- Blog
- Profile
- Homepage
-
‘Ten Martini’ Proof Uses Number Theory to Explain Quantum Fractals | Quanta Magazine
If you are into recreational mathematics you may like this… https://www.quantamagazine.org/ten-martini-proof-uses-number-theory-to-explain-quantum-fractals-20250825/
-
“This is all a secret plan to make UK citizens the most tech literate in the world” | …this is basically the entire UK war on general purpose computing, in a nutshell
Thread:
-
Shout out to @CBeebiesHQ for the CBeebies GetCreative app!
Our preschooler until a few weeks ago didn’t really have much in the way of digital/tablet skills — there was a big confidence challenge along the lines of: “I don’t know how to do this so I’m going to say that I can’t do this”. Just a few sessions with CBeebies Get Creative… Just a…
-
How The Martian was written, with Andy Weir
We all need a break from the lunacy of the online safety act implementation, so here is a 8-year-old abridged video of Andy Weir talking about how The Martian was written, published, and turned into a movie:
-
Taylor Lorenz & Eric Goldman: age verification will kill free speech online | …from June 2025, so it’s not like any of this was a surprise
If you’re an age verification nerd and you are not reading Eric Goldman’s blog then you ought to be, but it’s nice to see him in a video for once:
-
TikTok video: Thomas Pearson summarises 1 month of the online safety act
Caution: some language NSFW 🙂
-
Preston Byrne: “Protip: the Online Safety Act and the Digital Services Act are both censorship laws”
This is both (a) true, and (b) something which will not land well with the about 40% of British digital rights civil society which has spent the last 15 years screaming about capitalism and monopoly.
-
Amazing: somehow school attendance & bad behaviour of school children are within the gift of parents to fix, but not matters of appropriate internet use, adult content & consent
Parents must help tackle schoolchildren’s bad behaviour, education secretary says – as figures show ‘entrenched class divide’ | UK News | Sky News https://news.sky.com/story/parents-must-help-tackle-kids-bad-behaviour-education-secretary-says-as-figures-show-entrenched-class-divide-13421918
-
“Congress shall have particular regard to the importance of freedom of speech within the law when making laws abridging the freedom of speech.”
Graham being appropriately scathing re: how British legislators would have drafted the US 1st Amendment.
-
“THE AMAZON LOVES ME AND THAT’S WHY HE BOUGHT THIS TRAIN FOR ME…” | …no amount of age verification is going to stop kids during stupid stuff online
-
Canada: Alberta implements book ban to protect children from “adult content” but then has a “…WAIT, NO, NOT LIKE THAT” moment when it actually happens, then blames *librarians*
Censorship is HARD: The internally distributed list … was in response to a provincial government directive to identify books that are not age-appropriate and remove them from school library shelves. But the list included titles like The Handmaid’s Tale, The Color Purple, The Godfather and Jaws. Books from authors like George R. R. Martin, Sarah J. Maas and Maya Angelou…
-
Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
Because what could possibly go wrong by pretending that a global domain of speech could be carved up by parochial rules? “One of the reasons Mastodon was founded was to allow different jurisdictions to have social media that is independent of the U.S. … People are free to choose to have their account on a…