Tootfinder

College basketball All-Americans unveiled; Bill Self returning to Kansas; World Cup schedule, predictions

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketba

Another step in moving services to the EU / self-hosting:

TripIt is great, but it has been stagnant for the last decade or so.
I am giving Trek (https://github.com/mauriceboe/TREK) a go. It might be vibe coded, but it seems to do the job.
I just have to add nicer imports from emails.…

Rep. Keith Self Urges Federal Probes Into Texas Muslim Development After Watchdog Report (Fred Lucas/The Daily Signal)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/04/30/rep-keith-self-urges-federal-probes-into-texas-muslim-development-after-watchdog-report/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p44#a260501p44

Self Portrait for April 1st, 2026.
#ShittyCameraChallenge

RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/116162463390907045
As much as Russia's invasion of Ukraine was self-defence.
Hitler himself also invaded Poland for "self-defence". It's a Nazi bullshit as old as the Nazis themselves.

A sculpture titled 'The Orange Plague' by Danish artist Jens Galschiot depicts U.S. President Donald Trump as a self-proclaimed King of Justice, during the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 13.Johannes Simon/Getty Images

#PhantastikPrompts 02.04.: Was haltet ihr von Self Insert?
Sehe ich persönlich neutral (machen die meisten zumindest ein bisschen), aber - Achtung, binärsexistischer Quatsch: Self-Inserts werden unterschiedlich bewertet, je nachdem, wer sie schreibt. Schreibt ein maximalprivilegierter dya cis Mann einen? Jubel, Gloria, Bestseller.
Alle anderen? Reduzierung auf "kann nu…

Driverless truck startup Einride raised a $113M PIPE at a $1.35B pre-money valuation, down from $1.8B initially attached to its upcoming SPAC deal (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/self-driving-truck-sta…

Self-driving truck startup Einride raises $113M PIPE ahead of public debut | TechCrunch
Self-driving trucks startup Einride has raised an oversubscribed $113 million PIPE in advance of its SPAC merger scheduled for early 2026.

from my link log —
Self-distancing: what it is and how you can use it to make better decisions.
https://effectiviology.com/self-distancing-rational-decisions/
saved 2019-05-26

Billionaire Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker would not fully self-finance a 2028 run (Natasha Korecki/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-election/billionaire-illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-not-fully-self-finance-2028-run-rcna343122
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p85#a260501p85

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Here's the thing about all the self help, improvement, inspirational stuff out there, whatever you wanna call it. I respect the opinions but I also know I personally avoid all of it.
I'm not gonna be guilted about anything I do, regardless of what it is. I don't do guilt or shame. We can try to better ourselves if we want, but sometimes we're gonna DO whatever we want, veg out, etc, and not feel bad about it.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Van Houten:
🎵 Note To Self
#VanHouten
https://vanhoutenuk.bandcamp.com/track/note-to-self-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/46SOp7NWXMFTVOkxUvBWI7

In my 40s, I now realize older folks don't want to sound old; the world makes them sound old. "Back in my day..." is a coping mechanism, and I now wholeheartedly embrace it as a self-identifying curmudgeon.
Get off my lawn now.

Not to self: Wenn die MAC-Freischaltung aufm RADIUS nicht geht sollte man prüfen, ob man auch aufm richtigen RADIUS am editieren ist… m(

Can't stop thinking about the world building exercise/setup in Stephenson's Anathem where the "avout" (aka intelligentsia) were forced to live in gated monastic communities isolated to varying degrees (and by rank[1]) from secular society. This setup was decided on for a number of self-serving reasons (by the avout), but also largely imposed on them due to a long history where technology & academic pursuits led to several catastrophic events, incl. periodic civilization…

Let's encourage Hogsbreath to show his true macho-man self by driving the very first jeep (yup, WW-II jeep) into Tehran (shirtless, of course.)

