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i climb a lot.
learning doctor. i help people make computers do things.

but here it’s mostly manga

šŸ’– @kaybee šŸ’–



peachparfait
@peachparfait
camfusedly
@camfusedly asked:

~Infodump free space~

Ok I felt SO MUCH PRESSURE to try and figure out the perfect infodump (purely pressure that I have put on myself) that I procrastinated writing this and then I tried to write out what I wanted to talk about but I was foolishly wrote it on my phone and accidentally hit a spot I wasn’t supposed to on my browser and magically everything I wrote disappeared so LETS DO THIS AGAIN round two (drafted in my phone memos)

Allow me to get up on stage and say ā€œplease read The Locked Tomb Series by Tamysn Muirā€. I literally don’t know anyone that is up to date on the series and I love it a lot 😭 the series is so interesting and funny and silly and devastating, the themes of love and the relationships that we treasure and are burdened with are big parts of the story. If you like stories about supporting women’s wrongs THIS IS THE BOOK. I went into the first book without knowing anything about the story aside from the blurb describing it as ā€œlesbian necromancers in a haunted house in spaceā€ and you know, they weren’t wrong. But the story is so good and the narrator between each book shifts in a way that’s unique and engaging and makes you think ā€œwhat the fuck is going onā€ PLUS the world building is so interesting. On top of all that I feel like modern day internet culture is intrinsically tied to the way the book is written which I think is silly (we’re talking references to internet memes, streaming, coffee shop AU fics, you name it). Whenever I think about people in the future probably needing a pop culture historian in memes I think ā€œlol this book is totally gonna end up on some future version of sparknotes where they have little tabs that explain each memeā€ and the idea of having to translate memes that are no longer relevant is ALSO silly. Plus I feel like in general if you don’t get all the memes referenced it doesn’t hurt your ability to understand what’s going on, but if you DO get the reference it’s like finding a little Easter egg.

So really the series is just queer necromancers in space with spooky shit, environmentalism (did I mention there are big things about modern day environmentalism and classism? There are), silly jokes, emotional themes that COULD make you cry (but don’t take my word on it, I’m a cancer sun and I cry all the time) amazing characters and also I think a cult too??? Maybe more than one??? There is so much it’s all good thank you for coming to my Ted Talk now I have to get back to work and stop writing about queer sci-fi fantasy fiction


peachparfait
@peachparfait

I literally listened to this on look for the second half of the first book because I found it around that time and I feel like the track Libertango specifically just absolutely mwa mwa matches the vibes


saralily
@saralily

@kaybee and I love these books so much we got the JP editions that have these gorgeous covers! It’ll be a few years till I can read them in Japanese, but I will! (And even then, sci-fi vocab is hard…)



celechii
@celechii

holy shit i am learning that there is a worm that is 1mm long called the caenorhabditis elegans that has so few cells in it's body that it's known and documented what EACH of the <1000 CELLS is and does??? it's brain only has 302 neurons which means apparently they're not far off from being able to record this thing's complete neural activity.

where this is going is a project called OpenWorm which looks like an attempt to digitally simulate the entire physical+neural workings of this worm??

here's the OpenWorm Wikipedia and their website



folly
@folly

tumblr worm fandom: mean girls talking about amy dallon
cohost worm fandom: hey what if we sequenced every neuron in a worm's brain. this is normal to want and possible to achieve


wick
@wick

Specific loops of neurons that output a rhythmic behavior are called central pattern generators and they're the shit. We have them too for stuff like breathing and walking and chewing! Vertebrates have big groups of neurons acting together instead of individual cells, but they're organized similarly.

(The game is Crescent Loom, it works in-browser.)


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