Detecting single photons can be seen as the backbone of cutting-edge applications like LiDAR, medical imaging, and secure optical communication. Miss one, and critical information could be lost for…
In some caves touched by sunlight through cracks you may see what look like stalactites and stalagmites that "grow towards the light" these are called Phytokarst Formations, they are accretion of moss, algae and limestone. The moss favors the parts of the rock formation with the best light exposure, this allows it to catch more limestone laden water.
A different kind of Phytokarst Formation is created when bacteria eat away rock where light is present.
I just watched a video on lambda-calculus, so I was primed to see this and think about programming cellular automata to manufacture stone sculptures for us. As one does.
@bplein @bigjsl Rampant corruption and crony capitalism were the two defining characteristics of the late Soviet Union and the modern Russian Federation. Either she lacks even the most basic critical thinking skills to the point she probably thinks the DPRK is a democracy, or she didn’t grow up hating the Soviet system.
@bplein @bigjsl Her angles were fishy from the get go. Her agenda from day one reeked of „I got mine, fuck you” - a perfect example of reactionary anti-socialism and libertarianism.
Being born in Ukraine is a biographical fact, her actions are what’s important. And her actions are damning.
New, by me: How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack
In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the president has waged an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment rights of journalists, students, universities, government workers, lawyers and judges.
This story explores a slew of recent actions by the Trump administration that threaten to undermine all five pillars of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedoms concerning speech, religion, the media, the right to assembly, and the right to petition the government and seek redress for wrongs.
In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the president has waged an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment rights of journalists,…
> Quakers in Britain said the raid, in which six youth activists unaffiliated with the religious group were arrested, “clearly shows what happens when a society criminalizes protest.”
🗃️ Regardless of if you have 10 files open or 100 files open, Visual Studio gives you a lot of customization options to organize your tabs! From grouping, l...
NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is...
I believe it's the same species as the ones that were all over the walls at work the other day turning into chrysalises. It's probably looking for a place to hang out and transform. I put it in my garden to see if it will do its thing there were i can watch
I once trod on an extraordinarily rare butterfly. It just flew under my foot somehow, and I couldn't react quickly enough.
Ruined my whole week. I mentioned to my then-partner that I'd spotted one, but didn't mention I'd accidentally killed it immediately afterwards. The shame was too great!
The pilot perished in the crash, authorities said. Terry Dolan, a U.S. Bancorp executive, is believed to have been on board, a company spokesperson said.
The Guinness Storehouse is a 7-story museum with interactive displays about the history of the company, information about the founder and the brewing process. If you love Guiness - then you must go. #Guiness #Dublin #Irelandbackpackandsnorkel.com/Ireland…
Today we will explore more highlights of Dublin. We provide detailed information and the best things to see and we show lots of photos so you know what you can expect.
I took a stab at cleaning up my code for BearExporter, a Python script to export all of your Bear notes to Markdown files you can use with Obsidian, read in the terminal, or whatever.
As the old saying goes "it works for me!" but I know it's not exactly great code, but it is available.
I'm not great at Python but I'll try to improve it as time allows.
Or for that matter, one bag of manure in the front basket of a bicycle and another across the back rack. Was is very unstable and difficult to ride? Yes! Did I make it home anyway? Double yes!
Three-thousand, seven-hundred, and seventy-one years ago, in the city of Dilmun, near Ur in Mesopotamia, there was a merchant named Ea-nasir. His business was in selling metal ingots that he purchased in the Persian Gulf.
My parents occasionally find me interesting old books. This one is an optical physics textbook published in 1826. It has a note on the first page from a previous owner. Toronto was incorporated a week or so prior. Darwin was three years or so into his voyage on the Beagle. Weird to hold this.
@AlexanderVI that seemed to be the consensus on Reddit where I first saw this - everyone felt bad for the dog. Apparently police showed-up very quickly and they dispersed.
@Immish ... masks are "ok" for them only when they want to hide their faces, but not protect their fellow citizens during a pandemic... seems to be normal "par-for-the-course" for these types...
