You can still make a late pledge to THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF! And you can pledge extra to donate books to the Free Libraries Network! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla... OR you can pre-order on our website. We're on track to have the book out in December and it's going to be very cool.
An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora.
I read this story about how a lot of starving children are getting shot in the head. It wasn't fun www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die.”
My 7th grade nieces led a pro-Palestine protest at their middle school today and I am a super proud uncle
For that matter even "group" and "graph" in the graph theory sense have always bugged me. They don't give any flavor of the object. Abelian qizips. Hamiltonian bokotokos.
Mathematicians need to get more creative with naming things. It is super dumb that "variety of algebras" and "algebraic variety" mean totally different things. An algebraic variety should be called a Glorch or something.
I am very interesting in trying this too, but I'm also pretty sure Mexican would be the only cuisine I'd come back to 🌶️
Pretty sure we're going to get to add a story translated from Bengali to Anti-Caste SF and it's a very trippy one!!!
Godwaffle Noise Pancakes this Saturday. Dunno what I think about the AI pancake monsters but the music's always great.
Today's nonfiction reading: On the Asymmetry of Random Regular Graphs and Random Graphs by Kim, Sudakov, and Vu. Symmetry is RARE and SPECIAL. people.math.ethz.ch/~sudakovb/au...