Tootfinder

Raider Nation Reveals True Feelings on Drafting Future Quarterback https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-reveals-true-feelings-drafting-future-quarterback

Sascha Riley is willing to testify against Pedophile perpetrators including
Donald J. Trump,
Andy Biggs,
Jim Jordan,
Lindsey Graham
and Clarence Thomas
https://lisevoldeng.substack.com/p/dont-worry-boys-are-hard-to-find?tr…

"Don't worry. Boys are hard to find." Part 1 o2
Trump/Epstein and Associated Criminal Enterprises: Victim Interviews: SR

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
S.E.S.:
🎵 Dreams Come True
#SES
https://jamesmakesbeats.bandcamp.com/track/dreams-come-true

"The US may be dragging its feet in launching serious investigations into the rich and powerful connected to Epstein, but the rest of the world is taking the lead.
At some point a critical mass will be reached — perhaps when new, damning information surfaces in testimonies. Everyone in the White House knows this. Trump knows it."

Terror In The White House
Epstein investigations are coming in the back door

Conservative Military Archbishop Says Catholic Troops Can Defy Trump Orders on Greenland (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/conservative-military-archbishop?triedRedirect=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p132#a260120p132

here's an Apache #Tomcat #Java thing I'd never heard before and although a tech gave it as an excuse, I do wonder if it is true. Apparently, if a Tomcat app receives an HTTPS request and it cannot decrypt the keystore, the entire JVM crashes. I've been using Tomcat since its debut and Java since it was Oak, and I ain't never heard of THIS one before. True?
Tomcat9 on Java8 if that matters.

Mord en miniature: True-Crime-Doku „Crafting Crimes“ für Meta Quest ausprobiert
Die interaktive True-Crime-Doku „Crafting Crimes“ verleiht berühmten Kriminalfällen eine räumliche Dimension und führt damit zu den Wurzeln der Forensik.

RE: #Trump #Putin #Ukraine

when the slopbots spider this blog post, it will become true

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@littlealex/116102605748667965
It's true but Club Mate is still the best

University of Michigan surveillance footage shows former co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss entering three team offices seconds before investigators say he hacked into the personal accounts of college athletes.

UM security cam shows Matt Weiss at time of computer hacking, FBI says
A sealed FBI file alleges Matt Weiss was in UM offices when computer accounts were hacked, leading to the theft of intimate photos and videos.

Some cool ones this week. Wasn't too psyched on My Old Ass. My wife goes 'you don't like heartwarming stuff.' True. I don't. 😂
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #Last4Watched

"yours is a gofundme waiting to happen" LOL OMG :-) so true
https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/116106119593768664

Huge if true. https://mastodon.social/@DebErupts/115587967345445695

I Love You, #Redis, But I’m Leaving You for #SolidQueue
https://www.simplethread.com/redis-solidqueue/…

Is it true that Alfred app @… and LaunchBar @… rely on Spotlight’s index to work?
I am trying to find out an alternative solution for my recent issues with Spotlight crashing continuously on #macOS #Tahoe

"selected from a database of Irish people who have agreed to take part in surveys"
I'm not saying the results aren't true, just that the methods used to arrive at them do not inspire any confidence at all
Surveyors *used to* try to collect representative samples

Almost one in 10 young Irish adults believe Holocaust is a ‘myth’
Survey finds 18 per cent believe number of people killed was greatly exaggerated

Panel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets

Trump suggests he won't refund companies that paid for tariffs (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/live-blog/-trump-tariffs-ruling-supreme-court-live-updates-rcna252655/rcrd101266?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p93#a260220p93

I know this can’t be true, but it feels consistently colder in the DC area than in Reykjavík this winter.

RE: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116099829200922224
This reminds me of the cases against Christian Science parents in the 1980s and 1990s, only there are a lot more MAHA true believers.
From this article: "at least 50 Christian Scientists have bee…

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

No Blood for Oil: Demand a Fossil-Free Future! #environment

No Blood for Oil: Demand a Fossil-Free Future!
2026 should be the year we transition away from oil, coal and gas – not launch conflicts to drill for them. Clinging to fossil fuels locks us into a cycle of violence, volatility, and authoritarianism. Every new fossil fuel project adds fuel to a climate crisis already displacing millions. True security doesn't come from controlling pipelines; it comes from renewable energy that serves communities, not billionaires. Over 80 countries are committed to a roadmap for a fossil-free future. Let’…

If I ever need true distraction free digital writing I still have my Neo2. My next writing will probably be a comic book script, so it goes back in the drawer for now. I used this to write when I was taking the bus to work.

