Tootfinder

Most of the tax dollars used to launch and implement the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program have gone toward paying administrative costs, rather than covering health care for Georgians
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-m…

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at least $54 million on administrative costs alone.

The UK unveils plans for a digital ID, which will be required to work in the country, to combat illegal immigration; the ID will be stored on people's phones (Kate Whannel/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn832y43ql5o

New digital ID will be mandatory to work in the UK
PM says the scheme will make it harder to work illegally but opposition parties argue it won't stop small boat crossings.

Find die #Framework-Notebooks ganz cool. Gut, private brauch ich auf lang absehbare Zeit keinen neuen und bei der Arbeit würden Preis und Support sicher "von der Stange" geschlagen, aber...
https://frame.work/de/de

"Keir Starmer says digital ID cards are an ‘enormous opportunity’ and will make it tougher to work illegally - UK politics live"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/26/keir-starmer-digital-id-cards-i…

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…

Hopefully work won't install this. Reason is that those whose job it is to install and monitor on the work machines won't have the security clearance to view some of what we do. Doesn't matter if they even have high security clearance, they don't get access to even know what some of what our work is unless they have been authorized for access to that specific project.

National Guard troops to pick up trash in DC, work on 'beautification' projects (NBC4 Washington)
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/national-guard-troops-to-pick-up-trash-in-dc-work-on-beautification-projects/3980033/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p7#a250827p7

Watch: Week 4 Work https://www.raiders.com/video/nfl-week-4-work-raiders-vs-bears-practice

I think my code would work perfectly except that os.utime does not actually work...
#python #code #programming

"There is no one out there doing what #Supergiant does as well as it does, and this exceptional action roguelite is some of this team’s best work on nearly every level (which is an astonishingly high bar to clear). It's the type of video #game that reminds me why I love video games so damn …

The Washington Post reports on 996,
"a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week..."
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/25/0…

Some Startups Are Demanding 12-Hour Days, Six Days a Week from Workers - Slashdot
The Washington Post reports on 996, "a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week..." As the artificial intelligence race heats up, many start-ups in Silicon Valley and New York are promoting hardcore culture as a way ...

Today's hardest decision:
- delay departure to work to poop on own toilet? Or
- go to work, poop on company dime

Work extraction from a quantum battery charged through an array of coupled cavities
I. Beder, D. Ferraro, P. A. Brand\~ao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19135 https://

Work extraction from a quantum battery charged through an array of coupled cavities
We investigate the problem of work extraction from a cavity-based quantum battery that is remotely charged via a transmission line composed of an array of coupled single-mode cavities. For uniform coupling along the line, we show that the ergotropy of the battery, evaluated at the point of maximum power transfer, decreases with the length of the charging line and vanishes beyond a critical size. By carefully engineering the initial state of the charger, nonzero ergotropy can still be harvested …

Monday's excellent adventure: business in NYC M-F, need to take the train. Not yet packed, chores-chores-chores around the house, train to catch at 2pm. At 12:29 I am still home, need to drop by work to drop off some stuff and then catch the red line to South Station to the Acela. So at 12:30 I hop on the cargo bike, assist to maximum, arrive at work 25 minutes later, leave bike in the "long term" parking, drop crap at desk, I have a few minutes to grab lunch,

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency
Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars

1/2: Someone at YouTube asked me if the 3080 Ti would work with FSR 4 INT8 in Cyberpunk 2077, and the answer is yes, it'll work - I tested this with my old GTX 1650 4Gb GDDR6, and the image improves drastically compared to FSR 2 and 3 and XeSS. Note: The FPS are worse even on FSR 4 Ultra Performance compared to native (1080p), but it works and it looks good.

When I design physical objects, I think in boxes and simple, usually circular-section curves. This has been true when I freehand build physical objects, as well as when I model things on the computer. Fillets are about as crazy as I get.
I'm in awe of artists whose design imaginations extend to "organic" shapes.
Reminds me of music a bit. I was a reasonably good high school musician. Played multiple instruments; did fine in music competition on several of them. That's just en…

Yet another #sigh. Everything I have read suggests these community based efforts are effective at reducing shootings. And police programs that work are rooted in partnership with community groups. But maybe the #millervought administration knows that and has other motives?

