Origami Triacontahedron!!! I learnt a new type of origami module for this and a new type of shape! The faces are rhombuses. Diagonal lines across the long part of the rhombuses form the edges of an icosahedron. Diagonal lines across the short part of the rhombuses form the edges of a dodecahedron.

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We are so thrilled to announce another book coming from us next year: A DUBIOUS CLAMOR by @marissalingen.bsky.social! We were delighted by the unusual characters and we think you’re going to love them!

arxiv.org/abs/2509.10471 /Bluffing in Scrabble/ Nick Ballard, Timothy Y. Chow

I'm starting a new job today, at a startup called ThirdLaw, building observability tools for AI. The founder Ed Albanese has an impressive record, and I'm working with my friend Luke Hornof again, who I met at my first startup job. It's exciting to join an early-stage startup again!

I won! I got the special hexagonal chocolate chip! Does this mean a tour of the magical Guittard factory?

thats why i keep saying we call them nethacklikes now

The DARPA AI Cyber Challenge completed, which was a 2-year project to develop AIs that can find security flaws in code Multiple teams met the benchmarks and won top prizes of $6 million Unfortunately it's very difficult to find anything about it that doesn't read like marketing spam

This seems like a great organization for our ineffective altruism movement (ineffective-altruism.org) to collaborate with.

"This game's rules is frustrating to players" not as a failure state, but as a fecund site of intentional design / artistic possibility. I do think people have a hard time with this. It goes against orthodox, deeply held assumptions that friction between rules and players is Bad Design. 1/

We had three presidential terms, one Post-Trump, to back away from the idea that the President can order summary executions against anyone, anywhere in the world. But drone strikes were too much fun to resist! And once a Democrat started doing them, it became bipartisan which is DC's greatest good.

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Greener Minnesota. Original Minnesota. Central Minnesota. Monsoon Minnesota. Minnesota Down Under. Tag yourself..

The power of squares in quilt designs at the Minnesota State Fair #unitchat #MNStateFairMath #MTBoS #ITeachMath

1/ Super-excited to release the first complete rewrite to the Pyret home page in 10 years, corresponding to major language improvements! So many cool new things, let me give you a brief tour: ↵ pyret.org

The NSA illegally mass spied on Americans and the CIA conducted a years long, illegal torture program. This isn't ancient history

Interesting how so many projects are now improving docs & error messages "so LLMs can understand." 🤖 Was making them clear for humans not a good enough reason already?

My toxic trait is thinking I'll notice a pattern if I just keep increasing n. 🧮

It's a good game! A Hugo finalist!

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

Reminder that the best conference for understanding generative systems, and how people play them, is full of kind people, online and you can go to it.

an actual gift of the internet age is how relatively easy it has become for non-wealthy people to maintain memory systems. both personal ones (photos, backups, searchable mail) and collective ones (wikis, archives, fan communities) the glee with which that is being destroyed right now floors me

Git along now Look around you. Do you feel like maybe it would be nice to be able to have relational databases in your nice safe DCVS? What about streaming releases? What about coders who might be scared about screwing up? Do you actually roll all your code libraries up into the version control,…

Eden Prairie, a posh suburb of Minneapolis, now has an official government-made THC gummy, and held a contest to name it

Updated the name and title to be more *inspired* Please play and rate it here! #gmtkjam itch.io/jam/gmtk-202...

I see what you did there, @danschkade.bsky.social‬! Thumbs up! 👍

Your Sunday summary of this wintry week in FLASH GORDON!

New story out today in @clarkesworldmagazine.com ! clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen_08_25/ Desperate times, desperate measures, desperate families....

Evaluation is important and we have good ways of evaluating instructors (observations, audits, mentoring). But the evidence is clear that asking students to Yelp review their instructors the week before exams yields no valuable information on teaching or learning--just customer satisfaction.

Reminder: code review is not "to catch mistakes", it is a tool for understanding to limit bus/lottery factor first and foremost. When code is written (if you're lucky) by one human, having the second human abdicate their judgment to the machine is actively harmful to your team's code understanding.

Love seeing people discuss the immigrant themes in the new Superman. It's got me thinking about this novelette again. A great take on that part of Superman's identity (with a huge queer heart), written by @johnchu.bsky.social, an actual immigrant and GREAT writer. @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

I would like to hug Tali vas Normandy.

Say what you will about secret manuevers in the dark, in the plain light of day Biden's Israel policy was disastrous and Trump's blank check to Netanyahu follows Biden's refusals to halt arms deliveries, halts required by US law. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/18/b...

Amazon Q shipped a feature where a rando hacker told it to run aws iam delete-user, and AWS said “Sure thing, pal!” They caught it only because a journalist asked. This isn’t “move fast and break things," it's “move fast and let strangers write your roadmap.” www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-...

Platonic and Archimedean solids are related by truncation (excluding snubs). Photo by Stacey Speyer at Bridges, 2024.

I accidentally went to the Art Fair at Minnehaha Falls, today. Did you know that Art Fairs give you an almost infinite number of opportunities to tell artists you think they're great? And that when you do so, they open like flowers and beam like the sun? Also, there were dogs.

We’ve thrown away decades of knowledge about tainting, query parameters and binding, for what. Including screenshots of the entire exploit to try and make it really obvious how rubbish this is

Today on mcnostril.com: Potato potato.

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

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Over on Mathstodon, I'm experimenting with huge visualizations of #Rogue level generation. If we go through all 2^32 seeds, and fix the first two room shapes, what possibilities remain? Left: remaining possible shapes. Right: excluded mathstodon.xyz/@markgritter... mathstodon.xyz/@markgritter...

Every U.S. state must necessarily have a largest ball of twine. Which states don't know where theirs is located? (Some of the largest balls might be otherwise unremarkable and just lying around in a basement or garage.)

The important thing to understand about the current state of affairs is that Andreessen hired a partner at the most influential VC firm in the tech industry solely on the basis that the man strangled a Black man to death in my neighborhood.

i think slop is about the carelessness of endless industrially manufactured content, and not Tarn Adams saying “i am going to make you the biggest most perfect soup in the world” soup vs slop

Wow the Cyberiad predicted ChatGPT One of the robots invents a poetry machine, feeds every scrap of poetry in the known universe into it and creates a machine that produces the most insipid garbage anyone's ever read

Our tickets are $30, or pay what you can. We’re volunteer-run. We don’t have corporate-sponsored talks. And yet, unlike GDC, if you speak at Roguelike Celebration, you’ll get paid! No travel costs! We pay for streaming hardware if you need it! Human transcribed captions, uploaded with no paywall!

More on these crazy letters, in @lawfaremedia.org. lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

HackNY: Well, Hell Your career is long, and it has a lot of fluctuations, but you'll never regret being curious about your industry, your role, and how people interact with computers.

Just to state the stupidly obvious: This is treatment the United States has subjected HUNDREDS of men to without trial or process, the vast majority of whom have no criminal record of any kind. (Not, of course, that it would be acceptable if they did.)