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futurebird

@futurebird@sauropods.win

pro-ant propaganda, building electronics, writing sci-fi teaching mathematics & CS. I live in NYC.

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m'lady's false-fairhaird', faulty-functioning feral form

futurebird,
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gross gold, gum-gutted, goblin guise.

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Plastic-pompadour'd, piss-pot, pump pile.

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I know a bunch of you are going to like this post about a coin-op first ever SF public computer network.

https://www.tumblr.com/lessproblematical/750984563870810112?source=share

This machine speaks to me:

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What is the best explanation you’ve heard for 1 not being a prime number? For me it’s “because it breaks everything in my programs since the loops won’t terminate” but that’s obtuse. “Because the God of math decrees it so!” is compelling, but shallow.

“it can only be divided by 1 distinct number” is contrived.

1 “feels” prime— it has the fewest factors. (Primeness being about NOT having factors) ruling it out for having too few? eh.

“it’s the zero of multiplication” is better… thoughts?

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@weaselx86

This is kind of wild since it means that the idea of a prime preceded a well formed definition. Everyone knew what it was in some more general sense before the edges were nailed down.

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@barrygoldman1 That was the first reason I gave. But Dismissed as obtuse.

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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Abelisaurus Portrait" — 2022

Abelisaurus was a meat-eater from the Late Cretaceous of South America.

https://johnconway.art/abelisaurus_portrait

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@john I feel I’m falling a critical test for color blindness! Love the texture.

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She likes to rest on this bookshelf so she can look us in the eye when we exit the shower.

She peers around the door frame. Two triangle ears and a little plaintiff face.
My husband peers around the door and he and Pica are eye to eye in a staring contest.
Pica won. She sits front paws neatly draped in front of her queen of the bookshelf.

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When colonies are small they are nervous. Here is the young queen and her 23 daughters are gathered close to her frozen in fear as I feed them and collect the little trash pile they made. When their numbers pass some tipping point they will stop cowering like this and grow bold. I wonder how each ant decides if she should be brave or hide? how do they know the size of their colony?

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Sam Alito is so much worse than I ever suspected. Watching him speak, reading his writing you encounter a man who clearly thinks he's smarter than everyone.

For various reasons, we do not often encounter smug academically styled conservatives. But, he's the genuine article. He sincerely believes himself a brave iconoclast who will be seen as a hero someday.

His self-flattery could be a weakness. He is very wrong about how history will remember him.

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The bald eagle could have easily gone extinct. But we did all sorts of "woke" things protecting it legally, ran conservation and study programs, banned DDT (that was good for other reasons too) and in 2007 they were removed from the endangered species list.

Likewise pine forests could be dead from acid rain.

The ozone could have a huge hole.

We CAN take care of nature when we want to. And the successes have been worth it.

I feel like we forget this, you know?

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@mister914 What could be more woke than saving a bird?

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@WomanCorn No they very much are.

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@rothko I don’t think it would— you would not see both parties united to get it done— it’d be labeled a liberal issue and dismissed I think.

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@cshentrup Maybe using “woke” a term with a long history to mean “senseless” is a huge mistake.

That’s kind of my whole point here.

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@petealexharris @cshentrup That’s not what woke means and it’s not how I or anyone I’ve ever known used it.

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This is some extereme newspeak BS.

Destroy the words that explain the concepts that might dismantle oppression— it’s an old tactic.

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I really wish the people complaining about the use of "woke" to describe environmental law would pay a little more attention to who is using (misusing) that word now... and consider that "tree hugger" used to be something of a nasty mocking term for anyone who dared to suggest that maybe driving animals into extinction was... bad and wrong...

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@tob @CStamp

DDT cures COVID but THEY don't want you to know that!

(this is not true)

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And when I say animals. I mean ALL animals.

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@ghast

I'm not the one who redefined it. LOL. It's old as churches.

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Do you like parasites? Or dislike them but can't stop learning about them? The worst ones are in the sea. Makes all of the parasitoid wasp stuff seem tame! There are worse fates than being paralyzed and fed to a hungry larvae who eats your organs selectively so you live longer.

Here is a great video. It is very gross. But it's cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qZQ2wcQY3o

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@swart

Well the video has both I think.

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I hate what debates tend to be: soundbite mines where each side runs around claiming that they got in the best "dunk" and thus won.

It reminds me of when I as a teen and the ran the dozens in the school yard. "Yo mamma so fat the lobbyists say 'save some for me!'"

Can't even agree who won the last election. How can Trump ask to participate in a system he doesn't even recognize as legitimate?

Why debate Biden? You don't think he's president, right?

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@norgralin

The more I think about it I think I'd enjoy it more if we forgot the "civil" debate and they just played dozens.

At least that'd be funny.

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