What I saw on the web on 2025.3.11

[reblogarythm]

1. Daylight Ravings Time
   by Tom Murphy
   https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2025/03/daylight-ravings-time/
   precisely all of this
   via rss
   
   
2. Daniel Pinkwater's "Jules, Penny and the Rooster"
   by Cory Doctorow reviewing Daniel Pinkwater
   https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/11/klong-you-are-a-pickle-2/#martian-space-potato
   sadly, i have misplaced my brass martian potato
   via rss
   
   
3. Weird pupils let octopuses see their colorful gardens
   by Robert Sanders
   https://news.berkeley.edu/2016/07/05/weird-pupils-let-octopuses-see-their-colorful-gardens/
   given that the previous mechanism i'd heard was that they see colours using their skin, this is plausibler
   via discord, i htink?
   
   
4. Snowbirds must soon submit fingerprints for U.S. travel under new Homeland Security rules
   by Holly Cabrera
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/us-travel-immigration-law-executive-order-canadians-1.7481054
   this doesn't make me more inclined to visit. which i suppose is the point.
   via rss