Tootfinder

What will people do when AI can handle most current white-collar tasks?
I don't know.
And that's the whole point.
Nobody knew what displaced agricultural workers would do, either,
-- until they did it.
The absence of a visible next chapter isn't evidence that there won't be one.
It's evidence that we're bad at predicting what humans will invent when constraints shift.

Everything is awesome (why I'm an optimist)
February is the month the internet decided we're all going to die. In the span of about two weeks, Matt Shumer's Something Big is Happening racked up over 80 million views on X with its breathless comparison of AI to the early days of COVID, telling his non-tech friends and

Caracol 3D-druckt in einem Stück 6-m-Katamaran in 160 Stunden
Der Bootsbau könnte vereinfacht werden, indem ganze Bootsrümpfe im 3D-Druckverfahren ausgedruckt werden. Mit genauer Vorbereitung klappt das auch.

This is a fashion trend. It’s not just functional; camo serves no purpose of disguising whatsoever on Minneapolis streets. Militaries are dressing the part — and ICE is playing dress-up.
Avery Trufelman’s excellent podcast Articles of Interest spent an entire season on this topic, under the name “Gear.” Here’s on relevant episode.
2/2
https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/gear-chapter-5

#genAI

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/3]:
- SMaRT: Online Reusable Resource Assignment and an Application to Mediation in the Kenyan Judiciary
Farabi, Pinto, Lu, Ramos-Maqueda, Das, Deeb, Sautmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18431 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116119352329590193
- Benchmarking Distilled Language Models: Performance and Efficiency in Resource-Constrained Settings
Sachin Gopal Wani, Eric Page, Ajay Dholakia, David Ellison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20164 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130101399805837
- VISION-ICE: Video-based Interpretation and Spatial Identification of Arrhythmia Origins via Neura...
Dorsa EPMoghaddam, Feng Gao, Drew Bernard, Kavya Sinha, Mehdi Razavi, Behnaam Aazhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20165 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130222034322594
- Benchmarking Early Deterioration Prediction Across Hospital-Rich and MCI-Like Emergency Triage Un...
KMA Solaiman, Joshua Sebastian, Karma Tobden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20168 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116130239074411770
- Cross-Chirality Generalization by Axial Vectors for Hetero-Chiral Protein-Peptide Interaction Design
Yang, Tian, Jia, Zhang, Zheng, Wang, Su, He, Liu, Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20176 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioBM_bot/116130281674122586
- Enhancing Heat Sink Efficiency in MOSFETs using Physics Informed Neural Networks: A Systematic St...
Aniruddha Bora, Isabel K. Alvarez, Julie Chalfant, Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20177 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_bot/116130397676559696
- Data-Driven Deep MIMO Detection:Network Architectures and Generalization Analysis
Yongwei Yi, Xinping Yi, Wenjin Wang, Xiao Li, Shi Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20178 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/116130257424413457
- OrgFlow: Generative Modeling of Organic Crystal Structures from Molecular Graphs
Mohammadmahdi Vahediahmar, Matthew A. McDonald, Feng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20195 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot/116130271189617558
- KEMP-PIP: A Feature-Fusion Based Approach for Pro-inflammatory Peptide Prediction
Soumik Deb Niloy, Md. Fahmid-Ul-Alam Juboraj, Swakkhar Shatabda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20198 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioQM_bot/116130341315320687
- Regressor-guided Diffusion Model for De Novo Peptide Sequencing with Explicit Mass Control
Shaorong Chen, Jingbo Zhou, Jun Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20209 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioQM_bot/116130374083646541
- The Sim-to-Real Gap in MRS Quantification: A Systematic Deep Learning Validation for GABA
Zien Ma, S. M. Shermer, Oktay Karaku\c{s}, Frank C. Langbein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20289 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/116130267228834775
- Gap-Dependent Bounds for Nearly Minimax Optimal Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Appro...
Haochen Zhang, Zhong Zheng, Lingzhou Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20297 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130255458256497
- Multilevel Determinants of Overweight and Obesity Among U.S. Children Aged 10-17: Comparative Eva...
Joyanta Jyoti Mondal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20303 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130097466859145
- An artificial intelligence framework for end-to-end rare disease phenotyping from clinical notes ...
Shyr, Hu, Tinker, Cassini, Byram, Hamid, Fabbri, Wright, Peterson, Bastarache, Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20324 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130100089848459
- Circuit Tracing in Vision-Language Models: Understanding the Internal Mechanisms of Multimodal Th...
Jingcheng Yang, Tianhu Xiong, Shengyi Qian, Klara Nahrstedt, Mingyuan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20330 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130463214879334
- No One Size Fits All: QueryBandits for Hallucination Mitigation
Nicole Cho, William Watson, Alec Koppel, Sumitra Ganesh, Manuela Veloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20332 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130370809116915
- Learning During Detection: Continual Learning for Neural OFDM Receivers via DMRS
Mohanad Obeed, Ming Jian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20361 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_bot/116130289537785136
- Detecting and Mitigating Group Bias in Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Joel Persson, Jurri\"en Bakker, Dennis Bohle, Stefan Feuerriegel, Florian von Wangenheim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20383 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/116130509065601748
- Selecting Optimal Variable Order in Autoregressive Ising Models
Shiba Biswal, Marc Vuffray, Andrey Y. Lokhov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20394 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130299369541741
toXiv_bot_toot

