My "grow plants everywhere" mod for #Luanti is progressing!
I just built a routine to do blobby weight regions as the intersection of a bunch of parabolas, where weight increases logarithmically from the edge of the parabola with an adjustable edge region, and we use the geometric average of these weight values within the intersection region. Then I spent a few hours hunched over a biomes vornoi diagram approximating different broad regions like "arid_grasses" and "temperate_trees" so you can just name some combination of these regions (with custom per-region multipliers) and have your plant definition apply within those regions. I was using rectangular min/max heat/humidity values before, but they were pretty awkward to work with.
If anyone on here who plays Luanti wants to check it out let me know and I can prioritize publishing what I've got. I've got growth definitions for most but not all VoxeLibre plants and it wouldn't be hard to put them together for another game. No trees yet, but that's pretty much the next thing to work on.
Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
GENERAL: I'm meeting the President-Elect later on.
QUUTE: Yes, I'd heard he'd arrived. He's a Helot they say.
GENERAL: Practor? Oh yes. Born and bred. It's a good idea getting one of their own to run the place.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/82
Noem Attempts to Distract From ICE Execution - The American Prospect https://prospect.org/2026/01/08/minneapolis-ice-noem-homeland-security/
Added a "free play area" to the otherwise unused space in the corner of the ReworkCTF board. Just a bunch of fine pitch traces on various layers, some 0402 footprints, and some vias - not wired to anything else, just a playground for circuit edit practice.
Plus a pair of crossing trace pairs on L1 and L2 that might be fun to do something with.
An immigration court few have heard of is quietly shaping policy behind the scenes (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/20/nx-s1-5707535/trump-immigration-detention-appeals-board-deportation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p29#a260320p29
Glad to see someone major endorsing McMorrow.
I got the sense that el-Sayed jumped in because he saw a lane for a non-woman progressive candidate, not because he wants to be a Senator or because he believes he’d be good at it. Stevens is a neolib disaster. McMorrow is an experienced *legislator* with the right attitude for the time. @…