#Gravitation Challenge

[bisclavret]

i haven't been able to stop thinking about how these two are parallel variations of the guinevere archetype that complement and contrast each other so, so perfectly: tashi is a woman who above all else wants to be a champion. fate cruelly takes her dream away from her, so she opts to marry and live vicariously through the (blond) man who loves her (named arthur). she molds him in her image and helps him rise to greatness in her stead but it's not enough, he's never good enough. gwen is a woman who never truly expects to have power but it is thrust upon her through the (blond) man she marries for love (named arthur). she, too, uses her wisdom and leadership to mold her husband and help him rise to greatness. she believes in him, but fate and the world outside their bubble do not. he is not good enough for them. fate wants her. both women and their husbands set aside their desires to focus on the bigger picture (said desires partially exemplified by brunettes who may be exceptional but don't quite fit into the high-stakes social structure), and yet, despite everything they've sacrificed, despite navigating their lives with the utmost grace and caution, in the end both women lose the things they worked hardest for. but they do, however, gain the things they've needed the most: gwen loses her soulmates/family but gains immeasurable independence and the power to use her wisdom and talent on an enormous scale (the sort of thing tashi would've killed for). tashi loses her dream and her claim to power but she gains a family of two soulmates who adore each other and her (the sort of family unit gwen would surely have preferred more than anything). HOWEVER. crucially. although they'd never admit it and the story never quite spells it out. their respective fates align perfectly with who they truly are, deep down.

[feelingsofaithless]

30 Days Music Challenge {2024 Edition}

↪ Day 20: A song by an artist with a voice that you love → Gravitate – Melissa Bonny It's a rollercoaster, baby Yeah, it's the fucking road to Hell and back And I don't think you'll make it out alive Oh, oh yeah it would kill you to try

[kaythefloppa]

If you're unfamiliar with the Wild Kratts flash games, ignore this post lmao

[lucabyte]

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[grimalkhiindi]

I'm not kidding. Buddy Daddies chemically altered my brain or something because there is no way I should be this invested and this brainrotted about a DOMESTIC anime about two people RAISING A CHILD.

[pathogenflock]

sometimes i see a "serious" and "profound" post on here that feels so ass-kissingly formulaic, like the type of shit where op is trying to veil their lukewarm-at-best take as radical or groundbreaking by using ornate language with some obvious buzzwords thrown in and i think woww how little does this asshole think of the average tumblr user to assume theyd gobble up this borderline algorithmic slop and i check and the post has 25k notes

[crippy-tangerine]

Thinking about how us ASPD/CD folks get treated as evil & made into villainous, subhuman monstrosities, but if we have the nerve to actually relate to any “villains” in media/TV/books/whatever, people are horrified.??

“Shock horror, the people that we’ve societally demonised and ostracised have ended up identifying with characters that our society has also painted as evil”??

[fullscoreshenanigans]

Me: I will never not adore all the creative decisions CloversWorks put into the opening. Not only does the fuse line in the foreground serve as the visual representation of the spark mentioned in the lyrics that foreshadows one of the most climactic moments of the series people still cite fondly as a result of the incredible emotional and narrative payoff it culminates in—the destruction of Grace Field Plant No.3 in a sea of flames—built up by the three earlier background chants of “fire!” in English, but also as a figurative red string of fate between the three children destiny threw together whose personalities, strengths, and weaknesses all play off each other beautifully and are all integral to facilitating the escape that will forever alter the fate of two worlds after a millennia of suffering, adamantly refusing the outcomes the system had determined for them, and I appreciate the series allowing the audience to view this entirely through a platonic lens.

Also me with my REN-addled brain: red string of fate,,,soulmates,,,🖤🧡🤍 |33

[seriousbrat]

I feel like I'm not especially good at or interested in prose tbh but I've always found it fairly easy to write natural-sounding dialogue. I could happily write pages and pages of nothing but dialogue like it feels like I can Hear These People speaking in my head and I know exactly what they'd say

[benjaminagunn]

i speedran a jack-o-lantern while cooking dinner (steak and butternut squash and yukon gold mashed potatoes with boursin cheese, because i realized that i put a bunch of work into fancy dinners for holidays i barely even care about so why shouldn’t i do it for halloween also)

[lesbiancolumbo]

Happy birthday Sydney!! In honor of the season + giving you a fun ask project, do you have any particular favorite old Hollywood Libras??

ME 🥰

no but off the top of my head, definitely carole lombard, rita hayworth, deborah kerr, monty is a libra, catherine deneuve is a libra, walter matthau! and buster keaton!

[detransdamnation]

tumblr ➡/sociopolo/706709430153183232/ do you disagree or agree with this?? What do you particularky envision when you think of the term "gender abolition"?

