Tootfinder

Would you stop work? Just tell them you’re not coming in until this is over? What would that look like? Would you get fired? Would you still get fired if your whole team or half your division refused to work? If your union was ready to strike over it?
Maybe you can’t stop work. Maybe you’re unemployed. Maybe you’re retired. Maybe you still have people to take care of — from your income, or as part of the job you do. •Think• about it. What •could• you stop, work or otherwise? How could you prepare for that, save now, be ready?
8/

Dr. Gladys West,
the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology,
has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95.
Born into poverty on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, West grew up in a segregated South where opportunity was scarce.
Through determination and extraordinary academic talent,
she graduated first in her high school class and earned a scholarship to Virginia State College …

Colossal Statues of Ancient Pharoah Stand Again in Luxor After 30 Years of Work https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/colossal-statues-of-ancient-pharoah-stand-again-in-luxor-after-30-years-of-work/

What Can I Teach? Will Martin Luther King’s Work Be Censored Next? - The Barbed Wire https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/19/will-martin-luther-kings-work-be-censored-next/

For Now.
There’s a glitch in the model here because Disney or whoever can easily mix original work with AI-created work in such a way that the amalgamated works are protected. AI isn’t copylefted: it doesn’t infect works that it is linked to. @…

Coca-Cola sued by US agency over work event that excluded men
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/19/coca-cola-work-discrimination-lawsuit-men-women-only-event

The Horns and Whistles Work (Amanda Moore/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/the-horns-and-whistles-work/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p66#a251219p66

Raiders report: Patrick Graham defends team’s effort, work ethic https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-report-patrick-graham-defends-teams-effort-work-ethic-3597528/

Your Donations at Work: Funding Josh Matthews' Contributions to Servo - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
https://servo.org/blog/2025/09/17/your-donations-at-work-funding…

SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent #Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks
#LLM …

“When we think of technology as a tool that can be used for good as well as evil, we also think that we are in control of why, when, and for what it is used. But this is only partly the case. We may decide to buy a car to drive ourselves to work. And thus we may think of the car as a tool to achieve our goal of getting to work as fast as possible. But we never made the decision that fast is better than slow. It’s an idea that comes with the car. So is the idea that it should be easy and conveni…

If you watched cartoons in the 90s or early 2000s, you probably heard some of Guy Moon's amazing theme songs and scores. Guy passed away earlier this month after injuries from a car accident- I wrote this short piece over at Animated TV Blog to commemorate his work: https://animatedtvblo…

A profile of Bari Weiss and an in-depth look at her hostile takeover of CBS News; a source says Weiss has said she is pursuing a "de-Baathification of CBS" (Clare Malone/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01

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 -

I'm using Davmail to get Linux to talk to Outlook for my work email.
https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
Works great, except for a tedious manual re-authentication every 90 days.
Panicking today, though, when re-authentication appeared to work at first and then stopped. Has MS put another…

The Unfinished Work: Why Artists Demand Proof of Life
A playwriting teacher of mine once said something that has rattled around in my head for decades: "You can write a play, but it doesn't exist until it finds life in the first production." The Chair of our department disagreed with that assertion, and vehemently so. The script is the work, he argued. The text is complete in itself. The playwright's obligation ends when the final period strikes the page.

My batteries are always low after a long day of work.
No, not emotionally. The devices I work with just take up all my USB ports, leaving my phone empty.

On Monday, Nov. 24,
after more than 1,100 days on strike,
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members were cheered on by supporters
at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh
before returning to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Even though strikers have returned to work, however,
many issues at the center of the strike are still in legal limbo
—and their fight for a fair contract is not over.
In this episode of Working People, we speak with three Newspap…

Where should I work next? :elmo_fire:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Frankie and The Witch Fingers:
🎵 Work
#FrankieandTheWitchFingers
https://audiotree.bandcamp.com/track/work
https://open.spotify.com/track/3U7mcNSn5qeJOEkBFQCVpq

