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Evil stuff my mind cooks up:
Take a Rubik's cube apart and change it so that a corner piece has two adjacent stickers of the same color.
Then randomize the rest of the cube.
Give it to a solver and measure the time until they realize it's unsolvable.

I know everyone’s already dragging the living shit out of this already but 🤷🏻‍♀️:
All ICE/BP should have:
Clearly marked vehicles
Clearly marked names on uniforms (large TEXT for both)
ID/badges
Dismissal and/or prosecution for failing to comply.
QR codes are just unneeded “tech” complication
The current regime talks a lot of shit about ID being required to vote, but is fine with armed agents of the govt having less ID than a teen trying (and failing) to…

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: Right. What are you expecting him to do?
VILA: I'm expecting him to try and kill us.
KERRIL: What?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/332 B7B4

With the emergence of more processors with 64 cores or more, I'm thinking more about whether it makes sense to implement a hypercube virtualised on a single chip with a single vector of memory, or as a literal hypercube of 64 (say) RP2350s. I understand the problems of transferring data across a hypercube, but I don't have a good feeling of how the bus contention on a multicore processor scales. What should I read?

Implementing post scarcity hardware
Prototype work towards building a post-scarcity software system

An army veteran and Purple Heart recipient who served two tours in Iraq was deported on Friday morning from an immigration detention facility in Florence, Arizona.
Arizona state representative Raquel Teršn told Fox 10 Phoenix that Jose Barco, a Venezuelan-born veteran whose family fled Cuba as refugees, was deported at 4am from Arizona.
Anna Stout, a volunteer on Barco’s defense team, told Denver 7 his team was not notified of plans for his deportation.
Barco’s family has s…

Check out today's Metacurity for a comprehensive run-down of crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea,
--CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,'
--Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season,
--Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled,
--Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money …

Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea
CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,' Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season, Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled, Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money laundering, Firefox gets anti-fingerprinting fix, much more

been really feeling leonard cohen's version of the blacklist-era folk song "passing through" lately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_CA-C2JFeE

Coinbase plans to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, saying Delaware "once provided companies with consistency" but now has "unpredictable outcomes" (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/coinbase-m

Coinbase moves incorporation to Texas from Delaware, following Musk's lead
Coinbase's legal chief wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the crypto platform is moving its state of incorporation to Texas.

For #Caturday, a reminder that Widget remains available for adoption in the NYC metro area. She would prefer a calm house without kids (we are not a calm house). She's super affectionate! #CatsOfMastodon

Filing: the US greenlights Nvidia H200 exports to China; the chips will be tested by a 3rd-party lab to confirm their AI capabilities before they can be shipped (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-eases-regulation…