What I saw on the web on 2023.11.27

1. Live in Seattle
   by Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill
   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kzqeh5lwjoD7-LvFVvHHOoKGsEVtBaYqE
   Hayes's jigs'n'reels as bara khayal never gets old
   via memory
   
   
2. Why use many streetlights when one will do?
   by Tom Scott
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDiXNsWQzD0
   i'd not been aware previously of Austin's Moon Towers
   via rss
   
   
3. What are these strange dice?
   by Henry Segerman speaking to Brady Haran
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3akBMSJ37Uk followed by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rYLBXd_kzI
   honestly, i prefer catalan solids. nonetheless, fun
   via rss
   
   
4. A Walk Through the Planes – Part 118: The Savage Tide
   by Sean Gandert
   https://www.expositionbreak.com/a-walk-through-the-planes-part-118-the-savage-tide/
   sounds like a great read and an interesting thing to play too
   via rss
   
   
5. I designed a silly but semi-functional computer.
   by Matt Parker
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Kw3yJoNxw
   do not believe title. he built three of them
   via rss
   
   
6. Under UCP, AB lost 170 FT university teachers
   by Kim Siever
   https://albertaworker.ca/news/under-ucp-ab-lost-170-ft-university-teachers/
   none of this surprises me
   via rss
   
   
7. B.C. welcomes federal housing dollars, but co-ops disappointed by timeline
   by Jon Hernandez
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-welcomes-federal-housing-dollars-co-ops-disappointed-by-timeline-1.7038155
   yup, canada needs more housing co-ops. and then more. and then? some more
   via rss
   
   
8. a new kind of semicolon
   by isabel
   https://twitter.com/_unwell/status/1728975310195134479
   undeathing the humanities is a great idea
   via discord