Tootfinder

The TSA is in the same category as ICE in terms of what fucking cruel shit it pulls.
https://unionrayo.com/en/tsa-ban-children-toys-flight/

Goodbye to children's toys on flights - the TSA bans these common items in carry-on luggage
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has started confiscating one of the most common items in the carry-on luggage of young children: stuffed

Great overview of SDCC 2025.
(Love this one guy...)
▶️ San Diego Comic-Con 2025: Epic Cosplay, Toys & Must-See Moments!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j-ikGQvQBbQ&si=1U7S0lhiSNCQYriJ

fun #chinafake fact: many believe that http://www.eptoys.net is short for “ever profit toys”, but it actually stands for “eepy toys” @…

A look at AI-powered stuffed animals like Grem, Grok, and Gabbo, which are being promoted as an alternative to screen time for children as young as 3 (Amanda Hess/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/arts/ai

They’re Stuffed Animals. They’re Also A.I. Chatbots.
New types of cuddly toys, some for children as young as 3, are being sold as an alternative to screen time — and to parental attention.

"I made this (sort of)": Negotiating authorship, confronting fraudulence, and exploring new musical spaces with prompt-based AI music generation
Bob L. T. Sturm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23365

"I made this (sort of)": Negotiating authorship, confronting fraudulence, and exploring new musical spaces with prompt-based AI music generation
I reflect on my experience creating two music albums centered on state-of-the-art prompt-based AI music generation platforms. The first album explicitly poses the question: What happens when I collide my junk mail with these platforms? The second album is a direct response to the first, and toys with the inability of state-of-the-art prompt-based AI music generation platforms to generate music that is not ``practiced'', ``polished'', and ``produced''. I seed a large language model (LLM) with in…

For some reason, today is crappy, all kinds of progress on 10 projects, but all are blocked by small problems that aren't easy to fix. Maybe I should follow #Floki's example, and sleep in the box of cat toys while high on #catnip.

All the magical multicolored minidonkeys got much-needed baths.

President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to let him fire the three Democratic members of the five-member Consumer Product Safety Commission, which monitors the safety of items like toys, cribs and electronics.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/02/us/trump-policy-bill-news

Ben Johnson preparing his set of trick plays in Chicago: 'We've got some toys to work with' https://www.nfl.com/news/ben-johnson-preparing-trick-plays-chicago-some-toys-to-work-with

Color me surprised.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114930901454223757

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image We have preliminarily found Temu in breach of its obligation to properly assess the risks of illegal products being sold on its marketplace. Evidence shows there is a high risk for EU consumers to come across illegal products on the platform. Analysis of a mystery shopping exercise we conducted found that consumers shopping on Temu are very likely to find non-compliant products among the offer, such as baby toys and small electronics. Find out more: https://europa.eu/!Xdq…

Fun new summer music video, is out, Kesha’s Boy Crazy. It’s a basic pop/hiphop bop, featuring various images of Kesha surrounded by her boy toys. Only some of her boy toys are well over the age of 60.

So what I’m hearing is that #Buffalo in the ’80s put on a better military parade.
https://bsky.app/profile/davelevinthal.com/post/3lrlznqpp4c2m
Also, I may ha…

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buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Crypto group claims responsibility for hurling sex toys at WNBA games (Meghan L. Hall/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/wnba/2025/08/07/wnba-sex-toys-green-dildo-crypto-meme-coin/85551443007/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6894f4f9a84a4a00010d10da
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p147#a250807p147

https://www.404media.co/trump-tariffs-cause-chaos-on-ebay-having-a-hobby-is-now-a-logistical-nightmare/

Just a reminder that if you're a system, the Chinafake Central Discord server implements PluralKit! (which, by the way, ought to be in every server IMO)
#plural

I put together this bumblebee made out of mini blocks a couple weekends ago. VERY tough with my big dumb hands. These bricks are TINY - see 3rd photo with quarter. Maybe the toughest thing I've ever built. Didn't give up! But if the flowers are that small, HOW HUGE IS THAT BEE?!? 😂
#toys #miniblocks

Trump Tariffs Cause Chaos on Ebay as Every Hobby Becomes Logistical Minefield https://www.404media.co/trump-tariffs-cause-chaos-on-ebay-having-a-hobby-is-now-a-logistical-nightmare/

Crowdsourced collection of examples of hidden e-waste in various products...
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114864772832309511

Just six months after he regained power, in part by promising to rapidly reduce prices, Trump has presided over the chaotic rollout of tariffs on an array of overseas products that many have argued risk having the exact opposite effect.
After a lull, the consumer price index (CPI) is back on the rise. In June, everything from fruit and washing machines to dresses and toys became more expensive.
Businesses in the US and around the world have struggled to keep up with the Trump adm…

@… I know, right? I am a sucker for programming toys.

