Tootfinder

Huh. Just got push back from the library where we're going to be doing an InstallFest in a couple weekends - they didn't like the 'tone' of my poster. They told me to drop the 'US' from 'US Big Tech', and my charactersations: 'your exploitative, closed, corporate-controlled devices' or singling out Windows 11 - '...you're uncomfortable with, like Microsoft Windows 11 constantly pushing AI & ads down your throat...' Here're the orig …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Gggremlinnn:
🎵 My Throat
#Gggremlinnn

I can’t think of another time when software devs had to be •forced• en masse to use a new technology that was supposed to help them. Usually we’re kind of stupid for the shiny new things: jamming them in when they solve nothing, doing unnecessary rewrites just to use the new hotness because it’s so cool and fun. Usually we’re the one trying to shove it down mgmt’s throat (or sneak it by them) rather than the reverse.
But not this time.
7/

> One of the troopers cleared his throat. “Excuse me, sir, but are you running all the sides of this war?”
> Jose looked up and at each of the troopers. He nodded. “Of course. It’s much more efficient to have one person in charge of the whole war.
I love sci-fi novels

So a Palestinian facing genocide autocompletes a hashtag incorrectly by mistake (#doctor -> #doctorWho) and you jump down her throat?
How about you get some fucking perspective, Angela?
#Gaza …

'Slit Her Throat': Jesse Watters Urges Gavin Newsom To End Kamala Harris's Political Career and 'Put Her Out of Her Misery' (Kathryn Wilkens/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/slit-her-throat-jesse-watters-urges-gavin-newsom-to-end-kamala-harriss-political-career-and-put-her-out-of-her-misery/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260606/p10#a260606p10

“So speak up till your throat is sore. The world is yours, so steal it back. Let your demons be your Trojan horse. Put down the battering ram. Hold open doors only for those who know how to walk through them.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDHkW8w9dRw

*clears throat*
HON THE FARNEY ARMY!!
#UlsterFinal2026 #GAA #Monaghan #Armagh

The emergence of monopoly in America is a fundamentally political phenomenon,
based on choices made by policymakers over the last fifty years, from the late 1970s onward.
The intellectual organizers of that era, on both sides of the aisle, argued the New Deal had been too rough on capital,
and proposed deregulation,
rolling back antitrust, and releasing the energies of Wall Street.
From Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton, they constructed a heavily financialized so…

Monopoly Round-Up: Graham Platner and Stock Market Democrats
Controversy erupted in a Maine Senate race, causing Democrats nationwide to go at each others' throat. Fights over oligarchy are becoming unavoidable.

The Quiet Throat-Cutting of the American University
Syracuse University announced the other day that it will phase out 93 of its approximately 460 academic programs. The administration framed the decision as strategic alignment, calling it a portfolio review driven by student demand and institutional focus. Provost Lois Agnew insisted the move was "not a cost-cutting exercise." Taken at face value, some of these cuts are routine catalog maintenance.

The Quiet Throat-Cutting of the American University | David Boles, Blogs
Syracuse University announced the other day that it will phase out 93 of its approximately 460 academic programs. The administration framed the decision as strategic alignment, calling it a portfol…

#Birds #birdsOfMastodon #naturephotography
A Dickcissel (who decided that was a good name for a bird?) and a Blue Grosbeak.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Pulled Apart by Horses:
🎵 I Punched A Lion In The Throat
#PulledApartbyHorses
https://regulatorsuk.bandcamp.com/track/i-punched-a-lion-in-the-throat-by-pulled-apart-by-horses-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2vUbi2XPDSap9wITAVqcLr

A little over two weeks, I caught a cold from one of my kids. Like his cold, it was pretty minor - about a day of sore throat, some minor congestion, and lots of fatigue.
The congestion and fatigue have remained. I figured it developed into a sinus infection (something that happens a lot with me, I have awful sinuses/ears), and a few days ago I went on antibiotics in case it was bacterial or strep or something.
Now I'm wondering if I had covid! I wish we still did testing.…

A couple of throat-vein bulging pieces of shit convincing half a country that "voting for the bible" meant voting for Trump and his ilk, people who practically have an express pass to hell at this point, someone who almost directly lives in the excesses and vices Jesus looked down on will never not read as insane.

