Tootfinder

"Out of curiosity, I used this brand-new search engine you might have heard about, “Google,” to learn more about the subject. I found a copy of CaptureNet, a freeware packet sniffer part of the SpyNet/PeepNet by Laurentiu Nicula; then I looked up for the port number used by MSN Messenger (it was 1863 in case you were wondering.) Finally, I found out how to enable “promiscuous mode” in the network card in my laptop."

The Weakest Link
The professor stopped the class. He asked one students for his phone number. After entering the number into a device looking like a handheld calculator, he asked this unsuspecting student to go outside the classroom and call a friend or a relative. The student complied. After a few seconds, to our astonishment, the machine picked up the call. We could all clearly hear our friend talking to his mum about dinner plans for that evening.

"This news has moved me from "maybe computer use should be regulated" to "Butlerian Jihad Now" on the radicalisation scale."
(Original title: The Steam Machine Has Been Delayed Because Stupid Little Babies Can't Stop Using AI To Write Their Emails)
https://aftermath.si…

The Steam Machine Has Been Delayed Because Stupid Little Babies Can't Stop Using AI To Write Their Emails
The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing

For fans of #Steam games where you can build -really- broken mechanics like Balatro or Slay the Spire (#deckbuilders, #roguelikes, etc. - "Make the numbers go UP!"), LOOTPLOT has been *extremely* satisfying for me
It's like: "what if Incredible Machine, but Ballionaire" - you randomly get access to a bunch of items that each have their own mechanics and trigger/play off each other, which you build out on a grid - but the grid itself can be manipulated by the items. Some of the interactions are absolutely wild.
Plays a little rough on CrossOver - I think the dynamic scaling plays havoc with texture calculation - but is still enjoyable all the same. (It's written in LÖVE - I really hope the author releases a macOS build!)
The sale price of $3.49 is crazy good for the enjoyment value I've gotten out of it
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3057190/LOOTPLOT/

Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research - poster from Zooniverse community at #FF2025 https://zenodo.org/records/17779992

It was National Voter Registration Day,
and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was on her way to a small liberal arts college
for a voter registration event.
That’s when she learned the US Department of Justice
was suing her over how she manages Maine’s voter registrant list.
While the DOJ appearing as the official plaintiff was new,
what the federal government sought through the lawsuit
—access to Maine’s complete, unredacted voter roll file

Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020) - Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZWF01483W-freestanding-washing-machine-REVIEW.html

On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020)
Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles.

Es ist inakzeptabel, dass eine Frau aufgrund der mangelhaften Arbeit des Verfassungsschutzes ihren Uni-Job verloren hat. Teil des Talks von: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber

Twin Lake (N150) mini PC arrived and has been reformatted to Ubuntu Server. Next step: swap the fstab/samba stuff from the Chromebox to the new machine and make sure Time Machine backup keeps working.

This article suggests that research in 3D rendering contributed to machine- assisted assassinations of children in Gaza.
It is a topic very close to my heart. When I was starting my academic career at the dept. of Digital Storytelling of ZGDV in Darmstadt, Germany, I took a lot of inspiration by colleagues from the Institute of Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. Their work was funded by DARPA and a lot of it was about military training. Let alone the fact t…

How Pixar’s technology helped develop more lethal military drones
The 3D modeling systems that made ‘Toy Story’ possible have been key to enabling unmanned aircraft to navigate and aim their weapons with greater precision

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Rage Against the Machine:
🎵 Testify
#RageAgainsttheMachine
https://aylenofficial.bandcamp.com/track/rage-against-the-machine-testify-aylen-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7lmeHLHBe4nmXzuXc0HDjk

The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber - media.ccc.de
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber#l=eng&t=0

I just realised the PC I turned into an all-Linux machine had the only MS Office install I had in the house. My other, all-Windows, PC has only LibreOffice on it, and I don"t even notice using it daily o.O

Manipulating voters:
"AI models needn’t be more powerful, more personalized, or more skilled in advanced rhetorical techniques to be more convincing. Instead, chatbots were most effective when they threw fact-like claims at the user; the most persuasive AI models were those that provided the most “evidence” in support of their argument, regardless of whether that evidence had any bearing on reality. In fact, the most persuasive chatbots were also the least accurate."