An absolutely extraordinary look at how to improve rendering of ASCII art, first in static images, then in motion. As he gets into contrast enhancement for complex grayscale animations, the vector lookup works starts to be parallel to work happening with language models. Just an excellent narration. https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-…

OpenAI releases GPT‑5.2-Codex, with improvements on long-horizon work through context compaction, stronger performance on large code changes, and more (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/

IDK if you can’t make games without making unethical shortcuts (labor exploitation, never-ending crunch, AI plagiarism, etc.) because otherwise you’d need “300 people and 7 years”, maybe work on making games that are better?
A lot of the really big games of the last decades were initially made by just a few people with really great basic game loops.

Want to be my new section lead?
These jobs don't come up very often, but if you want to work with a friendly and diverse bunch of scientists at the leading edge of high resolution regional climate and climate services development, give it a look. 🇪🇺🇩🇰🇬🇱🌍🇦🇶
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=5001&ProjectId=192370&DepartmentId=6145&MediaId=5

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Writing database queries is too close to the metal. Best practices don’t work! It’s time to make SQL enterprise-scale with utility classes.
https://tailwindsql.xyz/

Some workers are going all in on AI while also questioning whether all that AI is good for the world. Others are effectively training machines to do their jobs better than they can. And many of the same workers who are racing to build the future are now wondering if the future they’re building has a place for them in it.

Last-minute leverage might work against Cowboys in Pickens deal talks https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/18/cowboys-problematic-reputation-impacts-george-pic…

This was an interesting problem to work on (back in 2017): A visualization of a path planner for 3D printing (FDM) a single layer/mesh structure of a multi-layer textile. Two setups of the same path strategy which optimized for longest continuous sub-paths and minimum rapids (distance without filament extrusion) between sub-paths. The planner supported six strategies in total, incl. optimizing for straight sub-paths and minimum amounts of "recent" crossings (to allow filament to co…

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

Anyone here has any experience with a ToDo/Shopping list one can
- self host
- has an Android app
- allows sharing lists between users
?
(I have already googled, only interested in actual experience)
(EDIT: I am asking for an app because I want to be usable by another person who's not looking for an ideological project or an opportunity to learn markdown or how weird PWAs work. That's why a dedicated app would be a plus. )

“What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own. This isn't a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It's the opposite of that. It's taking something that worked and making it worse.”
@… on how Microsoft …

Your Nervous System is Not a Machine — https://www.brichapman.com/p/your-nervous-system-is-not-a-machine?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rsc/115924064984026510
This may finally be the end (for me at least) of a conversation started 30 or so years ago, when Ken Thompson and I tried to figure out a clean way to convert to and from digital representations of floating point numbers.
Nice work, @…

For work I have a script that archives a bunch of files from time to time (they are usually around 4.5GiB). After compression with 7-Zip defaults they get reduced to about 515 MiB but since it is a limited VM this takes half an hour. I played with 7z options and got it down to a reasonable size (685MiB) in around 48s, which is great but playing further with other compression options I found a Zstandard combo that got it down to around 800 MiB in only 20 seconds. Much bigger but small enough …

I ended up getting Vikunja installed locally and it will probably take the place of Planka, which has some weird proxy issue I can’t easily work around. Vikunja also has more features, some of which Planka was specifically lacking.
#SelfHosting #selfhosted

Sure it's on linkedin, but I think this will resonate with everyone building internal tooling #tech #softwaredevelopment

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to
be appointed to do the work.

Client explaining spec: “Clicking the drop-down opens a product grid menu with pop-ups to choose colors.”
Me: “Wut.”
Technical pedantry is important in UI and digital accessibility work. As practitioners we have to translate lingo all the time.
Suggestions…
• Drop-down: https://adrianroselli.…

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

Looking for a CSIO (Chief Stop It Officer) position for my next career move. The organization comes to me with some wacky idea, and after much consideration, I say, "No, Stop It!” and we all go back to doing normal-ass work.
Send only serious offers my way.
Update: For a bit extra, I'll squirt your department leads with a water spray bottle.

