I do love that they are called rng but pls sir I want the i in part because my friend Z is initial in the category of commutative rings with 1

Babies

Oh no! The worst that has happened to me as of yet is a dnd book of mine got some tree pitch on it and a math paper I left on the porch for a bit has a bug crushed within in now (I don’t know how that happened)

Warning my cat about the dangers which clinging presents to his own well being. Explaining to him that’s upadana and one of the primary causes of dukkha and can keep him bound to samsara

It is in fact still harder for me to draw digitally than traditionally, both for my eyes reasons and for my pressing too hard reasons. I also don’t enjoy it *quite* as much but my enjoyment of it is growing

And it turns out I fixed the neck problems immediately by buying a laptop style case for it for like 20 dollars, 5 years ago. It can also be placed on a stack of math books for better height or even on an easel!

But once I worked in the tattoo shop and saw some of the portability and containedness of the iPad with procreate, meaning I didn’t have to carry so much stuff nor have to have more than one device, coupled with the fact I was tattooing at the time, procreate made more sense for me

Some tablet discourse is happening and I will say this: I never tried drawing on a Wacom, it was frankly unappealing to me, I very much enjoy traditional drawing and it took me a long time to be personally inspired to work with digital media.

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

Sketchbook

My iPad is open to procreate and sitting on a stack of math books (from bottom to top: curves in projective space by Harris; intro to number theory by Hua; lectures on algebraic numbers by hecke; gos by eisenbud & Harris; geometry of syzygies by eisenbud; ideals, varieties and algorithms by cox, little & O’Shea; algebraic curves over finite fields by Moreno; algebraic curves by walker

My dual purpose easel

In topology, we were talking about the Euler characteristic. There’s a theorem that if a sphere is tiled by hexagons and pentagons with three meeting at every corner, then there must be exactly 12 pentagons (like a soccer ball). I brought in this golf ball as an example. Do you see a pentagon?

My name has never looked more beautiful!!!

This was both a powerful and artful memento mori: an elegant woman looking into the mirror, and rapidly aging with the paper flap. This was printed in 1510 Germany, #skystorians

Yeah now that I almost never draw away from the easel I notice how much harder most other configurations are. In my experience drawing gets good when you can focus on it and give it the time it needs and part of that is supporting the body during the process

What could be better than algebra in the great outdoors? Algebra in a hammock? Algebra while on a lake? I’m just pinnacling my algebra experience

Four white tulips and one red tulip against a yellow background

Tuleeeps
#artsky

This is just reminding me that I once started hitting the math books this early while camping where everyone could see (I forget a world exists outside of my brain sometimes). Someone was like ‘it is not even 8 am and Lizzie has chosen algebra’

I want identity, I’m not that strong

Posting this before 7 am because I’m an integer sicko

It actually took me a couple of years to transition to an easel after buying it but the favors it does for my neck and shoulders eventually became more powerful than my worst inertia

I love rings of integers

Alexander Kustov @akoustov Matt nails it: "the point of journalism [or science!] is the outputs—bringing facts to light—not the process." Most slop is still human slop. AI just made it impossible to ignore. So, the Q isn't whether to use AI, but how to use the best tools available to reduce human slop. Quote Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias · 20h The case for more AI in journalism

"the point of journalism (or science) is the output, bringing facts to light, not the process"

is definitely something to say.

"Bangkok after Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies" by Benjamin Tausig

@dukepress.bsky.social

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Bangkok after Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies

If you’re interested, I wrote an entire book structured as an acknowledgement:

www.dukeupress.edu/bangkok-afte...

Frodo Baggins sits at his desk, reading Bilbo's book.

A merfolk sits on a coral outcrop, reading.

A little Frodo Baggins painting on a Rhystic Study AP - I tried to give the composition a similar feel to the original painting

New edition of my prints laid out on a tabletop to dry. Each linocut print ‘Feynman Diagram Bauhaus’ is a hand-carved and printed variable edition on cream-coloured Japanese washi paper, 8" by 10" with a jumble of Feynman diagrams and coloured shapes with a Bauhaus feel. Shapes include circles, rings, triangles, stripes, semicircles and irregular semicircles under wiggly lines. Colours are tints of fuchsia, blue-green, blue, yellow and purple with Feynman diagrams in black lines.

Time for a new edition of my Feynman Diagram Bauhaus!

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#linocut #sciart #printmaking #quantumMechanics #physics

Back to this point after booking tomorrow and the next day.

The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

Yeah I only draw on a table or desk now under duress