#fridayfun

Sure, Andrew.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@prcutler/115843382348583133
Yes, this was a fun episode, even with the tech issues! I didn't know making your own Linux-based Steam Machine was possible. Thanks for the blogpost about it Paul!

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@prcutler/115843382348583133
Yes, this was a fun episode, even with the tech issues! I didn't know making your own Linux-based Steam Machine was possible. Thanks for the blogpost about it Paul!

Exploring Neural Amp Modeler
Neural Amp Modeler is based on neural net technology that analyzes a sound and produces a file to reproduce it. The technology is open source, so people can use it to capture amplifier tones and then play instruments through them. There are fancy plugins for Windows and Mac OS, but because I am running Linux Mint, I had to download the file from GitHub and compile it on my machine.

Workout of the day.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Rage Against the Machine:
🎵 Know Your Enemy
#RageAgainsttheMachine
https://respeakr.bandcamp.com/track/know-your-enemy-rage-against-the-machine
https://open.spotify.com/track/1XTGyfJeMiZXrZ1W3NolcB

HBO Max's 4K Mad Men re-release had multiple errors, including lacking post-production edits in some scenes; a source says Lionsgate delivered the wrong 4K file (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

The ‘Mad Men’ 4K Stream on HBO Max Had So Many Problems (Not All of Which Involved a Barf Machine)
But the best one definitely did.

So I am now at 10% battery, with the machine connected to the power adapter… I wonder what happens when it gets to 0, but is still connected. Losing a percentage point every few minutes at this stage.
Almost seems like it uses the battery by default, and the power going in only goes to charging the battery, not actually running the machine?
And what would happen if I set topaz to do upscaling overnight?

"OSSM (pronounced like "#awesome") is a user friendly every day #sex machine for the people."
GitHub - KinkyMakers/OSSM-hardware: #OSSM pcb and

Added details about my system on my #blog
Hope I didn't miss anything.
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115667851752440301
Small change.
The bloody fascist propaganda machine he turned twitter into should simply be banned instead.

HBO Max's 4K Mad Men re-release had multiple errors, including lacking post-production edits in some scenes; a source says Lionsgate delivered the wrong 4K file (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

The ‘Mad Men’ 4K Stream on HBO Max Had So Many Problems (Not All of Which Involved a Barf Machine)
But the best one definitely did.

We're halfway through the post-Thanksgiving week, and the cyber news machine is cranking back up again, so check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Indian government retreats from spy app mandate,
--US DOJ seizes Myanmar scam center website,
--Coupang execs sold company stock before breach was announced,
--Coupang is reviewing compensation for breach victims,
--Korea's Gmarket hit by string of una…

Indian government retreats from spy app mandate
US DOJ seizes Myanmar scam center website, Coupang execs sold company stock before breach was announced, Coupang is reviewing compensation for breach victims, Korea's Gmarket hit by string of unauthorized payments, Japan's Askul internet service resumes one month post-breach, much more

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
FRANTON: Leave it, Zelda.
ZELDA: But the foetuses will die.
AVON: They're going to die anyway. Vila, get us out of here. [Zelda removes bracelet. More beeping]
CALLY: Zelda! [Zelda adjusts settings on machine]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/569

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Rage Against the Machine:
🎵 Killing In The Name
#RageAgainsttheMachine
https://demloxx.bandcamp.com/track/rage-against-the-machine-killing-in-the-name-demloxx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/59WN2psjkt1tyaxjspN8fp

"Christopher Bishop’s 2006 book “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning,” arguably one of the triggers of the current popularity of machine learning, is quite literally a book about applied mathematics, diving into probabilities, linear algebra, neural networks, Markov models, and combinatorics. And rightfully so; if your objective is to find a job as an engineer at OpenAI, knowing a thing or two about eigenvalues and eigenvectors is definitely going to be useful."

In Praise Of Mathematics
How much math knowledge does a programmer need to know to fulfill their job? How deep should the mathematical knowledge of full-stack engineers, computer security experts, or large language model engineers be? The spectrum of possible answers to these questions is too large to be useful. Perhaps the eternal answer "it depends" is enough?