Progress! Now 3 VMs to upgrade to Trixie in the next day or two, plus my office workstation and core router which are scheduled for upgrade during the maintenance outage later.
And I only have 8 VMs to switch over to the new storage setup before I can work on upgrading the hypervisor.

I gave the entire class an extension until 11:59 tonight, the last possible minute they can submit course work without going through the troublesome (and expensive) process of petitioning the registrar's office for permission to submit late. Half still have not turned anything in with just over 2 hours left on the clock. I'm starting to get nervous.

Qué tiempos cuando todo el mundo decía que el Metaverso era lo mejor del mundo y había venido para quedarse ¿eh? https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-metaverse-for-work-too

I have possibly discovered good admin news in the last week of the year which I may be able to use to help someone out at work. 🤩 much better than the usual "can't do that" #vagueposting

I just realized that the iPad that I keep on my desk while I work automagically becomes an additional screen for some reason? I was trying to fix some code when I noticed that the mouse cursor ended up there.
#MacOS #iPadOS

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@squidfunk/115739987490118848
since nobody listened to me, now you heard it from The Man: stop using MkDocs 😇
⁃ Sphinx: still maintained
⁃ API docs and cross links: work out of the box
⁃ MyST (Markdown in Sphinx): …

"China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban"
#China #Environment #Rivers

Create Like A Human
What if your content could work as hard as you do...without you creating more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/create-like-a-human/

🚨Paper Alert!🚨
Our work on Precambrian basement deep beneath the Williston Basin in #NorthDakota. We looked at two >2900 m drill cores, sampling the W edge of the Superior Craton and E margin of the 1.9 - 1.8 Ga Trans-Hudson Orogeny. ⚒️🧪 (T Nesheim, myself, J Vervoort)

Beim Besuch in Paris fordert der US-Energieminister Chris Wright von der #IEA ihre Klimaarbeit aufzugeben und sich allein auf scheinbare Energiesicherheit zu konzentrieren. Wright kritisierte die IEA dafür, dass sie dem Klimawandel Priorität einräumt und nannte dies "politisches Zeug".
my take:
Wer alte Atomkraftwerke reaktiviert, Fracking propagiert, Windkraft und Solar stoppt…

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.

Great call to action by Dariusz Jemielniak in Nature: academics should contribute to Wikipedia, and such work should be recognized.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00075-0

A good example of how governments can make the roll-out of public charging infrastructure faster and cheaper: by integrating permission for construction work into an existing digital platform for road works.
https://www.independent.co.uk/cars/electri

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iamkonstantin/115920891093567398
I am incredibly happy to be able work with Konstantin and can recommend hiring him 100%

Okay, after a bit of work in #vlang:
- I think I prefer golang though I really prefer the error system of `v`.
- I enjoy writing code in `nim` more than `v`. While I do enjoy `v` more than `rust`, the documentation and support extensions are better for almost every other language which makes things difficult starting out.

There are some REALLY GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS on this app!
Such a joy to see their work, every day.

Compilers are deterministic machines built by very smart humans. CNC manufacturing is deterministic machines built by very smart humans. In both cases, they produce higher quality output with more precision and repeatability than almost any skilled human.
LLMs are non-deterministic Autocomplete that produce lower quality output with worse precision than a human, and nobody actually knows how they work.
Comparing them to justify AI is simply not valid.

One of the best innovations in personal computers has been the rise of scalable UI. Everyone now expects to be able to zoom something to make it larger, or for higher density displays to work correctly and be clearer. That was unthinkable 15 years ago. We have Apple's push to Retina to thank for that.

If REM sleep cycles are ~90mins, hth did anyone think that an 8hour sleep aim would work?

