Tootfinder

The #ClimateStripes for the Netherlands. We can feel the dark red ones these days!
#ShowYourStripesDay

In one post, according to the US Attorney’s Office,
former women's track and field coach Steven Waithe wrote:
“Does anyone want to trade nudes?
I’m talking girls you actually know. Could be exes or whatever.
I have quite a few and [am] down to trade over snap[chat] or something.” 
Legal documents do not name the sites on which Waithe distributed these images,
but Bellingcat found a cached version of a November 2020 post with that exact wording on Leake…

The Crypto Entrepreneur Linked to a Forum Trading in ‘Leaked’ Nudes
Two days after we reached out to crypto start-up founder Jitendra Maharaj about his apparent connections to LeakedBB, the site went offline.

Major search engines are so broken these days, that LLMs are better at producing deterministic results. I was looking for a document containing three strings, and got zero results. The "AI" chat immediately found it. This is not due to some language analysis feature (it was an exact match on English words, no declensions or anything needed).
Today again I was looking for a news article matching some keywords and got no results.

Yeah, I would never, ever, EVER buy a new car off the lot these days. Car dealerships & their service depts are the absolute worst.
Let some other fool deal with that experience.
▶️ Car Dealerships Can't Sell Cars & Now They're PANICKING
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H8Xrxji28t…

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Pink Floyd:
🎵 One of These Days
#PinkFloyd
https://open.spotify.com/track/6uU0Hu8oVk9gBihokcrDMH

MX Linux seems to be a very polished product in the sense that a lot of work has clearly gone into it - and into trying to make it pretty friendly. At least compared to how things used to be. On the other hand it also very much feels like late 90s Linux where everything is cobbled together from all kinds of bits and things are named after application names rather than features. It is kind of fun to have to figure things out this way. Mint/Fedora etc. are so polished these days, you rarely ha…

It's funny how ive been a systems person forever, and homelabbing forever, using Linux forever, but these days I'm not a power user at all. I just don't have much drive to fine tune my user experience at all.... Even kicking the tires on an path for RSS-based consumption makes me realize how much fine-tuning I need to do in terms of managing and filtering content, workflow, etc.
But this is the price I guess I have to pay if I want to detox from doom scrolling.

Another sign that Google search is piss-poor these days: if I search for the exact phrase “tennis is coming home” within the last 24 hours, Google insists that only three websites have said that, even though England just beat France 6 4 in the World Cup bronze medal game, and surely everybody must have been saying something like that.

I know #Replit bills itself as a #vibecoding platform these days, but I opened it for a quick Python REPL and couldn't figure out for the life of me how to bypass the #AI prompt.

Legislation cares a lot about information #security these days. When do we laws that keep companies from tainting security's public reputation by demonstrably abusing it for their own commercial interest against the interests of consumers?
Just one example: Bank uses proprietary hardware over #WebAuthn

With every company announcement event, I get even more nervous because #enshittification is a strong trend these days. 🫣
It's a really good announcement when there's actually not too much news.
Upcoming anxiety: #Google actively killing the healthy ecosystem of

Fwiw, in design trends since the early 2000s buttons seem to have gone from glassy "pill" shapes (think Mac OS X "Aqua") over flat design shapes (Windows 8) to "no shape at all" (just text, e.g. iOS 7), back to flat design with very round corners (lots of websites these days) and lately (e.g. iOS 26) back to glassy round shapes.

A fun thing about cutting my programming teeth back in the Olden Days of the Apple ][ is that any time I see 256 or 1024 or 65536 or whatever in the wild, I get unreasonably excited. Kids these days don’t even have to memorize their powers of 2 to make a computer go

Cybersecurity is pulling in the big bucks these days. Startup Ent, which offers an AI-driven "intent-aware Workspace Security platform," emerged from stealth with a cool $100m in *seed* financing.
Other big cyber finance developments coming up in today's Metacurity.
https://www.…

Alabama has one of the strictest conditions in the nation for medical marijuana
For women between the ages of 11-50, the state requires pregnancy tests every 30 days to keep their registration current,
unless they can show proof they’ve had surgery that prevents having children.

