Tootfinder

The paradox of Nazism being both the most capitalist thing possible, defining itself as explicitly anticommunist, while masquerading as "socialism" is difficult to resolve until you understand one thing: fascism pivots around antisemitism (and its extension, conspiratorial thinking).
I'm, of course, not talking about the redefinition of "antisemitism" into meaning any criticism of Israel but rather an anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative rooted in Roman Christianity.
This is critical to understand as MAGA fascism pivots between capitalist and pseudo-anticapitalist with Trump in the middle. Hitler did the same thing. Strasserism helped the Nazis gain power by pulling in the Left. In the Nazis case they killed the Stasserists pretty quickly. Now, I think we're seeing an attempt to make the opposite pivot happen in MAGA. But it's all the same thing.
Fascism can infinitely fail to address the needs of the people while dismissing it's own responsibility for creating the problem by maintaining a permanent enemy.
This is why it's important to understand antisemitism and how to fight it. It's especially important now because the apparatus of violence in Israel is itself a tool of global fascism, and we finally have an opportunity to dismantle the whole thing. But we have to be aware of how fascists can pivot around to block this.
I've been reading Safety Through Solidarity, and I think it's especially relevant at this time.
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html

1 Thing the Raiders Need More Of https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-1-thing-need-more-of

Karoline Leavitt is expecting a baby girl in May 2026, says motherhood is 'closest thing to Heaven on Earth' (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/karoline-leavitt-expecting-baby-girl-may-2026-says-motherhood-closest-thing-heaven-earth
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p38#a251226p38

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Matata:
🎵 Wanna Do My Thing
#Matata
https://sonicfunkfoundry.bandcamp.com/track/matata-wanna-do-my-thing-soulshaker-rework-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5PHMByfnN7hGWSnZsUoomX

# Quantum physics reveals there is no such thing as things
There is no such thing as individuality in the quantum realm
Olimpia Lombardi
https://iai.tv/articles/quantum-physics-reveals-there-is-no-such-thing-as-things-auid-3267

Cowboys' special teams need one thing: To be left alone https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-special-teams-need-one-thing-to-be-left-alone

The whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.

A Medium Thing?: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/11/24/a-medium-thing.html

A Medium Thing?
It could be that the posts aren’t being routed …

Cursor CEO Michael Truell warns that "vibe coding" advanced projects may create "shaky foundations" and eventually "things start to kind of crumble" (Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/25/cursor-

Cursor CEO warns vibe coding builds ‘shaky foundations’ and eventually ‘things start to crumble’
“Vibe coding refers to a method of coding with AI where you kind of close your eyes and you don't look at the code at all and you just ask the AI to go build the thing for you.”

An excellent summary here via @… about how the structures of our civil society have failed to stop ICE from becoming Trump’s Brownshirts.
The one thing the piece omits: someone •is• stopping ICE. It’s the citizens filling the streets, honking and shouting and filming and generally harassing ICE, doing the work our government has failed to do. If it were not for that response being so widespread, sustained, and forceful, we’d be in far worse place right now. https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/115616389777857234

TIL about a real thing called the Shai-Hulud Compromise; and all i can say is
These F'in People
https://www.wiz.io/blog/shai-hulud-2-0-ongoing-supply-chain-attack

Told my wife a random thing about Tom Petty, and now I'm gonna need to listen to some Tom

<apt> it has been said that redhat is the thing Marc Ewing wears on
his head.

Fully routed the MP2 Kintex test board and added (I think) all of the zone fills I need on outer layers plus the ground plane.
Only thing left is to lay out the power layer, add date/revision/board ID markings, then schematic review (which I normally do before starting layout but skipped because I was making some changes later in the design), and layout review.

Any controversy about saturated fat comes from research showing that reducing saturated fat intake can actually be harmful if you replace it with the wrong thing
(processed carbs, sugars.)
But researchers agree that replacing saturated fats with plant based fats, like olive oil, is good for health.
https://

Hannah Harris Green (@whatsitlike.me)
“People don’t eat nutrients. They eat foods. When you ask someone what they had to eat, they don’t tell you: ‘I had fat, or I had carbohydrates, or I had protein.’” — Dr. Cheryl Anderson, an American Heart Association board member.

The BBC news mobile app's breaking news alerts thing is wild.
It could be anything from "the Queen/King is dead" through to the one just now "there will be an extra tax on instant lattes".

