The production and distribution of goods and services has always been a global phenomenon. It would in fact be quite hard to argue to the contrary. From long range networks of exchange spanning continents to human migration and travel including traversing oceans from thousands of years, “globalization” seems almost like...#economics
Poorly researched claims about the history of the family but I will not be taking criticism at this time, please direct all complaints to @unaxiii_ on twitter dot com. A response to Melinda Cooper’s Family Values (2017), heavily relying on the history of patriarchal property relations from Debt: The First...#economics
I was aiming for something a bit lighter with this one, so it's more "Fun Facts with Una" and less ripping my hair out reading 18th century alchemy essays.
#etymology#history#iran#turkmenistan#uzbekistan
The harder an excerpt was to transcribe the more likely I am to keep it, is this sunk-cost? No, I'm just assisting in legibility of historic documents! Look me in the eyes and tell me you could read Norwegian in Fraktur!
#etymology#history#japan#norway#sweden
This short essay was written as a reading response for a class to chapter 3 of Plotkin and Scheuerman’s book Private Interest, Public Spending (1994). Reading that chapter is not necessary for understanding this but encouraged. In their chapter on Balanced-Budget Conservatism, Plotkin and Scheuerman outline 3 major principles that...#economics
The paragraphs below were written for a class in response to the second chapter of The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (2007). In Chapter 2 of The Shock Doctrine, Noami Klein describes the influence of Milton Friedman and the Economics department at the University of Chicago in the proliferation of...#chile#economics#indonesia
This was written for a class in response to chapter 2 of David M. Kotz’s 2014 book The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism, and while reading that is not necessary to understand the discussion below, that is the context for which it was written. Something I couldn’t get out...#economics
The pacing of this one is what I call "crunchy," as the research process for it was what I call "torment." Maybe I really should get a library card.
#etymology#france#history#japan#netherlands
Welcome back to Season 2 of Chloe & Una's Tentacular Experience! Today we're talking about the ongoing series by Kyockcho, Kaede to Suzu. A heart-warming tale of sisterly love and also there's a guy there too I guess. We ask the hard-hitting questions other podcasts are afraid to ask, like "what is gained and lost when adapting a written work into a video format?", and "is it hot when a guy **** his **** between two girls' *******?" So *** on, and join us for our most spectacular (yet least tentacular) experience yet!
#anime#manga#podcast
At a certain point, we all have to wonder if, perhaps, allowing me access to maps was a mistake. This one's about Naruto, the city and the manga.
#anime#history#japan#onomastics
You ever stare at a map of Mars for a couple hours then suddenly make the foolish mistake of wondering why the names are like that?
#history#mars#onomastics
In this episode of Chloe & Una's Tentacular Experience, our brave hentai researchers delve into an ancient relic of the distant past (circa 2000-2012), Kafun Shoujo by Koume Keito. What if we lived in a world where plant pollen was actually anthropomorphized into people who wanted to have sex with everyone constantly? What if stock exchanges also featured anthropomorphized stock girls that one could have sex with? What do schoolgirls have in common with Joseph Stalin? And what would a breakcore remix of a hentai review podcast sound like? All these mind-boggling questions and more are answered in volume 3 of Chloe & Una's Tentacular Experience.
#anime#manga#podcast
In this episode, Chloe and Una make this podcast live up to it's name and talk about one of our favorite hentai manga, Your Neighborhood Tentacle Shop, a beautiful tale of the love between a young woman and hundreds of slimy tentacle monsters. Written by Okunoha (@okunoha on Twitter), Anata no Machi no Shokushuyasan is probably the most important piece of art ever created and you should read it and probably **** *** to it and thank us later. Seriously go read it and support the author as well.
#manga#podcast
This is the final section of my blog on the browser game Gravity (at least as far as working on it before the project is due), where I hastily throw together some game mechanics to make project feel something like a game. Expect some future work on this, as I am not proud of its current state in the slightest.
#blog#programming
In this third development blog for my browser game, Gravity, I finish the background functionality of the game. Now the view in the DOM should reflect the model at every animation frame, and also some physics should apply to the scene!
#blog#programming
Continuing work on my browser game, Gravity. This time, I'm setting up the overall framework of the project's code and adding in some very basic functionality, like checking for user inputs and creating an output element.
#blog#programming
This is the first installment in a series of blogs about a browser game project I'm doing for my software engineering course, going over some background info for both the assignment and my project itself as well as my plans going forward.
