Celeste (Elle/They)💛🤍💜🖤

After the failure of negotiations in Damascus, a general mobilization has begun in Rojava. Youth from northern Kurdistan appear To have crossed the border to join the defence. it feels like 2014 again, complete with horrific executions of SDF prisoners.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

I'm so glad for you!!

How are you doing today Erin? 🥺

Is frustrating when people use being initially bad at writing or drawing as a reason to use AI. This ignores two things:

(1) a core aspect of getting good at a skill is doing it badly over and over again.

(2) often the joy of creation is its own reward (irrespective of whether it's good or not).

In the early twentieth century they had no concept of gender and instead explained everything through biological sex. The result: it was argued that sexually submissive heterosexual men are biologically part female.

The quotes that made me transition:

Karl Marx - a person under communism "strives not to remain something he has become, but is in the absolute movement of becoming".

ghost in the shell - "all things change in a dynamic environment. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you".

This is everything I’ve done to recover from longcovid

And I’m now at the point now where the only things I use every day are the nicotine patches, taurine, stinging nettle, propranolol and antihistamines

Lo que las guerras del p0rn0 pueden enseñarnos sobre la libertad de expresión Trans utopías · Episode

Paso a compartir mi más reciente episodio. Cómo es de esperarse, va sobre la libertad de expresión y sus límites dado que ese tema ha estado en boca de todxs. open.spotify.com/episode/4Rmf...

Losing my mind reading about the history of sexism in science. In the 19th century men used the second law of thermodynamics to argue that women should be excluded from school/work because they cannot be heathy, labour, and menstruate at the same time.

Dismantling science, dismantling human rights: President Donald Trump’s “anti-woke” crusade Published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (Vol. 8, No. 1, 2025)

Hoy salió publicada esta pequeña editorial que escribí para la revista Tapuya.
Es sobre la cruzada anti-woke del presidente Trump y el porqué el ataque a la ciencia es parte de una estrategia para debilitar los derechos humanos.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Colombia y el movimiento antitrans Trans utopías · Episode

open.spotify.com/episode/4DkS...

Nassim Taleb

Para entender el aporte de Nassim Taleb a la ciencia hay que entender las distribuciones de cola muy pesada (fat tail). En una función de densidad de un fenómeno aleatorio, los eventos de cola pesada son eventos de muy baja probabilidad, pero cuando ocurren pueden ser de gran impacto: por ejemplo 👇

La gente en Bluesky buscando a sus mutuals:

The brain expresses activity in complex patterns, reflecting the influence of cytoarchitectural, biochemical & genetic properties.
Eigenstrapping is our method for inferring the similarity between two such brain maps while excluding spurious (chance) relationships

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pero como no tenerlo? 🤭