Tootfinder

As @… noticed, the study on how stalkers can exploit Tile tracking tags, which I noticed this past week and included in Metacurity's long reads issue today, was published last September, after which she wrote a piece in Wired about it. Mea culpa.

Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say
A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.

Vandaag wilde ik een geheel nieuw rondje uitproberen maar dat ging niet door want H had toestanden met haar werk en dat leidt me te veel af. Zelfde rondje dus, ook fijn hoor. Het hek is nog dicht en dat blijft zo tot half mei, heb ik opgezocht. #trike #regel17

The Trump administration is deleting government data. From infant deaths to hunger, here are 5 ways it’s hurting Americans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/07/trump-administration-deleting-data

The Trump administration is deleting government data. From infant deaths to hunger, here are five ways it’s hurting Americans
This information was used to understand the problems Americans face. The consequences of its erasure, experts warn, could affect generations to come

Oh I'm sorry, did you want to sit on the couch? #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
This also show how much bigger Twig is compared to his mom!

During the first seven months of his presidency, the administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 children.
During this period in 2025, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was deporting about twice as many parents each month compared with 2024.
The records do not detail how many of these children were detained or deported with their parents, and how many families were split up.
But the data provides one of the starkest views yet of how Trump’s mass depo…

Because @…’s Flipboard site won’t scroll for me (?!?), here’s the paragraph with the punch:
❝It’s worth noting that over the decades, Pixar has explored topics such as, but [not*] limited to: becoming a widower, suddenly becoming a single or adoptive parent, environmental collapse, existential dread, motherhood, and job burnout. The first Incredibles has a subplot where Elastigirl thinks Mr. Incredible is having an affair, Toy Story 3 has the toys accept death by furnace, and Elemental is about interracial relationships. The last two movies Docter directed were Soul, which is about a Black man finding joy in his life again, and Inside Out—maybe the most therapy-ass movie (and series) in the studio’s entire 40-year tenure—is about messy preteen emotions that lead to its main character running away from home.❞
* The word “not” is missing in the original, surely an editorial mistake?
https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/i09-ifm0rl1hz/-/a-M010weUPTnu1lZIfiOE3oQ:a:1876139665-/0

Daddy Dumpy Pants
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: don't make me go to gulag.
#satire #potus45

Today I got to #peerreview a perspective (which is always just some tepid takes from some dudes) on AI and its role in lab management. 28 pages of wishful thinking. AI can help with everything, from parsing your XPS data to optimizing the layout of your office for maximal idea generation. I'm sure @… would "love" this trash. Also, apparently, AI has been used since the 18th century. I did link them to @… for good measure. I'm sure Springer Nature will publish it anyway.

Is it wrong that I have mixed feelings about this?
`cuz they’re only a little mixed and I suspect I’m too positive.
I hope the local staff is not being asked to work at the embassy during the war. That would be abusive. @…

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
⚠️ Explosions heard at the US Embassy in Baghdad, per Israel’s Channel 12

This is pretty much why I hate the two party system. You can talk to someone and they're CLEARLY a republican, and then they're like "and yes I'm a Democrat!"
I didn't vote for Eric Adams because HE WAS A FUCKING REPUBLICAN. It's not "vote blue no matter who", because "blue" is meaningless if republicans can wear that color.

Qagggy! (@qagggy.bsky.social)
Years ago, I went to Olympia to lobby on behalf of a nonprofit healthcare provider where I served on the Board. I didn't know legislators by name or districts by number back then and I just assumed from talking to him that Jamie Pedersen was a Republican.