But goddamn—$2500USD for the body pack only!

“The technology always needed to catch up in a sonic sense. The opinion was always that it never sounded as good as a cable and would not be adopted”: How Radiohead were finally convinced to embrace wireless guitar and mic tech for their most recent shows
“We brought it into Jonny Greenwood’s studio and did some blind tests. We all listened and even the most cynical guitar techs were impressed!”

It's summer holiday time and we're back on the train, this time in 5 changes from Copenhagen to Amsterdam via Hamburg - so far (🤞) mostly on time. I'm astonished too. So let's try not to curse it.
I had planned board games, reading books, having a picnic and photo sorting for this trip. But work is unfinished and since leaving at 6am I've managed to finish two reports, clear some emails and now it's time to look at budgets.
Annoying to work on holiday but everyone else is on a screen too and at least this way I can catch up.
#LifeOfAscientist #FlyingLess

Science! 💙
PS: Also look at the rainbow pictures further up in the thread, they are stunning.
https://old.mermaid.town/@futzle/116880820148190019

X really twisted us to think that followers and engagement mean something. More people look at posts without interacting on these new social media platforms. We aren’t chasing an algorithm for engagement. Don’t give up.

Full circle happening to my developer career right now, friends!
#Swift now has a disambiguating PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM! (and no, I did not look up how to spell that; it is burned into my mind from #PHP 25 years ago)

Last day of vacation! We just did a small walk to our local hill. The clouds in the south look pretty grey, while it looked nice in the north.
We have a relaxing day today, a real #silentsunday.
#hiking

😱
I had to look up "Langley HWDC" first to make sure that this isn't a veiled threat by the CIA.

2027 NFL mock draft: Arch Manning first of four QBs taken in Round 1, five WRs come off the board

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2027-nfl-mock-draft-arch-manning-dant…

Ik realiseer me ineens dat 1GB aan data ook gewoon een erg groot getal is

Jonah Laulu and Atonio Mafi visit Australia and New Zealand https://www.raiders.com/news/jonah-laulu-and-atonio-mafi-visit-australia-and-new-zealand-2026-offseason

Microsoft overhauled Copilot's design in Microsoft 365 with a minimalist black-and-white, text-focused interface aimed at creating a more consistent experience (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2183246/microsoft-debuts-a-more-b…

Microsoft debuts a more buttoned-up look for Copilot - Engadget
Copilot will look a little more consistent, and lose a little personality

Primaries are tomorrow, #Tennessee!
(Please don’t DM me if your voter registration is messed up, images are from a third-party social post)
#TN #Vote

Need to look up the pros and cons of moving my Bluesky account to Eurosky 👀

Small actions are adding up this week.
Solar plus batteries and EVs are already outcompeting gas and oil across Asia, guiding utilities toward cheaper, cleaner tech.
ICE and ERT launched GreenTrace to standardize carbon credit tracking, improving market transparency.
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Why does Canada’s $20 bill look like it has a scene from a horror flick on it?

Quiz time! When did Apple start developing Firewire? Don’t look it up, put best guess in a reply!
(Posting solution later.)

I was biking near the queens zoo today, and adjusting the pedal-assist all the way up to 4 (which I never do). Thinking to myself, "Jesus fuck, is this headwind really that strong or is this heat just making me weak?"
I look over at the sidewalk, and someone is walking backwards to deal with the wind. "Oh, it's actually the headwind."
#BikeTooter

Ohhhhhhh shit! Glad to see Radio Free Society back on the air!!!
https://masto.hackers.town/@X00001/116499629037679219

Radio Free Society 🗼 🏳️‍🌈 (@X00001@masto.hackers.town)
Attached: 1 image 🚨 May Day! May Day! 🚨 Look Alive, Chooms! This is a re #introduction! The Radio Wave Girl is back in the bunker! You thought I'd be gone forever but only for a little while. A pack of radioactive replyguys couldn't keep me away from the hot mic! Our format is going to change a little bit. (Trying to stay away from those radioactive replyguys, tbh) We're going to focus a little more on music this time around. So sit back, pour yourself your stimulant of choice, and tu…

This week: the big tech backlash to Australia’s revived attempts to get them to support local news organisations; visitors paying up to $9,000 for a look around Chinese robotics and EV companies; and mixed reception for proposed social media bans in Malaysia and Japan.

