A frame-filling toroidal surface diagonally-colored by black and white squares like a 1950s diner floor.

A blog post explaining the math behind the image "Cyclide Check" in what I hope is a friendly, step-by-step way. This is fun material, especially if you're teaching or taking or otherwise fond of multivariable calc or linear algebra!

www.diffgeom.com/blogs/about-...

#MathSky #MathArt #SciArt

Counting all the manual actions taken, and the claim that everything user-reported is checked by a human.

How many people do they have checking this?

By their own numbers, almost 50% of what Bluesky moderation gets up to is just manually labeling replies as rude. 👍

Phone service and Internet are about to be shut off please help before I’m cut off entirely from help, my kids medical team and my elderly dad I run meds and groceries to weekly.

Union workers take legal action against Build A Rocket Boy One union member said the studio's 'culture of secrecy and micromanaging' is one of the worst they've ever encountered.

Union workers take legal action against Build A Rocket Boy over alleged privacy violations

"Build A Rocket Boy's toxic culture of secrecy and micromanaging is one of the worst I've seen in a 20 year career in the gaming industry."

panel from KaguRai: "You came here to kill my beloved Claude, didn't you...!?"

Bsky devs

Reminder that the WaPo and most legacy newspapers are owned by right wing billionaires and serve Republican agendas.

Alternatives in the thread!

GOP - *gerrymanders*

DEMS - hey stop that no fair

GOP - *gerrymanders even more*

DEMS - we mean it we’re gonna sue

SCOTUS - *legalizes gerrymandering completely*

DEMS - *start gerrymandering*

GOP - HEY STOP THAT NO FAIR!!!! 😭

Now they want to ARREST us if they don’t approve of what we are WEARING, the misogyny does not stop

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Kash Patel has destroyed himself with this stupid stunt There is an image burned into the minds of anyone paying attention to the machinations of Donald Trump, his Cabinet and advisors, aka his minions and sycophants. It is not the picture I bet you’re thi...

www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Her set would be strong on ATC, dance beats, and unusual combinations of music/genres.

Alastor, with the superglue.

Everywhere.

(The only greater hazard might be Niffty)

Including pozidrive screws in a kit (but marking them as phillips) should be punishable by walking across a field of lego, barefoot.

Modern day dragons, those. Sitting on their hordes of gold.

Further proof: Cats can teleport!

In your time online, did you see the medications being handed out by the WH physician during Trump 1.0?

(Maybe not all, but almost all)

Section 230 doesn’t just protect platforms—it protects the people who use them. We spoke with Reddit’s top lawyer about how volunteer moderators, everyday users, and online communities need 230 to function. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Y'know, a good chunk of these issues would go away if people didn't have to go into the office everyday.

1. There is no videotape.
2. He is not Terry Gene Bollea.

There's a war on for this limited edition tote!

This nightmare cost us so much money. Help us out! Get the tote.

membership.theonion.com/iw/?campaign...

Theory: Any success is because of their "superior" genetics, any failure is because of others' failure to properly raise the children.

Oh sure it does, all the time. The bestseller lists are continuously full of the okayest books.

Because the truth is, reading a truly marvelous work of inspiring genius is EXHAUSTING. And we're all already exhausted.

Newsom signed the law for mandatory age verification in Linux.

There's a story about the person trying to keep up that has smart everything, and electronic deadbolts on their doors.

Meanwhile, programmers have a completely analog house, and a gun near the printer in case it gets uppity.

When you're cleaning our your cupboards and find that old sea otter you thought you'd lost years ago.

I love when there is, every so often, news that is good