Tootfinder

You don’t get to opt out of politics.
Not really.
Because while you’re
“too busy” or “too cool” or “too disillusioned” to vote,
someone else is voting.
And if that someone wants to ban books, force pregnancies, erase history, gut healthcare, or unleash the police state, guess what?

Boundless, which bought crowdfunding publisher Unbound in March, tells authors that royalties accrued before March won't be paid until Boundless is cash stable (The Bookseller)
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound…

@… @… The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in thi…

Browns' Joe Flacco to showcase work ethic through QB battle: Being mentor is 'not the main focus' https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-joe-flacco-to-showcase-work-ethic-in-qb-battle-being-mentor-is-not-the-main-foc…

Encryption Is Not a Crime - Privacy Guides
Contrary to what some policymakers seem to believe, whether naively or maliciously, encryption is not a crime. Anyone asserting encryption is a tool for crime is either painfully misinformed or is attempting to manipulate legislators to gain oppressive power over the people. Encryption is not a crime, encryption is a shield.
🔑

Something here touching on people modelling systems based on a simplified abstraction. (aka why seemingly simple government processes are surprisingly expensive to run.)
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e11-your-model-is-naive-and-its-not-the/…

uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.

Flock Decides Not to Use Hacked Data in People Search Tool https://www.404media.co/flock-decides-not-to-use-hacked-data-in-people-search-tool/

Ninth Circuit Court ruled that the First Amendment does not guarantee this spa’s right to turn away trans women.
The Spa’s Anti-Trans Ban is Not Protected By the First Amendment
Suck on that, Justice Alito!
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/ninth-c…

Mehr bezahlbaren, barrierefreien Wohnraum und neue Wohnformen für ältere Menschen
#Wohnen #Senioren

First crack at the SFP28 breakout/carrier module. Power and I2C are carried by the PicoBlade connector, high speed over the ARF6.
Single 4-40 mounting screw in the back for attaching to a standoff in the chassis, front side will be held by the front panel.

TL;DR Amazon's SES in sandbox mode only sends to validated addresses and identities defined in the configuration.
https://winkelwagen.de/2025/05/29/aws-ses-message-rejected-email-address-is-not-verified/

People keep yapping to me at work while I wear my earplugs (them not realizing I have earplugs in) so I got earmuffs instead so people can more easily see that I might not hear them well (also means I can leave my house keys in my locker at the office).
Also some different filters (a bit less dampening and less damping on the higher-ends) for my earplugs (that I mostly use for driving my car n stuff).

Occasionally, just occasionally when cycling around I encounter someone who is actively angry about the unicycle, penny farthing or (now) the tallbike.
I have no idea why but some old angry guy was shouting at me today. I ignored him and did not engage. Best not to, I think. 🤷

@… @… Definitely. I remarked on “healthy” food recently to a friend and he corrected me. “The food is nutritious, not healthy. A person is healthy, and not just because they eat nutritious food.”
I like t…

@…
"2FA Liberapay does not yet support two-factor authentication."
When!? 🤦
#LiberaPay #Privacy

Hot take about #StarWars #Andor:
1️⃣ It requires the viewer to pay attn to, remember & think about the story's subplots & not be an ADHD idiot
2️⃣ It makes the narrative familiar but also takes it very seriously
3️⃣ It uses the SW universe exclusively to tell a story, not t…

Bevan M. French (1937-2025) :: Meteoritical Society
Bevan worked on impact science "at a time when impacts on the Earth were not considered mainstream – or even possible." #geology
https://meteo…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14485 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_…

#WordWeavers 30. What’s the worst betrayal your MC has experienced?
That's a major plot twist I am not comfortable giving up. He's a soldier in a context where betrayals are rare and can be deadly, and even if it is not, it severely damages his ability to trust again.