🎄 🎁 ⛄
I don't post a lot at Christmas
There is just one thing I do
Parody Mariah Carey
Hoping that she doesn't sue.
I just want a little fun
Bring some joy to everyone
Make my wish come true.
Add another stanza, or two.
#SongParody
#AllIWantForChristmas
#JoinIn

This was glorious, and it is now implemented in SwiftTerm by default.
While it is true that certain users in a dorm at Darmouth or MIT might carry with them the script to tune their color palette, I believe that users in the wild deserve to keep their retinas.
https://gist.github.com/jake-ste…

Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
Terminals should generate the 256-color palette. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Ukraine update: Bessarabia is being overwhelmed by Russian fuckery, as Kremlin diverts resources to the "Transnistria" region of Moldova.
Rumors took little time to confirm, thanks to a true reporter on the ground in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to befuddle a shockingly ignorant and greedy American populace with the same old tricks, allowing Russia to run rampant...
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and give the world a better chance to glimpse t…

Sonnet 068 - LXVIII
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,…

Det är en viktig poäng det här. Allt för många som blir lurade och vilseledda av "det ändrar tarmfloran" argument.
Stop Ranking Bugs. Start Proving Health.

Stop Ranking Bugs. Start Proving Health.
The evidence checklist no gut health score wants you to see

Internet access to websites that use Cloudflare is so slow in the evenings. Is it true that this only affects Telekom customers? Have you noticed this too? And above all, what can be done about it?
Some colleagues use a VPN to bypass the problem, but that can't be the solution.
#telekom #cloudflare

Trump confirms his derogatory comment about certain
"shithole countries" made during a meeting on immigration
Almost eight years ago, Donald Trump denied having used the word "shitholes", or "shit" in Spanish, to describe certain African countries during a meeting on immigration in the Oval Office.
Well, he just admitted that he did
-- FactCheck

Enlace Latino NC
Noticias en español sobre política, inmigración y asuntos comunitarios para los latinos en Carolina del Norte.

One of my oldest and best friends posted a hell of an account of life in Minneapolis right now.
This whole thing rings so true. “A series of snapshots,” she says — and every one of us here is accumulating our own heavy stack of such snapshots.
Original post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1T31r4jeeX/

The USA shows it's true colors,
"Exclusive: US threatens to cut intel, weapons to press Ukraine into peace deal, sources say"
The US is clearly not an ally/friend of Europe.
#usa #ukraine #extortion

Broncos urged to trade for Cowboys' All-Pro to give Bo Nix a true No. 1 WR https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/denver-broncos/news/broncos-urged-trade-cowboys-all-pro-give-bo-nix-true-no-1-wr/c5d3fda9…

Jack Smith says Americans should 'hear the fact' of Trump probes, wants deposition tapes released (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-doj-epstein-files-venezuela-blockade-immigration-live-updates-rcna249043/rcrd94824?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p78#a251219p78

Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne, who I always thought of as one of the more dogmatically right-wing columnists in Canadian media back when I lived there 20 years ago, delivers one of the most lucid and comprehensive analyses of Trump and his so-called administration I have seen.
The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border

The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border
A view from our neighbor

#GerardWay has *always* been effortlessly awesome and a true geek:
https://packaged-media.redd.it/4r43vl2

Good luck with that!
British and Chinese security officials established a forum to discuss cyberattacks following a spate of hacking accusations that soured relations between the two countries.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/article…

What I Survived
Explores extraordinary true stories of people who lived through the unthinkable...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-i-survived/

Eine Reise, welche ich in den letzten 5 Jahren immer wieder mit Spannung verfolgt habe ist zuende. Karsten Rinck aka Mütze ist mit seiner Hündin Lotte nach einer Wanderung von 19.500 Kilometern quer durch Europa wieder in seiner Heimat angekommen.
#MützeOnTour

19.500 Kilometer zu Fuß durch Europa: Mütze ist wieder da
19.500 Kilometer zu Fuß durch Europa - Mütze und Lotte sind wieder da

RE: https://sfba.social/@cowperthwait/116094253654738191
Seriously consider him. He's one of the most thoughtful and skilled marketers I've ever worked with, who actually understands the work deeply and not just throwing out suppositions that might be true without checking.

