This article is low-key brain poison. She almost sounds reasonable. Almost. Why are we complementing the Trump administration’s bad faith compact? Why has “equity” and “intolerance” of hateful philosophies like Zionism become bad words. Why do people keep saying “we just need one generation of civics classes to solve systemic injustice!!1!” Sigh. And the author’s a black woman, so she’s definitely been used as a mouthpiece. RIP.

Each grantee that is an institution of higher education, as defined in 20 U.S.C. 1002(a), that is private (hereinafter “private institution”) must comply with its stated institutional policies regarding freedom of speech, including academic freedom, as a material condition of the Department’s grant.

I finally found how the DoE can prevent a private institution from having funding. This definitely encourages schools that even remotely rely on federal funding to stay in lockstep with Section 983 and the First Amendment. Damn.

via: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/HTML/LSB10438.web.html

Resources to assist grantees in the administration of Federal grants awarded by the Department of Education.

From which the DoE can stem the flow.

An interesting little article which exposed me to various cursed parts of the U.S. Code.

Someone please explain to me why this doesn’t basically extend protected speech (i.e. hate speech) to all colleges and universities… Hell, not even private schools are a refuge.

via: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/HTML/LSB10438.web.html

denial of grants and contracts from Department of Defense, Department of Education, and certain other departments and agencies

people who fetishize east-asians are cringe… but could those people involve east-easians themselves? i talk about various topics such as aegyo, asianfishing, orientalism, and the potential positives of self-fetishization. also, i need better lighting.

I don’t need him, or anyone, to love me. All I care about is that he gets better and lives happily.

A nice walk from homotopy to Lie theory to category theory to combinatorics.

Procedural generation is the idea of using simple rules to generate more complicated items - used in games such as Minecraft and Elite, Zac Garby of the University of Nottingham explains with the use of the game Carcassonne.

Features an implementation of wave function collapse.

A neat rallying cry for open access.

A modern classic in sci-fi.

Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services: For a prima facie case of employment discrimination under Title VII, a plaintiff who is a member of a majority group does not need to show background circumstances to support the suspicion that the defendant is an unusual employer who discriminates against the majority.

Worst Supreme Court case of the year. KBJ is a coon confirmed. Thomas has somehow been rendered reasonable. a hearty RIP to procedural affirmative action.

“Pro-DEI” is one of the dog whistles of all time.

see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW_WUmHxtGI

Proving a topology theorem by using category theory to translate it into a group theory problem.

Chris investigates the Palestinian-led Xbox Boycott and how it’s already secured a major victory against one of the largest corporations on the planet.

see: https://nogamesforgenocide.com/

Story of how Planck discovered the blackbody radiation formula and why he introduced energy quantization as a math trick

I would like you to think, for a minute, about what it would be like to be that kind of feminist: To give your life to a cause, to put absolutely everything you have into it, and to be told that your work is worthless because you didn’t die.

As a complete beginner to Nix and NixOS, I recently had some trouble packaging up a Perl script and a shell script with their dependencies for deployment on a NixOS system. Here’s what I learned.