Tootfinder

Did you know that you can disable #Android apps? https://www.guidingtech.com/how-to-disable-apps-on-android-and-what-happens-when-you-do/
The down…

When In Doubt (Or Certainty), Improvise (part 5 of 5)
#CreativeProcess #improvisation
https://

When In Doubt (Or Certainty), Improvise (part 5 of 5)
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

I saw Brian WIlson’s “SMiLE” tour in August 2005 and wrote it up: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/08/31/SMiLE
You can watch that show here:

SMiLE

I know I'm late to the party on this, but when people say "headless CMS" do they kinda mean the database part of the "database publishing" of 20 years ago?
Like it is storing content separately from the HTML/CSS or app interface so one doesn't have to munge that stuff when making content, or munge content when making a site or app or something, right?
Or is there some new magic in "headless CMS" I'm missing?

I believe I have managed to prove my ID in order to comply with the new laws that say I have to prove my ID to own the business I own that I'm sure already asked me to prove my ID when I registered it.
First we tried the on-web version, but that apparently relies upon the corporates having managed to profile and track me, because it told me they had no questions upon which to base identification. Good I guess? My avoid-tracking systems must be working at least a bit?
Next we tried the android app, but apparently the phone I tried that with is too old and the app won't install.
So next option is turning up at a post office with a printed letter. I don't own a printer though, so had to have them post that to me.
Took the letter and a driving licence up to the post office today and "It's not going through" they said, pointing to a stalled progress bar on an android app on a tablet.
Um. Okay. So?
Just wait longer apparently. About ten minutes and it finally proceeded and the post office man took a photograph of me after asking me to disrobe of my robe, strip down to a teeshirt and jeans.
Not sure in what sense this has proven my ID any more than it was already proven to get the driving licence or company registration in the first place?
Apparently I now have government logins for "One Login" and for "government gateway" and they are not the same thing? But sort of are the same thing?
Can't say I really understand it. Expect they'll introduce a third government login when they do these Digital ID cards they're talking about.
God knows how I'm supposed to know which to use when the company tax records need updating in a few months.
#id #government #oneLogin

when i saw the #BeachBoys reunion tour at the beacon theatre in 2015, brian was half-present at best for most of the show, except when he woke up suddenly in the middle of "marcella" (of all places) & was intensely, wonderfully present for like 2 songs & then kinda drifted off again. #BrianWilson

When I was a wee
Lad, Mom lied: cooks improvise,
But not when baking.
#haiku #cooking

I distrust a man who says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink
too much, it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.
-- Sidney Greenstreet, "The Maltese Falcon"

If the media continues to refer to people as "undocumented" when they have valid work/student visas, green cards, and judicial orders allowing them to be here.. Then they will also refer to a US citizen as "undocumented" when ICE takes them (you).

What happens when bees can’t buzz right? Nature starts falling apart #nature

What happens when bees can’t buzz right? Nature starts falling apart
High heat and heavy metals dampen a bumblebee’s trademark buzz, threatening pollen release and colony chatter. Tiny sensors captured up-to-400-hertz tremors that falter under environmental stress, raising alarms for ecosystems and sparking ideas for pollination robots.

from my link log —
Client rate throttling in the Heroku platform API Ruby gem.
https://www.schneems.com/2020/07/08/a-fast-car-needs-good-brakes-how-we-added-client-rate-throttling-to-the-platform-a…

A Fast Car Needs Good Brakes: How We Added Client Rate Throttling to the Platform API Gem
When API requests are made one-after-the-other they’ll quickly hit rate limits and when that happens:

hi yall! weird and arty movies used to be a massive part of my psyche for a brief, intense time when i was younger. but then i had a particularly bad depressive slump that killed the habit. now i wanna get back into it. each day for the next week, im gonna watch one Andrei Tarkovsky film (i found a free collection on archive.org!) and post my initial reaction afterward. i saw one of his movies, Stalker, when i was about 15, and while i liked it, i know i was too young and stupid to actually …