Yet another #sigh. Everything I have read suggests these community based efforts are effective at reducing shootings. And police programs that work are rooted in partnership with community groups. But maybe the #millervought administration knows that and has other motives?

Saints work out ex-Ravens kicker Justin Tucker after 10-game suspension, reportedly sign Cade York instead

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/justin-tucker-saints-ravens-kicker-allega…

Federal judge allows construction to resume on Rhode Island wind farm project after Trump administration halt. Safety is top priority for developer Orsted during progress. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

"Judge Says Work on Wind Farm Off Rhode Island Can Proceed, for Now"
"A federal judge ruled on Monday that the Danish energy company Orsted could restart work on Revolution Wind, a large wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that is nearly complete but had been abruptly halted last month by the Trump administration."

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers https://edintone.com/work-housing-health/ In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. @…

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers - Miscellanea Edintone
In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe Operatives Trade Union had 13,104 members; officials estimated that only 5% of adult workers were outside the union.

HC Sean Payton on the Week 8 point of emphasis: 'We've got to work on our first half' https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/hc-sean-payton-on-the-week-8-point-of-emphasis-we-ve-got-to-work-on-our-first-half…

Day 3: Octavia Butler.
Incredibly dark, graphic, and disturbing near-future science fiction, which has proved absolutely prophetic. In the 1990's she was writing about a charismatic Conservative Christian and white nationalist president elected in 2024, and the horrors his paramilitary followers would unleash, including forced labor & indoctrination camps. Did I mention those books include ebikes & pseudo-cellphones too? Characters fleeing north from a disastrous social collapse in Loss Angeles? This is "The Parable of the Sower" and "The Parable of the Talents" and the later was tragically rushed to an end because of Butler's declining health.
Her work deals unflinchingly with racism and the darker parts of society, and to those who might say "her depiction of social collapse is overblown," I'd say that while it's not literally the world we live in, it's *effectively* the world that the poorest of us live in. If you're a homeless undocumented latinx person in LA right now, I'm not sure how meaningfully different your world is from the one she depicts.
Her work comes with a strong content warning for lots of things, including racial violence, sexual abuse and slavery, including of children, animal harm, etc., so it's not for everyone. Reading it in 2023 was certainly an incredible trip. Her politics are really cool though; with explicit pro-LGBTQ themes and tinges of what might today be considered #SolarPunk.
#20WomenAuthors

It's not a bug, it's a feature! 🫩
#microsoft #windows #enshittification

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Lucy Pearl:
🎵 You
#LucyPearl
https://thedjedits.bandcamp.com/track/snoop-dogg-nate-dogg-warren-g-kurupt-lucy-pearl-you-aint-no-fun-g-funk-re-work-dirty
https://open.spotify.com/track/4rNi7a3TOLYkgnmLYdE73H

My main takeaway from the #jsd2025 was that A.I. is "just another tool". A.I. tools/agents simply amplify your existing workflows. You can't improve a bad process by sprinkling A.I around.
So y'all have to make it work for humans to do good and efficient work at first. All the best practices we know about need to be in place. If you achieved *that* your humans can …

Dutch political parties commit to work on a national ban on PFAS forever chemicals, including GroenLinks-PvdA, @… , SP, @… , @…

Deze zeven politieke partijen scharen zich achter een landelijk pfas-verbod
Een groep van zeven partijen, van PvdD tot NSC, wil pfas landelijk verbieden. Ze doen mee aan een ‘akkoord’ van milieu- en gezondheidsclubs.

Any social internet worth thinking about needs to be built on the idea of care.
- care for the wellbeing of the people on the network (moderation)
- care for those doing extra work (like moderation)
- care for each other (add alt-texts to images, thinking about inclusivity etc)
- care to make running infrastructure sustainable (in all respects)
The social Internet needs to be a web of human care.

