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Katherine Mays ☭🦄🍄
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Katie (she/her) | AuDHD | autodidact | sex trade abolitionist | I am not here to say what you want to hear. Be uncomfortable. ❤️

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My view of Aurora borealis, top is dark pink, bottom is sea green. It is over a lake with some small city lights as well. Nighttime.
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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A tweet from me that reads: "We should call it 'choice patriarchy' instead of 'choice feminism' because it isn't feminism and they're still choosing patriarchy."
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Would you mind elaborating? I'm very curious...

Also, I'm again reminded of Deleuze, lmao.
https://thefunambulist.net/editorials/deleuze-the-body-as-a-desiring-machine "For every organ-machine, an energy-machine: all the time, flows and interruptions. Judge Schreber* has sunbeams in his ass. A solar anus. And rest assured that it works: Judge Schreber feels something, produces something, and is capable of explaining the process theoretically. Something is produced: the effects of a machine, not mere metaphors."
September 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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These kinds of posts make me angry now. "...uses mathematics that didn't exist in Fermat's time" why do you think that might be? This is yet another example of the limitations of thinking solely in discrete terms.
A Twitter post from a user that says: "Wiles' proof is a masterpiece of modern mathematics, combining techniques from algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and representation theory. It's over 100 pages long and uses mathematics that didn't exist in Fermat's time. The quest to solve Fermat's Last Theorem revolutionized mathematics, creating new fields and techniques that continue to drive research today."
September 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Finally finished this paint-by-number I've been working on!
A paint-by-number depicting a wooden porch during rain with hanging lanterns, flowering plants, and vines, painted in bright, warm colors against a forest backdrop.
September 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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The most popular “interpretations of QM” “Copenhagen” Lab View QM describes how quantum systems affect a classical measuring apparatus. Q-Bism QM only describes the knowledge of an agent. Relational Quantum Mechanics QM describes properties at interactions, relative to interacting systems. Many world There is a universal wave function. Hidden variables There is universal wave function, and also physical variables. Physical collapse As it is, QM is wrong. There are additional physical phenomena.
August 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Synthesizing Quantum Physics, Systems Theory, and Sustainability in the 21st Century Samuel Olatunji Abstract The 21st century presents a convergence of global systemic crises—climate change, biodiversity collapse, social inequality, and technological disruption—that demand an epistemological and ontological reconfiguration of science and governance. This paper proposes a unifying transdisciplinary framework that integrates quantum physics, systems theory, and sustainability science to illuminate new paths toward planetary resilience and just development. At the heart of this synthesis lies the concept of informational primacy—the idea that all systems, from subatomic fields to planetary ecosystems, are structured by and through information. We explore how quantum indeterminacy, systemic feedback, and adaptive co- evolution can inform a new model of conscious planetary governance. Drawing from contemporary research in quantum coherence, nonlinear systems, and regenerative development, the paper argues for a paradigm in which science, ethics, and sustainability are no longer separate domains but co-arising expressions of an evolving informational cosmos. This integrative approach is not merely theoretical—it suggests new principles for policy design, ecological restoration, and human development in an era of planetary boundaries.
August 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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And back to climate change and quantum physics ⤵️

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Climate change and social transformations: is it time for a quantum leap? Karen L. O’Brien* Edited by Maria Carmen Lemos, Domain Editor, and Mike Hulme, Editor-in-Chief Climate change is recognized as an urgent societal problem with widespread implications for both natural and human systems, and transforming society at the rate and scale that is mandated by the 2015 Paris Agreement remains a major challenge. Do we need to be open to new paradigms for social change? In this opinion piece, I draw attention to the emerging field of quantum social theory and consider its implications for climate change responses. Quantum social the- ory considers how concepts, methods and understandings from quantum physics relate to societal issues, and it provides a physically based, holistic perspective on conscious and intentional transformations to sustainability. It is distinct from other social theories in that it raises deep metaphysical and ontological questions about what is really real. I explore the methodological, metaphorical and mean- ingful significance of quantum social theory for understandings of social change. Quantum concepts such as entanglement, complementarity, uncertainty, and superposition provide a strong basis for recognizing and promoting people as the solution to climate change. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
August 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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arxiv.org/pdf/1811.03435
Data Science as Political Action: Grounding Data Science in a Politics of Justice Ben Green* Abstract: In response to public scrutiny of data-driven algorithms, the field of data science has adopted ethics training and principles. Although ethics can help data scientists reflect on certain normative aspects of their work, such efforts are ill-equipped to generate a data science that avoids social harms and promotes social justice. In this article, I argue that data science must embrace a political orientation. Data scientists must recognize themselves as political actors engaged in normative constructions of society and evaluate their work according to its downstream impacts on people’s lives. I first articulate why data scientists must recognize themselves as political actors. In this section, I respond to three arguments that data scientists commonly invoke when challenged to take political positions regarding their work. In confronting these arguments, I describe why attempting to remain apolitical is itself a political stance—a fundamentally conservative one—and why data science’s attempts to promote “social good” dangerously rely on unarticulated and incrementalist political assumptions. I then propose a framework for how data science can evolve toward a deliberative and rigorous politics of social justice. I conceptualize the process of developing a politically engaged data science as a sequence of four stages. Pursuing these new approaches will empower data scientists with new methods for thoughtfully and rigorously contributing to social justice.
