Tootfinder

Fernando Mendoza sounds Golden Knights siren before Game 3 of Stanley Cup Final https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/short-shifts/las-vegas-raiders-fernando-mendoza-sounds-siren-game-3-stanley-cup-final

LinkedIn debuts its first creator marketplace, in North America, allowing some marketers to search for creators by topic and view "creators cards" with metrics (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/linkedin-w…

LinkedIn wants to own B2B creator discovery with new creator marketplace
LinkedIn is aiming to make B2B creator discovery more scalable for brands looking to tap into its growing creator ecosystem.

This week, Reform UK leader Nigel Forage set out his plans
to resign as the MP for Clacton and stand again for his seat,
following a scandal over undeclared gifts, including £5m from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne,
which is being investigated by the parliamentary standards commissioner.
His intention, he has said, is to be judged by his constituents rather than “the establishment”,
arguing that he has done no wrong and that the probe is a “p…

Kemi Badenoch | The Independent
The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.

LinkedIn debuts its first creator marketplace, in North America, allowing some marketers to search for creators by topic and view "creators cards" with metrics (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/linkedin-w…

LinkedIn wants to own B2B creator discovery with new creator marketplace
LinkedIn is aiming to make B2B creator discovery more scalable for brands looking to tap into its growing creator ecosystem.

found a good mistranslation at https://folkency.nfm.go.kr/topic/detail/2145

You can’t escape politics; especially not in #StarTrek. But this also means, that this is a good topic for a #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply with t…

As reported by his wife in #AlanHale has passed away yesterday at 68: more in the thread https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/119679184 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/227002358661288/posts/1786784712683037/. In this picture from an astronomy-minded fantastic trip to Iran in 2000 - see https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3lulglljezs2d - Hale ist on the far left (and yours truly in postion 5; it also includes comet personality Charles Morris at position 6 and on the far right astronaut Bruce McCandless II who was capcom on Apollo 11 and made the first untethered spacewalk - both also no longer with us).

Call for Proposals! The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory invites conference presentations and subsequent papers for publication on the topic of religion, politics, and cognitive warfare, exploring conspiracy, interpretation, AI, and struggles over truth and reality today. See the full CFP here: jcrt.org/cw/

@… humans still make mistakes that, unless you have at least *some* previously acquired knowledge on said topic, are believable.
FreeBSD-related mistakes such as:
― ZFS is not default
― ZFS uses more space than UFS.

> In a separate experiment, I sampled 1,000 random abstracts from two genetics journals and randomly assigned them authors sampled from gender and ethnicity groups. I then gave all of the data (including gender and ethnicity) to a variety of LLMs and prompted them to conduct a thematic analysis of the abstracts for trends. Every single model reported some type of demographic-topic relationship in this random data!

Thoughts on AI in academia
PhD-level thinking, LLM bias, alignment, AGI, data centers, and AI politics

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Le Tigre:
🎵 Hot Topic
#LeTigre
https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/track/hot-topic
https://open.spotify.com/track/4otN5ZboeohAAAXaGnLCIH

Want to check the google trends for a topic? Use {gtrendsR} directly from within your favorite language: #googletrends

Employees at Hachette Book Group vote 388 to 130 to unionize; the company joins HarperCollins in the ranks of unionized Big Five publishers (Sam Spratford/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top

Hachette Book Group Employees Win Union Election
With around 600 members, the Hachette Workers Coalition, organized with NewsGuild-CWA, is the largest union in trade publishing history, and will soon commence the collective bargaining process.

As it turns out... #Proton is financing (through advertising) some elements of the far right :( .
#FarRight #Privacy

#warhammer

John Blanche nous a quittés
Je viens d’apprendre la disparition de John Blanche, et la nouvelle m’a vraiment filé un coup au moral. C’est l’un des artistes qui a le plus façonné mon imaginaire fantasy, au même titre que Russ Nicholson, Leo Hartas ou Gary Chalk. Ses visions baroques et singulières, découvertes avec Sorceller...