LINK

So, I have only just recently realized that this is still in my inbox and it has been in my inbox since March lol. I remember reading this post when I originally received it and tucked it away for me to tackle later. I’ve reviewed it multiple times since realizing I never got to it and I’ll be totally honest, I’m still not sure exactly which part of this post I’m supposed to be agreeing or disagreeing with. Not sure it’s even worth responding to at all now at this point—but I will always choose to finish something embarrassingly late than to leave it hanging, so here are just some general comments on the bulk of this post:

knightingael:

I don’t think most gender enthusiasts find [gender abolition] all that attractive. [...] Speaking in general, they view aesthetic preferences (i.e. gender) to be THE central aspect of a person’s identity, and it’s very important to them that they be able to immediately communicate that to everyone they meet.

[...]

The idea of abolishing gender is terrifying to them, because without it, how would they communicate who they are? [...] Gender is a tool they use to define and communicate their identity, and without it, they would be at a loss both to connect with other people and feel in control in social contexts. What sounds like a utopia to us is an unnavigable social nightmare to them.

sociopolo:

if gender was abolished actually absolutely nothing would happen to these people because this is just a fashion style. it’s not like clothing is gonna disappear, they’re still gonna be able to dress how they want and project whatever image they want, it’s just not gonna be called their gender, but their style, which is what it is anyway

HOW can they not understand and genuinely believe in this gender thing

#also style is not inherently tied to gender

#ALSO style doesn't help you connect with people actually wtf

Style is not inherently tied to gender, that much is true. However, most people—both trans and not—do, indeed, believe this is so, even if only subconsciously. We, as a society, correlate style to gender, which reinforces the idea—to transgender people, to gender traditionalists, and even to the average layperson who doesn’t care about this topic—that gender is a viable concept that can be (and is) observed through means of appearance.

This isn’t about what is, objectively, but what is believed, collectively, the implications of those beliefs and what were to happen if those beliefs were to be challenged. The belief is, “Gender can be expressed through”—(in this case)—“one’s clothing and physical appearance.” The threat to this belief is gender abolition. It is a threat because, in a world without gender, clothing and appearance say nothing about your role in society. I don’t agree that either of these things are the “central aspect” to a person’s identity with or without gender—but they are the central aspect in emulating the gender or sex we wish to appear as. Consider that one of the first steps in most transgender people’s social transition is “crossdressing,” or dressing in the clothing stereotypical of the opposite sex. If we do not have those gendered expectations, roles, and stereotypes to conform to, how do we “pass,” prior to (or without) medical transition? We don’t. Because we can’t.

You may still reiterate that “Nothing would happen to these people because this is just a fashion style.” And it would be considered “just a fashion style” by the general public in a gender-abolished society—but as I reiterated in the first paragraph, this is not the society we live in now. Moreover, change is not black-and-white and gender abolition is a process, both aspects that I actually find are often missing in these discussions. The core reason why the vast majority of transgender people are transgender in the first place is dysphoria and gender abolition will not necessarily correlate to the eradication of the condition. Understand this means that, in a timeline where gender is being actively abolished, dysphoric youth—who may or may not have the ability to get the personal support or professional help that they need—will be watching (what they believe to be) their only solution to their emotional turmoil… vanish. The process of gender abolition quite literally ends in an entire subset of people becoming a mere part of history. I don’t think a lot of people have truly considered how significant that is and I feel that the empathy extended towards those of us who would be most affected by this change—transgender and dysphoric people—is frequently lacking, if ever there at all. In no world could this be a “nothing” change, whether you are a city-living liberal with neopronouns and green hair or some hick in the middle of nowhere who has never even heard the word “trans” to refer to a subset of people in his life.

Transgender people, as we know them today, effectively cease to exist alongside gender abolition, and even “surface level” changes such as ridding gendered stereotypes for style of dress, essentially a means to an end. It should therefore not be so difficult to see why so many transgender people are opposed to it.

If I have misunderstood anything in this post or my response reads as a garbled mess, please chalk it up to my residual COVID brain.

[pun-demon]

Lowkey kinda pisses me off that I can't be more open about being poly. Like, I know we have to be careful when disclosing any queerness, but I'm bummed the world works that way, y'know? I don't think it's a pipe dream to want to introduce myself, then my partners, without the very real (bizarrely common??) concern that a new person will immediately view me as "available". And while it helps sometimes that I can say my partner is female and let folks assume I'm gay, I'm proudly pan and feel like I have to hide that too so I'm less likely to be objectified. It's like a fucking watermark of slut shaming has been slapped over me by people who don't have the rights to my image in the first place!

[beancalzone]

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[jcmarchi]

What makes black holes grow and new stars form? Machine learning helps solve the mystery - Technology Org

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/what-makes-black-holes-grow-and-new-stars-form-machine-learning-helps-solve-the-mystery-technology-org/

What makes black holes grow and new stars form? Machine learning helps solve the mystery - Technology Org

When they are active, supermassive black holes play a crucial role in galaxies’ evolution. Until now, growth was thought to be triggered by the violent collision of two galaxies followed by their merger. However, new research led by the University of Bath suggests galaxy mergers alone are not enough to fuel a black hole—a reservoir of cold gas at the centre of the host galaxy is also needed.

