your move, cricket #CalvinBall
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The overwhelming evidence that the Supreme Court is on Donald Trump’s team: ‘Welcome to the Supreme Court’s Calvinball era…. On August 21, the Supreme Court handed down a baffling order that required researchers, who claim that the Trump administration illegally cut off their federal grants, to navigate a convoluted procedural maze in two different courts. [Justice Ketanji Brown] Jackson labeled this decision “Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist.” Calvinball, an ever-changing game featured in the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, “has only one rule: There are no fixed rules.” In this Court, Jackson continued, there are two: The rules always change, and “this Administration always wins.”…
The Court’s Republican majority now hands Trump several victories every month, only explaining themselves when they feel like it. —Ian Millhiser, VOX Sr. Columnist #SCOTUS #legal #RuleOfLaw #CalvinBall
🌀 Distro-Hopping a Weekend Fun Activity
Much like Calvinball, distro hopping has no rules—just an increasing sense of chaos.
Calvinball is a game invented by Calvin and Hobbes. There is only one permanent rule in Calvinball: players cannot play it the same way twice.
"Trump is calling national security & privacy concerns related to TikTok...'highly overrated'"
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-china-extension-deadline-4a66fbd0e485db5b3da83c176f22ad11
If true, Congress & the DOJ misled SCOTUS, & the TikTok v Garland decision is illegitimate
If false, Trump is giving a gift to China & jeopardizing our country
There's playing politics and then there's fucking winning.
Wake up and decide to win. Don't play their #calvinball.
@gregggonsalves link to the full opinion:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a103_kh7p.pdf
@Tharpa Guess we'd better stop playing their games and go around them wholesale.
you can also metaphorically up their road blocks, but at least stop playing their games
Anyone want to play #Calvinball?
Daniel J. Bernstein (#djb, to those who know and love him [1]) has a new blog entry about the NIST post-quantum #cryptography standardization process that's been ongoing for some years. Also, follow him @djb .
If you're not aware of some of the controversy about how NIST is running this process, it's a must-read.
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20250423-mceliece.html
My $0.02: it sure looks like NIST is backstopping an attempt by the NSA to get everyone to standardize on cryptography #standards that the #NSA knows how to break.
Again.
Yes, they did it before. If you read up on the Dual_EC calamity and its fallout, and how this time it was supposed to be different - open, transparent, secure - then prepare to be disappointed. NIST is playing #Calvinball with their rules for this contest, yanking the rug out from under contenders that appear to be more #secure and better understood, while pushing alternatives that are objectively worse (#weaker encryption, less studied, poorer #performance).
Frankly, I think organizations outside of the #USA would be foolish to trust anything that comes out of #NIST's current work. Well, those inside the USA too, but some of those may be forced by law to use whatever NIST certifies.
[1] Some people think djb is "prickly", not lovable. Oddly, it seems that the only people who say this are those who are wildly incorrect about code/algorithms and are being gently but publicly corrected about by djb at the time
@jiub From what I've been able to gather, #Bonkwave is the #Calvinball of music. About the only definitive thing about Bonkwave is it's (usually) electronic. Would this be right, @bazkie ?
Le nouveau Ludographie, mon podcast sur la grammaire et la culture du jeu vidéo, est sorti ! Ce sera le dernier de 2024 🙂 Bonne écoute !
Résumé :
Ces trois épisodes évoquent la façon dont les éditeurs de jeux vidéo proposent des “éditions critiques” de leurs œuvres, les limites et les forces de cette approche. Nous prenons pour exemple la série des Mega Man classics de Capcom sur Famicom et NES (1987-1993).
1. Du début à 11:30 : Mega Man 1 (Capcom, 1987), 2 (Capcom, 1988) et 3 (Capcom, 1990) sur NES
2. De 12:00 à 21:20 : Mega Man: The Wily Wars (Capcom, 1994) sur Megadrive
3. De 21:50 à la fin : Mega Man: Legacy Collection (Capcom, 2015) sur Steam
Did anyone else previously enjoy the concept of #Calvinball ? It's sad to see it ruined by reality. Stay within the perimeter of wisdom.
A #MoodyMonday post:
https://mellowtigger.dreamwidth.org/2024/07/08/moody-mondy-calvinball-in-the-usa.html
Flip dug out the #Scrabble board, sat and read the instructions very carefully, and proceeded to make his own rules on the fly.
Feeling very reminiscent of #CalvinBall.
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