I found MAKE celebrating Palmer Luckey to be disgusting, and I let them know it.
I never thought I would see MAKE celebrating evil people like him.
Feel free to let dale@make.co know if you're not a fan of this sort of thing.
https://makethings.make.co/p/what-a-luckey-man

What a Luckey Man
A controversial but intriguing maker is making the podcast rounds; Maker Faires are happening all around the world

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Horses:
🎵 Between The wish And the Thing The World Lies Waiting
#Horses
https://horseslondon.bandcamp.com/track/between-the-wish-and-the-thing-the-world-lies-waiting
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jr7bUicgmqVK8VZptxoqS

The scary thing is that we're still in the FA stage. 2026 will be a very unfortunate FO.

Today, I gave a presentation at the German OWASP Day @… about security issues with the EU's electronic invoices🧾💶.
The EU has introduced requirements for "standardized" machine-readable electronic invoices, initially for government procurement, increasingly they'll be required for B2B as well. In principle, not a bad thing, but security …

Security Issues with Electronic Invoices
Information about security issues like XXE and other problems with electronic invoices based on EU standards.

Last week, backups on my @… laptop stopped working, because the laptop ceased to recognise when the backup drive was plugged in. The drive is an old fashioned spinning rust thing which plugs in over USB. I diagnosed a fault with the USB port. So I ordered another USB port from Framework; it arrived today, I plugged it in, and backup is running n…

So apparently "De-Kardashianification" is an actual thing I learned about today.

"As Joy-Ann Reid put it in an Instagram video: “Dear retailers who’ve decided you don’t like diversity, equity, and inclusion, or you really love ICE and you have no problem with them busting into your establishments to drag people away: Here’s the thing. We ain’t buying it. I mean, for real, for real, we ain’t buyin’ it.”
She explained: “We’re gonna spend our money with businesses who actually respect our dollars, respect our communities, and respect our diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are going to buy from people who respect immigrants, who respect immigrants’ rights, and respect freedom and liberty. We are going to buy from establishments that respect our right to vote and our right to live in a free society. And if you ain’t that, we ain’t buying it.”
“Let’s show them our power,” she told listeners. “Let’s show them what we can do together.”"
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-25-2025

The "cloud" thing everyone's always talking about.
#Cloud #Datacenter

For years, I’ve been looking for a way to edit embedded metadata in Emacs and didn’t find anything. So I wrote my own thing. Before starting to clean up the code and write documentation, I just searched again.
And found this: https://github.com/misohena/el-xmp
In the screenshot, el-xmp in the up…

For years, I’ve been looking for a way to edit embedded metadata in Emacs and didn’t find anything. So I wrote my own thing. Before starting to clean up the code and write documentation, I just searched again.
And found this: https://github.com/misohena/el-xmp
In the screenshot, el-xmp in the up…

For years, I’ve been looking for a way to edit embedded metadata in Emacs and didn’t find anything. So I wrote my own thing. Before starting to clean up the code and write documentation, I just searched again.
And found this: https://github.com/misohena/el-xmp
In the screenshot, el-xmp in the up…

'writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a way that (hopefully) gets my point across. ... i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.'

RE: #oss…

I came home and opened Youtube and this is what my "short video" look like.
Not that I want a "short video" section to begin with but it's that kind of thing you can turn off for a limited time only... a concept I don't really understand but maybe that's just me.
But the thing is I am glad I opened this loops account. If you like japanese idols, please follow me at
@…

An #earworm popping up in my brain lately. A poem I was made to memorize when I was 14. It re-emerges every couple years, for no reason I can figure. tbh, I usually only remember verbatim the first few lines or so, and have to look it up again. It’s one of those things, like advertising jingles from many years ago, that have lodged in my memory. 🎶You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush y…

This deeply offends me because most people make me feel uncomfortable.
One thing I learned quite early in life is that this is not their fault. It was an extremely valuable lesson. My discomfort isn’t something other people need to resolve. As if they could… @…

Rachel Dratch also has a podcast now as of 8 days ago and it only has 600 subscribers on youtube!
#comedy

I love that my campus's first student newspaper, founded from the ashes of an earlier paper in 1974 by a bunch of McLuhan fanatics, was called the Medium II. Why II? Because the official name of the campus radio station, that no one ever used, was the Medium (McLuhan was big at the University of Toronto). Since the fall of 1994, the paper has officially been known simply as the Medium, making it the only thing I can think of that had a "2" dropped from rather than appended to i…

I explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.

Movie recommendation
"Every Little Thing"
Terry Masear saves injured hummingbirds in Los Angeles
Streaming on Kanopy

“No," said Ivan firmly. "He is not. He is merely rather quiet. It's not the same thing at all. You don't want to see what he's like pissed.”
By: “What does he look like, pissed?"
Ivan:"Identical to what he looks like the rest of the time. That's the scary part.”
Lois McMaster Bujold, “A Civil Campaign”

Wow! That's way more posts than I've ever been notified of before from unbridged accounts...
And... it's AG. How not surprised. I note she didn't say anything about pay, just a general "untrue" claim.
I judge people by what they do, and that whole thing was very poorly handled.