If groups of parents can band together when deciding on the right age for a smartphone for their younger children, they will stand a better chance to avoid making decisions based on peer pressure at school.
https://theprivacydad.com/how-parent-c

Im using case_when() quite a lot, case_match() is new to me: #rstats

A general vectorised switch() — case_match
This function allows you to vectorise multiple switch() statements. Each case is evaluated sequentially and the first match for each element determines the corresponding value in the output vector. If no cases match, the .default is used. case_match() is an R equivalent of the SQL "simple" CASE WHEN statement. Connection to case_when() While case_when() uses logical expressions on the left-hand side of the formula, case_match() uses values to match against .x with. The following two statement…

Since when did Safari for iOS/iPadOS/macOS stop applying https to http links? I only ask because links like this below are totally valid and yet Safari is displaying the error message we’re used to seeing when it’s something more serious. http://www.milwaukeetaper.com/2025/07/pla

Plastic Crimewave Syndicate at the Milwaukee Psych Fest on May 5, 2023
Here is another recording from the wonderful 2023 edition of the Milwaukee Psych Fest. This tape features Plastic Crimewave Syndicate , a Ch...

⚽️💕⚽️
#NWSL #ChristenPress

Just Women’s Sports on Instagram: "A representative for the couple confirmed that the former USWNT stars are "happily married". This confirmation comes after Heath referred to Press as her "wife and former teammate" to The Athletic when discussing Heath's retirement."
3,738 likes, 29 comments - justwomenssports on July 11, 2025: "A representative for the couple confirmed that the former USWNT stars are "happily married". This confirmation comes after Heath referred to Press as her "wife and former teammate" to The Athletic when discussing Heath's retirement.".

When Your Favorite Song Plays, Your Brain 'Physically Embodies' Music, Science Shows
https://studyfinds.org/brain-cells-synchronize-to-music/

So I solved my mac-mini conundrum. It turned out that the problem originated from using 'wrong' computer monitor (a monitor attached to a docking station). When I hooked up the computer directly to the screen everything worked fine when holding the alt button. #linux #homeserver

When Detection Fails: The Power of Fine-Tuned Models to Generate Human-Like Social Media Text
Hillary Dawkins, Kathleen C. Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09975

When Detection Fails: The Power of Fine-Tuned Models to Generate Human-Like Social Media Text
Detecting AI-generated text is a difficult problem to begin with; detecting AI-generated text on social media is made even more difficult due to the short text length and informal, idiosyncratic language of the internet. It is nonetheless important to tackle this problem, as social media represents a significant attack vector in online influence campaigns, which may be bolstered through the use of mass-produced AI-generated posts supporting (or opposing) particular policies, decisions, or event…

A thing that literally anyone can do to show resistance and help prevent death and suffering: wear a proper N95 mask when in public.
COVID is spiking right now. People get injured, disabled and die from this every day.

Empirical and computer-aided robustness analysis of long-step and accelerated methods in smooth convex optimization
Pierre Vernimmen, Fran\c{c}ois Glineur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09730

Empirical and computer-aided robustness analysis of long-step and accelerated methods in smooth convex optimization
This work assesses both empirically and theoretically, using the performance estimation methodology, how robust different first-order optimization methods are when subject to relative inexactness in their gradient computations. Relative inexactness occurs, for example, when compressing the gradient using fewer bits of information, which happens when dealing with large-scale problems on GPUs. Three major families of methods are analyzed: constant step gradient descent, long-step methods, and acc…

Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.…

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

Guardians of the Regime: When and Why Autocrats Create Secret Police
Marius Mehrl, Mila Pfander, Theresa Winner, Cornelius Fritz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10194

Guardians of the Regime: When and Why Autocrats Create Secret Police
Autocrats use secret police to stay in power, as these organizations deter and suppress opposition to their rule. Existing research shows that secret police are very good at this but, surprisingly, also that they are not as ubiquitous in autocracies as one may assume, existing in less than 50% of autocratic country-years. We thus explore under which conditions secret police emerge in dictatorships. For this purpose, we apply statistical variable selection techniques to identify which of several…

Sigh, the client wants to add more items to the release for next week and they don't even have it tested. This time around I am putting a flag on each and every program they want to add so when (not if) they pull it Friday afternoon a quick search & delete will nuke those modules. I am not going to be popular in a bit when I do the pre-release walkthrough for the release schedule in a few minutes.

