Now: music, politics, social issues, Chicago White Sox. Then: Select K-Theory Radio Programme archives are from WNUR available on mixcloud as user k_theory. Harris 2024. she/her, they/them, we/us.
See also: https://bsky.app/profile/kaytheory.bsky.social
HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III.
Öztürk is the Tufts PhD student snatched off the street by ICE and now facing deportation for cowriting a pro-Palestine op-ed in the student newspaper. 🧵
https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3lmroutlt322t
THOOOSE WERE THE DAYYYYYYYYS 😪
You guys it's on THIS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA
Update: I am enjoying Bluesky quite a lot and am definitely over there more than I am here. There are things about it that are absolute dogshit but they are manageable so far.
@disappearinjon Set the global stuff aside, we'll deal with it. Keep yourself & the family safe and get strong.
@disappearinjon YES!!!
Babe The Blue Ox!!! YOU GUYS ... I loved this band so much in the 90s, I have thought of them many times over the years, and just found out they are on Bandcamp and had a new album out in June!!
The Onion is so back, baby. https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/
So good. There are some top quality aspects of this timeline. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onion-wins-alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-auction-rcna179936
Attention: Phone phreaks who take drugs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr7P7K_aYYM
@TechBean when the Challenger shuttle blew up
Peace to you, my friends, your tenderness is necessary for me
Peace and respect to every life
Peace to the fascination of fire,
Peace to the break of day at the fall of night.
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes, "Paix"
What's good this weekend in #Baltimore, anybody know? @dave_heumann
Clear your weekend schedule, babe! New Mersenne prime just dropped! https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M136279841
"It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500 million essentially rounds to zero from the perspective of the wealthiest Americans."
-@kenshirriff, Wealth distribution in the United States
https://www.righto.com/2024/10/wealth-distribution-in-united-states.html
This diagram shows the main functional blocks of the Pentium. The code and data caches are on the left, recognizable by the uniform rectangles of their storage. To the right are the integer and floating point execution units, the heart of the chip. 2/2
Here's a die photo of the Pentium chip, the original P5 version introduced in 1993. For this photo, I removed the top metal layer (of the three metal layers), making it easier to see the structures underneath. 1/2
