Tootfinder

"Labor reveals $1.1bn plan to replace petrol with fuels made from canola, sorghum and sugar"
#Australia #Energy

#GoodNews
https://gizmodo.com/farsighted-eye-drops-could-one-day-replace-your-reading-glasses-2000659379

Farsighted? These Eye Drops Could Eventually Replace Your Reading Glasses
New research demonstrated that special eye drops allowed patients to read extra lines on an eyesight chart for up to two years.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Odeko:
🎵 Replace Battery
#Odeko
https://odeko.bandcamp.com/track/replace-battery
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DVTYV87KrqowjdFSQkiar

For your Saturday reading pleasure, Metacurity offers our free and paid readers a run-down of the top infosec-related long reads of the week.
This week's selection covers,
--Microsoft's Chinese "Digital Escorts" are a huge threat to DoD's digital security,
--Myanmar's scam centers are proliferating rapidly,
--Are VCs unpatriotic for investing in Chinese AI?,
--Afghanistan's extensive data systems need proper governance,
--AI c…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 7/12/25
Microsoft's Chinese "Digital Escorts" are a huge threat to DoD's digital security, Myanmar's scam centers are proliferating rapidly, Are VCs unpatriotic for investing in Chinese AI?, Afghanistan's extensive data systems need proper governance, AI can't replace humans in bug hunting

CNBC names David Cho, most recently the EIC of Barron's, as its EIC, replacing both Dan Colarusso and Jay Yarow, ahead of CNBC's planned spin-off into Versant (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cnbc-shake-up-david-cho…

CNBC Shakeup: David Cho Replaces Dan Colarusso
CNBC Shakeup: David Cho replaces Dan Colarusso

"Report: Clean energy on track to replace 75% of fossil fuel demand"
#Energy #Renewables
https://www.

Sources say Meta's chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to AI brain drain; Meta strongly denies it has had issues with talent and retention (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

How Meta Lost Its Way With AI Talent
At Meta, a chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to brain drain, with rivals saying its AI talent is lackluster. But Zuckerberg’s frenzied hiring spree hasn’t stopped the departures.

New tip for showing students how to express a Windows file location in a text format (e.g., for Stata, R, Python, Julia to read/write):
Find the folder in the File Explorer, right click on it, and click "Open in Command Window".
The prompt shows the location. All they need to do then is replace the stupid backslashes.
I think this is new in W11.

There is a difference of course between these two. One was using his free speech, and the other was ,,,,,,,,, using his free speech.

Lumen: Consistent Video Relighting and Harmonious Background Replacement with Video Generative Models
Jianshu Zeng, Yuxuan Liu, Yutong Feng, Chenxuan Miao, Zixiang Gao, Jiwang Qu, Jianzhang Zhang, Bin Wang, Kun Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12945

Lumen: Consistent Video Relighting and Harmonious Background Replacement with Video Generative Models
Video relighting is a challenging yet valuable task, aiming to replace the background in videos while correspondingly adjusting the lighting in the foreground with harmonious blending. During translation, it is essential to preserve the original properties of the foreground, e.g., albedo, and propagate consistent relighting among temporal frames. In this paper, we propose Lumen, an end-to-end video relighting framework developed on large-scale video generative models, receiving flexible textual…

Cowboys predicted to trade for $30 million All-Pro edge rusher to replace Micah Parsons https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-trade-30-million-all-pro-micah-parsons/f1d83936cf33c264caeddf9d

Dataset Creation for Visual Entailment using Generative AI
Rob Reijtenbach, Suzan Verberne, Gijs Wijnholds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11605 https://arxiv.o…

Dataset Creation for Visual Entailment using Generative AI
In this paper we present and validate a new synthetic dataset for training visual entailment models. Existing datasets for visual entailment are small and sparse compared to datasets for textual entailment. Manually creating datasets is labor-intensive. We base our synthetic dataset on the SNLI dataset for textual entailment. We take the premise text from SNLI as input prompts in a generative image model, Stable Diffusion, creating an image to replace each textual premise. We evaluate our datas…

A Survey and Evaluation Framework for Secure DNS Resolution
Ali Sadeghi Jahromi, AbdelRahman Abdou, Paul C. van Oorschot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13797 https://

