Tootfinder

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Customarily, the honour of having liberated hysteria from the ancient myths about a displacement of the uterus goes to Le Pois and Willis. Jean Liebaud, translating or rather adapting Marinello’s work for the seventeenth century, still accepted (with a small number of caveats) the idea of a spontaneous movement of the womb. If it moved, it was “to be more at ease; not that this came about through prudence, nor was it a conscious decision or an animal stimulus, but by a natural instinct, to safeguard health and to have the pleasure of something delectable.” The idea that it could change its place and move around the body, bringing convulsions and spasms everywhere it travelled, had been abandoned, for it was now taken to be ‘tightly held in place’ by the cervix, ligaments, vessels and the sheath of the peritoneum; yet in some senses it could change its location. “The womb therefore, even though it is tightly fixed to the parts that we have described and cannot easily change its place, still manages to roam, making strange, petulant movements around the woman’s body. These diverse movements include ascensions and descents, convulsions, wanderings and prolapses. It can wander up to the liver, spleen, diaphragm, stomach, chest, heart, lung, throat and head.” Physicians of the classical age are more or less unanimous in refusing this explanation.
[…] Yet these analyses were not sufficient to break the theme of an essential link between hysteria and the womb. But the link is now conceived in different terms. It is no longer considered to be the trajectory of a real displacement through the body, but rather a sort of mute propagation through the paths of the organism and its functional proximities. It cannot be said that the seat of the malady has become the brain, nor that thanks to Willis a psychological explanation of hysteria was now possible. But the brain does take on the role of a relay that distributes a malady whose origins are visceral, and the womb brings it on just as the other viscera do. Up until the end of the eighteenth century, and Pinel, the uterus and the womb are still present in the pathology of hysteria, but thanks to a privileged diffusion by the humours and nerves, not because of any particular prestige of their nature.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Vodafone und AST SpaceMobile bauen Satelliten-Betriebszentrum in Deutschland
Der britische Konzern Vodafone und der texanische Satellitenbetreiber ASTS haben Deutschland als Standort für ihr Satelliten-Betriebszentrum ausgewählt.

Recall.ai, which offers an API and a desktop SDK for managing meeting recordings and transcripts, raised $38M in a Series B led by Bessemer at a $250M valuation (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/05/recall-ai-lands-38m-unlock-spoken-…

Recall.ai lands $38M to unlock spoken data at scale - SiliconANGLE
Recall.ai lands $38M to unlock spoken data at scale - SiliconANGLE

🔋 Feeding off spent battery waste, a novel bacterium signals a new method for self-sufficient battery recycling
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-spent-battery-bacterium-method-sufficient.html

Feeding off spent battery waste, a novel bacterium signals a new method for self-sufficient battery recycling
A unique bacterium that thrives in highly acidic environments feeds on spent battery "waste," making it a promising new method for self-sufficient battery recycling, according to new research from Boston College chemists.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger speaking out against what Trump is doing to this country. He says: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror. : r/usa
https://www.reddit.com/r/usa/comments/1nz49zt/chicago_priest_father_michael_pfleger_speaking/

French Prime Minister
Sébastien Lecornu has spoken to reporters,
about an hour after announcing his resignation.
“I was ready to compromise,
but each political party wanted the other political party to adopt its entire program,”
he said from the courtyard of Matignon Palace, the prime minister’s headquarters

How I Built ASR for Endangered Languages with a Spoken Dictionary
Christopher Bartley, Anton Ragni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04832 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

How I Built ASR for Endangered Languages with a Spoken Dictionary
Nearly half of the world's languages are endangered. Speech technologies such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) are central to revival efforts, yet most languages remain unsupported because standard pipelines expect utterance-level supervised data. Speech data often exist for endangered languages but rarely match these formats. Manx Gaelic ($\sim$2,200 speakers), for example, has had transcribed speech since 1948, yet remains unsupported by modern systems. In this paper, we explore how litt…

Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to establish a Europe-led satellite constellation, operated out of Germany, to provide satellite-to-smartphone connectivity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/vodafone-ast-spacemobile-launch…

Infosys co-founder
NR Narayana Murthy
called for Indian workers to adopt a 70-hour week last year,
-- but he thinks that’s still not enough and wants to take things further.
Speaking during a recent interview,
Murthy called for an increase in working hours from 70 to 72.
That number represents the total hours worked by those on the infamous '996' schedule,
which involves working from 9am to 9pm, six days a week.
This approach, Murthy not…

Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy called for a 70 hour week last year — now he says that’s not enough
Murthy thinks longer hours akin to China’s '996' approach are the key to success

Trump has sparked a fresh frenzy about his health after a very unorthodox CNN interview.
The 79-year-old president gave an exclusive interview to State of the Union host Jake Tapper Sunday,
but bizarrely texted his answers in at an unspecified time before the show
rather than speaking in person or calling
Viewers commented on X:
“What is wrong with Donald Trump so that he is not able to even do a telephone interview?”
Another watcher wrote: “This wasn’t an …

Trump’s Texts to CNN Host Renew Health Speculation
CNN viewers demanded “proof of life” after the 79-year-old president conducted the interview entirely by text.