Tootfinder

The Great Play on [any country]'s Inferiority Complex (markdown formatting is mine) ->
‘"President Trump pledged to put **America First**, and the administration is committed to using every lever of executive **power** to address this **crisis** and **restore** American **greatness**," [Kush Desai] added.’
US trade court blocks Trump's sweeping tariffs in blow to trade policies | BBC

U.S. automakers are choosing the path to extinction by sticking with fossil fuels & hybrids.
And U.S. policies that prop up internal combustion engines & attempt to discourage EV adoption will hasten their demise.
The world is going electric while they cling to bygone days.
https://b…

Subtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.

That shithead Palmer Luckey is considering making fully US-made laptops and wants to know if people would spend 20% more for an American made laptop. Sure, Palmer. But not for your racist ass. I'd never give you a cent https…

Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with fully US-made model, wants to know if you'd spend 20% more for an American-made PC
It seems Luckey's military technology startup is considering a product slightly different from its current portfolio.

Onze accountants in Nederland.....
"Volgens de Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM), die nauw met de Amerikaanse waakhond samenwerkte, hebben honderden medewerkers van Deloitte, PwC en EY vijf jaar lang gefraudeerd bij het maken van examens."
https://www.…

Accountantskantoren Deloitte, PwC en EY krijgen miljoenenboetes
Accountantskantoren Deloitte, PwC en EY zijn voor miljoenen beboet vanwege examenfraude. De Amerikaanse toezichthouder PCAOB heeft Deloitte en PwC een boete op van 3 miljoen dollar (zo'n 2,6 miljoen euro) en EY een boete van 2,5 miljoen dollar (ongeveer 2,15 miljoen euro) opgelegd.

The Florida field tomato — which the Trump administration wants us to eat more of by imposing a 21 percent tariff on most Mexican tomatoes starting July 14.
The tariff represents a double insult to consumers,
assaulting both our taste buds and our pocketbooks.
Trump has told us to make do with fewer (and more expensive) imported pencils and dolls for the greater good of bringing manufacturing back to America.
Fine. But tomatoes?
The last thing American consumers …

Opinion | How Has a Food This Bad Survived the American Market for So Long?
The last thing American consumers need is a revitalization of Florida’s withering tomato industry.

Distributed Interview Selection for Stable Matching in Large Random Markets
Richard Cole, Pranav Jangir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19345 https://

Distributed Interview Selection for Stable Matching in Large Random Markets
In real-world settings of the Deferred Acceptance stable matching algorithm, such as the American medical residency match (NRMP), school choice programs, and various national university entrance systems, candidates need to decide which programs to list. In many of these settings there is an initial phase of interviews or information gathering which affect the preferences on one or both sides. We ask: which interviews should candidates seek? We study this question in a model, introduced by Lee (…

Troops in Los Angeles marked a dramatic new turn in the Trump authoritarian rollout. Yet American protesters are making the turn towards a national mobilization in defense of freedom and democracy.
http://woborders.blog/2025/06/13/resistance-to-trump-reac…

Resistance to Trump reaches its first turning point
“The Whole World Is Watching.” It’s been decades since American protesters chanted this sentence at American police in an effort to deter violence and brutality. But it has perhaps neve…

I really enjoy painting this flag all over my workbench, it’s the best anarchist flag I’ve done so far.
#Anarchy #Anarchism #Syndicalism

Asset control and power in America is centered among old people with lots of assets.
And they associate protecting the stock market with protecting America.
The “number go up” rule is not a story of greed or economics,
it’s a story of how we make decisions as a society.
Take the pandemic.
Some of you might remember that right before Covid hit in force, I was freaking out. I pay attention to China, and it wasn’t hard to imagine that a contagious disease would…

The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything
In the Booming Twenties, all decision-making is about protecting the value of financial assets held by older people. Therefore, the number must go up. And nothing else matters.