Tootfinder

Did you know there's a crow isekai?
Of all things, I Became a Crow.
(하필이면 까마귀가 되어버렸다)
:brdCrow: https://mangacute.com/of-all-things-i-became-a-crow

Isn’t it time we had a back-up plan ‘just in case’ things do go catastrophically wrong?…. - resilience.
Rupert Read
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-03-13/isnt-it-time-we-had-a-back-up-plan-just-in-…

Isn’t it time we had a back-up plan ‘just in case’ things do go catastrophically wrong?….
We need a plan B. In case society starts to, erm, collapse… We need to be prepared…It won’t do to plan to WAIT til we win intellectual debates such as that around growth/degrowth before we get together to prepare…Theo Cox, Liam Kavanagh and Rupert Read outline their new OSF-funded report, just launched this week…

the season of small things — https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-season-of-small-things?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

The Gospel of Moss: On Soft Power, Slow Change, and the Sacredness of Small Things
Not all change is loud. Moss teaches us that softness, patience, and attention can be forms of power. This is the gospel of slow transformation.

Stitt and Trump patch things up (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/stitt-and-trump-patch-things-up-00828775
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p111#a260313p111

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Telehealth:
🎵 Things I've Killed
#Telehealth
https://telehealth.bandcamp.com/track/things-ive-killed
https://open.spotify.com/track/4RJqm50m6kVJe5k3bup0uR

Ukraine has the full right to defend itself against Russian aggression
and cannot be forced to cede territory,
Hungary's election winner,
Peter Magyar, said on April 13
in response to a question from a Kyiv Independent reporter.
"If someone says this
— no matter how long Fidesz politicians have said similar things
— you should ask them what would happen if Russia attacked Hungary:
which Hungarian county would they give up?"

Asking Ukraine to cede land 'unworthy' of Hungary's 1956 resistance, Magyar says
"If someone says this — no matter how long Fidesz politicians have said similar things — you should ask them what would happen if Russia attacked Hungary: which Hungarian county would they give up?" Peter Magyar said in response to a question from a Kyiv Independent reporter.

Emmitt Smith Talks All Things Cowboys From SBLX Radio Row https://www.si.com/nfl/video/emmitt-smith-talks-all-things-cowboys-from-sblx-radio-row

RE: https://social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes/116386013892596738
@… 's "The Sound and Fury of a Collapsing Order" hit the nail on the head. This is exactly the time that things can change. The ways in which they change matter.
Petroleum is the primary pillar of the global order, and weakening it's grip weakens that order. As an anarchist, I'm obviously more focused on direct action but there are absolutely local policies that are also important.
Attacking car-centric infrastructure as a political issue makes it easier to change other things.

The Generative Excess: Soul, Dream, and Idea
There are three things you cannot show me. You cannot open your hand and reveal your soul. No technology exists to replay your dream from last night with any fidelity. And no surgeon can extract from your skull the moment a thought first assembled itself into an idea. Each of these phenomena exists, if it exists at all, only as a first-person event, invisible to external observation, resistant to measurement, and stubbornly…

The Generative Excess: Soul, Dream, and Idea | David Boles, Blogs
There are three things you cannot show me. You cannot open your hand and reveal your soul. No technology exists to replay your dream from last night with any fidelity. And no surgeon can extract fr…

Titans unveil new uniforms that pay homage to Oilers: Five things to know about Tennessee's total rebrand

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/titans-uniforms-houston-oilers/

It is not an extreme position to want to be able to think for yourself, to write by just typing words in, to learn things from other people or to make art with your hands.

