@zaratustra

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Why is the nonsense phrase “vegetative electron microscopy” turning up in fake scientific papers? Add two-column formatting to the list of things AI doesn’t understand. https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
Via @researchbuzz
As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use

The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j…

Retraction Watch

One way to get the 4-piece dissection is to tile the plane with squares and equilateral triangles, both with area 1.

Find vectors v, w with |v|=the side length of an equilateral triangle with area 1, |w|=2, and det|v,w|=2

v = (2 / 3^{1/4}, 0)
w = (√[4-√3], 3^{1/4})

If we use these vectors to construct a lattice with either the triangles or the squares, suitably offset, they will divide each other into exactly the same four pieces!

@jenskutilek hello there, have you ever made your Selectric UN 11 Medium font publically available? thanks

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i'm not sure how well this will work, but you can follow @zaratustra.bsky.social to get posts from my bluesky account

#halloween #witches #skating

Some witchery taking place

Earth is normally portrayed as a Mother, feminine

Mars, the God of War, is typically masculine

Therefore, in this 90 page essay, I submit to you that terraforming Mars is just planetary force feminization.

yeah I've been kinda set for life since my grandfather ran a custom pooltoy inflation suit empire. what's that? yeah basically people send him their OCs and he would build them—oh? oh you meant "what is a grandpa..." right sorry, before I got uploaded I was a biological which meant that we—oh no I'm all full up on grapes, thanks, I'm good—anyway, long story short, a grandpa is like a platonic masc-coded elder metamour who gives you money when he dies. right. yeah it's a whole can of worms, I now have to explain "death" don't I?

Thinking of making a little zine to bring along with me at Handmade that explains what multiset rewriting programming is.

Immediately goes on conlang channels: "HAS ANYONE MADE A CONLANG BASED ON TASTE AND PHEROMONES"