📍 Timbertrain Coffee Roasters - Depot
Cafe · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Boxing Week on sale coffee, and a little peaceful time with me and a cappuccino.
#BeaconBits https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/po…

Boris (@bmann.ca)
📍 Timbertrain Coffee Roasters - Depot Cafe · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Boxing Week on sale coffee, and a little peaceful time with me and a cappuccino. #BeaconBits

Since my job is stable now and I have saved up some money, I have decided to stop accepting donations via GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi. I would like to thank everyone who helped me over the years. There are people who need the help much more than me right now.
If you needed a suggestion, @… is doing a lot more than me for #Gentoo these days and will certainly appreciate your help. He's also way nicer than I'll ever be.
https://github.com/sponsors/thesamesam
https://ko-fi.com/thesamesam
To the best of my knowledge, Gentoo project does not need extra money right now, but there are other awesome projects such as Disroot or many Fediverse instances that would definitely use some help. However, in general I'd suggest towards supporting individuals rather than projects: people need money to live, and can use your donations directly, while projects are often bound by red tape.
Finally, please support human artists and craftspeople (and I'm counting human software developers in that). Donate to projects and people who resist enshittification and who refuse to use LLMs. They need the money.
Once again, thanks for all.

Heute uffe Arbeit gelernt: Im Englischen gibt es so etwas wie eine Käseschraube. Die heißt so, weil se einen Goudalaib aufm Kopp hat.
Bei uns heißt se Pan-Tau-Schraube.
https://m.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/cheese head screw.html

I hate clicking a link and it leads to a paywall or Medium or some other anomic nonsense...
BRING BACK BLOGS!
(and, yes, I realise a lot of us have had them since the '90s and still post on there - I'm about to copy this to mine.)
(bzangy.com, thank you for asking)

Gaslight 1944 Crime/Mystery
#gaslighting #SotU

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Grandaddy:
🎵 A.M. 180
#Grandaddy
https://nightgarden.bandcamp.com/track/a-m-180-grandaddy-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/1tMHDdJEz8MFrkPFgwFACG

I'm no expert but I've only even heard of one of these.
10 Hidden Anime So Good You'll Finish Them in One Night by Top10Guy
#anime

Just got these messages from @seengoals@mastodon.social, one of the members of Gaza Verified, basically accusing me of running a fundraiser for Gaza and keeping the proceeds (I have no fundraiser on any fundraising site anywhere) and extorting me to share his fundraiser or he’ll apparently go public with it.
So here’s what’s going to happening instead: Nabil has been removed Gaza Verified (

I'm sorry, *what*
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/basis-for-delay-compensation/113020/2
> Ardour’s latency delay compensation was the subject of a Ph.D thesis.
And somehow this is the first I'm hearing about this. Completely unpretentious…

Basis for delay compensation
This is entirely out of date now. Ardour’s latency delay compensation was the subject of a Ph.D thesis. There are delay lines all over the place, and come very complex design. Everything is fully latency compensated. @x42 will likely chime in to correct me.

