Tootfinder

GoFundMe Ignores its Own Rules
by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
https://www.wired.com/story/gofundme-ice-jonathan-ross-renee-good-fundraiser/

GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.

TikTok launches Bulletin board, which lets brands and creators share public, one-to-many messages to their followers, similar to Instagram's broadcast channels (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/tiktok-launches-i…

TikTok launches its own version of Instagram's broadcast channels | TechCrunch
TikTok is rolling out “bulletin board,” a new one-to-many messaging feature that mirrors Instagram’s broadcast channels. The tool lets creators and brands share text, images, and videos directly with followers.

Family rift: Top Democrat's own daughter publicly opposes her on shutdown deal (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/family-rift-top-democrats-own-daughter-publicly-opposes-her-shutdown-deal
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p89#a251111p89

"Do your own research" is counter productive when you don't know how to research...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/scientists-explain-why-doing-your-own-research-leads-to-buying-conspiracies/

Scientists Explain Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Leads to Believing Conspiracies
Researchers found that people searching misinformation online risk falling into “data voids” that increase belief in conspiracies.

Trump says Microsoft will "ensure" Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must "pay their own way" for their data centers (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-micr

Trump says that Microsoft will 'ensure' Americans don't 'pick up the tab' for its data center power consumption
President Donald Trump said that tech companies must pay for their own data centers without spiking utility bills for American households.

from my link log —
smolBSD: build your own minimal NetBSD system.
https://smolbsd.org/#about
saved 2025-10-13 https://dotat.at/:/S7OEY.html

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection includes,
--A journalist's talks with an Iranian hacking leader ended with murder,
--Hackers attacked Aeroflot's still-insecure infrastructure,
--The war on disinformation has been dismantled,
--Trump's DOJ uses Americans' own data …

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 12/6/25
A journalist's talks with an Iranian hacking leader ended with murder, Hackers attacked Aeroflot's still-insecure infrastructure, The war on disinformation has been dismantled, Trump's DOJ uses Americans' own data to limit voting rights, The Wassenaar Arrangement can help limit spyware exports

When bushfires make their own weather #environment

When bushfires make their own weather
Bushfires are strongly driven by weather: hot, dry and windy conditions can combine to create the perfect environment for flames to spread across the landscape.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sepalot:
🎵 My Own Way
#NowPlaying #Sepalot
https://sepalot.bandcamp.com/track/my-own-way
https://open.spotify.com/track/1fZWCdpLnT98Lf5DeGkMSB

"It’s a matter now of humanity getting to the point where it’s now qualifying to make some of its own decisions in relation to its own information. That’s why we’ve come to a new moment of integrity."
#buckminsterfuller
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/only-integrity-is-going-to-count/

14-year old Miles Wu just won $25,000 for a research project based on an origami fold called "Miura-ori", which is known for collapsing and expanding with precision.
"I've been folding origami as a hobby for more than six years, mostly of animals or insects," Wu told Business Insider.
"Recently I've been designing my own origami, too."
"A problem with current deployable structures and emergency structures is, for example,
ten…

14-Year-Old Wins Prize For Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times Its Own Weight
While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief.

I don’t know if this is a sick burn (by a FOSDEM organiser spilling the truth about FOSDEM) or an own goal.
🤷‍♂️ https://pleroma.debian.social/objects/f49df30a-d65e-4195-833d-29b7481b3aba

Received a non-function CO alarm from Amazon and they won’t even let me drop it off for return without having to print my own label.
Fucking sacks of shit.

look, as my own internal dialogue has surmised: no aircraft can contain an infinite number of life vests. that would be silly. anyone would be silly to think that. the flight attendants did not announce that as part of the safety briefing…

when the dark web threat monitoring service gets pwnd and lists itself as a breach because it aggregated sensitive personal data as a service and therefore drew a bullseye on its own ass

This is a fun story.
Giving the boss the ability to do their own UI design is fraught, of course, a delicate judgement call. But it’s still a fun story.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115537040403283749

google: Google internal webpages (2007)
A directed network of webpages from Google's own sites, and the hyperlinks among them. Edge direction indicates that i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 15763 nodes and 171206 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

India’s short-sighted embrace of Russia will endanger its own national security: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/13/indias-shortsighted-embrace-of-russia.html

Many of us learned to survive by staying slightly absent from our own lives.
Not apathy. Not burnout. Something quieter.
A low-grade separation that let us function when feeling everything became too much.
It protected us. But survival is not the same as being alive.
What does it look like to come back?
…

The Long Dissociation and the Cost of Nonchalance: Why We Feel Numb, Detached, and Distant
An essay on how prolonged overwhelm teaches us to care less—and how we gently relearn presence, desire, and participation in our own lives.