Resolving an error with path-tracing and a 2-to-1 mapping in a work of Jang, So, and Marotta
Murali Meyer, Daniel Stoertz, Mike Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18543 https://

Resolving an error with path-tracing and a 2-to-1 mapping in a work of Jang, So, and Marotta
We identify two nontrivial errors in the proof of the main results of the work \emph{generalized baby Mandelbrot sets adorned with halos in families of rational maps} by Jang, So, and Marotta. We correct these errors, showing that the main results remain true.

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Feeling a bit underwater right now, but scheduling future obligations with confidence because I know that time itself will work completely differently three weeks from now

Learning the Wrong Lessons: Syntactic-Domain Spurious Correlations in Language Models
Chantal Shaib, Vinith M. Suriyakumar, Levent Sagun, Byron C. Wallace, Marzyeh Ghassemi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21155

Learning the Wrong Lessons: Syntactic-Domain Spurious Correlations in Language Models
For an LLM to correctly respond to an instruction it must understand both the semantics and the domain (i.e., subject area) of a given task-instruction pair. However, syntax can also convey implicit information Recent work shows that syntactic templates--frequent sequences of Part-of-Speech (PoS) tags--are prevalent in training data and often appear in model outputs. In this work we characterize syntactic templates, domain, and semantics in task-instruction pairs. We identify cases of spurious …

My big gripe with "AI" is that a big reason why it's sold as the second coming of Jesus is that most tech people fundamentally do not understand how it actually works.
Their reasoning goes something like, "It works sort of ok for code generation, and programming is the hardest possible thing in the world to do, every other human endeavor is trivial compared to writing code, therefore it must excel at anything else!".
So it ends up being pushed due to a mixture of ignorance and hubris; and especially being stuffed into things it should never be used for (usually when users don't have a say which software they need to use for work).
The finbros are happily along for the ride because they just need something that can be hyped to pump and dump.

My general experience from looking at a lot of RTL between work and open hardware stuff is that ASIC people seem to be more heavy users of advanced systemverilog features (structs, interfaces, etc) than FPGA people.
I know a lot of FPGA tools historically didn't have great support for these things but unless you're still using ISE or Vivado 2017 there's no excuse.
Anyone else see this trend too?

I wonder if people were much less enthusiastic about the stochastic parrots on hallucinogens if the SEO squad didn't put so much work into poisoning the web with their trash that normal people just couldn't find anything.

Another crazy week is in the can, so before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--DOJ accuses director of defense firm's cyber division of selling secrets to Russia,
--N. Korean IT workers snagged work as animators,
--Ethical hackers breached F1 database and got access to Verstappen's info,
--Hackers enabled theft of Shaquille O'Neal's custom Range Rover,

DOJ accuses director of defense firm's cyber division of selling secrets to Russia
N. Korean IT workers snagged work as animators, Ethical hackers breached F1 database and got access to Verstappen's info, Hackers enabled theft of Shaquille O'Neal's custom Range Rover, CSC 2.0 appeals to Trump to reverse cyber cuts, Apple may end App Tracking Transparency in Europe, much more

A survey of moment bounds for $\zeta(s)$: from Heath Brown's work to the present
Alexandra Florea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20335 https://arxiv.org/pd…

A survey of moment bounds for $ζ(s)$: from Heath Brown's work to the present
In this expository article, we review some of the ideas behind the work of Heath-Brown (D.~R. Heath-Brown, {\em Fractional moments of the Riemann Zeta Function}, J. Lond. Math. Soc., (2), {\bf 24}, no.1, (1981), 65--78) on upper and lower bounds for moments of the Riemann zeta-function, as well as the impact this work had on subsequent developments in the field. We survey recent results on the topic, which essentially recover the expected rate of growth for all moments - unconditionally for sma…

Thanks David, it's awesome to work with you again!
I love autumn... it's the best season! https://social.lol/@ctt/115267906889869863

Apparently I missed that as of last year, Proton now has Docs (https://proton.me/drive/docs) as an alternative to real-time editing via Google Docs (or Word docs). As of now, it appears Proton only has Docs for word processing and not one like Google Sheets for spreadsheets (yet? I'll need that functionality …

Create and collaborate on docs with total privacy | Proton
Proton Docs is end-to-end encrypted so your work stays safe from data breaches, online surveillance, and can never be fed into privacy-invading AI models.