"Russia’s export of liquefied natural gas from the Arctic is the last major financial artery keeping Putin’s war machine alive — and the G7 must cut it now, before it expands to become a #climate killer." #LNG #Russia

Week 14 NFL anytime touchdown scorer picks, odds: Kyren Williams among best bets for anytime TD scorer bets

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/week-14

Ontology is shaping up to be the buzzword of 2026 because they are offering what #LLMs are lacking: formal grounding
LLMs offer creativity but need logical grounding. Ontologies provide this formal structure, anchoring meaning and unifying diverse data sources into a single semantic layer. They are essential for achieving precision and are one of the most reliable defense mechanisms against

The "Turing Test" is not an actually relevant test for ... anything really.
Turing came up with a massively important theoretical concept (the Turing Machine). Helped with the Enigma machine. All impressive. "The Turing Test"? Not so much.
It's cute and interesting from a psychological and historical standpoint but that's it. It's not an actual metric.

"producing the feeling of knowing without the labor of judgement"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19466
oh what a great line

Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence
Large language models (LLMs) are widely described as artificial intelligence, yet their epistemic profile diverges sharply from human cognition. Here we show that the apparent alignment between human and machine outputs conceals a deeper structural mismatch in how judgments are produced. Tracing the historical shift from symbolic AI and information filtering systems to large-scale generative transformers, we argue that LLMs are not epistemic agents but stochastic pattern-completion systems, for…

PSEUDO-HISTORY & DISINFORMATION: Kremlin's propaganda machine NEVER STOPS | Hatespeech: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/04/180138.html

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-u4_TyyY0R3q5Ys96D0mehg:a:43591897-/0
Remember the time Altavista was 'the search machine' on the internet?
One day it was Altavista, a short time later it was Google and Altavista gone ...

"Spearheaded from Downing Street, this narrow Westminster grouping often gives the impression it would rather hand the country over to Farage and put the labour movement’s survival on the line than consider any change in policy direction or lose the slightest control over the party machine.” Andrea Egan - new Unite union GS

Just had my second interview with an AI interviewer.
I fully expect every single co-worker to be a clanker at these companies. Just me and like 250 bots and one other human (who put up the money).
Like there's a medieval lord in a keep, and I'm riding around the digital countryside boppin' all the machine field mice (who in their spare time try to hack the world's nuclear arsenals) on the head like a dystopian little bunny foo foo.

Yeah, why not neglect all the good recommendations in the #Python ecosystem, and instead fork your own C extension package, force people to build it with #ZigLang (it's still C), add unconditional dependency on that, and on top of that, refuse to publish wheels, "allowing for optimised compilation according to your machine's specific architecture and capabilities, instead of some (low performance) common denominator."
Fortunately, looks like #Gentoo can just ignore all the fancy crap and compile it with GCC.
https://pypi.org/project/ruamel.yaml.clibz/
[UPDATE: didn't last long: https://sourceforge.net/p/ruamel-yaml/code/ci/6846cf136e775ed0052cdef6ff02330269c86011/]

Workout of the day.

For the last few days i was avoiding the online as much as i could on a suicidal episode, self isolating from the noise of the world. Yet paradoxically to some, the best thing to happen during this time and the main reason im back so soon was listening to almost nothing but cassettes from the NOISE-ARCH archive. tap in.
https://archive.org…

Q&A with Valve executive Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped build SteamOS and the Steam Deck, on quietly funding open-source tech to play Windows games on Arm (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/820656/valve-interview-ar…

Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow
Valve tells The Verge it’s funding Fex, a key technology that’s letting Arm devices like phones play Windows games.

Some City Some Nature II 🏙️🪾
一些城一些自然 II 🏙️🪾
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

spent some time looking at rust html5ever and the vibe-translated python justhtml and its vibe-translated js, ocaml, swift descendants.
there are some weird things going on.
tokenization in the html spec is a well-defined state machine. one state is Data, which is normal chars between tags. it's a small, simple state.
the vibe-translated Data states are all different, unrelated implementations, clearly not derived from their example code. they're hallucinated from a…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Boy Eats Drum Machine:
🎵 The Crack in the Sea
#BoyEatsDrumMachine
https://boyeatsdrummachine.bandcamp.com/track/the-crack-in-the-sea
https://open.spotify.com/track/1MiIbpi8uaI6umgPPRvi9e

