Tootfinder

New to me music group I am falling in love with, “CATBEAR”
https://lnk.bio/catbear
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0X9fG5iqRcqnmDXgUV2xK8_-Z2DTeKww

Humanoid robots, being just around the corner for every household to have one since…
*checks notes*
…1868.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadoc_Dederick

Pixel 7 bis 10: Google veröffentlicht überraschend zweites Oktober-Update
Google hat ein neues Oktober-Update für seine Pixel-Smartphones veröffentlicht. Konkrete Neuerungen nennt der Konzern nicht, Verizon gibt erste Details preis.

Yes it is a funky little dial. I don't have enough characters to fully explain it here without starting a thread, so I cheated and shoved it all in the alt text. 🤷
#WristCheck (but not really, since it is a pocket watch).

Ian Roberts, Des Moines Superintendent, Had a Story Too Good to Be True (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/des-moines-iowa-superintendent-ian-roberts-immigration-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE8.Zd2c.91ESjE_EVppS&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p125#a251006p125

How three Northwest newspapers have remained independent and avoided closure: selling to employees, diversifying print operations, and nurturing future owners (Brier Dudley/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northweste

Northwest publishers avoiding consolidation or closure, maintaining independence
Publisher Les Zaitz spent three years trying to save his pride and joy.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Slash Need:
🎵 Double Dare
#SlashNeed
https://cjsw.bandcamp.com/track/slash-need-double-dare
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ztsYw5qZ8seZMg8XvSlpu

According to Home Office data, 1097 migrants arrived on Saturday on 17 "small boats".
That's an average of 64 *passengers* per small boat - these boats must be larger than the zodiacs I've been imagining.

Small boat arrivals: last 7 days

Wie verzint zoiets,militairen zijn hier volledig ongeschikt voor. Trumpiaans gedrag.
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artikel/5526994/militairen-gaan-patrouilleren-belgische-steden-tegen

Militairen gaan patrouilleren in Belgische steden tegen drugscriminaliteit en schietpartijen
De Belgische minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Bernard Quintin wil drugscriminaliteit in grote steden, met onder meer militairen, bestrijden. Quintin maakt zich zorgen over de drugscriminaliteit die gepaard gaat met veel schietpartijen.

Lightweight and Generalizable Acoustic Scene Representations via Contrastive Fine-Tuning and Distillation
Kuang Yuan, Yang Gao, Xilin Li, Xinhao Mei, Syavosh Zadissa, Tarun Pruthi, Saeed Bagheri Sereshki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03728

Lightweight and Generalizable Acoustic Scene Representations via Contrastive Fine-Tuning and Distillation
Acoustic scene classification (ASC) models on edge devices typically operate under fixed class assumptions, lacking the transferability needed for real-world applications that require adaptation to new or refined acoustic categories. We propose ContrastASC, which learns generalizable acoustic scene representations by structuring the embedding space to preserve semantic relationships between scenes, enabling adaptation to unseen categories without retraining. Our approach combines supervised con…