Notices by halcy​:icosahedron: (halcy@icosahedron.website), page 11

@bstacey godd did you hear about the situation in germany? because it's incredible

basically, the German Conference of University Deans ("HRK"), in a moment of unlikely clarity, decided that they were Tired Of This Shit and told all the publishers that from now on all german universities would make one large agreement with them, on the universities terms, for access

elsevier and springer made offers so laughable that the HRK actually literally wrote a press release about how they should "come back to the table when they're ready to make a serious offer" and since then many universities have just kind of let access contracts expire

they recently came to an agreement with wiley, rest is still ? ? ? ? ?

it's fantastic because every day this goes on is a day more scientists learn about the greatest development in science access of this century, which, lets be quite honest, is scihub

@WAHa_06x36 also you could probably make a really neat "DECODING PASSWORD: " animation with this, huh.

LB: Linked in the github, here's my pure python blurhash de/encoder: https://github.com/halcy/blurhash-python/

Blurhash is super neat and basically every web application should use it honestly. It's also very easy to implement going of either the reference implementation or any other.

I, much like a computer, am able to do stupid things at breakneck speeds

fuck i dont wanna work i wanna make art

pass -funsafe-math-optimizations to your compiler to allow it to do math optimizations that are fun and safe

“Reimu, having heard that it’s easy money, becomes a youtuber” is like, entirely plausible

the most messed up history fact is that they had ancient egyptian ruins, in ancient egypt

"ancient egypt" went on for so long that we're closer to the time cleopatra was born than cleopatra was to the time the early pyramids were built

"JUST JOKING" / "BEING IRONIC"

Jokes are the creation of tension by the speaker (whether contextual or metatextual) and the subsequent release of tension to signal safety. Therefore jokes always make a statement about the nature of what is found to be tense and safe. You can't be "just joking".

Ex: If a white wants to tell a racist joke in a public mixed space not among friends, they are signalling they acknowledge race is tense in this context but that they personally feel safe regardless. A lifetime of race privilege bears out this asymmetry whether the speaker is sincere+misguided or cryptoracist and merely hiding behind humor.

Therefore in general, whether it's a subconscious sincerity the privileged speaker isn't aware of or conscious bigotry that's sincere but masked by the lie of "joking" is immaterial to the consequence of the action. Both show a thought -> action dynamic to bigoted material. Hiding behind irony/jokes still reveals the thinking.

Fedi is mixed and public y'all.
Garfield's thread as related: https://mastodon.social/@garfiald/101211529801119286