Tootfinder

"Decades of collective work proving that “open source” is not less but at least as secure as commercial offerings now slowly going down the drain. Because a bunch of men – and it is always all men – just don’t want to be responsible for their actions. Which is fine if you are 5. But after 18 it gets old really fucking fast."
(Original title: Diffusion of Responsibility)

I often agree with Robert Reich, but not this time. Trump is a wholly US creation; a product of a national glorification of greed, selfishness, and ego all disguised as some sort of conquering hero.
So, USians: You made him, you elected him, and he is your responsibility. His actions absolutely reflect on you, and he is your responsibility to deal with.
Get rid of him. Now. And then we can talk about being friends again.

Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion
https://ift.tt/EQv0hHD
In a provocative article titled Digging Wells While Houses Burn (2006), David Gordon White argues…
via Input 4 RELCFP

The first responsibility of government is to protect people from the selfish and cruel.
And yet here we are.

I've been thinking more about this AI stuff in terms of industry impact. What I think will happen is that upward mobility will stall for a lot of devs (no more promotions), and there will be no new devs coming in.
Part of improving yourself is knowing that, one day, you'll likely pass your knowledge, responsibility, and more on to another person so you can pursue new and different challenges.
You'll essentially see folks stuck on a treadmill going nowhere until they f…

Donald Trump does not think strategically.
Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally.
He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later.
He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places.
He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions.
He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong.
Instead, he acts on whim and …

@… This is, in principle, what an academic discipline is about: a shared understanding of what legit research in this field means, and what the criteria for judging the quality of research are.
The root many of the current issues in academia is that many, if not most, disciplines have outsourced this responsibility to Big Pub cartels.

@… This is, in principle, what an academic discipline is about: a shared understanding of what legit research in this field means, and what the criteria for judging the quality of research are.
The root many of the current issues in academia is that many, if not most, disciplines have outsourced this responsibility to Big Pub cartels.

Had the first meeting of the semester yesterday, and I’m already tired of the “let’s make a Google Docs” AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED. By the same person who vehemently objected to putting up a portrait of Grace Hopper in the department on the grounds that she was an American military officer.
And Discord for video conferencing? Really?
The university’s Microsoft infrastructure isn’t ethically better, but at least it’s them who have to assume the legal responsibility.

I do not want to talk about what companies want. Why they want to push for AI (even if I had a pretty good intuition and understanding of why).
I do care about my career and I am probably quickly tempted to generalize my thoughts on this.
I wouldn’t really enjoy spending my time reviewing, debugging, correcting, and fixing, and most importantly carrying the responsibility, for a statistical engine. I don't see what the career progression is either. Is it “push as fast as possible to get a promotion and get out of this area before the 💩 starts breaking and you end up spending 1000% of your time in incidents?”

NFL command center part of replacement ref plan https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48253174/sources-nfl-command-center-assist-replacement-refs-used

Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL

The Buffalo Bills are the dynasty that never was https://insidethestar.com/the-buffalo-bills-are-the-dynasty-that-never-was

This whole "OpenClaw" thing has made me very angry and I wrote a bit about the why. It's not that "it's AI": It is the way that kind of project invalidates decades of work and care in free software. "AI" software isn't just careless, it is actively rejecting responsibility and care.
https://

A look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-

Had the first meeting of the semester yesterday, and I’m already tired of the “let’s make a Google Docs” AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED. By the same person who vehemently objected to putting up a portrait of Grace Hopper in the department on the grounds that she was an American military officer.
And Discord for video conferencing? Really?
The university’s Microsoft infrastructure isn’t ethically better, but at least it’s them who have to assume the legal responsibility.

Had the first meeting of the semester yesterday, and I’m already tired of the “let’s make a Google Docs” AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED. By the same person who vehemently objected to putting up a portrait of Grace Hopper in the department on the grounds that she was an American military officer.
And Discord for video conferencing? Really?
The university’s Microsoft infrastructure isn’t ethically better, but at least it’s them who have to assume the legal responsibility.

Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/academia/ethics/2026/02/18/digging-wells-burning-houses/

Texans' DeMeco Ryans backs C.J. Stroud after four-INT outing in loss to Patriots https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-demeco-ryans-backs-c-j-stroud-after-four-int-outing-in-loss-to-patriots

Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/academia/ethics/2026/02/18/digging-wells-burning-houses/

US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, killing 168 people, mainly school girls. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-points-likely-us-responsibility-iran…

Ukraine’s Security Service claims responsibility for strikes on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ tankers: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/ukraines-security-service-claims-responsibility.html

The Federal Trade Commission sent letters to 13 data brokers warning them of their responsibility to comply with the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (PADFAA).
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/pres…

I am wrong! The New Colgate Powerhouse is independent, owned and run by the Yuba Water Agency. So the pipe failure is not PG&E's responsibility. PG&E's grid didn't respond very well but maybe there's water damage in the area that complicated things.

“You should be ashamed of where you work. Not just Grammarly or Superhuman or whatever comically dumb name you come up with next. Almost everyone running tech firms, most people in positions of responsibility, pretty much every C-suite type — congrats, you’re all making the world a worse place. People used to be excited about tech, now they dread what data you're going to steal next, they dread what violation of privacy or the environment will turn up next.”
https://www.moryan.com/an-open-letter-to-grammarly-and-other-plagiarists-thieves-and-slop-merchants/

I hadn't noticed that the announcement of the new UK computer crimes division, the Online Crime Centre, has a quote from NCA's James Babbage.
I'm glad the Babbages are taking some responsibility for what they have wrought.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-dis…

> the rot has taken somebody...
> it’s chewed out that chunk of their brain that understood decency and responsibility once upon a time.
> It’s the sound of somebody letting that happen, because they never really liked feeling those things in the first place.
tell it, @… !

The judicial cases in OKC are closely linked to the silence and lack of accountability of Tibetan Buddhist Heads of Nyigmapa Lineages in 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇵🇹. To grasp the full extent of responsibility and complacency, check out this documentary. #TibetanBuddhism #Responsibility

Stephen Miller is feeling powerful. He's out here claiming "might makes right" and saying the US can do anything.
Miller forgets that he's not the one with the power. The powerful guy repeats himself constantly, wanders off to look at his ballroom construction mid-speech, has fluid-filled ankles, and over-thinned blood. Miller forgets that the "powerful" never remain so for long and that "with great power, there must also be great responsibility."…

Survey: 80% of Americans say being informed about the news is essential to voting, but only 8% say people in the US have a responsibility to pay for news (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2026/02/11/americans-complica…

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/116062316104136628
Yes, and...
The _first_ reporting duty, the _first_ level of responsibility has to be ecological. Not "environmental", with its implicit human exceptionalism. We must recog…

MAGA racists are owning themselves thru their own racist deportations. Watch them refuse to take responsibility & instead, blame the libs in 3... 2... 1...
✅ Immigration Raids in South Texas Are Starting to Hit the Economy - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/texas-

Day Twenty-Six of the Protests: Government Commits Violence, Denies Responsibility, and Continues Mass Arrests (Hrana)
https://www.en-hrana.org/day-twenty-six-of-the-protests-government-commits-violence-denies-responsibility-and-continues-mass-arrests/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p59#a260123p59

Blockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data breach; ShinyHunters hacking group published 2.5GB of data, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/fintech-lending-giant-fi…

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)

"Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility"
by
@…
<…

"This is one aspect of what campaigners call “process as punishment”, an approach that now dominates the treatment of protest groups. Even if you are never convicted of a crime, your life is made hell if you dare, visibly and publicly, to dissent." -- @…
I can verify from the experience o…

How to Reduce Telemetry Volume by 40% Smartly
#OpenTelemetry

First Repair SPEC Café of 2026 on February 14th
Thanks to intense fundraising efforts, grants, and immense community support, we’ve been able to secure funding for 2026. We believe that it is the City’s responsibility to fund programs like Repair Cafés that align with their sustainability goals and that fundraising alone will not sustain the demand for Repair Cafés that exists.
📍Hastings Community Centre
📅 Saturday, February 14th
🕤 9:30am–1:30pm
Registration comin…