Wow, I was today years old when I learned that It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id. Everywhere it is machines — real ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, machines being driven by other machines, with all the necessary couplings and connections.

I just sold a bunch of old glass doorknobs on craigslist. So if you're patient, CL still does work!

LingoQ: Bridging the Gap between ESL Learning and Work through AI-Generated Work-Related Quizzes
Yeonsun Yang, Sang Won Lee, Jean Y. Song, Sangdoo Yun, Young-Ho Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17477

LingoQ: Bridging the Gap between ESL Learning and Work through AI-Generated Work-Related Quizzes
Non-native English speakers performing English-related tasks at work struggle to sustain ESL learning, despite their motivation. Often, study materials are disconnected from their work context. Although workers rely on LLM assistants to address their immediate needs, these interactions may not directly contribute to their English skills. We present LingoQ, an AI-mediated system that allows workers to practice English using quizzes generated from their LLM queries during work. LingoQ leverages t…

"Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange
ht…

The @… team is hosting an event in London again. Meet at the ARIA offices and hear about building new tools for science.
Ink & Switch is hosting another Social in London on Nov. 11th at the Alan Turing Institute. I'll share some early scientific work in Patchwork, & Marcel will give a peek at the Playbook…

Ink & Switch London: Building new tools for Science · Luma
Ink & Switch's mission is to help computers become better tools for thought. We believe that the promise of computers as "intelligence amplifiers" or "bicycles…

ongoing destruction work

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…

So I don't want the MS app, Authy won't set up saying my phone isn't secure enough (lol I didn't want to set it up in the first place!), Google Authenticator won't work with the MS stuff, neither can I do TOTP setup with KeePassXC ... I don't want to have an availability problem, that is my main concern.

Anyone have any idea if https://Meet.Coop is still being maintained? Maybe someone at @… knows?
It had been working fine, but today, suddenly a few people couldn't get audio to work.…

meet.coop - The Online Meeting Cooperative
Online meeting and conferencing tools, powered by renewable energy running on cooperatively owned and managed infrastructure.

Employee surveillance is rising and it's a legal powder keg | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/fp-work/employee-surveillance-rise-legal-powder-keg

Apparently, this flag really sets someone off at work. Guess I’ll grab a few extra, can’t have too many of what he hates most. 🏳️‍⚧️
Just to be clear, I don’t bring my pride flags to work, I showed pictures of the ones hanging on my wall at home. 😉
https://butikk.oslopride.no/products/h

Work Experience Kid
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows #climate

Questions remain about MPD’s work with ICE. Activists want lawmakers to step in
#news

Questions remain about MPD’s work with ICE. Activists want lawmakers to step in
They say the D.C. Council should publicly question MPD about cooperation on immigration enforcement.

The camera work is making me ... "Dizzy!!" #totp

Greetings, Peeps.
I'm working a project.
To better inform my work, I need to gather some insights into how people use their broadband internet connections at home, so I created a survey! (As one does.)
Can you please take a moment to complete it, then maybe share it with your friends, family, and colleagues?
Thanks in advance. I really appreciate your help.

I'm mean, it needs work, but it's not THAT bad. #Wordle
Wordle 1 621 4/6
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

☎️ Did You Know That There Are Camera-Less iPhones?
#electronics

Did You Know That There Are Camera-Less iPhones?
If you work in a nuclear power plant, you might have a weird iPhone like this.

Google and Apple doing some interesting work to improve the safety of C software, and the results speak for themselves: "The baseline segmentation fault rate across the production fleet dropped by approximately 30 percent"
https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3773097

Integral Online Algorithms for Set Cover and Load Balancing with Convex Objectives
Thomas Kesselheim, Marco Molinaro, Kalen Patton, Sahil Singla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18383

Integral Online Algorithms for Set Cover and Load Balancing with Convex Objectives
Online Set Cover and Load Balancing are central problems in online optimization, and there is a long line of work on developing algorithms for these problems with convex objectives. Although we know optimal online algorithms with $\ell_p$-norm objectives, recent developments for general norms and convex objectives that rely on the online primal-dual framework apply only to fractional settings due to large integrality gaps. Our work focuses on directly designing integral online algorithms for …