[via William Gibson on BlueSky]

Some metal thing i photographed last week. I can't even remember what it was, just snapping stuff whilst trying to catch up with the kid. #randomCrap

@… ho ho ho! Currently preparing for the other gezellig thing of the holidays: having our parents over for a meal

“There is this herd effect where everyone in Silicon Valley has to work on the same thing,” he said… “It does not leave much room for other approaches that may be much more promising in the long term.”
(The difference, perhaps, between VCs and DARPA?)

#ListeningClub Hey everybody, guess what? I just got back from my daily walk and barely caught up here! Anyway… That dubby thing was “Horses” by a space rock band from Japan called Rovo. https://www.discogs.com/release/787793-…

Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
TARRANT: You're offering to let her go. That's not the same thing.
AVON: What are you talking about?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/510 B7B4

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115962287481537944
LMAO!
This "let's run Doom in this" thing is getting completely out of hand.

RE: #Unicode is a wonderful thing.

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

Just checked out some truly excellent books from the library to read to my 4-year-old:
Adèle & Simon by Barbara McClintock (things to find), The Marvelous Now by Angela DiTerlizzi and Lorena Alvarez Gómez (rhyming & positive encouragement about mood regulation), and Forts by Katie Venit & Kenard Pak (lovely ode to children's forts).
I had a wonderful reverse-Magritte moment reading Adèle & Simon where Simon loses his drawing of a cat and my kid pointed out one of the actual cats in the image. I said "No, that's a cat, we're looking for a drawing of a cat," before realizing that technically we were looking for a drawing of a drawing of a cat, and the thing my kid pointed to was indeed a drawing of a cat, just not in that category relative to Simon's frame of reference...
#AmReading #ReadingNow #ChildrensBooks

A fascinating thing about so many ostensibly very intelligent "AI-curious" people is that they're—in public—attacking e.g. academics who wrote papers critical of claims of the tech industry, often with wild conspiracy-type theories and ad hominems.
Like hello, I (not a trained scientist) can drive trucks through the holes (logical fallacies) in some of these arguments and accusations.

"There are three interesting things to do with a computing museum. Museum directors and curators should be aware of all three and design galleries, present information, and make archives available to address them all.
The first, and perhaps most limited, is nostalgia. Nostalgia is the least inclusive interaction with a museum of historical artefacts because you cannot teach anyone nostalgia: they either were there and remember the thing on display, or they do not."

The Digital Dark Ages
There are three interesting things to do with a computing museum. Museum directors and curators should be aware of all three and design galleries, present information, and make archives available to address them all.

Headed to Salzburg in the am! Walking back from dinner tonight my daughter asked me my fav song from Sound of Music. I replied “Favorite Things” my wife of 30 years, Collette said “He’s wrong, it’s Edelweiss.” Which is A) WRONG, and B) such a Collette thing to say.
That she would say it with such confidence is one of the many things I love about her.

What's it called when a person is a nervous flyer, but for doctor's visits? Having anxiety about the dentist is pretty common, but is it a usual thing for people to have anxiety about non-dental health care?

I think this is the first time I like a GitLab UI change. The "search or go to" field makes much more sense on the top of the page. And I can create a new issue from anywhere in a project. Still not a fan of issues opening in this weird sidebar thing (my browser has tabs and a back button..).

testing @… since 2 days now intensively. i am still @… customer. ONE THING i really like:
FOLDERS :-)

Got one of those little Polono P31s thermal label printers from shown on TikTok - actually a neat little gadget, only thing I'm not a fan of the Labelnise app - no idea what/if its sending out. So with the assistance of Claude, knocked up a small Python CLI to print text, images, qr and barcodes to it over BLE.
https://

GitHub - AndyQ/Polomo-P31S-Thermal-Printer: Small Python app to print text, images, barcodes and QRCodes over BLE to the Polomo P31S Thermal Printer
Small Python app to print text, images, barcodes and QRCodes over BLE to the Polomo P31S Thermal Printer - AndyQ/Polomo-P31S-Thermal-Printer

“Well, the thing is, being online is not real life; you can’t just toss off an opinion half-baked and have a light or healthy disagreement; everything you commit to 1’s and 0’s has to be, and is taken as, complete, utter, total, and without nuance, shadow, or qualification.”

