Space books (very silly) with space facts (very cited)! 🧪🔭📚 Milky Way: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-milky-... 40 Ways: bookshop.org/p/books/fort... Universe: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 6d ago

You should welcome all the new people to Bluesky by TELLING US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK AND DONT FORGET A LINK SO WE CAN BUY IT. Bluesky, the app for books.

I could have sworn I’ve seen this image before. It’s almost this:

MMarie-Pierre Cleret@marie-pierre.bsky.social · 6d ago

I saved this a while back - one of the best character thumbnails I’ve read. Enjoy.

NGL, surprised to see this from Jeffries.

You could absolutely go to him "They can tear down your ballroom, You'll never finish your arch. They can take your name off everything, But the one legacy that nobody could ever undo or change or take away from you would be if you added a state. That extra star on the flag would be TRUMP'S STAR."

I'm using a new-to-me book for teaching theory of computation this semester. For some reason, the author never draws a PDA nor a Turing machine! In the introduction to TMs, here's the first example for the language A = {a^n b^n c^n | n ≥ 0}. Contrast with my implementation.

Want to hear me talk about space and my newest book, The Universe: A Graphic Guide? Gotcha covered, with Interplanetary Podcast 🔭 soundcloud.com/matt-interpl...

#332 - The Universe - Jillian Scudder

A little later than planned, here’s our conversation with astrophysicist and author Dr Jillian M. Scudder about her new book The Universe: A Graphic Guide, illustrated by Lily Fossett. We talk dark ma

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I had a meeting this morning in the Science Center which is a building across campus from me. When I left an hour ago, this was on the TV in the main hallway. I have no idea what this is for. And weirdly, it’s still up an hour later! (I left a thermos in the conference room and just retrieved it.)

BREAKING: On a 6-5 vote, the limited en banc Ninth Circuit court reinstates the three-judge panel’s ruling granting DOJ’s requested stay of the district court’s TRO in the SEIU-led election workers case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last wk.

BREAKING: The Ninth Circuit voted to take DOJ's request for a stay pending appeal of the SEIU TRO en banc, which means the panel opinion is vacated, which means the SEIU case TRO will remain in effect for now. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Very neat: Stockfish running on a Pentium Pro and connected to the internet. nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026... It checkmated me in 27 moves.

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?

A fun experiment where I back-port all the improvements we've made to chess engines over the last 30 years and run it on a 1996 Pentium Pro to see what we could have done if only we knew more at the t...

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Join me in voting and making your voice heard, for yourself, your community, and your loved ones. It may feel small, but together our ballots add up to real change. 🗳️

I've been assuming that when I see GitHub messages: "@foo added @foo as a collaborator on: org/repo bug title" this is some AI agent. Is that correct? I've never seen someone I'm sure is a human do that.

God my blood is boiling. Try them. Every single one.

ACLU@aclu.org · 2w ago

After observers lawfully filmed ICE in a public parking lot, the agents followed their car, boxed them in, and slashed their tire in retaliation. The observers bravely caught the whole thing on video.

NEW — I spoke to Tom, the guy at the South Carolina Trump rally who compared the president's supporters to the Jonestown Massacre. We talked about his loathing for Trump, his love of death metal, and where he learned his impeccable comedic timing. Read our full chat here:

I talked to Tom, the viral ‘Jonestown’ Trump rally guy

He planned to make good trouble. But he didn't expect to be handed a Fox News mic.

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I’m so very tired of this.

Fremont Troll Updates Nazi Car Brand He’s Crushing in Fist from Volkswagen to Tesla: tinyurl.com/yza3w6zy

I just received a bizarre anti-Sherrod Brown text ad that claims he's pro-Trump. Text: Sherrod Brown: Pro-Trump and WRONG for Ohio Brown ADMITTED he supports Trump's tariffs. He SUPPORTS & ENABLES Trump. He BACKS his ANTI-WORKER Agenda. And OPPOSES Medicare For All. Vote NO on Sherrod Brown.

I made my test site serve a small git repo, so you can test your git client. $ git clone g3.emsign.filippo.io $ git clone aaa.emsign.filippo.io

and his people ... studying very dilapidated golf course. ... AL: "Burgum and people" -- that refers to you? GW: don't know. AL: you see others? you said someone identified on left who was part of President's staff. who was it? GW: natalie harp. AL: post says work will begin 9/1 GW: yes. /75

They don't want to acknowledge the reality that most transforming part of college is living with people with different lives and perspectives and sharing some basic values and mission of "we all have equal student rights and we all belong here" It's their peers, who they actually pay attention to

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 4w ago

EDJ edit page continues its reality-defying streak decade after decade:

It is incredibly hard to teach students theory of computation or programming languages or computer architecture. Do these people think I’ve got time (or the expertise) to indoctrinate students? Reality-defying, as Philip says.

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 4w ago

EDJ edit page continues its reality-defying streak decade after decade:

( @filippo.abyssdomain.expert's essay on the NIST elliptic curve seeds result words.filippo.io/seeds-solved/ reminded me of this as it's well done.)

The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed

We now know how the seeds of the NIST elliptic curves were generated: they’re not the hash of some saucy sentence, but the output of drand48() seeded with the time, which was indeed in 1997–98.

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I'm a pretty big AI skeptic but I did have a pretty amusing thing happen last night. I fed the robot a PDF containing a proof I wrote that the intersection of a context-free language and a regular language is context-free. I asked it to give me a lean proof. It restated my proof, concisely.

This morning I re-watched my video argument with the NY Times' Patrick Healy, and it's clear that the Times believes if it says explicity that the Trump regime is assaulting democracy, that would undermine its work to investigate how the regime is assaulting democracy. What an absurd position.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 4w ago

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

This seems fake.

Owen From Ohio@owenfromohio.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today