Call for Proposals! The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory invites conference presentations and subsequent papers for publication on the topic of religion, politics, and cognitive warfare, exploring conspiracy, interpretation, AI, and struggles over truth and reality today. See the full CFP here: jcrt.org/cw/

Marine Biogeochemistry Podcast
I invite marine biogeochemists to discuss different elements and the roles they play, from well-known to less studied. Each episode focuses on one element and a specific topic, aimed at researchers and students...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.g…

Made some changes to my sites templates which prompted some other changes and now I have secondary content links that are topical, they were just the latest previously, and it looks like it works well for some people who want to binge on a topic!
https://www.simoncox.com/short-arti…

Kayshon Boutte Gets Clear on Future Amid Raiders Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/patriots-kayshon-boutte-clear-future-speculation/

«Your End-to-End Encrypted Messages:
Aren't As Secure As You Think
Here's what end-to-end encryption protects—and what it doesn't.»
I know, this is not a new topic for most of you here, but you can forward it outside of the Fediverse ;)
💬 https://lifehacker.com/tech/en…

Your End-to-End Encrypted Messages Aren't As Secure As You Think
Messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and iMessage all offer end-to-end encryption to protect your communications from third parties. But it isn’t foolproof.

@… Yeah. What I was proposing is: Access to your introduction to the topic, and the code example you given attendants to work. Those are valuable even if one cannot make the sessions.
I’d happily have paid a few bucks for access to those. But if it’s already in YouTube, then fair enough.

Bret Baier said over a year ago that the press had a duty to scrutinize Trump family corruption. He's since given that topic 5 minutes of airtime. (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/bret-baier-said-over-year-ago-press-had-duty-scrutinize-trump-family-corruption-hes-given
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p43#a260604p43

Totally off topic, but I kind of like that:
the UK as a black hole in Europe...
😅😅🙃

“I’m like a cheerleader for geniuses,” Trump started
before almost immediately switching the topic.
“Now there’s a thing called TikTok, have you heard of it?”
Trump recalled a segment he had seen recently on Fox Business’s Mornings With Maria.
“It was announced about two days ago, the new numbers just came out.
Do you know who the number one person on TikTok is by far?
Trump. Me.
“I’m number one.
Like Taylor Swift was number 11.
I’m number…

Trump Launches Into TikTok Rant After Being Asked About SpaceX
Donald Trump derailed an event about his Trump Accounts to brag about his social media numbers.

The topic of pirate television in Montreal came up, today, and I made this.
For the 8 of you who understand both niche jokes… I think it's pretty good!

"Net Zero" as an industry, rather than a political topic, is worth £100b to the UK economy. All UK commercial fishing is barely £1b (before preparation).
https://publish.cbi.org.uk/articles/net-gains-the-uks-net-zero-economy-in-2025/

Net Gains: The UK's Net Zero Economy in 2025 | CBI
New analysis from CBI Economics and ECIU reveals a £105 billion sector generating high-wage jobs across every UK nation and region.

this week’s grateful deadcast covers a favorite topic: the feral young dead of 1966. we use the new july ’66 fillmore auditorium release to get into the san francisco ballrooms, wild acid parties at rancho olompali, lost owsley tapes, the dead’s 1st single & more. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/independence

“…this is the first AI film to demonstrate that AI can now sustain character consistency, world coherence, and narrative arc across a complete feature,” is roughly equivalent to “we made a car that actually has wheels and can take you somewhere.”
And it wasn’t in the festival, it just screening in the same town.
🤦‍♂️
1st quote source:

First AI-made Feature Film Premieres at Cannes on Higgsfield | Alex Mashrabov posted on the topic | LinkedIn
We just showcased the trailer of our first 95-minute feature film made entirely on Higgsfield in Cannes. Hell Grind is a 95-minute sci-fi heist directed by Aitore Zholdaskali and co-written with Adilkhan Yerzhanov, a two-time Cannes Official Programme filmmaker. A team of 15 professional directors, DPs, and editors made it on Higgsfield in 14 days for under $500K. The traditional comparable production cost is around $50M. But beyond the numbers, this is the first AI film to demonstrate that …

