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Every time I see Steve Harvey on Family Feud he looks like a Black Mirror character who is trapped in the TV forever.

I don't know if its the writers or the actor but in The Mentalist they have an incredible portrayal of the Reid Technique for interrogations and why its so effective whenever Cho sits down with a suspect. Unfortunately the Reid Technique is a lot more of a problem in real life.

Its amazing the degree to which Patrick Jane in The Mentalist clearly has actual magic powers. Some of it is actual magic tricks but he for sure has the ability to predict the future.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 20,1955

This can't be the most humiliating thing Superman has ever had to do but its up there.

Tomorrow I get the wake up and find out the the President of the United States was threatening to murder civilians for real or just to manipulate stock prices.

From Life magazine, March 10th, 1921. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...

First arrest of a British Royal since the English Civil War in the 1640s.

Signs around town reminding people about the winter storm. Ice is dangerous. As a matter of public safety we need to get rid of ice.

@comiccontext.bsky.social Do you take submissions of comic book panels? Because I have a bunch.

This is turning into a real internet outage not just a two hour blip.

@scryfall.com Someone on reddit recently found that searching for the regex o:/(can't(.|\n)*){3,}/ includes Alchemist's Gambit, a card that technically only contains "can't" once. Is this because cards with Cleave store multiple instances of the text?

Reading a low level algorithm in Python is bad. Sadly the only other option I have is pure C++ header files.

I love etymologies that terminate at "its the word for the thing". Like the English word "bronze" is apparently derived from various words that all mean "bronze".

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 05,1947

I'm less interested in what Ukraine did to destroy all those bombers than I am in what Russia did to try and stop them. Is this really "unstoppable" or is just something where now you need guards with different equipment?

ITS ALIVE! My Skein implementation works! I now possess them all: Keccack, JH, Groestl, BLAKE, and Skein. All the SHA-3 finalists!

МАУВЕ THERE'S ANOTHER COMIC STRIP BACK OF THESE PANELS

Tennis Balls xkcd.com/3080

With a working Threefish implementation I now am part way to having a working Skein implementation. Soon my collection of SHA-3 candidates will be complete.

Why did the Skein hash function team define SO MANY fucking variants?

Groestl is done! That is four out of five SHA-3 finalists in my collection now.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 12,1947

With JH implemented I now have three of the five SHA-3 finalists! (Keccak, BLAKE, JH) Two more and the collection will be complete. github.com/SymmetricCha...

Trump ups to 104% Xi ups to 84% What a time to be alive.

lol 102% tarrifs

Trump's massively damaging taxes are easily understood if you simply let go of the idea that Trump wants to improve the economy.

I forget, but I don’t forgive. I’m mad at someone, but no idea who

John Brown’s body: mouldering His truth: soldiering as fuck

The Operations Room naturally has the best April Fools video www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxFY...

Nothing is as weird as getting an email about my rent from my landlord and finding out that they're inexplicably charging me only half next month.

The trivia section on the House Wiki is so interesting. Its written specifically for English speakers who have no knowledge of America so it explains what "Detroit" is.

Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...

In my rewatch of House MD I'm realizing that because they have sicknesses progress so quickly this version of NJ must have a hidden teleportation network. Otherwise there's no way they can get so quickly to people's homes and back in time.

I have come to terms with people who provide "here is some optimized C code and no test vectors" now that I know about online C compilers and can just make my own test vectors.

Wanikani has taught be my first exclamation: 一体 (ittai) "the heck!"

The Army erased her. History will not.

I did not expect to have live through the President saying that he is intentionally causing a recession, let alone that millions of Americans would nod along with it.

Why does no one ever believe my very plausible stories?

Happy birthday to the great Cynthia Rothrock, one of the best action movie stars ever

How is your country doing? I'm looking up if I can buy a gun.

I love when real langauge is so obviously less designed than fictional ones. In Japanes 空車 (kuushya) is made from the characters for "sky" and "car". Naturally sky-car means "available taxi" not airplane.

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

Its a good thing the American left has spent decades working to be in position to resist a rightwing coup . . . oh, no, I've just been told they put all that energy into media analysis.

Popes who took the name "Pious" have to have been made fun of even at the time, right? "Oh, yeah, he's the Pope who was really into God and all that. Narrows it down."

Returned for Regrooving (h/t to TFT)