Everything DHS has been doing and saying for the past week is focused around one goal: generating excuses.
They’re trying to give Senators an excuse to fund them, to give CEOs an excuse to wash their hands of responsibility, to give wavering Republicans an excuse to keep believing their BS, to give Minneapolis an excuse to let our guard down.
They’re trying to give everyone an excuse to believe it’s all OK now.
It is not OK now. Here in MSP, it is very much not OK.
KEEP • UP • THE • PRESSURE
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The abominations by #ICE continue to increase. #CHN_Action has simple letter to Congress asking them not provide more funding to ICE and DHS until they take responsibility for their abusive behavior - and change their approach. It's easy to send to your Congresspeople; it's easy to customize. You …

The abominations by #ICE continue to increase. #CHN_Action has simple letter to Congress asking them not provide more funding to ICE and DHS until they take responsibility for their abusive behavior - and change their approach. It's easy to send to your Congresspeople; it's easy to customize. You …

I quite like this #ai #contribution #policy. It's thoughtfully written and places the responsibility on the human and makes clear what is definitely forbidden:

Under Donald Trump, the E.P.A.
plans to stop tallying gains from the health benefits caused by curbing two of the most widespread deadly air pollutants,
fine particulate matter and ozone,
when regulating industry, according to internal agency emails and documents reviewed by The New York Times.
It’s a seismic shift that runs counter to the E.P.A.’s mission statement,
which says the agency’s core responsibility is to protect human health and the environment, env…

One important story that I feel got lost during the end of 2025 is how white-presenting "18-year old" female "AI" companions are cosplayed by 30-year old fathers in Kenyan slums. At a huge cost to their mental health.

"My sole responsibility was to keep the conversation going, no matter what it did to me."

"The challenge went beyond just switching genders; I also had to perform across different sexual identities. Sometimes I was a straight wo…

A very important point about AI models that we need to remind ourselves
https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

Ownership, accountability, responsibility - what is really needed is the power to make necessary decisions and changes.

The judicial cases in OKC are closely linked to the silence and lack of accountability of Tibetan Buddhist Heads of Nyigmapa Lineages in 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇵🇹. To grasp the full extent of responsibility and complacency, check out this documentary. #TibetanBuddhism #Responsibility

I couldn't agree more with this essay from Quintin Mecke, director of CCHO, a group of community affordable housing non-profits. When SF "moderate" politicians underfund housing, it's not something they're forced to do. It's not fiscal responsibility. It's a political choice and a disastrous one.

It's hard to believe how this mischievous little cat, who was saved at the last minute by my cousin, has improved the lives of my whole family.
Adopt, folks. It's a responsibility, but they give back more than they take away.
cc @…
#catsofmastodon

Great piece by former Republican, Tom Nichols.
"The Republicans have a Nazi problem, yes. But this means that the United States also has a Nazi problem. The responsibility for defeating it in the 21st century falls, as it did in the 20th, to everyone—of any party or creed—who still believes in the American idea."

Interesting Interview with Greenlandic biathlete Ukaleq Slettemark on identity, climate responsibility, autonomy, and what it means to compete in the Olympic Games while Greenland is verbally attacked by the US Government. https://youtu.be/uZcrhTO0WsY

Eagles’ Kevin Patullo out as offensive coordinator, could stay on staff https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6845905/2026/01/13/kevin-patullo-out-eagles-offensive-coordinator/

Ich würde es mir anschauen, das Rhinozeros im Raum von Itamar Gov in #Magdeburg
Ist leider nur ein bisschen weit weg.
https://www.itamargov.com/projects/the-rhi

Bari Weiss says she's stepping away from her podcast for a "few short months", citing her "huge responsibility" and opportunity at CBS News (Brian Stelter/@brianstelter)
https://x.com/brianstelter/status/2014421748326838721

The race for the next mayor of Los Angeles has become even more intense as
Council Member Nithya Raman officially launched her campaign on Saturday.
Her announcement came just hours before the city’s filing deadline.
Nithya Raman said Los Angeles needs a leader who will take full responsibility for the challenges the city faces.
Raman represents District 4, which stretches from parts of the San Fernando Valley to neighborhoods like Los Feliz, the Hollywood Hills, and…

As far as breach emails are concerned, this one is good. It uses the word "sucks."

