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@amaranththallium
84 Years.
84 years ago today.
Nazis burned most of the research on trans identities from the world. They burned Magnus Hirschfeldâs work from the Institute for Sexual Research.
Well, motherfuckers, weâre still here.
They burned upwards of 25,000 books on May 10th, 1933.
The mindfuck moment when you can split a cube into thirds
okay but
Science vs. Engineering
what makes it more interesting is that each piece in the top version has an equal place in the cube, whereas in the bottom version, one lucky piece gets to be the middle piece!
another lalonde marries her gay green girlfriend
The two ADHD moods:
- I canât do it
- I canât stop doing it
CALLED OUT
high-inertia brains
Most of the cryonics discussion Iâve seen is focused around how likely it is to work and the extent that itâs a waste of money/organs/utility if not.
But what if cryonics does work? Is there any guarantee that a future civilization capable of thawing and restoring cryonically frozen brains will have benevolent intentions towards us? I imagine them wondering about life in the early 21st century and remembering the convenient vats of frozen ancients. Think of all the anthropological and historical knowledge we could gain if we were able to zap people from the Stone Age into the present. I donât want to sign myself up to be a lab rat for future civilizations. Even if they have the best of intentions, to what extent will humans today be able to participate in their society?
What if cryonics sort of works, but people come back wrong? What if it leads to people spending an eternity as corrupted files? Somebodyâs going to have to be the first to be thawed, and if it works, itâll probably take multiple tries before they figure out optimal thawing conditions.
I donât understand why a group of people concerned about potential harm done by advanced intelligences isnât more wary of trusting in the goodwill of future society.
Itâs still worth it if thereâs any chance quantum immortality is real.
for the love of god someone summarise this for people with short attention spans
Thereâs a short live-action re-enactment of an early Garfield strip. The strip is not funny.
 A man then spends an hour talking into the camera about how he believes it is the single greatest work of art on Earth, the layers of deeper meaning in the strip, and his lifelong quest to uncover its meaning. This takes place over the course of what appears to be a single unbroken take, accompanied by various words and images illustrating his points.
This is an accurate description
The acting is really good, seriously â I have no idea whether he memorized this whole giant monologue or ad-libbed some/all of it, but it just works perfectly, the character is seamlessly believable
When I see the world, the politics, the future, the satellites in space and the people who put them there, you could look at everything as a man and a cat. Two beings, in harmony, and at war.
A constitutional amendment limiting copyright and patent terms would be an eminently sensible way to curb associated excesses, right?
afloweroutofstone said: I canât think of any reason why not, but the Amendment would have to be one of the best written documents of all time to sufficiently address all present and future parts of the issue without being 100 pages long.
Itâs not something Iâve thought much about, but what would be the problems with just saying âNo patent shall last more than 30 years and no copyright shall last longer than 50 yearsâ (or whatever)? Those provisions where we tie the length to the lifespan of the creator? Maybe that would encourage legislators to let all patents last the full length, even if some types (medical?) should be shorter?
What happens if our uploaded brains are running on hardware that simulates a hundred years every minute? What happens if a patent is awarded to someone traveling on a spaceship at 0.9c?
In cases where it can be proved it was created entirely independently, the patent should be split.Â
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@equusmaritima
saw my family this weekend
havenât seen them in over five years, most of them not in seven years
apparently, my parents refused to even acknowledge me, not even super basic facts like that i graduated, went to grad school, etc..., much less mention the fact that iâm trans and have a girlfriend...
and as you probably know or have guessed by now, my parents have not been super great to me since i came out - didnât want to see me for several years, still not allowed to see my younger siblings, obviously still misgender and deadname me whenever i interact with them (though that has thankfully moved towards avoiding any third-person references to me at all)
so anyway, my uncle (my dadâs brother) randomly added me on facebook at the beginning of the year, and sent me a nice message, using my correct name and saying that he missed me and wanted to see me â so we scheduled a visit
i was anxious (but iâm anxious about seeing my friends, so w/e) but once i was with him he made it very clear that he loved and accepted me for who i am, and was just really happy to have me in his life again. he told me that he had tried asking my parents about me multiple times, but that they always changed the subject, and wouldnât tell him anything about me. so this year, he asked my brother (who is now independent of my parents, and also cool), âhey what happened to your brother?â and my brother was like, âwell... my brother is actually my sister now...â and told him what was up (i didnât realize my brother was actually calling me his sister now, which was also nice to hear!)Â
he also got to meet lexi, who he apparently hadnât heard anything about either (not that surprising, but my parents are always going on and on about how she is totally part of the family and that they love her, so like, yeah...)