Instead of going to sleep, I just spent 2 hours writing up, for my own future reference, a random idea I had about how Pascal’s Wager is actually a negotiation.
Ironically, part of the writeup was about when it’s acceptable to prioritize short-term over long-term interests; it didn’t even occur to me I was doing exactly that by staying up late.

There is a cult of action at the heart of tech.
This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.
AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.
Doing what is easiest is only going to make things worse. The only helpful course of action is to fix the system.

"Just doing things" is not a path to value
Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.

The people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs.
---- - Emma Goldman - ----

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Anthony Naples:
🎵 On Your Own Again
#AnthonyNaples
https://anthonynaples.bandcamp.com/track/on-your-own-again

do you like to develop on #android and sideload your APK freely on devices you own? https://github.com/sam1am/anyapk

It’s late 2025 and Sitepoint is still advocating for the document outline algorithm:
https://www.sitepoint.com/headings-in-html-structure/
The algorithm was never implemented, removed from WHATWG HTML in 2022:

One day I will get to see amazing glowing lights in the sky with my very own eyes. I will. But I'm going to have to get off my arse and go to a country where it's not non-stop persistent rain 364 days a year in order for that to happen.

You can make your own analysis by downloading these 2 spreadsheets from the global carbon budget site (used in the new report), and then look at the scale of reduction in emissions for those countries claimed to be absolutely decoupliing (which btw account for 36% of emissions).
https://globalcarbonbudget.or…

Rivian says it is building its own 5nm AI chip called the Rivian Autonomy Processor and a foundational "Large Driving Model", to enable fully autonomous driving (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842213/rivian-ai-autonomous-chip-specs

Rivian is building its own powerful AI chips for autonomous driving
Rivian announced it was building its own AI chips for self-driving features. The company also plans on adding lidar to its upcoming R2 vehicles.

Trump now a tyrant restrained only by 'my own morality.' We stop him with our own. (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-powers-venezuela-ice-shooting-20260111.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p59#a260111p59

I am these cost 25¢ per song years old.
I wonder how much the artists got paid being played on these compared to Spotify or any of the other streaming services? Assuming they did in fact get paid.
Think how annoying it is when some AH plays their phone on speaker. Now imagine a diner full of tables all playing their own tunes on speaker (the only way you could).

FINALLY started scrobbling my shit on last.fm. This is me: https://www.last.fm/user/jake4480

jake4480’s Music Profile | Last.fm
Listen to music from jake4480’s library (18 tracks played). jake4480’s top artists: Ahkatari, place on earth, Arabic Flavor Music. Get your own music profile at Last.fm, the world’s largest social music platform.

Оказывается, существует утилита для автоматической проверки английского текста на политкорректность
https://alexjs.com

alex: Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing
Whether your own or someone else’s writing, alex helps you find gender favouring, polarising, race related, religion inconsiderate, or other unequal phrasing.

"the drops in sales volumes are largely the results of French and EU car manufacturer’s own strategic choice to prioritise large, more profitable models [.] Despite lower sales volumes, their operating margins have increased. This premiumisation trend is not new, but it has accelerated in recent years, to the point of backfiring, with manufacturers now facing a sharp drop in sales and factories standing idle.
Rolling back the EU’s 2035 targets won’t solve the problem."

