#morphism

[shakir2]

Morphic-resonance. 

(Entanglement – Synchronicity – Panpsychism).  This groundbreaking and radical hypothesis suggests that nature itself possesses memory. The fundamental question of morphogenesis—how things take their shape—remains one of the enduring mysteries in biology. What makes a rabbit rabbit-shaped? How do newts regenerate lost limbs? Why do molecules adopt specific shapes? Why do societies organize…

[gabbbyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

Spiffy Pictures logo my beloved

[silusvesuius]

i legit love when a character's gender is so integral to their personality (and perception obviously.) like so concrete that if genderbent their whole shtick would just be absolute dookie. anyways i'm just writing this text so i can talk in the tags (My beautiful safe haven)

this 14 minute song is soooooooooooo FYRE

[futchmoding]

got kitty cat high and stayed up too late playing with numbers on the computer 😵‍💫😵‍💫

[notarealwelder]

(too pithy and probably incorrect about it)

One thing LLMs are not good at — not sure if getting any better, honestly — is gear-level models. Having a model at all; being able to articulate it; applying it to a situation and looking at discrepancies; having ~well-defined uncertainty; updating.

(or maybe i just can't prompt them to do that. not being a power llm user, can't speak with authority really.)

As a consequence, they are dog shit at structure-preserving morphisms. You can't transform a structure precisely enough to meaningfully reflect the original if you can't.... catch the boundaries of what's important or not? Can't check whether your correspondences of internals/pieces of 2 things are adequate if you don't, really, work with internals? If you don't or can't think of a thing as made out of pieces and nothing else? If your mental processes can't....check...whether an a : b :: c : d pattern is valid by looking at the structure/properties of abcd?

And therefore, they suck at writing, writing being at least 30% about structure-preserving morphisms.

[unbizzarre]

Introducing Hexbugnanochan!

Gijinka of my friends hexbug nano. Like most projects it started with me thinking to myself "I can wip that out in like 5 minutes." Pure hubris. Many, many hours later I finally had created this. I'm quite proud of her, though, and it was pretty fun to make. Had a blast imagining what kind of spunky personalities these lil guys might have. Nanochan, I have decided, is the kind of person who would get way to aggressive in mariocart.

Also, after scouring the internet for reference images I stumbled upon the best hexbug. It’s this guy:

birthday hat hexbug is just the best. Look at him. Such a fun little guy.

Thanks for reading.

[wolfbane-blooms]

THE DOPPELGANGER KILLS ITS COUNTERPART AND CONTINUES TO LIVE

[bakingmoomins]

had a weird day today

[reallycreative]

Create Stunning Glass Morphism Effect in Canva | Easy Tutorial

[qazxwecvr]

"wait, did you say 'cogay'???" "Yeah I codate copeople of the same cogender as me. Here comes my coboyfriend now!" *they cokiss copassionately*

If a homophobe is someone who can't cooperate with homosexuals, then a cohomophobe is someone who cohomosexuals can't operate with

[yoneda-emma]

in abstract algebra, if an "X" is some structure that can be seen as a one object category, then an "X-oid" is often a similar structure, but with an underlying category made up of arbitrarily many objects. for example, a group can be viewed as a category with invertible morphisms and exactly one object, so a groupoid is any category with invertible morphisms, which could in general contain many objects. other common examples are "vocaloids", which are made up of many vocals, and "utauloids", which are made up of a lot of singing.

[marigold-22]

Hot take, you haven’t defined a type of mathematical structure until you’ve defined morphisms between said structures

[tokkirot]

hello morphism practitioners

just warm up sketchy doodles before moving on to bigger things

i like the idea of a kevin who maybe went to muir island but wasn't able to be helped much so started self destructing 🙂‍↕️ placing my issues onto morph

them returning to the team once more but much thinner, smoking and drinking etc and everyone being like uhhh.... logan go help them please. maybe even substance use to explain the amount of love and concern charles has for morph.....

a morph who has scars and is very malnourished.. but shifting into a public form to hide it.. until they get caught. mmmm.

oh and jubes lol. and cat morph morphing back to normal 🫠

[bubbloquacious]

Hmmmm

Hi

[laughingcorvuswrites]

