Tootfinder

"Musk — who amplified conspiracy theories surrounding the 2022 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi — again waded into the fray.
“**The far left is murderously violent,” he wrote on X the same day he said he was working to reprogram X’s AI program Grok because it was spreading “leftist indoctrination.**”
How the ‘politically motivated’ shooting of Minnesota lawmakers unleashed right-wing conspiracy theories | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/conspiracy-theories-minnesota-shooting-suspect-b2770561.html

My bike&hike yesterday 🙂
This is when I talk about mountainbiking: not fierce downhills - but uphills 😄 Including an evil ramp of 23% incline (regarding my cycling computer - and my legs) on gravel that I didn't expect.
(especially as I was carrying a backpack including camera and tele-lens)
Still working on the photos from the day before. Today is a rest-day for me.
My legs still feel a bit sore. My back is fine already

I used to think this was a great example of working in production. Now, it's more like day-to-day living with #longcovid
Lumbar puncture was today, so no exercise or working too hard for 48 hours. Not a bad thing, I suppose 🤔

Protesters against immigration raids in LA damaged and set several Waymo autonomous taxis on fire on Sunday; Waymo says it is working with law enforcement (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-08…

Waymo vehicles set on fire in downtown L.A, as protesters, police clash
As Los Angeles police struggled with another day of unrest in downtown L.A., several Waymo autonomous taxis were set on fire, sending black smoke billowing into the air.

The first MS-A2 node is up and it only took the entire day. After fixing a ton of networking issues across the homelab I've got all the VMs running on the new node. The old nodes have been decomissioned which kinda marks a milestone. Still need to get the other two new nodes into the cluster, but should be fairly straightforward and can wait until tomorrow.
#homelab

Here is Alex Steffen echoing my thoughts (or I'm echoing his - either way, we're agreeing with each other.) https://open.substack.com/pub/alexsteffen/p/after-earth-day?r=asd4o&utm_campaign=post&am…

After Earth Day
The biggest error of my working life (so far).

"You should know Trump isn’t doing this on his own. The Hoover Institution has been plotting revenge against FDR since 1932. Groups like the Heritage Foundation and Heartland Foundation are generations old. The Federalist Society has been promising to overturn liberal justice since the 1960s. The Religious Right started working to overturn Roe v. Wade the day it was promulgated. All these groups have big money, and they play the long game.
What’s happening today is their platform, backed by their research. The fact it won’t work, that the 20th century won’t be put back into a bottle, that the Amendments put in place after 1865 somehow aren’t part of the “real” Constitution, is yet to be proven by events."
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/all-in-the-family

Für die breite Verwendung von #KI, speziell im Kontext #Schule, muss sichergestellt sein, dass #LLMs user:innen nicht zu selbstgefährdendem Verhalten animieren.
Das Nonprofit Transluce arbeitet an verschie…

Surfacing Pathological Behaviors in Language Models
We train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to craft realistic natural-language prompts that elicit specified behaviors in frontier open-weight models (Llama 3.1/4, Qwen 2.5, and DeepSeek-V3), using a proposed variational lower bound to guide the search.

lovely thread and poem by Muni bus operator @…!
https://bsky.app/profile/thatmc.bsky.social/post/3lqoirslm2k23

That Mack (@thatmc.bsky.social)
Willie Brown Middle School is a San Francisco 6-8 in the Bayview District. For the entire ‘24-‘25 school year, I have been driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy bus that stops there right after school gets out. That trip has been the busiest and most challenging part of my working day.

masks at protests / demographics 2/n
I wonder about the influence of employment, as well. If you're at risk every work day, I could well imagine it seeming pointless to start being careful the rest of the time, and maybe just too cognitively dissonant to consider.
I remember in 2020, someone I knew was working at Waterstones, and they were forbidden to mask up at work - even though 2020 was before the whole "covid is over" thing.
I also remember reading about someone - maybe a nurse? that _kind_ of job, anyway - who'd started wearing a fitted mask while the default in their workplace was baggy blues, and iirc was formally rebuked. It wasn't allowed.
If for whatever reason you're unable to hold down a typical job, you might not have much cash for _getting_ things like masks, but you're also not under that same kind of economic pressure to put yourself at risk.
#masks #work #CovidIsntOver

This morning I have a meeting with a PhD student who's working on the history of media coverage of the royals in Canada at exactly the same time as the throne speech. Maybe that's the least interesting part of the day?

I'm taking a mental health day and I am working on installing #Watchtower on the home server while drinking a fucking lovely v60. I guess this is what the heart wants?

Now this is uncool: Today morning it rained slightly and I only did a walk instead of a cycling loop.
During the day it was amazingly great weather.
Now as I finished working I see a thunderstorm outside ... this doesn't feel fair