afterward, he told me he wanted to organize a party so that the rest of my family could see me again! he asked me about who i was ok with inviting (everyone he wanted to invite, and not my parents or grandparents - which he also agreed with) i was really nervous about the party, with at least 30 extended-family members who were going to be there, but also i was really excited to see them all again
that party was this last weekend, and it was really good! _everyone_ was so good at âtrans 101âł stuff that it was shockingly impressive! no one ever used my old name, hardly ever misgendered me, and when they did they would just use the right one next time or quickly correct it - none of that awkward self-deprecating stuff â and this was despite half of them being totally smashed lol apparently, one of my cousins lives with her girlfriend near me, and they have a daughter together! man, i had no idea! it made me feel really good to see that, and how they were obviously just as much a part of the family as everyone else
it was really awesome, and it made me feel really good! iâve felt so lost and lonely these past five years, and have had to deal with lots of hard things by myself, without being able to rely on my parents the way most people my age are. iâm really glad to know that i have all of them now, and that i wonât have to be alone anymore
IMO: the term âalt-rightâ does not refer to a single coherent set of opinions or people, but to a conveyor belt linking different sets of opinions and people.  The conveyor belt moves people from the less extreme end of the spectrum to the more extreme ones, by associating the former with the latter in the public mind.
âSJWs are too sensitiveâ is a message that lots of disaffected college students are receptive to, like it or not, and theyâll naturally turn to someone like Milo Y., a standard âcultural libertarianâ of the kind that disaffected college students have loved for many generations â but he keeps talking about how much he likes the âalt-right,â so now those disaffected students think âI like this guy, so that means I might be âalt-rightâ myself, I should look up these other âalt-rightâ peopleâ and now this person thinks of white nationalism and so forth as closely connected with their own views, perhaps even as âfullerâ versions of their own views.  (âApparently Iâm 30% alt-right already, why not go for 100%?â)
I actively dislike the term, because using it aids this process, no matter how the user themselves feels.  Every time someone refers to the âalt-right,â it strengthens the association, even if theyâre attacking the alt-right.  The term âalt-rightâ itself normalizes the alt-right.
(Conclusion: ???)
Metonymyâs dangerous, yo.
Iâve become quite enamored with ambonec, one of the genders listed on that flowchart I posted the other day. (Thatâs âmale and female but also neither at the same timeâ for those of you who didnât study it closely.) Itâs clearly just a concept that somebody tossed on to their tumblr once, that more or less no one has ever actually identified as, and that now exists in a strange afterlife solely on the ever-expanding lists of gender completionists and in the irritable tweets of people with 38 followers looking to kvetch about Kids These Days. Itâs purposefully contradictory. It signifies little (and much). It constrains nothing. Itâs existence feels almost antithetical to the concept of language itself. In the course of writing this post Iâve already had to look up the word again twice because I keep forgetting it. What more could you possibly want? Iâm more than half tempted to start calling identifying as an ambonec in the same way that Alan Moore worships his snake god. Three cheers for âambonecâ, IMO.
dot-garden said: isnât this just the latin words for âbothâ and âneitherâ smushed together
Yeah. Still doesnât stick in the mind though.
something something topoi
I was thinking about that suggestion I made the other day about using water heaters for energy storage, so I calculated the equivalent electrical load of running the hot water in my sink, and
holy shit 14 kW
could a high rise building with centralised hot water system take advantage of this by heating up a well-insulated tank during times of cheap electricity supply, I wonder.
the maximum efficiency of a heat engine (which you would need to extract work from the heat energy) would only be about 9%, so i doubt you could really use this effectively
life update
i havenât been on tumblr (or facebook, for that matter) very much lately since i am now a workaholic (~12 hours per day) and my main hobbies now are just learning math i miss interacting with people, but my social anxiety has gotten so bad i feel like i donât even know how anymore
man
the way math is taught in schools is atrocious isnât it
@wirehead-wannabe said: How so?
i mean this doesnât seem to be a controversial opinion? Â
a) pacing.  i, at least, found this reasonably convincing because the phenomenon he talks about in the first half of the video is exactly why i disengaged from math. Â
If thereâs a hole in your mathematical knowledge, even what seems like a small one, and you try to move forward anyway, that hole is going to eat your soul because in (especially early) math curricula everything is built on top of everything that came before it, and theyâre structured such that you never actually check to see if holes are there- and it only takes one!  if thereâs one concept you didnât get and something else gets built on it, youâre not going to get that either.  Fractures in your understanding compound, get worse over time, and this, as khan argues, leads to students disengaging, because itâs perfectly possible to get an A on your last test and yet miss some skill that will be vital down the line.
or thatâs what happened to me, anyway. Â
b) math classes teach computation techniques rather than problem-solving skills.  this may have been less stupid in the past, but nowadays everyone carries a supercomputer in their pocket, and so the entire point of math is problem-solving. restructuring classes to orient more toward problem-solving yields better outcomes for students and, I suspect, goes a long way toward fixing the first thing as well.
