@ElanHR

Comic. A snake slithers around a hypercube. No two non-consecutive parts of its coils can be on adjacent corners. [Three small 4-dimensional hypercubes showing disallowed options with one large cube with snake wrapped around it. Dimensions = 4. Max Length - 7.] Snake(N) = Longest snake that can fit in an n-dimensional hypercube. Snake(N=1, 2, 3…8) = 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 26, 50, 98. Snake(N>8) = UNSOLVED. [caption] It turns out every scientific field has a key thought experiment that involves putting a cute animal in a weird box for no reason. So far, quantum mechanics and graph theory have found theirs, but most other fields are still working on it.

Snake-in-the-Box Problem

xkcd.com/3125/

Skateboarding Into Middle Age As I approach forty, I have fewer and fewer memories of being a child. It is enough that the body remembers.

“I’m not the same person I was as a child,” Navied Mahdavian writes. “But some things remain.” Read his comic on re-learning how to skateboard.

Indeed. 👉 archive.org/details/toml...

I can’t stop laughing. 😂

White House unveils AI action plan targeting regulation and ‘ideological bias’ The Trump administration’s goal is to make the U.S. a pro-AI innovation economy, relying on less bureaucratic barriers and open-source models to help win the global tech race.

President Trump’s AI action plan “seeks to require that 'the government only contracts with' developers who meet the administration's ideological criteria," EFF’s Kit Walsh told Nextgov/FCW.

Conservative group files complaint against Hopkins medical school America First Legal is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a formal investigation into diversity policies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

“Johns Hopkins has not merely preserved its discriminatory DEI framework — it has entrenched, expanded and openly celebrated it as a cornerstone of its institutional identity,”

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

A Python script which plays sounds whenever exceptions occur

The Zen of Python says "Errors should never pass silently.". Here is a solution for that problem.

a man in a blue shirt is waving his hand in front of a black background Alt: Looping gif of Bryan Cranston dropping a mic

......trees.

Always good to remember.

Absolutely tragic - thanks for all you guys do.❤️‍🩹

KQED to Slash Workforce by 15%, Cutting Dozens of Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs | KQED The Bay Area media nonprofit is laying off staff for the third time in five years. It comes as the Trump administration aims to cut off federal funding for public media.

And now, grim news about my workplace, KQED.

Woke up this morning and checked the MTA status expecting a lot of subway delays and... nothing. A testament to how resilient the system really is.

Homeland Security DHS account on X: Remember your Homeland's Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”

Panel 1: A swordsman with a short, ragged red cape, 2 brown belts, and a shoulderpad, stands with a wide stance and his sword drawn in his right hand. We see him from behind the shoulder of his opponent, who seems to be wearing blue. Something is written on the red swordsman's chest, illegible from this distance. Panel 2: We zoom in. What's written on the red swordsman's chest is "GOOD". He says "We could have been friends, you know." Panel 3: The perspective is turned as his opponent is revealed to be wearing a long blue cloak and rectangular framed glasses. The wind billows his cloak. Panel 4: The blue swordsman shifts his cloak to draw his sword, which glints in the sunlight with a "shiiiiing". It is revealed that on his chest is written "PERFECT". He responds: "No. We couldn't have."

Post explaining that the official website of PuTTY isn't putty.org but a link that's longer than can be displayed inside a post without getting truncated

This is the most Mastodon post I've ever seen

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NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%.
#NASADidThat

YouTube video by InfinitySongVEVO Infinity Song - Hater's Anthem

When I see someone happily show off something they're proud of and there's a hater in the comments:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=v9y5...

A thing that deeply troubles me about my field is that people tell me that programming doesn’t give them a sense of purpose, challenge and fulfillment.

No, the great big beautiful tomorrow is them yelling at a simulated human slave until a barely working piece of software materializes.

The error is clearly caused by an off-by-one hand error. :D

A truly historic day in California: a clean CEQA exemption for environmentally friendly infill housing has just passed the California legislature via the budget bill!

No other way to put it: this is the most transformative positive shift in land use policy in this state of the last 50 years!

All the criticisms I've read so far are not in defense of Schumer but rather pointing out that the quote you screenshotted doesn't support the claim you made.

If there isn't evidence to support your claim than it is either a gross misinterpretion or intentional mischaracterization.

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

California’s Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare California lawmakers are pushing one of the most dangerous privacy rollbacks we’ve seen in years. S.B. 690, what we’re calling the Corporate Cover-Up Act, is a brazen attempt to let corporations spy o...

The most vulnerable communities will be hit hardest by S.B. 690. This bill is a step backward at a time when surveillance is surging nationwide. We must #StopSB690 #StopCorporateCoverUp

Darnit - I was hoping to make it today but work happened!

I love talking to 5G truthers. Doubly so if they're also "electromagnetic hypersensitive".

There is a Guinness World Record certificate hanging in the BART Board Room!

In March 2024, a group of seven UC Berkeley students and friends accomplished a BART speedrun in 5 hours, 47 minutes, and 42 seconds. Guinness has officially certified this BART speedrun.

Woooooo transit!!!
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LATEST CHINA SOLAR DATA:
93GW installed during May

--- the same as EVER installed in TEXAS and CALIFORNIA.. combined 🤯🤯🤯

(yes, the Chinese are in a bit of a rush before policy changes, but even still!)

lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to Off Hours? Watch a 2hr stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gibUecoF1bEEver wonder how government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, b...

How do government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, become searchable & accessible online? Now you can see it happen in real time.

🎞️⤵️ Watch it live:
www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

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just beyond parody