Tootfinder

When I said these guys were the enemy, you thought I was exaggerating.
Maybe you’ll recognise them now when they’re in uniform.
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/06/anduril-meta-openai-execs-to-commission-into…

Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs to commission into Army reserve, form ‘Detachment 201’
“There’s an urgency to change and transform the Army and these guys [are] going to help,” said Col Dave Butler.

Adultification Bias in LLMs and Text-to-Image Models
Jane Castleman, Aleksandra Korolova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07282 https://arx…

Adultification Bias in LLMs and Text-to-Image Models
The rapid adoption of generative AI models in domains such as education, policing, and social media raises significant concerns about potential bias and safety issues, particularly along protected attributes, such as race and gender, and when interacting with minors. Given the urgency of facilitating safe interactions with AI systems, we study bias along axes of race and gender in young girls. More specifically, we focus on "adultification bias," a phenomenon in which Black girls are presumed t…

"Pumping Water Onto Sea Ice Could Halt its Loss in the Arctic—Nonprofit Proves ‘Naive’ Idea Plausible"
#Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange

Pumping Water Onto Sea Ice Could Halt Ice Loss in the Arctic—Nonprofit Proves 'Naive' Idea Plausible
The craziness of the whole endeavor is only matched by the urgency with which they believe something must be done to address sea ice loss.

Sources say Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and other Chinese companies are testing domestic alternatives as they deal with a dwindling stockpile of Nvidia processors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bb1315e8-27df-4a93-a4dc-11e2883fdde3

Chinese tech groups prepare for AI future without Nvidia
Tougher US export restrictions on advanced chips give added urgency to testing of domestic alternatives

5 Cowboys Trade Targets: Fixing the Terrible Run Defense https://insidethestar.com/5-cowboys-trade-targets-fixing-the-terrible-run-defense

Found in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger. The one lesson I wish the modern left would internalize more than anything.
Use shared language.
Don't use lefty jargon when the person you're talking to doesn't subscribe to these ideas. No white privilege, no colonial oppression, no intersectionality. Translate to a shared language, built on reasonable, common assumptions and do the work required to bring people on board.
Because you can be damned sure the MAGA crowd ar…