As someone who got a clearance in the last couple of years, it was incredibly easy... should be easy for PP, just have to document your employment (he has had, what like 2 "jobs"?), home addresses (should be easy too), and... foreign investments and on-going regular foreign contacts...
"Jessica Simpson is sharing the secret behind her smooth vocals. On Friday, March 28, the singer, 44, posted a candid video on Instagram in which she reveals that she drinks 'snake sperm' at the recommendation of her vocal coach." #weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #cringepeople.com/jessica-simpson-rev…
Jessica Simpson revealed the secret behind her smooth vocals. The singer shared a video on Instagram in which she admits to drinking 'snake sperm' at the recommendation of her vocal coach.
Voice of America, the U.S. government-funded international broadcaster with an 83-year history, is now off the air due to a Trump administration executive order. Bill Whitaker reports, Sunday.
Our #hotel in #Tokyo: <$100 per night, near the subway and fish market and close to Ginza. The entrance to our room was only 6ft tall and breakfast was small, but large bedroom. Where do you usually stay? backpackandsnorkel.com/Tokyo
This Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for Tokyo shows you the best things to do on a self-guided tour of Tokyo. As always, we provide lots of photos so you can decide where you want to go.
I did a lot of talks on student surveillance last year, including talks aimed at college administrations trying, to convince them that turning the campus into a surveillance state was not a good idea. I have not been invited to do a single talk on student surveillance in 2025 for some reason.
Colleges are using surveillance videos and search warrants to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Experts say it’s a new frontier in campus security that could threaten civil liberties.
@JessieImproved I did not have "universities and Big Law tripping over their own feet in their eagerness to bend the knee" on my bingo card, but I absolutely should have.
@JessieImproved it's hard to come to terms with learning that you, as a security and privacy expert, weren't cynical enough. But it also speaks to your humanity.
All I can say is that I'm so thankful I grew up in the 60's and 70's. Students have always been under surveillance, just not by the very institutions that were there to protect and develop them into thinking adults. It's almost always right wing powers that have been there doing that.
Another problem with the sort of surveillance described in that article is that the guy who vandalized the statue could have had his cell phone powered off well before getting near it. Then some hapless guy whose cell phone is on and happened to walk by slightly before it happened becomes a prime suspect.
Something to keep in mind about the terrorism designation of students/Tesla/protestors/presumably others: it justifies the national security letters and other forms of info gathering/surveillance. I don't think this danger is fully appreciated nor that of expanded NSA powers under a unitary executive war powers/invasion theory. Expect real repercussions from this.
Your anger is understandable, but rest assured: we appreciate your work (even if some ultra-collaborationist cowards don't).
Widespread surveillance poisons the cyberspace and the meatspace much more than any occasional privacy breach. It makes people (justifiably) paranoid and wastes unimaginable amounts of resources. When I think about all the time and energy I spend evading the Big Brother's watchful eyes, I can only sigh.
now do K-12 schools. the tracking in those schools is outrageous. our rural high school is full onboard with "smart passes" for leaving the class. they need their chromebook to sign out and in. some parents pushed back so at least there's an opt-out solution with a notebook. i will, however, add that there are a lot of parents who seem to think that the schools should be teaching kids about "how to behave". kids vandalizing the bathroom was, i think, the straw that tipped the desire to track, even though teachers probably know who the troublemakers are.
i think Ohio uses some "classroom dojo" software for primary level. plus study island for homework. these kids will have a digital footprint like none before.
Did another test run of the stained glass hemisphere, this time a 45 degree wide wedge from the Tropic of Capricorn down to the pole. I wanted to confirm that the (literal!) islands work, the whole reason I wanted to use water jet for this in the first place. And they do!
I'll probably want to scale up New Zealand and Tasmania a bit, so they don't totally disappear after the copper tape has been applied. But the big next step is to print a jig that can hold everything at the correct angles for soldering.