GMail:
"Be careful with this message.
This message appears to be sent from your account but Gmail couldn't verify this. Someone might be impersonating your account. If you're not sure the message is from you, use caution when clicking links, downloading attachments, or replying with personal information."
I sent it while logged in to GMail using multiple authentication steps from my home network using a secure laptop. What are they talking about? Serious question: how could they not verify it? It's either an idiotic engineering problem on their end or I'm terrified that security is meaningless. Probably both.

Sadly, @… is right — and the article she quotes is (I think) wrong when it says this:
❝In some real sense Meta's future depends on hiring and retaining those people, and Meta has already committed $65 billion to Al infrastructure this year. What's a few hundred million more?❞
Meta’s future does not in fact depend on hiring these specific researchers. This isn’t for the researchers, and it’s not for the research either. It’s for the investors. It’s making a show of being willing to being even more preposterously all-in on AI than anyone else, because investors are gaga for that shit. https://mas.to/@kims/114666065511798564

Occasionally I need to appear on-screen when doing streaming production at work...

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

The body knows when you’re betraying yourself.
When you’re overgiving.
When you’re forcing.
It whispers first. Then it screams.
https://www.brichapman.com/t/the-body-knows

Bri Chapman | Substack
climate solutions enthusiast, machine learning engineer, recovering perfectionist, sailor, and aspiring jazz guitarist. Click to read Bri Chapman, a Substack publication. Launched 5 months ago.

You probably know I get frowny when browser makers lie about support or pretend their late implementation of a feature is somehow new, so I am suffering from a bunch of confirmation bias (and validation) here:
“Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past”
https://infrequently.org/2025…

Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

My new strategy when people try to force me to fill out a #Google form or use Google scheduling or #Meet is I'll tell them I keep getting an error message, even if I'm not.

Supposedly, focusing on solutions when listening to someone share a problem instead of simply listening is a “male trait.” I don’t think it’s down to gender differences; I think it’s just about differences between humans, but it is something I do. I wish it weren’t. I just upset my son doing it, & I feel terrible.
Fuck. 😢

It would be cool if Python had a way to run custom code when a .py file is compiled to .pyc, which could precompute data that then gets cached in the .pyc file.

I don't know what it says about modern life but when I glanced at a message notification about 'weights' I wasn't sure if it was machine learning chat or the big strong lasses group

Donald Trump continued his war against America’s most cherished military traditions today when he delivered a speech at Fort Bragg.
It is too much to call it a “speech”; it was, instead, a ramble, full of grievance and anger,
just like his many political-rally performances.
He took the stage to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”
—which has become a MAGA anthem
—and then pointed to the “fake news,” encouraging military personnel to jeer at the press.
He mocke…

The Silence of the Generals
As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the brass failed to speak out in the Army’s defense.

When Is Diversity Rewarded in Cooperative Multi-Agent Learning?
Michael Amir, Matteo Bettini, Amanda Prorok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09434 https://

When Is Diversity Rewarded in Cooperative Multi-Agent Learning?
The success of teams in robotics, nature, and society often depends on the division of labor among diverse specialists; however, a principled explanation for when such diversity surpasses a homogeneous team is still missing. Focusing on multi-agent task allocation problems, our goal is to study this question from the perspective of reward design: what kinds of objectives are best suited for heterogeneous teams? We first consider an instantaneous, non-spatial setting where the global reward is b…

Who's been around long enough to remember when it was AWS us-east-1 going down that would break the Internet every few months, instead of GCloud?

