Moved to mastodon.social! @TetraspaceGrouping@schelling.pt

Intuitive way to understand the intermediate axis theorem: angular momentum is Iω but K.E. is ½Iω²; momentum is conserved but K.E. can dissipate; thus only max & min I are in equilibrium, and only max I (i.e. min K.E.) is long-term stable.

(This is not really rigorous, as it doesn't prove there aren't other stationary points of Iω̂, but it's close enough & helps to remember which axis is the stable one.)

I am on gab now

gab is banned from both app stores and doesn't let you use gmail to authenticate, so takes a little more effort

unable to post pics or gifs bc the server can't handle them rn, but I successfully published my first gab

UI is more refined than parler, however everything is slow af like being on the darknet

I'm operating under a fresh identity to avoid suspicion 🕵️

Getting strong Ted Chiang vibes from Scott Alexander's "Unsong"

people lean pretty hard on the "yeah well that doesn't technically violate the first amendment" retort huh

something being legal doesn't make it wise or right

Anyone have a good iOS client for Mastadon?

Joining the fediverse was inevitable. I just wasn't sure what server to make my home. I needed a place with lots of ingroup members. I needed a...

Schelling Point.

I’ve recently been practicing calculating mental probabilities in decibans. There was a post on LessWrong giving an introduction to the idea.

Annual odds of dying in a plane crash: –70db.

Odds of winning Powerball: –85db.

Odds that Dream just got lucky: –129db.

as ever, bootstrapping is the problem with new social media sites =/

hello world

I've just released [[agora server]] 0.5.11. Features:

- Image support. Example: http://anagora.org/node/decentralized.
- Tweet embeds. Example: http://anagora.org/node/distributed.

The Agora treats images (png, jpg, gif) in your repositories as subnodes, serving them in the node matching their filename.

the subset of gab/parler users who I'd actually be interested in knowing is quite small (the top 2% in openness), but that's what makes the hunt to find them exciting 😄

yeah this is a good example of how I rationalize pursuing inprobable endeavors

I just subscribed to Back of the Napkin

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