A Survey and Evaluation Framework for Secure DNS Resolution
Since security was not among the original design goals of the Domain Name System (herein called Vanilla DNS), many secure DNS schemes have been proposed to enhance the security and privacy of the DNS resolution process. Some proposed schemes aim to replace the existing DNS infrastructure entirely, but none have succeeded in doing so. In parallel, numerous schemes focus on improving DNS security without modifying its fundamental two-stage structure. These efforts highlight the feasibility of add…

GulliVR: A Walking-Oriented Technique for Navigation in Virtual Reality Games Based on Virtual Body Resizing
Andrey Krekhov, Sebastian Cmentowski, Katharina Emmerich, Maic Masuch, Jens Kr\"uger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11304

GulliVR: A Walking-Oriented Technique for Navigation in Virtual Reality Games Based on Virtual Body Resizing
Virtual reality games are often centered around our feeling of "being there". That presence can be significantly enhanced by supporting physical walking. Although modern virtual reality systems enable room-scale motions, the size of our living rooms is not enough to explore vast virtual environments. Developers bypass that limitation by adding virtual navigation such as teleportation. Although such techniques are intended (or designed) to extend but not replace natural walking, what we often ob…

A YTD correspondence for constant scalar curvature metrics
Tam\'as Darvas, Kewei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15173 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1517…

A YTD correspondence for constant scalar curvature metrics
Given a compact Kähler manifold, we provide a uniform YTD correspondence that characterizes the existence of a unique constant scalar curvature metric using ample/Kähler test configurations. The main point of our approach is to replace the $K$ energy with much better behaving variants, whose properties are similar to the Ding energy from the Fano case. Connections with the non-Archimedean point of view on K-stability are also briefly discussed.

First steps in attempting to replace FreeType with CoreText in Godot.
At least it builds.

Susan Collins is LOSING in Maine. Yes!
If Dems flip her seat, we flip the WHOLE Senate
Rush $10 to help Jordan Wood REPLACE her
>> https://j4me.org/l
Jordan Wood is the former chief of staff to former congresswoman Katie Porter.
Wood's slogan uses Collins' phrase that she is &quo…

Chip in now to elect Jordan Wood >>
Help Jordan defeat Susan Collins

Ukraine's parliament dismisses prime minister and his cabinet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/ukraines-parliament-dismisses-prime-minister.html

If America doesn't want its children to grow up confused about gender-appropriate clothing, they should replace all depictions of Jesus, or indeed any biblical male, with versions in which they are wearing long-trousers.
Should be doable with AI, I'm assured.

Sources: some N26 investors seek to replace its co-CEOs after German regulator Bafin identified new deficiencies in the digital bank's internal controls (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/n26-…

Wan-Animate: Unified Character Animation and Replacement with Holistic Replication
Gang Cheng, Xin Gao, Li Hu, Siqi Hu, Mingyang Huang, Chaonan Ji, Ju Li, Dechao Meng, Jinwei Qi, Penchong Qiao, Zhen Shen, Yafei Song, Ke Sun, Linrui Tian, Feng Wang, Guangyuan Wang, Qi Wang, Zhongjian Wang, Jiayu Xiao, Sheng Xu, Bang Zhang, Peng Zhang, Xindi Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Jingren Zhou, Lian Zhuo

Wan-Animate: Unified Character Animation and Replacement with Holistic Replication
We introduce Wan-Animate, a unified framework for character animation and replacement. Given a character image and a reference video, Wan-Animate can animate the character by precisely replicating the expressions and movements of the character in the video to generate high-fidelity character videos. Alternatively, it can integrate the animated character into the reference video to replace the original character, replicating the scene's lighting and color tone to achieve seamless environmental i…

Jim Harbaugh lays out Chargers' plan to replace Rashawn Slater following Pro Bowl LT's season-ending injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jim-…

So the tech bros love capitalism and also apparently think some combination of AI and robotics can (and should!) replace all jobs (bar their own OFC) to maximise profits. But if nobody earns any wages, how in this "wonderful" future capitalist world will anyone afford to buy all their products and services?
I mean, they see the flaw, right… right!?
P.S. Yes, I realise most of the people who read this will have already thought of this and I am largely "preaching to …

Cowboys Head Coach Shares Plan To Replace Injured All-Pro CB https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-head-coach-shares-plan-to-replace-injured-all-pro-cb/?adt_ei=[email]

