Have you had enough? In 1984 Winston Smith is taken to reeducation. He says that maybe “the party” can make you pretend you agree with them but in your heart you know some things are true: 2+2=4 for example. The party man asserts that he has the power to erase even that. After all, if not? you die. Everything you love will die. Just start rationalizing it all— really who speaks to a police officer like that? And don’t we all remember how the election was stolen?

I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet" I post about human stuff all the time and no one has made a computer interface suitable for ants yet. So it's impossible.

Wanted: Advice from CS teachers When teaching a group of students new to coding I've noticed that my students who are normally very good about not calling out during class will shout "it's not working!" the moment their code hits an error and fails to run. They want me to fix it right away. This makes for too many interruptions since I'm easy to nerd snipe in this way. I think I need to let them know that fixing errors that keep the code from running is literally what I'm trying to teach.

Happy #caturday from a naturally occurring couch cavern —over millions of years these breathtaking caves have been eroded in the cushions of the couch —who knows what dangerous creatures may inhabit the depths #picathecat #Troglodyte #Cryptids