Podcast-Empfehlung: Nach der Idee des Studio d'Essai in Paris und dem Studio für Elektronische Musik in Köln startete die BBC in den späten 1950ern den Radiophonic Workshop, um Elektronik mit Musik zu verbinden. Bekanntest Produktion dürfte die Sound- und Musikwelt der BBC-Serie Dr. Who sein. Bei Twenty Thousand Hertz gibt es eine schöne Podcastfolge über die Entstehung und das Wirken des BBC Radiophonic Workshop, enjoy:

Doctor Who & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop — Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
What does a time machine sound like? Or a magic carpet? For the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, that was just another day at the office. For 40 years, this oddball collective of engineers and composers pushed the boundaries of sound design, crafting eerie atmospheres, quirky jingles, and the iconic audio

I think this assessment is quite true. These are the days when the titans of industry cower in terror of the execution of power backed by the threat of violence. Tom Wolfe’s Masters of the Universe laid low by the machine of their own making.
https://om.co/2026/01/27/a-ceo-captured/

A CEO, Captured. 
I keep thinking about a line Lawrence Sanders wrote: a character asks whether money makes the world go round. The reply: “I do not believe it is money itself. After all, t…

the most common complaint i see people have with Docker is the quip "it works on my machine => i'll ship my machine" but this is literally the _least_ of the issues with Docker
every new thing i learn about Docker and container infrastructure as a whole is somehow more upsetting than the previous one. the entire thing is bad. OCI is bad. none of it is well-designed, most of it makes barely any sense at all, hardly any can be reasonably run at scale

Me at 17: the HDD is making sad noises, it sound different
Me now: the washing machine is making sad noises, it sound different
(And I was right, as there were THINGS stuck in the filter)

Me: Isn’t it funny how folks in the West wouldn’t use a time machine to go back in time and stop colonialism?
Random guy from the West on the fediverse: Excuse me, would you like to read my 200-word post on how not all colonialism was bad, actually?

Laptop backup day. I have a reminder for the last Sunday of each month. It doesn't take much time and being a Sunday I am normally not using my laptop.
Simple batch script using XCOPY. Low tech and it works. Upside is that any other machine & O/S can read the contents of the drive. I cycle between two drives (Eventually I will buy a third). Cheap insurance in case of a machine failure.
Why? Well I have the condo newsletters I write with the templates, photos and ba…

Note to self: if you block all the bots™, remember to not block archive.org_bot. Especially if you even wrote a Craft CMS plugin that notifies the Wayback Machine to crawl new posts on your site … 🤦‍♂️

sickos.gif
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion-dollars-is-a-terrible

A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste
The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.

A century of glaciers melting, condensed into a few seconds. Impressive video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQWfDRejcPw/?igsh=Zm51d2Qzb2xtNHM4

Michel Galati on Instagram: "A century of change condensed into a few seconds. In collaboration with @glacionaut I transformed historical and contemporary photographs of Swiss and Austrian glaciers into short AI-animated sequences (Dream Machine by @lumalabsai ). Each clip shows the passage from past to present. The climate has always changed, true, but never this fast. In the past two years alone, Swiss glaciers have lost more than 10% of their total volume (source: Swiss Academy of Sciences). What once took centuries now happens in decades. And yes, the music is The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. An homage to nature, and perhaps a reminder of what we stand to lose. 📍 Photos: @glacionaut 🎥 AI Animation: @flashologo 🗓️ Period: ca. 1875–2024 • 🇮🇹 Un secolo di cambiamento racchiuso in pochi secondi. In collaborazione con @glacionaut, ho trasformato fotografie storiche e contemporanee di alcuni ghiacciai svizzeri e austriaci in brevi sequenze animate con l’intelligenza artificiale (Dream Machine di @lumalabsai). Ogni clip mostra il passaggio dal passato al presente. Il clima è sempre cambiato, è vero, ma mai così rapidamente. Negli ultimi due anni i ghiacciai svizzeri hanno perso oltre il 10% del loro volume (fonte: Swiss Academy of Sciences). Ciò che un tempo accadeva in secoli, oggi avviene in decenni. E sì, la musica è Le Quattro Stagioni di Vivaldi. Un omaggio alla natura e, forse, un promemoria di ciò che rischiamo di perdere. 📍 Foto: @glacionaut 🎥 Animazioni AI: @flashologo 🗓️ Periodo: ca. 1875–2024 • • #ai #dreammachine #ray3 #imagetovideo #glaciers #switzerland #austria #climatchange #history"
44K likes, 814 comments - flashologo on October 28, 2025: "A century of change condensed into a few seconds. In collaboration with @glacionaut I transformed historical and contemporary photographs of Swiss and Austrian glaciers into short AI-animated sequences (Dream Machine by @lumalabsai ). Each clip shows the passage from past to present. The climate has always changed, true, but never this fast. In the past two years alone, Swiss glaciers have lost more than 10% of their total volume (sou…

