Tootfinder

In the state department of past administrations,
how to respond to an incendiary event such as the murder of the British student Henry Nowak would have required deliberations, memos and meetings.
Given how it has roiled the UK and inflamed tensions over migration and race, the cautious diplomats at Foggy Bottom probably would have said nothing at all.
Now they tweet from the hip.
“Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational…

Raiders handed outstanding grade for Kirk Cousins signing https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-handed-outstanding-grade-kirk-cousins-signing/fef2f9ba23656d03ab5af1ab…

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).

Working with an #acting #coaching client on different elements of their vocal production technique and character inner life, and wonderful seeing and hearing them use an increased awareness of how they're producing speech to do new things.

I don't mean this to show off - but truthfully this retrospective appreciation I accidentally found (looking for something unrelated to do with ‘Cognessence’) made me surprisingly emotional today. It’s behind a paywall, so I'll paste it.
https://www.electronicsou…

Observers are once again raising concerns about insider trading on Wednesday after a trader took a colossal crude oil short position just over an hour before a US-Iran peace deal was reported to be on the horizon, causing prices to fall.
The Kobeissi Letter, a financial newsletter, 
reported on X that at 3:40 am on Wednesday,
“nearly 10,000 contracts worth of crude oil shorts were taken without any major news.”
This was equivalent to $920 million in notional value,

‘Epic insider trading’: nearly $1 billion in crude oil shorts taken just before report of US-Iran peace deal
“Only a select few in the top tax bracket are benefiting from this, and the majority of you ain’t in it,” said former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Unknown Mortal Orchestra:
🎵 Can’t Keep Checking My Phone
#UnknownMortalOrchestra
https://sakr.bandcamp.com/track/unknown-mortal-orchestra-cant-keep-checking-my-phone-sakr-ding-dub-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/3IGidq5qjagmNmwFsmNeIn

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Epistemic Pluralism & #Astrobiology: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10838-025-09760-6 -> Many Ways to Know About Life in the Universe: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-198-many-ways-to-know-about-life-in-the-universe/id1246395860?i=1000764110564 (podcast). The Catastrophic Consequences of Agnosticism for Life Searches and a Possible Workaround: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02969 (somehow related).

Raiders linked to blockbuster trade for All-Pro after Kirk Cousins signing https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-link-blockbuster-trade-all-pro-kirk-cousins-signing/a06f8720…