Tootfinder

“Costco has made it easier for members to shell out thousands of dollars on gold bars—and get a $1.50 hot dog while they are at it.”
https://press.coop/@WSJ/112215912230520704

The Wall Street Journal :_p: (@WSJ@press.coop)
The Costco Shoppers Putting $2,000 Gold Bars in Their Carts Young investors say the old-school store of value is a hedge against inflation and catastrophe. #press https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-costco-shoppers-putting-2-000-gold-bars-in-their-carts-d4e8aeb5?utm_source=press.coop

I'm extremely proud of all our students, but this is especially impressive! When Njumbe graduates from iunorthwest next Wednesday he will be the "youngest-known college graduate in the Hoosier state."
"Njumbe plans to attend medical school and become an orthopedic surgeon one day, but he has to wait until he's 18 to enroll. In the meantime, he's going to pursue a master's degree, he said." 🤯

Gary 15-year-old Khaya Njumbe set to become youngest-known college graduate in Indiana
At a young age, Khaya Njumbe taught himself how to speak Chinese and play the piano. Now at age 15, he can be found walking the campus of Indiana University Northwest in Gary.

Get this: the perv once served as a school resource officer at the older brother's school...
Louisiana Cops Did the Unthinkable to an 11-Year-Old Boy, Illegally Strip- [and cavity] Searched Mom at 'Torture' Site, Sickening Federal Lawsuit Alleges
https://<…

Louisiana Cops Did the Unthinkable to an 11-Year-Old Boy, Illegally Strip-Searched Mom at 'Torture' Site, Sickening Federal Lawsuit Alleges
A new federal complaint accuses multiple Baton Rouge police officers of taking a family to a black site called the BRAVE Cave, where one cop sexually

#KUZUthon VII is a 12-Hour Marathon - Membership Drive on Saturday April 13, 2024 from 2 p.m. - 2 a.m. Central (old-school 80s telethon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6xQky3znmw…

Oh, I should also mention that nobody asked me to take my mask off while I was there and my hair-length and colour is completely different to my nearly ten year old driving license picture.
So I presented ID, but I get the impression it could have been any old photo like when my old school mate used to have a monkey face over his real face in the bus pass and no driver ever said a word.

Lapse, a photo app that makes users wait to share unedited pictures as they are "developed" like film, raised a $30M Series A, sources say at a $150M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/27/laps

Lapse, the app turning your phone into an old-school camera, snaps up $30M | TechCrunch
It can cost a fortune in 2024 to find an analogue camera, buy film (and maybe special batteries) for it, and take pictures that then need to be developed.

I might reconsider my opinion of LoFi being the best music for work. Maybe it's old school Ambient Jungle. 🎵 :blobcatrainbow:

I finally got my earphones from high school working again. Not sure if that justifies my decade old hoard of broken earphones, though, but oh well.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4639073-graham-fbi-phone-hack/
“A Democratic aide said Graham should have been instantly suspicious of any text message purportedly from Schumer because the Democratic leader is known for using an old-school LG flip phone — a relic from the 1990s, before texting caught on.”

@… this you? https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/112022193800693274

Oh, I should also mention that nobody asked me to take my mask off while I was there and my hair-length and colour is completely different to my nearly ten year old driving license picture.
So I presented ID, but I get the impression it could have been any old photo like when my old school mate used to have a monkey face over his real face in the bus pass and no driver ever said a word.

Lavender Evening Fog - complete series 🎠🫖🪻
Dramatized cozy haunted house mystery series | Total listening time: 10h 15m
Dr. Anna-Georgina Plume (Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Hollingsworth University) may be in over her head. Her specialization in educational architecture may not be helpful when her new home (also her o...

Lavender Evening Fog - complete series 🎠🫖🪻
Dramatized cozy haunted house mystery series | Total listening time: 10h 15m Dr. Anna-Georgina Plume (Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Hollingsworth University) may be in over her head. Her specialization in educational architecture may not be helpful when her new home (also her old elementary school) may be haunted. LGBT and woman showrunner, each episode has a tea pairing suggestion, the school that is central to the story is based on the real school the showrunner attende…

Nice! Old-school blogroll button in HTML CSS:
🤖 https://codepen.io/adamrice/pen/GReVPVy
/by @… via @…

Old-school blogroll button in HTML+CSS
...

