The Game Awards 2025 sparked yet another round of indie discourse with Expedition 33‘s historical sweep causing many to ask what does it actually mean for a game to be “indie”?

The pain of semantic drift.

The tsundere is a well-known anime trope, that many people still love to this day. But something happened to it since its inception, and I want to talk about that.

The “database” is a very interesting comparative media concept; will keep it in mind.

Waifus are a very well-known part of anime culture. So many have strong opinions on them, and yet very few know the full story.

A viral tweet made me curious about looking into the history of fanmade adult content, and I ended up diving into a rabbit hole that goes further than you could ever expect

via: https://youtu.be/yUVWXyNkR2I

The article considers structuralism as a philosophy of mathematics, as based on the commonly accepted explicit mathematical concept of a structure. Such a structure consists of a set with specified functions and relations satisfying specified axioms, which describe the type of the structure. Examples of such structures such as groups and spaces, are described. The viewpoint is now dominant in organizing much of mathematics, but does not cover all mathematics, in particular most applications. It does not explain why certain structures are dominant, not why the same mathematical structure can have so many different and protean realizations. ‘structure’ is just one part of the full situation, which must somehow connect the ideal structures with their varied examples.

Very nice philosophy paper by one of the progenitors of category theory on structure. The idea to show a correspondence between Bourbaki and category theory seems like a nice grad school project.

Einstein realized that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, but let’s go back earlier

Fascinating. Also another great example of how Nature used to be awesome.

In this video, I present the story of phase space and one of the most fundamental theorems of classical physics — Liouville’s theorem. This is a walk through the birth of phase space and how the discovery of Liouville’s theorem involves not only Liouville but also Jacobi and Boltzmann.

Story of how Planck discovered the blackbody radiation formula and why he introduced energy quantization as a math trick

2025 is … was the international year of quantum science and technology. Yes because quantum tech is increasingly important, but especially because quantum mechanics was invented 100 years ago this year. In 1925, our strangest true theory went from being a peculiar set of ideas to describe some funny results from experiments, to a full-blown theoretical framework that overturned how we think reality really works.  So today, as the centenary year approaches its end I want to take you on a little journey through what may be the most paradigm-destroying several months in scientific history.

The US legal system is so effed.

In this sharp manifesto, veteran author and activist, Jude Doyle, reunites feminist and trans politics through a common belief: that all people deserve to have the final say about who they are…

An excellent book on transfeminism from the transmasc POV. A terrifyingly easy read: I zoomed through its 200 pages in about a day.

The physics leading up to the Standard Model - starting from the three main pillars of physics in the 1800s and the paradoxes they led to.

Transcription of Thomas Jefferson’s ‘original Rough draught’ of the Declaration of Independence.

he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither

Crazy that this shit got taken out.

This blog post shares such a radically different view of transmasculinity that I’m not sure how to process it.

Why is the Korean gender war so bitterly fought? What is life on the ground like for actual Korean men, and women? We’ll discuss these topics, and more, while also observing the already preposterous yet ever escalating dramatics of the Korean Gacha community.

There’s two things everybody knows about War Thunder: the first is that it’s a game about military vehicles, and the other is that War Thunder players love to leak state secrets. But why does that keep happening? What is it about War Thunder that inspires players to betray the trust of their country? Well, it’s a surprisingly complex web! Let’s get down deep into the context, and see if we can figure it out together.