denial of grants and contracts from Department of Defense, Department of Education, and certain other departments and agencies

people who fetishize east-asians are cringe… but could those people involve east-easians themselves? i talk about various topics such as aegyo, asianfishing, orientalism, and the potential positives of self-fetishization. also, i need better lighting.

I don’t need him, or anyone, to love me. All I care about is that he gets better and lives happily.

A nice walk from homotopy to Lie theory to category theory to combinatorics.

Procedural generation is the idea of using simple rules to generate more complicated items - used in games such as Minecraft and Elite, Zac Garby of the University of Nottingham explains with the use of the game Carcassonne.

Features an implementation of wave function collapse.

A neat rallying cry for open access.

A modern classic in sci-fi.

Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services: For a prima facie case of employment discrimination under Title VII, a plaintiff who is a member of a majority group does not need to show background circumstances to support the suspicion that the defendant is an unusual employer who discriminates against the majority.

Worst Supreme Court case of the year. KBJ is a coon confirmed. Thomas has somehow been rendered reasonable. A hearty RIP to procedural affirmative action.

“Pro-DEI” is one of the dog whistles of all time.

see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW_WUmHxtGI

Proving a topology theorem by using category theory to translate it into a group theory problem.

Chris investigates the Palestinian-led Xbox Boycott and how it’s already secured a major victory against one of the largest corporations on the planet.

see: https://nogamesforgenocide.com/

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

I would like you to think, for a minute, about what it would be like to be that kind of feminist: To give your life to a cause, to put absolutely everything you have into it, and to be told that your work is worthless because you didn’t die.

As a complete beginner to Nix and NixOS, I recently had some trouble packaging up a Perl script and a shell script with their dependencies for deployment on a NixOS system. Here’s what I learned.

Which coming-out, which medication, which surgery, which friendship, which sex act, which relationship, which instance of survived bigotry, will ever make me feel like enough?

Half of falling in love is timing. I didn’t meet the right women at the right times. I can count the missed opportunities […] but time only moves one way.

Too many good quotes to leave here.

Poptimism failed, not because of its commitment to social justice – which was a good thing – but because it had no material analysis. It cast pop stars as underdogs, outsiders, underestimated and dismissed by the Rockist Establishment, without pausing to recognize that they were vastly more powerful than any critic ever would be. […] It’s all the times when the music cracks open and something shining and huge and true falls out, some feeling too powerful for words alone. In those moments, music does what it was made for — it lets us put our own weird, unique, messy, unprecedented human hearts into each other’s hands, and proves that our oppressors, for all their power, cannot shut us up or limit who we are.

Poptimism (also called popism), a portmanteau of pop and optimism, is a mode of discourse which holds that pop music deserves the same respect as rock music and is as authentic and as worthy of professional critique and interest.

via: https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/po/

the tension between the black and asian american community is complicated. with asian american immigrants being both foreigners and racial minorities, how does this position them in a black-white socioracial framework?

Vol. 2: The Many Palatial Homes of Lenny Kravitz