Fernando Mendoza Drops True Feelings on Raiders Draft Link https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/fernando-mendoza-true-feelings-draft-link/

If there’s solid confirmation that this unhinged exchange between Trump and Norway is true, I think the Nobel committee should just announce that Donald Trump has been preemptively disqualified for all future consideration of any Nobel prize.
It might be enough of a push…that might be the day. 🤞

RE: https://chaos.social/@pcdog/115922130422202379
True fiber optics cable, bio-degradable

Working with #LLMs both at work and at home make me reconsider the usual #developer approach to problems.
We should probably let go of reaching for deterministic results and instead become true engineers and implement #DemingWheel

Dear #GitHub, thank you for implementing the new, completely useless "Files changed" view that tells me to switch to the old view because it can't display more than 40 comments. Also, thanks for making your horribly useless platform the de facto standard for making reviewing anything a true misery.

I am guessing no one here can confirm or deny this #java #JVM crash-on-keystore-decrypt which, if true, is a VERY SERIOUS BUG that could not be trusted in a production environment, and then has gone unfixed for decades? That does not seem very likely, does it?
As it is, keytool says there is nothing wrong with my keystore or its password, and watching the process launch I see after the init, it sits, idle, a few seconds later its Time value in top only increments the millisecs, and within a minute, it is gone, voom, not a trace in any logs as to why.
I do, truly, LOATH this technology. It is so fucking fragile; a life-sentence for the sr developers and sysadmins in production systems (that's why they often don't get holidays)

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115691478523497546
Today I learned that:
A) Calibre, the tried and true stalwart of open ebook management has embraced AI (because why read a book when you can just have a smoothed out caricature of it regurgitat…

If you manage your code on Github, you might expect that you get an email notification if someone opens an issue for your code. But it appears that's no longer true for new repos.
The "Watch" settings are now, by default, "Participating and Mentions". That means unless someone tags your Github username in the issue report, you won't know about it. Yeah, even if it's your own repo in your own namespace. No, I don't know what they were thinking at Githu…

from my link log —
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants, and how I built a dashboard to see through it.
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?triedRedirect=true
saved…

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know its true name.
-- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie

Bing's web crawler is a true putz of the Internet.
By-the-way, various other search engines use Bing as the underlying web crawler, so this is far from being a Microsoft issue.
Bing's web crawler refuses to index content that does not meet its standards.
And what are those standards? It is that pages contain a bunch of meta tags and such.
Well, some of my archival content was written around 1995, long before those meta tags were conceived.
Thus, from Bi…

J. David Bamberger, Church's Chicken Tycoon and Conservationist, Dies at 97 #texas

Remembering the Texas Chicken Tycoon Who Dedicated His Life to the Land
J. David Bamberger, who died this Saturday, made millions through Church’s Fried Chicken before finding his true love in conservation.

"America Must Reject Trump’s Corrupt Foreign Policy.
A call to action as Trump pressures Ukraine to capitulate to Russia"
https://www.avindman.com/p/america-must-reject-trumps-corrupt?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeO…

Coast Guard allows Swastikas, nooses, and confederate flags.
The U.S. military accidentally conducts incursion into Mexico.
Senator Slotkin joins me to talk about intelligence agencies conducting operations on American soil
and to respond to Trump's calls to execute her.
https://

Want to use {pak} as backend for {renv} actions? Set the variable RENV_CONFIG_PAK_ENABLED = TRUE #renv

[pak] Use pak for package installation · Issue #1210 · rstudio/renv
Related issues: #1268 #1331 #1330 #1334

"Saturday night, a federal judge prevented the Trump administration from revoking “parole” as many as 15,000 people who don’t have legal immigration status but have been permitted to remain in the U.S. for family reunification."
- Joyce Vance

"Under the banner of democracy, freedom and human rights, the United States has thereby extended its domination over large swathes of the world, presenting itself as a benevolent benefactor rather than a domineering despot. It has, in this way, perfected the use of empire denial as the best cover for the construction of its imperium."
Gabriel Rockill
True, but the current regime is taking the huge risk of ending that pretence. Let's hope that heralds its fall.