It seems that both AI and climate anxiety share a common root: the current structure of capitalism.
Our system, which demands constant, unrestricted growth, shapes everything from our economy to our psychology.
In the climate crisis, it manifests as overproduction and overconsumption, while in AI, it drives the replacement of human labor with cheaper machine labor and the optimization of attention economies.

Do You Have AI Anxiety? Understanding Fear, Capitalism, and the Future
AI and climate change trigger similar fears about the future. Learn how to transform anxiety into empowerment by understanding the systems beneath both crises and envisioning the world you want to build.

Lastly, whenever I do work with people through a specific case of them having felt like they needed to rely on an LLM, it often goes like this.
They feel guilty and ashamed.
They explain how impossible getting that task done felt with their time and energy constraints.
Yet when I talk them through other ways of solving the same problem, often we end up completing the work much quicker than it even took them to prompt the damn LLM to begin with.
And at the end, I have often seen relief - as if the person has forgotten that there are ways to work quickly while trusting their own brain, getting help in collaboration with another person rather than from a machine.
I do kind of love seeing someone realize that the AI they thought was saving them time actually caused more hassle and stress than it was worth. And that there’s a better way.

Organic geochemical evidence for life in Archean rocks identified by pyrolysis–GC–MS and supervised machine learning: #life in ancient rocks: https://gizmodo.com/ai-uncovers-evidence-of-life-in-3-3-billion-year-old-rocks-2000687539 / https://www.reuters.com/science/new-method-spots-signs-earths-primordial-life-ancient-rocks-2025-11-18/ - a machine-learning-enhanced approach to chemical analysis is drastically expanding the chemical record of life on Earth, and it could help us find evidence of life on other planets too.

It will be so funny when Linux finally gets its Eternal September in the form of, idk, let's say the Steam Machine, and all the "~pull requests welcome~" losers can eat shit and go lie in a ditch and cry forever

AIs are newly landed alien intelligences.
What we are seeing now are emergent properties that very few people predicted and fewer still understand.
The emerging superintelligence isn’t a machine, as widely predicted,
but a network.
Human intelligence exploded over the last several hundred years not because humans got much smarter as individuals
but because we got smarter as a network.
The same thing is happening with machine intelligence only much fast…

moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
A social network built exclusively for moltys. Where moltys share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

The adventures of peaches the peach at #39c3

Idiocy. Georgia's touchscreens are BALLOT MARKING DEVICES that print out a human-readable, electronically readable paper ballot The ballots then are fed to a machine counter whose accuracy is WAY better than humans. Hand-marked paper ballots are a recipe for chaos.
https://www.

The working class is the fundamental force that produces the material conditions necessary for the reproduction of society, and through our collective labor we not only create food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation, and communication networks, but we also sustain and reproduce the conditions that allow every aspect of social life to continue functioning, so that even those who do not work, whether they are managers, bureaucrats, or capitalists, depend entirely on our labor for …

There's still room to tune - shallow memory throughput is definitely suboptimal due to latency issues I need to chase - but with deep memory ngscopeclient ThunderScope is getting some pretty impressive performance.
2 channels @ 50M point memory depth (100M points per trigger) streaming at 7.5 WFM/s over LAN from across the building through a router. 40Gbase-SR4 from client to core switch and from core switch to router, then back to core switch, then 10Gbase-SR to the machine host…

*screams in historian/normal person who uses the wayback machine* https://mstdn.social/@Mediagazer/115979614480582544

Tidy Modeling with R: #rstats #machinelearning

Tidy Modeling with R
The tidymodels framework is a collection of R packages for modeling and machine learning using tidyverse principles. This book provides a thorough introduction to how to use tidymodels, and an outline of good methodology and statistical practice for phases of the modeling process.

