Tootfinder

I get a steady stream in my replies of meant-to-be-helpful advice of the form “You should use [complex F/OSS tech] to [do complex thing] that [solves a problem you don’t have but renders the process unusable for the people doing it]”
…when the real tech problems we’re facing on the ground here, both with Signal and other tools, are 99% just ground-level UX stuff:
- basic, basic usability glitches
- workflow friction
- problematic default settings
- reliability

How two seismic Week 15 injuries impacted the NFL: Barnwell on Parsons, Mahomes and the fallout https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47304899/2025-nfl-week-15-injuries-acl-patrick-mahomes-micah-parsons-chiefs-packers…

@… it seems boost behavior 🚀 has changed in the recent Ivory update. How can I get it back to how it was before?
99% of the time I really just want to boost and not „choose to quote“. Long press to quote worked well for me.
I vaguely remember there was a setting for that, but I can’t find it anymore.

Really bummed about the $129/year subscription for Apple Creator Studio, because all I really want is Pixelmator Pro out of that bundle :(
RIP Pixelmator Pro.
Update: There is still a one-time purchase option for each individual product, with Pixelmator Pro at $50.

Spotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month for subscribers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia, in its first US hike since July 2024 (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01…

COOL #VOTV FACT:
if you take "STOLAS", reverse it, and remove the first vowel, it becomes "SLOTS", a subtle nod to the fact that 99% of gamblers quit right before they win big

Support Indigenous Land Defender Marcos Aguilar’s Family
(original: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSFUcy_jKU7 by zapatistasolidaritynetwork)
On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his anc

Zapatista Solidarity Network! on Instagram: "📢‼️URGENT On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his ancestral territory in San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, Jalisco, Mexico. He leaves behind five young children — including two babies — and elderly parents who depended on him. Marcos was a devoted father, a loving son, and a guardian of Mother Earth. He refused to abandon his community despite threats and violence. This was a planned political attack from those trying to steal Indigenous ancestral territory. ✨ That’s why we are asking for your solidarity: @semillas_collective is collecting donations that will go directly to Marcos’s family and Indigenous community to support: • His children’s wellbeing (food, housing, education) • Care for his parents • Community protection against further attacks • Legal justice for his assassination 🔗Link in our bio to the fundraiser and the communiqué from the Autonomous Indigenous Community or San Lorenzo de Azqueltán (adherents of the National Indigenous Congress [CNI]) 📣Please donate if you are able. If you cannot, share and help us break the silence. Marcos lives in the land, in his children, and in our struggle. Marcos vive — la lucha sigue. ✊🏽💚🌱 #JusticeForMarcos #Semillas #IndigenousSolidarity #Azqueltán #LandBack #ProtectLandDefenders #NoMoreImpunity #MarcosVive #LaLuchaSigue"
99 likes, 0 comments - zapatistasolidaritynetwork on December 10, 2025: "📢‼️URGENT On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his ancestral territory in San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, Jalisco, Mexico. He leaves behind five young children — including two babies — and elderly parents who depended on him. Marcos was a devoted father, a loving son, and a guardian of Mother Earth. He refused to abandon his community despite threats a…

#Wordle 1,609 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 <1% of 226,291 (16)
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 5% of 58 (5)
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 25% of 4 (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 8% of 24
WordleBot
Skill 70/99
Luck 54/99
I've had a bunch of 4's recently and I've been enjoying them because each step is a clue in the puzzle as I narrow down the answer. 2's & 3's feel like more luck and 5's and 6's are getting nerve racking.
4's are par, but also the sweet spot for fun!
And as it turns out, I was a little lucky today to get it on my 4th guess.
Bot was unintentionally funny on guess 2. I'll put that in my reply to this w/ the starting word under the CW.

Spotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month for subscribers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia, in its first US hike since July 2024 (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01…

This is a good day to remember that Donald Trump is still hiding 99% of the Epstein files.
Illegally.
Criminally.

I have an expired credit card with a metal core that I want to destroy. I originally thought the core was an aluminum alloy, but it resisted scissors. With some bending and prying, I'm 99% sure the core is steel.
After a few minutes of work, I managed to peel some of the plastic off the mag-stripe side but cut a finger in the process.
The card had a pleasant heft and feeling of durability, but given the difficulty to destroy it, I really dislike it now.