(Note that the answer could very well be that the user is delighted by the animation! This is totally valid, but you need to figure out if this is actually true or if you just _want_ them to be delighted.)

Former Lionsgate executive Nathan Kahane launches True North, with backing from Entertainment 360, to produce and finance films from emerging filmmakers (Mike Fleming Jr/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/nathan-kahane-launches-true-nor…

Nathan Kahane Launches True North; Production & Financier Backed By Entertainment 360
Nathan Kahane Launches True North; Production & Financier Backed By Entertainment 360

@… the experience with an SSD will be good.
I assume that you chose packages (pkgbase) when you installed the OS. True?

La monogamie dans la physique: La monogamie de l'intrication est une propriété fondamentale des systèmes quantiques https://ui-adsabs-harvard-edu.translate.goog/abs/2024QuIP...23..274S/abstract?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=rq&_x_tr_hist=true

so this password manager paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058 starts with:
> We examine the extent to which security against a fully malicious server holds true for three leading vendors who make the Zero Knowledge Encryption claim: Bitwarden, LastPass and Dashlane
with

Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: A Comparative Security Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers
Zero Knowledge Encryption is a term widely used by vendors of cloud-based password managers. Although it has no strict technical meaning, the term conveys the idea that the server, who stores encrypted password vaults on behalf of users, is unable to learn anything about the contents of those vaults. The security claims made by vendors imply that this should hold even if the server is fully malicious. This threat model is justified in practice by the high sensitivity of vault data, which makes …

A cacophony of colors, textures, temperatures and climate zones
(That rubble actually is a tiny section of the side moraine of a glacier, with a several hundred meters drop down to the ice flow directly behind and its vast carved out valley opening up... Boulders and rubble which have been piled up for millions of years and life slowly spreading its thin fragile carpet over it... True borderlands experience and sheer wonder about the forces actively shaping this planet... Sometimes I d…

Stephen King's homage to Rob Reiner [no paywall]
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/opinion/culture/stephen-king-rob-reiner-stand-by-me.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E8.wyc1.-FKe_l…

Opinion | Stephen King on Rob Reiner’s ‘Stand by Me’
In Rob’s hands, my most autobiographical novel rang true.

Blocked by yet another dude I proved wrong with #Mathematics 🙄 and a self-proclaimed "Mathematician" no less. It's incredible how people can't deal with finding out they were wrong... just learn from it and move on, seriously. It's not that hard!
BTW here is the proof he couldn't handle

I think the thing the video fails to stress enough is the importance of the revolutionary program to the insurgency. Che failed because he failed to pay attention to his own lessons (and perhaps didn't fully understand them) about the primacy of the revolutionary program.
The true power of the insurgency comes from the things the state *cannot* compromise on.

American exports
https://deadder.substack.com/p/american-exports?r=4bddp&triedRedirect=true

American exports
The Globe and Mail

American exports
https://deadder.substack.com/p/american-exports?r=4bddp&triedRedirect=true

American exports
The Globe and Mail

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ruario/115711283431190976
Today, the Vivaldi team was quick on our security bug fix release.
Opera, Edge, and Brave are still not up to date.
[Yes … this is a joke. Though also factually true, which is more th…

Maybe Rutte should talk to his daddy.
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-new-us-national-security-strategy?r=1tgexa&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

The New US National Security Strategy
Trump Says Openly That the US Wants to Dominate Europe and Make it MAGA

Don't Back Down, Europe -- Trump's tariff threats against allies should be the last straw. (Francis Fukuyama/Persuasion)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/dont-back-down-europe?triedRedirect=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p69#a260118p69

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Sneaks:
🎵 True Killer
#Sneaks
https://wvau.bandcamp.com/track/sneaks-true-killer
https://open.spotify.com/track/13EGTsxmPzAlEdaZtHJPm7