When Tony Orlando inadvertently pulled off Phyllis Diller's wig during a 1975 episode of "The Tony Orlando And Dawn Show", the moment could have ended in disaster.
Instead, it became an iconic moment of Phyllis bursting into laughter. Her laughter was infectious, and she was renowned for her humor, often laughing at herself. This is why Phyllis Diller is and will always be a legend.
#humor

Minneapolis and Saint Paul are finally launching this BRT line that was already in the planning phase when I last visited in ... 2019.
Good, but if it's gonna take that long, maybe agencies should just incrementally upgrade the buses that exist instead of these big fancy unicorn "BRT" projects?
https://

Creating Buzz for the B Line
The Twin Cities’ newest BRT line is an attractive option that could turn more people into transit users — if they know about it!

Drum Grooves for Backing Tracks
When I make backing tracks, I usually start with a groove I have made in the Hydrogen drum sequencer. It looks like this: I am going to post a few 3-minute grooves that others might want to use in making their own tracks, or just for practicing. They mostly repeat every eight bars. They are simple, but when you add other instruments they work just fine.

Isn't it weird how when a Federal Crown Corporation - Marine Atlantic - buys a new ship... there is nary a mention that it was built in China (#BCPoli #BCFerries

"Our love is history, gonna burn the letters you've been sending me"
When you ghosted someone in the 80s, you really had to take action. #TOTP

Do you remember back when stairs in games were just slanted surfaces with stripes added through a texture?

Deformations of pseudocharacters and Mazur's finiteness condition
Vytautas Pa\v{s}k\=unas, Julian Quast
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10901 https://

Deformations of pseudocharacters and Mazur's finiteness condition
We show that deformation rings $R^{\mathrm{ps}}$ of $G$-pseudocharacters of a profinite group $Γ$ are noetherian, when $Γ$ satisfies Mazur's finiteness condition. The proof proceeds by reduction to the case when $Γ$ is finitely generated, where the result was previously established by the second author. This enables us to extend our work on moduli spaces of $R^{\mathrm{ps}}$-condensed representations of a finitely generated profinite group $Γ$, to the groups satisfying Mazur's finiteness co…

Well i mean its not liked they asked him when he was born...

I'm frequently despondent when I see organizations remove or hide once public Internet operational status and trending data.
At one time, lots of networks used to publish a variety of status and traffic summaries. The non-profit Internet2 for example was exemplary in this regard. Cloudflare, a commercial organization, now provides far more public benefit data than they do.
A big loss earlier this year was the once public Equinix network status page -

Introducing Equinix Status | Equinix Community - 519
Starting today you can check the status of your network products on the new Equinix Status page.  - 519

When I am president we will have plastic straws again! AND WE WILL BE JAMMING THEM UP SEA TURTLES' NOSES AGAIN!

"When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%."

Stop battling confusing Google Sheets charts when you've got different types of data! 🙅‍♀️ There's a much better way to show everything clearly.
My new video dives deep into Combo Charts, making even wildly different scales (like baby names & wind energy! 🌬️👶 – yes, really!) look perfectly clear with dual axes. It’s all about making your data understandable at a glance.
Check out the full tutorial for the how-to:

When it comes to #POTC, pirating it feels like the only ethically justifiable way to watch it.
#Piracy #ThePirateBay

"So, for example, your thermostat can reduce its energy use when prices are higher, and your EV can generate a charging schedule based on forecasted prices to save you money."
https://www.theverge.com/news/685733/apple-home-energykit-energy-ma…

Apple Home is expanding its energy management features 
Apple’s new EnergyKit framework lets developers tap into energy use data from the Home app to help reduce and schedule energy use of devices.

The Chicago Tribune is offering buyouts to the newsroom's 75 union members; the newsroom last went through buyouts in 2021, when nearly 40 people left (Kaitlin Washburn/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2025/06/12/chicag…

Chicago Tribune offering newsroom buyouts
The newsroom's union, which ratified its first contract just seven months ago, said in a statement cutting staff as a "short-term profit boost" is unsustainable. It was not immediately known how many positions the company was looking to cut or what dollar amount it's trying to save.