NFL playoff clinching scenarios: Which teams can secure a berth in Week 16? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47324099/nfl-playoff-picture-2025-clinching-scenarios-division-races-week-16

elite: Barnes-Burkett elite affiliations (1962)
A small bipartite network of the affiliations among elite individuals and the corporate, museum, university boards, or social clubs to which they belonged, from 1962.
This network has 44 nodes and 99 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/…

I just discovered something wonderful (for anyone with an HBO streaming subscription)
https://www.hbomax.com/shows/how-its-made/ef833c95-bddf-4204-8e34-bc231327ec4a

Watch How It's Made | HBO Max
Watch How It's Made on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. Explore the fascinating world of how everyday items are manufactured and produced. From aluminum foil to contact lenses, discover how many of the things we buy and use are made.

"Billions live in environments that violate human rights, global analysis finds"
#Environment
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-billions-environments-v…

Billions live in environments that violate human rights, global analysis finds
More than 99% of the world's 7.7 billion people have one or more of their environmental rights threatened, according to new research.

Life Is Good, Even When the Fog Machine Leaks
Short post this week, because Nutcracker. Got some cool news this week from Second Son, AKA McNugget. Their family is growing. We’ll know more in a couple of weeks, but they think they’re due in July. Makes me think about my parents. My Dad only ever met his first grandchild. My Mom (who would have turned 99 earlier this month) only met three.

Life Is Good, Even When the Fog Machine Leaks – Bob Mueller
Family news, Nutcracker fog, costume changes, and Michigan football turmoil collide in a busy week—life is still good.

Election integrity advocates are demanding a hand recount in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District
after data shows more than 31,000 votes materialized after 99.4% of ballots were already counted.
At 99.4% reporting, Decision Desk HQ displayed 148,853 total votes.
The final certified tally: 179,899.
The math doesn’t work.
The remaining 0.6% of precincts should have produced roughly 1,000 ballots — not 31,000.
Republican Matt Van Epps was declared the win…

BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee
They’re questioning how 31,000 additional votes appeared with 99.4% votes counted - and that's not all.

Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/crunchyroll-is-shutting-down-its-free…

Crunchyroll is Shutting Down Its Free Ad-Supported Plan | Cord Cutters News
Crunchyroll will eliminate its ad-supported free tier on December 31, 2025, ending the last remaining way to legally watch anime on the platform without paying a subscription fee. The change, delivered unceremoniously through an in-player message that replaced a scheduled advertisement, marks the quiet conclusion of an option that had persisted, in increasingly limited form, […]

DOJ admits it has still not released 99% of Epstein files, violating law (Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/the-contradiction-at-the-heart-of
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p15#a260107p15

I just installed `asncounter`[1] by @… (blog post[2]) to get a glimpse who is accessing one of my servers. Turns out, 99% of the traffic originates from just two ASNs in Brazil: Mega Tele Informatica and R3 Telecom. I'm in Germany, my server is in Germany (I believe, it's a Hetzner root server).
I guess I could safely block these ASNs. The only thi…

Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/crunchyroll-is-shutting-down-its-free…

Crunchyroll is Shutting Down Its Free Ad-Supported Plan | Cord Cutters News
Crunchyroll will eliminate its ad-supported free tier on December 31, 2025, ending the last remaining way to legally watch anime on the platform without paying a subscription fee. The change, delivered unceremoniously through an in-player message that replaced a scheduled advertisement, marks the quiet conclusion of an option that had persisted, in increasingly limited form, […]

"The results speak for themselves. Today, Uruguay produces nearly 99% of its electricity from renewable sources, with only a small fraction—roughly 1%–3%—coming from flexible thermal plants, such as those powered by natural gas. They are used only when hydroelectric power cannot fully cover periods when wind and solar energy are low. The energy mix is diverse: while hydropower accounts for 45%, wind can contribute up to 35% of total electricity, and biomass—once considered a waste probl…

#Wordle 1,608 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 227,420 (253)
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 4% of 81 (38)
🟩⬜🟨🟨🟩 0 of 3 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 93/99
Luck 42/99
Another day another wordle! 😉
My sister just got her streak to 365 yesterday (for the 2nd time). I'm not at half that right now, got a long ways to go.

