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ppatel, to books
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Whatch ya all reading? Need good recs. Really, Really good ones.

roytoo,
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@ppatel
Linda Nagata's Nanotech Succession series is really good and still on-going.
Tech-Heaven is the first book.

futurebird, to random
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I guess we need to do weevil awareness now. Get ready.

roytoo,
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@futurebird
Bill Callahan is doing his part to spread awareness with the song Bowevil:
https://youtu.be/wiYiAwvH080?si=0negDZiLNZvPNy2r

GeePawHill, to random
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Hey, if you're new here on mastodon, welcome!

Yes. It's different. Catch your breath.

This place is full of people who actually listen and actually talk, not just advertise, not just metric-game..

This community, strange, broken, partial, WIP, is not owned by a corporation.

Take your time, feel it out, and if you have questions, <extends finger and thumb, waggles hand> ping me.

roytoo,
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@gdinwiddie
I don't know!
flinging noises
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@GeePawHill

tante, to random
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Dave Karpf's takedown of Marc Andreessen's manifest/pamphlet is marvellous
(Title: Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?) https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/why-cant-our-tech-billionaires-learn

roytoo,
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@tante
Thanks for sharing, that was a very good and informative read.

roytoo, to random
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Eclipse is in progress here in Frisco, Texas. Made a simple pinhole viewer and got a decent picture. We will NOT get the full annular eclipse here, it should be around 70% occlusion at maximum.

roytoo,
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@Lizette603_23
I was dreading clouds here too but the sky is thankfully clear.
Hopefully it clears off for you.

afilina, to random
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For my Baldur's Gate fans.
https://youtu.be/4UyAt2SZ5vc?si=yX3X1V02aVVUeJ_4

roytoo,
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@afilina
Thanks for sharing, very funny even though I know nothing about Baldur's Gate.

futurebird, to random
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Has anyone read "There Is No Antimemetics Division" ? Is it any good?

Is it SCP universe stuff or just closely adjacent?

roytoo,
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@futurebird
I really liked it and qntm's other books as well.

Jaden2, (edited ) to random

Now summer is over I got to decide.
A. Stay in Chicago with my pops
B. go home to Houston and live my Momma
Either way I gon upset 1 !
Roll the dice ....

roytoo,
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@Jaden2
From what you've posted in the past it seems that both of them love you a lot and want the best for you.

If you and your parents are up for it give this a try to see if it helps with the discussion and helps minimize people being upset.
Ask your Pops to list the positives of going to Houston and the negatives of staying in Chicago.
Ask your Momma to list the positives of staying in Chicago and the negatives of going to Houston.
Share the lists with everyone and then discuss.

roytoo,
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@Jaden2
Heh. He might surprise you and himself if he really tries.

mcnees, to random
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Mathematician Katherine Johnson was born in 1918.

Her orbital mechanics computations played a vital role in many early NASA missions. Astronaut John Glenn trusted her calculations more than those of his onboard flight computer.

Image: NASA

roytoo,
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@mcnees
Thanks for this thread on Katherine Johnson.

Your profile info is full of great things and this one made me laugh loudly:
"boosts are Lorentz transformations to another inertial frame"

Jyoti, to queer
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Beautiful.

"Part of the dream of queer is that it potentially has no opposite. Straight is the opposite of gay. Queer is a rejection of both. .... If queer laid my foundations, a trans analysis rearranged the structures and gave me the space to breathe again. Transgender: to bend, mend, extend, and transcend." ~ mattilda bernstein sycamore, the freezer door

https://www.tumblr.com/thesoundofswedishmelancholy/726658777483558912?source=share

roytoo,
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@Jyoti
That was a good, interesting read. I'll likely be mulling over some of the ideas present for a while to understand them better.

gregeganSF, to random
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Breaking: Trump legal team calls for stay in proceedings until quantum computers are available to help solve trial scheduling conflicts.

roytoo,
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@gregeganSF
The defendant requests that the trial be delayed until after his death to avoid any inconvenience.

