GraphableOres
Blogpost : blog.illestpreacha.com/mathobe…
#mathober #mathart #mathober2024 #mathober7 #flexible #graphs
For my eighth sketch of Mathober2024, GraphableOres is coded in #Python with a Ore-like graph that is being stretched and morphed through #Glitchlab. Flexible Graph is the 7th Prompt for this year’s Mathober.
#Poetry
Shaking and Flipping
Tilting and twisting
Spinning and Tipping
Over and Under,
As they wander,
Into a whole new listing
#creativecoding #coding #mathart #graph
#newmedia #diagram #animation
Amazing how the announcements flow back to back
Now KDE plasma V6.2 is released to the wild!
Go fetch your Source tarball and ./configure make install!
#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #100DaysOfCode #Linux #POSIX #Programming #Xorg #KDE #Plasma #DM #DesktopManager
kde.org/announcements/plasma/6…
“The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check.”
This has become a meme, but as Will Bunch points out, "JD Vance's debate performance revealed how fighting experts over their right to spread disinformation is what drives the GOP."
― George Orwell, 1984
Trump spox on why Trump pulled out of 60 Minutes interview:
"They also insisted on doing live fact checking, which is unprecedented."
cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-…
(Fact check: this presidential candidate lies at an unprecedented rate).
Multiple Republican leaders have pushed back on Trump's lies about the federal response to #HurricaneHelene.
"Ingraham, a staunch Trump ally, is an unlikely figure to fact-check him."
But she did, during an interview on Fox.
Epic thread by @wdlindsy on Trump and Vance lies, the attempt to control reality (Ministry of Truth style), and how the press seems unable to handle this.
Thank you for your continuing work to put things in context. When you place things together like you do, a picture emerges.
Neil Cavuto, Fox host, on lies spread by Trump in the aftermath of hurricanes, e.g. the lie that the $750 emergency cash is the only help people will get:
"That kind of misinformation gets out there, and whether it is perpetrated by a politician, or someone you think is of note, or of authority:
It is wrong, and it is bull.
And it cannot be tolerated."
thedailybeast.com/fox-host-nei…
Note the use of the word "perpetrated".
Lies spread by Trump and Vance have consequences.
Weathercasters - the people who warn you about oncoming extreme weather so you can prepare yourself - get death threats as thanks.
rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…
FEMA employees and other responders can't do their jobs helping people because the lies and conspiracy theories are in the way.
pbs.org/newshour/show/helene-r…
On guy, left with nothing, refuses help because he thinks FEMA will take his house from him.
Which leads to the question: What happens when voters in hard hit districts are refusing help, even attacking the people who come to help them?
They will have their hands full doing DYI recovery. Will they have an opportunity to go vote?
"In 2018, the Senate race was decided by just over 10,000 ballots,” he said. “So if the hurricane depressed turnout by 13,000, that is a really big magnitude.”
It's like with the GOP's covid disinformation causing Republican voters to die in larger numbers than Dem voters.
"More specifically, the researchers say, their adjusted analysis found that "the excess death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters" after vaccine eligibility was opened."
43 %!
npr.org/2023/07/25/1189939229/…
If you want votes, you would think it's not a great idea to cause your voters to die, or get stuck in hurricane recovery.
Reports of "armed militia" caused the temporary pull-out of FEMA workers.
"At least some work in that area — which included clearing trees off dozens of damaged and blocked roads to help search-and-rescue crews, as well as groups delivering supplies — was paused.
By Sunday afternoon, personnel were back in place."
washingtonpost.com/weather/202…
FEMA keeps on rescuing people, despite the threats.
Heroes.
I'm thinking of how Trump scotched the bipartisan funding for more border agents. Along those lines, this would be quite a play:
– Put lies in people's minds about FEMA
– People refuse help from FEMA
– Threats and intimidation hampers the rescue work
– Cue the spurious accusations that "Harris' FEMA" isn't doing a proper job.
Lives put at risk in this gameplay count for nothing, it's all about the political optics. Quite a play. Quite the cynical play.
Kamala Harris Struggling to Break Through With Working Class, Democrats Fear (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/politics/elections/kam…
memeorandum.com/241008/p108#a2…
wpIdentity simplifies the WordPress REST API, making it easier to incorporate into JavaScript apps running in the browser.
Mastodon 4.3 has launched with new content recommendations and grouped notifications
It’s happening.
Access to California’s beaches is disappearing at the rate of 100 access sites with every foot of sea level rise.
By the end of the century, about 15% of Ventura County’s and 40% of Santa Barbara County’s beach access sites will drown.
Chuck Darwin reshared this.
medium.californiasun.co/san-jo…
With the release of Python 3.13 comes curriculum and article updates.
My "Every dunder method in Python" article now lists 3 new dunder attributes:
• The __replace__ method (for the new copy.replace)
• The __static_attributes__ class attribute (a very interesting one for introspection tools!)
• The __firstlineno__ class attribute
There are now 170 dunder attributes in #Python.
James Gleick
in reply to James Gleick • • •“Who was your translator?”
“Do we have a transcript or recording of the calls? (Because Putin certainly does).”