Windows 11 Start Menu uses – get this – React Native.
(No this is not parody.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1ctuz4w/the_recommended_section_in_start_menu_is_actually/
Via

Aaron Rodgers has not affirmatively told the Steelers that he is signing with them, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-r

No not my birthday this week, last or next.
#ffs
#google

The deadline for FProper (SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional Programming for Productivity and Performance) full-paper abstracts has been extended to June 14th. (Which is also when the papers themselves are due.)
Send us your paper!
https://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-s

Whatever you do, do not call the number and recount the story of the time you were working commercial towing and a co-worker’s indigestion turned out to be a chest bursting health hazard that should have been nuked from space. 👽
#alien #movie

I feel like tech has gotten smarter, and I've gotten dumber. My Roku Ultra says it does Miracast (on the website) but in my settings I see only Airplay. And my phone (android) does not see it when searching. So does it not do it or am I doing something wrong? #feelingold

We need to stop reasoning about AI like this. Every time it can do something amazing it's "well that's just because its training data is so big, everything is bound to be in there."
Then, when it shows some limitation, it's "Well that's because it must not be in the training data".
It can show a shark jumping out of the moon through a computer screen. It can generate stuff that's not in the data. Also, hands counting down are obviously in t…

Whatever LLMs and gen AI may or may not •actually• be good for, whatever jobs they may or may not actually reshape or displace, right now we’re in the middle of a bubble. The sheer amount of money involved makes it almost impossible to think clearly about this, much less have a useful public discussion. Even well-founded hopes and fears for the tech fuel a fire that I very much do not want to fuel.
8/

Fortunately, we can't measure the impacts of the McNamara Fallacy. Therefore it does not exist.

Grist.org: Balcony solar took off in Germany. Why not the US?
https://grist.org/energy/balcony-solar-took-off-in-germany-why-not-the-us/

arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 34546 nodes and 421578 edges.
Tags: Informational,…

not a fan of writing function types as (a:A)B instead of (a:A)->B nor function abstraction as (a)b instead of λa.b

#Tacos — not just for Tuesdays any more.

Augment or Not? A Comparative Study of Pure and Augmented Large Language Model Recommenders
Wei-Hsiang Huang, Chen-Wei Ke, Wei-Ning Chiu, Yu-Xuan Su, Chun-Chun Yang, Chieh-Yuan Cheng, Yun-Nung Chen, Pu-Jen Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23053

you've heard of chemists in the 30's
are you prepared for chemists in the 1830's?
moreover, bunsen himself?

I’m v interested in this. I have grown fonder and fonder of Meath St in the years I have worked in the area, while cooling on other locations.
If it’s not in the window of Miss Libo, is it even fashion?
https://mastodon.ie/@dublininquirer/114425934877776509

@… @… Yes, but not in a user-friendly way. This is an option: https://axbom.me/notice/Aud5dKIAwwf72PljH…

The Trump administration knew
that the vast majority of the
238 Venezuelan immigrants
it sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in mid-March
had not been convicted of crimes in the United States
before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them,
according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security data
that has not been previously reported.

@… Hi! I'm not sure my emails have been getting through to info@linkstack.org regards changing my email address. I'd really like to continue using your great service. Thanks!

OH: IANYL (I Am Not Your Lawyer); the IANAL disclaimer that lawyers [can] use.
#tdose

I'm not a theist, but where are the theist revolutionaries and pacifists praying for e.g. Putin, Netanyahu, Khamenei or the Hamas leaders to die on their sleep tonight?
Does this happen behind closed doors? It would seem rational for someone who both believes and cares.

The Unconstitutional Conservatives -- Not too long ago, Republicans believed in the rule of law ... (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-unconstitutional-conservative-republican/682987/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyZBUToihj1vqMp3WylhCDR8
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p39#a250531p39

ICE agents' task is to deport as many people as they can. It does not matter whether they are citizens, legal residents or tourists; each team's performance is measured by that number alone. "We searched hard but found no illegal aliens or gang members." is no excuse for a zero score. And they know that any mistakes they might make will have no consequences; at worst, they will be pardoned by the Orange Boss.

Do not lease the Orb.
Never share the Orb.
Do not try to sell or hack into the Orb.
Take care of and return the Orb as required.