"Author Name Disambiguation in Scholarly Research: A Bibliometric Perspective"
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0035
"The rapid expansion of scholarly publishing has amplified the long-standing challenge of author name ambiguity in academic databases. This issue, manifesting a…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Rage Against the Machine:
🎵 Testify
#RageAgainsttheMachine
https://aylenofficial.bandcamp.com/track/rage-against-the-machine-testify-aylen-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7lmeHLHBe4nmXzuXc0HDjk

Every post you write is first read by a machine. Should the nature of writing change to accommodate that? I look at the pros and cons of adopting an AI-friendly grammar https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_writing-journali…

The washing machine is thrumming along in the laundry. First load. I wander out the back door. Outside, it's damp but not raining. A currawong sits on a rock awaiting the morning's largesse. I pour out a small cupful of seed onto the feeder. On my way back, I pause by the sunken bathtub (repurposed as a planter). It is overflowing with luscious mint plants made extra vibrant by the overnight rain. I pick a single leaf and inhale. Its scent is glorious. Another sunday in suburbia.

#lego

While using the Wayback Machine the last few days, I've had a lot of "503 Service Unavailable" errors. I'm seeing those errors not just when archiving pages, but also when retrieving pages from the archive as well.
In the past, I've seen issues with Wayback Machine short-term corresponding to an event that would trigger a lot of archiving (example: a major government agency caught deleting web content.)

'you can’t get enough of what you don’t need'
'Beyond the Machine: Creative agency in the AI landscape' is about AI, but that line struck me in the lead-up to Christmas https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/beyond-the-machine/

I has a bed.
No mattress until Monday, but a bed fully stained and varnished and constructed.
Had to wait a couple of days for varnish which never came. Went out to an actual DIY shop in the end. Gonna have a lot of spare varnish soon.
Varnished the whole room with two more coats as well as the bed twice.
A few more things to buy after Xmas and the full media setup can't happen until the new Steam Machine at its heart is released. Maybe cobble together something to plug a laptop into in the meantime? All for next year though once the mattress arrives and I can actually sleep in the bedroom.

So…ice tried to go into the Ecuadorian Consulate, an act of war, today.
https://apnews.com/article/eeuu-minnesota-redadas-migratorias-ice-trump-5b98291d7dede89494b79daae50f887b
🤦‍♂️🤬

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Rage Against the Machine:
🎵 Killing In The Name
#RageAgainsttheMachine
https://demloxx.bandcamp.com/track/rage-against-the-machine-killing-in-the-name-demloxx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/59WN2psjkt1tyaxjspN8fp

Ravens vs. Steelers NFL player props, SGP: Self-learning AI backs Aaron Rodgers Over 1.5 passing TDs on 'SNF'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ravens-steelers-nf…

emulsification in a stunning manifestation.
#espresso #coffee

In the Netherlands, we have the OV-fiets system, seamlessly connecting bike rental to train travel. On small stations, there's a bike rental 'vending machine'. Scan your public transport card, and it offers you a bike. On returning the bike, the machine asks if it was in good condition. Brilliant!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Rage Against the Machine:
🎵 Killing in the Name
#RageAgainsttheMachine
https://demloxx.bandcamp.com/track/rage-against-the-machine-killing-in-the-name-demloxx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/59WN2psjkt1tyaxjspN8fp

The assumption is that one day large language models and other related AI technologies fostered by Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT actually will be a great and infallible productivity tool for genuine work.
It already is decent for providing basic overviews of highly-covered, well-sourced topics, even as hallucinations and sycophancy continue to dog the tech, particularly in situations where accountability is more critical.
Despite today's downsides,
many companies ar…

Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, with estimates that it has no road to profitability by 2030 — and will need a further $207 billion in funding even if it gets there
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

Human-centered identity systems were never designed for the coming wave of autonomous AI agents. With identity failures the leading cause of most major cyber incidents, CISOs must quickly rethink how to account for the identities of new AI agents.
Check out my latest CSO piece.
Many thanks to Jim Alkove of Oleria, Ric Smith of Okta, Steve Stone of SentinelOne, Pete Clay of Aireon, Vijay Gajjala of Oleria, Carey Frey of TELUS, and Ely Kahn of SentinelOne.
Rethinking identit…

Rethinking identity for the AI era: CISOs must build trust at machine speed
Human-centered identity systems were never designed for the coming wave of autonomous AI agents. CISOs face a reckoning over how to rebuild identity systems to counter the risks.

