Ordinary Wonder

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Programmer, maker, RC enthusiast. I generally have no idea what I’m doing, and sometimes get paid for it.
JoinedDecember 2022
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Whenever we discuss a paper in my distributed systems class, I randomly split people into six groups and they spread out around the building to talk, while I walk from group to group. The groups are different every time. But so far, every time, I'm able to find five groups, while the sixth group goes off somewhere and I can't find or communicate with them until they eventually wander back to the classroom five minutes late.

I feel this is rather appropriate for a distributed systems course.

I'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.

It is comparatively easy to write data privacy laws that are constitutional. Not so much for age verification requirements.

Just ask Arkansas, California, and Texas:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/your-states-child-safety-law-unconstitutional-try-comprehensive-data-privacy

Is Your State’s Child Safety Law Unconstitutional? Try Comprehensive Data Privacy Instead

Comprehensive data privacy legislation is the best way to hold tech companies accountable in our surveillance age, including for harm they do to children. Well-written privacy legislation has the added benefit of being constitutional—unlike the flurry of laws that restrict content behind age verification requirements that courts have recently blocked. Such misguided laws do little to protect kids while doing much to invade everyone’s privacy and speech.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
I would pay good money to see this happen!
Holy Jesus God almighty this story about a random pedestrian bridge in Minnesota. https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge
The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge

thinking about how remote login is a lot like astral projection
especially love this quote where the authors are just like... "have you stopped for a second to consider why you're even doing this?!"
Isle of Snacks