Malwarebytes Browser Guard 3.3.1 endlessly reloads www.nvidia.com pages in Firefox 153.0.1 (64-bit) on Kubuntu 26.04.
https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/338490-wwwnvidiacom-endlessly-reloading/

I'm so grateful about mastodon filters!
Anything that I don't want to see in this account -> filter
a topic that upsets me -> filter
thangs that annoy me -> filter
politics -> filter
hate -> filter
some sports -> filter

The #comet 220P/McNaught has suffered a major outburst and shines now - in this Rhemann / Jäger image from a few hours ago with a faint plasma tail even - at about 8th magnitude: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/119599952 = a thread, https://bsky.app/profile/lukemeister.bsky.social/post/3mndaubc3yc2o = the light curve, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26645019731865080 and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10240107345718051 and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2951292725202094 and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4432053177009520 and https://x.com/kpheider/status/2061792077248360768 = pictures from 2 June.

We're currently planning a new meetup of @… at the DHBW #Mannheim (in Neuostheim) and are looking for speakers. The topic can be anything related to #RustLang

Roger Goodell declines to testify before Congress about NFL's broadcast deals https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7333559/2026/06/04/roger-goodell-congress-testify-broadcast-deals/

I saw these on Facebook posted by Sydney Metro and I feel like Mastodon is their natural habitat.
Stop using anti-train language

Editorial: Retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration and related diseases https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fncel.2026.1856506/full Yet nothing about retinal implants?

Frontiers | Editorial: Retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration and related diseases
A second form of retinal degeneration discussed in this topic is retinitis pigmentosa (RP). RP is an inherited genetic disease which, over time, results in t...

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@rhempel/116650230030112969
For two decades I've been making that same point (below), also specifically for computational/algorithmic art. It's also been a key topic in many of my past workshops. More than just being about performance, …

You wouldn't know it from BBC coverage but the Green Party were (also) not invited to Burnham's cross-party talks on social care.
As Ellie Chowns says in a letter to him.
"Failing to extend an invitation to your first cross-party meeting on the topic is, frankly, not
consistent with your stated commitment to working cooperatively across party lines."

The poster session at #DH2026 was full of delicious snacks *and* hope for the future of digital humanities. Yay!
A random selection of the last four poster photos I took

Pope Leo XIV just published his first encyclical. It is on the topic of AI, and I'll want to take a closer look. But one thing already - the Pope quotes Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

What a day! Spent 3 hours with a MA student to finish our pilot experiment for her research project (it’s launched!), meeting 1 with former current PhD students on paper edits, meeting 2a b with another current PhD student on paper edits slides for a talk (different topic), meeting 3 with a future PhD student and their second supervisor on “what it means to do a PhD”, then 7 meetings with students on their term paper topics. 😅 All made possible by the fact that virtually all of German academia is on vacation, so I received a single digit number of actionable emails today #academicChatter

Members of the #CentreNucleus met today for the annual journée au vert at the Domaine de la Doges. This year’s topic was the history of #DigitalHumanities in #Lausanne.
The DH2…

Members of the #CentreNucleus met today for the annual journée au vert at the Domaine de la Doges. This year’s topic was the history of #DigitalHumanities in #Lausanne.
The DH2…

Members of the #CentreNucleus met today for the annual journée au vert at the Domaine de la Doges. This year’s topic was the history of #DigitalHumanities in #Lausanne.
The DH2…

'Landschaft in Schwarzweiß' #FotoVorschlag
#Landscape in black&white
Yes I have some #winter photos for the topic! I really like this one as it looks like a drawing. I eve…

If you're a journalist reporting on AI, please, please, please focus on liability, a topic that is absolutely critical and deafening by its absence in so much of our conversation on AI.