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

I guess in the age of AI journalism, boring things like fact checking or citing people with their words and not something else aren't valued any more...
https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645

The advantage of UI redesigns no one is talking about: lost users will be clicking on more things as they try to find what they are looking for, sending your traffic analytics through the ROOF
#ProductManagement #UXDesign

Great new investments in Mastodon, which will be used for several things including E2EE , nice 👍
#mastodon

Sovereign Tech Agency funding
Announcing a service agreement for new work to improve Mastodon and the broader ecosystem.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Telehealth:
🎵 Things I've Killed
#Telehealth
https://telehealth.bandcamp.com/track/things-ive-killed
https://open.spotify.com/track/4RJqm50m6kVJe5k3bup0uR

So many things to try :)
https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/13/1238f

Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too
many things wrong. It was never like this for Mencken. He lived like
a Prussian gambler -- sweating worse than Bryan on some nights and drunker
than Judas on others. It was all a dehumanized nightmare...and these
raddled cretins have the gall to complain about my deadlines.
-- Hunter Thompson, "Bad Nerves in Fat City", _Generation of Swine_

Heavy Metal - China controls much of the strategic metals needed for just about everything modern. And they have now instituted ways to turn things off and on with most countries in the world dependent on this flow.
#China won this war without firing a shot
https://no01.substack.com/p/china-usa
Yeah, it’s substack, I really wish people who should know better with such great content wouldn't do it on substack. (I don't pay)

Be careful. "It's AI slop" is turning into a thought-terminating cliche.
Even though it's true often, the actual use of the phrase is starting to be a shortcut to dismissing things without using our brains.
And that is itself a kind of slop.
Learn to notice it because doing it consciously is exhausting, but knowing when you're being cognitively lazy is a step to being a bit more resistant to bad ideas and being manipulated.

#Caturday

One way you can tell a video is being read by an 'ai' voice (other than the obvious sounds and signs) is that they might say things like 'in the one thousand nine hundred and nineties'

A now-removed Ars Technica article, covering how an AI agent wrote a hit piece about an open source project maintainer, seems to have included AI hallucinations (Scott Shambaugh/The Shamblog)
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

The saga of the bot written hit piece continues this time claiming that @… had a AI write an article about it when the AI couldn’t scrape the blog it just hallucinated some quotes that never existed. Surreal. Ars definitely have to come clean on what the actual fuck happened there.

Jim Carrey has some very direct things to say about Fat Putin.
#trump #jimcarrey

ROFL I hope this never happens in real life!
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/116071095499551495

Things I have learned over the last two days consolidating all the VMs in the homelab to the same OS:
- Plex is absolutely horrible and hates NFS. It also hates you.
- Docker volumes are annoying as hell, but easy to deal with if you know how to get the data out of the volumes. If you're rocking a lot of them it will be a pain to move them to another server.
- Forgejo actions are also a pain in the ass.
- Moving my `step-ca` information from one server to another wa…

I can't remember who posted this, but what an excellent article. So many things in it I'd forgotten about.
"From Meta Glasses to smartwatches, the AI revolution is every woman’s worst nightmare"
https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/

Why The AI Revolution is Every Woman’s Worst Nightmare
From Meta Glasses to smartwatches, the AI revolution is every woman’s worst nightmare, writes journalist and campaigner Jess Davies for Glamour UK. Read on here

I have finally figured out a way to cope with CJK scripts at work, and I've made _huge_ progress on a largely untested codebase
So of course the PMs are super change averse
"Look, I have been doing character encoding fixes since literally 2001"
"can you trust that the tests that I added are the right things"
"you do realize that the current system *doesn't work*, right?"
And each of them gets a "oh I don't know, so…

Isn’t it time we had a back-up plan ‘just in case’ things do go catastrophically wrong?…. - resilience.
Rupert Read
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-03-13/isnt-it-time-we-had-a-back-up-plan-just-in-…

I've always practiced defensive coding in my software engineering career. Lots of tests, belt-and-suspenders safety in the code to prevent weird, dumb things. This approach is paying off in spades using AI to program. I'm used to building a safety net.

The technology of mechanical reproduction did not end the age of art.
Likewise, the technology of text synthesis will not end of age of human thinking.
https://woborders.blog/2026/04/14/ai-is-the-mechanical-reproduction-of…

AI is the mechanical reproduction of human thought, not a means to replace it.
I’m going to be writing a lot more about AI, among other things.In part this is because a nearly unfathomable investment is being made into this technology,. Huundreds of billions of dollars …

good grief, gnuplot is always a huge battle
here's a graph of the length of day (green, microseconds)
and UT1-UTC (purple, milliseconds)
from 1973 until today
the LoD is the difference from 24h, averaged over the previous 12 months - the LoD is _very_ noisy so it's hard to see the trends from a shorter averaging period
UT1-UTC is the integral of the LoD, with leap seconds to keep it in bounds
things have been a bit weird since 2020 because the LoD …