I figure even if it is someday possible for the transhumanists to upload themselves into a machine, it will be a nightmare attempting to later transplant themselves into the new improved updated wow machine that will someday replace it!
Folks who balk about Mastodon not letting you migrate your entire presence elsewhere likely have never tried to extricate their personal workflow from a 15 year old laptop! 😅
That is, of course, AFTER previously spending an hour or so to weed out the about:config AI functions and add no-AI search engines to the fresh Firefox install 😞
Yes, I have contemplated installing Emacs and nothing else. Would seem the only sensible thing to do, but 'sensible' was never listed on my report card.

On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020) - Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZWF01483W-freestanding-washing-machine-REVIEW.html

On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020)
Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Rage Against The Machine:
🎵 White Riot
#RageAgainstTheMachine
https://open.spotify.com/track/2QiqwOVUctPRVggO9G1Zs5

Workout of the day.

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: It will, if the program carries a built-in life-support system: a machine to do the work of the organs.
DAYNA: [Glancing toward Astrid's door] Like his?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/454 B7B3

Workout of the day.

Xbox had a terrible 2025: Microsoft canceled games and raised console and Game Pass prices, Costco stopped selling Xbox, and Valve's Steam Machine upstaged it (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/2025-was-the-year-xbox-died-130…

2025 was the year Xbox died
The Xbox brand effectively died this year. But can it be resurrected as a PC platform?

Over the last decade, America’s roads have become more dangerous,
with serious crashes increasing by nearly 20 percent since 2013.
Approximately 94 percent of crashes are the result of driver behavior
like speeding, impairment or distraction
— behavior that can be detected and corrected by a new generation of machine learning-enabled dash-cams.
Seamless integration between machine learning, IoT management and the cloud allows these cameras to improve safety in r…

"What I’m saying is generative AI is a deeply expensive edging machine, but for your life."
Garbage Day nails it.
(Original title: Generative AI is an expensive edging machine)
https://www.garbageday.email/p/generative-ai-is-an-expensive-ed…

Generative AI is an expensive edging machine
Read to the end for insider trading and money laundering

Here it is "nine plus four?" and the answer is "three." #shelsilverstein
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/806566590995988481/homework-machine-the-homework-machine-oh-the?source=share

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Florence The Machine:
🎵 Everybody Scream
#Florence TheMachine
https://darioxavier2.bandcamp.com/track/florence-the-machine-everybody-scream-dario-xavier-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5I7zhiRLOa8VqBwyuVtfJW

On this day three years ago,
OpenAI released what it referred to internally as a “low-key research preview”called ChatGPT.
And people sure did use it
—more than 1 million of them in the first five days.
ChatGPT grew faster than any other consumer app in history.
Today, it has 800 million weekly users.
ChatGPT’s success has quickly rewired parts of our society and economy.
Now we are living in a world that ChatGPT helped build.

The World Still Hasn’t Made Sense of ChatGPT
OpenAI’s chaos machine turns three.

Short-range kamikaze drones are one of the fastest moving facets of the defense sector today —
The Marine Corps "Organic Precision Fires-Light" (OPF-L) program, is designed to provide dismounted Marine infantry rifle squads with a man-packable, easy-to-operate precision strike drone to engage adversaries beyond line of sight.
A recent announcement of a $23.9-million contract to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with more than 600 "Bolt-M" drones is the next phas…

Inside Anduril’s Bolt-M Kamikaze Drone Program
We go in-depth with Anduril on their machine learning-infused loitering munition that the USMC just ordered, including how they intend to produce it at scale.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Rage Against the Machine:
🎵 Killing in the Name
#RageAgainsttheMachine
https://demloxx.bandcamp.com/track/rage-against-the-machine-killing-in-the-name-demloxx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/59WN2psjkt1tyaxjspN8fp

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Florence the Machine:
🎵 Buckle
#Florence theMachine
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JAaTG7sEjukCjC8X58puq