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hello vonnie
@theartofmadeline
shark vs the universe
Cosimo Galluzzi
Xuebing Du
JVL
cherry valley forever
KIROKAZE
pixel skylines
Jules of Nature
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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@jvluso
Being a Linux user who doesn't know shit from fuck about computers is wild. I'll see a new update notification for a "Gnome Keyring" which is for "Gnome features (Daemons and tools)" and I just go alrighty give the gnome his demons and tools I guess you're in charge here Linux do what you gotta do to communicate with my CPU so I can keep playing Hellsinker.
The only reason why transphobes always ask “what is a woman” instead of “what is a man” is because we all know that a man is a featherless biped.
It’s 2023, women can have as many legs and feathers as they want- get with the times.
Behold! A woman!
yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.
I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.
I'm imagining a world where RPGMaker somehow made it as the de facto codebase for software and you have to navigate your banking app by walking around in a huge room full of NPCs named "make deposit" and "make withdrawal" etc and there's loud as fuck stock music playing
Some Shirohebi fanarts~
not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here
reblog heavy
So many political posts I hate boil down to "I don't want to organize and work with people I hate and fight for small, incremental victories, I just want to start a revolution where everyone magically becomes an automaton who acts exactly the way I think they should act"
Like damn man, I want that too. Unfortunately I live in reality though so we're stuck with the first thing.
"Modern movements are too fractured, too aimless, with too much infighting and corruption among the leadership. What we need is a revolution, which famously never have any issues with those things" okay then. Good luck I guess
This whole line of thinking comes down to "the current systems and leadership are bad. What we need is a fresh start with only people who are good, and then all the systems will be good". Which is simply not how anything has ever worked!
"We don't have enough people, funding, and power to bring about changes through elections! We have to do an armed revolution instead which thankfully doesn't require people, funding, or power to pull off."
Can I ask an odd math question.
I'm a physics student and I am interested in math. But I've noticed a tension between how mathematicians talk/think about mathematics and the way scientists tend to use math. Like mathematicians seem to treat the way scientists do math as sloppy. Do you know what the deal with this is? And maybe do you know of any books that explain how math works that aren't just "here's how to do proofs for 1st year undergrads"
(I'm pissed I only think of these questions between semesters)
Hmmm
I know this varies a lot from mathematician to mathematician, and subfield to subfield. Like I know a lot of Lie theorists consider the way physicists do Lie theory to be somewhat obscene. Personally I don't really care all that much -- mostly because my subfield's closest applications are in comp sci, and comp scientists are basically just mathematicians in funny hats anyway. (Sorry comp sci people. I adore you but it's true.)
As for books... It really depends what you're looking for. If you want a rigorous introduction to a particular subject then you need to specify what subject first; "mathematics" is too vague especially these days.
But if you want to fall in love with math the way I did, and you don't particularly care about rigor to start with? Read the book that changed 12-year-old Tessa's life forever.
The Colossal Book of Mathematics by Martin Gardner. It's a collection of decades of his best Scientific American columns. It set me down my current path in life. And it's here on the Internet Archive:
oh shit, i have that book, I keep neglecting to read it.
So there's no big books on the philosophy of math the way there's philosophy of science?
I mean, there probably are. I've just never been terribly interested in the philosophy of math side of things. Followers?
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
"only a poor artisan blames his tools" is such bullshit, in almost every imaginable line of work the quality of the tools you have access to plays a massive role in the quality of the end product, sometimes in excess of the role played by individual skill! For example, some people have to code in javascript
came to me in a dream
@abalidoth
has anybody else noticed that the classic sci fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus features a Torment Nexus? that’s pretty problematic of the author
the main character eventually recognizes the torment nexus is bad but by that point I had already stopped reading the book because I don't condone the torment nexus, the narrative really should've condemned it outright :/
i work with trans people daily, like it is literally my job, and i have met zero (none) trans people who consistently correct people when they use the wrong pronouns for them.
because no one wants to be the shrill trans caricature who berates others over their pronouns. no one wants to be a trans person who gets attacked for drawing too much attention or hurting cis feelings. most of us just wanna get through a conversation in peace.
"hey i invented a machine to replace your workers"
"is it cheaper than the workers?"
"it is right now"
"ok everyone's super, super fired. now what"
"well now we're raising the price"
possible ways this could go wrong: 0
LOVE
I was on BS when I came across a text that reminded me a lot of that moment in Secret Six
The text isn't mine; it's from a profile on BS called Caralho.org (beautiful name) that I just translated into English and adapted for this comic.
I saw a bumper sticker and thought “is that seductive Daffy Duck” and then when I looked closer I realized it was actually a fishing bumper sticker but also. also it is still very much seductive Daffy Duck???? somehow????????
Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower
that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.
I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah
yk what i hate though. is when i find a meme and im like THIS IS SO [cool intimidating mutual i never talk to] I SHOULD SEND IT TO THEM but then i remember ive never talked to them ever and so i cant just like give them a meme out of the blue and so the meme just withers and rots in my camera roll 😔
Reblog if a mutual who's never spoken to you can randomly send you memes that made them think of you.