I know I talk a lot about technical challenges & frustrations of IT work, however:
I’ve had clients tip me
Gotten Christmas cards
Christmas presents
One client sends me a pie every year
And my all-time favorite, a scrawled note from a little girl thanking me for setting up her computer

I've been working on assembling my one-kilogram QSO¹ kit. I set a 1kg limit including the case into which to cram everything I need to work POTA on a whim because it's just bouncing around in the bottom of my backpack. I'm still working out what to carry for filter, choke, and ununs; after I'm done, I'll write up the whole kit with pictures.
I just swapped out a 20Ah Anker power bank for an 88g

"Taking small steps is crucial. You might start by just learning about your immediate neighborhood, how things actually work, finding ways to intervene in things that are not working well. Understand the water supply and how to keep it clean. ... Share. Share what you have."
—YDS professor Willie James Jennings in this interview in the new issue of Reflections, focused on building hope for a living planet

Strikes run on pizza.
Turns out they also can begin to end on them.
Several pies, in fact, arrived on North Shore Drive on the brisk Tuesday that was Oct. 18, 2022,
when the strikers first walked out of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom
because the PG had violated federal labor law.
The workers said they would not go back to their jobs until their employer followed the rules.
They had no idea it would take three years
and become the nation’s lon…

Maybe it’s not work but something else in your life that stops. I don’t know…but you do. What in your life allows the country to continue to function normally? What’s a plug that you can personally pull?
Look for that. Think about it. And get yourself ready. Build up your savings now. Build up your psychological readiness now.
And then…
9/

Sources: Apple is ramping up work on wearables with cameras and Siri, including smart glasses, AirPods, and a pendant that can be worn as a necklace or pinned (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

The thing about ranting about other social networks is: it's not helpful to anyone other than maybe some temporary catharsis.
The way to get people to move off one social network to another one is to be super welcoming and make it easy—not to chastize or judge or gatekeep.
And most importantly do the hard work of recruiting. Go to that other network and convince people there's better places.

@… maybe something with a diamond ok it needs work but there is something there

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

#Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-ga

It's been a rough week because so many computer things I wanted to do just were too difficult, didn't work, or I ended up spending (wasting?) too much time on them.
Some things did work though, and I learned a lot. Some of what I learned is that computers and certain companies (and people) suck, but there's always a way around things that don't work.

The Writers Guild Staff Union calls a work stoppage, one month before the WGA begins AMPTP negotiations, accusing the WGA West of bad faith bargaining (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/wga-west-staff-strike-ahead-of-amptp-negoti…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Steely Dan:
🎵 Dirty Work
#SteelyDan
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/steely-dan-dirty-work-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/3IvTwPCCjfZczCN2k4qPiH

I woke up angry today.
ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams is a liar, who is bad at lying.
“Asked if the ICE officers chased Lopez, Williams said: ‘Chased? I wouldn’t say that. They followed him until he crashed.’”
Wouldn’t say that? How about: ICE was committing crime (their standard procedure), someone died, they’re the killers. Your people killed a school teacher, Williams.
Have the day you deserve, you apologist scum.

AI bros are just loving open source — loving it to death... maybe quite literally! (Godot being latest popular example[1])
More and more projects are impacted by floods of bogus AI pull requests and resulting discussions, stealing precious time and nerves away from their maintainers doing actual productive work. More buggy and insecure software (incl. commercial offerings) due to slopcoding, more websites getting attacked daily by AI crawlers in desperate search for any new bits (liter…

US civil rights agency sues Coca-Cola distributor for excluding men from casino work trip (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/dei-coca-cola-eeoc-lawsuit-andrea-lucas-867fd98ec6d05ab52e7e0a3711e9d492
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p90#a260219p90

Very interesting: German energy regulator @… is contemplating granular (locational, 15-minute basis) dynamic network fees. Prices can work both ways, to guide charging & discharging e.g. from batteries (first target group).