Meta hits out at Australia’s ‘news tax’ – Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the big tech backlash to Australia’s revived attempts to get ...

This post is not a provocation so much as a report-back from the fragmented thinking that has bubbled up around my research
and the thousand-odd hours I've put into information mutual aid work over the course of this year.
And it’s also a look forward
—not at our future, which I refuse to try to predict,
but at some paths I think we might want to explore.
-- Erin Kissane
@…

Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end of a fjord—a narrow inlet carved by a glacier.

Cowboys Weekend Headlines: Flournoy cooks, Pickens booked, a FA look https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/13/cowboys-weekend-headlines-june-13-2026/90534040007/

Two observations:
- WiFi is notably slower over the German border
- Cloud storage and working in the cloud is a pain.
#LifeOfAscientist #FlyingLess

Holy frijoles... Infinity Ward ain't playin' around: They're goin' straight at NORTH KOREA & the Korean DMZ! 😬
Buckle up, buttercups... coming October 23, 2026!
▶️ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | DMZ First Look | XBOX Games Showcase 2026
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yl7TOzNE…

I adjusted my position on the bed ever so slightly and she became sabotabby

A look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in the past year, including a top-tier RL environment and compute ramp that could catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/the-future-of-meta-superintelligence…

The Future of Meta Superintelligence: A 1 Year Progress Update
A top tier RL environment startup spawns out of thin air, the most aggressive compute ramp we've ever seen, 2000km+ scale-across, and some advice for Google DeepMind

DJ Glaze looks to level up in Kubiak's offense https://www.raiders.com/news/dj-glaze-looks-to-level-up-in-klint-kubiak-new-offense-2026-otas

A look at AI startup Versus, which gives viewers interactive experiences like games and trivia on second screens to play along with TV programs or other content (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/streamers-churn-emerging-ai-startup-…

As Top Streamers Battle Churn, Emerging AI Start-Up Versus Offers Ways To Hold On To Viewers
As churn continues to bedevil top streamers, emerging firm Versus has used AI to help Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+ and others keep viewers in the fold.

I have zero affection for the white house (that's the place GWB and Reagan and Nixon shitted up, yes?), so I don't particularly care how silly Trump has made it look. I might even welcome it.

There was a time when creating massive amounts of code would have been valuable. There was a time when lowering the bar for creating software would have been beneficial. But today we are inundated with garbage apps, written too quickly and never maintained, half-working libraries, projects someone took up once and abandoned (I have several), and grift startups just waiting to be acquired and "fixed."
#LLM code generation is a pestilence. We don't need more code owned by people who know less, we need less code managed by people who know more. It's literally the opposite of everything we want. Oh, but it will be easier for infosec to find bugs so it's fine, right? I've found critical bugs that never get fixed (I think one of mine is like 7 years old now).
There are a lot of bugs that just can't be fixed because there are no systems to fix them. Go on Shodan and look for ATGs. There are thousands of them. I'm betting that most of those are not honeypots. It may be possible to blow up a bunch of gas stations with a for loop, but, yeah, we need #AI to find some more bugs.
https://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/fuel-tank-monitoring-systems-vulnerable-disruption

My family is seated in the back corner of Meet Up Chinese,
and the slender, shiny robot is standing right next to me,
its metal knees slightly bent to stay balanced,
its fingers seeming to nervously twitch.
It has no eyeballs on its tiny head,
but that flashing blue strip is certainly staring me down.
There’s no discernible mouth,
but its friendly, cartoonish voice is suggesting we order the restaurant’s “zesty” orange chicken
or, if we like sp…

Small actions are adding up this week.
Three home energy providers offered 17 GW of virtual power plant capacity to U.S. utilities, cutting costs by linking home batteries.
Kenya launched a national plan to restore mangroves and seagrasses through 2035.
A community forest project in the DRC slowed deforestation while supporting displaced families.
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Meow*
*look into my eyes

Have just started using Ente for secure, privacy focused photo back up and organisation.
So far I am actually pretty impressed. It's lightning fast and very easy to navigate - and I have tens of thousands of photos that it's definitely helping me to organise and search through easily. And share with non-Ente users too.
It's miles better than Flickr as a UI experience.
This is a test period before I decide if I migrate rest of family too.
However, I was under the impression the company was German/Dutch but it unfortunately appears to be US incorporated - even though the servers are supposed to be in NL, F and DE. It just makes me very suspicious that at some point the company will be sold off and the creeping enshittification will start again.
It is very frustrating. I could but am not very keen to self host. I have far too many other things going on in my life for that. But it does look like immich or memories for nextcloud is the only other good option. And this probably epitomises why most people just stick with (mostly US) big tech. It is so much easier and less effort than working out what the alternatives are.

