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moni
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Former nothing-person, currently in autopoiesis
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mr jennings, i thought i knew your game, but
Liked by Ken Jennings: "If you're still in line, STAY IN LINE" [screenshot of a headline of a New York Post article by Carl Campanile and Rich Calder from July 19, 2025: "Alan Dershowitz says he 'will blow his brains out on live TV' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC Mayor"]
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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やああ助かったーよく解説だったーこんな定義や
そろいソロヒ【〈揃（い）】 一⓪② 揃うこと。揃ったもの。 「━の衣装」 「夫婦お━で見舞いに来てくれた」 「今年の展覧会は傑作━ゾロイだ」 「三つ━ゾロイ」
November 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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ハロウィーンのmoni、二つ版:普通版目のmoni、グラップラー版目のmoni
November 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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tummyposting
moni w tummy. wearing olive green wranglers, some generic canvas belt, and a black-and-grey sports bra. her hands are raised to the point where her ears neck and jaw intersect moni w tummy. wearing olive green wranglers, some generic canvas belt, and a black-and-grey sports bra. her hands are behind her back moni w tummy. wearing olive green wranglers, some generic canvas belt, and a black-and-grey sports bra. this time she is showing off her butt lol
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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sorry for the overlong response lol
I say the last point because I'm committed to immersion (or more accurately, comprehensible-input) based learning from my experiences with JP (and for that matter, doing stuff in the language is the whole point after all). One thing Latin has over all the others is the textbook Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, which if nothing else is a masterclass in pedagogy; you could learn everything you'd ever need to know on the art of teaching just by analyzing how that book is structured. I wish every language had an equivalent to it
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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addenda:
1. despite my regret, i would definitely rather what i did over not doing anything at all
2. i honestly prefer dramas and it pisses me off to no end how hard they are to find. there's a private tracker i know of but that's not an option for me since i go without internet for days at a time
as far as listening comprehension goes i kinda avoided that in favor of reading until recently (since w reading i could go at my own pace). i regret that tho i shouldve been getting mostly listening from the beginning tbh. my trick is watching nothing-shows where i don't mind losing the plot (or watching shows ive already seen so i actually do know the plot (though shows that ive both watched AND have simple enough dialogue to follow are pretty scarce lol))
October 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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im going to get a job and it's going to wreck my nervous system more and make me worse and then im gonna have to let everything decay until i have to get a job again and wreck my nervous system again and make myself even worse and this cycle is impossible to break because the only way to break it is to summon more energy than i ever possibly can. im destined to be a miserable loser and im gonna have to make my peace with that and get by as one until possibly maybe my environment is changed from without. i simply do not have it in me to will a better life in existence, any more than i have it in me to run a 3 minute mile. this sucks, man, but im nothing if not patient. im really really good at sitting around and not moving a muscle until something happens
October 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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counterpoint from a 14 year old language learning blogpost (this to my reading is actually an argument to compartmentalize your spaces, physical and virtual, by task, more specifically: not to mediate everything you do via your chosen Do-Anything Device)
Anyway, don’t worry about what you’re going to do. That’s not your job. Your job is to facilitate. You’re just a logistics officer, remember? Focus on creating and managing options. Don’t think in terms of the next 24 hours, think in terms of the first 3 feet. Because whatever is persistently, repeatedly appearing within 3 feet of your face (thoughts included)…that’s what your life is. You don’t really need to manage your time if you manage your personal space, because whatever’s in your personal space, the little country that is you, will automatically eat your time.
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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me
crop of a beanytuesday comic titled "bullshit jobs" of an unassuming lady whose job title is Dynamic Systems Generalist, working at General Systems Dynamics
October 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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addendum. Of course, Beer's conception of freedom clarifies also the dynamic described here: the conservative family sees fit to enforce gender norms, hence it becomes a matter of paternal duty to restrict the autonomy of the child. Patriarchy structures the purpose of the family as perceived.
note: i put emphasis on "the *government's* job" there because a lot of normies that self-identify as conservative do think such things ought to be upheld. however, even amongst conservatives i think the most common normie view is that enforcement of gender norms should be informal, don't get the government involved. like i can't stop you from getting your hands on your hormones but that won't stop me from calling you a slur lol (or, more sinisterly: if you're my child, i *can* stop you from getting hormones, and the government can't make me let you have them if you're under my roof) ofc this More Sinister possibility is indeed how most repression of trans bodily autonomy plays out right now; and the biggest rhetorical tactic in the conservative playbook is to whine about specific cases in which parents *were* required to acquiesce to their child's transition (which is unfortunately rare)
October 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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This clarified a lot to me re: trans rights: conservative government sees as part of its purpose the enforcement of gender norms (patriarchy and cisheteronormativity). Then the curtailment of bodily autonomy of queer people is a forgone conclusion: it's necessary for their idea of social cohesion.
