Mothematician

I’ve gotten sooooo spoiled by Murderbot Diaries fandom. TMBD fandom if you have a cool idea about SecUnit physiology or Preservation planetary worldbuilding or Corporation Rim political organization people are generally willing to go “oh cool! That’s a neat idea.” I s2g every time I post about Project Hail Mary and Eridian worldbuilding ideas I get someone going “um sweaty Andy Weir said that Erid has no problems and Eridians are perfect and anyway we don’t know how Erid works so your idea is wrong” yeah that’s why it’s called fanwork

Listen I love Andy Weir's writing as much as the next person but I think we can all agree that he just didn't put that much thought into building Erid at all. I'm pretty sure that he knows exactly as much about the place as he thought absolutely necessary to put on the page to make them seem sufficiently alien-like. "He didn't write about their complex social problems" no shit the story wasn't about that. I firmly believe that Andy Weir has no clue whatsoever about how Eridian resource distribution works or the details of how their clusters operate beyond 'seminar that's also sort of a hivemind and Reaches A Decision' or how social roles and social status operate or anything. Eridian problems being absent from the story doesn't mean 'Erid is a utopia', it means 'this story is not about Erid'.

I don't know how or why, but sometimes a species reaches out to you to be its caretaker and you just gotta answer the call.

first one looks like the dogs gonna n64 mario jump into a painting

an incredible linguistic blessing that UwU and OwO are emoticons you can pronounce out loud

Yall can’t leave my boy xD out like this 😭😭😭 I will not permit it

girl, if you're saying "ex-dee" out loud, then you might as well count "colon-three" or "semicolon-dash-semicolon"

hail mary from rocky's perspective is so funny. imagine you met an alien for the first time ever and it was a hummingbird. its so so fragile and delicate and it needs to rest constantly and eat constantly and it views the world so totally different from you and then you find out the hummingbird is on a suicide mission

Not true! Groups used to be defined as sets of permutations before being redefined abstractly, and we had to redefine sets when Russel discovered the set of all sets not containing themself.

On the first point, Cayley's theorem. I would also argue a redefinition does not constitute something wrong in the mathematics. What was proven (correctly) about those structures will still remain true. This is also true for your second point. Russell's paradox remains true to this day. His proof checks out and is presented in any decent class and book containing set theory. Though we had to develop an axiomatic theory of sets as a result, nothing proven about the intuitive idea of sets that existed before was wrong. The deductions for both groups and sets hold up. They are part of our history because they pushed mathematics forward and though we do not typically study them today, those results would be just as valid if we did.

supporting my asexual friends and foes by rebbloging this

It’s 50 years this month since the first version of the Asexual Manifesto was written. Aces have been writing about our experiences under this name for at least half a century. We are not an internet fad.

Sorry, my what? My pronouns? Oh, yeah I'm between genders at the moment. No, it's cool, I quit my last gender a little while ago because it really wasn't working out. I don't know if I even have a dream gender anymore.

Oh yeah, it did come with benefits, but they weren't really worth it. The culture was really toxic. To be honest I think I'd prefer a part-time gender so I can just be self-described in my spare time.

I mean, in a perfect world we wouldn't need gender, you know? We could just voluntarily be perceived as much as we're able, as much as makes us feel fulfilled. Having a full-time gender shouldn't be a prerequisite for food, shelter, and healthcare.

Hello, welcome to 2050, our gallery - oh, no, that art is not done with AI, the industry collapsed decades ago, but human artists have rediscovered the aesthetic and are using it ironically. Yeah they call it Neo-Modern AI Chic, they've been trying to recover surviving slop and put it in the archives. Oh, we're very into 2020s aesthetics now. You remember, Hyperlink Unburbia? Rustic Pseudo-Cryptid? Self-Care Shadowscape? You don't...know any of those? That's weird. They really define your time, is all, uh, and we're into it

Unburbia...

ok I know everyone’s considered Ryland grace wearing an “I put the ace in space” t shirt but. have we considered the infinitely funnier option of putting this shirt on eva stratt

“Larper” being used like “poser” is so annoying bc actual LARPers are cool as hell. Get me some armour and a fake sword too

I’ll maybe explain on here why I identify so much with fractals, one day. Not right now.