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New comment by tokai in "Abu Fanous"

tokai — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:29:29 +0000

Its interesting that there are will-o'-wisp style folklore the whole world over. Whether or not its a real phenomenon, psychological, or a mix, its fascinating that it seem to be so universal.

New comment by tokai in "Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples"

tokai — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:26:13 +0000

The articles cover an actual study, that wasn't theoretical but based on data of sampling. What kind of just-the-facts reporting do you actually want?

New comment by tokai in "Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples"

tokai — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:07:56 +0000

I'm a bit confused by the article. It seems to be about this study[0]. Its the first item on Toxic Free Future's list of research. But the article states that Ryan Babadi is a lead author of the study, while there's no Babadi on the author list of the Nature publication.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-026-00844-z

New comment by tokai in "Extinction-Level Capitalism"

tokai — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:39:32 +0000

Everything went off the rails after we invented pottery.

New comment by tokai in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

tokai — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:04:48 +0000

Vaping prevalence among youth in UK has plateaued since 2022. So its slowly working.

Edit: as your own source conclude

New comment by tokai in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

tokai — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:08:22 +0000

>It’s a census: it just asks questions.

Thats what dutch and french bureaucrats thought until 1940.

New comment by tokai in "Leaving Mozilla"

tokai — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:59:47 +0000

Its weird how quickly people are to excuse the class literally paid to be responsible.

New comment by tokai in "Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine"

tokai — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:30:24 +0000

I wonder which Danish official they are talking about. Lots of voices against it, but not from officials. The danish state is going full steam ahead. Just yesterday the Greenlandic police was integrated with Grotham from Palantir.

New comment by tokai in "A dumpster arrived behind my university's library"

tokai — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:47:43 +0000

I worked at an university library that was being moved to a new, and smaller, location. We did a lot of weeding. I threw thousands of books in the dumpster. We had to be covert in our work so the student body wouldn't act up. Much like the author here.

No library will ever just throw books out randomly. Most works are available from many dozen of other libraries and not even close to lost if thrown out. Inter library loan insures that they can always be gotten should a user need them. Shelve space is not infinite, and books not being used out blocks space for works that are in use.

Tools like worldcat and familiarity with the fields the library's collection cover, helps avoid weeding rare and unique works. Librarians are well aware of their library's forte. A single library isn't the world repository of knowledge. The network of collaboration between all national and academic libraries is.

New comment by tokai in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

tokai — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:07:33 +0000

Sloppies

New comment by tokai in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

tokai — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:07:31 +0000

Yes, and star maps can do the same when its night and clear. This is way over blown.

New comment by tokai in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

tokai — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:17:02 +0000

Sentiment here is blowing this waaay out of proportion. It's not new technology, and its not particularly scary or dystopian.

New comment by tokai in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

tokai — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:58:42 +0000

>If the automobile was "self driving" I would.

thats the point...

New comment by tokai in "The oldest surviving animated feature film at 100"

tokai — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:44:49 +0000

Looks like stop motion Scherenschnitte.

New comment by tokai in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

tokai — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:08:46 +0000

Its not about Americans. Russians already owned them and got them to do what they want. Its about Europeans that are much closer to their representatives.

New comment by tokai in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

tokai — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:31:18 +0000

Then flag it and move along.

New comment by tokai in "U.S. Military Turned GPS into a Global "Numbers Station""

tokai — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:18:24 +0000

Its all comes down to what we buy as the definition for a number station. For me a number station needs sends a message to be a number station, not a key.

New comment by tokai in "Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform"

tokai — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:52:50 +0000

Please do a minimum of research before you call some one out on bullshit.

New comment by tokai in "The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography"

tokai — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:47:23 +0000

Yeah its not a number station at all.

New comment by tokai in "Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform"

tokai — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:09:26 +0000

In most cases its illegal to set up something inside the public org. It needs to be put out as a public offer. It's part of New public management pushed by neoliberal interests.