timorl @timorl@qoto.org

#Literary dystopias are entertaining but destructive. They have crowded positive visions of the future out of the narrative and out of our minds. We might not manifest every future we imagine, but we can't create a #future without imagining it.

Mass visualizations like 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, Blade Runner, The Matrix, or even Avatar have hurt social progress. We need visualizations of what we want.

What #SpeculativeFiction have you read/seen that offers #hope for the future?

Academic theory: Polynomial long division of data by a generator polynomial over a finite field (most commonly Galois field).

Implementation: Just xor bits in a loop.

I'm not sure that we should be using “man baby”, “man child”, etc. Not only because it's one of the primary insults used against bronies, but also because, what, everycreature is supposed to Grow Up when they turn eighteen? What does that mean? Stop enjoying things? Become a miserable Adult in the sense of being a cog in the capitalist machine and nothing more? Just a husk of the former self? And with how it's inevitably gendered masculine, there's probably an element of toxic masculinity in there too. To say nothing of the littles and ageplayers, who are totally valid by the way.

There is this line of thought against CWs that: “This topic is an ISSUE, I care about it, therefor asking to put a content warning on it is unreasonable!”

I’ll deconstruct why this is mistaking anxiety with caring and action.

Recent years of eg twitter became full of this, showing things that no one denies are actually important.

But that’s the thing: important is not sufficient by itself! It has to be actionable, otherwise…

I will never understand why people are so averse to diversity.

I like seeing trans people speaking to each other with idioms I don't get, cute girls speaking a language I can't recognize, or gay dudes priming and posing in random pics.

Seeing shit that is not for me makes me feel like I'm part of a much bigger world that still has space for me to learn and grow.

That's a big place of comfort for me. The bottomless nature of the human experience means we all have space to be fully who we are.

That's pretty cool.

We're so at the beginning of trying to build social networks online.

The closest analogy that comes to my mind is medicine/biology.

For socials, we're in the victorian era of "unscrupulous proprietor puts radioactive material in it, because it glows neatly".

This thread by an ex-twitter designer reminds me of that: https://social.lot23.com/@jon/109372257422277945

It's worth a read to go through what they wrote - you need data to really mislead yourself after all.

Hello Mastodon from an A3000 running AMIX!

@prehensile I love the mix of this is a very very serious algebraic topology thing, also death to capitalism, by the way this is a realtime kernel driver for a teledildonic device, oh and I’m a cat meow meow.

We can all do with a reminder that we all contain multitudes, and the fedi certainly does that.

If X boosts their own post on Mastodon shouldn’t the timeline say “X boasted…”

Mathematicians turn every word starting with co into a shitpost. Go figure out what comathematicians do.

We're all gonna need this sooner than expected so here is my proposed APA 7 style citation format for citing a Mastodon post

Lastname, F.M. [@mastodon@handle.tld] (20XX, Month DD). Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut ... [Mastodon post]. Name of instance. [URL of post]

As with the format for citing a Twitter post, the correct reference list title is the first 20 words of the post, and the correct short title is the first 5, both using an ellipsis if necessary.

existing as a slavic queer on birdsite be like:
>reply to a post outside your circle
>"""discourse""" on gendered verb conjugations starts
>"I don't know if [the word "had" conjugated with neutral pronouns] is in polish"
>"this form doesn't exist same as your 'non-binary'" [shows screenshot with conjugations which include the neutral one for 3rd person 🤷]
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>dear reader, the neutral conjugation in 1st person can be found in textbooks for polish from 1796 and 1824 next to female and male, in texts by very well-known writers such as Adam fucking Mickiewicz (1840 - yes, 1st person) or Stanisław Lem (1976 - yes, also 1st person), or even a fucking Christmas carol (this one 3rd person only; because people used to refer by them to kids more often)

I've been using #AnnotatedEquations in my recent papers. I think it really adds to the readability and understanding of the math.

Here are some examples. It uses #tikz in #latex.

Let me know if you like it. Happy for any feedback.

Here we go, after 1.5 years and a pile of c++ code later I'm pleased to announced my basilisk story is FINISHED!

"Basilisk collection - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/

picking a mastodon server to join is easy -- just think of it like you're allying with one of many families in a war-torn medieval land, each with their own histories, feuds, laws, blood rituals

A student of mine is going to speak about the history of the Axiom of choice at a seminar. She's got all the facts, but she asked me if I knew any juicy gossip about the Axiom of choice. I have to admit I don't, but perhaps Mathstodon can fulfill its purpose. #axiom #choice

I keep seeing lots of long-time #fediverse users saying 'don't favourite posts it does nothing' but actually when you favourite my posts it makes me smile and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

A wishlist for trans*feminist servers at #atnofs in Athens!

The text is also available here https://etherpad.mur.at/p/tfs