Notices by Chris L (jayalane@mastodon.online)

@pluralistic and the direct line from feudal lords ruling their villages to the attempt by the ultra-wealthy to roll society back before democracy and egalitarianism were popular ideas.

@kolev @raf it is a Golang Mastodon server. Or perhaps a Golang activity pub that supports many of the same APIs as a mastodon server?

@vor @locksmithprime @mkranz @johnmark @PJ_Evans @mekkaokereke are you saying the 9 million or whatever who didn’t bother to vote are establishment Democrats or do you think citizens have no duty to vote unless they judge the campaign strategy as crafted by the establishment to be acceptable to their lights? Or merely describing the behavior of whites that have less of a visceral stake in preserving multiracial egalitarian democracy?

@ATLeagle @PJ_Evans @johnmark @mekkaokereke sure but she fell short of expectations because many people are just not willing to vote for a Black woman no matter what they believe.

@zens @timjan @Affekt @futurebird @EverydayMoggie the years of training also impart some of the subtleties of meaning. I mean I don't think math is a socially engaged subject as much as would be useful, but there are periodic waves of simplification where they go back and redo old cumbersome approaches for simpler ones. There just really is a whole lot of complex and subtle things to get into your mind.

@futurebird @EverydayMoggie my kids sign like they don't know cursive and while I smile in pleasure to see my kids writing, they are pretty lame signatures. My applied math teacher has a good spiel about making ones handwriting be super consistent and legible as a practice to reduce maths errors. (My own rate of success on a long PDE being less than fifty percent going to the class).

@futurebird @inthehands Awesome. I have a background in math, tho I've worked in software my adult life, now my kids are grown I'm getting a masters in .. maths. My wife had a PhD in physics (and mocks all the care my classes take to prove calculus true) but is an artist now, abstract expressionism with painting at the moment. Of all of them, I believe mathematics is the one with the most purely joyous experiences.

@clacke @Queenofpalms @slcw the reason this approach is terrifying is that it isn't sufficient to have your own papers at a stop by the Gestapo or ICE but one would need the papers for your parents. Even if they only make citizenship unavailable for children of "illegal" people in the US those children will then have the challenge to produce proof of legal immigration for their parents when they where born. Or else swept into the camps. Depending on the color of the person no doubt.

@owillis1977 good news everyone, the outstanding political writer Oliver Willis has joined Mastodon! Inciteful analysis of ways in which the Dems have squandered many political advantages and failed to think clearly. Also a funny writer!