If you want to liberate women, don’t major in gender studies. Major in reproductive biology.

Cis people are friggin’ stupid sometimes. Jeez.

Sometimes, a book is a dud.

You have to balance the risk of accidentally sexually harassing someone against the benefits of asking people out—to you and to the people that you’re asking out. Most of the time, the benefits are larger.

Equal parts hilarious and quite serious. Applicable even for me, an aroallo. Will save this for grad school.

Living together with people is really hard. You will never, ever find people who share all your preferences in every detail. The more people you live with, the more conflicting wants and needs you have to navigate. Dealing with housemates is the finest school of virtue most readers of this blog will ever encounter. It requires the ability to compromise, to forgive, to assume good faith, to let go of what doesn’t matter, to advocate for yourself about what does, and to cultivate a finely honed sense of the ridiculous.

The hook is way too good.

Wretched and revolting on all accounts. How one can live like this I will never understand. I hesitate before even calling a ship with 3 fics a rarepair. How one can complain about only 5k fics is beyond any line of rationale

The modeling of polycule dynamics is an open question, but it can be best approximated from the Erdős–Rényi model of the random graph.

As per usual, Dougherty takes a big problem, finds the right abstractions, ruthlessly argues their way to the truth, and settles their realizations succinctly in the original context. One of the best philosophers of our time, on God.

The universe thrums with quantum fields; and the particles of matter and force emerge as vibrational manifestations of the deep symmetries of these fields. The layers and reflections of those symmetries give us the wonderful richness of what we call the standard model of particle physics. Except there seems to be something missing: the sterile neutrino.

For the last 10 years I have been able to draw around 3,169 stations from different European cities, motivated by the curiosity of understanding how engineers were able to fit underground stations comprising 4 or 5 lines under Place de la République in Paris or the Puerta del Sol in Madrid.

I don’t mind the ways in which my job is dysfunctional, because it matches the ways in which I myself am dysfunctional: specifically, my addiction to being useful.

In this blog post, I have tried to list off every anti-trans policy done by the Trump administration as of January 2025.

via: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/refinement-without-specification/

Yes, humans are not great evaluators. Yes, algorithms add a level of determinism into the game (this is not to be confused with objectivity: they just aren’t due to being made by humans). Yes, any flaw you can point out in a prediction algorithm can arguably be found in humans, too. Still doesn’t make algorithms significantly more justifiable than human evaluators. Plus, unlike humans, computers can’t take responsibility for management decisions. And of course, as we make predictive algorithms more complex with AI, bias becomes harder to identify and nigh-impossible to fix. Sigh.

Bro… I hate war, I hate checkoffs, I hate lobbying, I hate buybacks, I hate Obama,I hate Trump, I hate non-profits. Ugh. Lactose intolerants, rise up.