@… This is a silly dispute. When bad actors exploit real problems, not trying to fix the prblems is the wrong answer. Should anti-Nazi Germans in 1930 have stopped trying to fix the economy?
And at the same time scientists should try to be as precise as possible in what they say.

Demonstration of the Major #LunarStandstill with two cell phone pics taken 5 months apart in 2025 in the very moments when the (practically) full moon culminated at maximum and minimum elevation, respectively, over Bochum, Germany. This time there were no clouds on both days (the evening on 12 Jan and the morning of 12 Jun), while the same experiment in 2024 had had some problems: https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/113653916761501298

“We’re in a moment when the moral forces of the world and religious forces of the world have a deep responsibility to say it doesn’t have to be this way.”
—The Divinity School's William Barber in today's NY Times speaking about the wars, polarization, inequality, disinformation, and other challenges #PopeLeo must contend with as he begins his papacy

For Catholics, the Pope Is a Holy Father. For the World, He Is a Powerful Voice
The papacy is a global platform, so the issues Pope Leo chooses to focus on can resonate far beyond the church.

The internet seems to have a stroke again.
Man... If only there was this kind of decentralized platform that could survive on its own when big providers go down...

Partial independent transversals in multipartite graphs
Penny Haxell, Arpit Mittal, Yi Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09515 https://…

Partial independent transversals in multipartite graphs
Given integers $r>d\ge 0$ and an $r$-partite graph, an independent $(r-d)$-transversal or $(r-d)$-IT is an independent set of size $r-d$ that intersects each part in at most one vertex. We show that every $r$-partite graph with maximum degree $Δ$ and parts of size $n$ contains an $(r-d)$-IT if $n> 2Δ(1-\frac{1}{q})$, provided $q= \lfloor \frac{r}{d+1}\rfloor\ge \frac{4r}{4d+5}$. This is tight when $q$ is even and extends a classical result of Haxell in the $d=0$ case. When $q= \lfloor \frac{r…

Calamus 31 What ship, puzzled at sea
Just when I'm beginning to think I have some facility reading Whitman I meet a head-scratcher like this. Taken literally this is a poem about Whitman offering to guide a boat at sea, or to offer military troops to a besieged city.
But presumably it's a metaphor. Whitman offering to guide and help those in need. It's a little strange?
Hard-pressed for a gay reading here but I'll focus on this:
Here, sailor! Here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot.
Here Whitman is offering himself to a sailor, naming himself the most perfect pilot. I could imagine that being a metaphor of sexual mentorship. But honestly that's a stretch.

Does anyone know why Vimium doesn't seem to "click" on the mastodon web interface any more? I don't use mastodon in the browser often enough to know exactly when this changed. I'd like to understand the problem well enough to know how to report the bug to either mastodon or vimium, does anyone have any insights please? I know @… recently did upgrade the interface, is it that? #a11y #mastodon

When Power Is Not Currently An Option, You Might As Well Tell The Truth (Scott Lemieux/Lawyers, Guns & Money)
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/07/when-power-is-not-currently-an-option-you-might-as-well-tell-the-truth
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p134#a250710p134

@… @… I have some older Shokz and I love them so much. They often sit on my ears all day even when I’m not using them.

AutoMapper and MediatR Roadmaps #dotnet
https://www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-and-mediatr-roadmaps/

I'll be next week at @… to present a new talk about end-to-end Pull Request #testing when your target environment is #Kubernetes.
Come and let's chat!