In Alabama, these patients have to take monthly pregnancy tests for medical cannabis
No other state in the nation mandates regular pregnancy testing for patients to qualify.

I saw this and I instantly thought of @… because somehow he had become the most salient reference node for revolting arthropods and we all know why.
https://www.instagram…

Pelfs Pets on Instagram: "To answer some questions from the first reel! No, she will not eat these babies and she will not be eaten by them. Only a very few South American species practice matriphagy and she is not one of them. Yes, she will spend every last second from the time she lays eggs until they molt and leave her standing gaurd protecting and constantly cleaning them. At this stage mold growth can take them out very easily and thats why you see her constantly licking them clean. We have about 20 more days before their first molt and then theyll start wonder away from her. Thats when I'll separate them all and give them their first meal!!! Thanks for watching please feel free to ask questions and LIKE SHARE AND FOLLOW for more amazing centipede content!!!"
18K likes, 277 comments - wvcentipedeguy on May 31, 2026: "To answer some questions from the first reel! No, she will not eat these babies and she will not be eaten by them. Only a very few South American species practice matriphagy and she is not one of them. Yes, she will spend every last second from the time she lays eggs until they molt and leave her standing gaurd protecting and constantly cleaning them. At this stage mold growth can take them out very easily and thats why you see her cons…

Back in 2020 (which is when this pic is from), you could put your laptop in a plate of ketchup and it wasn't a big deal. These days, there goes your life savings.

What is the best non spying #DNS people use these days?
Assume my ISP, OpenDNS (208.67.222.222) , google (8.8.8.8) and cloudflare (1.1.1.1) are not respecting my privacy at all

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

The #git history command deserves more attention
https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/

It’s hard enough these days to keep up to date with Linux security. Dirty Frag and Copy Fail are already keeping countless Linux admins busy, and then, the day before yesterday, Fragnesia came along: https://github.com/v12-security/pocs/tree/main/fragnesia

pocs/fragnesia at main · v12-security/pocs
poc it like it's hot. Contribute to v12-security/pocs development by creating an account on GitHub.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Nico:
🎵 These Days
#Nico
https://mdhttr.bandcamp.com/track/nico-these-days-mercury-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uCkIqD0VzQUijbs8WIizs

Finished reading “Tokyo These Days, Volume 1” by Taiyo Matsumoto.
A veteran manga editor quits after 30 years, then quietly visits artists, famous and forgotten, assembling an artistic endeavor not fully revealed.
Rich characters won me over: reserved Shiozawa most of all, though flawed Chosaku is who I want to learn more about. Very much part one, setting the table. Might be my first manga?
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tokyo These Days, Volume 1
The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Mats…

"To cease" and "to fire" seem to be highly ambiguous verbs these days.

These days new vulnerabilities are found faster in kernels than I can manage to build patched kernels for #Gentoo.
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260513041635.1289541-1-vakzz@zellic.io/
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/agRfuVOeMI5pbHhY@v4bel/
Kudos to @… for staying on top of things.

These days, we often read that the richest person in the world is getting even richer. There is hardly any discussion of the nature of this wealth – namely, that it consists largely of fictitious capital, the capitalization of a claim to wealth to be produced in the future.
1/2

This vintage trailer I saw reminds me of the Norwegian movie „Kitchen Stories“ (Salmer fra kjŸkkenet). I was lucky to catch it in an arthouse cinema years ago. It seems hard to get these days. Not streaming anywhere. 1 DVD on Amazon for 50€.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323872/

Remember the five dollar foot long? I missed that. A meatball marinara is too damn expensive these days.