Troy Aikman says things about Dak Prescott that Cowboys fans are afraid to ask https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/14/cowboys-troy-aikman-dak-prescott-injury-leve…

I grew up listening to #baseball in English on the radio. Over the summer, it was on more or less constantly in garages, backyards, and workshops across the extended family. I find the combination of cadence, tone, background sound, and trivial banter extremely comforting.
After moving to Québec, I began listening to broadcasts in French and was startled to discover the same mix of things I love i…

#Gemini keeps being funny with TTS.
> Cilium relies on CO-RE (Compile Once – Run Everywhere)
read as "Colorado RE" 😂 - btw that's how again you see how US centric all this stuff is; CO could mean a ton of other things...
https://

You typically want your references in reverse chronological orders in such list, and I found that there’s actually a ready-made CSL style for just this purpose in the styles repository, which works great: apa-cv.csl
You get the right order, and citations produce complete references, which is just what you need for things like “your five most important publications,” etc.
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You typically want your references in reverse chronological orders in such list, and I found that there’s actually a ready-made CSL style for just this purpose in the styles repository, which works great: apa-cv.csl
You get the right order, and citations produce complete references, which is just what you need for things like “your five most important publications,” etc.
□

Wait. So an #AI bot manifested some #AIslop (it neither creates nor writes), tried to get it merged into a #code repo, got rejected for being

The All Your Base Are Belong To Us scene, but with all the dialogue replaced with demented things Trump has actually said.

Seeing all the projects go by here, and I can't understand how you all manage to get things done. That isn't, I'm afraid, a skill of mine.

Honestly, all things considered we do need more datacenters in the EU. Just because we don't have much.

I cannot concur…
It’s not realistic to ask people to *never* click a link in email. We’ve got 30 years of experience with that advice not working because MUA developers have never stopped making links active & aggressively looking for anything in email that might be a link, regardless of URL conformance. That’s why SpamAssassin treats so many non-URLs as if they are URLs. Users will click clickable things. Telling them not to do so is unreasonable.
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Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
AVON: Cally and I have finished checking the damage. I can give you a fairly accurate assessment of the situation now. We can fit things together and we can make repairs.
BLAKE: And?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/107/174 B7B4

9 Things You’re Overengineering (The Browser Already Solved Them)
https://dev.to/sylwia-lask/9-things-youre-overengineering-the-browser-already-solved-them-o99

Funny bit is GOP is attacking him for things that apply more to Trump than him.
GOP, fearing tough fight for Texas Senate seat, paints Democrat as radical https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/14/james-talarico-texas-senate-gop-attacks/

No one asked, and it's doubtful anyone cares to know 😄, but for some reason felt to share a bit of background on 'Trophallaxis Dance'. It's never conscious in the moment, but it seems I'm sometimes into the idea of doing things that are both weirder and poppier at once; despite that, the track was written in 31 EDO (my favourite set tuning along with 19 EDO), with half of the duties via soft synths and half by manually tuning the MS-20. Obviously software stuff also went …

in '21 i was supposed 2 give a #workshop on #opsec for #NGOs. client was :( with my generic principles-based approach, they wanted 2 hear product names 2 sell/buy. things escalated & my boss gutted my pres &…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
K. Flay:
🎵 Bad Things
#NowPlaying #KFlay
https://open.spotify.com/track/1W4pg6Inlhenk8RmU1h7xy

Via: L'avventura: Pet Detective @amcnal.bsky.social
“over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao
the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes”
I’ll post the video next.
i’m not totally 💯 it’s not staged, but either way, remeber;
violence isn’t THE answer
But it su…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Howard Jones:
🎵 Things Can Only Get Better
#HowardJones
https://nelsonxzombiesquad.bandcamp.com/track/howard-jones-things-can-only-get-better-nelson-x-zombiesquad-remix-extended-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Lm5JXlRt90S8dzk1ZqzmA

If Trump Gives Up on the Midterms, All Bets Are Off https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/if-trump-gives-up-on-the-midterms-all-bets-are-off.html
"Take the midterms out of the equation, and the MAGA calculation becomes squeez…

If Trump Gives Up on the Midterms, All Bets Are Off
If Trump gives up on the midterms, all bets are off. Things seem wild now, but we may get into truly uncharted territory if Trump and the GOP stop worrying about trying to win in 2026.

