Tootfinder

So stupid
This has to stop
https://bsky.app/profile/financialtimes.com/post/3mcuvf2gc6b22

Financial Times (@financialtimes.com)
We are here at Davos to make one thing crystal clear: With President Trump, capitalism has a new sheriff in town,' the US secretary of commerce writes. ft.trib.al/T0bsd6l

Josh Shapiro Writes That Harris Team Asked if He Had Ever Been an Israeli Agent (Katie Glueck/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/politics/josh-shapiro-memoir-kamala-harris.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p80#a260118p80

"The most recent orbital computations make it increasingly likely that the object [the new #Kreutz comet MAPS] is a fragment of one of the comets observed by Ammianus Marcellinus in AD 363, thereby strengthening evidence in support of the contact-binary hypothesis of the Kreutz system," writes Zdenek Sekanina in https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17626: "In this context, the comet is the only second-generation fragment of Aristotle's comet that we are aware of to appear after the 12th century. It does not look like a major fragment, but rather like an outlying fragment of a much larger sungrazer."

One sad thing, a Tik Tok trend, is threats of school shootings. Someone picks an arbitrary date and then writes a threat of a shooting. If the lad or lass attended school enough they will pick a date antecendent of the day of writing - and successful threats also means they learned to spell. Fucking hate this, hate Tik Tok trends..

This week: Scatec locked in a 25-year deal for Africa's largest solar-plus-storage project in Egypt. Vattenfall greenlighted Germany's largest 1.6 GW offshore wind cluster. Brooklyn is building a 9.46 MWh battery-backed EV charging depot.
Real progress, happening now.
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Welcome Frost writes tiny runes on windows in the north, while far south, cicadas tremble the air and ripe fruit perfumes the shade. It all feels measured, like a held breath. This week shares that feeling of poised energy. We track power. A 25 year solar plus storage pact in

I stopped buying books (or anything, really) from Amazon years ago, when it became apparent the working conditions at their many processing centres are appalling and they were actively busting unions. I have never regretted that stance, and I have always been able to find the books, etc. I need from other sources.
I hope more authors — and big name ones too — will follow this lead.
#BoycottAmazon

from my link log —
Raspberry Pi Reliability: how to reduce writes to your SD card.
https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2024/04/pi-reliability-reduce-writes-to-your-sd-card/
saved 2026-01-05

Pi Reliability: Reduce writes to your SD card
If you aren't using a read-only filesystem on your Pi, you can still reduce writes to the SD card to increase its lifespan.

PCIe any% speedrun, day 6: Almost at minimum-viable-baseline-happy-path status!
It's still 2.5 GT/s only, I haven't implemented up-negotiation to 5 GT/s speed yet (or tested that on the SoC side for that matter).
Configuration reads and writes work; they're translated to APB bus transactions and bridged to an APB register block that reports a bunch of hard coded default values and lets you change a few things like BARs.

Trump writes partisan plaques for predecessors in his newly installed Presidential Walk of Fame (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-plaques-presidential-walk-fame-e6b496f68862f4b678bbe608a0efde95
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p124#a251217p124

Not often the new stack writes anything coherent these days.
https://thenewstack.io/put-a-fork-in-it-the-future-of-open-source-thats-done/

“Trump’s America is not merely indifferent to Europe – it’s positively hostile to it. That has enormous implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders still refuse to face.
…
The motive hardly matters: whether the US regards the EU as an enemy for transactional or ideological reasons, it now sees it as an enemy.
…
[Mark] Rutte warns of war, urging Europe to prepare itself, yet he has nothing to say about the one-time ally across the Atlantic…

At least drugs make you feel good before they destroy you.
AI code just makes you think about how sand writes code faster than you.

'The United States is now a hostile and potentially predatory nation’, says conservative historian
Robert Kagan
In a new column in The Atlantic, Robert Kagan writes that Donald Trump "managed in one year to destroy the American order "
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/tv/vi…

‘The United States is now a hostile and potentially predatory nation’, says conservative historian | CNN
In a new column in The Atlantic, Robert Kagan writes that Donald Trump “managed in one year to destroy the American order that was.”