Shoutout to the Alaskans, Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who, as the only people on earth, can say they celebrate New Year later than the west coast.
Ever since moving here, I wonder this same thing every New Year’s eve: How large of a proportion of humanity enters the new year before the west coast?
My rough math suggests around 99.4%

A few weeks ago my daughter mentioned something about a school drawing competition. I thought nothing of it. Then, last week, we got a letter in the post. She had won! The competition was being organised by a firm called "Young Artists", and the letter told us that if we would give permission for her artwork to be included in the book, we would be able to buy a copy for the low, low price of £19.99....

I admit, I am seriously wondering about the RTX 5070 Ti, compared to the RX 9070 XT. But these results clearly, and bafflingly, show its advantages lay in 4x frame gen. Ray tracing? Sure, in a handful of Nvidia titles that snub AMD. DLSS? 99% of these games can be modded to FSR 4. Longevity between the two cards is an interesting question. And I don't believe Nvidia has much room for next gen improvement.
RTX 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7 9800X3D | Tested in 15 games

Some early snow and fall colors in #Indiana. Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 is 99.9% indoors but sometimes reminds himself why. ❄️
#cats

Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible:
it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables
—at half the cost of fossil fuels.
The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere
—if governments have the courage to change the rules.
For Ramon Méndez Galain,
the energy transition isn’t just about climate
—it’s about economics.
Uruguay’s shift to renewables, he argues,
demonstrated that cl…

Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

Perhaps LLMs can generate code because _writing 99% of code is trivial once you know what the software should do_.
But what do I know, I only have made software for 35 years.

Pebble unveils the Pebble Index 01, a $99 smart ring with an on-device LLM for processing voice notes, shipping in March 2026, initially for $75 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/pebble-index-ring/

Pebble Index: Everything You Need to Know About the $75 Smart Ring
You can speak into the Pebble Index to have it remember things or set reminders, timers, and tasks. No cloud processing, no subscription, and best of all, no charging.

I love working with a team that knows our products and each others' strengths. At the Omni Group our average tenure is now over 15 years.
“OK, Ken, by ‘average’ I assume you mean ‘mean’? But some of you old-timers who have been there 30 years are skewing that curve, right?”
Well, I suppose that's true. If we look at the median tenure, that's now at 13.99 years.
(The 2024 report at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates the median tenure across all indust…

Who's ready to clean some floppy drive heads? Not really the way I planned to spend my day off but things are reaching dire straights for available floppy drives. Starting to hold up other projects.
#retrocomputing

"Fish-inspired filter removes 99% of microplastics from washing machine wastewater"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Fish-inspired filter removes 99% of microplastics from washing machine wastewater
Wastewater from washing machines is considered a major source of microplastics—tiny plastic particles that are suspected of harming human and animal health. Researchers at the University of Bonn have now developed a filter to curb this problem. Their invention was inspired by the gill arch system in fish.

elite: Barnes-Burkett elite affiliations (1962)
A small bipartite network of the affiliations among elite individuals and the corporate, museum, university boards, or social clubs to which they belonged, from 1962.
This network has 44 nodes and 99 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/…

New PV image for Ōkami to Kōshinryō The second season is in production. The series was a reboot of the original 2008 series.
Official Website #狼と香辛料

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115415146417702654
After looking at this, got curious to know the limits in most servers.
So I did a little data analysis. Servers list from @…

I took a fancy to these in ALDI today but there was no price tag so I asked a genuinely very helpful member of staff who had a right faff to find the price. I was expecting about £20 so you could have knocked me over with a feather when she said £6.99! Sold to the lady in the ridiculously orange coat.

I started watching the "Affinity Studio" announcement (#Affinity

OnePlus launches US preorders for the $899.99 OnePlus 15 after receiving FCC clearance, which had been delayed due to the US government shutdown (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/838017/oneplus-15-preorders-us

OnePlus 15 launches US preorders after delayed FCC clearance
With a 7,300mAh battery, the OnePlus 15 is one of the longest lasting smartphones on the market right now.