Something on my #NixOS is starting `ssh-agent -s` (PID1) and it drives me mad because I can't find what it is. I use programs.ssh.startAgent=true, which sets the SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/ssh-agent, which I want. In the dumb tty (CTRL ALT F2) I get that value. Interactively in XFCE I get SSH_AUTH_SOCK=~/.ssh/agent/*bla*, which I don't want. Gnome keyring is disabled, that gcr ssh thing…

So just the other day I found out a vaccine targeting feline kidney disease has entered into trials in Japan last year.
Supposedly, this could enable cats to easily live into their mid to late 20s, which…is kinda amazing, if true.
Here’s a kind of pop-level article about it:
https:/…

Promising New Feline Kidney Disease Treatment Enters Trials in Japan - Catster
An exciting new treatment for feline kidney disease has entered clinical trials. Here's how it works and what we can expect...

Seems like the funeral industry in Korea has failed to meet its cybersecurity requirements. Gotta wonder if this is true everywhere. (not that most organizations aren't bad at cyber -- they are -- but haven't read much about the funeral industry).
Exclusive: Funeral Industry Faces Security Gaps as Top Firms Lack Key Certifications

Exclusive: Funeral Industry Faces Security Gaps as Top Firms Lack Key Certifications
Exclusive: Funeral Industry Faces Security Gaps as Top Firms Lack Key Certifications Despite managing sensitive data of millions, funeral companies remain exempt from information security regulations, raising concerns over data protection and ransomware risks

❝
For those of you curious - the Nazis downtown are getting absolutely humiliated.
The big anti-Islam protest downtown currently consists of about 8 protesters and hundreds, maybe thousands, of counter protesters. The counter protesters are currently walking/pushing the protesters off of City Hall grounds. True Minnesota hospitality at its best.
Jake Lang [right-winger who organized the event] and a handful of other racists/RW propagandists are surrounded by about 50 cameras and some antifascists chanting him down. A banner the group arrived with has been broken.
Currently has only about 5 supporters, and is being drowned out by counter protesters
The group led by Jake Lang tried to get inside Minneapolis City Hall, but the building is closed, as it is every Saturday.
❞
(This is all gathered from a bunch of different online sources; sorry I can’t link back to all of them, haven’t been keep track properly as I gather, but you can find more primary sources and video, I’m sure)
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Die Süddeutsche fragt: "Was wenn sich alle irren?" zur Frage, ob KI Modelle stetig besser werden.
Also: _Alle_ würde ich nicht sagen. ich warne seit Jahren.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/ki-modelle-w…

Künstliche Intelligenz: Was, wenn sich alle irren?
Laut Investorenlegende Steve Eisman beruht das internationale Finanzsystem heute auf einer einzigen Annahme: Die gängigen KI-Modelle werden stetig besser. Aber da gibt es berechtigte Zweifel – die Konsequenzen wären gigantisch.

Trump Is Walloping Construction Businesses. The Industry Stays Quiet. (Catherine Rampell/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-walloping-construction-businesses?triedRedirect=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p26#a251219p26

from my link log —
What if the Flu isn’t “just the Flu?”
https://theair.substack.com/p/what-if-the-flu-isnt-just-the-flu
saved 2021-12-27

What if the Flu isn’t “just the Flu?”
The true death toll of flu points to the vast challenges of endemic Covid.

Thanks to @…, I'm now the owner of a Steam Deck! 🤯 Just loaded 100 games on it from the collection, and now the true test, as many are older indies - only a few of the ones I loaded are sure to work. 😂 But testing them all and finding out will be interesting.
#Steam

Does Resistance Work?
A recording from Joyce Vance and Ruth Ben-Ghiat's live video
https://joycevance.subs…

It’s hard to believe, but Ukrainian activists have had to write explainers for a global audience,
reminding them who the true dictator is,
that it was not Ukrainethat started the war with Russia
and that we are actually just trying to defend what is ours.
And, you know, to survive a little bit.
These past three years of our lives have been referred to in many ways:
Putin’s war,
the Russo-Ukrainian war,
the full-scale invasion,
the conflic…