#Movies #Grease
Via Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports
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Contrary to what Grease led me to believe, I eventually learned there weren't going to be any hot 30-year-old Australian chicks in high school.

Peter Gabriel's complete catalogue, since 1977, is up on #Bandcamp - includes some German releases...
https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/music

Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel is best known as a musician. He started his solo work in 1975 after leaving his old school group: Genesis. He has released eleven solo albums and written soundtracks for three films. Peter is now writing and recording, and working on a plan to create a streaming service for digital medicine and an Interspecies Internet.

People say that they should teach "filling our your taxes" in school.
My 22 year old did their own taxes this year, and the most difficult part of doing their taxes was "creating a login to the state DOR website in order to submit them", and asking me for where the 1095-C document that I had on their behalf was.
"Doing your taxes" is annoying for many reasons, but the reasons aren't ones that can be resolved by teaching the process in school.

"But Republican voters don’t want Reagan Republicanism. Old-school conservatives may pine for a return to balanced budgets, personal responsibility, and American leadership in the world (guilty). But a greater share of Republican voters prefer an isolationist foreign policy and candidates who promise to punish their domestic enemies."

How Did We End Up With Trump Again?
How did we get here again?

Idaho Bill Expands School Vaccination Exemptions - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/02/idaho-bill-expands-school-vaccination-exemptions/

Idaho Bill Expands School Vaccination Exemptions
The Idaho Press reports: Rep. Jacyn Gallagher, R-Weiser, proposed legislation that would extend to 18-year-old students school immunization exemptions that are allowed for minors for religious or othe

Kid2: No one says "OMG" anymore, Dad. That's so old school.

The only thing that reasonably explains what I am seeing is that Lebron was playing high school basketball as an eight-year-old. #nba

@… Goodman Games has been doing old school stuff before "OSR" was even invented and they have have maintained a remarkably diverse and welcoming community for years, which may be a bit surprising for some: The old school RPG best known for killing lots and lots of PC has one of the nicest, least toxic crowds in pen & paper gaming.

Plus: This IS a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04902 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

BELT: Old-School Backdoor Attacks can Evade the State-of-the-Art Defense with Backdoor Exclusivity Lifting
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to backdoor attacks, where malicious functionality is embedded to allow attackers to trigger incorrect classifications. Old-school backdoor attacks use strong trigger features that can easily be learned by victim models. Despite robustness against input variation, the robustness however increases the likelihood of unintentional trigger activations. This leaves traces to existing defenses, which find approximate replacements for the original triggers t…

Linda Wenhold absorbed Patriot Academy’s message that America is falling apart as it drifts from its biblical roots.
Then she won a seat on her local Pennsylvania school board.
Wenhold closed her eyes, bowed her head and offered a prayer. “Lord, let us see that the further we move from biblical truth, the further we move from our liberty and freedom,” she began.

The 60-year-old grandmother stood at the front of a modest stone church in this former steel town just beyond th…

The education of a true believer
Linda Wenhold absorbed the Patriot Academy’s message that America is falling apart as it drifts from its biblical roots. Then she won a local school board seat.

@… How static is the actual content? There’s a good chance old-school static web pages might cut cost significantly if you don’t actually need the CRM angle.

A voice of sanity at my old school.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opinion/columbia-protests-israel.html

Opinion | I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
I do not believe that the Columbia demonstrators are driven by antisemitism, but their actions have gone way too far.

Old school GPS watch from 1920 England

@… the slashdot effect applied to an old-school answering machine 😅

I saw something awesome and I started rereading it. I love this old school cover.
#CliveBarker #Hellraiser #novella

Now that my kid has switched schools, I get to gleefully delete emails from the old school. Which were long. And numerous. We got one on saturday, *two* on sunday, and one today. It's incredible how verbose some of them are, too. Just a flood of useless info sent to every parent, basically every day, which allowed actually useful information to get missed in the flood.

So many #ncaa coaches these days look like they're dressed for a role in Logan's Run. Alabama coach is dressed in the old school used-car salesman sports coat.

People say that they should teach "filling our your taxes" in school.
My 22 year old did their own taxes this year, and the most difficult part of doing their taxes was "creating a login to the state DOR website in order to submit them", and asking me for where the 1095-C document that I had on their behalf was.
"Doing your taxes" is annoying for many reasons, but the reasons aren't ones that can be resolved by teaching the process in school.