It's so much easier to decide what to have for breakfast on a work day as it has to fit certain criteria (I can expand, if you're really interested), but on an at-home day it's too much of a free for all. Today I have to eat something that will either keep me going til about 1pm and get me through a climbing session, or have something lighter and then a snack before I go out around 11. Minefield. Not helped by the now indisputable finding that the more healthily I eat the worse m…

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

The people, united, will never be defeated.
Protest works, boycotts work.
Sinclair and Nexstar to reinstate Kimmel on ABC stations
#USpol

Sinclair and Nexstar to reinstate Kimmel on ABC stations
Viewers in Washington, DC, St Louis and Seattle will be able to watch the late night comedian's show again.

Ravens Partner With Mayor’s Office to Provide Work for Baltimore’s 'Squeegee Boys' https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/ravens-squeegee-boys-parking-lots-baltimo…

I started biking to work in August and it's now the end of November and I've done it 50 times in those 4 months.
That's 50 days I rode a bike instead of driving a car... about 650 miles by bike instead of car.
#bikeTooter #cycling

The very little I know (•very• little! grain of salt!) about getting people out of a cult is that arguing with them just makes them dig in — but gentle, persistent questioning that leads to ever-increasing cumulative cognitive dissonance can actually help them find their way out of the psychological maze. Repeated •questions• — just questions — sustained over time. Make the constructed reality require more and more work to maintain. Make the pile of nagging doubts get larger and larger. Be patient and be persistent.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Steely Dan:
🎵 Dirty Work
#SteelyDan
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/steely-dan-dirty-work-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/3IvTwPCCjfZczCN2k4qPiH
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

https://san.com/cc/company-that-sells-spyware-for-monitoring-sex-offenders-hacked/
A file titled “officers” in the leak contains 6,896 entries for people who work in the criminal-justice system and who currently or have previously used RemoteCOM…

Company that sells spyware for monitoring sex offenders hacked
A company that sells spyware that monitors individuals on parole and probation had its data leaked to a cybercrime forum.

I'm running an improvised tutorial on #Zotero at my work tomorrow. Do you all have useful tips that I could share with my "students" - beyond the basics? Or specific use cases that you might use it for, beyond citing references in papers that you write?
For example I recently moved on to using its integrated PDF reader for peer-reviewing and it works well…

The "l", ";" and down arrow keys on my work _aptop are broken (though the _ast two work if I mash them enough), so I have to copy paste "l" from Character Map _ike a boomer typing with two fingers.
I keep forgetting this at home where I use an externa mechanica keyboard. Quicky reminded sitting in this Tire Shop getting winter shoes on.

I really do struggle with motivation for putting things on my site. I've done SO MUCH work recently that's not on there, but I have some kind of block that stops me.
I'm unsure how to break through that block.
#Wellbeing #Work

@… wtf, on my phone I got a different MFA setup now with TOTP as usual. Gosh... and of course they want another channel. Phone number didn't work, so they forced me to link the MS account to another email address.
I hate MFA.
Hope I can get my email again at least.

It's worth supporting this - Given the way these companies either actively support, or, at best, have acquiesced to the demands of the #bigots, they need to be shown that keeping customers is more than just a matter of shopping convenience - #Respect for all, and working to remove barriers affecting dis…

It's worth supporting this - Given the way these companies either actively support, or, at best, have acquiesced to the demands of the #bigots, they need to be shown that keeping customers is more than just a matter of shopping convenience - #Respect for all, and working to remove barriers affecting dis…

Donnie continues to attempt to create problems so that he can claim he's the only one capable of solving them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/gun-violence-prevention-non-profit-grants-disqualified

She's worked at a hospital for more than half a decade at this point. This has given her valuable insights.. 😂

Trump says Microsoft should fire its global affairs head Lisa Monaco over her work in the Biden administration, calling her a "menace to US National Security" (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/26/trump-microsoft-lisa-monaco

Trump demands Microsoft oust president over Biden-era ties
Monaco was deputy attorney general in the Biden administration.