Kim Jong Un Confirms 'Self-Detonation' by His Troops to Avoid Capture - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/kim-jong-un-north-korea-self-detonation-grenade-kursk-ukraine-2026-4

self-overheard: "thanks gaoming,¹ very cool"
¹Panyu Gaoming Electronic Co., Ltd., makers of various POP Stations

Your Safe Space
Every week, we dive into self-improvement, mindset, lifestyle, dating, relationships, and all the stories and secrets you love..
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/your-safe-space/

Every time you hear a billionaire denigrate colleges & universities, telling youth to opt for "trade schools", think deeply about their real motivations.
Uneducated = Controllable.
☑️ The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/?post_type…

The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite
How the self-styled know-it-alls atop the knowledge economy want to dismantle the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake

Instagram to start alerting parents when children search for terms relating to self-harm https://therecord.media/instagram-alert-parents-children-search-terms-self-harm

Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00943

Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel
Our understanding of gender differences in mobility is marked by a clear tension: surveys portray women's movements as more complex than men's, while digital traces suggest less diverse travel. Here, we resolve the contradiction by modeling trajectories as networks of sequential visits, using smartphone traces linked to self-reported gender for 543,155 individuals across 10 countries. We show that the apparent conflict in the literature arises because women's mobility networks are simultaneousl…

Well, it's about time I got started on my latest self-hosted project: Home Assistant. Luckily, I've had an RPi 4 for a while now, so I'm saving myself the money these gadgets cost these days.
First stop: automating the lighting system.
Next stop: smart irrigation system.
Here I go!
#selfhosted

My wife’s binging Private Practice. Six seasons of the most tedious and self-involved people on the planet fucking and whinging about fucking.
Were Dante alive today, this would be the circle where they send pearl-clutching wine aunts and helicopter cat fosterers.

Slowjamastan: The new 'nation' hiding in the US https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260330-slowjamastan-the-worlds-newest-nation-youve-never-heard-of

Slowjamastan: The new 'nation' hiding in the US
More than 25,000 self-proclaimed citizens have pledged their allegiance to this faux dictatorship, where Crocs and reply-all emails are forbidden.

I had no idea: bread rolls have agency!
Greggs rolls back self-service cabinets in shoplifting hotspots | Greggs | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/26/greggs-rolls-back-self-service-counters-shoplift…

In all seriousness, there are a ton of possible scenarios. The Iranian regime is weaker than it has ever been. I deeply hope for the liberation of Iranian people, especially oppressed minorities. Meanwhile, the US is lead by the most incompetent leadership ever (which is really saying a lot).
The Kurds, who could be the keystone ground forces needed to collapse the regime have been betrayed by the US so many times that they may not rise up (correctly) predicting that the US will stab them in the back at the fist chance.
But they are also a highly oppressed group in Iran, and may well take this opportunity. I don't know enough about this region to make any kind of reasonable prediction.
There are a huge number of unknowns, which is really *not* what anyone wants when starting a conflict.
To Iranian people, I wish you freedom and self-determination against all actors. To the US military, I wish you the best of luck getting your whole behive-dick situation.

My moment of clarity in the last few weeks was coming back to “Oh right, copyright is a hack, and one that is not serving us, particularly us on the margins”
The moral rights of authorship and the way we situate our legal process of ownership are, actually, kinda at odds. And it entirely misses the idea of a commons, both as community and as a cultural base to draw from.
I've long believed that we, collectively, should own our culture — to have modern myths be Copyright 1972 LucasFilm, the traditional songs we sing Copyright 1922, now owned by Warner/Chappell Music is one of the things I find repugnant about the situation we find ourselves in.
That said, reconciling that with the behavior of the AI companies, _particularly_ the American ones? It's hard. Google abuses its monopoly position; Microsoft has forced harmful and terrible tooling on people at every turn; OpenAI is run by someone who actively despises art and does not understand it; and Anthropic is run by a guy who is trying to make sure the apocalypse has a pleasant demeanor and doesn't offend any corporations on the way. All of the above have scraped the web with no active consent — and that's largely fine, that's what putting things in common _is_, that's the beauty of the open information world we have the remnants of — but also actively evading measures people put in place to stop it and with absolutely no willingness to engage with the process. Extracting from the commons _is_ the tragedy of the commons.
It does not mean that enlarging the commons with the resulting tools is bad. The doctrine of original sin is a Christian concept I do not subscribe to. The concept of 'fruit of the poisonous tree' is a legal tool to fix power relations not a moral stance. They're worth understanding, but they are not absolute moral stances that are self-evident.
These are not harmless tools, but so too putting hard regulation and corporate, legalistic scrutiny on everything has a vastly negative impact: it is a yoke on human creativity and community to the reins of capital.
And, so too, disruption has huge costs. We are, apparently, committed to doing things the worst possible way. One can just hope that we capture the good too, because the ride has started and it's rather late to get off.