August 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The tl;dr version The security problem is indeed more significant than many people seem to believe, and many people would absolutely be much better served abandoning C/C++ right away for new projects, and not just from a security perspective. But! It’s far more costly and risky to get rid of all the C our applications are already using than many people might think; creating replacements to some key pieces of software will take a decade or more to be effective as a replacement, with no clear overall benefit. There is a lot of hidden complexity just when we consider security that complicates the equation to the point where saying “Rust is safer than C” might be true, but actually isn’t a total slam dunk at all. The economics of something as simple as choice of programming language are actually very intricate. Not only is security not the only non-functional consideration, no matter what you do, there will always be memory unsafe code somewhere (as long as the underlying architectures themselves are unsafe), and there would be many negative consequences to trying to get rid of C quickly. Systems languages are overused; C vs Rust is a false choice, because compiled languages like Go are often a much better all-around answer economically. Go in particular has decent enough performance that is sufficient for the vast majority of use cases, will be safe, and has good access to low-level systems APIs.
August 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Drama Now that we have some rough understanding of the typical Rust mentality and the typical C mentality, let’s see how that help us parse the latest episode in the telenovela. Rust: they like to be told what to do and tell other people what to want C: they don’t like to be told what to do and have a laissez-faire attitude towards other people
August 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Math ✨🪄
A reposted tweet says, “I wish people understood that conservatives could never be radicals. Radicals are about getting to the root of a problem, conservatives are a problem because they avoid the root of the problem. Therefore they can be zealots but never Radicals.” Below, a reply from me that reads, “Math ✨🪄.”
August 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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arxiv.org/pdf/2210.02978
"Netizens, Michael and Ronda Hauben’s foundational treatise on Usenet and the Internet, was first published in print 25 years ago. In this piece, we trace the history and impact of the book and of Usenet itself, contextual- ising them within the contemporary and modern-day scholarship on virtual communities, online culture, and Internet history. We discuss the Net as a tool of empowerment, and touch on the social, technical, and economic issues related to the maintenance of shared network infrastructures and to the preservation and commodification of Usenet archives. Our interview with Ronda Hauben offers a retrospective look at the development of online communities, their impact, and how they are studied. She recounts her own introduction to the online world, as well as the impetus and writing process for Netizens. She presents Michael Hauben’s conception of “netizens” as contributory citizens of the Net (rather than mere users of it) and the “electronic commons” they built up, and argues that this collabor- ative and collectivist model has been overwhelmed and endangered by the privatisation and commercialisation of the Internet and its communities."
August 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Drawing of a man sitting on a stool under a lamp, holding papers and speaking, while two people tied up with ropes sit on the floor in front of him. Caption reads: “Welcome, my friends, to the Deleuze reading group."
August 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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(Number and Numbers by Alain Badiou, Translated by Robin Mackay, 2008)

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From Number & Numbers, Badiou (Translator's Preface - Robin Mackay): "Alain Badiou's Number and Numbers, first published two years after his Being and Event, is far from being the specialist work its title might suggest. In fact, it recapitulates and deepens Being and Event's explosion of the pretexts upon which the 'philosophy of mathematics' is reduced to a theoretical ghetto; and their kinship to those reaction ary modes of thought that systematically obscure the most pressing questions for contemporary philosophy. Neither does Number and Numbers balk at suggesting that even the greatest efforts on the part of number-theorists themselves have fallen short of the properly radical import of the question of number. Badiou's astonishing analyses in the historical section of the book uncover the inextricable bond between philosophical assumptions and mathematical approaches to the problem in these supposedly 'merely technical' works. The aim of Number and Numbers, then, is certainly not to mould the unwill ing reader into a calculating machine, or a 'philosopher of mathematics': its exhortation is that we (mathematicians, philosophers, subjects under Capital) systematically think number out of the technical, procedural containment of which its quotidian tyranny, and the abysmal fear it strikes into the heart of the non-mathematician, are but symptoms. Symptoms, needless to say, whose expression within the situation of philosophy is a pronounced distaste for number-as philosopheme - whence its recognisable absence in much 'continental philosophy', except where it is pilloried as the very nemesis of the ontological vocation."