AI is most transformative in software engineering, therefore in order to reap the benefits of AI, all other things must need to shape themselves to resemble software engineering.
Sorry Parliament, amendments to bills must now be submitted as GitHub PRs containing Akoma Ntoso diffs - it's the future, stop resisting.

There's a relatively wide-spread opinion that even when you know something isn't alive or sentient (like an LLM) that you should be nice to it for your own sake—I think this is misguided because some of these things are deliberately made to be deceptive, extractive or even to injure you.
I think this is just a new iteration of good old "nice vs. kind".

For around 10 years I've been playing around trying to get GraphViz built for iOS. Admittingly I've not spent huge amounts of time on it but have never quite got it working properly. Have also tried over the last couple of years on and off with various LLMs to see how they would fare also without success.
Had another go this today with Claude Code - and got it working quite nicely! Took a few iterations to get things built properly but have a nice build script and understandab…

Hey #fediknowledge !!
I was working in the garden and stumbled upon these kind of tiny cups with some small white eggs (???) in them.
What are these things and what animal made them?
Please boost!
I know there has to be some bubble in #fediverse where someone …

It looks like Hungary has a long road ahead: Orbšn will almost certainly fight the results and try to throw things into chaos, his party’s tentacles still run wide and deep throughout Hungarian institutions, getting Putinism out of the dark corners of power there will be like ending a bedbug infestation, and Orbšn’s likely replacement…um, well, he doesn’t seem like the greatest guy on earth.
EDIT: My first prediction above was wrong! I hope my others are too.
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The last known sane thing a US Republican tried to say:
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
–- Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld (a famous liar), 2002
He failed miserably...
#Politics

Naming Things Is Hard
Big Tree™ (no understatement!) at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, 2019.
This beautiful individual is 1500 years old, but will it or its kind survive another 1500 years (or even just 150 years) of human presence?
#ThickTrunkThursday #NaturePhotography

Why are all the "spiritual" people and other pseudo science quacks always talking about vibrations?
When I meet someone who believes that stuff I often try to ask them what it is that they believe is vibrating, but I've never gotten an answer.
I have a friend like this (I know they believe in astrology and telepathy, probably other things too), but I try to avoid this topic with them because as soon as we talk about anything pseudoscience-related it just turns into a…

Call me crazy, but I've been using #esphome more and more for not #smarthome related things for which you normally would use something like #arduino and it works great.
No researchin…

@… @… @… yeah! my personal site just… uh… leaves some things out of the small viewport nav. This is probably a bet…

I love a stickler for precision and a discussion about the true nature of things. But I can separate that from observed phenomena. I wonder if during the early days of flight, people said, "Well akshually Mr Wright, you didn't really *fly*". (Yes, this is a GenAI post.)

"It’s tough, acting. you have to walk two lines of a tightrope. there’s the all consuming fear of failure… and there’s also confidence – you have to be confident to try new things – And they fight each other all the time."
—Jessica Chastain
#acting #coaching

#071 Things that help me https://diagramclub.substack.com/p/071-things-that-help-me

#071 Things that help me
Exclusive Hub picture / Cycling hazards

This Trump message clearly illustrates how dumb he is and that any strategy is missing, he is just making things up along the way, also his claim that Iran is 100% defeated is contradicted in the same sentence...
#iran #usa #trump

Examining One Bold Prediction for Raiders in 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-examining-one-bold-prediction-for-in-2026

When you post things on Instagram, Facebook, and X, this is what they look like to people who don’t use those platforms.

Full caff Irish breakfast tea at 0230. The breakfast of champions ^h being unable to sleep anymore, not wanting to wake my wife up with nonstop nose trumpeting, and hoping a hot drink will clear things up a bit
On the plus side the cough is almost gone and I woke up able to open both eyes without difficulty. So i think I'm on the mend?