Over the past 10 days,
ICE officials have killed two immigrants in separate shootings in Texas and Maine.
While the Department of Homeland Security has claimed that the officers were acting in self-defense and the interest of public safety,
no evidence has emerged to support those accounts, and outrage is mounting over these latest examples of violence from the agency.
How the killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastišn Duršn Guerrero, reflect a broader p…

How ICE became so deadly – Stateside with Kai and Carter
Over the past ten days, ICE officials have killed two immigrants in separate shootings in Texas and Maine. Kai Wright speaks with Guardian immigration reporter José Olivares about how their deaths are just the latest examples of the violence of President Trump’s mass deportation agenda, and what accountability for them might look like.

Good blog by @… which gives an insight in the amazing capabilities and risks (!) of Fable 5, Anthropic's latest model, at the same time the costs are also enormous if you use this seriously i think.
Commercially the question is how quickly can much cheaper models get closer to these capabilities.

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will …

Here are the #Animal and #Environmental days coming up in the next three months.
https://

Eco Awareness Days: 3-Month Calendar (July to September 2025)
Here are some of the bigger and lesser known environmental consciousness, days, weeks, and months celebrated in both the UK and around the globe between January and March 2026.  Many of these days serve to raise awareness about significant environmental concerns, while the international animal days also highlight the dire

RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116756562824636737
Ditch Chrome. Ditch it yesterday. It’s already 50% hostile surveillance machine, but that’s soon going to be 100%.
Vivaldi is a fine near-drop-in replacement if you want maximum compatibility. It’s what I use for G-Suite stuff whenever I have to use it.
Waterfox is a Firefox fork that strips out the AI nonsense features. I’ve been happy with it.
Firefox itself has problematic leadership these days, but is still better than Chrome.
Safari on Mac (my daily driver) is a lovely browser, lean and blazing fast compared to Chrome, and great privacy features — though it’s still Big Tech if that’s a problem for you.
In short, you have choices!

"Ever more people are annoyed by the climate being so pushy these days, with all its heatwaves, wildfires, and floods. KLM agrees: Freedom of expression is valuable, but if we can't do our work because people get hesitant to book flights to Italy, we have to ask whether we can still tolerate this." /s

Klimaat enorm aan het drammen met talloze overstromingen en hitterecords
Steeds meer mensen ergeren zich aan het gedram van het klimaat. Met hittegolven in Europa, bosbranden in Canada, Zwitserland en de Canarische Eilanden, en aardverschuivingen in Colombia voelt het voor veel mensen alsof het klimaat echt over de schreef gaat.

Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

from my link log —
Finding a goroutine bug with TLA .
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/tla-golang/
saved 2020-09-25 https://dotat.a…

The kind of thing you see when you are playing with frontier models these days.

Do you manage to ever fully relax these days?
#SillyPoll also #GloomyPoll

'Each of These Is a Murder': Trump Admin Conducts 3rd Deadly Boat Strike in 5 Days | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/deadly-boat-strike

Death lasers can also target yachts, just sayin'

Every time I have to use a Regular Computer these days I have this little pang of aversion. Not disgust, not like I've been asked to fix a crack in a septic tank, but more like somebody drove up in a 1991 John Deere that had a small cab fire and all the wiring is fused together and they want to know if I can "get 'er goin' again"*. Like, I know how to do this, and it's within my ability to complete it and ensure that it will be better than new, but I also know that …

One Big Headache for Politicians These Days: a Messy Digital Footprint (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/us/politics/politicians-old-tweets-controversies.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260510/p6#a260510p6

You often hear "every app is painful to use these days because they are optimized for business outcomes over user experience."
But that's not actually true! These decisions are ALSO slaughtering the business outcomes.
The real optimization is for product manager promo packets.