So they are really trying to replace the Dollar with crypto, huh? 🧐 That’ll be quite the change …

Summary of today's dreams:
1. I changed my shorts but forgot to replace the paper towels in my pockets. I wouldn't have thought my brain would treat this as such a #nightmare. I mean, lack of paper towels, not fresh shorts. The terror when you put your hand in the pocket, and it's empty.
2. I forgot to put my garbage out last night. It was around 7 AM (having precise dreams is important), it was raining and I was hurrying to put them out, worrying it's too late already. Then, I've discovered there's a huge dumpster in front of my gate, filled to the brim with loose cat litter. And I was thinking, the garbage company won't take such a tonnage of loose litter like that.
#dream

Spouse (a psychotherapist) was forwarded this paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18412
> Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers
which has caused us to spend a big chunk of after dinner lounging alternating among incredulous…

Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers
Should a large language model (LLM) be used as a therapist? In this paper, we investigate the use of LLMs to *replace* mental health providers, a use case promoted in the tech startup and research space. We conduct a mapping review of therapy guides used by major medical institutions to identify crucial aspects of therapeutic relationships, such as the importance of a therapeutic alliance between therapist and client. We then assess the ability of LLMs to reproduce and adhere to these aspects o…

@… What was the name of that service that you used to replace Grammarly in your workflow?

Seaweed-Based Growth Media Could Replace Traditional Cell Culture Media in Cultivated Meat Production https://vegconomist.com/algae-microalgae-seaweed/seaweed-based-growth-media-replace-traditional-cell-…

Seaweed-Based Growth Media Could Replace Traditional Cell Culture Media in Cultivated Meat Production - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new research project led by James Cook University (JCU) and the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) is investigating the use of seaweed as a potential

We're happy to see an official Muni sign at Church/Duboce replace our community-installed one after 3 years! They even reused our mounting hardware 🥺 Make your own sign at https://munisign.org

The geopolitical #aiarmsrace seems largely unimpressed by people proclaiming #LLMs have plateaued and #AGI is never coming.
Such assessments are only relevant for the market, but not so much for count…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Foo Fighters:
🎵 Erase / Replace
#NowPlaying #FooFighters
https://open.spotify.com/track/5t142J9jQl1aaajsbxGjwg

Just updated the trigger crossbar to the latest versions of all of my various RTL and firmware libraries.
Still have to convert the Ethernet subsystem on the FPGA over from the legacy EthernetBus interface over to my new AXI4-Stream based IP.
And replace the 7 series transceivers wizard on the 10Gbase-R uplink with a raw GTYXE2_CHANNEL (I'm already using raw channel primitives on the other ports)

Jerry Jones chasing 3x Pro Bowl edge rusher to replace Parsons https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/jerry-jones-urgently-pursuing-3x-pro-bowl-edge-rusher-to-replace-micah-parsons-after-cowboys-exit

SLasH-DSA: Breaking SLH-DSA Using an Extensible End-To-End Rowhammer Framework
Jeremy Boy, Antoon Purnal, Anna P\"atschke, Luca Wilke, Thomas Eisenbarth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13048

SLasH-DSA: Breaking SLH-DSA Using an Extensible End-To-End Rowhammer Framework
As quantum computing advances, PQC schemes are adopted to replace classical algorithms. Among them is the SLH-DSA that was recently standardized by NIST and is favored for its conservative security foundations. In this work, we present the first software-only universal forgery attack on SLH-DSA, leveraging Rowhammer-induced bit flips to corrupt the internal state and forge signatures. While prior work targeted embedded systems and required physical access, our attack is software-only, targeti…

No, computers won’t replace humans to write code for themselves.
Please stop with this nonsense.
What we will see though is tremendous losses in productivity as deskilled programmers will get less and less education and practice—and take longer and longer to make broken AI-generated code work. Meanwhile, AI models will regress from eating their own generated shit when being trained on.
Eventually AI companies will finally run out of investors to scam—and when they disappear or get so expensive they become unaffordable, “prompt engineers” will be asked to not use AI anymore.
What’s gonna happen then?
We’re losing a whole generation of programmers to this while thought leaders in our field are talking about “inevitability” and are jerking off to sci-fi-nostalgia-fueled fantasies of AGI.

