A drawing of Rocksteady & Bebop from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles recreating Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam".

"The Sistine Mutants" Collab with @jjjennnnn.com
Jen drew Bebop and I drew Rocksteady and the Foot Soldiers. With help from Michaelangelo.
For Commander Lobo's @mister-lobo.bsky.social #LoboDrawAlong #TMNT

we all know I have no life, so:

Larry Evans 3-dimensional maze art : Evans, Larry, 1939- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 64 p. : 28 cm

Larry Evans
3-Dimensional Maze Art
1980

#books #retrobooks #labyrinths #mazes #3d #3dmaze #3dmazes #puzzles #painting #art #mazeart #artbook

Zoologist and author Desmond Morris dies aged 98 Morris, who was also a surrealist painter and broadcaster, was best known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape.

"I've sometimes been accused of degrading mankind, or insulting human dignity, of making man beastly. This surprised me because I like animals and I feel proud to call myself one. I've never looked down upon them, so to call human beings animals is not, to me, degrading."

This was, uh, not on my bingo card

# Nested Modal Transducers - A methodology for building hierarchical state machines in a _purely functional_ setting (no in-place changes are made to data structures) - At any given time, each state machine has a _configuration_, which is a data structure consisting of: * its _mode_ (the traditional "state indicator": one of a finite, fixed set of labels) * its _data_ (the "extended state", including any counters, flags, timers, etc.) * a collection of configurations, one for each of the sub-machines _nested_ within this one - When a state machine receives an _input_, it may transition to a new configuration, and produce zero or more _outputs_ - This is realized with a pure function called a _transducer_ with the signature: * `(Config × Input) → (Config' × [Output])` - The transducer for a state machine is responsible for transitioning all of its sub-machines by calling _their_ transducers on the nested configurations - In doing so it can intercept the input sent to the sub-machine, and the outputs returned from the sub-machine, and manage them as it sees fit

When revisiting a write-up you did 7 years ago that you plan to use again, it sometimes helps to write a summary. So that's what I did today.

Well, and I did a lot of cleaning.

And I bought some shoes

I say this as someone who is also in a "safe" district in a FPTP system. These are not exclusively American problems.

You say this with the benefit of hindsight. Before the fact, you could not have been 100% certain that your vote would not be critical. You can say this is pedantic, but it means that opting out is never a positive because it always replaces a small chance of affecting the result with a zero chance.

Some thoughts: To me it is obvious that esolang is conceptual art. there is still some controversy over what conceptual art is. it's possible that standup comedy and pure mathematics are also conceptual art. I have no objection to this idea but I suspect many would not be comfortable with it

I'm not American, and I didn't say the power of your vote isn't incredibly small compared to the power of a lobbyist. But it's not zero. I think we're looking at this from different viewpoints, which could probably be reconciled with enough effort, but I think it's probably not worth the effort.

I disagree. Votes decide who will represent you in your representative government, and different representatives will represent you differently. Choosing not to affect that outcome is choosing to wield less political power. It's not a large amount but it's not zero.

It's extremely naive to characterize all non-voting as a principled opting-out of the current political structure

It's also doubtful that, in a democracy, opting out of voting does anything but reduce your political power

Not saying OP is claiming these, only that they come to mind reading it

My copy arrived. Bit nervous to say what I think about it because you're a bit nervous to hear what I think about it - is this gonna be some kinda Mexican standoff thing?

I'm also nervous about summarizing all my thoughts in a skeet. Nuances will get lost.

I like the book, I'm glad you made it.

"Technically the strait is now open, it's just that the blockade now covers the rest of the world and every ship outside of it"

Plagued by visions of boffins being consulted by military bigwigs to see if results from general topology can somehow be applied to straits

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Sunny with a chance of Pluto.

Handy tip for avoiding burnout:

Don't burn out

Vatican City is a small and poorly defended country, nearly as easy to annex as Greenland, amirite

"Knock knock"
"Who's there?"
"I'm Jesus"
"I'm Jesus who?"
"A doctor"

Maybe I'm giving him too much credit but I think he's trying to impress to the English BBC reporters why he thinks it's so important for the US to be doing this insane war blockade thing to prevent Iran from getting a nuke?

Earth Sees First Image Of A Black Hole Every image you've ever seen of a black hole has been a simulation. Until now. "We have seen what we thought was unseeable," said Event Horizon Telescope Director Shep Doeleman.

Did you know? The first picture ever taken of a black hole was taken only 7 years ago.

#astrophysics #technoaesthetics

Hungary's election result is really significant.

With Putin's ally out of Hungary, coordinated EU support for Ukraine.

Delegitimization of MAGA and an embarrassment to JD Vance in particular.

Well done Hungary.

"In order to open the strait we needed to blockade it"

100% signups is the metrics investors care about. So "we don't want potential signups to click Sign In by accident then abandon" is the reason Sign In is nearly hidden. (Then "design is a cargo cult" is sort of an amplifier on top of that, where sites are just copying each other.)

Rule of law is for little people

The great work of great people is too important, it would be unfair to burden them with it

(/s)

Well, if not "about esolangs", perhaps "on the subject of esolangs" at least? Most of the books on the list predate even the coining of the word.

Anyway - copy now ordered! (I was just waiting for Alibris to send me one of their vouchers, as they do periodically, so I could save a few bucks)

SOLID principles tho! Every time new law is established, we should go back and refactor all the old laws to make sure they are still in single-responsibility classes that adhere to the Liskov substitution principle!

They both have some relation to logic.

But most software people never actually study logic, and are typically hubristic, so they wildly overestimate how much of what they do everyday can be applied to other fields that have some (other) relation to logic.

The job ads that say, like,

"Must have proven experience building AI agents in production, not just demos"

and then also

"If you’re excited about this role but not sure you meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you"

See, slop is nothing new. Job ads have been slop since forever.