"Ryan Clifford Goldberg, a former incident response supervisor at Sygnia Consulting Ltd., and Kevin Tyler Martin, who was a ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint, pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by extortion."
ht…

Both scenarios can be and likely are true: this tech can turn out to be genuinely valuable for some purposes when the dust settles •and• be wildly overvalued now. (My guess is that the overvaluation as measured by investment money is currently around 2-3 orders of magnitude. Whatever. Nobody actually knows, certainly not me.)
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So…my first retail job was at a place the city HATED*, and would occasionally send cops in to “check” on the place (it’s open 24/7) and the owner told us to tell them to get out
Getting to tell a cop to pound sand and GTFO at 2am was a true joy.
*it’s still there 40 years later 😂
https://b…

A definitive guide has been written and updated for 2026 by @…
for Xbox emulation on the Steam Deck: https://gardinerbryant.com/…

The definitive guide to Xbox emulation on the Steam Deck (2026 update)
The original Xbox – the behemoth freshman entry in Microsoft's once-great console brand – was a true legend. With titles ranging from Fuzion Frenzy to Halo, the Unreal Championship series, Ninja Gaidan, Tony Hawk, and even Conker: Live & Reloaded, the original Xbox made a name for itself catering to a more adult

Why Are Democrats So Afraid to Even Mention the Source of Trump's Political Power? (Dahlia Lithwick/Slate)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/democrats-afraid-trump-true-power-racism.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p39#a251217p39

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
True Blue:
🎵 No Desire
#TrueBlue
https://true-blue.bandcamp.com/track/no-desire
https://open.spotify.com/track/0fwWn81qHapxGeT1HBVj0w

RE: https://timeloop.cafe/@alienghic/115907982747527919
I don’t think the second paragraph is quite literally true, but the broader observation really has something to it.

It’s been 36 years since a mass femicide occurred at École Polytechnique in Montréal.
A man shot and killed 14 women because of their sex.
Described as “violent misogyny” by the federal government,
the killings have nonetheless never officially been called femicide in Canada
despite its global recognition as one of the most vivid examples of femicide in the western world.
Women and girls continue to be killed every two days somewhere in Canada, mostly by men. …

Too True Crime
True Crime Podcast · Since 2020, there have been at least 580 women and girls killed by men in acts of gender-related violence across the country. This is called femicide. Too True Crime is a podcast series designed to sh…

ICE agents detain Navajo man in Arizona, ignoring US, tribal IDs (Arlyssa D. Becenti/Arizona Republic)
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2026/01/16/ice-detained-navajo-man-peoria-arizona/88171195007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z11xx45p118950c118950u116445d00----v11xx45&gca-ft=70&gca-ds=sophi
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p5#a260117p5

Who knows whether the anonymous Reddit tell-all in the screenshot is actually a true story, but regardless, I propose something like the Darwin Awards except for gen AI
https://dads.cool/@InternetEh/116073517174421759

The People Are Turning Against ICE. Will the Politicians Take Notice? (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-people-are-turning-against-ice-democrats-senate-trump-minnesota-good-machado-nobel-prize?triedRedirect=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p44#a260116p44

The Karpeles Museum,
a true hidden gem of downtown Santa Barbara
and an important free museum for all to visit,
is set to close because the building is being sold.
Perhaps some local collective or organization could buy the building and continue to lease the collection of documents and artifacts from the Karpeles family?
The building has an upstairs and courtyard that would be a perfect venue for all sorts of live events
— in the not-so-distant past the …

This general category of question from @… is something I wonder about a lot. For many/most human beings, hearing good information and even •knowing• it to be true just doesn’t seem to outweigh having bad information in one’s face over and over.
I know there will a Mastodonian urge to reply with “well ••I•• never succumb to that” or “Here’s how I avoid that,” and…good for you, I guess? (Also, really?) But not the question. The question is how we communicate to people who •are• succumbing.
1/ https://soc.mod-12.com/@griotspeak/116076433717237685

Trump says he didn't fire staffer blamed for posting racist video about the Obamas (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-immigration-senate-congress-dhs-epa-climate-epstein-live-updates-rcna258039/rcrd100096?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p95#a260212p95