Cassandra, to random
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I am now going to attempt to watch Terminator: Dark Fate (2019).

In large part for inspiration to start lifting weights again.

roytoo,
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@Cassandra
Mackenzie Davis did such a great job in the role all though the movie!

Great_Albums, to random
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- – The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959). From the plastic saxophone Coleman cradles on the cover to the near-abandonment of traditional harmony to the free-form soloing by the musicians, everything about this LP felt new and slightly dangerous in 1959. Although “Lonely Woman,” “Eventually,” “Peace,” etc. aren’t exactly “free jazz” as it would be understood in the 60s, the radical shift in form divided the naysayers from the believers.

roytoo,
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@Great_Albums
Such a great album and the first Ornette Coleman I heard.
By the end of the 2nd play through I was a fan for life.

og, to random

Anyone use ? Is there a list where it shows what movies or shows you are in the middle of watching?

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roytoo,
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@og
Recent and in progress shows are listed under Keep Watching for us:

popcornreel, to books
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Please read Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s book “Stamped From The Beginning” as well as this must-read.

roytoo,
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@popcornreel
Thanks for the suggestion on both books Omar. Our city library had them and I've added them to my "to read" queue.

henryseg, to random
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Test shot for a 3D printed fractal tree.

roytoo,
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@henryseg
I wonder how closely the shape correlates to cauliflower.
That is what it reviews me of at first.

andrew, to random
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When I come to power "apiary" is going to mean "ape sanctuary" like it should. We can't be wasting that majestic word on what amounts to a bunch of bee hives.

roytoo,
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@andrew
Glad I'm not the only one who thought it was ape related. I heard the world several times before reading it and definitely thought "apeiary" must be related to apes.

roytoo,
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@andrew
Congratulations Andrew, you have successfully lured me into a "l want to learn more about apes" rabbit hole.

roytoo,
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@andrew
And a second congratulations is due to you and Gina on making a fine impression about the law and lawyers.

Your Minimum Competence podcast is the major reason my teenage daughter (15) is interested in the law and realizing that being a lawyer could be a career option. I had already been listening on my own when it automatically started playing as she and I got in the car several months ago. She liked the discussion and how you present the information in her words "with some snark".
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roytoo,
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@andrew
The show has become our daily listen when I'm driving her to or from school or summer activities. She likes it so much that I've been warned about unspecified harms if I listen without her.

We often have good discussions about one or more of the topics presented.

2/2

roytoo,
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@andrew @gina
I passed along your thanks for listening to her and she was enthusiastically pleased.

Garwboy, to random
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So many people lining up to see the new Margot Robbie movie. Which is fair enough. After all, summertime is...

[Lowers shades]

Barbie queue season

[Flees]

roytoo,
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@Garwboy
Nice!

gregeganSF, to random
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A Besicovitch set is a subset of the plane that contains a unit line segment in every possible orientation.

An equilateral triangle of unit height certainly meets that description, but Abram Besicovitch devised a clever method to construct sets of much smaller area.

Besicovitch's construction was later simplified by O. Perron.

If you carve up the original triangle by dividing one side into n segments, each of which becomes the base of a new triangle, then you can slide these triangles together to reduce the total area while still covering one third of the possible orientations for a unit line segment. If you repeat the same trick for all three sides of the original triangle, then you can cover all orientations.

The version shown, where n = 8, doesn't decrease the area much, but there is no lower bound on the area you can achieve, and with a slight variation on the method you can construct a Besicovitch set of measure zero!

An equilateral triangle has each side divided into eight segments, which form eight triangles with the vertex opposite that side. These sets of eight triangles then slide closer together, overlapping, producing a spiky shape with a smaller equilateral triangle in the middle.

roytoo,
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@gregeganSF
Interesting maths aside, That graphic is beautiful and mesmerizing. Excellent choice on the colors.

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