From within the enterprise, all these matters are relevant to viability; and they ought to be studied on site. But from outside the particular enterprise, and looking for the invariance that we expect to obtain in the cybernetics of any viable system, there is something more, and in fact much more, to say. This argument should be taken very carefully, both by me and by you, because of its explosive conclusion. It goes like this: (i) For the management unit, handling horizontal variety in the elemental operation is very difficult, since it has less variety than its own operation — which has less variety than its own environment in turn. It must design amplifiers and attenuators in order to regulate the double loop, if it is to meet the Three Principles of organization. (ii) Since the elemental operation is part of a whole, which is a cohesive system, its related elemental operations within System One intervene (in the vertical plane) in these horizontal variety equations. This intervention is a mark of the total cohesion, but it tends to vitiate elemental autonomy. (iii) If the metasystem, in its turn, intervenes in the interests of fairness, it is likely (on the whole) further to diminish the variety disposed by the management unit of each operation. Therefore The metasystem should make minimal use of variety attenuators in its dealings with management units in a downward direction. But this is difficult, since even ‘policies’ and ‘guidelines’ tend to be preceived from the other direction as massive constraints. This is the cybernetic argument for autonomy (or freedom), as distinct from the ethical, political, or psychological arguments. Unlike these others, it has no emotive content. It is basically mathematical. (iv) If minimal variety attenuation is desirable, the question arises whether there need be any metasystemic intervention in elemental operations. The minimum is in principle zero. (v) However, if there were zero metasystemic intervention, elemental operations (in pursuit of their individual targets) would inevitably exhibit activities that were not consonant with each other — and which might be downright contradictory. Therefore The metasystem must make some intervention, and should make only that degree of intervention that is required to maintain cohesiveness in a viable system. For a viable system cannot disintegrate without losing its viability. (vi) Cohesiveness is however a function of the purpose of the system. Viable systems of concentrated purpose will be closely-knit, highly cohesive. Viable systems of general purpose will be more loosely coherent. (vii) But systemic purpose (as we saw) is a subjective phenomenon, rather than a property of the system independent of its instigators, participants, and observers. Thus the mathematical extent to which the metasystem will minimally vitiate elemental variety disposable, above zero subtraction, is determined within the total systems framework as earlier described. THEREFORE Freedom is in principle a computable function of systemic purpose as perceived. That is the explosive conclusion. It is explosive precisely because it sounds heartless, whereas the dear question of freedom is full of heart. The trouble seems to be that people do not like to believe that any matter of passion for them could possibly be bound by scientific rules, forgetting that the passion itself is limited by the scientific rules of their own physiological capability to endure it... In any case, the ‘heart’ comes firmly back into focus when we consider the conclusions ‘as perceived’ clause, in conjunction with item (vi) of the argument. For, if the systemic purpose is subjective, only agreement of the heart will justify a given level of cohesion in any institution. The committed member of a conservatory commune cannot accept the degree of cohesion exhibited by a multinational corporation; the committed member of a conservative community cannot accept the lack of cohesiveness exhibited by its own eccentric deviant. Both are misled to think that they are discussing ethics. Once the heartfelt committment is made, the rest is a cybernetically foregone conclusion. It may help to discuss item (vi) a little further. Suppose, for example, that a group agrees on a plan to rob a bank. Each member of this gang (an operational element) begins with his ordinary human autonomy — and even that has to be considered in the context of another level of recursion. But it is a condition of the commonly perceived purpose of the gang-system that this freedom must largely be sacrificed. Each element must do its own job exactly as agreed in advance, otherwise every element is in jeopardy, and the gangsystem’s viability is threatened. Therefore there is (a computable) massive intervention by the vertical domain in the variety disposed by the horizontal domain of management. If this group, on the other hand, set out to be an organization for loving others instead, massive intervention is not required. There are many ways of loving others, and all members get on with doing it. Even so, there is a minimal vertical intervention in individual freedom... [no space left in alt text for the remainder of this paragrah. Sorry!]