Scan lasted 1 the second🥈 #i18nfails
i18nfails.1a23.studio/posts/scan-lasted-1-the-second

Scan lasted 1 the second🥈 | i18n fails
If possible, I’d rather want it to be the first.

The Chinese can pump or dump the Trump family's net worth by billions any time they want to.
The response will be predictably Pavlovian.
https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/115448291085354467

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ (@cryptadamist@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image recent price chart for the #TRUMP #memecoin shows a massive crash in price on the left (when Trump announced new tariffs on #china) and a massive pump just now (when Trump TACOed and announced there would be a trade deal with china). 99.9% of TRUMP trading happens on offshore #crypto exchanges that are controlled by chinese nationals and banned from operating within the US. every $1 the price moves up the trump family gets a billion dollars and every $1 the price goes down…

#Wordle 1,640 4/6*
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ <1%of 231,879 (217)
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 3% of 710 (23)
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 5% of 20 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 85% of 984
WordleBot
Skill 88/99
Luck 56/99
I could only think of 2 possibilities after my 3rd guess and one was a reflection of the other, so I went with the other.

"Uruguay Achieves 99% Green Energy After Seeking the Lowest Price for Consumers"
#Uruguay #Energy #Renewables

Uruguay Achieves 99% Green Energy After Seeking the Lowest Price for Consumers
The contracts were not awarded according to emissions-cutting promises, but how low the cost for installation and provision would be. 

@… Wow, these Covid stats for Orkney are not looking good 😬
Is it the cruise ships?

elite: Barnes-Burkett elite affiliations (1962)
A small bipartite network of the affiliations among elite individuals and the corporate, museum, university boards, or social clubs to which they belonged, from 1962.
This network has 44 nodes and 99 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/…

“We have archived around 86 million songs from Spotify, ordering by popularity descending. While this only represents 37% of songs, it represents around 99.6% of listens”
https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

Updated NFL Power Rankings: New 1-32 poll, plus the most shocking statistics of the 2025 season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47189899/nfl-week-15-power-rankings-poll-32-teams-2025-most-shocking-statistics

• #Mistral Small 3.2: 99.3% defect reduction (98.8% − 99.99%)
• Ministral 3B: 100% defect reduction − perfect 100% validity
🛠️ Common issues fixed automatically: trailing commas after last element, unescaped control characters in strings, missing closing brackets, various syntax errors that break JSON parsers, prefixed text like "Here's the data you requested:"
…

Left: launcher button. Then all my workspaces, even when they're empty. The active windows and on which workspace they are. Playerctl (when you're playing sth). Tools, tray. volume, clock. Showing the nwg-drawer (although I shortcut most applications) Bar at 99%, so it aligns with windows below. Everything can be adjusted very simply, before applying. Nwg-shell rocks!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
Antonín Dvořšk, Pablo Ferršndez, Pablo Ferršndez, Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Martin Frost:
🎵 Song to the moon (Rusalka)
#AntonínDvořák #PabloFerrández #MartinFrost
https://open.spotify.com/track/3jgHhoFqQMjY91gPgTWFUW

Scammers hard at work.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
ሙላቱ አስታጥቄ (Mulatu Astatke):
🎵 The Way To Nice
#ሙላቱአስታጥቄMulatuAstatke

99% of us breathe unsafe air—and it's hitting low- and middle-income countries hardest.
The World Bank says we can cut exposure to hazardous air pollution in half by 2040, and it's actually cost-effective. Multilateral development banks are stepping up with funding, partnerships, and knowledge sharing to make it happen.

Investing in Clean Air: How Multilateral Development Banks Are Accelerating Access
We brought together multilateral development banks (MDBs) to showcase how they are helping countries tackle air pollution through knowledge, financing, and partnerships.

