Mathematikerin Freyja

eldritch forest spirit - mathematician fighting her way back into a math phd (pls send help) May all people live with kindness and joy for one another! Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and compassion!

[creekfiend]

sweating us so fucking weird, like, if humans did our thermoregulation in a different way and other species we were frequently in contact with did sweating, we would all be like EW THIS IS SO WEIRD

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Agreed. It would be 100% better if somehow the excess heat was used to produce small crystals somehow that we would then extrude through special structures in our fingers. This is how I wish human thermoregulation worked.

[its-time-to-be-silly]

"Well, the deadline is tomorrow," I said. Her hands rested tensely against the table, several small cubes extruding from her fingertips

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Hans glanced at his wife with a look of concern. "Calm down or you will scratch the furniture. Tomorrow is still plenty of time for minor geoengineering."

He grabbed a box of maximum stickiness crystal removing hand wipes and slided it across the table.

"Get those crystals yanked out, then we will get to work keeping the moon from dying."

[eilooxara]

Oat milk was discovered much more recently than you may have known. Like many now-familiar technologies, it was found by accident during the Apollo program when NASA learned what a zero-g environment does to goat milk.

[theravenclawstudent]

“Yes, grad school can be a very lonely period of your life. And it is only going to get worse. But it is in these quiet pockets of my time when I was able to do more textbook readings, sort out my calculations and go deeper into my understanding of the topic. This is how you push the frontier of science and this feeling gave me enormous sense of satisfaction amidst all the dark clouds that were surrounding me. These are the best parts of my PhD thesis as well. So I think it just boils down to your mindset and managing your mental health. This is how you derive your fulfillment and meaning from life amidst all the frenzy.”

- My former supervisor’s advice.

[homunculus-argument]

Besides the obvious like having financial security, being able to support your community and take care of friends and family, the whole "money doesn't bring happiness" bullshit is still bullshit because even if we only look at it from "buying frivolous trinkets" point of view, there's so many fun things I'd get myself commissioned just for shits and giggles.

For one, I'd get my dental layout scanned and then use the 3d model of my teeth to commission a giant pair of pincers where the cutters are replaced with a life-sized metal recreation of my teeth. I would use these to press bite marks on all sorts of things that a human being physically could not bite into, and emotionally would not want to.

For no other reason than to fuck with people. Just so they can see a very obviously human bite mark on something and wonder how the fuck did someone bite a goddamn brick wall, and why would anybody do that.

[alexyar]

Everyone knows about rule 34, but most people don’t know that there is a similar rule but for math: Any object or concept will sooner or later have a math concept associated with it.

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[eka-mark]

[functionaldesign]

[vacuously-true]

Diagrams from some of my number theory research this semester regarding the density of the rational points on a circle.

[theaceofwords]

Why Tumblr Has Rolled Out ID Verification

UK legislation: Online Safety Act 2023

Brazil legislation: Digital Statute For Children And Adolescents

Apple App Store Age Verification

These are not tumblr specific policies. Tumblr is implementing age verification in response to legislative moves that were made months ago.

Tumblr is a failing social media site that has escaped death multiple times already; they do not have the social cachet to defy state regulatory agencies. We know they won't say no to Apple, either--the porn ban on tumblr was in response to Apple's crackdown on explicit content.

If you did not know this was happening, you were behind the curve. That is fine. You're caught up now. The next step is to link up with people in your country who are working to preserve privacy, to roll back these laws where they exist, and to prevent their passage where they do not. In the US the organization you want is Stop KOSA--in the EU you can start with Fight Chat Control.

Repealing ID verification and blocking chat control will help everyone, especially the most vulnerable. We can push this back, but we cannot get it done through the Feedback form. We have to get it done at the legislative level and lock it down so it cannot be forced upon us. I see lots of anger out there. Good. Put it to use.

[theaceofwords]

Glad to see this post going around - more eyes on the issue is always better. If you are hearing about this for the first time - welcome to the party. We've got a lot to do and more hands are always welcome.