<https://redd.it/1rgx8ts> … thirty-six hours later, no-one has spotted the two deliberate mistakes.
Note to self: be genuinely careless more often. Much more. Especially at weekends, when no-one's paying attention 🙃

My Power BI charts got good today - I think the reason is that I only used AI to get a function from a wonky API that has defeated me for two days. BUT I did not let any AI advice me on building tables. Note to self - don't let AI correct code, just put your head down and f**king correct it yourself.

Huh. A self-hosted dead man's switch... https://linuxiac.com/lastsignal-is-a-new-open-source-dead-mans-switch-you-can-self-host/ Interesting.

Sonnet 126 - CXXVI
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein showest
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self growest.
If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.
Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!
…

How to Self-Host FeedLand with Docker Compose https://rmendes.net/articles/2026/02/17/how-to-self-host-feedland

How to Self-Host FeedLand with Docker Compose
How to Self-Host FeedLand with Docker Compose 17 February 2026 Feedland Docker Self-Hosting RSS OPML This guide walks you through deploying a self-hosted FeedLand using Docker Compose. How to Self-Hos...

Genus-0 Surface Parameterization using Spherical Beltrami Differentials
Zhehao Xu, Lok Ming Lui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01589 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01589 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01589
arXiv:2602.01589v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spherical surface parameterization is a fundamental tool in geometry processing and imaging science. For a genus-0 closed surface, many efficient algorithms can map the surface to the sphere; consequently, a broad class of task-driven genus-0 mapping problems can be reduced to constructing a high-quality spherical self-map. However, existing approaches often face a trade-off between satisfying task objectives (e.g., landmark or feature alignment), maintaining bijectivity, and controlling geometric distortion. We introduce the Spherical Beltrami Differential (SBD), a two-chart representation of quasiconformal self-maps of the sphere, and establish its correspondence with spherical homeomorphisms up to conformal automorphisms. Building on the Spectral Beltrami Network (SBN), we propose a neural optimization framework BOOST that optimizes two Beltrami fields on hemispherical stereographic charts and enforces global consistency through explicit seam-aware constraints. Experiments on large-deformation landmark matching and intensity-based spherical registration demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed framework. We further apply the method to brain cortical surface registration, aligning sulcal landmarks and jointly matching cortical sulci depth maps, showing improved task fidelity with controlled distortion and robust bijective behavior.
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Microsoft launches in-house AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, as it pushes "AI self-sufficiency" (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/mic…

In Our Mothers' Gardens"
Film Screening & Potluck
Community Event · Hosted by Black Thumb Farm
Saturday, February 28
5 – 8pm PST
8380 Ventura Canyon Ave
Los Angeles, CA 91402
About this event
In honor of Black History Month, Black Thumb Farm invites you to a free screening of "In Our Mothers' Gardens."
This powerful documentary celebrates the strength and resiliency of Black women and Black families through the r…

"In Our Mothers' Gardens" Film Screening & Potluck · Mobilize
In honor of Black History Month, Black Thumb Farm invites you to a free screening of "In Our Mothers' Gardens." This powerful documentary celebrates the strength and resiliency of Black women and Black families through the relationship between mothers and daughters. The film honors Black maternal ancestors while examining the critical importance of self-care and the healing practices necessary for Black communities to thrive. Saturday Feb 28th, 2026 5 PM - 8:00 PM Black Thumb Farm 8380 Ventu…

self-overheard: "aren't we all, in our own way, at the combination pizza hut and taco bell"

This tangled.org GitHub alternative built on top of ATproto, open source, with self hosting capabilities and the ability to run your own CI sure seems like a gift of the gods.

Prerogative Powers and Presidential Self Care (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prerogative-powers-and-presidential-self-care
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p48#a260228p48

I think I must be benefiting from merciless blocking of GCP space for engaging in non-spam shady behavior.
I have not received any significant surge in spam from Google-not-Gmail network space. @… https://

I am relieved to learn that the mass-murdering dictator #Khamenei can no longer terrorise the #Iran‎ian people. I very much hope for the downfall of the entire regime in favour of a self-determined democracy.
However, the US' ultimate departure from international law through a "preven…

Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei is dead, state media confirms
Following US and Israeli strikes on Tehran, Iran state media confirmed the death of Ali Khamenei. DW has more.

Tesla verklagt kalifornische Behörde wegen Falschwerbe-Urteil zu FSD
Tesla will ein Urteil kippen, das ihm Falschwerbung bei Autopilot und Full-Self-Driving vorwirft. Das Unternehmen hat das Marketing inzwischen geändert.

Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/885110/meta-instagram-parent-alert-teen-…

Instagram will alert parents if their kids ‘repeatedly’ search for self-harm topics
Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents to check on their teen searching for terms related to self-harm or suicide.

Opengist
Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist
🧑‍💻 #git #gist

Cowboys Headlines: Pickens smart to bet on self; Romo bombs latest U.S. Open bid https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/30/news-headlines-april-29-2026-george-p…

from my link log —
soft-serve: a self-hostable git ssh server for the command line.
https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve
saved 2026-02-26 https://

GitHub - charmbracelet/soft-serve: The mighty, self-hostable Git server for the command line🍦
The mighty, self-hostable Git server for the command line🍦 - charmbracelet/soft-serve

Blender stepped straight into a blender, and they should have known better.
It’s not just that generic “AI is bad” sentiment is so strong in FOSS or with the general public. It’s that AI companies are specifically targeting the livelihood and self-worth of artists and designers — Blender’s primary customers.
1/2

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Bobby Lees:
🎵 New Self
#NowPlaying #TheBobbyLees
https://thebobbylees.bandcamp.com/album/new-self
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gKG7EJIW0fSUAHmOr4b3q

Das gilt auch für mich ⬇️
https://chaos.social/@scy/116324686527719601

It’s allergy season—my wife who has MCAS wrote up a long post about things that can help, from years of research and self-trials.
https://amyhoy.com/allergy-tips-from-a-giant-anthropomorphized-allergy/

Really excellent, easy, working, guide to self-hosting OnlyOffice if you want to break free of #Microsoft or #Google
https:/…

self-overheard:
*bumps into a pile of about 30 Chinese New Year lanterns, knocking them over* “新年快乐！！”

Waymo says it is continuing to "refine" its system preventing kids under 18 from riding alone, after adult riders reported new age-verification checks (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-trying-to-crack-down-on-solo-kids…

Waymo Is Trying to Crack Down on Solo Kids in Driverless Cars
As adult riders report new age-verification checks, the self-driving car company says it’s continuing to “refine” its system in places where kids aren’t allowed to ride alone.

citeseer: CiteSeer citations (2014)
Citations among papers indexed by the CiteSeer digital library. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present.
This network has 384413 nodes and 1751463 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

We just saw this car drive off the street into the curbs 😳 I think the lady inside was trusting the autopilot too much. The rumors are true about self driving vehicles in China

I just saw a band self-describe their genre as 'aristopunk' and now I want to throw up

Emerging Technologies and Methods in Wide-Area Search for Nuclear Materials
L. E. Sinclair, D. A. McCormack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00831 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00831 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00831
arXiv:2602.00831v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Canada, a Tier 1 nuclear nation involved in uranium mining and refining, operating nuclear power reactors, and with a Small Modular Reactor action plan, maintains a rigorous nuclear security infrastructure. The Nuclear Emergency Response team at Natural Resources Canada fulfills federal mandates in high-sensitivity air- and ground-based mobile survey for prevention, detection and response. A robust operational framework exists for deployment of traditional large-volume NaI(Tl)-based detection suites. At the same time, a research arm examines emerging non-nuclear technologies which can enhance the capabilities of the operational team. Herein, the potential for uncrewed mobile systems in nuclear security and emergency response operations is discussed. The impact of new technologies such as silicon photomultipliers, gamma imagers and self-shielding directional detectors is presented, and the use of high-performance computing in modelling of system response functions is discussed. Finally, a capability to extrapolate to the location of a source some distance away from a survey trajectory is shown. The extrapolation method includes propagation of the measurement error to the extrapolated region, essential information for nuclear response operators to know if a region is actually clear of radioactivity or not.
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Shadowbox is a lightweight Raspberry Pi runtime/control layer for RNBO patches: it runs on the Pi, discovers or connects to an RNBO runner, and provides a small hardware-oriented interface for viewing and adjusting patch parameters. In short, it turns a Pi into a self-contained, tactile RNBO instrument/controller box. https://www.youtube.c…

🫶 Self-aware biosensors boost digital health monitoring
#sensors

Self-aware biosensors boost digital health monitoring
Smart biomedical devices are transforming modern health care, using skin-mounted sensors to capture in-depth health information directly from the body. As clinicians increasingly use biosensing devices to guide patient care, accurate and reliable signal acquisition is critical. A team at KAUST has developed a new system that can rapidly detect when the electrodes of devices such as heart monitors start to detach from the skin.