I think i need to rethink my data hoarding strategy.
Several HDDs filled to the brim of backups and old things, i mean like projects since i was in middle school.
Do you just keep it all or rethink about throwing parts of it from time to time?

Anyone have any experience with these #ESP32 Cam modules?
I installed the example camera code and it works, albeit with pretty low quality, but it makes an audible crackling noise only whilst streaming. It sounds like a faint old school spinning hard disk.
It’s unnerving since the module has no moving parts. 😬

🔊 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Underworld:
🎵 Two Months Off
#NowPlaying #Underworld
https://open.spotify.com/track/2nOh4KmkXyzyBhRDlPJ5US
https://sportellomusic.bandcamp.com/track/underworld-two-months-off-sportellos-old-school-tempo-drop-edit

Nex Benedict matters https://popular.info/p/nex-benedict-matters

Nex Benedict matters
Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old Oklahoma sophomore, died on February 8. Nex, who was non-binary, was attacked in an Owasso High School bathroom the previous day, sustaining serious head injuries. Nex's grandmother and legal guardian, Sue Benedict, said, "Nex did not see themselves as male or female," and they were supported at home. But, according to Benedict, Nex had been

Personal, waiting through your life, ASD, sad
I suppose many people in the spectrum didn't have an easy childhood, especially if they lived in rural areas. Having difficulties bonding with peers, problems, solitude, bullying. However, the worst that you could have is having your parents tell the child that you just need to survive and wait, because one day you'll go a different school, meet new people and things will miraculously "be better". Because the child will take that literally, and make a point of their childhood to wait for this better day. It will believe that the problem is just a matter time, and then it will be solved.
Then comes the time for a higher grade school. And perhaps it will be a little better. But it won't be as great as it was promised. Perhaps you will cope better, perhaps you will find a better company, but you will never be neurotypical. And you will hear, once again, that you need to wait, and at the university things will definitely be just great.
Then comes the time for university. And again, it will be a little better, but never as good as it was promised. On the other hand, you will start realizing even more that you can't fit — that you've missed an important part of your life, that you lack the experiences that other people have, that you're a child that's suddenly ended up an adult between adults. And what will you hear? Of course, when you finally go to work, things will be even better.
And what's the truth? The future never brings anything better of its own accord. What it brings instead, is the realization that you've wasted the best years of your life waiting to be an adult. And then you are old, unhealthy and surrounded by people who sorted out their lives a long time ago. And people expect from you that you will work hard 5 days a week, and somehow manage to find more energy to sort out your own life at that.
And yes, as the old maxim says, you should just cope all these years and wait for retirement. Presuming you'll actually qualify for pension, that you'll be reasonably healthy and that the world won't burn completely by the time.
#ActuallyAutistic

Why many 18-year-olds aren't registered to vote in Texas | The Texas Tribune #voting

Most 18-year-old Texans aren’t signed up to vote despite a law requiring voter registration in high schools
Voting is habit-forming and high schools are critical for starting that pattern.

Saw an elderly Traveller guy on a mobility scooter earlier, towing a huge cargo wagon behind him filled with junk, shouting out for scrap. Proper old school "aaaaany old iron??" shout as well.
Welcome to Feltham. 😀

I have a recurring annual calendar appointment for March 16. Today is the 102nd anniversary of Comox-Alberni MP A.W. Neill's first speech in his 21 year career in the House of Commons (1921-45).
Neill was a white supremacist, anti-Asian racist, and one of the loudest voices for Japanese Internment. He was also an Indian Agent dealing with First Nations and Residential Schools on Vancouver Island's West Coast.
In 2019 his name was removed from a local school but he remain…

An adult friend of mine posted about a web site he used to use in grade school and now I am dead. (Because I am so fecking old of course!)

I #dream​t I took my living room furniture (which was my parents’ old living room furniture) with me to Turin for MWE-UD 2024 @ LREC-COLING which was a good call because although the event space was cool (former school, huge open space), the dorms were terrible (73 peeps had to share 36 bunks, some of them super short)

A voice of sanity at my old school.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opinion/columbia-protests-israel.html

Opinion | I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
I do not believe that the Columbia demonstrators are driven by antisemitism, but their actions have gone way too far.