Adding to this with some great resources provided by others in the replies - I encourage anyone who wants to get organized to hunt through the replies, this post has gone big and I am for sure going to miss things.

Real quick though - I see a common theme repeating of "It's too late for this" / "There's no stopping this." I think about public writing as rhetoric - about language as having a purpose and an impact.

I will tell you this as kindly as I can: Make your own post.

Venting is fine. Framing cynicism as "honest" or "realistic" is ideologically disingenuous and actively undermines every effort to organize. Every time you work for change and work to organize a movement, you must be an optimist, especially when it comes to the impact of many dedicated and motivated people.

We can do this. We will. Here's more on how:

For Tumblr - there is one specific thing that can be achieved by feedback to tumblr/auttomatic - get them to change the service doing verification. Tell them that 5CA has a track record of incompetence in this exact realm. At the very least, a different company might treat your data more carefully until these laws are taken off the books.

Lobby Groups:

US based with international resources - Electronic Frontier Foundation

For the USians - NetChoice.

In the EU - EDRI

Specific Links By Nation - from the notes:

In Australia - this is the link to the legislation people are pointing at. Since this has already passed, it will be a tough road to hoe for our friends down under for sure - but hey look at Hungary, maybe 'tis the season for getting governments in line.

In Brazil it appears there is an open forum for citizens to show approval or opposition to a law - my Portuguese is impressionist at best but this link was provided by one user

In Canada S-209 appears to be the relevant legislation to oppose here, get in touch with your MP.

In Germany it looks like the best action to take is going to be at the state level - this article about social media age protection might be a good starting point, but I have not yet seen a link for an organizing group (and my German is limited to ontological terms).

Finally - Tumblr is not where activism happens. Engaging with this post is not step 1; this is step 0. If you want to get involved - go search "Chat Control" / "Age Verification" / "Social Media Ban" in your state and country. Find the people who oppose them and get behind that movement.

Local resistance has a massive force multiplier; the more specific your advocacy group is, the bigger the impact you can have. And you can have an impact. We all can.

Good luck, have fun, let's change the world.

[math-memes]

[solarprominence]

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

[storyweavingspider]

This was the mainstream feminist belief like. A decade ago. Thats how hard we’ve regressed within mainstream feminism and it’s mainly because of right wingers/radfems/TERFs deciding trans women need to die.

[spectracled-eider]

I know I'm incredibly biased but homotopy theory is so cool!

[mathematikerin-freyja]

What frustrates me that I feel I already used up my allowance of time in life to go down one wrong career path and still be able to pursue another. This means that the next career attempt has to work.

[swathingpath707]

i don’t realize how much i love being around people who like math until im not ):

[mathematikerin-freyja]

I am beginning to appreciate smoothness.

[complex-variable]

It’s a slippery slope.

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Gotta get some sandpaper to discretise everything then.....

[locally-normal]

Unfortunately characteristic p is the forbidden lands. None who go there have ever returned.

[mathematikerin-freyja]

I was thinking more like \mathbb{Z}

[marigold-22]

it’s so upsetting that I can’t shapeshift.

[mathematikerin-freyja]

it's also upsetting that I can't shapeshift.

[mathematikerin-freyja]

My big worry is that assuming I convince someone to give me a new phd position in mathematics, the probability of being able to navigate the road after that to a professorship is pretty small, and I don't want to end up in my forties without a clear career prospect.

This makes me think that I should go back and pursue studies in a different field with appealing job prospects outside of academia. Yet, the trouble here, is that I feel like giving up my dream of obtaining a mathematics phd is basically giving up my entire sense of the purpose of my life.

So I am feeling very unclear as to what I should be working towards at the moment.

[scoes]

you mean to tell me an hour is just six 10 minute intervals. We are fucked beyond belief

[mathematikerin-freyja]

I had a very weird dream themed around trying to increase the local population of Finches in my neighbourhood as a precautionary measure to prevent some sort of disaster.