Bennett argues that there is a distinctive Green political philosophy, distinct from but sharing many characteristics with socialism.
In my view the claim is problematic, as I explain in this review.
‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review | Steady State Manchester

‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review
Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society (second edition, 2025). by Natalie Bennett. Wilton Square Books, £10.99. Former Green Party leader and peer, Natalie Bennett has ou…

New PV image for Ōkami to Kōshinryō The second season is in production. The series was a reboot of the original 2008 series.
Official Website #狼と香辛料

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSbtXuCCe9Y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "Marty Friedman, an American musician based in Japan, visited a junior high school in Chiba at an event organized by local police to promote coexistence with foreigners. Speaking to first-year students, he said that 99.9% of foreigners who come to Japan are not dangerous and are often eager to communicate with Japanese people. He encouraged students to learn foreign languages and approach others without fear. Friedman also shared a personal story about forgetting his wallet in Japan, highlighting the country’s honesty. The event aimed to help young people understand cultural differences as foreign visitors and workers increase. Learning with empathy can reduce tension and improve everyday interactions. Source:TOKYO NP"
2,062 likes, 113 comments - japandaily_jp on December 18, 2025: "Marty Friedman, an American musician based in Japan, visited a junior high school in Chiba at an event organized by local police to promote coexistence with foreigners. Speaking to first-year students, he said that 99.9% of foreigners who come to Japan are not dangerous and are often eager to communicate with Japanese people. He encouraged students to learn foreign languages and approach others without fear. Friedman also shar…

#Wordle 1,602 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 <1% of 227,384 (147)
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 2% of 694 (6)
🟨🟩🟨🟩⬜ 25% of 125 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 89/99
Luck 55/99
Felt I had to be led to the answer and beat over the head with it! That's how it goes when you have 4 letter and know where 3 of them belong and have to walk through all of the remaining letters to find the word!

Merry Christmas. Thanks for following. Whether it was a fancy hat, or the latest home computer, hope you got what you wanted.

Hands-on with Xreal's Neo, a $99 battery pack and mini-dock that acts as a passthrough converter so the company's glasses can work with the Nintendo Switch (Scott Stein/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/xreals-latest-gl…

Xreal's Latest Glasses Get Better and Cheaper, and There's a Switch Dock, Too
I loved playing Switch games on the Xreal 1S glasses, but getting them connected is a little awkward.

For the past few years, I have grabbed the "$2/mo for new and eligible returning subscribers" #Hulu black friday deal. Last year, I also grabbed the $3/mo Disney deal. Going from $5/mo to $29.99/mo is not happening.
That's just insane.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/24/black-friday-streaming-deals-2025/

Spotify raises UK prices by £1 after previously raising them in April 2024; the Premium individual monthly plan will now cost £12.99 (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spo

Spotify raises UK and Switzerland Premium prices again as analysts see US hike by early 2026
The 8.3% increase marks the second time in 18 months that the Swedish streaming giant has raised UK prices by £1.

elite: Barnes-Burkett elite affiliations (1962)
A small bipartite network of the affiliations among elite individuals and the corporate, museum, university boards, or social clubs to which they belonged, from 1962.
This network has 44 nodes and 99 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/…

#Wordle 1,633 4/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 231,589 (314)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 9 (4)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 0 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 95/99
Luck 56/99
Well this is just a crazy wordle day. I start off with just typing the 1st 5 letter word that pops into my head, which when I looked at I had to wonder what I was thinking (obviously not). Then I get into 2 letter hell, but my 4th guess is the answer.
I'm just taking the win 🙂
Bot also wondered what I was thinking. It said: "Bold choice! Not what I would have picked, but I admire your creativity."

I’m an industry dev turned comp sci prof. I’ve been writing code for 40-some years; my first commercial software was for the Apple ][ . I’ve worked on web, mobile, desktop, server, and data plumbing projects for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 to arts nonprofits. In short, I’ve been lucky to know a lot of people in a lot of corners of tech.
@…’s opening paragraphs are spot on. If consensus is not 100%, well, it’s 99%.
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/

The Great Player, Terrible Team All-Quarter-Century roster: Who got stuck on a losing team? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46757099/nfl-great-players-bad-teams-myles-garrett-browns-seasons-2000

#Wordle 1,606 6/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 215,096 (118)
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 7% of 113 (6)
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 44% of 9 (2)
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 2% of 568 (2)
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 14% of 230 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 95% of 7,947
WordleBot
Skill 64/99
Luck 40/99
Damn that was close, and user error on guess 4 and not a wordle word for guess 5. Those guesses still helped me eliminate a couple of letters and know where the 3 letters I had belong.

