Tootfinder

Good evening!
Here's a photo similar to one of my last - but this time without the stranger in the photo.
this spot was really pretty cool that day! with the fog and frost. Sometimes a person walking by ... there so many different .. hm moods/motives/situations to capture - just in a single spot.
Anyways, I hope you like it and don't see it as .. intimidating/strange as the one with the stranger in it ;)

Just email someone. I always like it when people email me about some weird blog post or project I’ve done.
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/why-i-email-complete-strangers/

Why I email complete strangers
The first time I emailed a stranger, I swear my cursor hovered over Send for a full five minutes. I had plenty of justifiable reasons to remain hesitant. Not wanting to take up their time, feeling bothersome, worried my question was a silly one... A hundred disparate excuses leading back

Every once in a while i hear people talking about work conferences as like mysterious worlds where everyone is a stranger they'll never meet again and I have to wonder just how large their industry is.
Like when I go to HARRIS I know all of the grad students who run the event, the professor leading the research group, I'm expecting to see some of the same vendor sales reps, the same teams from the same European government agencies, etc. The keynote speaker is a former college h…

Susan Rice is no stranger to dirty tricks -- and her latest threat shows how shameless the Democrats are (Michael Goodwin/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/17/opinion/susan-rice-is-no-stranger-to-dirty-tricks-and-her-latest-threat-shows-how-shameless-the-democrats-are/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p27#a260318p27

Oh phew, someone else on the team built a “Slop Detection” “skill” for the LLM so now it will magically stop being a statistical model and instead be a statistical model with ✨ slightly different inputs ✨.
Thank you kind stranger, I couldn’t have done it without you.

A man pushed me in the street, he wanted to teach me a lesson. Is that OK now? | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger

OSS has always edged in this direction, sometimes awkwardly: please discuss your proposed feature, please talk with the maintainers first, please join our Discord or…something.
I think there’s a fear that “You have to talk to the maintainers first” is a kind of gatekeeping. But let’s be real here: the story of a stranger coming out of the blue and making a valuable contribution is already fiction as often as not. PRs languish; maintainers strain.
5/

In *Leviathan and the Air Pump*, S Shapin recounts the 1600s controversy between Hobbes, who held that true knowledge always originates in pure solipsistic reasoning (“ratiocination”) and Boyle, who argued that knowledge required external confirmation via physical evidence. We’re still at it.
Privileged psyches in particular hate giving up on the idea that what they conclude on their own, without checking it by the world, is true.

In lecture at Brown, Yann LeCun discusses a new approach to AI
No stranger to controversy, AI pioneer Yann LeCun told a capacity crowd that large language models are not the future of AI and that a new approach is needed if machines are to achieve human-like intelligence.

@… I followed cuz I saw your series list & this is part of my "things I still plan to watch" list: 😁
Strange New Worlds S3 - Paramount
Starfleet Academy - Paramount
The Diplomat - Netflix
Stranger Things S5 - Netflix
The Night Agent - Netflix
Squid Game 3 - Netflix
The Recruit - Netflix
The Pitt - HBOMa…

P.J. Locke candid about adversity, versatility and mentoring for Cowboys in 2026 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/p-j-locke-candid-about-adversity-versatility-and-mentoring-for-cowboys-in-2026

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews
Leonard Cohen:
🎵 The Stranger Song
#LeonardCohen
https://billwhite.bandcamp.com/track/the-stranger-song-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/0NL7ARcJ0plVWxxsSj2QMm

Nice- my favorite Amyl and the Sniffers song ("Hertz") briefly in We Bury the Dead, which is.. also one of the stranger zombie flicks I've ever seen. 😂

Today, a stranger complimented my custom (4 specimen total) #GNUTerryPratchett pin.
Does it compensate having to buy a new dishwasher after mine broke at precisely 5years 3months (with extended guarantee for 5years)?
No, not completely. But definitely 90% of the way, yes.

“Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice singing through the bloody mist
We'll take our stand for this land and the stranger in our midst
Here in our home they killed and roamed in the winter of '26
We'll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis”
https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w

Seattle Police have...issues.
SPD Policy Undermines Rivera’s Immigrant-Protecting Bill - The Stranger
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02/10/80468905/spd-policy-undermines-riveras-immigrant-protecting-bill

Ok, I’m not gonna lie, this is the funniest result from this series of polls, IMO.
😂 https://eldritch.cafe/@cassolotl/116156965620780638

Great post about the Project Hail Mary movie:
"Competent people overcome their differences to work together—that’s really the perfect movie for 2026.
Competency, science, countries working together toward a vital common goal, get to know the stranger so as not to be afraid of it anymore...
It's an antidote."
https://bsky.app/profile/thespaceshipper.com/post/3mhq46qvbcd2q

Moltbot is like giving some stranger you can't really trust access to all your data, communications, passwords, your computer etc.. It is maybe fascinating but just don't do it..... The large AI players can already build this for a long time but there is a reason they are not doing it....
https://www.

Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues
: The massively hyped agentic personal assistant has security experts wondering why anyone would install it

P.J. Locke candid about adversity, versatility and mentoring for Cowboys in 2026 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/p-j-locke-candid-about-adversity-versatility-and-mentoring-for-cowboys-in-2026

This both thrills and terrifies me. The Stranger is the book that defined my existentialist phase more than any other. https://youtu.be/K5-x2Fx-JJ8?si=itGIaAb2ZX5J9oK3

"Before you scream, burst out laughing, or think I have lost my marbles ... "
"... even if it seems bonkers ... "
"... truth is stranger than fiction ..."
"It might sound a stretch ..."
I get the distinct impression that the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg really doesn't believe her own attempt to suggest that Zack Polanski and Nigel Farage have much in common.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Kevin Ayers:
🎵 Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
#KevinAyers
https://twiddlywizards.bandcamp.com/track/stranger-in-the-blue-suede-shoes
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fyCT0lEtT7A3ub7EFTWDW

What security goal does that password serve? I'd say, there's no reasonable "threat" you're defending against.
The password is freely shared.
Yeah, you're "protecting" your Wifi from being used by a random stranger sitting somewhere close enough to use it, but not a guest of your facility/event/... - but is that really something it's worth to protect against?

Just got back from middle school STEAM night. I did "Analog Synthesis: The Science of Sound"
“Learn how electronic music was made before computers, using electrical signals instead of digital technology…”
This went so well! I setup an ARP, a Moog, and an oscilloscope. We did waveforms, R2-D2 squeals, Close Encounters, Stranger Things, etc. A teacher let me borrow a big DIY subwoofer and we rattled the windows of that 8th grade math classroom! Haha!

Death Gulch at Yellowstone is "a natural death trap for animals" due to CO2 and H2S accumulation. "At high concentrations..., these gases are lethal, and the death of one animal is thought to lure in others, who are then also overcome." Also, description of Wahb Springs.
Great post by US Geological Survey #USGS scientists

Yellowstone’s Wahb Springs and Death Gulch—unusual features with unusual names
In the northeast part of Yellowstone National Park there is a thermal area with a strange composition. And even stranger names.

Tua Tagovailoa on Falcons QB battle with Michael Penix: 'I am no stranger to competition' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7143533/2026/03/24/tua-tagovailoa-falcons-michael-penix-qb-competition/

Thank you Stranger Things. You convinced my kids that Eggos were fantastic. Now that they've had an opportunity to try them, after hounding me for months to buys some, the scales have fallen from their eyes and they will never again fall for a narrative pedaled by corporate media.
That's how it works, right?

Revolutionizing Team Strategy: The Role of Sophisticated Analytics in NFL Team Development https://insidethestar.com/revolutionizing-team-strategy-the-role-of-sophisticated-analytics-in-nfl-team-development

The Stranger Things 5 2-hour Finale was wonderfully satisfying... and this is coming from someone who didn't watch most of the other seasons.
▶️ Stranger Things 5 | Finale Trailer | Netflix
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AfQ13jsLDms&si=k8BXnIZdWOpAgzty

Emerald City Comic Con Has Connections to ICE [and] These Cosplaying Romantasy Nerds are Doing Something about It - The Stranger
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/03/05/80506618/emerald-city-comic-con-has-connections-to-ice

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gorillaz feat. IDLES:
🎵 The God of Lying
#Gorillaz #IDLES
https://neocities.bandcamp.com/track/the-god-of-lying-feat-idles-the-mysterious-stranger-mark-twain-tom-sawyer-huckleberry-finn-becky-thatcher-and-will-vinton
https://open.spotify.com/track/5nrbuDZe5Hod1nUsND6QUA

AI is dangerous and bad etcetera But people that are suprised that people get into trouble using OpenClaw shouldn''t blame the technology this time, it is just sheer stupidity or a very large risk appetite. It is like handing your keys and all your login credentials to a complete stranger and hope everything will be allright.
#AI

Moltbot is like giving some stranger you can't really trust access to all your data, communications, passwords, your computer etc.. It is maybe fascinating but just don't do it..... The large AI players can already build this for a long time but there is a reason they are not doing it....
https://www.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Boogie Times Tribe:
🎵 The Dark Stranger (Origin Unknown Mix)
#BoogieTimesTribe
https://open.spotify.com/track/1QphCLozd2Pqud9UQGlWar