You young people don't know this, but the Internet these days is absolute shit. The one I grew up with was a jungle with its good and bad sides, but today's version is almost dystopian. The damn Internet today is designed to drive you crazy the moment you open your browser. Before you even see the content, it feels like they're putting you through a poll.
Click here to let us know you're not a bot.
- Fuck that. I'm a person, no a terminator.
Do you accept …

It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,”
the source of both our geological birth and, perhaps, our ultimate undoing.
But the most unnerving thing about the San Andreas fault these days may be its silence.
It’s a mystery scientists are still trying to unlock.
The San Andreas is central to any discussion of California.
It’s the massive 800-mile spine of the state,
trundling up the Coachella Valley to the San Gabriel Mountains,
and p…

Just finished "Future Home of the Living God" by Louise Erdrich. It's a beautiful and entrancing novel in many ways, but I couldn't bring myself to like the ending. I think in one of my most recent book posts I complained about a deus ex machina, so it's ironic that in this case as the pages dwindled I was fully prepared to accept and even welcome one, especially with all of the deus-related stuff going on already. I am left profoundly unsure as to whether Erdrich imagines a positive future beyond our current oppressions, or just futility, when for most of the book it seemed like the former, which is something I seek out in earnest these days. It is of course impressive that a book about innocents being hunted through the streets of Minneapolis & Saint Paul, while a volunteer citizens network organizes to keep them safe, could be published in 2017. There are strong echoes of Octavia Butler here, and in both cases I think it's a marginalized position which allows authors to see with clarity that most mainstream authors miss or don't even attempt.
I think I will seek out more of Erdrich's writing, but only after a bit of a break.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

@…
I have an idea for a new Witcher story set in the modern Suwalki Gap. Would you be interested in kicking some ideas around and if so what's the best email address for you these days?

On the the Golden Gate betas the new MenuBarAgent seems to hang all the time and it makes day to day user very difficult as most apps these days seem to default to the menu bar over the dock without enabling a specific option per application. I submitted FB23707510 on the off chance this has not already been reported.

Teaching an intro programming class, and I am always hearing about the old days when your program was a stack of punch cards.
I want to get some of those punch cards to show my students (and see for myself!).
You can find real punch cards for sale online, but many seem to be just for data entry. I want "the real thing" one would use to write a real program.
What should I look for? Where can I get these?
1/N

Every now and then I have one of those days where I discover all of these marvellous people on the Fedi and they're nearby (in some sense, whether physical or by interests) and they've been here for a couple of years and I don't know them. It's delightful! It's way more delightful than when there were only a few thousand people!
I do feel sad when I look at all the amazing folks who were here but left. I hope they all come back.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Another 7Points blog post:
#blogging

Flip the switch - JazMat
We had a new faucet installed recently at the side of the house -- things just don’t last long these days -- and the installer forgot to turn the water back...

what does one put on a blogroll these days?
#askfedi #smallWeb #personalwebsite

Inspired by Hank Green’s fun new timeline of photos from the Artemis II mission, I wrote up an answer to a question that's more pertinent these days than it may seem: Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? https://anildash.com/2026/04/30/artemis-photos-flickr/

Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr?
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Una lettera aperta agli utenti di suite per ufficio, poco prima dell'annuncio di Euro-Office
«Negli ultimi giorni avrete letto diversi articoli che annunciano l'arrivo di EuroOffice, presentato come la prima suite per ufficio open source sviluppata in Europa. Ci sentiamo in dovere – seppur a malincuore, poiché l'open source dovrebbe basarsi sulla trasparenza e non sull'inganno – di correggere questa affermazione. La prima suite per ufficio open source sviluppata in Euro…

@… and @…, you two are just wonderful. 🥹 Thank you so much for your little drawings. That just made me chuckle.
ht…

Guestbook - Finest Day
Do you remember the days when people used to write little notes? Leaving little drawings and messages for people they cared about? And whose joy at receiving these messages meant...

Okay so the joke is still funny, but in reading the headline I thought this #TheOnion bit was going to be about how every movie is THREE GODDAMNED HOURS LONG these days. https://theonion.com/man-binge-watch…

Man Binge-Watches Entire Movie In One Sitting
COLUMBUS, OH—Expressing embarrassment at the sheer amount of time that had passed, local man Evan Pfister reportedly binge-watched an entire movie in one sitting on Friday. “Wow, I must have been staring at this screen for hours. Well, almost hours. An hour and forty nine minutes, to be precise,” said Pfister, who told reporters that […]

Just thinking about the political discussion going on here these days... Seems to me we need better labels. 'Right' in English has the unfortunate connotation of 'correct', and 'Left' the connotation (but perhaps only among the better read) of 'sinister'... I think new terms without that baggage are required. I propose that the Left<->Right spectrum be replaced by the Nobel<->Ignoble spectrum, which is more objective accurate in any case.