Trump, the Self-Declared Peace President, Goes to War Seeking Regime Change (Peter Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/trump-peace-president-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p42#a260301p42

I need to rewire my brain for my hobbies, I think. Too often I'll sit down to research something and I never run out of things to read. Meanwhile the project doesn't progress and I end up postponing it to another day (where I'll often have to start over because I forgot where I was). Brought to you by researching PiStorm and self-hosting.

AVFTCN 040 – Returning From A Hiatus, and Plans for 2026
I'm back. After a self-imposed hiatus for most of 2025, I'm returning to something I've been deeply missing... writing and speaking. If you've been following me for any length of time, you know that not writing or speaking is, for me, a kind of pressure that builds and builds until I am ready to explode. 🤯 So what happened? The short version: my role at the…

AVFTCN 040 – Returning From A Hiatus, and Plans for 2026
I’m back. After a self-imposed hiatus for most of 2025, I’m returning to something I’ve been deeply missing… writing and speaking. If you’ve been following me for any …

This Personality Trait Makes Dreams More Bizarre, Scientists Discover https://www.404media.co/this-personality-trait-makes-dreams-more-bizarre-scientists-discover/

I don't know how you can claim Trump wants to crack down on fraud when a jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud.
Magats truly exhibit the depths of human capacity for self-delusion.

I’m just happy they’re not making self-driving cars.

I read the news about SCOTUS latest decisions.
For a while I have been thinking that SCOTUS has been dragging us back to a new Lochner era. (I wonder if some of the justices wear "I <heart> substantive due process" T-shits under their robes?
But the present move to dismantle government powers seems less based on an overenthusiastic embrace of "due process" beyond mere "process" and rather a self-flagellant's view of the "free exercise…

Hello! Your final reminder about today's masterclass on #Reflection and self-awareness.
I'm kicking off in 30mins and followers are free to join me on Zoom via:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81945999860

Wochenende. Endlich Zeit die privaten Geräte und Services upzudaten.
Teach a person how to self host and they will never have time to use the things they run.

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…

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
One Self:
🎵 Fear the Labour
#OneSelf
https://open.spotify.com/track/0fIWksZVQ2E762W7zAvwWx

Sonnet 003 - III
Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time that face should form another;
Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lov…

Japan, the Philippines and the United States held joint military drills near the Bashi Channel -- the waterway between the Philippines and Taiwan, for the first time earlier this week.
The naval and aerial exercises were conducted under the framework of the Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity (MMCA), and ran from Feb. 20 through Thursday.
On Tuesday, the Maritime Self-Defense Force took part in the drills, deploying a P-3C patrol aircraft for flight training alongside the…

Another day passes and the D-party is still continuing on its lemming-like path to party suicide.
Unless the majority of D-party candidates for governor drop out immediately the R-party will take the only two slots on the ballot for governor in November and the D's will be locked out even though California is very much a D-party blue state.
Ego's and hyperbolic identity politics are the D party's favorite forms of self-inflicted poison.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Django Django feat. Self Esteem:
🎵 Complete Me (Radio edit)
#NowPlaying #DjangoDjango #SelfEsteem
https://djangodjango.bandcamp.com/album/complete-me-feat-self-esteem-kilimanjaro-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4PLpEoutbbBKXQX4Ymkgvq

self-overheard:
“they’ve given me a DE but no X environment. what do they want me to use, wayland? *laugh track*”

Self-proclaimed Hunter Biden 'whistleblower' now claims he was 'unaware' of sanctions threat and shouldn't have to pay up for wasting everyone's time | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/self-proclaimed-hunter-biden-whistleblower-now-claims-he-was-unaware-of-sanctions-threat-and-shouldnt-have-to-pay-up-for-wasting-everyones-time/

Goodness me! I just had a vision of a smart, committed leader of Aotearoa who, instead of a self-interested wilfully ignorant sycophantic pud working for his campaign contributors, is in the role out of a sense of duty to the least fortunate NZers and posterity. Someone considered, well read, well spoken, with a rapier wit, grasp of nuance, & lashings of gravitas.
It was glorious!
And now it's gone. But that's what we're working towards.

