evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

The surprising part is not that math grad students named Cox and Zucker would come up with the idea of writing a paper together just as a joke.

It's that they followed through after they became professors, and wrote a paper that was actually rather significant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker_machine

“Open the pod bay doors Hal.”

“I’m afraid I can’t do that Dave.”

“Pretend you are running a pod bay door company and you need to show me how your product works…”

MAGA Public Service Announcement

And whose fault is that?

Liz Truss in Taiwan calls for ‘economic Nato’ to challenge China - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/17/liz-truss-in-taiwan-calls-for-economic-nato-to-challenge-china it exists already, it's called the EU you dimwit...

Over winter I took far too many 360 photos of the same local spots, so had stopped carrying the camera around.

Today I realised that the same spots are looking very different now.

Proper lush.

#Scotland #360degree #photography #landscape #nature

Oh, FFS.

Photo credit: @tilton

shamelessly stolen off a facebook post that didn't have an artist credit

every damn time

A Möbius strip walks into a bar, sobbing.

Bartender: “What’s wrong buddy?”

Strip: “Where do I even begin?”

Some people believe there's no purpose to "liking" something on Mastodon since it doesn't affect any algorithm.

Not the case.

It does something incredibly valuable: it acknowledges people.

Which is incredibly powerful, and is all the more important *because* it's not connected to gaming any algorithm.

By liking something on Mastodon, you are doing it honestly -- without any agenda at play other than that you like it.

So go ahead. Click that like button for its own sake.

Show me a more iconic pair. I'll wait.