In Iran, the #Ayatollahs claim they recently killed thousands of terrorists, and Darth #Trump claims the same thing about the murders in Minnesota.
Both are lying, lying, lying.

Ugh, at some point in the recent past Apple News started intercepting cut-and-paste and wrapping it in a copyright notice. Which means if you want to search for a thing mentioned in an article, you need to paste into Notes, and then copy it again.
Apple's "user hostile" era.

I go to 3DJake.ie and it asks me in German if I'm at the right webshop, and tries to send me to the US one
I mean, looking at my last 22 years, it's a valid thing to check

Induzierter Verkehr, induzierte Nachfrage und #Verkehrsverdunstung werden anschaulich (auf Englisch) erklärt von @… in seinem Video:
"More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing"

I did a cool thing at the Vietnam HAT 2025 tournament #ultimatefrisbee

“‘We had to destroy the village to save it’ is not a new American rationalization, and the imperial boomerang can and will, if we don’t stop it, bring it to bear on the American populace.”
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforceme…

Local Law Enforcement's Challenge: Uphold the Law, Even Against the Feds
in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived

I've really enjoyed hearing where we are on 3D-printed rib-ticklers sooo...
MAST #3DPrintingGeeks!
Tell me the wildest new thing in your area that will make me go WOW!
Is it speed? Materials? Colours?
Also, when do you think 3D printing will go truly mass-market? It feels like you still need a load of patience / expertise?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Q‐Tip:
🎵 Vivrant Thing
#QTip
https://toomanydjs.bandcamp.com/track/vivrant-thing
https://open.spotify.com/track/31KK3pcPclmIt087tPuwMr

Joost.com aka theveniceproject, when youtube wasn't a thing yet.
#video

Joost.com aka theveniceproject

The most ridiculous thing re the US 2nd Amendment zealots casting gun ownership as protection from a tyrannical government is that being armed & in conflict w/ the state (with not just a monopoly on violence but huge advantage) gives then carte blanche to kill you.
Peaceful protest or civil war.

Out of context, "Why isn't Gargamel as sexy as I remember?" might be the funniest thing that I've ever heard from a podcast.

No snow in Lapland, sad. Fam went there to Santa village thing for tomorrow.

Feels kinda weird when you come home and people are parking almost in your living room…
Luckily, it seems to be only a temporary thing, to make space for the renovation of the neighboring building.

Feels kinda weird when you come home and people are parking almost in your living room…
Luckily, it seems to be only a temporary thing, to make space for the renovation of the neighboring building.

Feels kinda weird when you come home and people are parking almost in your living room…
Luckily, it seems to be only a temporary thing, to make space for the renovation of the neighboring building.

Arc Raiders ‘Watchlist’ Names and Shames Backstabbing Players https://www.404media.co/arc-raiders-watchlist-names-and-shames-backstabbing-players/

Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch dissented, disgusting as they are.
Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh somehow doing the right thing.
Wonder how long we can keep this up without Trump rage-ordering a nuclear strike on some poor, non-white country.
#trump #SCOTUS

“The US has unveiled its plans for a ‘New Gaza’ that would see the devastated Palestinian territory rebuilt from scratch.
‘We’re going to be very successful in Gaza. It's going to be a great thing to watch,’ Trump declared.
‘I’m a real estate person at heart and it's all about location. And I said: “Look at this location on the sea. Look at this beautiful piece of property. What it could be for so many people.”’
…
Last February, Trump sparked outrage around the …

US unveils plans for development of 'New Gaza' with skyscrapers
"We're going to be very successful in Gaza," President Trump says, as his administration laid out its vision for post-war reconstruction.

OH: “No way I’m paying $19 per month for a SaaS. Instead I’ll spend 3 months vibe coding my own thing that doesn’t work!”

One thing that's working in the Dutch energy transition (although further development of wind and solar is now slowing down). And we're not far from seeing this happen globally either.

The truth is, I’ve never trusted FileVault or really any whole-disk encryption.
I have a couple of FreeBSD machines using geli but not on their boot disk (is that even a thing?) and I’ve never been willing to jump into FileVault because it seems to have had a steady stream of “Oh, well, hope you have a backup” problems.
#Sysadminnery

there is such a thing as a Fedi punk guide.
#fedi #punk

My big gripe with "AI" is that a big reason why it's sold as the second coming of Jesus is that most tech people fundamentally do not understand how it actually works.
Their reasoning goes something like, "It works sort of ok for code generation, and programming is the hardest possible thing in the world to do, every other human endeavor is trivial compared to writing code, therefore it must excel at anything else!".
So it ends up being pushed due to a mixture of ignorance and hubris; and especially being stuffed into things it should never be used for (usually when users don't have a say which software they need to use for work).
The finbros are happily along for the ride because they just need something that can be hyped to pump and dump.