Farm worker activist Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, known in his community as “Lelo,” was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday, March 25, and is being held at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.
Wisconsin’s supreme court ruled 4-3 last year to bring back drop boxes. But the liberal majority behind that ruling is now on the line; conservatives could flip back the court on Tuesday and revisit that decision. boltsmag.org/wisconsin-2025-su…
Two years after liberals flipped this supreme court, ushering in a new era on election issues from gerrymandering to drop boxes, conservatives hope to win it back in April.
"An anxiety that historians discern in the historical record is how uncomfortable European travellers, and later anthropological accounts, were with the idea that their gendered worldview didn’t easily map onto the societies they encountered. “There is among the Angolan pagan much sodomy,” wrote one Portuguese soldier in 1681, “sharing one with the other their dirtiness and filth, dressing as women. And they call them by the name of the land, quimbandas.”
In another story, the inquisition in Brazil had heard complaints about Francisco Manicongo, one of the “negro sodomites who serve as passive women,” a jinbandaa from Central Africa, who had to be punished for being a deviant (in the eyes of Christians). Europeans, averse to what they called “sodomy,” expressed distress towards the idea that some people whom they perceived as men would dare be considered by their societies as women."
– Mohammed Elnaiem, "The “Deviant” African Genders That Colonialism Condemned"
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"An anxiety that historians discern in the historical record is how uncomfortable European travellers, and later anthropological accounts, were with the idea that their gendered worldview didn’t easily map onto the societies they encountered. “There is among the Angolan pagan much sodomy,” wrote one Portuguese soldier in 1681, “sharing one with the other their dirtiness and filth, dressing as women. And they call them by the name of the land, quimbandas.”
In another story, the inquisition in Brazil had heard complaints about Francisco Manicongo, one of the “negro sodomites who serve as passive women,” a jinbandaa from Central Africa, who had to be punished for being a deviant (in the eyes of Christians). Europeans, averse to what they called “sodomy,” expressed distress towards the idea that some people whom they perceived as men would dare be considered by their societies as women."
"With what the slave trade and colonialism implied—the more often forced, but sometimes voluntary movement of people across the Atlantic—these transgressive gender performances became the target of the inquisition. The Church disseminated the message that individuals who did not conform to their idea of men and women could be a bad influence on Christian colonial society.
One of those targeted was Vitoria. Her story was popularized by the ground-breaking work of the Brazilian queer historian Luiz Mott. We know of Vitoria (originally a slave named Antonio, from Benin, West Africa) from the authoritative accounts of the Portuguese Inquisition in Lisbon, which had her arrested in 1556. She dressed as a woman, and worked in the riverbank of Lisbon, where she would beckon men, “like a woman enticing them to sin.”
“Under questioning by the Inquisitors,” according to James H. Sweet, a historian at the University of Wisconsin Madison, Vitoria “insisted that she was a woman and had the anatomy to prove it.” The inquisition was not
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"With what the slave trade and colonialism implied—the more often forced, but sometimes voluntary movement of people across the Atlantic—these transgressive gender performances became the target of the inquisition. The Church disseminated the message that individuals who did not conform to their idea of men and women could be a bad influence on Christian colonial society.
One of those targeted was Vitoria. Her story was popularized by the ground-breaking work of the Brazilian queer historian Luiz Mott. We know of Vitoria (originally a slave named Antonio, from Benin, West Africa) from the authoritative accounts of the Portuguese Inquisition in Lisbon, which had her arrested in 1556. She dressed as a woman, and worked in the riverbank of Lisbon, where she would beckon men, “like a woman enticing them to sin.”
“Under questioning by the Inquisitors,” according to James H. Sweet, a historian at the University of Wisconsin Madison, Vitoria “insisted that she was a woman and had the anatomy to prove it.” The inquisition was not convinced and she was eventually given a life sentence. Whereas the Portuguese could only see deviance and sodomy, “their feminine gestures, their same-sex behaviours were simply expressions of their broader spiritual roles, roles that went completely unrecognized by the Portuguese.”
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