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johnshirley2024, 7 months ago to random

North Carolina Republicans create "secret police force"

[er, nothing sinister about that...]

https://popular.info/p/north-carolina-republicans-create?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1664&post_id=137578127&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=2hws8&utm_medium=email

futurebird, 8 months ago to random

Graphing calculators are dead. Long live graphing calculators.

With the SAT going all digital and desmos.com and geogebra providing spectacular visuals the days of the graphing calculator seem numbered.

But I have a bold vision for a calculator that would grow with students needs and teach more than math tricks.

Just as I've developed a curriculum where students learn about numbers, through to irrationals by making their own wooden ruler this calculator would be a multi-year project. 1/

MsHearthWitch, 8 months ago to random

Went on FB for like 5 min to check details of a class I'm taking...

Some dumb bitch talking about how her state would be back to the good ol days if they just criminalized drugs again.

/sigh

(this is not an invitation to debate this topic. if you disagree with me I'm just going to block you. I'm old and tired and don't give space to bigots and racists. BYEEEEE)

AntiracistHippie, 8 months ago to socialism

The Black Working Class Can No Longer Be Ignored https://jacobin.com/2023/09/black-folk-working-class-solidarity-slavery-reconstruction-blair-kelley/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism

cstross, 8 months ago to random

Gerry Anderson called, he said he wants his future back:

johnshirley2024, 8 months ago to random

I don't think most insurance companies should exist. Insurance should come from govt agencies, at low cost to consumers. Insurance should be socialized. This will be paid for by raising taxes on the upper classes.

johnshirley2024, 8 months ago to random

annaleen, 8 months ago to DnD

OK now the Gith are trying to get us involved in their inter-planar office politics. It's starting to smell like a murderous bureaucracy side-quest. #dnd #saturdaynight

paulrickards, 8 months ago to random

Deep diving into motion capture used for biomechanics research. I know absolutely nothing about it, but it's always fascinating to peek into other disciplines to learn new terminology, workflows, software, and file formats. Seems .C3D files are used a lot for datasets.

annaleen, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Saturday night DnD dinner choice?

futurebird, 8 months ago to random

I get kind of worked up about attempts to rob young people of the few interesting things that we really know about nature and the universe. This anti-evolution content is designed as a kind of inoculation against gaining further knowledge on the topic.

It contains neat little counter arguments that prompt kids to stop listening before they hear anything really interesting.

It's so sinister.

EricWayneS, 8 months ago to random

Remember when politicians were getting hit with milkshakes? I would like to see that make a comeback

johnshirley2024, 8 months ago to random

Human remains found in burned car in Hazel Dell

[This is a few blocks from my house .There has been an arrest on "other charges" than homicide...I pass the place and have noted that it seems a decayed estate, like something from Stephen King]

Clark County sheriff’s deputies investigating a missing person’s case Tuesday discovered human remains in a burned car in Hazel Dell... at the last known residence of a man who had been reported missing for several weeks...

https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/aug/22/human-remains-found-in-burned-car-in-hazel-dell/

Catvalente, 8 months ago to random

I’ll be honest, this may be one of my finest paragraphs.

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/it-may-not-be-praxis-but-we-need

shaunduke, 9 months ago to sciencefiction

Who do you think are the top 3 #sciencefiction writers of the 1920s? think "most influential" or "most important" rather than "the folks I personally like" (we'll come back to this). Reasons most welcome! #books

emilymbender, 9 months ago to random

Pro-tip: If someone claims a model is trained on "the entire internet" they don't actually know what they're talking about and don't understand a) data b) dataset documentation and therefore c) how to reason about the model they're describing.

The internet is not a single thing you can go and download somewhere.

lauren, 9 months ago to random

What's going to happen when there's a damned earthquake or other disaster that takes out cell service (always first to go) and prevents controllers from reaching those robotaxis that go nuts and stop in the middle of streets blocking escape routes. This is totally crazy and dangerous.

annaleen, 9 months ago to random

Infrared the cat celebrated this fine day by climbing into the sink and getting her feet wet, then tracking little wet prints all across my desk and computer, and finishing by drinking from my water glass with a flourish. Her sister Ultraviolet slept through the whole thing and awakened only to give me side-eye when I exclaimed in consternation.

foone, 9 months ago to random

Weird that no one seems to have implemented the TOTP algorithm in C.

How am I supposed to port it to DOS without a C implementation?

eclectech, 9 months ago to ilaughed

You know when you have a video loop, but to make it loop something disappears in an improbable manner?

And you think, that's a shame, because I really like this little clip.

And you could crop it so, for example, a bird doesn't disappear in mid-flight, but then it looks unbalanced so you need to find some unobtrusive way for the bird to disappear so it appears natural?

Yeah. That.

I think I need a quiet lie down.

#seascape #video #loop #animation #bird #silly #drawing #SillyScribbles

A short video loop of the sea splashing up some rocks. In the foreground there is long grass. On the left the cliffs of the headland. A gull flies in from the right hand side most of the way across the image. At that point the cliff, which has cartoon eyes and a slither of a mouth drawn on, opens its mouth wide, flipping the clifftop up, and eating the bird. Because why else would it disappear at that point? It made no sense.

specwill, 9 months ago to random

This is absolutely infuriating. Overdrive should lose their contracts and be replaced by a publicly-funded system. https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries

JamesGleick, 9 months ago to random

The fact that Trump’s own vice president immediately and unequivocally confirmed the charges in the latest indictment seems like a big deal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/us/politics/pence-trump-election-jan-6.html?unlocked_article_code=35FYmZSvzDGIi27bh13Dnz4h_yD1c-vmAy5R8qmXA5vwUgmVujpCpQ0DMugxHuqUHI_eI-YJGkJ9ybjeGy9Ivf9TxDS0GrE-2UdsFYVFFMb2bK00YsQJdWrnZEaVFTAwG-ggBWAEYiBAGeQ_Z6hw2uYaZbzfoQp9vIFJ6Aw0aDPq030rh6mY7bDxcmILi9jK6urLLbY2cpii3irmyxup-41Ogw4x4CSbUF_PL-vprDoMYynyFdziDm_FF2W2Z-7zW66EorxQvF-sig2bLmrs6NQHs8il_418k1sGvy2O3fCONrzSnahh6gHnIKnERp0MYIHAH9ZlQyML2KIGvz2WiNfi9uw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://zirk.us/@JamesGleick/110826624280387564

b0rk, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

all of the "How Integers and Floats Work" preorders have now shipped! You can also still buy one now if you'd like: https://wizardzines.com/zines/integers-floats/

(let me know if you haven't gotten an email about your order shipping!)

baldur, 9 months ago to random

‘Eschatology › The “Promise” of “Easier” Programming’

"It’s like saying we won’t need writing and literature classes any more because spellcheck exists, a category error." https://eschatologist.net/blog/?p=374