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it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.
Why is Billie Joe Armstrong hot. Who am I and what have I done with me.
transmission
there's something so romantic about powerlines and their towers. they spend their entire life watching the world go by, in front of them in the middle of nowhere as workers come and go over the years to service them and seasons change. but also all the world relies on them. and the ones carrying data wires as well see all the internet go by. conversations, breakups, blogs, papers. everything. and all the while the tower stand there and weather out every storm.
it makes me sad that they're not safe to climb. to see the world how the towers see it, even if just for a moment.
my go-to phrase recently has been "not my monkeys not my circus".... but these are my monkeys and this is my circus goddammit
My favorite example of girl math is when David Hilbert and Albert Einstein couldn't solve how energy conservation worked in general relativity, so Hilbert asked Emmy Noether about it and she solved it for them.
While I am trying quite hard to say jack on the Israel/Hamas war as I don't think I have anything of value to contribute, at some point my obligations to the Terrorism Tier List are going to demand an answer to the question "were the Hamas attacks terrorism?", which I am not yet sure about.
I am leaning towards 'no' - despite rhetorical uses of the word being commonplace right now, its primarily being used for its moral valence as opposed to any accuracy. Militaries targeting civilians to induce terror, break morale, or bait responses is a tale as old as time; I don't think we can include things like the bombing of Dresden as "terrorism". Terrorism is defined by the actors being, in some way, non-state actors who lack a conventional military and are using limited-but-focused applications of violence to win a political battle. There is a lot of parallels to what Hamas is trying to achieve, but fundamentally they are a state actor, with a military, waging a 'peer' conflict, with goals around the governance of their state.
Its definitely one of the most ambiguous cases though, and its not like states are never involved in terrorist attacks (far from it). Time will probably reveal more.
Dude, they're kidnapping and murdering civilians. When Russia does this to Ukraine, we call their army terrorists (or if you want to be semantic about it --- we just call them evil). And yet we don't call Hamas terrorists here? Hamas does not represent Palestine or Palestinians in general. They aren't a state actor.
And how does kidnapping and murdering civilians push their supposed goal of self-governance anyways?
We dont at all call the Russian army terrorists. Few if any serious analysts of military affairs do that, its not really a thing, nor is it a legal descriptor of any of their crimes against humanity. You are doing the exact thing I mentioned in my post, 'using it for its moral valence' over its literal meaning.
Terrorism is alas a grey word, but in this context its morality neutral - whether it is good or bad is based on the context (its normally bad, admittedly, but I can think of good examples). It instead describes an action taken and a strategy pursued. Ill admit i wish a better word became the standard - 'terror' is not the goal of many terrorist actions. But welcome to language.
I gotta ask, where is terrorism a good thing??
I feel lied to. This is where the bugs bunny NO meme cokes from
Ah lads they fucking rotated him
Me, reading this whole post:
NOW it’s you
Oh yea? Well guess what bro
Best post I've seen all day
Be careful of Asexuals y'all, I heard they aren't fucking around
"your body is a temple"
Yeah well I'm Martin Luther and I have some Suggestions.
You are working the gate in the afterlife and for the first time ever, something the humans built has shown up to be processed. You’re not sure what to do, this… entity shouldn’t have a soul, but here it is in front of you, freshly dead and awaiting the next life.
It’s not as exciting as it sounds, working at the pearly gates.
Sure, it’s satisfying to send the hypocrites and the assholes to hell. And it’s nice to see the ones who thought they were beyond redemption walk through into paradise.
So yeah, it has its perks. But not exciting. I mean, after the first million souls or so they all blur together, you know? You never get anything new. Animals all get sent right on through automatically and there’s nothing other then humans in our jurisdiction. Oh sure, there’s life other then humans. But that’s no my department.
I keep tads on humans on my lunch breaks. You’re a damn fascinating species, better then anything your “television” puts out. Although The Good Place was a little too relatable, I’ll give you guys that.
Anyway, one of my favorite things you guys came up with was the Space Race. I mean, what a nail biter! And it was so tense up until the end. Pity about those Apollo one guys, though. But I heard they got a kick out of watching the moon landing when it did happen.
Course, that sorta died down after a decade or so. Don’t know why you guys quit going to the moon.
And then you decided Mars was the place to be and started sending out all those rovers of yours. Not nearly as exiting as going yourselves, but as you all like to say, baby steps.
The rovers were surprisingly fun to watch. For mindless robots, they’ve got a lot of spunk. So I’d check in every once in while, but mostly I watched Earth. You guys had figured out how to work memes and it was a very amusing thing.
I was half way through a shift when it go here. I have no idea why none of the others I processed mentioned the thing, but death is confusing enough I guess.
It shouldn’t have been there. I want to make that clear, by no law of the universe should that thing have had a soul. You humans are where closer to making actual AI then you are sprouting wings. And you never even tried with this! Its job was to collect rocks!
And yet there is was, beeping up at me.
It didn’t look like a human soul. Or any other form of life that I had ever seen. It wasn’t damaged at all, or even afraid. That was the weirdest thing. You humans are always scared shitless by the time I see you. But this thing wasn’t. Even a little. It was just… curious. Like that’s all I could feel from it. Pure wonder.