Dolphins predicted to replace Jalen Ramsey with former Patriots, Raiders starter https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/dolphins-predicted-replace-jalen-ramsey-patrio…

Trump tells Goldman Sachs CEO to replace economist over tariff predictions
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/trump-solomon-goldman-sachs-economist-tariffs.html

Snake wrangler predicts Snake Oil could be the cure-all within the next six months.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91371621/perplexity-ceo-predicts-ai-could-replace-recruiters-and-assistants-in-as-little-as-six-mo…

https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2025/06/ai-replace/index.html

@… the claim was specific that it would replace human written code 🫣 (as I read it)

Resume Builder survey of 1,342 managers in the US: 60% say they rely on AI to make personnel decisions, 78% of which use the tech in deciding raises (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/60-of-managers-…

60% of managers use AI to make decisions now, including whom to promote and fire - does yours?
In fact, 43% of managers surveyed went on to replace a human role with AI. Here's how employees can protect themselves in the face of AI's gray areas.

"‘We’re here to replace you,’ new Green leader Polanski tells Labour as he terms Starmer’s politics ‘despicable’ – UK politics live"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/02/cooper-reeves-starmer-gree…

Deja Foxx, a 25-year-old political content creator who has over 395,000 followers on TikTok, is running for Democratic nomination in Arizona’s 7th District after only turning the minimum age to serve in Congress in April.
Fifty-four-year-old former Pima County Supervisor Adelita Grijalva, the daughter of the late Rep. Raul Grijalva, was widely seen as the frontrunner in the race to replace her father,
but recent internal polling from Foxx’s campaign first published by Politico su…

Arizona Special Election: 25-Year-Old Deja Foxx Seeks To Go From TikTok Activist To Congress
Deja Foxx, a 25-year-old political content creator, is a contender for an Arizona congressional seat.

now that I’ve got one to replace my rusty old TS3, you may know that the CalDigit TS5 is back in stock in Europe again: https://shop.caldigit.com/eu/Docking-Stations?product_id=226

I just found out that #Lenovo changed their #ThinkPad line this year: most probably, there won't be an X13 Gen 6 2-in-1 with multi-touch.
Instead, there's a very light #X13 (w/o 2-in-1 or touch) and a new…

It has been 0️⃣ days since I had to get a younger person's eyes to help me replace a wifi card.
'ardest game in the world innit

Can utilities replace power lines with solar and batteries in remote areas? The rise of microgrids offers a promising solution for communities looking to reduce costs and carbon footprint. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Can utilities replace power lines with solar and batteries in remote areas?
Expanding the grid to reach far-flung customers can be a costly fire hazard. So utilities like PG&E are testing out microgrids using solar, batteries, and…

baia, baia... Lo siento, pero los 100€ del reembolso no dan para uno nuevo.
Si estšn mal, las cambias gratis, o nos mandas un terminal nuevo.
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/28/google-pixel-6a-battery-replace-fire/

@…
That's ok the governor wants to remove them AND REPLACE THEM WITH MEMBERS OF HIS CHOOSING.
I know you voted for a progressive Democrat, but I'm just going to arbitrarily replace them with a MAGA Republican. Don't worry. He'll represent your interests...

Time to replace my Linux laptop, won't start. Nothing important on it and I do have backups. Just won't power up and the battery is a new one. Can't complain as it is about 15 years old. Upside is that one Win10 laptop will soon be upgraded to Linux.

Trump and his Republican henchmen are pure evil
US agriculture secretary says Medicaid recipients can replace deported farm workers | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/trump-agriculture-medicaid-migrant-farm-workers

Can dems stop pandering to vulnerable minorities and just go away at this point? You could replace most of them with rocks and they’d be just as, if not more useful #pol #democrats #uspol

https://replaceyourboss.ai/

AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You
Stop working for humans. AI CEO delivers algorithmic thought leadership, with instant decisions, and zero ego. Replace your boss before they replace you.

