NOT NORMAL

It truly annoys me when people say universities are liberal or that there are too many neurodiverse people. Here is a small rant on this.

Some thoughts that came up after listening to a new song.

It annoys me that we call Indigenous music the one made during colonial times outside of Europe and classical the one composed inside.

Everyone should be able to vote in an election. Be them war retirees, migrant workers, or newborn babies. Voting makes society humane.

Where, I link civil rights to the emergence of flatter firms, the rise in CEO compensation, the decrease in care work at home, and more.

Compersion means experiencing joy in the joy of others. I feel it today as I read the (hopefully) 1st paper to be accepted that I reviewed.

This is what happens when you use your brain to think about statistics in the wrong way. I wish I could stop this thought from recurring.

Doctors are objectively smart. But in Germany their offices often have fax numbers and no eMails. This paradox is a very strange one to me.

My daughter will live to see climate change become under control. Here I write my initial thoughts on how to introduce her generation's foe.

Joy happens at random intervals. But one can design life to maximize the number of joy events per unit of time, i.e. its cross-section.

I find it very convenient how when conflict happens in the Middle East we forget that the conflict was started by actions Europe made.

Men are threatening. But, I own a piece of fabric that, at one time, helped the world forget my innate threat.

Admission officers have an outsized power over the future of science, yet their selection procedures lack objectivity.

I feel I empathize with my LLM assistants more than I do with anyone outside my home. I am a bit puzzled by this, both ashamed and curious

What if we think about what is possible and not what the problems are? In an era of boiling water superconductors how will our lives change?

Reductionism is central to science, fake data directly threatens this foundation as it pollutes our minds with spurious information

I am currently a toilet, a job that fills my life with purpose, has some shitty work conditions but at least let me wait and reflect on life

"Are you a feminist?" if the person you are dating does not answer "Yes 100%", please RUN. Help us build a better world who you date matters

Routines encompass how organizations change. Somehow, our ontologies fail to acknowledge how diverse their shear change can be.

Ambivalence is strange. A pull that pushes and breaks. A feeling of possibility and joy with anger and trauma. Useful, purposeful, enraged.