alex @alexthecamel@schelling.pt

ppl keep confusing "wokeness" for a memeplex when its really a Cambrian explosion of memes
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RT @eigenrobot
rather, by understanding the causes of its sudden dominance, we might alight upon some means of displacing it, and of mitigating or preventing a future recrudescence; and perhaps some tools to avoid the emergence of an even more unsalutary memeplex

fin
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1629760075089756160

tfw psychiatry accidentally invents gender dysphoria without the gender but has absolutely no literature noticing this fact
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RT @pawnofcthulhu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder
also jesus why isn't there a
ddx: gender dysphoria here
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1629426927542083587

"am I doing this right" is an important question that a lot of working mathematicians are bad at asking!

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RT @pawnofcthulhu
I find this thread/anecdote pretty surprising -- to me this type of thinking is quite native to my style of mathematics, and it's Terry Tao!
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/109633672161867361
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1614811496009064449

i honestly suspect that the difference between me and like, a lot of (esp. women) with math trauma when it comes to math is
when I ask myself "am I doing this right" I come up with a way to check
when they ask this they go to an authority figure
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RT @QiaochuYuan
anyway, in case it helps to hear me say it: anyone is capable of doing math. some of you have, for lack of a better word, "math trauma," and that trauma can be resolved, an…
https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1423033434239168515

like
it is a good idea to be familiar with relationship styles before you try them!
just don't mistake your confusion about how it works for a lack of actual rules.

also guys: it's not that poly is this complicated untested shiny new thing, you're just not familiar with it.

i think i'd previously suspected that there was something of the order of multiple sd of gain in math education to be had, if we were willing to spare the labor for personalisation
probably should have checked whether 'just try khanacadamy' was good enough

i mean there's a thing about education innovations in that they tend to be very impressive for the first few people who try them
at the same time...

uh
wow
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RT @AustinScholar
According to nationwide MAP testing, the average high school student in the United States learns… nothing. 👇
https://twitter.com/AustinScholar/status/1626706736890494977

i stg the more galaxy brained sex-negative y'all get about this stuff the more likely you actually are to weird people out

https://imgflip.com/i/7c5hx6

i feel like i need to create a midwit meme here

why am I getting into arguments about casual sex on the EA forum
are you *trying* to convert me to Objectivism?

ok assuming i haven't miscounted :P
but RIP the blue wall

Interesting to look back on these results after 2 election cycles. The most 'Yes' voting electorate still in Coalition hands is the seat of Flinders, in 2016 it was the 12th most Yes-voting such seat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Marriage_Law_Postal_Survey#Result

this sounds like the sort of thing i want to make grumpy postrat noises about
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RT @yashkaf
so far it's like: ok we have this dude on the left he's called "higher mind" so you know he's awesome and the other guy is an asshole so we're gonna solve politics by rooting really really hard for the guy on the left to kick the other guy's ass yay liberalism!
https://twitter.com/yashkaf/status/1628189959453646848

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RT @pawnofcthulhu
@0xfbifemboy yeah
chronic pain patients exist and i get the sense they are rather grumpy about the current state of affairs
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1628265598479384576

there was some proposal about dispensing opioids in a controlled manner through vending machines
something like this https://mysafe.org/2021/04/vice-a-vending-machine-in-canada-is-dispensing-a-drug-twice-as-strong-as-heroin/