Tootfinder

Bans of and challenges to reading material in K-12 schools have been on the rise since 2021,
when the American Library Association and PEN America noticed a sharp uptick in the number of books on the no-no list.
The classics of the banned-book genre remained
— “Brave New World,” “Animal Farm,”“Beloved”
— but those were joined by an escalating list of picture books of two-dad families, young-adult novels tackling race or suicide, graphic novels in which teens make inf…

Why not just ban all the books?
Keyword searches for "justice" and "pride" drive what ideas are being kept from kids.

from my link log —
Smooth voxel terrain: isosurface extraction with marching cubes and surface nets.
https://0fps.net/2012/07/12/smooth-voxel-terrain-part-2/
saved 2021-01-08

Smooth Voxel Terrain (Part 2)
Last time we formulated the problem of isosurface extraction and discussed some general approaches at a high level.  Today, we’re going to get very specific and look at meshing in particular.…

"Das ist kein Chart, das ist ein Tatort" ist treffend formuliert von Andreas Schmitz (aka. Der Akku Doktor), der jetzt eine Beschwerde beim ÖR eingereicht hat, weil #Markus_Lanz in seiner Sendung desinformiert = mit bewusst falschen Zahlen agiert.
Ich habe in seine Grafik das Altmeier-Portrait noch einbauen lassen um den Altmeier-Delle genannten Effekt klarer zu visualisieren. Die…

2021: can order Macs just fine but no toilet paper
2026: plenty of toilet paper but can’t order Macs

Which way now?
2021

Everyone with a checkbook understands how to get what they want from Donald Trump
-- and that is to pay him.
When he owned a hotel in Washington, the place was constantly booked during his presidency.
As soon as he left office in 2021, the vacancy sign turned on.
Memberships in his tacky golf resorts increase, as well as the fees, while he’s president.
After he leaves office, they drop off.
Since re-entering office in January 2025, Trump has made huge bus…