August 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"A spectre is haunting Continental philosophy—the spectre of Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO). All the disciplines and groupings that have traditionally allied themselves with Continental theory in the anglophone world are poised to greet its manifestation: aesthetic theory and artistic practice, political philosophy and heterodox geography, Francophile post-post-structuralists and Germanist neoromantics. Who among them has not heard the siren song of OOO’s litanies of inhuman objects (menageries of stock markets and stock cubes, quarks and clerks, etc.)? Who among them has not begun to shrug off the oppressive, anthropocentric legacy of post-Kantian philosophy, bravely railing against the tyrannical correlationists of the Continental academy, the dreary technicians of the analytic mainstream, and even the scientific fury of its neo-Kantian heirs?"
August 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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For example, this post below. It doesn't advocate for everyone to have private jets or domestic staff. That is not what this post is about. Rather, it highlights how much more difficult life is when you're poor and there's hardly any time left for personal fulfillment.
"'We all have the same 24 hours.' Use public transport? Your 24 hours are not the same as those of private jet owners. Do your own cooking, cleaning, child-raising? Your 24 hours are not the same as those of someone with a full-time domestic staff. Stop this nonsense."
August 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Writing is technology and impacts how memory functions ⤵️
"In conclusion, writing doesn't make memory 'better,' but it fundamentally changes how it works. Oral societies develop community-based memory systems. Literate societies offload factual memory to written records, freeing the mind for different cognitive tasks, such as analysis, and developing a focus on exact recall."
August 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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"We are in a generalized crisis in relation to all the environments of enclosure—prison, hospital, factory, school, family. The family is an “interior,” in crisis like all other interiors—scholarly, professional, etc. The administrations in charge never cease announcing supposedly necessary reforms: to reform schools, to reform industries, hospitals, the armed forces, prisons. But everyone knows that these institutions are finished, whatever the length of their expiration periods. It’s only a matter of administering their last rites and of keeping people employed until the installation of the new forces knocking at the door."
August 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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People on Twitter reacting to seeing the invention of written language being used for recording transactions: "I love spreadsheets and objects and everything is property! 🥰😍"
Initially, the earliest Sumerian writing system, cuneiform, emerged from the need to manage a complex economy and keep records of business transactions, including those related to property. Specifically, early writing was used for things like tracking goods and recording land transfers. However, cuneiform quickly evolved beyond these administrative and accounting uses to encompass literature, law, history, and other aspects of Sumerian culture.
August 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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00:00 Intro 03:20 Federico's Personal Experience 09:03 The New Theory: Biology vs Computers 21:05 What is a particle? 22:11 The Quantum vs the Classical world 33:48 Can we explain quantum mechanics in a materialist worldview? 36:48 Free will an illusion? Why do we ask this question? 40:32 Joining Science & Spirituality 45:19 Reflections on Donald Hoffmanns Theory 47:40 Will You Prove This? 51:04 Will Al Be Better Than Us? 54:10 Where Could This Theory Lead Us? 57:34 If We Are All One, How Does Seperation Work? 1:03:10 What Happens When We Die? 1:11:26 How Quantum Information Panpsychism Is Fundamentally Different Then Classical Panpsychism 1:13:07 Is there An End-Point To The Universe? 1:13:55 Why Is Space Expanding Exponentially? 1:15:41 Resonance & Purpose
August 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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"At the same time, following Harman, I will emphasize the importance of accounting for the individuality and autonomy of things in order to prevent the emergence of any privileged actor that would lead to a centralized ontological discourse. I will thus emphasize the need of maintaining plurality within relationality without introducing any non-relational substrata."
August 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Bats 🤝 Ducks
Four cartoon animals stand in a row. A dog says, “I wish I could fly.” A fish says, “I wish I could walk.” A bird says, “I wish I could swim.” At the end, a duck stands silently, because it can do all three.
August 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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"Seeking to further grasp the ever-changing interrelations between social and ecological dynamics, scholars have begun to engage with relational process-based philosophies and approaches (West et al. Citation2020; Mancilla García et al. Citation2020; Walsh et al. Citation2021; Artmann Citation2023). Rather than specifying as the basic unit of analysis ‘the social’ and ‘the ecological’ as separate and stable entities that may interact, relational approaches start from social-material processes or ways of becoming from which entities emerge and manifest as stable. Relational perspectives are particularly aware of the role research and researchers play in constructing entities (Wamsler et al. Citation2021; Bentz et al. Citation2022). However, as Walsh et al. (Citation2021) suggest, relational approaches in sustainability research remain marginalised with few studies explicitly taking such a perspective. In this article, we set out to develop a relational perspective in thinking about and doing simulation modelling."
August 15, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Lmao...
A diagram showing “Flow State” as a diagonal zone where skills and challenge are balanced. Outside this zone are labeled areas: anxiety (high challenge, low skill), apathy (low challenge, low skill), boredom (high skill, low challenge), plus smaller labels like fear of failure, doubt, nostalgia, and loss of interest.
August 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM