I think I use Tumblr wrong. I think I use tags and reblogs as commentary on the things I see, rather than as replies to the person above me.
Sometimes this can look quite rude. Apparently.
From a shoot with KR
Anyway, daily reminder from a culturally isolated Romani person.
Gypsy does not mean wanderer.
It literally means ‘people from egypt’ or similar, as europeans believed Romani people were from Egypt. It has become known similar to nomad due to how our ancestors have been forced to be nomadic due to racism and ostracization, but it is a SLUR.
Romani people are STILL being forcibly sterilized.
Romani people are STILL being forced into ghettos.
Romani people are still facing violence and danger in countless European countries- and recently, I’ve seen the beginnings of the extremes in the United States.
Have a little fucking respect and DON’T USE A SLUR THAT’S BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES AGAINST US.
And for the love of whatever’s up there, ESPECIALLY do not use it to describe your witchcraft. It is playing on the ‘magic gypsy’ trope, and is EXTREMELY insulting.
non romani people, please reblog this.
Was talking to my friend about how I've been spending too much time on tiktok lately. Then we proceeded to have a conversation that kinda went like:
Friend: oh! So you do volunteer work now?
Me: what are u talking about
Friend: spending all this time on tiktok and all other social media. If you think about it, you're volunteering your time and energy to big techs :) you get no money while they get a bunch
Me: ... /Pikachu face
Anyway, that's been living rent free in my head since then
“You won’t get killed if you obey” is not what they say to free citizens in a democracy.
That’s what they say to hostages.
yeah I dunno if this should be passing without comment, like the Elon Is A White Supremacist file is getting pretty bulky but still
and was there anything about Rhodesia or apartheid South Africa that perhaps could have been improved somewhat? I mean really.
Somehow had not sufficiently updated from "Elon Musk says annoying shit on twitter and has a lot of stupid and harmful ideas downstream of being sure that he is the smartest person in the world" to "Elon Musk wants to start a race war"
I think Musk (and the Vance/Miller wing of the Trump administration) believe a race war is already in progress, and they want to win.
After choosing which of three guards to ask a question to work out which door to go through, one lying guard is revealed. Do you change which guard you're asking?
Yes but not the usual way:
I am making some setup assumptions - there is 1 guard who always tells the truth and 2 guards who always lie (defined as the opposite of the truth for simple questions like "is there a murderous fire-breathing goat behind this door") and I am limited in my communication with the guards etc etc
In the classic monty hall problem I should always switch for a better chance of the 1-of-3 outcome I want, but it's still only a chance - there could still be a prize or a goat behind my chosen door.
In your scenario I want a guard whose output I can trust. I have a 2 in 3 chance of getting the honest guard by switching from my chosen guard to the other unspecified guard... but I have absolutely certainty of a lying guard by switching from my chosen guard to the guard who has been revealed as a liar. I know that they are lying so I can trust them just as much as the honest guard and do the opposite of whatever they tell me. Easy.
Ooh I hadn't considered being allowed to choose the revealed guard. In the original could you do that? Just go "I'll have the 100% chance of goat please"?
When I was in grad school, one of my professors shared how to write a scientific paper (unsolicited, during a discussion on pelicans).
First, he said, you write the methods. You’ve been doing the methods for months, you know what goes there. You know what questions you’re trying to answer and how you went about answering them.
Now that you’ve done that, write the results. Do your analysis. Take some time to bask in having done that and chew it over.
Next: the introduction. What information do you need to set up the conclusion? Do you need to write the six worst sentences known to man as a draft conclusion so you can go back that up in the introduction? Do that.
Write that conclusion. Tie things up, you’ve done amazing. It’s looking good! Unfortunately. The hardest part is yet to come:
The abstract. An unholy melange of introduction, results, and conclusion. The thing that 90% of readers are going to stop after reading. The ultimate test of your ability to communicate your science. Thank goodness you have all this prep work done and aren’t trying to create it out of nothing! Thank goodness you didn’t try to write it first because it was the first thing on the page!
Anyway I’ve taken that approach to a lot of other kinds of writing since. I write the part I know (because of months of development) and then what that will mean, and then I work out what I need to support that, and then I write the part everyone will read.
