What I saw on the web on 2023.7.23

[reblogarythm]

1. stories of people from radically different cultures encountering modern/western cities for the first time and being unimpressed except for one specific thing
   by sean
   https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1682559705984696320?t=qLaVqLuPpaRJGp_oSYzTTg&s=19
   cuz "modern" life so often ain't all that
   via discord
   
   
2. Smith to Alberta: ‘Of course I’m going to take advice from CEOs; who else would I take advice from?’
   by David Climenhaga
   https://albertapolitics.ca/2023/07/smith-to-alberta-of-course-im-going-to-take-advice-from-ceos-who-else-would-i-take-advice-from/
   sounds about right, yup
   via rss
   
   
3. The Game of Set (and some variations)
   by Catherine Hsu speaking to Brady Haran
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkFX9jUJPKk
   i especially like the way this gives a visualization for semidirect products
   via rss
   
   
4. Projective and Non-abelian SET Decks
   by Catherine Hsu
   https://chsu.domains.swarthmore.edu/set.html
   if you'd like to try out the games from previous link
   via previous link
   
   
5. S₄-SET
   by Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins
   http://www.gabrieldorfsmanhopkins.com/digital_fabrication/nonabelianSet/S4/index.html
   an online version of SET played on S₄ which is highly nontrivial!
   via previous link