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can (sometimes) change the world, and twice as often when done by peaceful means
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

Love when Randall nerds out like this, here's the original: https://xkcd.com/1688/large/
https://b…

We had a couple of homemade pancakes each, cooked apple with cinnamon, and all drizzled with real Canadian maple syrup, as a treat when we got home from our walk.
Husband sometimes makes a big batch of pancakes and then freezes the extra ones in individual servings. Very handy. And very yum!
#Canberra #Winter

Belkin's move to brick Wemo devices highlights how little accountability IoT companies face when abandoning connected products customers paid for (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/…

Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers’ stuff
There’s no easy alternative, and IoT customers are paying the price.

"When I ask if you’re talented, you’d better say yes. Not in a boasting sort of way, just a quiet confidence: ‘Yes, I’m talented. I know I am.’ You need that. And you need persistence and you need patience, and that’s not contradictory."
—Bryan Cranston
#acting #coaching

I like @…’s analysis here in many respects, both its broad conclusion (when the hype dies down, the useful parts remain and we take them for granted as normal tools), and this gem here:
Machine learning is well-suited for ❝any problem where we don’t actually know the rules and where the cost of a wrong answer is significantly lower than the benefit of a right answer.❞
1/2 https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/112716199046923540

It's always wild to me how many professions we hold to a higher standard than cops. https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/114844474193049944

Jones' Second Law:
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone
to blame it on.

Lower Haight Line Dancing
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLvVaerBAvM/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Lower Haight Line Dancing on Instagram: "When a German bar gives souvenir boots to some line dancers 🤠🤠🤠"
194 likes, 9 comments - lowerhaightlinedancing on July 5, 2025: "When a German bar gives souvenir boots to some line dancers 🤠🤠🤠".

“Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/06/where-to-put-focus-when-opening-a-modal-dialog.html
TL;DR: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, in…

Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog
TL;DR: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, including this one. This post is meant to help guide you, an intelligent and thoughtful and empathetic reader, figure out where you should set focus. The scenarios are non-exhaustive. Messages I’m artificially breaking these into…

i saw a toot joking about “liquid ass” and it’s all i can think of when i read about apple’s new shit
i didn’t know that liquid ass is a stink bomb, i think the original toot was about lube for anal, but it reminds me of diarrhoea
i am sure apple would love it if their new look reminds everyone of different kinds of arse juice

That time when Orbit the Mascot dance-taunted Daikin Park stadium security & things got 'outta control'...
#orbit #houstonastros #humor

I missed today's protest because I had client work but clients paying me for work helps fuel the efforts in put into the community.
I got a bunch of supplies recently to make more unhoused person care packages and I purchased art from marginalized people that will be made available in the Free Little Art Gallery.
We all gotta do what we can, when we can, in the ways we can.
#resist

In which I spelunk through the low-level mechanics of traversing Nondeterministic Finite Automata. ε-closures FTW! https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/07/Epsilon-Wrangling
I’m sure that the world’s population contains dozens of people w…

QRS: Epsilon Wrangling

Why would you need social media when you can have toilet paper?
You can doomscroll, you can shitpost…

Why sell my labor when I can just unionize and make some noise instead, lmao?
Like, let’s get together, stick it to the man, and maybe have a dance party while we’re at it.
Solidarity never looked so good!
https://iwa-ait.org

currently on a train stopped dead in the middle of nowhere cause a train ahead of us broke down. when i take over the world, ill give all trains retractable centipede type legs to slowly up and crawl around blockages

The {conflicted} package makes sure that namespace conflicts are solved explicitly and prevents unpleasent surprises: #rstats

coming soon: all gary panter issue of desert island #comics' smoke signal, available for ordering or free to local #brooklyn #comix heads when it comes out.