App Android : Création de persos Rêve de Dragon - Rêve de Dragon
https://scriptarium.org/forums/topic/3542-app-android-création-de-persos-rêve-de-dragon/#comment-45400

App Android : Création de persos Rêve de Dragon
Bonjour à tous 👋 Rôliste et bidouilleur, j’ai créé une application Android dédiée à la création de personnages pour Rêve de Dragon. Je vous la partage aujourd'hui (c'est gratuit). Fonctions principales Prise en charge complète du processus de création. Enregistrement local des fiches de perso (fi...

Cybersecurity is now a burning topic in capitals around the globe, so stay ahead of the curve by checking out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments, including
--Anthropic watch: Congress scrambles, Europe recoils, and Anthropic's halo grows brighter,
--Leak exposes members of Peter Thiel's secretive power network,
--Cybercrime now accounts for a third of crimes in parts of Asia,
--France picks local rival to replace Palantir at spy agency,

Anthropic watch: Congress scrambles, Europe recoils, and Anthropic's halo grows brighter
Leak exposes members of Peter Thiel's secretive power network, Cybercrime now accounts for a third of crimes in parts of Asia, France picks local rival to replace Palantir at spy agency, Americans lost $3.5B to imposter scams last year, Hackers hijack Roblox games by seizing dev accounts, much more

y'all ain't ever seen fashion in your life

A link to a previous thread on this topic (start at the top if you want the whole train of thought, but here’s the heart of the argument):
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115375503166473754
3/

And now of course I'm looking up Joan Didion. She has seemed to be a charged topic in the past. I had to ask the Google AI "is it gauche to be into joan didion?" because I couldn't figure out for myself what the right answer was.
1/4

Here's a reminder that you can block hashtags on Mastodon. I'm pretty consistent about tagging politics, typically with USpol or ScottPolitics or both, but also topical tags such as IranWar2026 and POTUS47. If you don't want to see those types of toots, then I encourage you to block them.
I don't CW all generic politics posts. This topic too much to fully explain in 500 chars, but short version: I use CW for spoilers and topics that are commonly trauma-triggering.

There was another case Friday of a tiny (probably < 1 meter) #asteroid hitting the Earth and getting discovered a few hours before but no detection of its airburst near Papua New Guinea has been reported so far: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26JE3.html = the circumstances (with the designation 2026 JN4 for the has-been object), https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/119328235 and https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/119328368 = threads and https://bsky.app/profile/tony873004.bsky.social/post/3mlwb7bed3k2p = an animation.

Maintenance request: #AudioScreen add-on after 2026 https://nvda-addons.groups.io/g/nvda-addons/topic/maintenance_request/120314464?dir=asc Add-on for the…

These suggestions for new Euro bank notes... my first impression was "These are all bad!"
Like... not even "monopoly money" bad. But a bit like the designers that were chosen didn't know what to do with the topic (those were the best 10 out of 24!) The designs feel too busy, many have ghastly color schemes. Some feel like tinted stock photos of birds... One design even has a black&white photo of a person on it that makes it look like a book cover.

Our interview on Oxide and Friends is finally online! Enjoy, and flame away. (-:
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-in-computer-science-education

Oxide and Friends | AI in Computer Science Education
AI is an existential topic for all aspects of education--for none more so than Computer Science. Bryan and Adam were joined by Kathi Fisler and Shriram Krishnamurthi, professors of Computer Science...

from my link log —
JavaScript got better while I wasn't looking.
https://eev.ee/blog/2017/10/07/javascript-got-better-while-i-wasnt-looking/
saved 2020-02-02

JavaScript got better while I wasn’t looking
IndustrialRobot has generously donated in order to inquire: In the last few years there seems to have been a lot of activity with adding emojis to Unicode. Has there been an equal effort to add ‘real’ languages/glyph systems/etc? And as always, if you don’t have anything to say on that topic, feel free to choose your own. :p Yes. I mean, each release of Unicode lists major new a