Advice if you build websites: Use the W3C HTML *and* CSS validator. Not because I want to tell you that "you're bad if your HTML isn't valid", but because it'll help you find trivial bugs that can make your life hard.
Especially also use the CSS validator. I found 3 issues that made things not work as they should in recent days. I had a bug where it took me a while to figure out why it didn't work til I found some stackoverflow post, and the css validator would…

Is anyone using trust scoring on PRs to help evaluate things during this influx of noise on public repositories? I'm looking at #openSource

Sometimes companies will have my name saved as 'Jacob Jake' and it admittedly still simultaneously amuses me and also weirds me out every time they send me things with that greeting

Trump keeps asking Americans to sacrifice -- for things they don't want (Aaron Blake/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/politics/americans-economy-trump-war-tariffs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p16#a260313p16

Lawmakers in Washington state this week approved a ⭐️new income tax on residents making more than $1 million
-- and could spur other states considering similar bills to approve their proposals.
Legislators in the Democrat-led Senate on Wednesday night approved the tax,
-- which will impose a 9.9 percent tax on earners making over $1 million per year and will fund education, prisons, universal school lunches and replace or reduce other taxes, among other things, Democratic l…

Oh yeah, things are working as intended now. Unfortunately, I did crank the settings so these encodes are going to take about an hour each. However, the homelab seems to be up to the challenge.
#sisyphus #encoding

FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN: #6
Bathrooms:
A man has six items in his bathroom -- a toothbrush, toothpaste,
shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.
The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man
would not be able to identify most of these items.
Groceries:
A woman makes a list of things she needs and then goes to the store
and buys these things. A man w…

Today, I built a cpu #kernel for a #camera again. ✨👩‍💻✨
I.e., I could do `insmod ipcam some-mod.ko` and other fun things.
It took about a minute to build an #initramfs with u-root and cpud *a…

I am wrong! The New Colgate Powerhouse is independent, owned and run by the Yuba Water Agency. So the pipe failure is not PG&E's responsibility. PG&E's grid didn't respond very well but maybe there's water damage in the area that complicated things.

The history of the term "anarchist" is itself adversarial. Those who embraced it did so intending to engage with it as controversy, so I feel like I'm not too out of line with this history in using my socialization of being comfortable while being adversarial, and my social license as a cis dude to just say some random shit for attention, to draw that attention back to this whole subject.
Since this post did get some attention, I'm gonna link back to the one that prompted it (and tag @…, who I think is the author, for a heads up if there's anything to add):
https://immerautonom.noblogs.org/the-elephant-in-the-room/
I think I have said some useful things in my post, or at least repeated things others have been saying for years in a useful way, but this post is really the thing to look at (again, if you didn't miss it like I did) and think. There was definitely a time when I would have fallen for that whole hoax, and maybe even have struggled to argue against the things being highlighted. But it's clear that there is still a problem, and I hope repeating these things in my dude voice catches the attention of some folks who might have otherwise missed it... And I hope my adversarial approach doesn't pull focus away from the self-reflection that needs to happen.
Men are the problem here. Men need to fix this. Men are responsible for looking at some of this really horrible shit and acknowledging that we've all been part of the system that makes them possible and have an obligation to destroy that system.

Firefox on my Android device just updated itself and is suddenly way, way faster.
Which makes a fucking change from updates making things worse!

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Charlie XCX:
🎵 Seeing Things
#NowPlaying #CharlieXCX
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/41UuruzhR2WLb917UbbcqS

Working on commercial stuff with an #acting #coaching client and played with scaling the work up and down: still grounding things in what's really happening, but seeing them find the small internal version they welcome us to join them in was very good to see.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Kronos Quartet:
🎵 Mera Kuchh Saaman
#KronosQuartet
https://kronosquartet.bandcamp.com/track/mera-kuchh-saaman-some-of-my-things
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Crmsg6VySWHJxrm8Lvb7R

20 years ago, Mario Oschwald presented on Plan 9 via HPI:
https://osm.hpi.de/origins/2006/talks/Mario_Oschwald_Plan_9.pdf
the slides give you a good first impression, and the status quo has been roughly the same since, but... things are developing (again!) 🤫…