"#Streaming vs. Batch" Is a Wrong Dichotomy, and I Think It's Confusing
https://www.morling.dev/blog/streaming-vs-batch-wrong-dichotomy/

In the past week I have sent emails to and called 3 of my local (city & state) electeds regarding active legislation. I have not heard back from a single one of them.
I don't feel particularly represented right now. You're going to have to EARN my vote in the next election.

Death Literacy is essential for a good quality of life for every stage of life, including our end of life and dying. *
Got questions? I'm an end of life doula and I'm here to help.
#GDEPAU
#AskAnnetta
#EOLD

I visited the Ludwig Museum. (Modern and contemporary art.) Perhaps not that impressive. Sure, a couple of Picassos, a Liechtenstein, a Warhol, a Haring, etc. This was my favourite, though.

Not sure who is imitating who....
#CatsOfMastadon #Caturday

Highway agencies to cyclists: Obey all road signs.
Also highway agencies to cyclists: Ignore this road sign.

Science progresses one funeral at a time.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it... --Max Planck
#Science #Humor

Third but not least, my son is always a good part of my day, despite how tiring he also is.
Today his mom wore him on her back while doing some chores, that was fun to see. He definitely enjoyed being carried around.

My apartment management company has joined the undisclosed-AI bandwagon.

Rand Paul: “It reminded me of a meeting on industrial policy in the Soviet Union, where you have to be nice to the czar, because if you are not nice to the czar, they’ll bequeath exceptions to the iron fist”

Well, not the complete one. (E.g., where was it designed?) But you know what I mean.

Very good points, a reply to a CEO who wondered why his engineers were resistant to using LLMs for coding:

Today's solar activity - #Sun

If you’re an ad person at Taco Bell and you’re not seriously ramping up a chicken taco campaign right now (hint: use the orange dorito shell), you’re not doing your job.

Calamus 18 City of my walks and joys!
A celebration of Manhattan. I love Whitman's embrace of cities as being just as vital as nature unspoiled. It reflects the humanist aspect of his joy in the world, not a Thoreau-like rejection of civilization.
I also love that Whitman is writing about cruising the streets, making eye contact with potential lovers, celebrating offerings of love.
as I pass, O Manhattan! your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love
Offering me the response of my own—these repay me,
Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me.
Whitman punched up the first line in later editions, escalating to "City of orgies, walks and joys!"

#Leiden #bicycles #summer

Is eBay not doing PayPal pay in three any more or am I just unlucky that the bed frame and mattress I want to buy are available on a pay in three with Klarna only? I don't really want to tangle with Klarna.

Two new NERDS papers published: Triadic closure, CoolWalks
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/04/29/two-new-nerds-papers-published-triadic-closure-coolwalks/

#WordWeavers 30. What’s the worst betrayal your MC has experienced?
That's a major plot twist I am not comfortable giving up. He's a soldier in a context where betrayals are rare and can be deadly, and even if it is not, it severely damages his ability to trust again.

Marco Rubio bans u.s. visas for israel critics
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ISDESTjH11I
Hey, asshole, listen up:
Fuck israel.
Fuck the usa.
And fuck you.
You can take your visa and stick it up your ass. I’m very happy not to visit your shithole …

Whatever LLMs and gen AI may or may not •actually• be good for, whatever jobs they may or may not actually reshape or displace, right now we’re in the middle of a bubble. The sheer amount of money involved makes it almost impossible to think clearly about this, much less have a useful public discussion. Even well-founded hopes and fears for the tech fuel a fire that I very much do not want to fuel.
8/

So it looks like most if not all dual row SFP /SFP28/zSFP cages are integrated connector cage modules that are PTH, even for the data pins.
This feels like it would be stub city... obviously I'd want to do the high speed signals on the back layer but even so I don't like the idea of 25G on PTH pins.
Thoughts? Anyone have experience with this?

arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 34546 nodes and 421578 edges.
Tags: Informational,…

from my link log —
Archers did not volley fire.
https://acoup.blog/2025/05/02/collections-why-archers-didnt-volley-fire/
saved 2025-05-05

@… @… I found this article but it talks about only workings for Teams... which would seem to indicate that it's not actually muting the microphone.

