via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRTUJoMinuU`

People take what they need and change what they don’t; they read, interrogate, contextualize; in this way, history moves forward. The question is not what the books say. The question is always you, the reader; what you take, what you leave, and how you change the world.

Here is the counterbalance to all that writer’s block and self-protective silence, the reason to keep swinging and missing: If you don’t speak, someone will speak for you. Trans people may rip ourselves apart or drive ourselves mad trying to communicate our existence in some well-reasoned and responsible way, but cis people have no such compunctions. Cis people never stop talking about trans people, because they never have to; cis people can just make shit up, and someone will pay to publish it, pretty much every time. That’s what unconditional privilege in patriarchy looks like. It is the freedom to define someone else’s reality on your own terms.

Gotta keep fighting for the right for all marginalized peoples to be heard.

A Plural 101

An informal handbook for systems and their aspiring friends.

It would be wrong to say this is the clearest explanation of plurality (especially the addenda), but it is definitely human.

We recall the definition of the fundamental group develop in the previous lecture then prove that it is indeed a group. Finally, we show that the fundamental group of the circle is isomorphic to Z, the integers.

We give a quick review of group theory then discuss homotopy of paths building up to the definition of the fundamental group.

This is a good introduction to hate speech as a legal phenomenon, with emphasis on social media and college campuses. Exposed me to a lot of useful viewpoints.

This is a passion project I built to help me play guitar. Maybe it can help you too!

Found this in Industry City’s bookstore. A nice read about the trans Filipina experience modulo the occasional typo and kinda loose overall structure. I blame the author’s editor.

When are two shapes the “same”? Topics covered include deformation retract, homotopy of maps, and the homotopy equivalence of spaces.

Housing also sucks in Canada. Unfortunately, tenant organizing is not all sunshine and rainbows LOL.

Dear Lord, was this video gas. Happy to hear that the Canadians have it just as bad as we do LOL. I’m also kinda surprised that the software consultants I know on the net make ends meet. Seems quite tough. What a great sendoff to the low interest rate era.

This article is low-key brain poison. She almost sounds reasonable. Almost. Why are we complementing the Trump administration’s bad faith compact? Why has “equity” and “intolerance” of hateful philosophies like Zionism become bad words. Why do people keep saying “we just need one generation of civics classes to solve systemic injustice!!1!” Sigh. And the author’s a black woman, so she’s definitely been used as a mouthpiece. RIP.

Each grantee that is an institution of higher education, as defined in 20 U.S.C. 1002(a), that is private (hereinafter “private institution”) must comply with its stated institutional policies regarding freedom of speech, including academic freedom, as a material condition of the Department’s grant.

I finally found how the DoE can prevent a private institution from having funding. This definitely encourages schools that even remotely rely on federal funding to stay in lockstep with Section 983 and the First Amendment. Damn.

via: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/HTML/LSB10438.web.html

Resources to assist grantees in the administration of Federal grants awarded by the Department of Education.

From which the DoE can stem the flow.

An interesting little article which exposed me to various cursed parts of the U.S. Code.

Someone please explain to me why this doesn’t basically extend protected speech (i.e. hate speech) to all colleges and universities… Hell, not even private schools are a refuge.

via: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/HTML/LSB10438.web.html