The two essential freedoms in C are use-after-free and double-free.
Just found this nice older paper on the topic:
https://software.imdea.org/~juanca/papers/undangle_issta12_av.pdf
This is from

Oh, here it is (July 2018). It's nice that this report back didn't include any names or initials so I didn't need to sanitize it:
Meeting Notes:
Table-top exercise scenario topic was state and far-right repression.
Responses:
Strong networks require redundancy, so no one person is a social connection, skills, or resource gatekeeper. These people are often targeted by the state, and if they get burned out and leave, it also weakens and jeoprodizes groups.
Ways to strengthen our networks:
Mentoring/sharing responsibility. Creating a culture of mentorship and support so new people learn skills, take on responsibilities, and are introduced to other folks. Reducing burden on a few key people too.
Chaos Monkey exercise: ask central people to step back from communications/organizing to see what happens.
Regular check-ins! & Delegates check-in with new members they sign up
Ask well connected folks to introduce people to build social redundancy.
Gaming (D&D, board games, etc) committee could support a more fun, and socially robust network.
Practical safety tool:
Burner phone. Not everyone needs one, but good to have access to.
TO DO LIST:
Make regular announcements at each meeting for people to check-in with folks they know (especially those they haven’t heard from in awhile!)
Start google doc for disaster preparedness zine
Why you should prepare (ideological argument)
What people should have (the basics)
How to prepare
Frame as questions, so people can find the answer that best suits themselves.
Such as “what are you preparing for?”
Where do you spend most of your time? (home? Office? car?)
Make it as easy as possible for folks to get the basics (list locations for supplies, etc.)

Only in #Japan - the government and a company both respond to my requests for interviews/comments, but the leading local environmental group on this topic? Nope...too "busy"

@… I recently read The Deluge. Good book, but very depressing. I guess any book on the topic will be, especially if it continues as far as 2040.

A great choice of image for an important topic: distributed energy resources can collectively respond very effectively to the needs of the grid
https://www.iea.org/reports/scaling-up-demand-flexibility

Immer schön zu sehen, dass die deutsche Sprache die angemessenen Begriffe auch für andere bereithält. \s

Today I came across my first (I suspect) AI-generated paper in the wild. I was already a little suspicious of it. Any review of a very specialized topic that starts with a 10,000 foot review, like “Cancer is one of the most significant diseases in the world, here’s some basic facts about it…” I immediately find sus for not understanding its target audience’s baseline knowledge level.
1/n

Are there any good books (or articles) explaining how neurotypical people think/behave that are intended as explainers for neurodiverse people? I'll ask #ActuallyAutistc
*written material preferred, but if you think a video is the best explainer for this topic, I guess I'll have to watch

@Robavince@vmst.io https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116761115364860358

Taming #Maven Version Ranges
https://maveniverse.eu/blog/2026/04/17/taming-maven-version-ranges/

Mike Florio Delivers Strong Take on Maxx Crosby’s Raiders Future https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/mike-florio-strong-take-maxx-crosby-future/

When is data truly considered anonymous? The European Data Protection Board has published new guidelines on this topic: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/public-consultations/guidelines-022026-on-anonymisation_en#no-back

I accidentally wrote an article about the mutation of a gesture on a topic that the UX/UI designers among you actually know much more about than I do. Nevertheless, I thought you might like it. 🌻
https://finest.day/posts/arguing-on-interfaces-from-obligation-to-…

Arguing on Interfaces: From Obligation to Omnipotence - Finest Day
Two days ago, during “The Android Show,” Google unveiled what it calls a new category of laptop: the Googlebook. The basic idea is to explore what a laptop and its...