Websites, even sites of billion dollar companies, are so flakey and unreliable these days. I take odd comfort in that.

It’s actually unbelievable: just for fun, I decided to go through the entire Windows 11 installation process on my new MSI Cubi. Let’s see how it goes these days.
What can I say? Unbelievable! It took almost TWO HOURS just for the initial updates before I could even start setting it up! Are Microsoft’s servers that slow? The download took forever, not to mention the installations… And then the worst part: the pre-installed bloatware! Dozens of crappy third-party programs—and of course,…

‘“How is Vas these days?”
“He is well. His tree of life grows strong with the sky.”
I don’t exactly know what that means but decide not to pursue it.’
#Thraxas

@… I set my thesis in Hermann Zapf's Melior (or Bitstream Zapf Elliptical 711 to be precise).
These days I mostly use Walbaum, specifically the version by Storm Type. However, I’ve also successfully used Futura Now for project proposals ;-)

@… I set my thesis in Hermann Zapf's Melior (or Bitstream Zapf Elliptical 711 to be precise).
These days I mostly use Walbaum, specifically the version by Storm Type. However, I’ve also successfully used Futura Now for project proposals ;-)

I know its been a few days now but I could not wrap my head around it that Moya Brennan has passed. Listened to Clannad quite a bit these days #RIPMoyaBrennan

Do you miss having a No option these days?

Modern PC hardware is real RF voodoo these days:
DDR5 runs at 5 GHz, PCIe 5.0 runs at 16 GHz (!!), networking/SFPs running at 26 GHz, often using advanced modulation like PAM4.
All of those ultra high speed links are doing some form of equalization/link training and their hardware is very often capable of measuring/reporting eye diagrams.

Oopies.
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-prime-drones-water

Video Shows Amazon Drone Dropping Package Into Pond
Amazon's Prime Air Delivery service is notching a few misses these days, including a number of packages delivered straight to Davy Jones.

@… Must be horrible to be at the SEC these days.

In these dark days, despair may call to us like a siren. Gathering with others is the best way I know to resist (tying ourselves each to each). And writing, and sharing that writing, however strange.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/siren-after-wyatt-dispaire-doth-…

Siren: after Thomas Wyatt: "Dispaire doth vndre take"
How do we resist the siren calls of despair?

Regarding Ted Turner, I will share what KaiserBeamz said on Xitter:
"A ruthless businessman but one who clearly loved the arts. That mindset helped made him the architect of the cable landscape and helped give the world access to so much film, TV, and cartoons. Sad to say that businessmen like him are extinct these days."
https://

Barb McQuade's new book, "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government," offers solutions to get us past these dark days
https://bsky.app/profile/barbmcquade.bsky.social/post/3mi4rlf5enk2s

Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social)
My new book, "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government," offers solutions to get us past these dark times in our nation's history. Available now for pre-order. More here. barbaramcquade.com

#osint folks: what's the go-to for free off-nadir aerial imagery these days? One of the big reasons to use bing maps instead of google maps was the "birds eye" feature which gave very high resolution off-nadir aerial photos, sometimes from a couple of view angles.
That product no longer seems to be available, is there anything that replaces it? Not looking for super duper up to da…

Cowboys Giving Surprise Role to Ex-Super Bowl Champ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/marquez-valdes-scantling-super-bowl-champ/

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

What a cool art project: for a whole week, there’s an ice rink in Amsterdam during these summer days – powered exclusively by surplus energy from the solar panels at the neighbouring Olympic Stadium. If there isn’t enough? Then the ice melts.
https://dezomerijsbaan.nl/

ngl, I'm irrationally annoyed that "parkour" is the term these days for movement in games. I'm sure I'm just an old man yelling at a cloud here, but my YouTuber friend, we already had a word for that and it was "platforming"