Visual Tools for Input and Reflection in Social Work
Alexander Rind (St. P\"olten University of Applied Sciences), Julia Boeck (St. P\"olten University of Applied Sciences)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20307

Visual Tools for Input and Reflection in Social Work
Social workers need visual tools to collect information about their client's life situation, so that they can reflect it together and choose tailored interventions. easyNWK and easyBiograph are two visual tools for the client's social network and life history. We recently redesigned both tools in a participatory design project with social work faculty and professionals. In this short paper we discuss these tools from perspective of input visualization systems.

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Around 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 TSA officers are facing work without pay,
leading to surging absences and sick says.
Since the shutdown began on October 1, staff absences have contributed to 53 percent of all flight delays compared to the usual 5 percent.
On some days almost 6,000 flights have been hit by delays, with several major airports forced to impose ground stops due to the shortages.
On Friday, more than 4,000 flights were delayed across the c…

Travel chaos as unpaid air traffic controllers abandon towers... while Thanksgiving threat looms
Americans will face more flight interruptions after Congress failed to provide last-minute relief for air-traffic controllers and aviation workers whose paychecks will stall due to the government shutdown.

Technically I got this bike last month (August 31st) but I just hit 300 miles during a lunch time ride at work.
I'll add another 6 miles getting home just to make it legit 300 miles this month.
The best thing about this ebike is that I can ride and ride and ride and my 55 year old bum knee doesn't make me pay for it later.
#bikeTooter

Day 29: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
I've been sitting on Simpson for a while because there's some overlap in her writing with Robin Wall Kimmerer, and I've had a lot of different genres/styles/subjects/media I've wanted to post at least one author from. But I've now hit repeats on at least YA romance and manga, and Simpson's writing is actually quite different from Kimmerer's in a lot of ways. While Kimmerer is a biologist by training and literally braids that knowledge together with her knowledge of Potawatomi cosmology and ethics, Simpson is an Anishinaabe philosopher and anarchist, and her position as a scholar of Indigenous philosophy adds a different depth to her work: she talks in more depth about knowledge relationships and her connections with specific elders, and she has more citations to other Indigenous theorists, which is the one criticism I've ever seen of Kimmerer's work. Rather than being Indigenous and a scientist, she's Indigenous and a scholar of indigenous studies.
I've only read "Theory of Water" by Simpson, but it was excellent, and especially inspiring to read as an anarchist. Simpson's explicit politics are another difference from Kimmerer's work, which is more implicitly than explicitly political. This allows Simpson to draw extremely interesting connections to other anarchist theorists and movements. "Theory of Water" is probably a bit less accessible than "Braiding Sweetgrass," but it's richer from a theory perspective as a result.
In any case, Simpson is a magnificent writer, sharing personal insights and stories along with (and inseparable from) her theoretical ideas.
#30AuthorsNoMen

HC Sean Payton on facing the Cowboys' offense: 'We're at work right now preparing for it' https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/hc-sean-payton-on-facing-the-cowboys-offense-we-re-at-work-right-now-preparing-for…

"Don’t look up: how Trump’s deregulation drive could obscure the stars and threaten our access to space"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/sep/26/trump-rocket-launches-executive-order-threatens-sta…

Inside India's growing ~$1.5B e-waste recycling industry, about 95% of workers are employed informally, doing dangerous, toxic, and lawless work for meager pay (Yashraj Sharma/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/india-e-waste-recycling-electronics/

Inside India’s billion-dollar e-waste empire
The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.

I had to switch to the milk crate on the back of the bike today to deliver a large package at work, so no "bike light box" today, but I also need to not do a long ride after work as sunset is at 5:56pm today.
Maybe I'll rig up a temporary bike light at work... we've got all the parts!
(I did fix the bike light box but it's at home.)
#bikeTooter

Only Donald Trump would try to prove he wasn’t threatening ABC by threatening ABC.
“You almost have to feel sorry for the people who work for him,
who try to clean up the messes,”
he added. “They go to all these lengths to say,
‘Oh, it wasn’t coercion!
The president was just musing!’
And then the second Trump is alone, he sits on the toilet,
he gets his grubby little thumbs on his phone,
and he immediately blows their excuses to smithereens&quo…

Model ML, which aims to use AI agents to automate grunt work done by investment bankers like making pitch decks, raised $75M, after raising $12M earlier in 2025 (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Edit: that was fast!! I got it now THANK YOU :)
Does anyone have pdf of this article?