Testing chatbots on the creation of encoders for audio conditioned image generation
Jorge E. Le\'on, Miguel Carrasco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09717 https://

Testing chatbots on the creation of encoders for audio conditioned image generation
On one hand, recent advances in chatbots has led to a rising popularity in using these models for coding tasks. On the other hand, modern generative image models primarily rely on text encoders to translate semantic concepts into visual representations, even when there is clear evidence that audio can be employed as input as well. Given the previous, in this work, we explore whether state-of-the-art conversational agents can design effective audio encoders to replace the CLIP text encoder from …

Enhancing Electromagnetic Calorimeter Signal Reconstruction with Machine Learning-Based Noise Discrimination
Suman Das Gupta, Shamik Ghosh, Laltu Gazi, Shubham Dutta, Alexander Ledovskoy, Satyaki Bhattacharya, Shilpi Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11291

Enhancing Electromagnetic Calorimeter Signal Reconstruction with Machine Learning-Based Noise Discrimination
Calorimeters operating in high-radiation environments are susceptible to damage, leading to increased noise that can significantly degrade energy resolution. A common way to mitigate noise is to apply a higher energy threshold on the cells, typically set a few standard deviations above the noise level. However, this method risks discarding cells with genuine energy deposits, worsening the energy resolution. In this paper we explore various machine learning (ML) algorithms that can replace a rig…

Repurposing an old fileserver as another backup server using #TrueNAS… First, I want to pull out any disks with reallocated sectors. Most disks are more than 5 years old and my plan is to replace future failing HDDs with larger ones. As an appliance, TrueNAS is not meant for low-level tinkering. The GUI only shows actual uncorrected sectors as SMART errors and has no way to light up a disk slot o…

Note to self: this is the second time you've had to replace the nodemcu that runs wled on the lights outside. Maybe this time get a proper little enclosure for it, rather than a taped up tupperware snack box, yeah?
This board might be salvageable - it looks like it was just the USB port that took a dip in a little rainwater.

Zelensky's top adviser behind bid to replace prime minister, spy chief, sources tell Economist: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/zelenskys-top-adviser-behind-bid.html

I'm happy hosting #LanguageTool rather than dealing with Grammarly, but I love when LanguageTool recommends I replace a word with the same word or I accept the replacement and it repeats letters in the replacement. What do you expect for free? 🙂

<think> So let's replace this phrase with insult... </think> Lessons learned from generation of toxic texts with LLMs
Sergey Pletenev, Daniil Moskovskiy, Alexander Panchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08358

So let's replace this phrase with insult... Lessons learned from generation of toxic texts with LLMs
Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) are excellent at generating synthetic data. However, their performance in sensitive domains such as text detoxification has not received proper attention from the scientific community. This paper explores the possibility of using LLM-generated synthetic toxic data as an alternative to human-generated data for training models for detoxification. Using Llama 3 and Qwen activation-patched models, we generated synthetic toxic counterparts for neutral texts from P…

Do I need an iPhone Pro? No.
Do I need a *new* iPhone Pro to replace the 1 year old I have? Hell no.
Do I *want* that orange iPhone Pro?
YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS.
#AppleEvent

Local search engine is up and running, now to add a couple of caches with LMDB to replace my crude memoization and add loading of actual documents instead of just text file directories, and adding back-links. Crazy what one can do with just a hundred lines of C

Editor of a scientific journal refuses to publish one of our papers (already approved by both reviewers) if we don't replace the title with one that doesn't have a colon.... 🙄🤔

I dropped the Boxster in today to get the calipers repainted, along with a bumper and bonnet respray, in a kind of "while you're there, you might as well" moment of weakness...
(We spotted a manufacturing defect in the ppf film on the bonnet, which they'll replace for free, but this was a chance to correct some of the stone chips underneath that I'd previously decided to just live with.)

So FFOTUS wants to spend our tax money building a palace ballroom with enough golden gilt to make even Louis XV barf.
That palatial ballroom will effectively replace the entire East Wing of the US White House.
The East Wing - the E. Wing for short.
Given the proclivities of our rapist president perhaps that 'E' should be repurposed to so we can call that ballroom:
The Epstein Memorial Ball Room.

Sources: Trump administration is reconsidering plans to replace the Biden-era AI export rules as part of a broader softening on chip controls targeting China (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/29/2025/trump-may-not-replace-biden-era-ai-rule…

Trump may not replace Biden-era AI rule
The unclear plans for a replacement ‘diffusion’ rule are part of a broader softening on chip controls targeting China.

