A myriad of Qyriad

we're hesitant to post much about politics here, in large part because politics is all but synonymous with negativity these days

but we just decided that we are going to, nonetheless, post about labor topics, because that is so incredibly important. so many other issues are bound up with labor, and we are living in the middle of a very significant renewal of the movement.

in that spirit, here is a piece about a rather cool and important development in the rail industry!

I'm no longer going to say "struck by electricity". From now on I'll be saying "bitten by electricity" to imply that electricity is a small animal.

it's harder than you might think.

good news though, it's someone's special interest topic and she's spent the better part of a year making a video.

freya's animations have been a blessing on the timeline, and this video has really high production values and polish. down to the bit where you're going "but wait... what about this?!" and the video goes "so you might be asking..."

or if you will, there's smooth narrative flow in video about curves (heh)

anyway: stuff like this is what math education should be like, and i don't just mean the animations (which rule). what i mean is that the video opens with "here is a problem we're trying to solve" and introducing concepts like differentiation, continuity, and curvature as we get closer to solving it

it isn't about the concepts or tools, it's about why we need them, how they're useful, and a bunch of fucking around and finding out to solve the problem at hand. it's great.

as incomplete as trans activism is in the US in general (both culturally and legally) so often when we think about the problems we just come back to parents having too much goddamn power over their children's lives.