You must picture Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berner-Lee's throat. We are in a truly existential level of danger when it comes to the survival of the open web, across every front. This year is when it all comes to a head. https://anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/

Endgame for the Open Web
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

FFS, I’ve been deteriorating rapidly the past two months with #LongCovid. One reason I struggle to seek treatments for my symptoms is this: I can’t keep up sympons, specifically potassium (hypokalemia life long), and the ER always pins it on my pre existing MH issues.
I started showing up to the ED for low potassium (at one point in the 2s), and severe sore throat (no structural cause…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NewMusicShow
- Elaine Mitchener's Solo Throat Remixed
Kate Molleson introduces a performance by the vocalist Elaine Mitchener performing live at London's Wigmore Hall earlier this year.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wvz9

Are you in tech and outraged about generative AI? Is it being forced down your throat at work?
Here's a nice vindictive way to get a little revenge if you want:
1. Find a project that contains slop code.
2. Optionally, identify specific files or functions that are LLM-generated. I guarantee you that on average, this code has not been adequately tested/inspected, even/especially if it contains LLM-generated test cases.
3. Make up a reason the code could be flawed, bonus points if it's subtle or hard to test. Don't put effort into this or try to actually find a flaw. Just make something up at random.
4. Report your made-up defect as a bug.
That's it. If anyone ever questions you on the incorrect report, just say "oh I used an LLM and it said there was a bug so I reported it." (Don't actually use an LLM, that would be feeding the bubble.)
Note that you are showing the creator of the code the exact same amount of disrespect that they've shown you by publishing slopcode in the first place. I'd bet odds are 50:50 or better that if a human actually follows up on the report, even though they'll find out that the bug report is wrong, they'll find and fix some other subtle flaw in the LLM-generated code, so this is actually helpful in a way.
For step 3, try to get creative. Like "logic in decideUVParameters can cause state to be inconsistent in some cases." If asked for a steps to reproduce, either make one up if it's easy to do so, or say "I forgot how I triggered this." Surely they can ask an LLM to figure out conditions that would trigger the bug ;).
#AI #LLMs #GenAI

A: FFS (the lawsuit)
B: Amen (the post)
https://sfba.social/@DeliaChristina/116630945752803857

#BillionsVsBillionnaires @… https://m.ai6yr.org/@conejoclint/11645

[name] (he/him) (@conejoclint@m.ai6yr.org)
Attached: 1 image “A billionaire death cult has its fingers around humanity’s throat. It both causes and downplays our existential crisis. The oligarchs are not just a class enemy but, as they have always been, a societal enemy: a few thousand people can destroy civilisations. It’s the billions v the billionaires, and the stakes could not possibly be higher.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/catastrophic-climate-event-scientists-atlantic-system-collapse-billionair…

As per my posts, I have the luxury of not having LLM vendors shoved down my throat, and I generally avoid them for ethical reasons:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116581463138461199
But because this all these questions about the usage and limits of these tools keep crashing through my doors, all of our doors, whatever we think of the ethical showstoppers, well…
…fight off amazing percentages of LLM overhype with this one weird question.
/end

Evil Alice (2/3)
#photo #photography #ithaca #cosplay

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FocusBeats
your best friend jippy:
🎵 [03] LEMME CLEAR MY THROAT
#yourbestfriendjippy
https://jippy.bandcamp.com/track/03-lemme-clear-my-throat
https://open.spotify.com/track/5MFsrDyl4iqnJj1PbsqZeU

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Simian Mobile Disco feat. Deep Throat Choir:
🎵 Defender
#SimianMobileDisco #DeepThroatChoir
https://smdisco.bandcamp.com/track/defender
https://open.spotify.com/track/7m0oNdXFP2n9V3fpgHyQ9T

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
Elaine Mitchener, Shamica Ruddock & Pat Thomas:
🎵 Solo Throat Remixed
#ElaineMitchener #ShamicaRuddock #PatThomas

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
David Chatton Barker:
🎵 Frog in the Throat
#DavidChattonBarker