Disney plans to replace the Star tile with Hulu on the international Disney service; Star was widely used and well-known across Latin America and Asia (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/hulu-to-become-international-tile…

Hulu To Become International Tile On Disney+, Replacing Star
Hulu will replace Star as a tile on the international Disney+ service. This marks the first major international expansion for Hulu and closely follows Disney buying Comcast out of the U.S. streamer last month. As Disney’s streaming business once again shone in its latest earnings quarter results, the company’s executive commentary for Q3 revealed Hulu […]

Adam Dorr concluded that the current AI wave will not just convulse -- but obliterate the labour market by 2045.
What cars did to horses and carts, and electricity to gas lamps, and digital cameras to Kodak, are templates for the coming shock, he says.
“Technology has a new target in its crosshairs – and that’s us. That’s our labour.”
Some sectors will have an interregnum during which humans can work effectively alongside robots
– just like the period when chess gr…

How Steelers can replace Minkah Fitzpatrick following shocking trade: 3 players Pittsburgh could target

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-ste

I think the view from 10,000 feet for me is that all tech tries to interpose itself between two human beings and then extract value. Whether it's Uber, Airbnb, social media or Vision Pro/smart glasses and now earbuds.
Once a tech company is the filter through which we sense the world it's a next level amount of power that they will have over us.
The next thing will be that Apple thinks they deserve a 30% cut of that sale that you made with the local merchant.

Bangladesh turns to nature for biodegradable plates to replace plastic ones https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/bangladesh-turns-to-nature-for-biodegradable-plants-to-replace-plastic-ones/

Bangladesh turns to nature for biodegradable plates to replace plastic ones
In Bangladesh, disposable tableware, including plates made of areca palm leaves, is gaining popularity as a good alternative to single-use plastic during social gatherings and festival celebrations, Mongabay’s Abu Siddique reported in May. A survey from 2018 estimates that Bangladesh used around 250 metric tons of single-use plastic tableware and straws every month. However, since […]

About morbid thriftiness (Autism Spectrum Condition)
As you may have noticed, I am morbidly thrifty. Usually I don't buy stuff that I don't need — and if I decide that I actually need something, I am going to ponder about it for a while, look for value products, and for the best price. And with some luck, I'm going to decide I don't need it that bad after all.
One reason for that is probably how I was raised. My parents taught me to be thrifty, so I have to be. It doesn't matter that, from retrospective, I see that their thriftiness was applied rather arbitrarily to some spendings and not others, or that perhaps they were greedy — spending less on individual things so that they could buy more. Well, I can't delude myself like that, so I have to be thrifty for real. And when I fail, when I pay too much, when I get cheated — I feel quite bad about it.
The other reason is that I keep worrying about my future. It doesn't matter how rich I may end up — I'll keep worrying that I'll run out of money in the future. Perhaps I'll lose a job and won't be able to find anything for a long time, Perhaps something terrible will happen and I'm going to need to pay a lot suddenly.
Another thing is that I easily get attached to objects. Well, it's easier to be thrifty when you really don't want to replace stuff. Over time you also learn to avoid getting new stuff at all, since the more stuff you have, the more stuff may break and need to be thrown away.
Finally, there's my environmental responsibility. I admit that I don't do enough — but at least the things I can do, I do.
[EDIT: and yes, I feel bad about how expensive my new phone was, even though it's of much higher quality than the last one. Also, I got a worse deal because I waited too long.]
#ActuallyAutistic

Crystal-Powered Transistor Could Replace Silicon and Supercharge AI
https://scitechdaily.com/crystal-powered-transistor-could-replace-silicon-and-supercharge-ai/

Cowboys Make Veteran Signing After Cooper Beebe Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/sign-veteran-after-cooper-beebe-injury/?adt_ei=[email]

I've been experimenting with @… to replace my old Blogger site, thanks to a ridiculous hosting deal.

A very odd thing about Artificial Intelligence as a discipline in computer science is that it historically shifted from “understanding the human brain better” to “we give up on understanding the brain and will just replace humans despite having no fucking clue”

49ers cut former 3rd round K Jake Moody, replace him with former Raiders undrafted kicker https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/09/09/49ers-cut-k-jake-moody-sig…

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday drew instant jeers when she defended the mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers -- and suggested that they could be replaced by Americans who are currently enrolled in Medicaid.
While speaking in Washington, D.C., Rollins declared that there would be "no amnesty" for immigrant farm workers
despite President Donald Trump sayingjust days ago that he was willing to let these workers stay at their jobs.
Instead, …

Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers | Common Dreams
U.S. Agriculture Secretary defends mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers, suggests Americans on Medicaid can replace them.