The Arena Group settled its lawsuit against Authentic Brands in April over Sports Illustrated licensing fees, said the size of the settlement is "not material" (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/arena-group-spo…

In the past week I have sent emails to and called 3 of my local (city & state) electeds regarding active legislation. I have not heard back from a single one of them.
I don't feel particularly represented right now. You're going to have to EARN my vote in the next election.

I'm a fucking Anarchist, and I’m not shutting the hell up! Stop trying to convince me otherwise. If you don’t like my path and my knowledge, then I have a damn good option for you!
Move the fuck on with your life. Find new friends, meet new people, connect with those who share your interests. Stop wasting your time trying to change me.
Fuck off telling me to vote in some bullshit election. Stop trying to talk me out of anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism. I’m done with th…

@… @… This is how I see London too, and I miss it very much.
(I do not miss the tube.)
Sadly, I foresee very little long-haul travel in my near future, but when I get a chance, Toronto (and other parts of Canada) is high …

I want to make clear that all the mice trapped in my captivating series of YouTube mousetrap videos are not harmed in any way. They are all sent to live on a farm upstate, traveling on little mouse Trailways buses.

I thought that police recruits had to take a basic training course that included the very basics principles of law. Like:
"Every person (not just every US citizen, not just every white US citizen, not just every rich white US citizen, not just every billionaire white US citizen) is to be presumed innocent by the government until proved guilty of a crime." 🧵‍>

"The Christian right has its own version of events: Innocent Christian worshippers were mobbed at a city park by anti-Christians and the city endorsed their persecution. But this was not the story they were telling on social media before the protest. In their words, the rally was intended to be a battle in a spiritual war. Against the child “butchers,” the demonic forces, the unholy."
Invading “Antifa-Land” - The Stranger
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/05/30/80080084/invading-antifa-land

Was going to one bar but it turned out to be karaoke night so hard pass.
Walked on, past a bar called “The Eccentric“, and obviously I had to check it out. I am after all something of an eccentric myself, I hope.
The name is not misleading. You enter down a few steps into what looks like their liquor storage. The bar has more bottles of booze than I have ever seen in any bar. Apparently in fairly random order, but I am sure they have a very sophisticated system. Only customer so …

Here’s the real actual definition of “artificial intelligence,” the true technical meaning in research and engineering circles when it’s not being used as marketing hype.
Artificial intelligence is anything that
1. humans are generally good at, and
2. computers were recently bad at.
That’s it. That’s all it means. You’ll hear people refine it and dress it up, but that’s the heart of the definition. (Check Wikipedia!)
3/

I understand that people think their microphone is off when they have muted the microphone in the online meeting. Now, consider that the meeting software reminds you that your sound is muted when you speak.

[”Your microphone is muted.”]

It does this because your sound isn’t really muted… the software ”heard” you. The sound is just not transferred to other participants. But there is of course nothing stopping the software from capturing your sound anyway.

This is one o…

Damn, using the UK's visa app to read a passport chip via NFC is a pretty extreme exercise in frustration. Got locked out twice (on the backend by UK servers, not the app itself!) in my attempts, each with an hour wait to be unlocked.

AI-generated political fanfiction videos that feature political stars and look like breaking news are proliferating in places like Mr. Noah's Stories on YouTube (David Weigel/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/28/2025/a…

@… @… @… Aw, adorable.
My partner has many wonderful traits but we do *not* share a taste in musi…

Here’s the real actual definition of “artificial intelligence,” the true technical meaning in research and engineering circles when it’s not being used as marketing hype.
Artificial intelligence is anything that
1. humans are generally good at, and
2. computers were recently bad at.
That’s it. That’s all it means. You’ll hear people refine it and dress it up, but that’s the heart of the definition. (Check Wikipedia!)
3/

⭐️Trump, Bashed the Federalist Society
(Not Corrupt Enough),
Asserts Autonomy on Judge Picks
⭐️Felon growns increasingly angry at court rulings blocking parts of his agenda,
including by judges he appointed
https://www.

