The grace of a collapsing cathedral

Preserving your limits since '91. She/her + meow/miu, Syd / Eora. Maths/philosophy jokes, minus the funny. fandom | endomorphism

[adjoint-law]

Topologist: Check out this skirt! It has pockets!

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[girlballs-archive]

someone needs to invent reverse cornflakes. i want to eat a cereal that gives me a demonic erection and inflicts upon me an insatiable lust

[girlballs-archive]

congratulations for writing the funniest and also most correct tags on this post

[markovchaingang]

RULES FOR DATING MY DAUGHTER:

my daughter cannot, through action or inaction, harm a human or allow a human to come to harm

a daughter at rest or in constant motion remains at rest or in constant motion unless acted upon by another force

daughters are never created or destroyed, only transformed

always treat every daughter as loaded, even if you know she isn't

you do not talk about my daughter

[vacuously-true]

Pictured: Florence Nightingale's rose diagram, Turing's Bombe, Noether's theorem in relativity, nitrogenous bases isolated in DNA by Marie Daly, Hawking Radiation, GW Carver's crop rotation effects, a surgery like one James Barry would have done, Jane Goodall's favorite chimp, the launch of the Friendship 7 which carried John Glenn with Katherine Johnson's work, the ozone hole discovered in part with the work of Mario Molina, Rosalind Franklin's photo of the double helix

[transhuman-priestess]

would estrogen fix harry du bois

why would you want to fix harry du bois when what's wrong with him is the only reason the game is so compelling

[transhuman-priestess]

Like honestly this answer was mostly a joke (as I assume was the question) but like, if Harry du bois had his shit together it’s just be a point and click adventure with a weird dialogue system. In fact the dialogue system wouldn’t even make sense, it only makes sense because he’s a fucking train wreck.

It’d just be another cop mystery game.

[yaldabaothadeez]

(source - 1000HOW on XHS)

[energyprison]

dr frankenstein was one of the first to invent a guy to be mad about

[fallowhearth]

Listening to the History of Japan podcast, in combination with my memories of the sliver of North African Islamic history I studied, it strikes me how weird it is that a lot of historically-flavoured fantasy fiction treats religious expansion as a kind of mind-virus minting new True Believers? Where a more common pattern seems to be religion mapping to the spread of merchants, with local merchants/elites converting (debatably sincerely) as a means of accessing new trade, because of institutional capture.

[prokopetz]

Level 1: The author's unintended implication.

Level 2: The author's unexamined assumption.

Level 3: The author's ill-informed opinion.

Level 4: The author's misleading conclusion.

Level 5: The author's mendacious justification.

Level 6: The author's We Don't Talk About That.

[adjoint-law]

https://rose.systems/animalist, joint effort with @contramundum

152 animals listed

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[quinnick]

It’s that time of year again so here is your yearly reminder that the world isn’t ending and people don’t hate you. The sun is just setting at 6 pm.

[mrs-delaney]

Please take your vitamin D

[bundibird]

HEY SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE GIRLIES, ITS OUR TURN TO ENDURE THE DARK DAYS NOW, BUT STAY STRONG. THE WORLD IS NOT ENDING; THE SUN IS JUST SETTING AT 5-to-6 PM. BUT SHE WILL COME BACK TO US SOON. TAKE A VITAMIN D AND HANG IN THERE.

[stuckinapril]

“Do it scared” “do it alone” are all great tips, but my biggest takeaway from therapy is do it messy. This is especially true if you’re getting out of a burnout, which I experience often. Literally just do it messy. You don’t need to pick the perfect trail to walk, the perfect playlist to listen to, whatever the fuck it is. You don’t need to have a meticulous to do list and wake up at the exact time you planned and drink the exact amount of water you planned to drink. Like the biggest thing for people like me to remember is sometimes it’s okay to do it messy. Put on a random yt workout and just get it done in sweats. Do 5 minutes of a daunting task and go from there. Sometimes just getting up is a win during intense burnouts or depressive funks. Literally just do it messy.

[leloupdebout]

[self-winding]

There's some recent post about how Boomers and older don't have a "gender neutral script for interacting with another human" program in their head, they only have scripts for interacting with men versus women, and that's why they have trouble with nonbinary identities and the like. But most Millennials and younger do have something resembling a "gender neutral script." The post attributes this shift to the rise of women in the workplace and other changing social norms around the feminist revolution.

I think there's something to the "gendered versus gender neutral scripts" idea but I'd attribute it less to the feminist revolution of the sixties and seventies. After all, women in the workplace are still recognizably women, and women having jobs is not a recent feminist invention. Rather, I attribute the shift to recent generations growing up with the internet...and specifically, the text-based early internet.

Pre-internet, having a "penpal," was a rare novelty; most actual human interaction was face to face or at least over the phone. The internet introduced the idea of having people who you talk to day after day, week after week, month after month, without ever seeing their face or hearing their voice. All you had was text and a pfp, so there was no way to reliably know whether these people in forums and chatrooms and message boards, who had become a real presence in your life, were male or female. I mean, sometimes they told you outright, but not always. You could make guesses, but you were frequently wrong. Asking directly was kind of awkward...and of course, even then, you had no proof that someone was telling the truth. And most of us internet young'uns also had the experience online of being mistaken for a different sex, and then when it came out, realizing, "Oh, huh. This person was interacting with me for the last few weeks wrongly assuming I was a boy/girl." And also realizing that maybe you had a better rapport with them when they were working under that mistaken assumption about you.

So Millennials, the first generation to really grow up with the internet, developed a gender neutral mental model for interacting with people. They developed a mindset where you waited and looked for clues to someone's sex or gender rather than just knowing based on their face or voice.

Probably not surprising that Millennials are the first generation to have a relatively mainstream concept of genderqueer or nonbinary identities. And yes, obviously they didn't invent these identities, there have always been people who didn't fit neatly into one box or another and queer communities have always had some way of describing these people. But pre-internet, this awareness was always kind of a niche thing.

[panvani]

Me and my bro in the 19th century inhaling and ingesting various chemicals just for fun

[hometoursandotherstuff]