#blog#programming
Another font? That's right! I'm continuing on my journey to update the styling on my GitHub pages blog, this time I'll be creating a monospace font for code blocks!
#blog#design#fonts
Chloe and Una take you, the beautiful and highly intelligent and also did you do something with your hair recently? listener, on a journey into the world of Japanese erotic cartoons, beginning with the 2007 manga Alignment You! You! and it's 2008 anime adaptation.
#anime#manga#podcast
the trickster god’s world engine the manner of the formation and normalization of the state States dug their hooks into exploitable aspects of human social life as early as 3800 B.C.E., using livestock herding, agriculture, sedentarism, military bands & religion as their main weapons. These examples are taught in modern...#philosophy#politics
Sleep deprived ranting about ruby text, internationalization, localization, CSS3 support, monospace fonts, and some other stuff. Does this count as documentation? Am I doing a documentation here?
#blog#programming
A couple of sleep deprived losers try to explain the philosophical and ecological necessity and implications of post-scarcity as a quote unquote economic mode.
#economics#podcast#politics
In this latest episode of Goth Angel Sinners, we've addressed complaints that the episodes were too long and that we are "over representing people born in 1997" while we discuss Spider-Man 3, cops, moral ambiguity, and Infinity War for some reason.
#movies#podcast
Join our hosts @trewbot and Chloe in this second installment of the Goth Angel Sinners podcast for an interview with senatorial candidate Jae Em Carico and discussions about the CNT, Revolutionary Catalonia, the Spanish Civil War, and the 2017 Catalan Independence Referendum.
#podcast#politics
This post contains spoilers for Puella Magi Madoka Magica/Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica (魔法少女まどか☆マギカ) and Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie (劇場版 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ) Beginnings (始まりの物語), Eternal (永遠の物語), and Rebellion (叛逆の物語). Please watch the show (or first two movies) and Rebellion before continuing. Everyone has some contrarian opinions, a prevalent example of...#anime#philosophy#review
In this first installment of the Goth Angel Sinners podcast, our hosts @trewbot and Chloe, along with special guest @CheechGuevara, discuss the extremely controversial topic that is the morality of shoplifting. Join us for this exciting discussion about loss prevention, optimization, morality, and absentee ownership.
#economics#podcast
I saw some trees on a map and decided I just had to know what was up, completely forgetting that not everything in the world is available in English and overall just making myself look like a fool.
#geography#history#japan
According to the Future of Humanity Institute’s 2008 technical report titled “Global Catastrophic Risk Survey” by Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom there is a 5% chance that a superintelligent artificial intelligence (AI) will cause the extinction of humanity by the year 2100, and I’m here to tell you why that...#philosophy#technology
Every now and again I get back to transcribing my old school notes as digital files on this site; which notes I work on really depends on my mood, and if you have read any of this site I’m sure you’re aware I’m more often than not in the mood...#blog#mathematics#programming
A few semesters back I was taking a class called “Mathematics for Physics and Engineering II” which was a companion course for “Intermediate Physics Lab” that covered a lot of the mathematics used in data analysis. One example of this is the Poisson Distribution, which we had plenty of assignments...#blog#mathematics#programming
(Fall 2015) Do you love calculus but wish it was a bit more... actually useful and good? In that case, do I have the math for you: Differential Equations. More specifically: the basic stuff about differential equations that I actually took notes on.
#mathematics
Oops! I wrote another thing about death! This time rather than picking apart traditional descriptions of death, I'm going to be introducing a more modern take on the whole idea.
#death#philosophy
I'm on that existential bullshit right now and it's not going away. So, I'm just going to plunge head first into philosophy and verbosity to try to act like I'm fine when in reality I'm panicking at the mere notion of existing in a universe that has time.
#death#philosophy
This post was published in All That Is Left Issue 001 as “Syndicalism.” While a sentiment of anti-authoritarianism born of a distaste for corporatism and other modern manifestations of centralized capitalist governments lends itself quite cleanly to the ideas of anarchism, what is not immediately clear is how, in an...#politics
This report needs a real breakdown from an experienced political analyst that isn’t just some neoliberal corporate sellout, but as I’m me and I’ve not slept in something like 24 hours now, I don’t feel qualified to do this. However, perhaps because I have not slept, or perhaps because I...#politics
This post was published as Scene 10 of Thelma & Louise 2: Army of Darkness FADE IN: EXT. MORNING - The place where they were camping The trio is sleeping, CORN begins to bloat a bit as the sun rays from the fresh sunrise filter through the trees that are...#script
This post was published as Scene 10 of Sonic’s Last Adventure CUT TO: EXT. EVENING - Large empty meadow THE COROLLA rolls along the highway, a shot from above would do well here. A breeze sweeps across the plains of golden wheat or some other grass. Either way this is...#script
This post was published as Scene 9 of The Muppets Yakuza INT. NIGHT - BASEMENT-ESQUE ROOM It’s really dark, like, really pushing the dynamic range on them cinema-grade cameras that cost as much as my college tuition kind of dark, people in the theaters will be complaining about the glare...#script
y r u crying?