October 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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more crankposting
October 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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source: my ass
Gaia skeptics tend to focus on the atmospheric/chemical aspects of the idea, but to me the more pressing matter is in volcanic/tectonic activity. the crust is too insulating for sunlight alone to provide enough energy to sustain those processes. the earth "eats" organic matter via sublimation. organic matter traps enormous amounts of solar energy; if such energy is released as the mantle takes it in, that provides a sort of metabolic pathway for the geosphere. in other words, if the weaker hypothesis that a geologically dead planet cannot sustain life is true, then the idea that sunlight alone cannot sustain geological activity indicates the early development of life is necessary for geological activity to continue. this would say that there's a sort of Golden Period where if life fails to develop to a point where Gaia-type synergisms occur, the planet is moribund, life never develops, and you wind up with a geologically dead, ever-cooling planet like Mars
October 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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had to rewrite this because i got it wrong xd but im love math it's cool
also it's very easy to show that adding 1 is equivalent to applying the successor function [i.e. n + 1 = S(n)]. you do so by induction, first showing that this equivalence holds for 0 + 1: this is vacuously true, because S(0) := 1 and 0 + 1 := 1. now assume n + 1 = S(n). then S(n) + 1 := S(n + 1) = S(S(n)). this closes the induction
October 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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did u know that if u define addition as such: "0 + n := n; S(n) + m := S(n + m)" you can use these facts(/axioms) to prove all the familiar properties of addition on the natural numbers :) woag
did u know that 0 is a natural number. also for all natural numbers n, its successor S(n) is also a natural number. and that 0 is not the successor to any natural number. and that if S(n) = S(m) then n = m. now suppose some property P(n) holds for P(0), and if it holds for P(n) it holds also for P(S(n)): then P(n) holds for all natural numbers n. waow
October 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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interviewer is so real for this
Internal sphere diameter for the pilot sphere was about 2 meters, so they're fairly roomy, about a -- I think it's 18 ton, 18.5 ton vehicle; dedicated mothership, dedicated handling system to get it in and out of the water. So, you know, that was my trial by fire, if you will, my crash course in submersible operations. We had 11 safe dives. I subsequently made, think, somewhere on the order of 50, 5-0, Mir submersible dives including those 11 dives, in all sorts of places, including Titanic on two subsequent expeditions, and then also hydrothermal vents all sort of in the 3- to 4,000 meter depth range and so on. And, you know, I became an informal pilot of the Mir submersibles, learning, you know, from their pilots. And then we -- if I'm going into too much detail, stop me. Q. No. No, sir. It's great.
October 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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expanded and edited edition
She took so much less space in that cage than she did when she was still able to paw at its walls, still able to feel anxious and scared and claustrophobic. She was so stoic: our first sign was she stopped eating; no other behavioral abnormalities present, for she loved us through such horrid cancer-pain as only an animal could, wordlessly. She came home in a blue body-handbag. I had no shovel for to bury her. I'd been awake for 24 hours and I had to use my hands. The soil here is mostly clay and silt, smooth, manifestly fertile. The roots were a bitch to clear. I lowered her into the hole. As she drifted to forever-sleep my sister said she'll never again climb up to my sister's bed in her own unique elderly way, never again yell at us the second we stopped scritching her head, never again purr in approval as we complied. I did not reply: "don't worry. She's going to be waiting for us downstairs." I felt her little head through the bag. I pet her favorite spot. It took everything I had to tamp down the dirt. Getting back I knew the whole house was 8 pounds lighter. You're only fifteen feet away from me as I write this, Ily. I just wish there was more time between the sedative and the poison.
October 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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went to the store
October 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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writing exercise
She took so much less space in that cage than she did when she was still able to paw at its walls, still able to feel anxious and scared and claustrophobic. She came home in a blue body-handbag. I didn't have a shovel to bury her. I'd been awake for 24 hours and I had to use my hands. As she drifted to forever-sleep my sister said she'll never again climb up to my sister's bed in her own unique way, never again purr and yell at us the second we stop scritching her head. I did not reply: "don't worry. She's going to be waiting for us downstairs." Getting back I felt the whole house was 8 pounds lighter.
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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good times we had
only good photo i took of my last time getting to pet Ily
October 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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i am math yay
solution to the first exercise in tao's Analysis I, which is to prove that addition in the natural numbers is associative, i.e. a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c for all a,b,c in N. you do this via induction: prove the base case(s), and then show that if the statement holds for one choice of number then it holds for the successor of that number as well. i initially solved this separately for each base case a=0, b=0, c=0, but i got lazy and only showed the induction to hold for arbitrary choices of a since the process is identical for the other two lol
October 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Reading the first chapter of Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin and I read this page and went "oh wow what a tidy little proof :)" and then the very next page kicked me in the face lmfao. It's been like 10 years since my last algebra class this is gonna be rough
October 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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truthnuke
You cannot read mathematics the way you read a novel. If you zip through a page in less than an hour, you are probably going too fast. When you encounter the phrase “as you should verify,” you should indeed do the verification, which will usually require some writing on your part. When steps are left out, you need to supply the missing pieces. You should ponder and internalize each definition. For each theorem, you should seek examples to show why each hypothesis is necessary. Discussions with other students should help.
October 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM