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Ji Sook Jung (born in 1987). Korean

Animal in the Wind (2014)

Clay

37 x 21 x 30 cm, 15 x 8 x 12 in approx

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i imagine in the federation going to an actual restaurant where you paymoney and there's a waiter that serves you is the luxuriousness equivalent of like. Renting a castle and getting a celebrity chef to make a five course meal: it is withn the realm of possibility even for people outside of the world of the ultra-rich, but the vast, vast majority will go there lives without even being involved in one such occasion.

E.g. going to a chilis for a 24th century san franciscan would be not just a good first date location but grounds for weddings between noble families.

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A true story from 1928 with a few artistic embellishments.

(And starring my disaster boys Jack and Al, of course)

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“My son turned out fine”

Ma’am, your daughter was convinced she was unlovable if she wasn’t the smartest person in the room, then replaced that complex with the belief she was unlovable if she wasn’t pretty. What the fuck do you mean she’s fine

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remember to leave treats out for your local foxgirl this foxgirl friday and also every other day

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I think the one thing we should learn from rednote is the value of person-to-person connection. The american government censors tiktok out of sinophobia, the chinese government censors lgbt content out of homophobia, and the one thing I can think of is let's all bond over how shitty governments are.

Time to quote Persepolis again.

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males can be got pregnant

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I feel bad that some of yall assume Reddit is just for republican neckbeards. it is currently fucking plastered in leftist posts, making fun of trump and musk, calling out trump for basically admitting to election fraud and musk for the fucking salute, people literally openly saying they wish these assholes would die. Some subreddits with broad other purposes have been largely converted into leftist communities. Believing tumblr is the only existing bastion of leftists or whatever WILL make you bitter and miserable lol

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It’s very woulda-coulda-shoulda now, but I do think the feet dragging on the prosecutions of Trump sprang from the same sense that “real” politics, “good” politics was only stuff that fit within the bounds of normal political discourse and was already popular, and by waiting until trump started making his politics comeback to take that stuff seriously US political institutions badly fucked up. If you wanna defend democracy and liberalism, you gotta do so with vigor, because you mean it, not just because (like your political messaging) it focus-groups well.

Though ironically you could have probably gotten away with having Trump executed on the White House lawn on January 7–there was a strong bipartisan elite consensus in the immediate aftermath that he was toxic and irredeemable. But because discourse shapes public opinion and not the other way around, and politicians (especially Republicans, but not only them) waited to see which way the discursive winds would blow rather than taking strong action out of the gate to shape public opinion, things cooled off and the Republicans realized they could get away with doing nothing. So they did.

I think the lesson here is a generalizable one: even in democratic systems—especially in democratic systems—people in leadership positions acquire political capital from demonstrating actual leadership, from taking action to shape political realities, and lose it from acting like empty avatars of opinion polling.

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Something buried years ago lies burning still beneath the snow.

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View on Twitter

These pictures are killing me

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good read for teachers.

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My favorite thing in math is equivalent conditions. Give me a thousand ways to say the same thing please. "Two numbers are coprime if and only if their least common multiple is equal to their product", and "A matrix is invertible iff its kernel has a cardinality of 1" sound so wrong because that's not at all how those two things are defined but they are also provably true.

I got so much extra credit on a linear algebra test once for being able to name almost every equivalent condition of invertability of a matrix we learned over the semester.

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I cannot overstate how much I love Tom Lehrer's story. It sounds so fake but is entirely real.

He's a goddamn genius- he started studying mathematics at Harvard when he was 15 and graduated magna cum laude. He worked at Los Alamos for a few years before being drafted and working for the NSA, where he claims to have invented jello shots to get around alcohol bans.

He then went back to Harvard for a couple years before starting to teach political science at MIT.

Through all of that, he was writing and performing both some of the funniest shit you'll ever hear (Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, Masochism Tango) and absolutely scathing political satire (Who's Next, Wernher von Braun, Send the Marines). Until the mid/late 60s counterculture gained momentum. He didn't like their aesthetic, so he stopped making music.

Shortly after, he moved to California and started teaching math and musical theater history at the UC Santa Cruz for the next 30 years.

I don't know if non-Californians understand just how goddamn funny that is. It's where stoners and math (and now computer science) kids who couldn't get into Berkeley go. Leaving Harvard/MIT for UCSC is peak academic phoning it in. And by all accounts he had a blast.

Plus the whole putting all of his music in the public domain thing. That fucked.

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"The mathematicians delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness."

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Wanted to share this fantastic illustration of a monoid in a monoidal category.