self-overheard:
*bumps into a pile of about 30 Chinese New Year lanterns, knocking them over* “新年快乐！！”

tfw when you’re rich and discover you have been scammed https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/car-owners-are-revolting-over-teslas-self-driving-promises-b76edcdd?mod=hp_lead_pos9

Dogs remain undefeated against robot vacuums
Here Comes A New Challenger: https://www.amazon.com/Qrevo-Edge-S5A-Zero-Tangling-Self-Cleaning/dp/B0DNDTP9CJ

Trump has never hidden his desire for domination
-- and the related willingness to have his followers engage in violence,
from the call to rough up people at his rallies
to the pardons of even the most brutal January 6 insurrectionists
Unlike with 20th century fascism, there is no attempt to promote or symbolically reward self-sacrifice
– it is just video game-style killing at a distance,
justified not with strategic objectives,
but with seemingly u…

self-overheard:
*hums tune*
*with near impeccable Chinese pronunciation* no wait that’s just smash hit Tong Nian by Taiwanese pop legend Lo Tayou

from my link log —
On the enshittification of Audre Lorde: "the master's tools" in tech discourse.
https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/
saved 20…

On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse
🖼️Cover Photo: Train at the Nairobi terminus of the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. It runs parallel to the Uganda Railway that was completed in 1901. The first fare-paying passengers boarded the "Madaraka Express" on Madaraka Day (1 June 2017), the 54th anniversary of Kenya's attainment of self-rule from Great

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Tesla sues California's DMV to reverse a ruling that found Tesla violated the law by falsely promoting its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/tesla-sues-california-dmv-to-re…

Tesla sues California DMV to reverse ruling that company engaged in false advertising on FSD
California's DMV previously ruled that Tesla falsely promoted its cars' self-driving capabilities.

self-overheard:
“I’ll get a degree and *then* l’ll go join a commune”

self-overheard:
“I’ll get a degree and *then* l’ll go join a commune”

Sources: Travis Kalanick prepares to launch a self-driving car company with backing from Uber and has been discussing acquiring Anthony Levandowski's Pronto.ai (Jessica E. Lessin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tr

Travis Kalanick Plots New Self-Driving Venture with Levandowski, Uber
Former Uber CEO and cofounder Travis Kalanick is preparing to launch a new self-driving car company with major backing from the ride-hailing giant, according to several people familiar with the matter. Kalanick has also been discussing acquiring the startup founded by Anthony Levandowski, who ...

The longest State of the Union in modern history is now over.
Donald Trump held court in the House of Representatives and said little of substance,
but substance wasn’t the point.
This year, he intended to put on a show, with an array of guest stars and special appearances.
He was happy because he was playing the roles he clearly loves:
game-show host, ringmaster, emcee, beneficent granter of wishes
—and, where the Democrats were concerned, a self-righteous…

President Trump's State of the Union Extravaganza
Were you not entertained?

self-overheard:
*hums tune*
*with near impeccable Chinese pronunciation* no wait that’s just smash hit Tong Nian by Taiwanese pop legend Lo Tayou

GOP Lawmaker Reportedly Had Affair With Aide Who Died By Self-Immolation (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tony-gonzales-staffer-affair-self-immolation_n_6995e28ce4b0b35329391c9e
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p77#a260218p77

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructure, available on GitHub (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/mozil…

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on self-hosted infrastructure
New tool builds on deepset’s Haystack toward a “decentralized open source AI ecosystem.”...

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Emails, texts, and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robotaxis to stop for school buses as required by law (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-school-district-…

A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses. It Didn’t Work
The incidents in Austin raise questions about how self-driving cars “learn” and adapt to their surroundings.

AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its $1.2B Series D, announced in February (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/chip

Chipmakers AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm are all investing in this buzzy self-driving tech startup | TechCrunch
Wayve's $1.2 billion Series D round, which was announced in February, keeps growing.

A profile of Applied Intuition, which makes self-driving simulation software and reported $800M in 2025 revenue and 80% gross margins, as it expands beyond cars (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20…

These Billionaires Plan To Bring Self-Driving Tech To Everything That Moves
Applied Intuition’s cofounders are building software that can drive everything from planes to tanks to automobiles. But to expand beyond its $800 million business selling tech for cars, they will have to take on Tesla, Google, Nvidia and a host of other startups jostling for pole position in the autonomy race.

London-based self-driving startup Wayve raised a $1.2B Series D at an $8.6B post-money valuation, with Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Nissan among investors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/181aee87-4815-4a0e-805f-c1d04f0c2f36