2500 mathematicians responded and the results are in. Do you have opinions about mathematical conventions? If so, take the survey. cims.nyu.edu/~tjl8195/sur...

I haven't posted these here in a while but I'm still compiling them... indarktrees.com/roundups/int...

‘A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.’ Necessary corrective from @kevinbaker.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

field of dreams

every website is this now

Afroman found not liable. A complete victory for the rapper and a massive unforced error from the cops and their attorney. www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-...

dense frog advisory

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"

wow what's it doing!

A lot of folks are encouraging people to cancel their Atlantic subscriptions and give money to trans charities, but please remember that the best way to help trans people is to send cash directly to them instead of a middleman ease your conscience however you like, but a lot of us need groceries

lots of people (on Both Sides™) had fun with Trump's “transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison” debate line without stopping to think, even for one second, about the humanity of the actual people involved

Here is a four-day tracked timelapse showing a sad scene for aurora chasers: many many M-flares and some X-flares from AR 4366 without much of any CMEs... We saw a small eruption with the X8.1 and nothing really notable since then. The magnetic cage is in action!

I agree that "opsec" is often used a shibboleth in leftist spaces to justify gatekeeping. At the same time, prosecutors move slowly and they WILL raid your fucking house out of the blue a year later. Don't assume the feds are stupid or not paying attention just because "everyone's been out there".

can this historically-scaled sunspot that's blasting out huge flares like clockwork ease up on the magnetic caging please

Left: 3 hours ago Right: 1 min ago AR 4366 is becoming increasingly complex and prone for large solar flares. Red touching blue = instability and potential for M- and X-class flares. This is one angry-looking active region and it's not slowing down, yet!

Lawyer here. There’s a lot of misinformation about what this means. It means he’s innocent even though he did it and the judge said that it’s good what he did

By their own numbers, almost 50% of what Bluesky moderation gets up to is just manually labeling replies as rude. 👍

one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”

I started this project twelve years ago, and today I hold the result in my hand. It’s a book that combines bead weaving with math called, “Beading with Algorithms: Cellular Automata in Peyote Stitch.” This book is the first of its kind, a recipe book of algorithms for making pixel art.

Cafe at The Portland art museum has Rothko no. 5 cakes. Something intellectually meaty about seeing the painting in person, and then eating a cake copy. The complete experience. Full spectrum.

Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes federal agents

Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

This something I want people to understand. If you don’t get their names, they’re just gone. There’s no arrest record and the snatch-and-grabs can last seconds. People simply disappear and we can’t find out who they are or what happened to them.

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them. “At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

holy fuck protons

NOAA SWPC just issued a rare G4 / SEVERE geomagnetic storm watch for Monday night! This is the highest level of geomagnetic storm watch that exists (no such thing as a G5 watch). Stay tuned for more updates from me as I compile some longform posts to give you all the details

🚨Border Patrol whistleblower outraged by ICE's conduct exposes over a dozen secret ICE programs in documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-...

my pregnant Dilbert animation cel skyrocketed in value overnight this is awesome

won the architectural model prize for this :D www.instructables.com/Design-Fold-...

Ice on ICE violence

all of my posts are made from this device

There is a G2/moderate geomagnetic storm watch for tonight (Friday) due to possible solar storm impacts. This is only a prediction, so nothing is certain, but some mid-latitude areas like the northern U.S. may see the aurora. Note the bright gibbous moon may impede viewing.

*emits a photon*

the shit I care least in the whole world about is whether the story about the Earl of Sandwich is true. yes it fucking was. my man was playing cards and eating meat with his hands and then he said hold up check this out. you won't believe this shit. bring me some fucking bread & hold onto your hats

An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.

we’ve got boner, folks

"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more." Los Campesinos:

when you're running any kind of networking cable, it's important to avoid sharp corners. the 0s usually make it around, but the 1s can get stuck

every year someone asks me if i got my spotify wrapped and every year i get to say Actually i don't use spotify but i do scrobble to last.fm

615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.

PSA #coolcartoonsbynicky

in occupied France the Nazis would often frequent places they had kidnapped people from, as a show of power

last night we had an installation showcase event featuring this string sculpture i designed of the great salt lake. many late nights with the team running up and down stairs with spools of twine. we finished fabrication at 02:00 morning of