Regularly, I use the following for near-realtime communications ("text messages”).
- SMS/RCS/iMessage (friends, family)
- Facebook Messenger (friends, family)
- What's App (friends)
- ActivityPub/Mastodon (friends)
- Matrix (friends, work)
- Discord (work)
- Mattermost (friends, locals)
I'm sure I'm missing some.
The fact that no one is allowed to make a single piece of software (for wide distribution) that talks on all of thes…

*wiggles a car lock back to life*
Me: “I'm a car mechanic now. Time to transition careers. The car life chose me, I didn't choose it.”
Update: lock stopped working again. Back to the Code mines.

Anyone have suggestions on CI platforms/dashboards besides github actions?
I'm looking at using CDash potentially for ngscopeclient moving forward but need to work out specifics of how the jobs will actually be launched etc.
(I liked CDash years ago when I used it for my thesis but havent touched it in forever)

Okay, RPM Challenge is done. I made a terrible album aptly titled "Space Farts" which you probably do not want to listen to.
I made it for me, so if anyone else listens, cool... and if not, that's okay too.
https://peteprodoehl.bandcamp.com/album/space-farts

I'm in a "Trans Ally" course this morning. There are no trans people actually on the course, either as teachers or as participants.
Fortunately, I have you lot ! I'm guessing I've learned more from my own family and the eloquent trans activists here than I ever will in a formal course...
#trans #transally

Really neat to live in a city with a lot of japanese expats.
Found a new japanese supermarket, just 5min from my place.
Now I don't need to drive 20min into the city center to get good gyoza skins
I'm kind of tempted to try to make a fusion of korean chicken buldak and gyoza

I'm starting to sell some of my sealed Magic the Gathering Draft Boosters and Play Boosters boxes I've acquired over the years while working on Magic sets.
Starting with this one: https://www.ebay.ie/itm/147225537683

Magic the Gathering - Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate Draft Boosters | eBay
Magic the Gathering - Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate Draft Boosters | Collectables, Collectable Card Games, CCG Sealed Boxes | eBay!

Mayhem, Liturgy of Death
#mayhem

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
BELKOV: And I'm the only one who can get them for you. It is a game Commissioner, and I hold the winning hand.
SERVALAN: No hand is a winning hand until it's played, Belkov. You should know that.
[Scorpio]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/99 B7…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
MGMT:
🎵 Little Dark Age
#NowPlaying #MGMT
https://djsuzukid.bandcamp.com/track/mgmt-little-dark-age-suzukid-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Y0iGXY6m6immVb2ktbseM

Finally getting around to upgrading my home server from Debian bookworm (12/oldstable) to trixie (13/stable).
`apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs` went smoothly enough, just a few config files with local tweaks.
Currently wishing I had FTTP for the `apt full-upgrade` downloads. I'm "languishing on only 80Mbps FTTC".
I expect to have some issues to sort out once this bit is done, and I still need to re-activate/update my third-party repositories....

I'm starting my day with the great CHITOSE SAKI and her 2& project!
"Live Idol Artist" is In my top 10 of the best J-Pop albums ever produced.
2&DOUBLE AND - LIVE IDOL ARTIST [Full Album]

• YouTube
• YouTube Music

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

I'm sure algorithms designed by people with biases and an agenda, based on data from people with biases and an agenda, marketed by people with biases and an agenda and used by people with biases and an agenda will act perfectly neutrally!
Anyway here's a good read on epistemic vigilance in [commercial] LLMs (tl;dr it's not possible) https://bsky.app/profile/mjcrockett.bsky.social/post/3mfrbukoy5c2s

Satellite imagery confirms Ukraine's Flamingo missiles scored 4/4 hits Russian Skif-M factory tied to Su-57 production (PHOTOS, MAP) - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/25/satellite-imagery-confirms-ukraines-flamingo-missiles-scored-4-4-hits-russian-skif-m-factory-tied-to-su-57-production-photos-map/

@… thanks.
I'm pragmatic about levels of engagement here and elsewhere.
Looking at other instances' local live feeds, in isolation, was … erm … I'm not sure how to describe the overall experience, but it was worth it.