Finished reading “Erasure” by Percival Everett.
“Monk”, a largely overlooked black academic author, rages at the publishing industry & writes a deliberately offensive ghetto-lit parody. They love it, offering serious money. Satire collides with financial necessity.
A savage rebuke of publishing industry racism paired with genuinely moving dementia subplot. Uneven but provocative - raises uncomfortable questions about authenticity and selling out.
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Erasure
Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to def…

https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities, and preached master-race science
Edge - Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project to cloak eugenics and race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability, writes Virginia Heffernan

A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide (Sam Knight/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/19/how-what…

How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation
The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike, Sam Knight writes. What are we all doing there?

from my link log —
Debugging random slow writes with GIN indexes in PostgreSQL.
https://iamsafts.com/posts/postgres-gin-performance/
saved 2021-04-06

RE: https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-3WoJVxhMSWytO0aJkyIBNQ:a:3807498986-/0
damn

A look at the dearth of media coverage of Sudan's civil war, started in 2023; report: 32 journalists have been killed and 90% of outlets damaged or destroyed (Isma'il Kushkush/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/sudan-civil-war…

Sudan’s Civil War Is Silencing the Press - Nieman Reports
Sudan’s journalists risk their lives to tell the story of their homeland as the world turns away, writes Isma'il Kushkush.

From that well-known hotbed of leftist radicalism, the daily Bloomberg markets newsletter.
That (paywalled) column is at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-11/the-insurance-crisis-is-about-to-get-even-worse

On Website Technicals (2023-03) - Tech updates: reducing storage writes from logging, slow random. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-70.html

On Website Technicals (2023-03)
Tech updates: reducing storage writes from logging, slow random.

“So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the new workday should be three to four hours.“
Yup! That's what every worker knows and should have been fighting for with solidarity for decades. Every neurodivergent person knows that we can't do concentrated work for more than 3 hours, and that extended hyperfocus blocks drain our energy for the next day. It's not sustainable.
Steve Yegge writes about how AI Capitalism creates an energy vampire

The AI Vampire
This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

"Strip away the rhetoric and what remains is simple: there is no military option that delivers what Trump has promised. The symbolic strike is too weak to matter. Decapitation risks installing a junta. The sustained campaign courts state collapse and regional conflagration"
https://time.com/7345293/…

Trump Has No Good Options On Iran
"As brave Iranians challenge the repressive regime in Tehran, the U.S leader faces three paths, each worse than the last," writes Bobby Ghosh

Qualityslop

Ajit Niranjan writes about the supposed decoupling in #Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/is-romania-blueprint-economic-g…

The debate regarding the “Goldwater rule” has intensified
following President Trump’s recent rambling presentation in Pennsylvania
(Trump rails on affordability ‘hoax’ and flings racist attacks in rally-style speech, 10 December).
As a physician with decades of experience in health policy, I believe the current discourse misses a vital distinction:
the difference between prohibited diagnosis and legitimate observation.
The Goldwater rule was designed to prevent …

Wait. So an #AI bot manifested some #AIslop (it neither creates nor writes), tried to get it merged into a #code repo, got rejected for being

Mick Shots: Sorting through all fish in the net https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-sorting-through-all-fish-in-the-net

RE: https://sunny.garden/@npt_writes/115837161543608365
The main reason why artificial intelligence seems intelligent is that actual people are so freaking stupid.
Yes, real authors use em dashes all the time. Real authors use the tools of their trad…

Joseph P. Sweatpants 😉 writes:
Ok Machineheads! I hope it's ok to call ourselves that!?! Maybe "loose screws" is better??? Haha. Hey all you Loose Screws, the first This Machine was a huge success!! The New Deal Cafe wants us back!! Basically, we're going to roll every two months. The next This Machine open mic for works of political protest will be Sunday, April 12, sign-ups 1230p, music 1-4p. Watch the news, work on your songs, poems, jokes, etc.