Maintaining the 2035 target: Ensuring a viable future for Europe’s automotive industry - I4CE
In the run up to the publication of the European Commission’s proposals for an automotive package on 10 December, car manufactures have stepped up the calls to relax the CO2 standards and the 2035 phase-out of new combustion-engine vehicles by including some flexibilities. They highlight the challenges the industry has faced in recent years, growing competitive pressure from China, and insufficient demand for electric vehicles in Europe as reasons for the sector needing more time for the tra…

Snazzy packaging, but I was disappointed to find that there's nothing in it having to do with green eggs. It's just Spam.

I'm writing a first rough pass of a new story just now, and I'm writing quickly to catch the bones of it. I know that, in this draft, all my characters speak much the same; I'm not worrying about this, I'll rewrite later to give them individual idioms, ways of speaking, gestures, senses of humour.
Do you do this in your first pass, or do your characters come to you already with their own idiosyncratic patterns of speech?

Imagine a world that we all control together, not controlled by oligarch or dictators, even indirectly. Imagine something truly collaborative. That world would be very different from our own. In some ways many of us could have a lot more opportunity. But in others, we would be restricted.
In such a world, we couldn't really have elite luxuries. Having such luxuries is only valuable so long as others do not.
> Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.
- The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
Imagine a world in which we think about luxury in a radically different way, not as something that only has value via exclusivity but something that enriches the lives of the owners more as more people have them.
What would living in such a world be like? Can you describe a day in your life?
#SolarPunkPrompts #Writing #Prompts

Today's example of media and analysts actively disbelieving what's plain:
Why is the Trump regime so interested in Greenland? It doesn't make sense! There's no economic, military, or geopolitical explanation!
But what if there were? And what if it was territorial expansion for its own sake? What if it was, in a word, imperialism? Those on the radio this morning entertained all sorts of increasingly odd theories but, somehow, empire-building was a bridge too far.

A small town in Alberta has its own 'ramen library'
#Canada

A small town in Alberta has its own 'ramen library'
So many options! 🍜

Is any comrades able to give me an invite code to #RiseUp mail?
@…
@……

Dou you neurodivergent folks ever worry about dementia or alzheimers? I'm 33 and I already can't trust my own brain. I'm afraid I'm going to be an utter mess when I'm 70. But maybe that's not how this works.
#Neurology #ADD

My favorite Organum record! David Jackman got his start in Cornelius Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra and continued down his own improvising path. In the 1990’s he collaborated with a variety of artists, but that fizzled out by the end of the century. His newer records are available from Die Stadt or a distributor in your country.
https://…

Stop Paying Rent on Your Own Words!
Stop paying rent on your own words. For decades, writers were taught that “real” authors have representation, an agent, sometimes even a manager, as if legitimacy were a credential issued by an industry gatekeeper. That belief was formed in an older media economy: fewer publishers, fewer channels, slower production cycles, and a cultural aura around scarcity. In 2026, the belief is not merely old fashioned.

Stop Paying Rent on Your Own Words! | David Boles, Blogs
Stop paying rent on your own words. For decades, writers were taught that “real” authors have representation, an agent, sometimes even a manager, as if legitimacy were a credential issued by an ind…

Everyone has their own risk profile and security posture, but these "mobile IDs" are a bad idea. In order to show your mobile ID to, say, a cop who pulls you over, you have to hand them your _unlocked phone_. #ItsATrap

Arkansas mobile ID now available in Samsung, Google Wallets
Access to your Arkansas driver’s license is just a tap away.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-1980s-teen-movies-took-place-today

Making #goulash, but with #Sichuan peppercorns was a brilliant idea.
I love #cooking myself. 🍲
Over the years, I have developed a certain fusion cuisine of my own.

Closer to home here are the kind of 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠 flowers you find up and down the creek in Monkey Run; I think every natural area in Tompkins has its own characteristic 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠.
#photo #photography #flowers

RE: https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/115705131669115328
Wow! They stole sooo much less ($2.2 million) than Home Depot stole from its own employees in wage theft in just one state ($72.5 million).
Imagine if we went after the biggest thieves instead. …

I just submitted a talk for the Geospatial room at #FOSDEM. It's about #OSM. Do you think this would be interesting for the audience?