A.J. Brown names one thing Eagles, Cowboys have in common ahead of Week 12 matchup https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/news/aj-brown-one-thing-eagles-cowboys-common-week-12-matchup/fb…

REMINDER: Influenza has everything needed to kill people every year and produce a global pandemic every few decades forever. What keeps it at a low “just the flu” level is vaccination. One thing that kept the most recent surges from being more like 1918 is the CDC. What is left of the CDC is inadequate to that task. https://m…

And people keep being suprised by the regular genocides that *keep fucking happening*. And yes, call what ICE is doing what it is. It is a gencoide. Even if it's not killing millions of people (yet), the "genocide" doesn't mean "killing logs of people" it means "trying to wipe out a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group." What the fuck is ICE trying to do? They're carrying out ethnic cleansing. It's genocide.
Genocide in Gaza, genocide in Syria, genocide in Turkey, China, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Serbia... why the fuck does it keep happening? I'll tell you why. It's states.
People like to think of countries and ethnic reagions as the same thing, but they aren't. They never have been. There's never been clear divisions between ethnic groups. But the existence of the state depends on a shared identity. When the truth is more complicated, the state must find a way to fix that. The solution is genocide. You can't separate the two. There can be no state without genocide. The mechanism to carry ou the kind of mass murder and the incentive to do so are really not easy to put together without the state. The state makes genocide viable, and the state demands genocide to protect it's own existence.
Every election is a dice roll. Every state is on a clock, waiting for the luck to run out. And the worst people possible are just waiting for their chance to win and carry out those genocides in order to lock in their power.
Never again means nothing unless you are attacking the root of genocide: the state.

Derek Carr Has Strong Words for Geno Smith Over Obscene Gesture Controversy https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/derek-carr-geno-smith-middle-finger/?adt_ei=[email]

This speech by Zelenskyy at Davos is biting. Glad to see him call out the European hypocrisy of “speaking of values [when] they often mean valuables.” But, my friend, not one mention of Gaza or Palestine given the topic? Ukraine is the closest thing to Palestine Europe has and still no solidarity, not even an acknowledgement? I just don’t get it.

One important thing I need to keep in mind with LibreWolf is that when something does not work I need to check if it works in Firefox.
For instance the TrueNAS shell was not working, and I realized that TrueNAS wasn't broken, LibreWolf was just "protecting" me...
Which again, is a good thing, but it's sometime a bit too much protection for those of us who know what we are doing.

I've changed my mind -- Google and YouTube can't be trusted to do the right thing and must be reined in (Rand Paul/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/19/opinion/rand-paul-ive-changed-my-mind-google-and-youtube-cant-be-trusted-to-do-the-right-thing-and-must-be-reined-in/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p88#a260120p88

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
BIG WETT:
🎵 SHE GOT THAT THING
#BIGWETT
https://bigwett.bandcamp.com/album/she-got-that-thing-remixes
https://open.spotify.com/track/5oDxUCrJBg3nLBvZ6mg29e

One Thing the Raiders Must Do When They Draft a QB https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-thing-must-do-when-they-draft-qb

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Andromeda Orchestra:
🎵 You Got Just the Right Thing
#AndromedaOrchestra
https://fazeactionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/andromeda-orchestra-you-got-just-the-right-thing
https://open.spotify.com/track/6xp3JC9ZJlhtdXghPpppSe

The Raiders' Defense Is Focused on 1 Thing https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-defense-focused-on-1-thing

It’s apparent to anyone with a bit of education in technological history that this sort of thing must be possible. We have waste streams with higher concentrations of key elements than the "ore" we derive them from.
This is part of why I religiously recycle plastics even though right now they don’t really get recycled. At some point, the piles of unrecycled plastics will be a better raw material for new plastics than the dregs of petroleum we have left.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115604873348659045
Maybe you think all of this is irrelevant now, who gives a fuck about a media format more than 50 years old?
Well, fun fact, the design of SD cards is referencing the design of floppy disks, and were specifically made thin enough to be used in floppy adapters (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath).
Yes, they made an adapter to stick your SD card in and read and write it in a standard floppy disk drive; though you would need to install special software to use it (ironically that software probably came on a CD).
Why would they do such a thing? Because there was no (widespread) USB.

The thing I ordered from nearby which an unexpected trip to New Jersey has made it back to Arizona!

Yes, you will have to continue doing mundane things even through bad times.
This is called “life”. It’s actually a good thing.
Even through a nuclear holocaust you’d still have to wipe your ass. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