Research: AI's ability to complete long and complex software engineering tasks doubles every 6-7 months, but there is a "messiness tax" for real-world tasks (Boaz Barak/Windows On Theory)
https://windowsontheory.org/2025/11/04/thoughts-by…

Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics
Crossposted on lesswrong Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. Well, not quite nothing. There were wars, political intrigue, the in…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
יעל דקלבאום:
🎵 Prayer of the Mothers
#יעלדקלבאום
https://yaeldeckelbaum.bandcamp.com/track/prayer-of-the-mothers

For the love of all you hold sacred.
Can we please adopt a UNIVERSAL standard for generating a new line in a web text box - sometimes its cmd-enter, sometimes its shift-enter sometimes you just can’t do it 😡
rest assured if you invoke the wrong key combo, there is a 99.999% probability that the form will be submitted with potentially disastrous results.

#Wordle 1,603 5/6*
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ <1% of 233,257 (261)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 0 of 26 (7)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 0 of 0 (4)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 0 of 0 (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 87/99
Luck 52/99
I really had to wait to try that word until I tried all the others I could think of first!
I did not think of the other 2 possibilities that were there.

elite: Barnes-Burkett elite affiliations (1962)
A small bipartite network of the affiliations among elite individuals and the corporate, museum, university boards, or social clubs to which they belonged, from 1962.
This network has 44 nodes and 99 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/…

"‘Cities need nature to be happy’: David Attenborough seeks out London’s hidden wildlife"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

elite: Barnes-Burkett elite affiliations (1962)
A small bipartite network of the affiliations among elite individuals and the corporate, museum, university boards, or social clubs to which they belonged, from 1962.
This network has 44 nodes and 99 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/…

Cardinals stick with Brissett for Seahawks game https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46849999/cardinals-start-brissett-not-murray-seahawks

#Wordle 1,639 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 234,873 (235)
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 1% of 309 (43)
🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 0 of 3 (5)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 88/99
Luck 45/99
used an unusual for me starting word, but it worked out ok today. The mini crossword put the word in my head and I just felt like using it.

HBO Max raises prices across all plans: Basic With Ads increases by $1/month to $10.99, Standard by $1.50/month to $18.49, and Premium by $2/month to $22.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/hbo-max-prices-increases-plans-2025-123655767…

HBO Max Raises Prices Across All Plans Effective Immediately
It's going to cost you more to watch HBO Max, after the streaming platform raised its prices just a year after its last hikes.

#Wordle 1,593 6/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 <1% of 228,956 (53)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 17% of 18 (10)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 13% of 8 (6)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 11% of 166 (3)
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 14% of 1,101 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 75% of 365
WordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 40/99
Pulled it out, but you're really not puzzling out the answer when there are so many words that fit that initial 3 known letters, each using different letters (well I guess the last 2 did share a letter, so if I had thought of all of the words when I made guess 3, I should have tried one of them first.
Actually I see there were 2 pretty common first letters among the 10 remaining words. And it ended up that getting the answer was just lucky.

Boyd, recovering from shooting, visits Jets' facility https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47192899/jets-kris-boyd-recovering-shooting-surprises-teammates

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 15 nodes and 50 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

#Wordle 1,627 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 <1% of 226,479 (66)
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 5% of 42 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 8% of 1,461
WordleBot
Skill 95/99
Luck 72/99
That's a hell of a word to get in 3!
If I had thought of the other word, I would probably have gone with it. The bot would have gone with the other word also.

