Tootfinder

Posted 55 weeks ago, and always relevant. Especially on calls with three coaching clients today.
tl;dr—
Moods are always tangled with assessments (opinions/interpretations). When you want to shift (or nurture) a mood, you can examine the assessments associated with it… See if they’re grounded or not… See if their actions you can take about them or not.
In my experience that simple process reliably moves moods. 
(Want to know more? Let me know!)

Your Moods and This Moment
If you've followed my work or writing for any length of time, you've probably noticed that I've written a lot recently about moods. And that working with moods is a central element of the ontological coaching I do with my clients.

We usually save the unpopped popcorn kernels from the popcorn maker, to re-pop them later. My wife labeled this container. 😂
[In the US, an old-timey way of referring to the unpopped popcorn kernels in a bowl is "old maids"]

The hardest part of being a moderator (of any community online or off) isn't dealing with the trolls, spammers, and assholes.
It's dealing with the personality conflicts between *mostly* well-meaning but not-handling-it-well people. It's the human aspect.
That doesn't scale to a billion-person platform, or allow for mods to be interchangeable cogs. Humans are hard, yo.
It takes time to train good mods for a particular community, and not everyone is up for t…

Spain is modernising its grid codes so that generation, demand and storage can cope more robustly with volatility and actively contribute to a more stable power grid. It can no longer wait for the delayed new European grid codes.
https://www.miteco.gob.es/es/energia/parti…

Analysis: scientists who appeared to use LLMs posted 33% more papers on arXiv than those who didn't, as concerns grow over AI slop in scientific publishing (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)
https://www.

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop
Peer review has met its match.

the ten pillars of fascism
1.The mythic past: Fascists draw on a mythical past to justify a glorious future.
2.Propaganda: Propaganda in fascist politics often operates through inflammatory speech, stirring hostility and manipulating emotions, and displacing reasoned public debate with fear and division.
3.Anti-intellectual: Fascist politics attacks education, expertise, and language, weakening the tools necessary for informed public debate and leaving power and group ident…

How Fascism Works - Wikipedia

I used to valorize moving fast and breaking things, completely taken by Silicon Valley’s mythos around itself.
I remember thinking that enterprises were incompetent because they spent so long doing even simple tech migrations and tool implementations.
I get it now. Time isn’t saved when issues are ignored. It’s just put on other people’s plates.
It’s not your problem if you run a quick thoughtless fix, but it will be the problem of future teams and employees. (Or future you, potentially)

✍️ New post: Con­tin­voucly Morged Value
Couldn't get out of my head what happened to @…’s diagram – and so I wrote down a few premature thoughts about what happens when we mistake the (AI) artifact for the work …

Continvoucly Morged Value · Matthias Ott
Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

Learning from Trials and Errors: Reflective Test-Time Planning for Embodied LLMs
Yining Hong, Huang Huang, Manling Li, Li Fei-Fei, Jiajun Wu, Yejin Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21198 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21198 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21198
arXiv:2602.21198v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Embodied LLMs endow robots with high-level task reasoning, but they cannot reflect on what went wrong or why, turning deployment into a sequence of independent trials where mistakes repeat rather than accumulate into experience. Drawing upon human reflective practitioners, we introduce Reflective Test-Time Planning, which integrates two modes of reflection: \textit{reflection-in-action}, where the agent uses test-time scaling to generate and score multiple candidate actions using internal reflections before execution; and \textit{reflection-on-action}, which uses test-time training to update both its internal reflection model and its action policy based on external reflections after execution. We also include retrospective reflection, allowing the agent to re-evaluate earlier decisions and perform model updates with hindsight for proper long-horizon credit assignment. Experiments on our newly-designed Long-Horizon Household benchmark and MuJoCo Cupboard Fitting benchmark show significant gains over baseline models, with ablative studies validating the complementary roles of reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action. Qualitative analyses, including real-robot trials, highlight behavioral correction through reflection.
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How did we exchange information before photography,
before print,
even before writing?
How was truth represented in a world of stories, myths and oral traditions?
For most of human history,
truth wasn’t a fixed point;
it was negotiated within a tribe,
verified by proximity,
and sustained by trust.
In that sense,
we may be returning to an ancient condition:
truth as local, not universal.
This isn’t necessarily the apoc…

AI photo art raises question: What comes after ‘seeing is believing’? 
In the age of AI, photographs no longer express truth. That doesn’t make them any less meaningful.