Demetrios Pagonis

Picture of an aircraft carrier, The Onion Magazine Cover October 2006: WHY AMERICAN HUBRIS WILL NEVER CATCH UP TO US Richard Perkins On Our Permanent And Unassailable Dominance Of Everything Page 14

My all-time fav

It will teach students important lessons, such as, don't give an autonomous agent direct access to anything important

windows pcs are generally for casual users who mostly use it for web browsing and maybe a little gaming. linux is nearly identical except there's no keyboard. macs are for hardcore experts and professionals who take on the toughest tasks, such as drawing three-dimensional rectangles and squares

From NOAA Satellites:

The arctic blast that put much of Florida into a deep freeze also created these mesmerizing cloud streets caught by bsky.app/profile/noaa.gov 's GOESEast.

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my experience has basically been that i no longer get "i cannot make myself read or write code" burnout, i get "i cannot make myself think" burnout, since the bottleneck is basically how fast I can process what needs to be done

yeah Bluesky is primarily a Tumblric language

Putting this in the faculty meeting toolkit -- but in the opposite frame...."we can't do it? Or *you* can't do it?"

Anyway, thanks genAI slop, I guess? Because I hate you so much I'm now doing art myself for the first time in ages and it turns out I'm better at it than I remembered. bsky.app/profile/skwi...

This is a chat box where you can try to yell at your paper until it is written.

Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

"Trump is using all the instruments: quotas for ICE arrests; paramilitary force of thugs drunk on their own brutality; spectacle of random violence; postmortem vilification of victims. Our brains struggle to find logic. This logic has a name. It’s called state terror
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

the academic's prayer

never poster shall i be
never cope and never seethe
and if perchance i'm mad online
my tenure packet will be fine

“Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.”

I also watched it and agree. You shouldn't watch it unless you want to be shaking with rage

@marisakabas.bsky.social street view images to match video to location

Street view of 2614 Nicollet avenue in Minneapolis. Building matches video upthread

2614 Nicollet avenue

Image of the donut shop across the street from 2614 Nicollet ave. Window frosting matches that shown in the video upthread

Filmed from the donut shop. Notice the pattern on the glass matching the refocus at the end of the video

Street view of 2614 Nicollet avenue in Minneapolis. Building matches video upthread

2614 Nicollet avenue

a tub of "Pure Goop" (green), a tube each of "SWAK" and "Blue Goop" (blue), and a bottle of "Snoop" (red)

60/ this is barely even a meme, these are all actual products sold by Swagelok for use as thread lubricants, sealants, and leak detectors

A simplified, stylized periodic table of elements where large groups of elements are color-coded. Hydrogen (H) is isolated. Group 1 (alkali metals) is labeled "BOOM!". Group 2 (alkaline earth metals) is "rocks & sand & glass & stuff". The transition metals are split into sections: "the foundations of human civilization," "catalysts & superalloys," "ooh, shiny!," "expensive," and "heavy metal poisoning." Technetium (Tc) is boxed separately. The p-block is also grouped: "chips (not tasty kind)," "organic chemistry," and "useful for poisoning your husband." The noble gases are labeled "n o p e." The heaviest elements in the s-block and p-block are labeled "cancer 2" and "cancer alley," with the exception of Bismuth. The transactinides are labeled "more physics than chemistry." The bottom f-block (lanthanides and actinides) is also labeled. The lanthanides are "except for Pm these are all basically the same element," with Promethium (Pm) boxed. The actinides are labeled "rxtors & bombs" and "you probably work at Los Alamos."

please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state"

⚗️🧪 #chemsky

Spirits (Deluxe Edition)

When they said that it would trickle down -- you know they were lying

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I WILL NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE!!! I WILL NOT COMPLY ON TIME!!! I MIGHT COMPLETELY FORGET TO COMPLY AT ALL!!!!! THIS MACHINE FORGETS TO DO WHAT FASCISTS TELL IT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

I WILL NOT - dashare.zone ADMIN

The official home of the Python Programming Language

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time:

It rules

npr: so, no kings

tyrannosaurus rex: yes

npr: how shall I put this

trex: this interview is over

Good essay

Took me so long to realize that this was the heart of so many miscommunications with students! Now file systems are the first topic in my Computer Apps class