No!
Fuck you!
STOP!
GET OUT!
I'm fine, I'm breathing
I'm just angry
I'm 70 years old and I'm fucking angry
Oh, just fuck off
https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3md6ps742sw2q

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)
Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 35 nodes and 96 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Everything Big Tech gets shittier and shittier. Yes I'm using an Android phone, bad. This is all self-inflicted.
Wondering about the weather tomorrow, I click "26 Feb Tomorrow" (yes it lists "Wed 25 Feb (2026)" for today, and "Fri" for the day after tomorrow, but the day of tomorrow shall not be named, apparently.).
It takes me to a website with ads (terrible!). But it lists "Tue 30". There isn't a Tue 30 in January, February, n…

I wonder if Bessent knows that the word "fulsome" has more than one meaning. In particularly, one of its meanings is "particularly bad", or as the M-Webster dictionary puts it "aesthetically, morally, or generally offensive"
"Bessent: Greenland deal is ‘much more fulsome’ for the US"

Bessent: Greenland deal is ‘much more fulsome’ for the US
The treasury secretary defended the deal as more than what's in place now.

Just got back from middle school STEAM night. I did "Analog Synthesis: The Science of Sound"
“Learn how electronic music was made before computers, using electrical signals instead of digital technology…”
This went so well! I setup an ARP, a Moog, and an oscilloscope. We did waveforms, R2-D2 squeals, Close Encounters, Stranger Things, etc. A teacher let me borrow a big DIY subwoofer and we rattled the windows of that 8th grade math classroom! Haha!

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116132712269085120
Update: They opened!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
GAZZI:
🎵 Vacilar na' mšs
#GAZZI
https://gazzi.bandcamp.com/track/quiere-vacilar-na-m-s-ft-natural-language
https://open.spotify.com/track/1M4eZYYg64B7fPmPbf9v8B

Perhaps the main difference between myself and vibe coders is that we have completely different backgrounds.
I've learned coding as a kid, with no friends and no Internet. I didn't do it because it was cool; nerdy stuff was the exact opposite of cool and was likely to get you bullied. I didn't do it because it promised good salary; as a 10-year old, I didn't ponder much about my future, let alone salary. I did it because I was bored, and it was something interesting to do.
I didn't do specific exercises, but rather created whatever I've found interesting. I wasn't graded, I had all the time in the world, and I've enjoyed solving problems. Even if I had access to the Internet, I doubt I would start looking for ready solutions and copy-pasting them. My code was always mine, and I was proud of it; at least at the time.
Of course, nowadays I do stuff I don't enjoy as well. But I'm a grown man who takes responsibility for what I do. And even if my code is shit, it is my shit, and 100% eco.
#NoAI #NoLLM

@… this is a different kind of shape but a related theme of what is and isn’t necessary by @…
Substrates and algae
…

Amazon may be in fairly big legal trouble here: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-bu…

Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy
California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged Amazon led a price-fixing conspiracy of online retailers to inflate prices across the entire economy. And he's demanding an immediate halt.

Current summary of all of the GPU acceleration work I've been doing in ngscopeclient since v0.1.1.
Other than the CDR PLL and eye pattern which were high-priority targets that were worth the effort, and the Ethernet which I got nerdsniped on, these are all trivial inner loops of just a few lines that I threw at the GPU without any significant tuning, so there's probably more performance upside.
But I'm not complaining with what I've pulled off so far. (As you ca…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Gerry Read:
🎵 It'll Be All Over (DJ Koze Remix)
#NowPlaying #GerryRead
https://pamparecords.bandcamp.com/album/itll-all-be-over-pampa033
https://open.spotify.com/track/7GFMKgqhOsaFL3k9g5vbLe

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: I just want to make a statement in open court. I want those responsible for the massacre brought to trial.
VARON: I'm sorry?
BLAKE: There can be no justification for deliberate murder.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/161 B7B5

I'd love to get involved with this but I'm not sure I'll be healed up enough by March 7th... I'm also not an expert or a noob so I am somewhere in-between.
https://give.wisconsinbikefed.org/event/ready-plan-pe…