A pair of disc galaxies in the late stages of a merger. Image Credit: NASA.

The new study, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society is believed to be the first to use machine learning to classify galaxy mergers with the specific aim of exploring the relationship between galaxy mergers, supermassive black-hole accretion and star formation. Until now, mergers were classified (often incorrectly) through human observation alone.

“When humans look for galaxy mergers, they don’t always know what they are looking at and they use a lot of intuition to decide if a merger has happened,” said Mathilda Avirett-Mackenzie, PhD student in the Department of Physics at the University of Bath and first author on the research paper. The study was a collaboration between partners from BiD4BEST (Big Data Applications for Black Hole Evolution Studies), whose Innovative Training Network provides doctorial training in the formation of supermassive black holes.

She added: “By training a machine to classify mergers, you get a much more truthful reading of what galaxies are actually doing.”

Supermassive black holes

Supermassive black holes are found in the centre of all massive galaxies (to give a sense of scale, the Milky Way, with around 200 billion stars, is only a medium-sized galaxy). These supersized black holes typically weigh between millions and billions of times the mass of our sun.

Through most of their lives, these black holes are quiescent, sitting quietly while matter orbits around them, and having little impact on the galaxy as a whole. But for brief phases in their lives (brief only on an astronomical scale, and most likely lasting millions to hundreds of millions of years), they use gravitation forces to draw large amounts of gas towards them (an event known as accretion), resulting in a bright disk that can outshine the entire galaxy.

It’s these short phases of activity that are most important for galaxy evolution, as the massive amounts of energy released through accretion can impact how stars form in galaxies. For good reason then, establishing what causes a galaxy to move between its two states – quiescent and star-forming – is one of the greatest challenges in astrophysics.

“Determining the role of supermassive black holes in galaxy evolution is crucial in our studies of the universe,” said Ms Avirett-Mackenzie.

Human inspection vs machine learning

For decades, theoretical models have suggested black holes grow when galaxies merge. However, astrophysicists studying the connection between galaxy mergers and black-hole growth over many years have been challenging these models with a simple question: How do we reliably identify mergers of galaxies?

Visual inspection has been the most commonly used method. Human classifiers – either experts or members of the public – observe galaxies and identify high asymmetries or long tidal tails (thin, elongated regions of stars and interstellar gas that extend into space), both of which are associated with galaxy mergers.

However, this observational method is both time-consuming and unreliable, as it’s easy for humans to make mistakes in their classifications. As a result, merger studies often yield contradictory results.

For the new Bath-led study, the researchers set themselves the challenge of improving the way mergers are classified by studying the connection between black-hole growth and galaxy evolution through the use of artificial intelligence.

Inspired by the human brain

They trained a neural network (a subset of machine learning inspired by the human brain and mimicking the way biological neurons signal to one another) on simulated galaxy mergers, then applied this model to galaxies observed in the cosmos.

By doing so, they were able to identify mergers without human biases and study the connection between galaxy mergers and black-hole growth. They showed that the neural network outperforms human classifiers in identifying mergers, and in fact, human classifiers tend to mistake regular galaxies for mergers.

Applying this new methodology, the researchers were able to show that mergers are not strongly associated with black-hole growth. Merger signatures are equally common in galaxies with and without accreting supermassive black holes.

Using an extremely large sample of approximately 8,000 accreting black-hole systems – which allowed the team to study the question in much more detail – it was found that mergers led to black-hole growth only in a very specific type of galaxies: star-forming galaxies containing significant amounts of cold gas.

This shows that galaxy mergers alone are not enough to fuel black holes: large amounts of cold gas must also be present to allow the black hole to grow.

Ms Avirett-Mackenzie said: “For galaxies to form stars, they must contain cold gas clouds that are able to collapse into stars. Highly energetic processes like supermassive black-hole accretion heats this gas up, either rendering it too energetic to collapse or blowing it out of the galaxy.”

She added: “On a clear night, you can just about spot this process happening in real time with the Orion Nebula – a large, star-forming region in our galaxy and the closest of its kind to Earth – where you can see some stars that were formed recently and others that are still forming.”

Dr Carolin Villforth, senior lecturer in the Department of Physics and Ms Avirett-Mackenzie’s supervisor at Bath, said: “Until now, everyone was studying mergers the same way – through visual classification. With this method, when using expert classifiers that can spot more subtle features, we were only able to look at a couple of hundred galaxies, no more.

“Using machine learning instead opens up an entirely new and very exciting field where you can analyse thousands of galaxies at a time. You get consistent results over really large samples, and at any given moment, you can look at many different properties of a black hole.”

Source: University of Bath

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[unityrain24]

art mediums as listed by how forgivable and versatile they are:

digital art

acrylic paint

watercolour

oil pastels

coloured pencils

art mediums as listed how much practice/preference i have with them. for some fuckin reason. :

coloured pencils

oil pastels

watercolour

acrylic paint

digital art