If you don’t have a mute button on your microphone, the next best thing is software that will mute your microphone at the system level. MicDrop is an example of an app I’ve tried for this (Mac only): https://getmicdrop.com

You know it’s working when the meeting software starts throwing an ”error” and saying it’s not picking up sound from your microphone.

Damn, using the UK's visa app to read a passport chip via NFC is a pretty extreme exercise in frustration. Got locked out twice (on the backend by UK servers, not the app itself!) in my attempts, each with an hour wait to be unlocked.

Here the addendum. Brown writes:
“There exists no coherent notion of what AI is or could be.”
There is in fact a perfectly coherent definition of AI — one that does not refute Brown’s point, but rather proves it.
2/

The Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes after a federal appeals court barred his removal while his case proceeded, the government admitted in a court filing this week.
In its filing, the government denied that it had violated the order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, instead blaming “a confluence of administrative errors.”
The government had previously given the court what the judges called “express assurance” that…

Here the addendum. Brown writes:
“There exists no coherent notion of what AI is or could be.”
There is in fact a perfectly coherent definition of AI — one that does not refute Brown’s point, but rather proves it.
2/

Jon Ossof's fundraising has slowed dramatically since Marjorie Taylor Greene said she wasn't running.
And Republicans are ramping up their attacks and their spending against Jon.
The timing is not great, to say the least.
You made your last donation to Jon Ossoff in 2020 -- Thank you for that.
But if we are going to reach our goals and defend this seat, Jon needs you one more time.
Can you do it? For Jon? To hold this seat?
Please use this link …

For example:
- Telling apart photos of cats and dogs is “AI.”
- Making up fake but plausible facts on an arbitrary topic is “AI.”
- Walking is “AI.”
- Doing long multiplication is something we might call “intelligence” in humans, but it is not “AI” because computers have •always• been good at it.
- Winning at checkers •used• to be “AI” because computers didn’t used to be able to do that, but now it’s not “AI” because computers have been good at it for too long.
5/

This is going to be a different type of campaign.
Because when you’re going after Medicaid and even ripping food away from hungry kids,
all to cut taxes for donors and corporate lobbyists,
we’re not pulling punches.
I hope you’ll join us:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_…

For example:
- Telling apart photos of cats and dogs is “AI.”
- Making up fake but plausible facts on an arbitrary topic is “AI.”
- Walking is “AI.”
- Doing long multiplication is something we might call “intelligence” in humans, but it is not “AI” because computers have •always• been good at it.
- Winning at checkers •used• to be “AI” because computers didn’t used to be able to do that, but now it’s not “AI” because computers have been good at it for too long.
5/

I see Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a good man doing bad things,
but perhaps he thinks even worse of me: He recently suggested that I was a liar.
While testifying before Congress, Rubio claimed that the Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development had not cost any lives.
“No children are dying on my watch,” he asserted.
At another point in the hearing, he broadened his statement to include adults as well: “No one has d…

And yes, really, truly, all of that truly is what the term means when researchers and engineers use it.
A confession: this whole thread has simply been a thinly veiled attempt to drum up attention for Brown’s essay, which I hope you will now read and ponder. “‘Artificial intelligence’ is not a technology:”
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen
/end

And yes, really, truly, all of that truly is what the term means when researchers and engineers use it.
A confession: this whole thread has simply been a thinly veiled attempt to drum up attention for Brown’s essay, which I hope you will now read and ponder. “‘Artificial intelligence’ is not a technology:”
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen
/end

As the debate over the BBB moves to the Senate, the immediate imperative is to
expose the damage the bill does to millions of Trump’s voters
to benefit his Mar-a-Lago and crypto-wealthy friends.
But it’s also an occasion to shatter the illusion that Trump is some sort of policy innovator.
Extremism and authoritarianism are not new ideas, and his legislative program would be familiar to Calvin Coolidge.