The universe does not simply exist in time -- time is something the universe continuously writes into itself https://theconversation.com/is-time-a-fundamental-part-of-reality-a-quiet-revolution-in-physics-suggests-not-273841

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not
Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.

Less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said 30% of Microsoft's code is AI-written, company appoints an 'Engineering Quality Head;' and here's why that matters
#AI #AISlop #Microsoft

Less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said 30% of Microsoft's code is AI-written, company appoints an 'Engineering Quality Head;' and here's why that matters | - The Times of India
Tech News News: Microsoft has appointed Charlie Bell, its former security chief, as the company's new engineering quality head — less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said AI writes 30% of its code. The move comes amid rising Windows 11 bugs, underwhelming Copilot adoption, and growing evidence that AI-generated code introduces more errors than it eliminates.

Three solutions to secure Europe’s digital sovereignty
1. Eurostack: building an independent European tech stack
2. Homegrown European social networks
3. Strong enforcement of Europe’s digital laws
https://www.techpolicy.press/europe-cant-de…

Ich schätze, dass einige etwas übertrieben finden, wie sehr ich darauf rumreite, dass #DigitaleSouveränität ein problematischer Begriff ist.
Großartiger Text dazu, und aktuell zum Iran:
"..the current wave pushing digital sovereignty as the key to ending dependency on American and Chinese technology is negligent of its Eurocentric bias. Despite democrati…

Mutual aid is everyday resistance | Cognoscenti #mutualaid

Mutual aid is everyday resistance
When formal systems become unreliable or morally compromised, people do not wait for consensus about how to change them, writes James Lomastro. They adapt by building informal networks of mutual aid that deliver essential items and services to people in need.

https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/12/05/the-laws-are-designed-specifically-to-prevent-that-from-being-ok/

“…The Laws Are Designed Specifically to Prevent That from Being OK.”
In a very good piece by Elie Mystal about Defense Secretary Hegseth’s recent murder spree, he writes (boldface mine): What it all comes down to is this: If we’re not at war, Hegseth is a murd…

🚱 Texas’s Water Wars
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/texas-water-wars
🆓 https://archive.…

Texas’s Water Wars
As industrial operations move to Texas, residents find that their drinking water has been promised to companies. Rachel Monroe writes.

Patriots suffer biggest beatdown of season in lopsided Super Bowl LX loss to Seahawks https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-suffer-biggest-beatdown-of-season-in-lopsided-super-bowl-lx-loss-to-seahawks

Mick Shots: Sorting through all fish in the net https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-sorting-through-all-fish-in-the-net

'Shame Thrives in Seclusion:' How AI Porn Chatbots Isolate Us All https://www.404media.co/ai-porn-chatbots-erotic-chatgpt-noelle-perdue/

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #18!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-18/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome Frost writes tiny runes on windows in the north, while far south, cicadas tremble the air and ripe fruit perfumes the shade. It all feels measured, like a held breath. This week shares that feeling of poised energy. We track power. A 25 year solar plus storage pact in

Barry N. often writes about faith, but not the way you might think.
#faith

Sonnet 084 - LXXXIV
Who is it that says most, which can say more,
Than this rich praise, that you alone, are you,
In whose confine immured is the store
Which should example where your equal grew?
Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies his story.
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature ma…

(E.B. White writes about Hope, to a man who has lost faith in humanity.)
Dear Mr. Nadeau:
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.
.
.
.
#Hope

🚀 Connection multiplexing for faster subsequent SSH connections
🔐 Comprehensive auth options: public key, password, agent forwarding
🛡️ Security-first: no credentials stored, uses native OpenSSH binary
💾 Non-destructive config writes with automatic backups (up to 10 rolling)
⌨️ Keyboard-driven UI with intuitive keybindings
📦 Install via #Homebrew, binary download or …

so thomas #pynchon just writes novels as elaborate delivery vehicles for all the character names, right? (complimentary) #books

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/the-illusion-of-agi-or-what-language-models-can-do-without-thought

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought
It is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

> “almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off,” including the entire video team
Capitalism, working as designed.
Oh, you thought it was about making shiny, fun things for you play with? Oh, my sweet, summer child, no… capitalism is about fuck you.
Why?
Because. @…

Good to repeat.
The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’ | TechPolicy.Press
https://techpolicy.press/the-eus-fine-against-x-is-not-about-speech-or-censorship

The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’ | TechPolicy.Press
The €120 million fine under the Digital Services Act is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, writes Stanford's Daphne Keller.

