Tootfinder

“US signals a willingness to renew talks with Iran and avoid a prolonged war”
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/06/22/us-signals-a-willingness-to-renew-talks-with-iran-and-avoid-a-prolonged-war/
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US signals a willingness to renew talks with Iran and avoid a prolonged war
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday that America “does not seek war” with Iran in the aftermath of a surprise attack overnight on three of that country’s nuclear sites.

Rant about PHP
You know a technology is declining when the most basic questions about its most bizarre quirks are left completely unanswered for years.
#PHP is like that. Every day I have many of these questions. I look for them. No one asked them before, no one wrote about them before.
I'm baffled by the lack of curiosity and proactivity of its community.
I know it sounds like me piling up on people I don't know anything about, but I used to invest a lot of time programming in PHP. I went to conferences, I made some open source libraries for it, like a PHP kernel for Jupyter Notebooks, I even made a library to work with dataframes, tensors and matrices in PHP (although I lost this one because my laptop was stolen before I released... and I didn't had it in me to rewrite it again).
Then, the ones who I admired the most in that space, like Nikita Popov, started leaving it to work in more intellectually vibrant communities... and it shows.
I'm sure Nikita Popov would be much more gracious than me when talking about it. I can only speculate about his motivations, but at least I can tell you about mine: It was precisely about that same lack of curiosity and creativity that I mentioned before, it felt unbearably grey and sad.

Why Young Men Care Less About Music and Why It Matters (A Lot)
https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2025/06/why-young-men-care-less-about-music-and-why-…

Why Young Men Care Less About Music and Why It Matters (A Lot)
Explore why young men care less about music and prefer video games, as trends in music consumption shift dramatically.

See my new Substack post for “Resist and Heal” - Lies About South African “White Genocide“
https://open.substack.com/pub/resistandheal/p/lies-about-south-african-white-genocide?r=4u…

Lies About South African “White Genocide“
The United States is in a fascist political crisis.

The growth strategy, which seems to be the only tool in mainstream politicians' kit, is broken for good.
Limits to Growth was right about collapse - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-righ…

Limits to Growth was right about collapse
The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse.

Abbott vetoes Texas bill to ban THC products | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/thc-ban-hemp-texas-marijuana-abbott-9379bb3ab75b7278e9a3ec56fad791a9

Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes THC ban, calls for regulation instead (Kayla Guo/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/22/texas-thc-ban-bill-greg-abbott-veto-senate-bill-3/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p15#a250623p15

Austin-based PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire Couchbase, which offers a cloud database for AI applications, for about $1.5B (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/hav…

I've been happy with my decision about 6 months ago to cancel some news subscriptions and pay for a 404 Media one. Today though I listened to the subscribers-only section of their podcast about how they were doing financially and their principles on growth and I was further encouraged that it had been the right thing to do.
Here's a referral link to their free newsletter. I think if several people use it I might get some free merch but I don't care about that.

“Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.”
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https://bible.com/bible/2016/jhn.15.4.NRSV
The True Vine

John 15:4 Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.