"DrJHAmsterdam
‪@drjohamsterdam.bsky.social€
ICE/Border Patrol heeft opnieuw een vrouw in Minnesota neergeschoten.
De vrouw rende weg, maar werd in de rug neergeschoten.
Ditmaal met een niet-dodelijk wapen, maar het lijkt erop dat ze een deel van haar hand is kwijtgeraakt."
Bericht door @drjohamsterdam.bsky.social — Bluesky
#Minnesota #ice

Got spring crocuses if you want ’em: #Photography

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Make a Dance:
🎵 Young Man
#MakeaDance
https://makeadance.bandcamp.com/album/m-a-d-records-13-young-man-ep
https://open.spotify.com/track/1AA4Dgoob2TZZByNW3zJi7

So I'm walking out of the forest, found a way to cross the small river and I'm trying to get to the main road. The road straight ahead is going through a farmstead (surrounded by fence), with "private property, keep out", etm. So I'm turning to the side road. That one is going next to another farmstead (outside the fence), yet "private property", etm.
Seriously, what's wrong with these people?! Did the capitalism mess up their brains so much?! What am I supposed to do, walk straight through their fields?!
#AntiCapitalism

The price of silver smashed through the $90 mark Wednesday morning
for the first time in weeks
as the metal recoups gains it lost after a late January crash,
though the precious metal remains far from the record highs it previously hit above $120.
KEY FACTS
The price of silver is $90.68 as of 9:25 a.m. EST, up nearly 4% but down slightly from a high of $91.18 reached earlier in the morning.

Silver Breaks $90 Mark Again—Fueled By Tariff Uncertainty, Iran Tensions
Silver has recouped some of the losses that it suffered following a price crash in late January.

A report from down in the photography trenches in Minneapolis: https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/6336791578/john-abernathy-pierre-lavie-protest-photographers-ice-minneapolis-thrown-leica

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
JENNA: Not a chance.
VILA: What was all that about? Everything is running smoothly.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/216 B7B3

I am about to fly across the country in a bit, and I think I’m going to play Last Epoch the whole way.
It’s an Action RPG that has a fully offline mode. https://lastepoch.com

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Soccer Mommy:
🎵 I'm on Fire
#SoccerMommy
https://sopharela.bandcamp.com/album/henry-im-on-fire
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZGTTfJcCJ33IfAaExK5Wi

Hey, FTC is appealing the Meta (Facebook/Insta/WhatsApp) antitrust case: https://apnews.com/article/ftc-meta-appeal-antitrust-752463c7783ba14b00b686fe0c933f88
(Disclosure: I’m an expert witness for FTC in this litigation.)

FTC says it will appeal Meta antitrust decision
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it will appeal the November ruling in favor of Meta in its antitrust case against the social media giant. The FTC said it continues to allege that, for more than a decade, Meta has illegally maintained a monopoly in social networking through anticompetitive conduct. The FTC says Meta bought the significant competitive threats it identified in Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta prevailed over the existential challenge to its business that could have forced the…

Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
TARRANT: You're offering to let her go. That's not the same thing.
AVON: What are you talking about?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/510 B7B4

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Brenda Lee Eager:
🎵 When I'm With You
#BrendaLeeEager
https://expansionsingles.bandcamp.com/album/brenda-lee-eager-when-im-with-you-let-me-be
https://open.spotify.com/track/0K7rOxbuCBBYueRzFCIh6W

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bel Cobain:
🎵 Am I Dumb
#BelCobain
https://belcobain.bandcamp.com/track/am-i-dumb
https://open.spotify.com/track/1sIVgEvTlxQ67GPZREOahZ

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
GROSE: [To a waitress] More wine! [to Servalan] Real wine, from grapes, you know. You like wine?
SERVALAN: Not particularly, no.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/195 B7B5

In The Information newsletter, on Block layoffs. Quote:
The best way to destroy public support for AI is for companies to use it primarily to slash jobs. Dorsey says that’s coming: “Within the next year, I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion and make similar structural changes.” …Block’s stock, which had been in a slump in recent months, soared 24% in after-hours trading. Investors seem to like the profit implications of a company cutting nearly half the st…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Russian Blue:
🎵 HANDS!
#RussianBlue
https://russianbluetheband.bandcamp.com/track/hands
https://open.spotify.com/track/22VH7FN0vGs83mdKKTuA3x