My cynicism knows no bounds.
Listening to a normally evidence-based show on neuroscience and the topic is spirituality.
<sigh>
I do try to maintain an open mind, but having had the experiences I have had, I find stories of many spiritual experiences just sound like stress hallucinations, which I know to be a thing.
The interviewee just said that depression is an opportunity for opening our spiritual awakening. .. Wonder how I have avoided it. The worst it’s give…

Looks like Slack has bit the big one this morning.
It’s working for several of my clients but they can’t send files to each other
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:asyaz6jgyscz3rftl7nnz22h/post/3mlsyzzpixk2d

Status Is Down (@statusisdown.bsky.social)
Slack is reportedly down for hundreds of users at the moment. Are you one of them? #Slack #SlackDown #SlackHQ https://community.designtaxi.com/topic/28696-is-slack-down-may-14-2026/

In today's Two Minutes Hate, I'd like to talk about automatic translations on Reddit.
As a user of English as a second language I find them annoying for two reasons.
One - they always rank high in search results when I specifically need LOCAL knowledge on the topic, coming from other folks from my country, and anything else is useless to me.
Two - when the Reddit thread contains reference to a nationality, e.g. "As a Finnish", their translation switches that to "Jako Polak" ("as a Pole"). And that makes things confusing as hell if I make a grave mistake of diving into a thread I shouldn't have touched in the first place (usually due to the Reason Number One).
I used to appreciate Reddit a lot in the past, but of course it couldn't last forever.

Man, LTT really need to step up their game as a tech tips channel. Blindly floundering through a topic is not the way to do it. They don't have to show only the good side. They just have to cut the amateur hour and show people how things are supposed to be done.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Side of Linux - Linus Tech Tips
https://www.

Sean McVay’s BWTB interview revealed everything Rams fans could’ve possibly wanted to know. About everything. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/los-angeles-ram…

Amazon's Alexa now produces AI-generated "podcasts" on various topics in the US, featuring chats between two AI "co-hosts", using content from media outlets (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/amazon-alexa-plu…

Amazon Alexa Plus Now Produces AI-Generated Podcast Episodes
The podcast industry suddenly has a big new player: Amazon's Alexa+ AI-powered voice assistant, which can now create extended 'podcasts' on any topic.

Is there any situation in life where it is okay to tell somebody extensively your opinion about a topic - unasked - without giving them the chance to respond?
asking for a friend ...
I find it quite hard not to react with a rude "thanks, but did I ask for your monologue?"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Downtown Science:
🎵 The Topic Drift
#DowntownScience

RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/116591599491428201
Great podcast episode on this topic: https://trumpconlaw.com/75-comstock-zombies

Insider Reveals Kayshon Boutte News Amid Raiders Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/patriots-kayshon-boutte-news-speculation/

Is emoji interpretation just a "fun" summer topic, or does emoji misinterpretation ever become serious, like in court discussions? - In face there have been several cases both in North America and Europe where emoji meanings were negotiated in court! I keep a collection of them because it's a nice intersection with my alter ego, the "forensic" linguist. For example, in cases from Canada and Bavaria, judges had to decide whether a thumbs-up 👍 in a chat was meant as a signal of agreement (to a contract or contract amendment), or whether (like the senders argued) it constituted only an acknowledgement of receipt of the message. In both cases, the context was super important - how did the parties interact before, what else was said in the chat, etc. Interesting! #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

Session de dédicace de Roland Barthélémy et Jidus
https://scriptarium.org/forums/topic/3538-scriptarium-se-téléporte-à-octogônes-2026/#comment-45339

Scriptarium se téléporte à OctoGônes 2026
Voir la publication complète.

the number of times i've seen or been sent the onion's neil young support network story makes me realize precisely how robust my neil young support network is. now let's not talk about this topic again for several decades.

If true, this will be a fail at the first hurdle.
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling - BBC News
#ClimateCollapse

Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.

Huh, #CrepuscularRays as a news story topic: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-20/crepuscular-rays-weather-phenomenon-nt-sunsets-bom/106691518. Not that rare, here are some of mine: https://bonnstern.wordpress.com/tag/krepuskularstrahlen/

I really don't want to write this peer review. The ms is fine, on a topic that interests me and that could use more work. But, meh. I think I'll go for a walk instead, maybe that'll help.

