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The weaving of a Pentium is so accurate that I could label the functional blocks of the processor. Amusingly, the gallery hung the weaving backward. The wrong side is facing outward, so the chip is mirrored. I had to flip the image to make this diagram. 2/6

I recently saw an amazing Navajo rug at the National Gallery of Art. It looks abstract at first, but it is a detailed representation of the Intel Pentium processor. Called "Replica of a Chip", it was created in 1994 by Marilou Schultz, a Navajo/Diné weaver and math teacher. Intel commissioned the weaving as a gift to the American Indian Science & Engineering Society. 1/6

Nintendo was founded in 1889, making playing cards.
Coca-Cola was founded in 1892.
Levi's blue jeans were invented in 1853.
Dracula was published in 1897, set in that time.
We could have had Dracula wearing jeans, drinking a Coke and playing Nintendo and it would be accurate.

X wasn't banned in Brazil because of censorship. It was because Musk refused to abide by a court order to block accounts linked to the invasion of the Brazilian Parliament, Supreme Court and Presidential Palace in 2023. Musk preferred to close his Brazilian offices instead of helping to catch those who tried to overthrow a democratic elected government. If someone tells you otherwise, they're either dishonest or misinformed.

This reminds me of those old science videos we watched in middle. School when the teacher was hung over. #cybertruck

“They’re coming for trans kids because they don’t want us to grow up into trans adults. They are coming for trans kids because we are growing up through the cracks in the broken structures and we are surviving. And that survival is an inherent threat to those systems.”

“I believe that we can do so much better and we have earned so much more than just, like, introducing legislation. We will do so much more than just take back basic rights. I think we can build a world that’s better than any of us can imagine right now, without these systems in the first place. And, like, I’m filled with confidence that we can don something amazing here. Thank you.”

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDICATIONS?

math youtuber: the Torment Nexus has gotten a lot of hype recently. But did you know there's some interesting math about how the nexus torments? In this video, we're going to show how the rendering of flesh is actually carried out by really cool applications of algebraic topology

Today's prize for on-brand academic behaviour goes to the School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Glasgow, for disguising their building as a chalkboard.

(I'm informed that the elements were collected from working chalkboards in staff offices.)

I propose: pw;dr to mean “paywall, didn’t read”

Server has a strange log on it... 🪵🤔

Wow, pretty sure I've never seen this feature in any other language...

@leeb The IBM 1401 computer had optional support for math with pounds/shillings/pence in hardware, back when there were 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound. Of course there were two incompatible standards, so the computer had a knob on the front panel to select the standard.

Wireshark 4.4 dropped. Limits of new display filter features.

https://blog.wireshark.org/2024/08/whats-new-in-wireshark-4-4/

#infosec #networking

@dalias @rabbit That is an important aspect of a sustainable social media model. Scale must be understood as a mixed blessing that has costs which some communities have no capacity or desire to bear. Small is not a bad thing, as long as it suits the people who choose it. A federated system (which can include diverse platforms) lets sites choose to stay small or to try to manage getting big.