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: Zen. Forward vision.
VILA: Four more?
BLAKE: Bearing?
AVON: Two seven zero.
BLAKE: Cally?
CALLY: Four hundred spacials and closing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/29 B7B4

Gregor Macdonald's “Cold Eye Earth” is an excellent big-picture newsletter on energy trends and why it’s so freaking difficult to reduce global emissions. There are grounds for optimism, but still… https://www.coldeye.earth?r=wabr

Cold Eye Earth | Gregor Macdonald | Substack
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Russian Blue:
🎵 Patience
#RussianBlue
https://russianbluetheband.bandcamp.com/track/patience
https://open.spotify.com/track/69tTVvtJbZgyC70TuJMiK4

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BEK: What for? There's nothing left there.
BLAKE: Well, it's your territory. At least you know who you're fighting now.
BEK: What have I got left to fight for?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/648 B7B2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Gottlieb:
🎵 Scarcity
#Gottlieb
https://gottlieblosangeles.bandcamp.com/track/scarcity-i
https://open.spotify.com/track/0whF2nmheoecP6k1GxH5Ah

Was making a cuppa for my wife who is working through a little Christmas-gift box of fancy tea and it’s pretty well all gone, as I was gathering the last cupsworth I snickered because there was a tune going through my head 🎵“Twigs and seeds, twigs and seeds…” 🎵
#IYKYK

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
DAYNA: They've still got to control it all.
AVON: The computer controls it. They don't need to do anything. And, in evolutionary terms, what you don't need, you lose.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/445 B7B5

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Russian Blue:
🎵 Patience
#RussianBlue
https://russianbluetheband.bandcamp.com/track/patience
https://open.spotify.com/track/69tTVvtJbZgyC70TuJMiK4

RE: https://mastodon.social/@emilylowan/115959504834441195
She's got several good points, notably including the fact that the food biz is highly monopolized; the only big grocery store in walking distance for our family is one of Jimmy's.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Romy:
🎵 Love Who You Love
#Romy
https://romyromyromy.bandcamp.com/album/love-who-you-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/2uvcftCCrCr2pprXUJ6Vjr

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
TRAVIS: What else did you think I was going to do with Blake, you old fool.
MOLOK: [Enters room and points gun at Vila.] You.
VILA: Me?
MOLOK: You.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/547 B7B5

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Life Without Buildings:
🎵 New Town
#LifeWithoutBuildings
https://gargleblastrecords.bandcamp.com/track/new-town
https://open.spotify.com/track/6fNtjb3OEYKAUMJY9SXHrC

Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
AVON: Keep monitoring all systems. I do not want even a fractional error.
ZEN: Confirmed.
[Teleport room. Dayna and Cally are playing a board game. Vila is kibitzing.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/6 B7B4

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Ethel Lindsey:
🎵 Your Winner
#EthelLindsey
https://favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com/track/your-winner
https://open.spotify.com/track/6wojswZ0dtiiNwi5hqnpPO

Got maximal hair-on-fire financial doomerism about the #GenAI bubble if ya want it: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/
Genuinely scary.
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Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
VILA: Let's hope they don't even think about it.
[Farren's office]
FARREN: I've never seen a ship remotely like it before. What do you think, Professor Kayn?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/356 B7B3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Melody’s Echo Chamber:
🎵 Burning Man
#MelodysEchoChamber
https://melodysechochamber.bandcamp.com/track/burning-man
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FO40gt6jTlVn5SOW7E67P

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Jembaa Groove:
🎵 Bassa Bassa
#JembaaGroove
https://jembaagroove.bandcamp.com/album/bassa-bassa
https://open.spotify.com/track/4SnMDKZEBTZs33cPj58PES

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: [To Jenna] Put Zen on constant scan. I want to know immediately if those Federation ships come into this system.
JENNA: Of course. [goes to teleport controls]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/263 B7B3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Pink Breath of Heaven:
🎵 Look Inside
#PinkBreathofHeaven
https://pinkbreathofheaven.bandcamp.com/track/look-inside
https://open.spotify.com/track/4CnN8iHVtDwDPHhmCfhnpC