More countries should have a show like Gruen: "We do the show because we want to give people some agency in the way that they're being manipulated by these multi-billion-dollar industries"
Wil Anderson hates advertising. So why does he host a show about it? - ABC News https://www.

Wil Anderson hates advertising. So why does he host a show about it?
It's been 18 years of hosting Gruen for Wil Anderson, but the self-confessed advertising cynic says the topic is more relevant than ever.

Even in #StarTrek people need to be differenciated. And the Starfleet way of doing that is the topic of today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply wit…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Le Tigre:
🎵 Hot Topic
#LeTigre
https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/track/hot-topic
https://open.spotify.com/track/4otN5ZboeohAAAXaGnLCIH

In prac­tice, certain people in a capi­talist liberal democ­racy tend to get increas­ingly rich.
Absent coun­ter­mea­sures, the wealthy gain control of the polit­ical appa­ratus,
thwarting liberal-demo­c­ratic norms.
This tension between capital and poli­tics is a long-consid­ered topic.
A key early work was, of course, Karl Marx’s Capital (about which more later).
In the current era, Mancur Olson’s book The Rise and Decline of Nations set out how small grou…

Matthew Butterick | Extinction-level capitalism
Matthew Butterick

Amazon's Alexa now produces AI-generated "podcasts" on various topics in the US, featuring chats between two AI "co-hosts", using content from media outlets (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/amazon-alexa-plu…

Amazon Alexa Plus Now Produces AI-Generated Podcast Episodes
The podcast industry suddenly has a big new player: Amazon's Alexa+ AI-powered voice assistant, which can now create extended 'podcasts' on any topic.

“If you were an emoji, what emoji would you be?” - Hm, I think I’d pick 👩‍💻 because that represents how I spend my days the best.
Representation and diversity is an important topic when it comes to emojis. Studies show that the skin tone modifiers 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏿‍♀️ are primarily used for self representation. And many groups had to fight for their emojis: hijabi women, people with disabilities, redheads, people with curly hair. It is still difficult to show “all” of society in emojis, because human diversity is much more variable than we can show in little pictures: Where I can just say “family” in English and may mean many different constellations, in an emoji I’d have to decide on the number, gender and skin color of all the family members, and that doesn’t even begin to cover all the facets. A real language is much more flexible that way. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

@… thanks, the context at the moment is:
Modernised use of freebsd-update for minor and major upgrades to FreeBSD | BSD Cafe Billboard
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Kirk Cousins cranks Golden Knights pregame siren before Game 5 of Western 2nd Round https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/short-shifts/raiders-kirk-cousins-cranks-vegas-golden-knights-siren-game-5

I find sociology to be an endlessly fascinating subject. Today, I was thinking about the concept of path dependence.
This is the concept that the current state is not merely dependent on recent rational choices, but also on prior states, conditions, beliefs, norms, and values, some of which may no longer exist.
See also "local minimum".

I wrote some notes on my recent work deploying rootless containers #devops #podman #containers #rootless

@… you're recommending a link that's already on the fourth line of the opening post in Reddit (see my previous post).
I added the link three days ago, I have revisited the topic more than once.

Sistrix: health and tech are the topics most vulnerable to losing clicks to Google's AI Overviews; Ipsos iris says Healthline's audience fell 48% YoY in March (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-bu…

Health coverage is getting killed by Google AI Overviews
Google AI Overviews and hitting publisher traffic in health, tech and other topic areas. What publishers can do about it.

Raiders’ Kirk Cousins Echoes 49ers’ George Kittle’s Message Calling Out NFL https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/kirk-cousins-george-kittle-field-plea/

Raiders Receive Compelling Take on Free Agent Deebo Samuel https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/compelling-take-free-agent-deebo-samuel/