Book: The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin, Edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin, AA Publications / Spiral House, London, 2025; Contributors: Federico Campagna, Theo Downes-Le Guin, Daniel Heath Justice, Bhanu Kapil, Canisia Lubrin, Una McCormack, David Naimon, Nisha Ramayya, Shoshone Collective, Standard Deviation, Marilyn Strathern
Exhibition: The Word for World, Curated by Sarah Shin, Designed by Standard Deviation, AA Gallery, London, October 10, 2025 – December 6, 2025, supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
i LOVE math so much. it is so much fun to do. i like to do equations. Standard deviation is fun to do by hand. I like to solve equations. I love knowing things. I love it when there are definite answers
hi friends I need you to know i read standard deviation way back in 2013 when I was 15 and malleable. now i am 25 and taking electrical engineering courses, in an accelerated masters program, finally learning statistics for the first time and every. single. time. we discuss the concept of standard deviation my permanently altered brain thinks "yeah yeah the statistical significance of drunk mario kart with your graduate instructor yeah we all know it" anyway i also reread it on a nearly yearly basis if i had to wager
So I need you to know that this ask resulted in a good 15 minutes of texting back and forth, squealing. It's just so unreal to think that all this time later*, people are still reading and finding joy in our fic.
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* Standard Deviation is 10 years old!!! We began posting on November 14, 2012!!!