Tootfinder

Austin-based Saronic, which builds military autonomous ships, raised a $1.75B Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $9.25B valuation, up from $4B in Feb. 2025 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/autonomous-boat-startup-saronic-ra…

Autonomous ship startup Saronic raises $1.75 billion in race to modernize U.S. military
Saronic's latest funding round more than doubles its valuation to $9.25 billion from the prior fundraising early last year.

As soon as users log into Perplexity’s home page, trackers are downloaded onto their devices, giving Meta and Google full access to the conversations between them and Perplexity’s AI Machine search engine.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Perplexity AI Machine Accused of Sharing Data With Meta, Google
Perplexity AI Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google in violation of California privacy laws.

Chartbeat data from 535 US and UK publishers shows growth in traffic from peer-to-peer sharing and push notifications in recent years, as search traffic falls (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/publisher-traffic-surging-push-notificati…

Publisher Traffic Is Surging From an Unlikely Source
Push notifications and peer-to-peer sharing have grown dramatically, according to proprietary Chartbeat data shared with ADWEEK

And TIL that there's an annual convention for fans of tornado sirens.
https://www.sirencon.com/

SirenCon
Questions? Email us: thesirencon@gmail.com

Started creating browser-based calculators for quickly computing a bunch of recurring things in darkroom processing, so far:
Scale amount by area:
Given reference dimensions and amount, compute scaled amount needed for new target dimensions.
Example: Compute drops of emulsion needed for a new print size
Two-part solution ratio:
For a total volume of a two-part solution with a A:B target mix ratio, compute how many units are needed of both A and B.
Example: For…

Another tale of the closed web: a common thing on Instagram is that it doesn't send out Co-Post requests when you do it too often or they don't like you. It's one of the aspects or levels of being “shadowbanned”.
I often work with various kinds of accounts to publish my essays on Instagram to get more exposure. For example, pages dedicated to criticizing the police (useless.cops) or accounts showcasing ICE activity in Minnesota (MNicewatch) for my essay on Renée Good…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Angine de Poitrine:
🎵 Sarniezz
#AnginedePoitrine
https://anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/track/sarniezz
https://open.spotify.com/track/6iDKiCR13L8Ba6bkK6cqqt

On this trans day of visibility, I'm sharing my favorite podcasts with trans and/or nonbinary hosts. Some have a trans focus, some don't. They're all excellent.
Sharing in alphabetical order:
American Hysteria
https://www.chelseywebersmith.com/
Be Gay, Solve Crimes

American Hysteria

Sagte ich schon, dass die KI Word seltsam gemacht hat?

Wounds
(Some more entries from an ongoing series of photographs about the effects of climate change and increasing erosion in the Alps, here focused at very localized scales & occurrences to make them more concrete, communicable and less abstract...)
1) Exposed chunks of bedrock underneath the shrinking Langtauferer glacier
2) Heavily eroded forest in the Lechtal Alps
3) A dried out alpine lake in the Dolomites
4) Accumulated rock fall debris near Hahntennj…