I am seeing buttercups all over these days -- heading to bed and planning to be at the Ithaca Festival tomorrow!
#photo #photography #flowers

Because I need to justify my hardware endeavours I did a quickie on the Framework website. Forking out 1739 Trumpies for a laptop that I'll have to keep looking at eternally. Guess I'll skip this 😆 Sold out until September. You never hear people talking about e-waste anymore these days. Crisis, what crisis?

from my link log —
The future of 32-bit Linux.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/838807/9b293f03c03ef0c5/
saved 2020-12-06 https://

Are they right? 🤔
"Euro-Office defaults to the fully proprietary OOXML document format, developed and controlled solely by Microsoft. This makes it a de facto ally of Microsoft in its content lock-in strategy, with control remaining firmly in Redmond and far from Europe."
https://blog.do…

An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement - TDF Community Blog
Dear office suite users, In recent days you will have read various articles announcing the arrival of Euro-Office, which is being “marketed” as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe. We feel compelled — reluctantly, since open source should rest on transparency, not deception — to correct this claim. The first open-source office suite developed in Europe was OpenOffice.org in 2001, based on StarOffice’s source code, followed by LibreOffice from 2010. These are two gen…

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk | TechCrunch
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

I don't know yet which Julia this is, but thank you. Thank you so much for the drawing in my guestbook. 💖 Arthur is going to have a hell of a good time with me, I promise.
#pikablog

Guestbook - Finest Day
Do you remember the days when people used to write little notes? Leaving little drawings and messages for people they cared about? And whose joy at receiving these messages meant...

I should figure out a fast way of sending a website to links2 instead of keyboarding shortcutting my way to it. So many sites are just an absolute plague these days, but links2 just strips all the crap and shows the text.

I have a pixel 6a... These days I'm starting to feel like Google and Android is somehow enshitified enough that I should switch to an iPhone. I feel like it's feed features just compose a generic doom scroll for me.
But maybe this is just an internet in general problem.
Just feels like there's no where to hide these days. Reading stuff on the Internet user to be long, thoughtful, and meditative. Now it's short, thoughtless and hypnotic.

I come home exhausted most days & when my soul feels empty... I watch these videos & I'm good.
▶️ Lost dog realizes his family found him
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_rCi5UhHfzo&si=RRsyFvt3HmaQ__RU

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Bedouine:
🎵 One of These Days
#Bedouine
https://bedouine.bandcamp.com/track/one-of-these-days
https://open.spotify.com/track/3azlo5j5KZPq3qlFlGSDiH

Have you ever tried to use a #StandingDesk for work (whether working from home or in the office), if so would you recommend it?
Since I'm spending about 23/24h sitting (or sleeping) these days, I wonder if I should give it a go.. Please tell me what you think!

Armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank
have carried out a number of attacks in recent days
targeting local Palestinians and foreign journalists,
as well as detaining U.S. Congressmember Ro Khanna
during a fact-finding trip.
Khanna said that when Israeli forces arrived, they sided with the settlers.
“The U.S. government just merrily goes along funding these atrocities against American citizens,
not to speak of atrocities against Palestinia…

There is a frenzied feeling to the news coming from the White House these days. ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-28-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p44#a260429p44

Apropos a separate great thread involving nonviolent resistance/protest: nonviolent protest certainly benefits from and perhaps even requires the threat is something more, but it's not at simple as just a display of resolve making clear the threat of more action of change doesn't happen. It's also a form of psychological warfare against your opponent's complicity chains: the set of people that need to go along in small ways for the oppressor's threat of force to actually materialize, and the set of people who support them, and so on. These days lots of those complicity chains are heavily reinforced against psychological attack, for example by convincing them that those resisting are a threat, or are subhuman, or deserve oppression because they have transgressed, or otherwise damping the empathy channel through which nonviolent resistance seeks to create psychological distress, the actions to avoid which are one goal of the tactic. Censorship of news about resistance is another popular strategy in places like Iran and China. These counter-tactics are imperfect and costly, hence the continued effectiveness of nonviolent resistance as a tactic, even if alone it's not going to truly solve problems.
In the other thread I mentioned someone commented from personal experience that nonviolent resistance had died down once an immediate change was effected, even though that change didn't remove the threat they personally were facing. That's one of the weaknesses of the tactic: people on both sides usually move on too quickly.