@… @… No, I have a different set of headphones (closed-cup, over-ear) for loud environments. I use these for exercise and when I’m doing housework, because I want people to be able to interrupt me.
My partner actually go…

Source: Ramp raised $200M led by Founders Fund, valuing the startup at $16B, up from $13B in March, when it conducted a $150M share sale (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-13/ramp-hits-16-b…

Doctor during annual physical, in a sequence of questions: “Any nausea?”
Me: “Just one day last week… when I read too much news.”
Doctor laughs and professional poise falls apart.
A nice human moment.
👨‍⚕️😆

Vincent Scardina supported Donald Trump’s tough stance on immigration at the ballot box.
But that decision came back to bite the roofing boss when ICE detained a third of his workforce.
The six men, all from Nicaragua, were pulled over in a work truck on May 27 while heading to a job
—and carted off to jail.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office,
deputies helped transport the men to a local detention facility
“for deportation.”
Scardina, wh…

Trump Voter Gets Choked Up After ICE Detains a Third of His Staff
A Florida roofing boss backed the president’s tough immigration policies. Then six of his workers were taken away...

I'm old enough to remember when our president talked excitedly about invading Canada and Greenland. Now he sees a few protestors and screams about foreign invaders.. 🙄

Don’t you hate it when #FreeTube is being ip-blocked, and #YouTube automatically starts a mix playlist every time you click on a music video?
🤢 🤢

Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – which could revise the story of Judaea.
✅ Dead Sea Scrolls analysis may force rethink of ancient Jewish history
https://archive.ph/YT7XZ
Original post:

fuck my shitty friar life bro, my family's mad i joined the dominican order and sent my brothers to seize me when i stop for water during my journey to rome. this is why yall lost the crusades

A rare event. Lulu 🐱 came to sit on my lap.
A short while later Mr Ek 🐱 came to the house. When Ruh 🐱 noticed him, she immediately ran over to sniff him. As soon as Lulu noticed Ruh, she hissed at her, jumped down and went away…
#cat

from my link log —
Idris 2: quantitative type theory in practice.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00480
saved 2025-06-11 https://dotat…

Idris 2: Quantitative Type Theory in Practice
Dependent types allow us to express precisely what a function is intended to do. Recent work on Quantitative Type Theory (QTT) extends dependent type systems with linearity, also allowing precision in expressing when a function can run. This is promising, because it suggests the ability to design and reason about resource usage protocols, such as we might find in distributed and concurrent programming, where the state of a communication channel changes throughout program execution. As yet, howe…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said Floridians have a right to hit protesters with their car if they need to "flee for your safety."
DeSantis was speaking on The Rubin Report on Wednesday when he said:
"We also have a policy that if you're driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle,
and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety.
"And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people,
tha…

Ron DeSantis Says Floridians Have Right to Hit Protesters With Cars
"That's their fault for impinging on you," Florida's governor said.

2 years ago i was working on a game i planned maps for using lines between single letters for rooms, and now when i look at shit like this i imagine wandering around a ribonucleotide

Here's some ideas, #Starbucks:
1️⃣ Overhaul the coffee. It's hot garbage.
2️⃣ Provide better chairs, faster Internet.
3️⃣ Bring back the secret menu items.
#coffeebean #alfred

Howard Schultz says he's a fan of Brian Niccol's plan for Starbucks
Schultz said he did a "cartwheel in my living room" when he heard Niccol's turnaround plan for the coffee chain.

Trump has turned the presidency into a branding machine that fills his coffers with cash.
He has also become the grand dispenser of rent -- deciding by himself which eager rent-seekers receive government benefits and subsidies.
In January 2016, Trump explained why he had been so generous to both parties with campaign donations.
“I’ve got to give to them, because when I want something, I get it. When I call, they kiss my ass,” he said

Trump’s honest graft
The president has turned himself into the central dispenser — and recipient — of economic opportunity.

The White House is singing a different tune these days.
Administration officials say abolishing the FEMA outright is not on the agenda -- with one senior official telling the Post that “changes in the agency will probably amount to a ‘rebranding’ that will emphasize state leaders’ roles in disaster response.”
Noem, who apparently had not received the new White House talking points, was still talking about scrapping FEMA this week,
when she claimed the agency is “slower to ge…

Trump and Noem’s attacks on FEMA make Texas floods all the more devastating
For months before the Texas flash floods, President Donald Trump and his administration floated the idea of abolishing the Federal Emergency Management Agency.