More work in progress. It will take some boundary smoothing to turn these into seamless tiles and I've run out of of steam tonight. Most of the "stones" are OK but the ones at corners don't join smoothly. #penrose #tiling #inkscape

Disrespectful? I would counter that actually busting down a door the way ICE agents do, smashing a car window, or zip-tying children is a lot more "disrespectful" than some guy singing about it.

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

I normally find politicans' humor cringey, but this is pretty funny.

Pulling my own thoughts up from a comment. I really need to get this off my chest.

The conservative freakout over Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl is a tacit admission that they didn't win the culture like they thought they did www.splinter.com/bad-bunny-an...

Was that a vigilante man? Or was it an ICE agent? How do you tell?

26-foot-tall Bay Area freeway icon removed after 50 years

"Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for the development of molecular building blocks with spaces large enough that gases and other chemicals can flow through them." Gift link.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I can vouch personally. The late 90s was the most optimistic I was about the future in my life. I had a lot less money then, and the things going on in technology look quaint by today's standards. But nothing happening right now gives me unqualified joy.

Work in progress. The idea is to make a seamless stone tiling based on Penrose kites and darts. The stones fill up Voronoi cells. This diagram partitions the tiles into whole stones with the exception of corners. I'll need to fill in some textures next. #penrose #tiling #inkscape

Hey Kristi Noem, since you’re sending ICE to the Super Bowl to crack down on the hoards of undocumented immigrants snapping up those $15,000/seat Bowl tickets…are they the same ones who are stealing free health care? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjkT...

Who am I to argue?

I believe there's actually some precedent to one state's militias fight another state's. Something I learned back in school. Hazy memories now.

Another beautiful Monday. Union Square, San Francisco. #sanfrancisco

To everything a season, even Trump and MAGA. Let's hope it's a short one.

Hard to argue with that advice. #bart #sanfrancisco #std #chlamydia

"... although ICE carried out the raid, it was supposedly about crime. And they arrested two suspected gang members, while also rounding up some undocumented immigrants. But they detained everyone in the building, smashed their doors, zip-tied their children, and ransacked their homes."

As promised, a printable model of the Penrose kite and dart tiling with a Voronoi diagram surface. I did most of the planning in Inkscape and used Tinkercad to make the bumps on the surface using intersections of flattened spheres. #3d-print #penrose #penrosetiles #voronoi #tiling #inkscape

" ... public institutions that have been loudly supportive in the recent past intimidated into whispers, or all-out silence. This tectonic shift signals not a new betrayal of queer folk but a reinforcement of the fundamental relationship between Western society and non-hetero life ..."

Penrose kite and dart tiles with rounded bumps based on a Voronoi diagram. I haven't put up a Printable for it but will later today. #3d-print #penrose #penrosetiles #voronoi #tiling

Trying to give my 3d prints more of a craft look with minimal effort. The top one is a Penrose kite lightly dry-brushed with blue acrylic paint, while the other is coated in paint texture with eggshell powder I made in a coffee grinder. Work in progress. #3d-printing #penrose #tiles

If Republicans are freaking out over Dead End: Paranormal Park (which I know little about) how did She-Ra manage to fly under the wire? That was one of the best things I ever watched on Netflix, and unabashedly queer, unless I was just imagining it.

Stevie Dipshit Miller. Dipshit in high school and college, paid dipshit for Michele Bachman and Jeff Sessions. Now the dipshit in charge of state terrorism. Who knew you could go so far just by being a dipshit?

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

ChatGPT explains more patiently and precisely than I ever could why the current trends of American Catholics leave me disgusted and heartbroken. Note that I am not a religious believer. I think the natural universe is what we have and it's more than enough. Enjoy your stay and be kind to others.

If we ever officially rename the Defense department the Department of War, maybe we can rename RFK Jr.'s HHS the Department of Disease and Inhuman Negligence to reflect its new role.

This was from almost a year ago. I wonder what these voters think now. "When the former president endorses violence and proposes using the government to attack his enemies, many of his supporters assume it’s just an act."

#ice #massdeportation

Old article, but still pretty cool. Did you know that you can simulate the formation of the Giant's Causeway (Northern Ireland) using cornstarch? Preview won't show but here's the link and a picture. www.physics.utoronto.ca/nonlinear/PN... #ireland #selforganization #giantscauseway #geology

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor the World Wide Web, criticized the state of the internet today for turning users into “consumable products” in a talk in Harvard Square about his recently released memoir. Amit Bhatt and Mary E. Tito report.

Slight change to continuous stone Penrose tiling. The joins look a little more natural now. I'm going to use a new approach next. #penrose #penrosetiles #tessellation #art #inkscape

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

If I read this already, I must have forgotten. It has been obvious to me that NYT is reporting this story with a particular slant.

"If America still had a fully functioning democracy, Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday to the assembled generals would have ended his presidency."

Reminder that Trump claimed he had nothing to do with Project 2025 and wouldn’t implement it

Penrose stone tiling. Still not quite the seamless look I want, but I'm learning as I go. One important part is getting the corners right. I may also be able to do something with a voronoi diagram to place the stones. #penrose #penrosetiles #tessellation #art #inkscape

This isn't exactly a "trolley problem." Suppose you're a general and have a half hour that could be spent productively either (a) thinking of how to carry out a campaign without committing a war crime or (b) getting a close shave and a workout on the stair stepper. It might not be a choice ...

This is the best take I've read on Coates/Klein, but Pitzer transcends the issue so beautifully that no matter what you think of their article, you should read this. I've been digesting it all day because it's made me rethink things about myself.

RIP Jane Goodall (Gift link)

Aside from other serious failings, Hegseth's entire premise is wrong. We won a major war after WWII. We won the Cold War against the Soviet Union as decisively as any alliance has ever won any war. No victory is permanent but 35 years later, they are in shambles, struggling to reclaim an empire. ...

Penrose rhomb tiling with Voronoi diagram, and an AI rendering as a stone patio. I think this would not raise any eyebrows unless someone was actually looking for a Penrose tiling in it. #penrose #ai-art #tiling #design

The thing about a shutdown is that the federal government has been running on the administrative equivalent of limp mode since Musk showed up with his script kiddies. That would have been the right time to pull the brakes. To do it now is just better late than ever. Call shenanigans on this coup.

"Hegseth’s speech was morally vile. It was also, however, profoundly stupid. Hegseth seems to have gotten his ideas about what an effective military looks like by watching the movie 300."

Simulated stone textures with 5-fold symmetry. I need these for making a tessellation but it's tricky to make them look natural enough.

It shouldn't require explaining, but cities are governed by the officials elected by the people of those cities to govern them. That's why the federal government cannot simply show up with troops just because they don't like how a city is managing its own affairs.

I'm going to bet "or may not" but it would be a nice break from the rest of the news.