#Framework #Omarchy…

The Omarchy/Framework thing
I want to state for the record that I love Framework’s products. They are incredibly friendly to Linux, to Free Software, and to the Right to Repair movement. If their stated mission didn’t so closely align to my own values—and if they weren’t jeopardizing their reputation

'nut' is a UPS monitor program; you can configure your host to switch off when your UPS is running low and change settings on the UPS and monitor charge. The 'N' stands for Network - so you can do a lot of things remotely, for example making a bunch of machines speak to one host monitoring the UPS and get them all to shut down.
I also use some of my own scripts to feed it into some graphing stuff with Grafana and get pretty line voltage graphs;

Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
SULA: I'm not deaf, Hob.
HOB: Just not listening, is that it? I'm not fighting my own men to protect Servalan. Or to protect anyone else, for that matter. D'you understand me, Sula?
SULA: Perfectly.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/394

Just finished "Endgames" by Ru Xu, sequel to "Newsprints." I was happy to see the characters from the first book get their endings, but Xu feels incredibly out of her depth writing about the politics of empire and the power/complicity of the press, which completely dampened my enjoyment.
As just one example, there's a ton of interesting nuance to explore behind the idea of a disabled imperial ruler and how disadvantage/persecution (from which you have been effectively shielded) does not justify harming others. This book explores none of that.
I think it does serve as a great example of how severely one limits one's own imagination when one buys into the myth of nationhood as natural/inevitable/good. It's not that Xu's politics are especially authoritarian, I think, but that she's just (been kept?) resoundingly naïve, and so her plot resolution feels childish (or perhaps that's an insult to children).
#AmReading #ReadingNow

I am trying to find a primary source for this, because if it's not wishful thinking it's pretty good.
(Seen on https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-dfd)

Rest in Peace
US Constitution
Effective March 4, 1789
Terminated January 8, 2026
On January 8, 2026 trump declared himself dictator (but avoided using that word):
'In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.'
<…

79 Yr Old Man Uses Oval Office Powers To Discover Magnets
Announces : "Nobody knows what a magnet is"
However, seconds later the polarizing US #SupremeLeader claims victory in the war on his own #magnetic awareness by announcing " Now, in two years, we’ll have

Has anyone tried @… by @… yet? What do you think of it?
#FediDeck is a vibe coded multi-column #Tweetdeck-like #Fediverse app for Mastodon (Pre-Alpha)
❗This app is pre-alpha. No promises or warranties are made. Use at your own risk. Features/Updates can be found here: https://gmwd.us/fedideck-features Donate to the development of the app: https://ko-fi.com/fedideck
👉 https://fedideck.app/

I wasn't surprised to see Rob Sanderson quoted in this, because rich vs aligned semantics - specifically , wanting both at the same time - is *such* a cultural heritage data interoperability problem #MuseTech
From: @…

Pieter Colpaert (@pietercolpaert@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images There’s a tension between being semantically rich (using your own terms and definitions), and being semantically aligned, in which you try to reuse terms from other vocabularies. I think we need a new concept: eventual #interoperability. I propose to start rich with your own vocabularies, and only make alignments when there’s a concrete reason for building those. https://pietercolpaert.be/interoperability/2026/01/08/eventual-interoperability #knowledgegraphs #apis #li…

WR Brown vents about offense, not sorry for stir https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46947791/unapologetic-aj-brown-upset-eagles-offense-whole

when the dark web threat monitoring service gets pwnd and lists itself as a breach because it aggregated sensitive personal data as a service and therefore drew a bullseye on its own ass

If this morning you had asked me if I thought I would be working on a 20-year-old Mitsubishi pickup truck this evening, I would have looked at you like you had just sprouted a third head, because I don't own a 20-year-old Mitsubishi pickup truck, and I'm not employed as a mechanic. And yet, somehow, life brought me to such a junction anyway.
3 hours of work. Job done. Out of my life again. 🎉

In episode 207 I share advice from six former podcast guests on what they do to improve or maintain their own mental health. Hear what Dr Jan Eppingstall does to help keep herself on track
#gratitude #MentalHealth

Biggest corruption scandal of Zelensky’s presidency is in his own ranks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/biggest-corruption-scandal-of-zelenskys.html

I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’
#news

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’
President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority

Long winter nights, red light on, UV burner on... So have missed making my own prints, and so glad to be able to pick this up again (and also working with older techniques, which are new to me), all after more than three decades... Still some more kinks to work out before I can share some proper prints, e.g. experimenting with different exposure times, toners (gold/selenium), fixers, concentrations... All very much like a science experiment and meticulous log keeping has been key (as have be…

School communities — parents, educators, and neighbors — are working overtime right now to provide escorts and legal observers, every single day at every single school.
That is a •massive• operation. It is operation of a scale that ordinary people with their own lives can reasonably be expected to take up. But we’re taking it up anyway. We’re making it happen.
9/

“‘Fascism thrives on indifference and ignorance,’ it warned. Freedom requires ‘being alert and on guard against the infringement not only of our own freedom but the freedom of every American. If we permit discrimination, prejudice, or hate to rob anyone of his democratic rights, our own freedom and all democracy is threatened.’”
https://

January 9, 2026
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

Not so pointless cover klaxon. Tiffany's version is sufficiently different and funner than the original to stand on its own. #TOTP

A look at censorship at student papers in Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma; at two colleges, students started independent papers after conflicts with administrators (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/one-battle-after-another-student-news…

One battle after another: Student papers in crisis.
On university campuses, student papers are fighting their own administrations—and sometimes the government—for the right to report.

After some time in preparation, and following an initial attempt to prioritise the allocation of network capacity, the Dutch NRA has now taken a (and this time: own) decision.
Priority for 'congestion softeners', safety, healthcare, housing etc.
https://www.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stc<…

I’ve tried different ways in the past to manage my phone and social media addiction, but what’s finally started working for me, especially now that I’ve been living in my own apartment since October 2024, is deleting social media altogether and setting up network firewalls to block those sites, including federated addresses.
Moving forward, I know I’ll have to cut even more of my online life. I’ve been using my Pi-hole to block distracting domains at the network level, and since I’m to…

Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform providing a "secure, fortified space" to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/818364/google-private-ai-compute

Google is introducing its own version of Apple’s private AI cloud compute
Google is rolling out Private AI Compute to use the cloud for AI requests while keeping on-device levels of privacy, a similar feature to Apple. 

Most people believe climate change primarily affects others #environment

Most people believe climate change primarily affects others
Research conducted by researchers at the University of Gothenburg shows that people tend to rate their own risk of being affected by climate change as lower than that of others. This perception may reduce individuals' willingness to act and slow down necessary climate measures.

theme from the A-team starts playing
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/former-special-counsel-jack-smith-to-start-law-firm-with-other-former-prosecutors

Former special counsel Jack Smith will start law firm with other former prosecutors
Former special counsel Jack Smith and three other former prosecutors who investigated President Donald Trump and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are starting their own law firm, which will launch in January, Law.com reports.

Here's a great use of AI text-to-speech generation: preparing for a live pitch.
Instead of reading your pitch a hundred times so you can edit it for time, use ElevenLabs.
1. Create an account
2. Find a voice that matches your own cadence
3. Paste your script and have it generate the pitch
You'll immediately see how long the audio file is and can adjust your script for length.
Then you can spend your time **rehearsing** instead of editing.

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
VILA: Well, do something! [Avon smashes the control box]
[Atlay. Tone ceases, Blake calms down. Jenna forces the bracelet on him and puts on her own. Glynd and Travis continue to struggle]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/613 B7B2

The Trump regime is ramping up violence and terror
in part because its grip on the nation -- and even on its own party, seems to be slipping.
Last week it suffered two humiliating defeats in Congress,
one in each chamber.
⭐️The House passes ACA subsidies
⭐️The Senate tries to restrain Trump’s warmongering
The administration will probably be able to contain the damage
-- But the signs of revolt in the legislature highlight the extreme and increasing…

Republicans in Congress show signs of life
Trump's grip on his party is weakening.