I’m experimenting with Federating replies from Mastodon directly into my blog post page itself, displayed as old-school comments underneath the post, and…I kind of like it?
https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto

Every time one of those "vulnerabilities" I'd published and it's a blatantly simple workaround, do ask yourself how long bad actors have been using them...
ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots | Ars Technica
https://

Just bought a #Sony RCD-W100 with digital out to accompany my #Sony MDS-JE530 Minidisc player> I'm copying digitally now baby! Hey, I don't need your judgement, Spotify , shmodify I'm old school. Deal with it! 😎

ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/researchers-use-ascii-art-to-elicit-harmful-responses-from-5-major-ai-chatbots/<…

ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots
LLMs are trained to block harmful responses. Old-school images can override those rules.

West Virginia: ‘No real choice at all’: Federal appeals court says sports ban on 13-year-old transgender girl violated her civil rights
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/n

'No real choice at all': Federal appeals court says sports ban on trans girl violated rights
A federal appeals court has ruled that a ban on a 13-year-old transgender girl's participation on her school's track and field team was a violation of equal rights protections.

Jello Biafra - Spoken Word Event (1988)
I ditched school, along with one of my friends, to attend this spoken word event at Cal Poly Pomona. Turned out Jello was doing most of what would become the album “High Priest of Harmful Matter”.
I called the student union and got the ok to record the talk.
But during the Q&A session, some mf asked Jello what he thought of home recording. Jello says he’s generally ok with it, but then starts talking about how it also rips off …

Will many old school Republicans end up concentrated in Trump's dumps too?
Of course they will.

Be old school and run them through!
#selfdefence

@… there should be an option for “What theme?” I’m very old school on this, but I’ve never got used to syntax highlighting or themes. Code is a sequence of characters, so all I need is a display and an input device.

Outdoor enthusiast, Cal Poly SLO student, known as half of “Kenneth squared,” falls to death
Friday’s kickoff of the annual “Make Waves” Film Festival, hosted by the local chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, was slated to be the culmination of months of planning by 21-year-old Cal Poly San Luis Obispo junior #Kenneth #Taylor

Outgoing outdoor Cal Poly SLO student falls to death
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo school officials sent a campus-wide email Monday morning confirming that student Kenneth Taylor died Saturday “after an accident during a trip to Big Sur.” The 21-year-old was a third-year mechanical engineering student.

@… nein, die deutschen Apotheken mit denen ich telefoniert habe, haben sich alle stur gestellt. aber ich fahre doch nicht unnötig oft durch die Weltgeschichte 😤 ich werde nach diesem Prozess wahrscheinlich alle Apothekenketten meiden. Mal schauen ob ich irgendwo noch ein old school Apotheke finde, wo man mit Menschen reden kann. KI-System my ass.

Researchers detail ArtPrompt, a jailbreak that uses ASCII art to elicit harmful responses from aligned LLMs such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2 (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/

ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots
LLMs are trained to block harmful responses. Old-school images can override those rules.

This is the test Concorde, G-BSST (002), in the Fleet Air Arm #museum (i.e. UK Navy plane museum), down in Yeovil. These are pics from 1983 when I was taken around as a kid.
#planes

This shit has to stop NOW !
https://x.com/dailycaller/status/1769485612938035691?s=61

Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) on X
11-Year-Old Leaves Schoolboard SHOCKED After Reading Inappropriate Book from School Library Out Loud

A really great YT channel that has finally cracked the deserved one million subscribers! Check it out! Rarely seen such a fantastic old school desktop as here. I love it! ❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOK108FHZ_s

Cygnus X - Kinderlied Part 1&2 (Remastered) Feeling a bit "old school" today.
#Music #Electronic https://youtu.be/GliTSot…

#Questions

Cowboys DC Mike Zimmer debunks 'jerk' reputation ahead of 2024 NFL season https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_dc_mike_zimmer_debunks_jerk_reputation_ahead_of_2024_nfl_season/s1_17313_39…

@… DCC has a very distinctive style, so... yeah, most of what you are saying is true for me, too. DCC *is* amazing, but I need something different from time to time :)
When I was talking about "being old school before OSR", was thinking about the "Dungeon Crawl Classics" modules for 3E, starting in 2003. I think OSRIC came out in 2006, but I don…

An adult friend of mine posted about a web site he used to use in grade school and now I am dead. (Because I am so fecking old of course!)