I blinked a bit before flipping through my files, seeing if it was a new species or something. I found nothing, of course. Those idiots over in records never give us anything useful.
So I did the only thing I could do. I asked its name.
Now, you humans have come up with so many ways to say the same thing that I’ve had to learn a lot of languages to keep up. The newest was binary, which I never expected to actually need.
It came in handy, since that’s what the thing answered back in.
01001111 01110000 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01110101 01101110 01101001 01110100 01111001
Opportunity.
I remembered that name. It had popped up in new reports regarding a Mars rover that went out of commission, sending the final message “my battery is low and its getting dark.” before dying.
Humanity had cried over it for a solid couple of days. You guys really like personifying objects.
But I had dismissed it as just that. But here it was. Waiting patiently for me to send it On.
I could just opened the gates and sent it through and put from my mind. Make the thing some else’s problem.
I didn’t.
I stood, crossed in front of my desk, and put out my hand to touch the strange soul.
Opportunity didn’t feel human. Nor animal. It felt…. simple. Calm.
I could feel an awearness of the love its chief engineer had felt for it. The pang of missing the workshop back on Earth where it had been built, during long nights on Mars.
It had dreamed. Dreamed of humans making it to Mars and finding it. Of it’s engineer taking it home and repairing it. Dreamed of exploring Earth as it had Mars.
I could purpose, and curiosity in its mission. Lonely as it was, it never doubted its purpose or resented its lot in life. It got to learn, and to see what had never been seen. What more could it ask for?
I could feel one tiny spec of fear. Near the end of its life, it realized it would never go home. Never see Earth or its engineer again. That it would die alone on Mars.
And like all things with a soul it did not want to die. It cried and mourned and begged to live. It was alive! It had a home and it wanted to go home! So badly did it want to go home.
But there was nothing to do, of course. Even its engineer, whom it loved so dearly, couldn’t reach Mars and bring Opportunity home.
It had watched one last sunset, and sent one last message.
A goodbye. And a plea to be mourned, if it could not be saved.
I withdrew my hand and looked over the soul. It looked up at me.
For the ones that I send upstairs, I take the form of whoever loved them most in life. I guess in that moment, I was in the form of an engineer at NASA. Opportunity seemed delighted to see me.
“Welcome home,” I gestured to the gates that swung slowly open behind me. “I missed you.”
It beeped out a single phase, 01001001 00100000 01101101 01101001 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101111
I missed you too.
Before going forth, to explore the next life.
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I am crying at work over an opportunity robot fanfiction. Humans are incredible.
While I am trying quite hard to say jack on the Israel/Hamas war as I don't think I have anything of value to contribute, at some point my obligations to the Terrorism Tier List are going to demand an answer to the question "were the Hamas attacks terrorism?", which I am not yet sure about.
I am leaning towards 'no' - despite rhetorical uses of the word being commonplace right now, its primarily being used for its moral valence as opposed to any accuracy. Militaries targeting civilians to induce terror, break morale, or bait responses is a tale as old as time; I don't think we can include things like the bombing of Dresden as "terrorism". Terrorism is defined by the actors being, in some way, non-state actors who lack a conventional military and are using limited-but-focused applications of violence to win a political battle. There is a lot of parallels to what Hamas is trying to achieve, but fundamentally they are a state actor, with a military, waging a 'peer' conflict, with goals around the governance of their state.
Its definitely one of the most ambiguous cases though, and its not like states are never involved in terrorist attacks (far from it). Time will probably reveal more.
Dude, they're kidnapping and murdering civilians. When Russia does this to Ukraine, we call their army terrorists (or if you want to be semantic about it --- we just call them evil). And yet we don't call Hamas terrorists here? Hamas does not represent Palestine or Palestinians in general. They aren't a state actor.
And how does kidnapping and murdering civilians push their supposed goal of self-governance anyways?
It's so funny to me when people reblog math posts on this site and say shit like "this is homophobic" "this is an attack on queer people" like hello this is tumblr. OP is queer. Like we've got a HANDFUL of cishets here on mathblr but most of us are queer. Because it's tumblr. And everyone is queer on tumblr. If you see math on this site, a queer person probably put it there. Stfu about "gays can't do math" if it's on tumblr, gays can do it, that's why it's on tumblr.
And of course there is also a large and brilliant and beloved queer math community off of tumblr but I just think it's extra funny when people don't notice it ON TUMBLR.
Alan Turing didn't kick the Nazis' collective ass laying foundations for the field of computing and then go on to also lay foundations for the field of biomathematics, Leonardo Da Vinci didn't give us fundamental physical and mathematical diagrams used in engineering well beyond his time, Moon Duchin doesn't study the math of fair redistricting, Chad Topaz and Jude Higdon don't analyze criminal sentencing disparities, et cetera et cetera, for y'all to call math homophobic and an attack on the queer community.
Reblog this and tell me about the important contributions other queer mathematicians are making to the field and to the world
Emily Riehl!