im not crying
yes u r
y r u crying?
im literally not
yes u r
y do u keep insisting
that im crying
when im not
bc if i believe it
mb itll come true
#poetry
This is a collection of .txt files that aren’t long enough to rationalize each being archived on its own. About half of the files of this sort were written in these two days. Files in alphabetical order: 2017-02-22 07:27 alignment.txt 2017-02-22 07:41 breathe.txt 2017-02-22 07:10 concern.txt 2017-02-22 04:35 how are...#poetry
This post was published as Scene 7 of Opposite Jurassic Park INT: SOME BUNKER, This is a very dimly lit bunker, something like you see in movies with war rooms and stuff, there is a flashing red light in the background. Aside from the light and a telephone sitting on...#script
This post was submitted to Student Voice but not published, for some reason. Update Jun. 4, 2020: Since apparently people have actually been trying to read this article, let me just point out that tablets frequently have a “mouse mode” where they will act like track pads, use that. Also...
This post was written as a submission to an open call by @ruinedpicnic on twitter (now called @punishedpicnic) for music to sing. Ruined Picnic and Friends by ruined picnic and friends Every single morning I wake up in a state of peace. As if part of the void, or an...#lyrics
This post was published in Student Voice Volume 102, Issue 13 as “The process of spontaneously morphing into an octopus.” This argument has been deemed quite controversial: is it possible for one to simply become an octopus without outside forces acting upon them? To start off, one might ask if...#student-voice
Perhaps an argument against this would be the resource usage, the amount of paper used when you leave mistakes on the page is so much more. Think of the trees! Then again, erasers either come from trees or petroleum so you’re going to be using something either way. Efficiency aside,...
This post was published in Student Voice Volume 102, Issue 11 as “Philosophy of pencil classification can be very complicated.” Pencils are pencils, but to say all pencils were created equal is a stretch of the imagination that one should not be so willing to make. What exactly is a...#student-voice
This post was published in Student Voice Volume 102, Issue 10 as “Thinking about theory of relativity can garner many impactful realizations.” Four score and another score ago, Einstein introduced the idea of general relativity. Well, that’s when he presented the results at the Prussian Academy of Science. Unlike previous...#student-voice
This post was published in Student Voice Volume 102 Issue 8 as “Physics lab gets spooky on Halloween.” On Halloween, which was Saturday, more specifically: Saturday, October 31, 2015. Well, really specifically: Saturday, October 31, 2015 from 5pm to about 9pm. Anyway, where was I going with this…? Oh, yeah,...#student-voice
This post was published in Student Voice Volume 102, Issue 7 as “Wednesday blues healed by nifty spinning office chair.” The UW-River Falls campus classrooms are sprinkled with a wide assortment of differing sorts of chairs. Many classes have those odd plastic ones with the slits in the back, which...#student-voice
This post was published in Student Voice Volume 102, Issue 4 as “UWRF Society of Physics Students Chapter visits 3M.” On Saturday, Oct. 3, several members of the UW–River Falls Society of Physics Students Chapter attended 3M’s Super Science Saturday. Moving from the left to right, as from the perspective...#student-voice
The dog walks along the road. Didot, the name of neither dog nor road, rather a class of fonts, the class of fonts used for the poster in the shop window that can be seen just behind the dog. The reflection of the dog nonexistent. This world itself does not...#short-story
I open the door and the bell rings. That familiar electronic bell that is really more of a beep but tradition says it’s a bell and there’s no arguing with tradition. I am thirsty and really need to raise my blood sugar level before I faint. To this end I...#short-story
The rain stopped, it had completed its task, it had watered the crops just the right amount; it was ready to die. There was no funeral for the rain. Nobody was saddened by its departure. There was a silent acceptance of what it had accomplished for the world, but no...#short-story
It was a sunny day, not that I could be bothered to give a damn about things in the sky. I had my eyes on the prize and not much more. One way or another I was to end the day $0.15 richer. You see, one must set goals for...#short-story