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

Only 35 nations signed a declaration affirming "human responsibility over AI-powered weapons", with the US and China opting out; the US endorsed prior pledges (Victoria Waldersee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace

The paradox of Nazism being both the most capitalist thing possible, defining itself as explicitly anticommunist, while masquerading as "socialism" is difficult to resolve until you understand one thing: fascism pivots around antisemitism (and its extension, conspiratorial thinking).
I'm, of course, not talking about the redefinition of "antisemitism" into meaning any criticism of Israel but rather an anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative rooted in Roman Christianity.
This is critical to understand as MAGA fascism pivots between capitalist and pseudo-anticapitalist with Trump in the middle. Hitler did the same thing. Strasserism helped the Nazis gain power by pulling in the Left. In the Nazis case they killed the Stasserists pretty quickly. Now, I think we're seeing an attempt to make the opposite pivot happen in MAGA. But it's all the same thing.
Fascism can infinitely fail to address the needs of the people while dismissing it's own responsibility for creating the problem by maintaining a permanent enemy.
This is why it's important to understand antisemitism and how to fight it. It's especially important now because the apparatus of violence in Israel is itself a tool of global fascism, and we finally have an opportunity to dismantle the whole thing. But we have to be aware of how fascists can pivot around to block this.
I've been reading Safety Through Solidarity, and I think it's especially relevant at this time.
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
SAMOR: We cannot find it in our hearts to absolve you in any way of the responsibility for these murders. The sentence of this tribunal is, therefore, that you should be stripped of all rank and privileges, that you be dishonourably dismissed the service, and that you then be executed for the common criminal you have shown yourself to be. Have you anything to say?
[Flight deck]

Imagine being Discord…
…and seeing that a user has joined a new Discord “server”
…and immediately sends the same message to all channels they can access
…and not feeling the responsibility to automatically ban these spammers
…and instead relying on your moderators/users to do these kinds of platform-heuristic tasks… to act as human firewalls.
I have a fundamental professional disconnect with treating this as anything other than a high priority to fix this for the he…

Explained: Image generators need so much data that there is no one at the companies that build them who can keep track of where the data comes from and what is actually portrayed in the source data. No one can take responsibility, which the bros embrace as a feature, not a bug.

That is why I am particularly bothered by generated images of children, as it has previously been shown that large datasets likely contain many images of abuse. There are such large amounts of images that it wou…

Truman: The buck stops here. 🙇‍♂️
Trump: The buck stops here if it's green. 💵
#leadership #responsibility #difference #history

Pollinators of Privilege — https://www.brichapman.com/p/pollinators-of-privilege?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

"People proudly saying how much the software they work on is “vibe coded” or “written by Claude” underlining how there is no pride in or responsibility for the work one not only put out but actually forces on people."
(Original title: Artisanal care)
https://tante.cc/2026/03/04/artisanal-

Ukraine’s military intelligence claims responsibility for explosion at Russian base in Ussuriysk housing the 80th brigade: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/190052.html

For the record, my snow shovel has not moved from the porch and my snow tires are firmly attached to my vehicle. Someone else has to take responsibility here...
#Snowmageddon #weather

Taking responsibility for our actions is vital on the path to achieving our goals. As Les Brown aptly notes, determination fuels our journey to success. Let's relentlessly pursue our dreams and conquer new levels together! 💪 #Inspiration #DreamBig #Growth

New Raiders coach Klint Kubiak 'really excited' to work with minority owner Tom Brady https://www.nfl.com/news/klint-kubiak-tom-brady-new-raiders-coach-really-excited-work-with-minority-owner

Seahawks Stories 50th Season Edition: Big Play Babs https://www.seahawks.com/video/seahawks-stories-50th-season-edition-big-play-babs

Congress has a legal, constitutional,
one might even say moral,
responsibility to assert themselves as a branch.
This is from Federalist 51 where James Madison says:
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”
So it should be that as a branch, they assert themselves against the president and say, “We have a role here"
ht…

RE: #Utahns, it is our responsibility to press

Herbert takes blame for Chargers' latest ouster https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47587240/herbert-admits-good-enough-chargers-loss

@… … and everything with getting rid of corporate responsibility.

@… … and everything with getting rid of corporate responsibility.

«A chatbot says “I’m sorry” flawlessly yet has no capacity for regret, repair, or change. It admits mistakes without loss. It expresses care without losing anything. It uses the language of care without having anything at risk. These utterances are fluent. And they train users to accept moral language divorced from consequence. The result is a quiet recalibration of norms. Apologies become costless. Responsibility becomes theatrical. Care becomes simulation.»

BAFTA says it takes "full responsibility" for putting its "guests in a very difficult situation", after a Tourette's campaigner made several offensive comments (Alex Ritman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/b

The Trumpocalypse metastasizes:
Lebanon’s #Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for projectiles launched from Lebanon to Israel.
The militant group said it launched missiles and drones towards Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, news agencies are reporting.
Israel’s military said it had begun striking Hezbollah across Lebanon.
The…

Pollinators of Privilege — https://www.brichapman.com/p/pollinators-of-privilege?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

Expect Trump to post something like this next year:
"We seek to bring joy and warmth to those in need of care and attention — and, of course, to support our heroes, the participants of the special military operation, with both words and deeds. You have taken on the responsibility of fighting for your homeland, for truth and justice. I assure you, millions of people across Russia are with you on this New Year's night," - V. Putin

John Harbaugh's tenure in Baltimore is over. Ravens felt it was time for something new https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6948144/2026/01/07/john-harbaugh-fired-ravens-new-coach/

of course... it's actually much worse than just policy dredged up from the days of Paul Martin and Stephen Harper… it's a gigantic step backward at the behest of fossil fuel interests in order to keep people burning fossil fuels.
EV mandates should be 'sold’ as an affordability measure! Because they are!
No, I don't mean grants, I mean everyday use. Real impacts on your pocket book. How much money would you save if you *never* went to a gas station. Just think about that for second.
Then we can do the math.
My 2019 Hyundai Kona Electric just passed 251152km (palindrome!) yesterday and gets around 6km/kWh on average.
I pay about $0.13/kWh at home to charge so that's $0.02/km. That is $5,023.04 in total energy expenses so far.
Our 2012 Toyota Prius C is at 270,000km and gets about 5.5L/100km or 0.055L/km. At (a discounted) $1.25/L that’s $0.04/km or $10,800 in total energy expenses so far.
Per kilometre the EV is half the cost to 'fuel' than one of the most fuel efficient gas cars out there.
In general, why would *anyone* choose something that costs double to run!?
And yet, the government doesn't sell this as ‘affordability’ it sells it as 'environmental responsibility'.
Let's be honest, they do that because they *know* the environmental message is *less* motivating than money.
Now I said at the beginning, "imagine" never going to the gas station. Obviously that doesn't mean you're fueling for free... but there is another overlooked aspect to this.
Fueling your car is a day to day thing. It's one of the biggest pulls on people's bank accounts precisely because it is such a frequent cost.
Now imagine if that 'bill' was just rolled into your home electricity bill. Which you could do other things to reduce cost overall?
EVs are not just an environmental game changer, they are a financial one for the average person.
That is why oil companies are throwing absolutely everything they have at government (and also fomenting fascism) to keep their good times going, at our expense.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #EV #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #Driving #Affordability

Isn't it Karma that the #ICE thugs of #Trump did kill in #Minnesota the brave citizens named #Good and

In this episode of "Conversations with LLMs". ⛔
#LLM #VibeCoding #softwareEngineering #ethics #responsibility

Die @… hatte in letzter Zeit einige sehr (meinungs)starke Blöcke zu Wehrpflicht und aktuell “sind Linke noch solidarisch”?
Ich lese gerade das Buch “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck” von Mark Manson und irgendwie fallen mir da Parallelen auf.
Eine Grundthese in dem Buch ist die Trennung von Schuld und Verantwortung (whose fault, whose responsibility im Original)
Schuld ist in der Vergangenheit — Verantwortung ist die Gegenwart.
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I rage with my Danish brothers and sisters. WTAF USA?
#USA #Trump #MAGA #Greenland