• #Elsevier website is n…

Only Donald Trump would try to prove he wasn’t threatening ABC by threatening ABC.
“You almost have to feel sorry for the people who work for him,
who try to clean up the messes,”
he added. “They go to all these lengths to say,
‘Oh, it wasn’t coercion!
The president was just musing!’
And then the second Trump is alone, he sits on the toilet,
he gets his grubby little thumbs on his phone,
and he immediately blows their excuses to smithereens&quo…

The two battery packs are easy to pull out and swap, they are held into 3D printed mounts with hook & loop straps.
I should have made the control box more of a quick disconnect thing, as I still need to work on the code... it's held in place by four screws.
The RD-6 has two 3D printed mounts on the side, with felt glued to them to prevent plastic-on-plastic rubbing.
I do not have a spare battery for the amp yet... maybe later.

A look at the possible remedies a US court might impose on Google after its antitrust loss last year, including a breakup, with a decision expected this week (Tim Wu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion…

Opinion | Google Could Get Broken Up This Week for Antitrust Violations. Here’s What It Would Mean.
It will be effective if people who work at big tech companies start quitting their jobs.

After two decades in Congress,
Darrell Issa’s career is all about serving the ultra-wealthy like himself
– and serving Donald Trump. It’s time to send him packing and take our country back. 
On the City Council,
Marni von Wilpert
flipped San Diego’s reddest seat blue.
Now, she’s ready to do it again – in Congress.
https://www.

Marni von Wilpert for Congress
Marni von Wilpert is running for Congress to tackle the skyrocketing cost of living, protect reproductive freedom, defend LGBTQ rights, and make Washington work for working families — not just the wealthy few. With a proven record of service, results, and winning tough races, Marni is the battle-tested fighter we need to flip CA-48 and finally send Darrell Issa packing.

OpenAI releases GDPval, a benchmark to test AI performance on "economically valuable, real-world tasks", and says Claude Opus 4.1 was the best performing model (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/openai-says-g…

OpenAI says GPT-5 stacks up to humans in a wide range of jobs | TechCrunch
A new test from OpenAI aims to understand how close AI is to outperforming humans at economically valuable work.

xAI sues OpenAI in California for allegedly stealing trade secrets by means of hiring away key employees; in August, xAI sued an ex-staffer who left for OpenAI (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/musks-xai-sues-openai-alleging-theft-of-trad…

Musk’s xAI sues OpenAI, alleging theft of trade secrets
Following a recent lawsuit against a former employee over allegedly stealing trade secrets, Musk’s xAI is now suing the company that executive left to work for — OpenAI. The suit accuses OpenAI of “inducing” recruits that it poached to steal trade secrets from the company.

The Trump administration is cancelling another $175m in funding for California’s high-speed rail,
marking another setback for the state’s much-delayed project.
The US transportation department said on Tuesday it was withdrawing funding the $175m for grade separation, over-crossing and design work and to build a high-speed rail station in Madera.
The move follows the cancellation earlier this summer of $4bn in federal grants for the state’s ambitious but long-overdue plans.…

An interview with California state Senator Scott Wiener on his new AI safety bill SB 53, the bill's scope, his focus on AI safety bills, AI PACs, and more (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/scott-wiener-on-his-fi…

Scott Wiener on his fight to make Big Tech disclose AI's dangers | TechCrunch
The California lawmaker is on his second attempt to pass a first-in-the-nation AI safety bill. This time, it might work.

Kim Stenger has a condition called complete sensory neuropathy.
She's the only living person that has no sense of touch, pain or temperature.
Stenger was diagnosed with the condition at birth.
Doctors thought she would be in a vegetative state.
-- She proved everyone wrong.
"I have my JD, my law degree, and I currently work at our county prosecutor's office," Stenger said.
"I do criminal law research and writing.
"I had t…