My 10-year-old daughter is making an ice cream truck out of cardboard, sized for one of her little stuffed animals. She is being very detailed, and has chosen the particular flavors of ice cream and sherbet the truck will have, and is making a menu sign.
Naturally she's putting prices on it. But she's not making numbers up, or asking us for a common price for a scoop of ice cream. (Which seems absurdly expensive these days -- I know, inflation, but, yikes.)
No, she's …

Just ordered an Efinix Ti375 devkit to play with their SERDES. This will be my first time using transceivers on a non-Xilinx part, but the way Vivado is headed these days I want to have an off-ramp.
I'm not leaving Xilinx in the immediate future, I have a lot of existing component inventory to use up, but I don't see using any of their newer generation parts in the future.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nico:
🎵 These Days
#Nico
https://mdhttr.bandcamp.com/track/nico-these-days-mercury-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uCkIqD0VzQUijbs8WIizs

This weekend marks 250 years since the signing of the declaration of independence,
but Donald Trump is making the celebration all about himself.
As the anniversary approaches, Jonathan Freedland talks to the Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum about why so many Americans are feeling less patriotic these days

Trump hijacks the US at 250 celebrations | Politics Weekly America
Jonathan Freedland talks to the Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum about why so many Americans are feeling less patriotic these days

As a tribute to the fierce heatwaves roasting our cities these days, the city of Brussels just turned the Schuman roundabout facing the EC headquarters into a giant slab of concrete.
Via Hans Diels on LinkedIn.

Fierce spring heatwave in Spain these days: after two times 37.7°C in Badajoz, today the temperature reached 38.3°C on Sevilla airport.

True patriots should want all Americans to vote,
They should oppose would-be dictators,
They should yield to the Constitution,
and they should demand a nation that is offered to everyone equally.
Actual followers of Jesus should defend the vulnerable,
They should give comfort to the sick, food to the hungry, welcome to the immigrant, and love to the least among us.
And while the masqueraders and pretenders parade around in grand performative acts of lo…

Americans Are Exhausted By The Right's Pretend Patriotism and Phony Faith
Life is exhausting these days for lots of us, and I think I’ve figured out why.

These are tricky times for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The “special military operation” he launched against Ukraine in 2022,
intended to last a few days until a puppet regime in Kyiv could be installed,
has now gone on longer than both the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany and all of World War I.
His forces have long ceased making significant gains on the battlefield;
some data even suggest that Russian forces lost territory in April and May.
What …

As the Tide Turns Against Putin, Beware the Drowning Man
Like a struggling swimmer, he may take desperate measures to stay afloat.

Watergate would only be a 12-hour news story these days
because it pales in comparison to the rampant corruption of the Trump administration
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/vance-says-watergate-12-hour-news-story-t…

Vance says Watergate would be ‘a 12-hour news story’ today
JD Vance said the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon would have been a blip in today’s news cycle, and drew parallels between Nixon and President Trump.

One reason it’s been so hot in India and Pakistan this year is due to persistent high-pressure weather systems.
When these systems sit in place, they make heatwaves more likely
by suppressing cloud formation and reducing the chance of cooling rain.
This year, strong high-pressure systems have lingered over parts of India and Pakistan, trapping hot air near the surface and allowing temperatures to build over many days.
With less rain, there’s more heat at ground level a…

Too hot, too humid: why the sustained heatwave in India and Pakistan is so dangerous
Sustained, sweltering heat is hitting India and Pakistan hard – and humidity is making the situation even more dangerous.