Why Mark Davis' Attitude Is Just What the Raiders Need https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-mark-davis-attitude-just-what-need

Education researchers: what are good books by knowledgeable folks (educators, researchers) about how US curricula changed after the "Sputnik moment", and what the lasting consequences were (e.g., did things "revert to norm" in 10 years?)? CC @…

This looks like an interesting take on the whole “AI" (IMHO its not AI and its not leading directly to AGI).
I've only watched this preview but it looks like it covers things from many points of view. The creator of the film
The AI Documentary: Or How I Becamean APOCALOPTIMIST.
#AIHype

The existence of Israel is a manifestation of European antisemitism, both historically justifying the project of Zionism and European governments continuing to fund Israel instead of addressing the core role of antisemitism in maintaining (at least) the conservative elements of the neoliberal order.
If antisemitism props up Israel, then a core part of dismantling Israel (and thus saving the lives of Palestinians) is addressing European antisemitism. There are Israeli Jews who would leave if they felt safe to do so. There are Jews demanding Israel be armed, because they don't feel safe anywhere else.
Protest, boycott, take whatever action you feel is appropriate. There is a limit to your ability to convince governments to stop funding genocide, but you can learn about antisemitism and you can work to fight it, especially within "The Left." You can learn to distinguish between legitimate critiques of Israel, and antisemitic ones, and you can stand and call out antisemitic ones.
Honestly, this is some of the easy work that I think a lot of people don't consider even doing, don't even realize it is a thing that can be done.
I'm talking to Israeli folks who identify as being on the Left. It's hard because they've been through a lot of propaganda. Israel is a cult that terrorizes its members. This is important work that can have a huge impact, because it focuses on dismantling the networks of support that reinforce what's happening now.
Meanwhile, I still run into wild things like "Rothschild" conspiracy theories among people who identify with the idea of supporting Palestinians.
Not only can you support the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people while opposing antisemitism, but you must actually do both in order to do either. They are exactly the same fight, and anything short of both is thrashing against oneself.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sault:
🎵 Good Things Will Come After the Pressure
#NowPlaying #Sault
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/track/good-things-will-come-after-the-pressure
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Q3UUPU4Pl4zVsmIDsQxDU

Dear everyone who builds and sells things that have instruction manuals: I enormously appreciate if you provide those manuals at an easy to find place online as PDF files.
I don't like to own unnecessary physical things, and particularly, I don't like to own physical things that could be digital, so one of the first things I do when I bought something with a manual is to try to find a digital version of it.

Cowboys' Jones finally admits 'My way of doing things doesn't work' https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/12/cowboys-jerry-jones-changes-philosophy/88640420007/

I'm actually believing this, the main reason "AI" hype has become this big is tech people being impressed by it "writing code".
Then they were wrongly extrapolating capabilities to other fields (because "programming is super hard, harder than any other vocation, therefore 'AI' can do anything!!!1!"). To them, it clearly appears be god because they see themselves as gods—because they can write quicksort and linked lists or something.
Meanwhile, LLMs are only passable at generating code because it is laughably easy, mainly because programming languages and "best practices" are extremely verbose, repetitive and clunky; requiring endless boilerplate and infinite layer cakes to achieve even the most trivial things.
Because other people that don't care about that shit are so dependent on technology, it gets pushed to everyone without consent.
Kind of like a hubris ouroboros.

Cowboys announce 5 free agent signings to end week https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-announce-5-free-agent-signings-end-week/3cf403325019afcacbc47341

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Jerry Jones using same offseason Cowboys playbook with a new cover https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/14/dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones-free-agency-offseason-strategy/89137018007/…

26′ Cowboys Mock Draft After the Osa Odighizuwa Trade https://insidethestar.com/26-cowboys-mock-draft-after-the-osa-odighizuwa-trade

Buyers’ market: Stage is set for Cowboys to move up in 2026 NFL draft https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/14/buyers-market-cowboys-trade-up-2026-nfl-draft/89596525007/

Would WR Chris Bell be worth the gamble for the Cowboys? https://insidethestar.com/would-wr-chris-bell-be-worth-the-gamble-for-the-cowboys