Archive of Miscellany

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Science, technology, math, etc.

Astronomy

Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax

Math

Life in Hyperbolic Space

The line at infinity

The Kaufman Decimals

π in Other Universes

The Rainbow Series and the Logarithm of Aleph Null

I answered the Collatz Conjecture [Troll]

Powers of ~1 and infinitely long numbers

Music

The square root of negative harmony is imaginary harmony.

Technology

Why AI content filters are awful and we’re all fucked

Writing for Reading

Society

Discrimination

Actually Koko could talk; you just have some hidden ableism – A Response to Soup Emporium’s “Why Koko couldn’t talk (sorry)|The Deep Dive”

LGBT

Bisexual Manifesto

Cis By Default

Everything You Need to Know About Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria

Guys, I Swear I’m Only Transitioning So I Can Cheat At Girls’ Sports

So Maya Forstater wrote a manifesto.

Mental health

I’ve heard for a long time that autistic people don’t understand social norms...

Procrastination is NOT your personality

Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a child in the backseat is a horrifying mistake. Is it a crime?

Religion, Witchcraft, & Skepticism

Gods and Apologies

Satanic Panics and the Death of Mythos

Politics

“The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion”

Why Americans Have Been Deceived About Canada’s Health Care System

A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along

If You Want To Be Friends, Then Why Aren’t You Friendly?

Veganism

How To Eat Vegan At Taco Bell

Fiction

Humor

The Ballad of Edgardo

The longest joke in the world

A parable, from tauday.com

Assorted math jokes

Libertarian Police Department

Literature & Media

Analysis: Why Dahlia Hawthorne is one of Ace Attorney's Worst Characters

Harry Potter is a colonial fantasy

Raubahn (Savage) Guide

What was the point of Zenos?

Headcanon accepted

Feyroyan sounds like an Andalite name.

Ms. Frizzle is Arnold from the future

Timmy Turner is trans

Zuko is autistic

Worldbuilding

Evolution

Evolution for world builders

Geography

Semi-Realistic Geography for Dummies or: How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Curve

Magic and superpowers

Sanderson’s Laws of Magic

CMV: The ability to speak with animals would be a useless superpower.

Variations on Common Superpowers

Modeling

The World Before Breakfast (r/worldbuilding)

You are a flat-earther (Or How I Learned to stop worrying and model less)

A 20th-century society on a Ringworld

Social Studies

On Worldbuilding and the Question of Resistance

Social Insects in Science Fiction