Fetterman Writes Letter Asking Israel's President to Pardon Netanyahu (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fetterman-letter-netanyahu-pardon
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p77#a251211p77

Here is a powerful essay on death and dying. I hope my time is far off, but I hope I approach it well.
https://www.thefp.com/p/death-is-nothing-to-be-feared or archived at

Death Is Nothing to Be Feared
We walk backward into our own graves, so filled with denial, because we’ve lived not really thinking that death could one day happen to us, writes Martin Shaw.

I think this is progress.
I fixed the typoed atu_unr_limit and now the ATU is working, translating accesses to the 0x1000_0000 AXI space to configuration reads and writes in the PCIe bus.
But the data is always zero. I'm trying to write 0x41410000 to the BAR and it comes out as zeroes, and while the protocol analyzer shows me successfully reading 1327:1c5c which is the VID/PID of my test SSD, it comes out as zero on the AXI side.

I cannot recommend *Drystone - A Life Rebuilt* by Kristie De Garis highly enough. This is one of those rare memoirs that manages to be simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious, raw and beautifully crafted.
De Garis writes with brutal honesty about topics many of us struggle to articulate: racism, intergenerational trauma, undiagnosed ADHD, addiction, and the blunt realities of motherhood. Set against the stunning landscapes of rural Scotland, she portraits her journey of self-discove…

Kristie De Garis - Writer, photographer and drystone waller based in Perthshire, Scotland.
Kristie De Garis - Writing

A profile of Mubi, as it deals with backlash including employee dissent and subscriber and partnership cancellations over its investor Sequoia's ties to Israel (Will Tavlin/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/mubi-art-house-movies-streamer-distributor…

Who Is Mubi For?
Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.

cloudflare writes “We’ve designed our change propagation to involve blast radius protection. With these protections in place, a highstate failure becomes a signal, rather than a customer-impacting event.”

Ukraine update: Russian propaganda continues to be the most powerful asset the Kremlin has.
It is exhausting to keep track of the lies, between Trump and The "mainstream" media.
Giorgio shares the friendlink for reports he writes on the frontlines of democracy in Ukraine. He is a hero who risks his life to provide a glimmer of the truth Russia wants to hide.
Support his work, support journalism, and support Ukraine by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:…

Camaraderie, learning from each other has led rebuilt Patriots' offensive line https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-offensive-line-camaraderie-learning-from-each-other-super-bowl-lx

Charles Duhigg distinguishes "organizing" from "mobilizing" in a way I did not know before, then proceeds to classify a series of movements/campaigns as one or the other.
The real criterion seems to be how much decentralisation and local autonomy/focus a movement allows and fosters.
Reminds me of #Wikimedia chapters, which can be extremely varied and contain all sorts …

What MAGA Can Teach Democrats About Organizing—and Infighting
Republicans have become adept at creating broad coalitions in which supporting Trump is the only requirement. Democrats get tied up with litmus tests, Charles Duhigg writes.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services
is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.
But this year, it has unusually specific criteria.
In cover letters accompanying the applications, the institute said it
“particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
These would include those that foster an appreciation for the country “through uplifting and positive narratives,”
the agency writes,
cit…

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.