Child harm/death mention; Columbus
On Indigenous People's Day here in America, it's a great time to:
1. Remember that Columbus was a monster. Anyone who feeds toddlers to dogs actually deserves to burn in hell for eternity. Nothing else about this man should be remembered before this fact.
2. If you're in a colonized country, check out the website(s) for your local indigenous tribe (s) to remind yourself that they're still here. For me, that includes #LandBack, etc.
Me, I'm hopeful for a future in which the US is a distant memory and the hundreds of surviving nations on this territory flourish like budding plants after the winter snow.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Gil Scott-Heron:
🎵 A Legend in His Own Mind
#GilScottHeron

The remote option is great, but it’s not actually an answer to the school safety question. I would like to know:
What •action• are the schools, the city, and the state of MN taking to directly protect students? Who is defending our students and our educators? Is that part of this NG deployment — or is the community on their own?
4/

Democrats are holding their own in the redistricting wars: From the Politics Desk (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/democrats-are-holding-redistricting-wars-politics-desk-rcna243335
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p113#a251111p113

Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c586eb77-a16e-4363-ab0b-e877898b70de

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up
Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sepalot:
🎵 My Own Way
#NowPlaying #Sepalot
https://sepalot.bandcamp.com/track/my-own-way
https://open.spotify.com/track/1fZWCdpLnT98Lf5DeGkMSB

The Washington Post's new Your Personal Podcast, which offers AI-generated customizable podcasts, was developed under a multiyear agreement with ElevenLabs (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-washington-post-debu…

The Washington Post debuts AI-personalized podcasts to hook younger listeners
The Washington Post used AI to build a pick-your-own-format news podcast, letting listeners choose the topics, hosts and duration.

In episode 207 I share advice from six former podcast guests on what they do to improve or maintain their own mental health. Hear what Harriet Impey thinks is "bonkersly brilliant"
#MentalHealth #mindfulness

Stanford researchers pitted their own AI model called Artemis against professional penetration testers, and the AI system beat the humans in finding bugs at a cost of only $60 per hour.
AI Hackers Are Coming Dangerously Close to Beating Humans

If I’ve stopped lying, then you should too. But you can’t seem to stop twisting the truth about anarchism, using the dictionary as a weapon to bend reality toward your own system and agenda. That manipulation says more about your control than my beliefs.

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/trump-states-defiant-ai-executive-order

States defiant in face of Trump's AI executive order
States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

The Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials,
substantially expanding its use of data sharing to expel people under deportation orders.
Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports.
ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deporta…

T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.

Sources: Bari Weiss has privately been deeply frustrated by the negative reaction to her CBS tenure and has blamed subordinates for not stanching the criticism (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/business/media/cbs-evening-news-bari-weiss.ht…

‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS
Her reimagining of “CBS Evening News” is under heavy scrutiny, and even became a punchline on her own network on Sunday at the Golden Globes.

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Right-wing media villainize and blame Renee Good for her own death in Minneapolis ICE shooting (Gideon Taaffe/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/right-wing-media-villainize-and-blame-renee-good-her-own-death-minneapolis-ice-shooting
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p107#a260109p107

Anthropic launches Cowork for Claude, built on Claude Code to automate complex tasks with minimal prompting, as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers (Webb Wright/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-cowork-for-claude-complex-action…

Claude Cowork automates complex tasks for you now - at your own risk
Available first to Claude Max subscribers, the research preview empowers Anthropic's chatbot to handle complex tasks.

RUSSIA ABANDONS ITS OWN – the Kremlin did not stand up for Maduro’s Venezuela | Wrap-Up Analytics: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/05/russia-abandons-its-own-the.html

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

World Liberty Financial launches World Liberty Markets, letting users lend and borrow digital assets among one another, supporting its own token USD1 and others (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Lenovo introduces Qira, a system-level, cross-device AI assistant for both its computers and Motorola smartphones, arriving later this quarter (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/lenovo-and-motorola-are-releasing…

Lenovo and Motorola are releasing their own on-device AI assistant
If the world didn't already have one too many digital assistants, Lenovo is adding another one to the pile.

US lawmakers remove provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2026 that would have ensured military members' right to repair their own equipment (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-military-almost-got-…

The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away
The final language of the annual bill that funds the US military is in. It removes provisions that would have helped ensure service members’ ability to fix their own equipment.