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The new episode of "Next Comes What" is up! It covers how the US has been moving further outside the rule of law for a long time & what that will mean for 2025. We look at how people fought torture post-9/11 & how Americans are already defying Trump allies youtube.com/watch?v=32YMWcD2…
Looks like the exclusion legislation that prohibited Chinese people in 1882 was rescinded in the year this pamphlet was published in 1943. The total exclusion ended, allowing all of 100 (actually 106) "qualified" Chinese, per year.
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This geometrical landscape by J.H. Pierneef (1886-1957)
[The Kloof, Rustenburg, 1928]
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ISO/IEC 10646
The problem of long-repeat strings generating delicate encodings (or weaves?) has been known to signal processing people for decades
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What’s your favorite type of power line? Follow me for more tips on great questions to ask on first dates.
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interesting - between 34-43% of Americans have not voted in the last 3 US elections
via Reddit reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful…
ALT Chart showing US presidential election results from 1976-2024, displaying percentage of eligible voters who did not vote and those who voted for different candidates. Data is arranged by year with color-coding: yellow for non-voters (typically 38-49%), blue for Democratic candidates, and red for Republican candidates. Stars indicate trifecta wins."
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In the 1960s, Stanislaw Ulam, while doodling during a boring presentation, discovered a surprising pattern when he arranged numbers in a spiral and highlighted the primes. This spiral revealed a striking pattern and structure in the distribution of prime numbers.
📷visualizing math
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Immanuel Kant’s personal copy of Alexander Baumgarten’s book on metaphysics. Now I don’t feel so bad about writing in my books.
Interesting sort of early-ish human/computer anthro-imaginary applications (but not really). Both Communications ACM 1966.
This is excellent. Thanks @MrPrudence!