Cowboys Urged to Use Caution on ‘Bad Apple’ George Pickens Decision https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/bad-apple-george-pickens-decision/

Rhamondre Stevenson finds strength in Patriots after losing father: 'They had so much support' https://www.nfl.com/news/rhamondre-stevenson-finds-strength-in-patriots-after-losing-father-they-had-so-much-support

RE: https://mastodon.social/@TinJar/115758861139891392
As someone who writes primarilly science fiction, I'm quite used to write stuff nobody wants to read, so nothing will change, really.

Home batteries are quietly becoming a game-changer for grid stability. As installations surge, utilities are tapping residential storage to manage peak demand during extreme weather—deferring costly upgrades while boosting resilience.
The key to scaling? Treat it like market development, not just tech deployment. Simple enrollment, risk-sharing models, and coordinated action between utilities and manufacturers can unlock massive participation.

Programmatic alignment is key to scaling residential battery demand response
Utilities, battery manufacturers, technology providers and customers all operate under different incentive structures, writes Uplight’s Sneha Vasudevan.

“In western democracies, ageing and dying seem to have been reclassified as soluble problems,” clinical psychologist Frank Tallis in writes.
This is delusional – “a retreat from reality, and narcissistic”.
Climate-crisis denial, he suggests, in a striking formulation, can be seen as “the denial of death on an apocalyptic scale”.

Dear #web #html #javascript #framework authors:
if your code writes HTML or script code to client side, is it too much to ask for you t…

We need our military leaders to show their moral courage | Cognoscenti https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2026/01/20/minneapolis-ice-insurrection-act-trump-amerian-soldiers-andrew-carleen?linkId=900232191 …

We need our military leaders to show their moral courage
"It seems it’s only a matter of time before U.S. soldiers are deployed against the American people," writes Navy veteran Andrew Carleen. "When that moment comes, I wonder what kind of moral courage will we see from uniformed leadership?"

New England Patriots' quick rebuild, rise to Super Bowl underscores shifting AFC landscape https://www.nfl.com/news/new-england-patriots-quick-rebuild-rise-to-super-bowl-underscores-shifting-afc-landscape

Nothing unusual to see here. Just the Canadian armed forces training for to meet the greatest military threat they currently face … [checks notes] … an invasion by the US.

USAID’s dismantling is estimated to have already killed 600,000 people,
⇔ of them children.
Officials simply deny any harm,
while halting data monitoring and firing inspectors general who’d have documented it
https://www.newyork…

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
Atul Gawande writes about the short documentary “Rovina’s Choice,” by Thomas Jennings and Annie Wong, which tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

Well worth a read.
https://kyivindependent.com/we-are-f-king-fascists-pussy-riot-memoir-looks-at-everything-wrong-with-russia/

‘We are f–king fascists’ — Pussy Riot memoir looks at everything wrong with Russia
Upon being released from prison in December 2013 after serving time for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” Russian political activist Maria Alyokhina observes that she and her fellow Pussy Riot punk group members “arrived in a different country.” Outwardly, Russia sought to convey to the world during this period that it was a serious global power through events such as the Sochi Winter Olympics. The reality, as Alyokhina writes, was completely different: just a few months lat…

Mick Shots: Final shot heard ’round locker room https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-final-shot-heard-round-locker-room

Kyle Tharp, a progressive writer and researcher writes the "Chaotic Era",
a newsletter about politics, media and online influence.
Tharp launched the Chaotic Era in January, just days before Trump’s second inauguration.
Over the past year, he has tracked the surge in liberal media projects, mapped the rise of
left-leaning creators on platforms like YouTube and
analyzed the narratives that managed to break through the digital noise

"Everything else is tactical distraction. The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced."
and
"Decentralized Social Media should be funded from a European defense fund."
writes @… about social media.

Mick Shots: Final shot heard ’round locker room https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-final-shot-heard-round-locker-room

GeoStruXer and Bentley used AI with satellite data to cut materials and embodied carbon in a Saudi grain warehouse retrofit—no performance lost.
Regeneration International launched training and standards to help farmers adopt regenerative practices at scale.
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Spagnola: Christmas offensive unwraps victory https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-christmas-offensive-unwraps-victory