Giants quiet tank 'noise' in morale-lifting victory https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47439861/giants-no-1-draft-pick-odds-plunge-win-pleases-players

HBO Max raises prices across all plans: Basic With Ads increases by $1/month to $10.99, Standard by $1.50/month to $18.49, and Premium by $2/month to $22.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/hbo-max-prices-increases-plans-2025-123655767…

HBO Max Raises Prices Across All Plans Effective Immediately
It's going to cost you more to watch HBO Max, after the streaming platform raised its prices just a year after its last hikes.

elite: Barnes-Burkett elite affiliations (1962)
A small bipartite network of the affiliations among elite individuals and the corporate, museum, university boards, or social clubs to which they belonged, from 1962.
This network has 44 nodes and 99 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/…

#Wordle 1,590 2/6*
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ <1% of 228,014 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 55% of 97
WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 86/99
I'm pretty sure I had used this starting word before, but I just really felt it would be a good word today. I was right. I thought of 2 options for the 2nd word, and went w/ the one that felt more NYTimesy.
Interestingly, the bot would have gone w/ the other one.

elite: Barnes-Burkett elite affiliations (1962)
A small bipartite network of the affiliations among elite individuals and the corporate, museum, university boards, or social clubs to which they belonged, from 1962.
This network has 44 nodes and 99 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/…

Kelce ties Chiefs TD mark with vintage night https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46753473/travis-kelce-ties-chiefs-td-mark-vintage-performance-win

#Wordle 1,601 5/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 229,282 (277)
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 31 (34)
🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 0 of 0 (2)
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 93/99
Luck 35/99
I liked today's word, and despite not being the right word, I liked my 4th guess too and I'm glad I made it!

Sources: Teams eye Seahawks vets in trade talks https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46810899/sources-seahawks-field-trade-calls-boye-mafe-riq-woolen

elite: Barnes-Burkett elite affiliations (1962)
A small bipartite network of the affiliations among elite individuals and the corporate, museum, university boards, or social clubs to which they belonged, from 1962.
This network has 44 nodes and 99 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/…

#Wordle 1,669 5/6*
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ <1% of 221,785 (26)
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 29% of 38 (10)
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 0 of 11 (2)
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 89/99
Luck 36/99
Well there went my streak of easy guessing, starting with the clues from my 1st guess. I just had trouble coming up w/ words that fit, for each guess (well except for the last).
Bot was not a fan of my 2nd guess, but really liked my 3rd one (*I* wasn't a huge fan of my 3rd guess 🙂 )

Jaguars placing two-way rookie Hunter on IR https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46792299/travis-hunter-heading-ir-practice-injury-coach-says

#Wordle 1,667 5/6*
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ <1% of 224,953 (141)
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 0 of 3 (14)
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 0 of 0 (4)
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 38/99
Not sure I like where the trend of the last few days is headed (2,3,4 and now 5), but on the plus side today continued to be an easy flow to the answer.

Rivers says he believes he can coach at NFL level https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47515399/philip-rivers-believes-coach-nfl-not-pursuing-jobs

#Wordle 1,598 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 229,258 (739)
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 0 of 1 (17)
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 86/99
Luck 43/99
Nice to have eliminated so many letters, the ones I had made choosing next guesses a little more difficult

#Wordle 1,622 3/6*
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 <1% of 233,376 (18)
🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩 20% of 2,233 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 100% of 7,657
WordleBot
Skill 95/99
Luck 85/99
I was searching for a 2nd guess, funny I found the one that was an anagram of the answer...there were a lot more possibilities than I thought.
And Happy Thanksgiving to those that are celebrating it!

#Wordle 1,621 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 225,353 (109)
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 8% of 13 (12)
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 0 of 2 (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 47/99
It's interesting how you process the clues, different letters linking to others and implying placement.
Of the 3 words left 2 were past tense so really unlikely.

#Wordle 1,620 3/6*
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ <1% of 230,963 (91)
⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ 0 of 0 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 93/99
Luck 72/99
So oddly my fingers typed and submitted a different last letter of my 1st guess that I intended. Oddly it would have been a letter in the correct position. I doubt it would have helped me arrive at the answer any quicker though. Just sort of funny.

#Wordle 1,623 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ <1% of 235,174 (57)
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 1% of 243 (28)
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 0 of 2 (3)
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 83/99
Luck 36/99
Figures, thought of the answer for guess 3, but didn't want to use it then, or on guess 4.