Darren Waller trade grades: Dolphins make unexpected gamble to replace Jonnu Smith as Giants unload veteran TE

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…

I need to show progress for an action in a shell script I made for work. I am not a dev and I am not going to vibe code something to replace the script, so the "UI" is just the dialog utililty using ncurses. Sadly this does not have a spinner, which is what I actually want. I want this, as I do not know in advance how long extraction of archives it extracts will take. Dialog expects you to give it progress updates up to 100%.

Cowboys could replace Micah Parsons with SEC star pass rusher https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-could-replace-micah-parsons-sec-star-pass-rusher/74414179d8ae46fa4bdd94…

Prophet Security, which develops fully autonomous AI agents for cybersecurity defense, raised a $30M Series A led by Accel (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai-vs-ai-prophet-security-raises-30m-to-repla…

AI vs. AI: Prophet Security raises $30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders
Prophet Security raises $30 million to launch a fully autonomous AI cybersecurity platform that investigates and responds to threats without human intervention, promising 10x faster response times and 96% fewer false positives.

Yah, that is going to go over so well. About half my career is now supporting old stuff where the 'experts' claimed that it will replace programmers. Most of what I work on to be charitable is unmaintainable and inefficient code unless we use the developer package from the vendor. It has the potential to be a good tool that generates parts of the boring code, but needs someone who knows what the hell they are doing to make it secure and efficient! It also needs great (or a least …

I created @… to replace an old #blogger site, and I liked the result so much that I now also created @…. I like the idea of a self-hosted alternative to #tumblr.

Asana names LaunchDarkly CEO Dan Rogers as its new CEO starting on July 21, replacing co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, who is retiring and will remain board chair (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/asana-ceo-dan-rogers-replace-dustin…

Asana picks Dan Rogers, formerly of ServiceNow, to replace CEO Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz, the largest individual owner of Asana stock, will stick around as the software company's board chair.

Cowboys Urged to Replace Micah Parsons With 11.0-Sack Edge https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/urged-to-replace-micah-parsons/?adt_ei=[email]

Do the Cowboys have enough to replace sack production? https://insidethestar.com/do-the-cowboys-have-enough-to-replace-sack-production

We can’t trust this administration with unchecked power
— especially not when it’s holding hands with the billionaires building machines that could replace us.
Trump’s second term is already a constitutional demolition derby:
ICE raiding sanctuary cities with no due process.
Mass deportation orders streamlined through algorithmic “targeting” lists.
Tariff trade wars launched without congressional oversight— crashing small businesses, jacking up prices, creating glo…

How Do We Stop Trump, Thiel & Their Approaching AI Autocracy?
A Human Sovereignty Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke plans to step down to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors; memo: Microsoft is opting not to directly replace the position (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/11/github-ceo-dohmke-step-down

Exclusive: GitHub CEO to step down
The Microsoft-owned software development hub has grown in importance in the AI era.

How can Cowboys replace Micah Parsons after trade? Looking at options for 2025 and beyond https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/30/micah-parsons-trade-dallas-cowboys-replace-roster-free…

5 free agents edge rushers Cowboys can sign to replace Micah Parsons include 4x Pro Bowler https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/01/5-free-agents-edge-players-cowboys-replace-mica…

AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Everybody needs to get ready.
CEOs are saying that AI is coming for a lot of jobs, and soon
— perhaps as many as half of all white-collar workers.
That’s likely to show up first in entry-level jobs, where the basic skills required are the easiest to replicate,
and in tech, where the ability to rapidly adapt the latest software tools is itself an entry-level job requirement.
Sure enough, in recent years unemployment has risen…

AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Everybody needs to get ready.
AI may replace a lot of entry-level skills. So how will workers acquire more advanced ones?

Cowboys trade idea lands $21 million superstar pass rusher to replace Micah Parsons https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-trade-idea-lands-21-millio…

Microsoft plans to replace the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11 with a simplified black screen "providing better information" in an update "later this summer" (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/692648/micro

Windows is getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death after 40 years
Microsoft is changing its Blue Screen of Death to a black one. After decades, a simplified black error message will replace the traditional BSOD.

Cowboys Predicted to Replace Micah Parsons With 11-Sack Edge https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-predicted-replace-micah-parsons/?adt_ei=[email]