Ars Technica author Ashley Belanger presents both consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen's position against the use of AI in toys, and toy maker Mattel's and Open AI's. Public Citizen's tone is baselessly alarmist, given that "Both companies [have] emphasized that safety, privacy, and age-appropriateness would be front of mind in designing Mattel's AI products."
"Toy-maker Mattel accused of planning 'reckless' AI social experiment on k…

Wouldn't it be great if #AI reached the point of giving us good hints on how to combat the #ClimateCrisis, such as "stop wasting energy and resources on toys such as LLMs"? Except then we'd actually start doubting it.
#LLM

Thing my unifi thinks are cars: boxing bow and arrow toys against the trampoline
Things it thinks are not cars: a tractor.
Unifi stuff is pretty cool but the object detection is pretty weak.

micro:
Thinker toys.

Just a reminder that if you're a system, the Chinafake Central Discord server implements PluralKit! (which, by the way, ought to be in every server IMO)
#plural

Having nothing to do with current events, might I suggest reading my “children’s story” Winnie the Coup and Elongated Muskrat Bulldoze the Gubment tonight before bed?
https://medium.com/the-haven/winnie-the-coup-and-the-elongated-musk…

Winnie the Coup and the Elongated Muskrat Bulldoze the Gubment
Once upon a time, there was an orange creature named Winnie the Coup and he had what he thought was a friend, the Elongated Muskrat. Muskrat had a lot of toys and Winnie the Coup was sorta jealous…

Our Pathetic Senate -- CBS cancels satire; Trump sues Rupert, toys with firing the Fed chair ... (Charlie Sykes/To the Contrary)
https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/our-pathetic-senate
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p30#a250719p30

Mattel partners with OpenAI to create AI-powered toys and games, with the first product expected in 2025, and integrates ChatGPT Enterprise in its business (Savyata Mishra/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/reta…

Join Chinafake Central, a server about bootleg and generic toys/consoles.
A great place to hang out if you have a chinafake or want to learn more about them! :)
https://discord.gg/CHVErNV99d
- Pronoun roles and color roles to spruce up your profile!
- Plural system friendly! (Tupperbox and P…

On my way to Stuttgart to #jfs2025, where I'll give a talk with @… on where all those shiny new toys in Java come from.

Java gestern, heute und morgen - Java Forum Stuttgart
Java ist inzwischen 30 Jahre alt, und hat seit der Geburt viele Features dazubekommen. Die meisten davon wurden nicht vom JDK-Team erfunden, sondern aus anderen Programmiersprachen und Forschungsarbeiten angepasst übernommen. Durch die mittlerweile halbjährlichen Releases gibt es aktuell viel Bewegung im Java Ökosystem. Und die nächste tolle Funktion gibt es höchstwahrscheinlich schon irgendwo da draußen. Aber wisst Ihr eigentlich, woher die Features der Vergangenheit kommen? Und können …

Cat Royale: An Artistic Inquiry into Trust in Robots
Matt Adams, Nick Tandavanitj, Steve Benford, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Victor Ngo, Simon Castle-Green, Guido Salimberi, Pepita Bernard, Joel Fischer, Alan Chamberlain, Eike Schneiders, Clara Mancini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04970

Cat Royale: An Artistic Inquiry into Trust in Robots
Cat Royale is an artwork created by the artists Blast Theory to explore the question of whether we should trust robots to care for our loved ones. The artists endeavoured to create a `Cat Utopia', a luxurious environment that was inhabited by a family of three cats for six hours a day for twelve days, at the centre of which a robot arm played with them by wielding toys. Behind the scenes, the decision engine recommended games based on ongoing assessment of their happiness. A video installation …

wait until @… finds out my entire PeerTube channel basically centers around toys @… :P

Query Attribute Modeling: Improving search relevance with Semantic Search and Meta Data Filtering
Karthik Menon, Batool Arhamna Haider, Muhammad Arham, Kanwal Mehreen, Ram Mohan Rao Kadiyala, Hamza Farooq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04683

Query Attribute Modeling: Improving search relevance with Semantic Search and Meta Data Filtering
This study introduces Query Attribute Modeling (QAM), a hybrid framework that enhances search precision and relevance by decomposing open text queries into structured metadata tags and semantic elements. QAM addresses traditional search limitations by automatically extracting metadata filters from free-form text queries, reducing noise and enabling focused retrieval of relevant items. Experimental evaluation using the Amazon Toys Reviews dataset (10,000 unique items with 40,000+ reviews and d…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Victor Herbert, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra & Uri Mayer:
🎵 March of the Toys from the operetta "Babes in Toyland"
#VictorHerbert #EdmontonSymphonyOrchestra #UriMayer
https://open.spotify.com/track/26oP6VKWP4xlFhQTsUmPi4

If anyone in the #Seattle area wants to get into #chinafake #collecting or is generally just into #vintage

behold: “Mano”
#toys #bootleg #knockoff #chinafakes

If anyone in the #Seattle area wants to get into #chinafake #collecting or is generally just into #vintage