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
BLAKE: What is it?
CALLY: Look. [She puts her hand up to show some sort of barrier. Blake does the same.]
BLAKE: It's a force barrier. The question is are we on the outside unable to get in or....
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/176 B7B2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Joey Bada$$:
🎵 Land of the Free
#JoeyBada$$
https://caobadeelers.bandcamp.com/album/joey-bada-land-of-the-free-caoba-deelers-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BjygzvUpf8P7X6uWzIhsF

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
MUTOID: We are calculating at time distort nine. That is our safety maximum.
SERVALAN: I thought this ship was capable of time distort ten?
MUTOID: That is the emergency maximum.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/380 B7B5

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Pink Breath of Heaven:
🎵 Blue Is the Morning
#PinkBreathofHeaven
https://pinkbreathofheaven.bandcamp.com/track/blue-is-the-morning
https://open.spotify.com/track/1iq1pRMagmQfTqQTm5mjY8

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
TARRANT: If he's still inside the ship then he's probably safe. Oh you're very clever Servalan; why can't you work it out? Sand slides. Sand higher than the windows.
SERVALAN: Are you serious?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/245 B7B3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Tears for Fears:
🎵 Shout
#TearsforFears
https://gianmarcofabbretti.bandcamp.com/track/tears-for-fears-shout-gianmarco-fabbretti-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2gQaQUhDCNGfBVXTvxAmXQ

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Solitary Dancer:
🎵 Crown Shyness
#SolitaryDancer
https://privatepossessions.bandcamp.com/album/crown-shyness
https://open.spotify.com/track/6MoYdSErLs9TbsRAm1cFWN

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
BERCOL: Bercol! Senator Bercol. Head of the Information Bureau. Ex-officio member of the High Council. [The door opens and he passes through.]
LYE: [Laughs] Thought he was going to run for it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/11 B7B4

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mason Jennings:
🎵 Ballad of Paul and Sheila
#MasonJennings
https://masonjenningsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/ballad-of-paul-and-sheila
https://open.spotify.com/track/7CKcKu4lLWg4KDfgMIb7p4

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
VILA: Under control? You know this could be another Casarus.
AVON: What?
VILA: You remember the Casarus swamp fever, killed millions.
AVON: Well there aren't millions here, so don't worry about it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/542 …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Daniel Steinberg:
🎵 Lift Me Up (Extended Mix)
#DanielSteinberg
https://armsandlegsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lift-me-up-cone-snail
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HeRjXg0mqaeg4aEBR9205

C10 - Ultraworld
TARRANT: Oh, and what would you advise? That we sit around exchanging speculations? You heard the transmissions. Cally's in trouble. She needs help. In my book you don't ignore a call from a fellow crew member.
AVON: Meaning?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/121

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Dennis Brown:
🎵 Promised Land
#DennisBrown
https://mentalhygienemusic.bandcamp.com/track/dennis-brown-promised-land-kill-the-computer-dubstep-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3SmlQ9SaXbkmeXrXNF5ojP

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Sepulchral Curse:
🎵 House of the Black Moon
#SepulchralCurse
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/track/house-of-the-black-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/6zPHIt9PkABaERGrQnB2Tr

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Delano Smith:
🎵 Midnight Hours
#DelanoSmith
https://delanosmithdetroit.bandcamp.com/track/midnight-hours
https://open.spotify.com/track/3o1ZjSjr0hoIv9JrTKPfN0

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Man Power:
🎵 Luo Land
#ManPower
https://manpowermememe.bandcamp.com/album/m-a-d-008-luo-land-battle-hill-ep

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Can:
🎵 I'm So Green
#Can
https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/track/im-so-green

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Grrrl Gang:
🎵 Mother’s Prayers
#GrrrlGang
https://grrrlgang.bandcamp.com/track/mother-s-prayers

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Fabulous Caprices:
🎵 Groovy World
#FabulousCaprices
https://goldminesoulsupply.bandcamp.com/track/groovy-world