UK AI Security Institute report: AI models are rapidly improving at potentially dangerous biological and chemical tasks, and show fast jumps in self-replication (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/aisi-ai-s

Here in Minneapolis, in some ways it’s already happening: people are putting so many hours into community work, and are so exhausted and distracted when they’re at their jobs, now normal life is…well, not shut down, but severely compromised. But that’s necessity. Life continues even in war zones far more dire than this one.
I am talking about something else: shutting down normal life not out of necessity but by choice, in righteous anger.
11/

@… I think I’m the wrong person to give this feedback to, I don’t work on the model sharing web site 😅

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

I got a Megalodon Triple Knob Macro Pad running QMK last year, mainly for a potential project for a client which didn't pan out so I decided to start using it.
Sadly, it's a piece of shit that bricked itself for macros, so I have a macro pad that cannot macro.
I have a way to make it work (hack!) but it's a pain in the ass.
I want to blame the hardware and not the firmware for this. Seems like it might be an EEPROM issue since even reflashing does not fix it.

"Let's just…admit…if your wrists get in the way of ICE zip ties, if your lungs dare to breathe…our chemical weapons without written permission in advance, or if your body and face get in the way of ICE munitions, that was illegal of you. So if you're really honest with yourself, you deserved it and have no one to blame but yourself. People who follow laws don't get targeted by ICE, as being a target is a clear indication of criminality on the part of the target."
…

As promised, over the past few days I've been scouting for accounts on several Mastodon and Pixelfed servers related to #AltProcess photography & print making, in the hope to get more insights into each others' work/creations/experiences, successes & failures etc. Obviously the list below (in A-Z order) is NOT meant to be exhaustive in any way or form and if you feel you'd…

Denmark says Russia was behind "destructive and disruptive" cyberattacks on a water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the lead-up to local November elections (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…

Nebraska plans to be the first state to implement Trump's new Medicaid work requirements (Geoff Mulvihill/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-work-requirements-oz-nebraska-d5a9162ede90c95e06bd45d6b7e16f8a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p130#a251217p130

I’ve seen students panic and ••delete their entire local clone•• of a project (discarding all of their unpushed work!!) because they were so sure they’re ruined everything when they encountered a tiny merge conflict.
Of course I try to counter this — warning them up front about what a merge conflict looks like, helping them overcome their fear of asking for help, doing hands-on exercises with intentionally creating merge conflicts — but the fact “OMG DELETE EVERYTHING” could •ever• be a newcomer’s response to a minor merge conflict is a blaring klaxon of design failure.
/end

@… @… y’all are doing amazing work 🏆

Deciding when to recess the House to "district work periods" isn't some inherent or longstanding power of the Speaker.
It was only added to the rules for the first time in this Congress.
Otherwise this would have required the full House to vote on it, which could have been defeated.
As expected, in order to avoid a vote on extension of the ACA,
Mike Johnson is gaveling the House into recess.

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

A US judge rules ex-Palantir employees likely violated confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements in founding Percepta, but declines to stop their work (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

There’s a lot to be said about that story beyond just “Spotify sucks:” how internships can be exploitative, how creators in general do not receive (and historically long have not received) proper compensation for their own work, how orgs especially treat women and especially Black women as disposable free labor. Details left as an exercise for the reader.
2/

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

Molly White:
I'm one person writing about an enormous amount of corruption and chaos in a sector that few publications cover well — or at all.
Please consider supporting my work with a pay-what-you-want subscription:
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2

Docs: DHS has signed a five-year, $1B blanket purchase agreement with Palantir, allowing agencies like ICE to skip the competitive bidding process (Makena Kelly/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/department-homeland-security-ice-billion-dollar-…

I feel awful for our expert civil servants who faithfully served our country only to be fired by unqualified, uncaring, irresponsible men who couldn't even make it one year doing government work.
Looking at you Elon and retiring FBI director Dan Bongino.
https://bsky.app/profile/amandacar…

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $200M from Autodesk, part of a larger round; the companies are exploring integrating World Labs' AI models in Autodesk products (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/worl

White House economic adviser says Fed researchers should be punished
Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser to Donald Trump, on Wednesday
assailed a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finding that U.S. companies shoulder most of the costs of tariffs,
-- calling for the central bank to punish the researchers behind the work, which he characterized as an “embarrassment.”

“What they’ve done is they put out a conclusion, which has created a lot of news, that…

Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-meta…