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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️

@sorceressofmath.bsky.social

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Scientific atheist. Self-governing cybernetic communism. Fully-automated Luxury Gay Space Big Computer Communism. Marxist-Biocosmist-Immortalist. LFTR enjoyer. Abolitionist. Flight software dev. Transfem cyborg. #BigComputerMafia #UnderNoPretext

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 1d

Death by a Thousand Red Tapes
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Death by a Thousand Red Tapes

How Britain’s bureaucracy stalls progress, and why real renewal means rethinking risk

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 2d

"Artificial neural networks can't produce consciousness because they're just a bunch of matrix multiplications and linear algebra" So is quantum mechanics comrade but that didn't stop quantum mechanics from producing the world we see around us including your consciousness.

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 5d

The code is open source, too.

AI Breakthrough Finally Cracks Century-Old Physics Problem

An AI framework now computes once-impossible physics equations within seconds. The breakthrough redefines how scientists study the behavior of materials. Researchers at the University of New Mexico an...

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · Sep 20

That painful yet gender-affirming moment when you accidentally smack your new boobs on the doorframe.

On a completely unrelated note, progesterone is awesome.

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 9d

Not gonna lie, while I still wouldn't call myself an l/acc I do have to say l/acc is making an increasing amount of sense to me.

Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 14d

Everyone should be legally required to read "The Right to Read" before advocating any kind of intellectual property.

Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 15d

Like I feel this on an almost primal level.

Over the past two months, HRT has improved me in ways that I didn’t even know needed improvement. My skin isn’t rough anymore, and it’s better than it’s been in years. My libido is under my control now, instead of controlling me and intruding into my awareness when it’s not needed. My chest is visibly growing more and more every day – they actually stick out, where there used to be nothing but flat skin. And instead of either feeling totally numb or abruptly bursting into tears, I have a whole repertoire of emotions available to me now. I can be calm and content, I can cry without it overwhelming me, I can be happy and sad at once without any contradiction, and I never run out of emotions to the point of numbness anymore. These aren’t mood swings – they’re mood symphonies. This is all unbelievably cool, and I wouldn’t have known what I was missing without experiencing it firsthand. Some people might look at my patchwork self of hormone pills and mix-and-match anatomy, and call it monstrous, freakish, an abomination. You know what I call this?

Upgrades.

Since the dawn of humanity, there have been certain features of our existence that were considered fundamental, unchangeable, and definitive of what it means to be human. For almost all of history, it was an unavoidable fact that those who were born a certain sex would remain that sex. Sure, living as another gender had sometimes been feasible in a social sense. But bodily? That was simply impossible – until it wasn’t. Now, that assumption has been pulled out from under us, and some people aren’t happy about that. They want us to go away. They want to be able to go on assuming that every woman they see is a cis woman, regardless of what the reality may be. They want us to deny ourselves this life-affirming treatment for the sake of some empty platitudes about “nature”.

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 15d

Sharing this old @zinniajones.com video where she compares gender transition to transhumanism and calls it "a taste of apotheosis" for no particular reason.

Being an "abomination" is pretty great

YouTube video by Zinnia Jones

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 17d

A manifestly background independent, nonperturbative formulation of string theory? Okay, I'm listening.

A Background-Independent Closed String Action at Tree Level

We propose an off-shell bosonic string action that removes the renormalization window constraint of [1]. To all orders in conformal perturbation theory, this action allows for deformations of the worl...

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 17d

Microgravity factories in orbit let's gooooo

This tiny spaceship will SAVE YOUR LIFE! EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - Varda Space

YouTube video by The Angry Astronaut

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 17d

*based based based based* Waow.

She has a clitoris and yet she still has bigger balls than most of the "alpha males" out there.

Update: I finally got to implant a neodymium magnet INTO my clitoris. I initially was just going to do it nearby, but we decided that this was the best way to go about it. Weirdest thing so far is that I can wave the magnet in my hand around my clit magnet and make it vibrate like I'm some kind of sapphic gooner Jedi. As they say, a stone in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 18d

A lot of people on both the right and left aren't going to like this, but transgender people are part of the vanguard of transhumanism.

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 19d

Solar bros: "We need to use the sun as our source of energy"

Me: *starts starlifting the sun and extracting uranium from it*

Solar bros: "Wait no not like that"

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 21d

"You need a telescope mirror that's 21m? Lol just make it 21m long but really narrow so it's not as heavy" sounds like the dumbest physics hack ever but it looks like it could work.

This Insane Pizza Slice Shaped Telescope Obliterates JWST Resolution

YouTube video by Fraser Cain

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 23d

It never ceases to be objectively funny that they made a nuclear weapon that can fit in a recoiless rifle.

Who Built the Smallest Nuclear Bomb & Could Anyone Do It?

YouTube video by Curious Droid

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 23d

I hope so.

Drone Delivery Is Taking Off

YouTube video by Asianometry

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 23d

Atompunk is the best cyberpunk derivative.

Change my mind.

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 23d

Them: "What are you doing?"

Me: *taps a couple lands* "Writing code."

Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete

$\textit{Magic: The Gathering}$ is a popular and famously complicated trading card game about magical combat. In this paper we show that optimal play in real-world $\textit{Magic}$ is at least as hard...

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · Sep 21

An atheist as in there doesn't seem to be any such thing as a deity.

An anti-theist as in if there was any such thing, it would be our moral duty to build a Tower of Babel, launch an invasion of Heaven, and guillotine the sky tyrant.

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · Sep 21

If Twitter is the bird site and Mastodon is the elephant site, which site is Bluesky?

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · Sep 20

That painful yet gender-affirming moment when you accidentally smack your new boobs on the doorframe.

On a completely unrelated note, progesterone is awesome.

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · Sep 20

Never would have guessed the Unruh effect would be measurable this century.

New Method Proposed To Detect Universe’s Mysterious “Phantom Heat” Predicted by Einstein

The findings resolve a long-standing problem in fundamental physics. Scientists at Hiroshima University have created a practical and highly sensitive method for detecting the Unruh effect, a long-anti...

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · Sep 20

Reminder that you can find all of Lawvere's work for free here, including his high school level introduction to category theory ("Conceptual Mathematics"): https://github.com/mattearnshaw/lawvere/

Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · Sep 19

An interesting historical exposition of the influence of Hegelian and Marxian dialectics on mathematician William Lawvere's pioneering work in topos theory.

Josh Lalonde - Dialectical Mathematics: Lawvere and Hegel • CaCS22

YouTube video by Categories and Companions Symposium - 2022

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · Sep 19

An interesting historical exposition of the influence of Hegelian and Marxian dialectics on mathematician William Lawvere's pioneering work in topos theory.

Josh Lalonde - Dialectical Mathematics: Lawvere and Hegel • CaCS22

YouTube video by Categories and Companions Symposium - 2022

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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · Sep 19

RIP Breakthrough Starshot.

A $100-Million Mission to Another Star Just Disappeared

An abandoned plan to visit another star highlights the perils of billionaire-funded science

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