Ex-Assistant Principal at School Where 6-Year-Old Shot Teacher Is Indicted - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/richneck-elementary-assistant-principal-indicted-shooting.html

Ex-Assistant Principal at School Where 6-Year-Old Shot Teacher Is Indicted
A former administrator at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., where a first-grade teacher was shot last year, has been charged with eight counts of child abuse and neglect.

Okay, mother in law got pwned by „Microsoft support“, had some guy „service“ her notebook, paid 400,- EUR for it.
We got the money back through the bank, but since the notebook couldn’t be trusted anymore, I did an old-school re-install of Windows 11 from USB stick yesterday.
And though all documents where save in the cloud, re-installing & updating Windows, re-installing the handful of apps and the usual housekeeping took approximately as long as the DOS plus Windows 3.1 i…

Every time one of those "vulnerabilities" I'd published and it's a blatantly simple workaround, do ask yourself how long bad actors have been using them...
ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots | Ars Technica
https://

Will many old school Republicans end up concentrated in Trump's dumps too?
Of course they will.

Honestly, I love reading Stephen Jay Gould's essays on #evolution, #biology and other topics. Some of them are almost 50 years old, many of them are outdated (sometimes corrected by later essays), many of them state things that are obvious to people living today.
Nevertheless, they're not only written in great style, but reading them is like witnessing history in the making. It's not like dry facts you learn a school, or historical accounts made by people with future perspective (though Gould often did such accounts as well, and tried to put ideas in context of their era) — it's about witnessing them as exciting new ideas.
The first collection is #book

Ok, here's a great internet find: @… is an old school MySpace-inspired social network. It's a total blast from the past with layout, autoplay music, and visual headaches.
My profile is here: https://

@… there should be an option for “What theme?” I’m very old school on this, but I’ve never got used to syntax highlighting or themes. Code is a sequence of characters, so all I need is a display and an input device.

This is the test Concorde, G-BSST (002), in the Fleet Air Arm #museum (i.e. UK Navy plane museum), down in Yeovil. These are pics from 1983 when I was taken around as a kid.
#planes

Das hat richtig viel Spaß gemacht und eigentlich auch Anhieb funktioniert - 2 Leute ohne "old school-Experience" mussten sich erstmal daran gewöhnen, dass das Spiel ganz schön gefährlich für SC sein, das ging aber sehr schnell.
(2/4)
#Gratisrollenspieltage #ElectricBastionland

Cygnus X - Kinderlied Part 1&2 (Remastered) Feeling a bit "old school" today.
#Music #Electronic https://youtu.be/GliTSot…

#Questions

Daaaaaaaaamn
Just came home from a „Class of 1987“ high school meeting with my old frens.
It was so fun to see some after 37 years.
Someone brought a photo album with pictures from our last year.
And boy did i look sharp.
Our gang was cool as fuck.

New Cowboys Defensive Coordinator Mike Zimmer dismisses the viral ‘Jerk’ label assigned to him https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/new_cowboys_defensive_coordinator_mike_zimmer_dis…

New Cowboys Defensive Coordinator Mike Zimmer dismisses the viral ‘Jerk’ label assigned to him
The Dallas Cowboys lost a key part of their coaching squad with the departure of defensive coordinator Dan Quinn. His replacement Mike Zimmer has a reputation for being an old-school football coach who is a disciplinarian with all of his players. It is not uncommon to hear instances wherein Zimmer has been called a ‘jerk’. But most of the players coached by him understand and see through that rough exterior. Despite his stern attitude, Zimmer wants to extract the best out of his athletes. T…

@… Was ist klassische Fantasy? Meinst du "irgendein Fantasyrollenspiel?"
An generischer EDO-Fantasy bin ich persönlich gar nicht weiter interessiert, das ginge für mich eigentlich nur im Old School Bereich, dann etwa mit DCC. Aber ich fürchte, das ist für die meisten hier schon gar keine "klassische Fantasy" mehr.<…

ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major #AI chatbots | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03…

ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots
LLMs are trained to block harmful responses. Old-school images can override those rules.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio1's #Radio1sRapShow
K Trap:
🎵 Old School Era
#BBCR1 #KTrap #newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/7izCltWKxb23ujmjnH4eBB