Tootfinder

11 Dems voted for this b.s.
House passes bill that would void DC ‘sanctuary’ policies - Roll Call
https://rollcall.com/2025/06/12/house-passes-bill-that-would-void-dc-sanctuary-policies/

Trump administration immigration policies leave Ukrainian refugees in limbo: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/trump-administration-immigration-policies-leave.html

Interesting that some who replied to my post on tax and GDP growth yesterday missed the point.
The point isn't to debate whether tax -> growth (it might, with a tail wind).
The point is that
1) Growth won't happen like it used to.
2) That is good because GDP growth is ecologically and socially lethal.
3) So our leaders (sic) had better adapt to the new reality and use taxation and other measures to build a better, fairer future.
More here:

Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK | Stop the Damage! Build a Better Future!
Britain and the rest of the world face a set of almost intractable challenges, ecological (including climate), economic and social. Yet political leaders with few exceptions are failing to propose the actions and policies that could address the scale of this pancrisis. Here though is an alternative initiative, a kind of alternative manifesto with a portfolio of illustrative policies...

Liito-orava on taigametsien tulevaisuuden avainlaji. Tuore geneettinen tutkimus paljastaa yllättäviä piirteitä liito-oravan evoluutiosta sekä vakavia huolia lajin suojelun kannalta. Kaukoidässä saattaa asustaa oma alalaji. https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/evoluut

Liito-orava on taigametsien tulevaisuuden avainlaji | Helsingin yliopisto
Tuore geneettinen tutkimus paljastaa yllättäviä piirteitä liito-oravan evoluutiosta sekä vakavia huolia lajin suojelun kannalta. Kaukoidässä saattaa asustaa oma alalaji.

What's the most polar-opposite pair of places with the same or very similar names you've encountered?
For me, it would be this pairing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leavenworth,_Washington

Leavenworth, Washington - Wikipedia

On the same day a military parade unfolds in D.C. to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary on Saturday,
an organized day of protests against the policies of President Donald Trump’s administration is planned for more than 2,000 cities nationwide.

While thunderstorms could disrupt the celebrations in D.C.,
weather will vary at locations around the country where rallies are planned.

Mostly dry and hot weather will dominate the western United States,
while it should b…

A city-by-city forecast for Saturday’s nationwide ‘No Kings’ protests
Conditions will vary across the country, with wet, unsettled weather near the East Coast and dry, hot air dominating the West.

Time-scales of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and dust continuum emission from gas clouds compared to molecular gas cloud lifetimes in PHANGS-JWST galaxies
Jaeyeon Kim, M\'elanie Chevance, Lise Ramambason, Kathryn Kreckel, Ralf S. Klessen, Daniel A. Dale, Adam K. Leroy, Karin Sandstrom, Ryan Chown, Thomas G. Williams, Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, Francesco Belfiore, Frank Bigiel, Enrico Congiu, Oleg V. Egorov, Eric Emsellem, Simon C. O. Glover, Kathryn Grasha, Annie Hughes, J. M. Dieder…

Time-scales of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and dust continuum emission from gas clouds compared to molecular gas cloud lifetimes in PHANGS-JWST galaxies
Recent JWST mid-infrared (mid-IR) images, tracing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and dust continuum emission, provide detailed views of the interstellar medium (ISM) in nearby galaxies. Leveraging PHANGS-JWST Cycle 1 and PHANGS-MUSE data, we measure the PAH and dust continuum emission lifetimes of gas clouds across 17 nearby star-forming galaxies by analyzing the relative spatial distributions of mid-IR (7.7-11.3$μ$m) and H$α$ emission at various scales. We find that the mid-IR emitt…

Identity and Access Management for the Computing Continuum
Chalima Dimitra Nassar Kyriakidou, Athanasia Maria Papathanasiou, Vasilios A. Siris, Nikos Fotiou, George C. Polyzos, Eduardo C\'anovas Mart\'inez, Antonio Skarmeta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09559

Identity and Access Management for the Computing Continuum
The computing continuum introduces new challenges for access control due to its dynamic, distributed, and heterogeneous nature. In this paper, we propose a Zero-Trust (ZT) access control solution that leverages decentralized identification and authentication mechanisms based on Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs). Additionally, we employ Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC) to define policies that capture the evolving trust relationships inherent in the contin…

Studying all-optical magnetization switching of GdFe by double-pulse laser excitation
Rahil Hosseinifar, Felix Steinbach, Ivar Kumberg, Jos\'e Miguel Lend\'inez, Sangeeta Thakur, Sebastien E. Hadjadj, Jendrik G\"ordes, Chowdhury S. Awsaf, Mario Fix, Manfred Albrecht, Florian Kronast, Unai Atxitia, Clemens von Korff Schmising, Wolfgang Kuch

Studying all-optical magnetization switching of GdFe by double-pulse laser excitation
The tremendous interest in the technology and underlying physics of all-optical switching of magnetization brings up the question of how fast the switching can occur and how high the frequency of writing the data with ultrafast laser pulses can be. To answer this question, we excited a GdFe ferrimagnetic alloy, the magnetization of which can be reversed by single laser pulses, a phenomenon known as toggle switching, by two pulses with a certain time delay in between. Using photoemission electro…

Headway management is a net good, but it's no fun being on the bus that's being slowed down to maintain headway. You've got places to be and that bus is draaaagging, missing every light on purpose.
https://www.sfmta.com/media/42843/download?inline