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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

And they will be promptly shot down upon entering U.S. airspace

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Job: the University of Arizona Libraries is hiring a Librarian with focus on Instructional Strategies and STEM (assistant/associate) to join our new cohort model of liaisons
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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A few years ago I had a partner who was a former roboticist. Through her I became acutely aware of how much of public-facing robotics is now is pure theatrical smoke and mirrors horseshit intended to dupe credulous tech press and VCs.

lmfao no fucking way

Edna Etiquette Q: Edna, what is the proper way to ask a member of the opposite sex to pass the butter? A: Butter should not be passed.

We didn't deserve The Onion's "Our Dumb Century." Even little tossed-off shit like this has stuck in my brain for twenty-five years

One of the things I remember learning about in the college course I took on the French Revolution was how an important precondition for the anti-aristocratic terror was the culture of brutal public violence practiced by elites against the lower classes in the mid 18th century e.g.

A Scroll Jar would fix me

Someone please pitch @contingent-mag.bsky.social on this. We need a mailbag that people can share with friends and family who believe the university spokesperson line that this is about costs or low student demand. It’s not true in this case and it hasn’t been true with the humanities either.

Today's vintage Christmas card theme is creepy clowns and this sinister jester is either about to share some pudding or get stabby. One or the other. #christmas #vintage #clown #christmascard

I don't know how your previous physician missed this, Santa, but this is not a bowl full of jelly. You have a serious, life-threatening hernia. I'm scheduling you for surgery tomorrow.

Yo gamers why are you not talking about this more?????

Remember folks, during winter every ten degree temperature drop lowers your tire’s PSI by 1 so it’s very important to go to the gas station and notice that the air thing doesn’t work and then do that five more times at five different gas stations

How can law be the chief determinant of morality when they can make it legal to rape us?

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

As a security person, I SO appreciate great bits like this open letter around bad security advice ( www.hacklore.org/letter), especially given that it's got reputable people like @leak.bsky.social signed on.

I agree that outdated advice and half-truths are just as bad as giving wrong advice.

As a card-carrying old lady yelling at clouds on the topic of public wi-fi (and not scaring people about it), excited to see it at the top of this very good list.

He had the only space ship that would regularly just be having steam pipes burst in it like in cartoons. That’s a bad sign on any vehicle but his shit was the only thing between the crew & oxygen!

Got sick of the terrible documentation on Steam and wrote my own on how to upload stuff.

link: github.com/Miziziziz/St...

It's convenient to redraw Fig. 121(b) as three concentric rings, without crossing edges, as shown in Fig. 122(a). Then it's easy to find a Hamiltonian cycle, such as the one indicated by bold edges in Fig. 122(b). (In fact, Hamilton proved that every such cycle on the dodecahedron is essentially the same as this one; see exercise 9.) Thus we can also redraw the dodecahedron's graph as shown in Fig. 122(c). From that diagram it's obviously Hamiltonian - that is, it obviously has a spanning cycle; but it's not obviously planar at first glance.

was acquired in 1911. A similar example, smaller and with more beautiful let-terforms, is object number UC 59254 in the nearby Petrie Museum of University College London [see W. M. F. Petrie, Objects of Daily Use (1927), #288]. What a pleasant coincidence that W. R. Hamilton himself would independently come up with the same concept some 1800 years later, and would proceed to find a closed cycle instead of just a path! Now fast forward to the ninth century,

are equivalent to the tours of bunches aza3a4a1, a3a4a1a2, and a4a1a2a3 whenever each aj is one of the 28 wedge codes. Reflection also gives an equivalent tour, whose bunch depends only on the unreflected bunch name. For example, the top-bottom reflection of cycle (1) gives a cycle that belongs to bunch yByD. In general, let p and r be the permutations of wedge codes that correspond to 90° rotation and to top-bottom reflection. Then a → ap is the mapping discussed in Fig. 123, and we have a=abodefghijklABCDEFGHIJKLwxyz;

Idly had the thought “I wonder if Donald Knuth is still doing a Christmas lecture?” And the answer is of course he is, it was yesterday. Eighty-seven years old, still on the wholly Quixotic TAoCP path, and casually spitting out TeX fascicles. www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc8...

newsom is like if the smiler from transmetropolitan was proceeded by an endless procession of worse and worse smilers. I think he'd demand the burning of gay-looking children in a brazen bull and start nuking American cities to show he meant business

Zohran should create little schools everyone has to go to that teach you to still talk with a 1987 nyc dirtbag accent the way the Irish do with Gaelic

Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability

lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...

"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

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Thank you guys again for the patience as I continue to raise funds to pay off an emergency kidney procedure, we have less than 2 weeks left before the medical bills start racking up interest and it would genuinely help a lot for some help

We are $12.1k away from being funded

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yet when I show up with my "no war against Venezuela because only AI systems should be allowed to declare war" banner, suddenly the tent isn't so big anymore 😤

it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools

YouTube video by Reuben Langdon Devil May Cry 3 - Previz

What if I made a PS2 game and just hired actual stunt performers to do FMV cutscenes www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR35...

(this was apparently how they "storyboarded" the cutscenes, but just, stop there! it was already cool!)