Aryon Security, whose platform lets companies set security strategy, which it translates into enforceable policies that can't be ignored, raised a $29M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/06/1…

Exclusive: Cloud security provider Aryon Security locks up $29M
Aryon could look to raise again in a year.

DJ Glaze looks to level up in Kubiak's offense https://www.raiders.com/news/dj-glaze-looks-to-level-up-in-klint-kubiak-new-offense-2026-otas

Exclusive: Josh Butler Gets Real on Cowboys’ New-Look Defense https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/josh-butler-gets-real-new-look-defense/

A Closer Look at Raiders' EDGE Room Opposite Crosby https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-closer-look-edge-room-opposite-crosby

A look at whether David Ellison and Paramount would sell CNN in order to get approval of the WBD acquisition from regulators like California AG Rob Bonta (Matthew Belloni/Puck)
https://puck.news/would-the-ellisons-give-up-cnn-to-close-warnermount/

I had an interesting chat with a friend who mentioned a book called "The Living Company." Apparently Shell was one of the few companies that saw the 1970's oil crisis coming and was able to adapt. They did it by talking to a bunch of people randomly about the future, identifying patterns, and coming up with possible future scenarios. They then formed clear plans for these future scenarios, where those plans would cover as many related scenarios as possible.
This was actually really familiar to me, though I hadn't read the book, because that's very close to what the Seattle GDC disaster prep committee did. We identified possible disaster scenarios, then identified preparedness steps that served multiple purposes. We got boxes of n95 masks in 2018 and 2019 for wildfire smoke and did a bit of work building box-fan air purifiers. Over the years we handed out these masks to houseless folks who were most exposed to the smoke. When the pandemic hit, we were able to take some of those boxes to first responders just as manufacturing in China dropped because of their lockdowns and as others started PPE hoarding. We focused on N95 because that was one of the overlap points between the unexpected but catastrophic "flu pandemic" that we knew was possible, and the regular "wildfire smoke" problem we were just getting used to.
The book sounds like it's at least partially influenced by cybernetics. There's this Dutch cybernetics connection that I haven't quite figured out. Anyway, this guy talked about how a company needs to be sustainable and all that. My dude, you worked for an oil company. That is categorically not sustainable. All this aside, I think there are a lot of things we can and should take from capitalists (or take back, in some cases). This practice is one of them.
So maybe get together with friends and talk about what you think might happen. We live in a world of crisis, so I'll always recommend disaster preparedness. But there's more than that.
What do you think will happen in the next 5 years?
Assuming that happens, what actions would you take to push that towards the most positive outcome?
I'm listening to Revolutions and reminded of how much effort monarchies put in to preventing revolutions. Corporations can be even more advanced in their planning and preemption. What would it look like if we planned like that?

A Closer Look at Raiders' EDGE Room Opposite Crosby https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-closer-look-edge-room-opposite-crosby

We are at war.
Gas prices are climbing above $5 per gallon across much of the country.
The political apparatus of the country is rife with division, infighting, and bureaucratic chaos that threatens to further upset 250 years of historical precedent. 
But look at Marco Rubio over there, getting his groove on.
DJ at a wedding! What a lovely time.
The secretary of state was pictured this weekend behind the turntables at a family wedding queuing up Calvin Harris’ …

Trump and His Cronies Are Partying as the World Burns
Donald Trump hosted a golf tournament at his private club and Marco Rubio played music and fist-pumped over the weekend amid the Iran war.

Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer Puts Infamous ‘Animal Invasion’ House Up For Sale https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-infamous-animal-invasion-house-up-for-sale

Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer Puts Infamous ‘Animal Invasion’ House Up For Sale https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-infamous-animal-invasion-house-up-for-sale

2026 NFL Draft Odds: Who Will Make Up the Top 15 Picks? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-draft-odds-who-will-make-up-top-15-picks