On the Princess, the Maid, and the Knight

Princess, Maid, Knight. Traditionally, these three organisms are considered as separate species, occasionally even genus, that simply have arranged themselves into a sort of eusocial symbiosis due to their communion with one another despite the significant morphological differences. However, a recent hypothesis that is gaining traction is that the Maid and Princess are actually separate members of a highly dimorphic species. However, OUR hypothesis goes a step further to propose that not only do all three share a singular genus, but are actually the same eusocial species, with the trimorphism(quadrumorphism if you include the young Knights referred to alternatively as “Scouts” or “Squires”, typically based on their apparent role relative to more senior members) between the three groupings developing due to their role within the group.

For example, the Maid’s role is typically to labor within the community, keeping things tidy and providing for the Princess, while also providing a layer of protection against both intruders who may pass the Knights, as well as inferior suitors. The Princess, meanwhile, may appear to have the role of leadership, but it appears the role is more symbolic than actual, as any command she appears to give that her inner circle(sometimes colloquially called the “Handmaids”, or more rarely, “Ladies in Waiting”, though there is some discourse as to whether the term would actually apply.) disagrees with will not be carried out. Instead it would be amended to a more appropriate command for the rest to carry out. A Princess that is displeased with this(as they often are) will generally respond with a ‘hmph’, but yield to the wisdom of their Handmaids.

The Knight, as is above implied, has the role of Primary and Secondary defense for the community, both patrolling their primary territory as well as standing guard over their domicile. Younger Knights are typically split into the subgroups “Squire” and “Scout”. The Squire takes on a Maid-like role to their Knight, typically a small number of Squires(as few as one in most cases, though communities with a population boom may have 2 or more to a Knight) per Knight. The Squire will tend to their Knight’s mount, arms, and gear, ensuring none are tarnished and all properly honor their shared Lady(the Princess). This both takes the somewhat specialized labor off the Maid’s responsibilities, as well as familiarizes the Squire with the ins and outs of their future role. Some Squires have also been spotted transitioning to become a Maid instead of a Knight(indeed, this observation was the origin of this hypothesis).

The Scout is the rarest member of the community(some may call the community ‘the Hive’, referring to how it resembles the hive of many eusocial insects, especially the domesticated European honeybee), but appears to be most closely related to the Knight. A Scout’s role within the Community is similar to the Knight in that it provides security for all, especially the Princess, but uniquely the focus is on spending extended periods away from the Community within the outer territory. The Scout’s purpose seems to be a combination of scouting out new food sources, warding off intruders before they reach the Community proper, and warning the community and especially the Knights of any threat before it reaches the primary territory.

The Morphism between the different organism-types seems to be fully based on their role. The Princess wears fine, typically ornate garbs(most often dresses in the medieval European and rococo styles, though exceptions of all sort have been reported, often based on the garbs human princesses would wear. Whether this is mimicry of the humans on their part, or mimicry of the Princess on our part is unknown. It could simply be a queer coincidence) complete with jewelry and tiara. Meanwhile, the maid typically wears a uniformed garb primarily in black with a white apron and accents, with a small frilled headress in imitation of the Princess’s tiara. The exact length and design varies from Hive to Hive, from the practical to the practically pornographic. The Knight typically will wear the colors of their Princess(ie, the colors of the Hive), with clothes chosen for practicality more than show. As a result, they tend to be more drab than the other two groups, but when they receive the call to combat they dress in ornate armor donned with the aid of their Squire(or Maids, should there be insufficient Squires), bedecked still with the crest and colors of their dear Princess. For their parts, Squires and Scouts will typically dress more simply still than their Knights. the Squires dressing in the same colors as the Knight, simply less ornately(not uncommonly in clothes passed down from their Knights), while Scouts often dress in simple, resilient clothing that nevertheless doesn’t reflect badly on their Hive. If the Princess has colors that function as camouflage in their local environs, they’ll don them, but otherwise will only carry the Hive’s Crest on their person.

Upon further observation, we observed that in the absence of a Princess, one other member of the community will be elevated to the position(typically but not always a Maid, though curiously one of lower seniority), dolled up in finery once forbidden to them, and placed up on the throne to be doted on by her sisters. Likewise, we have seen rare communal drift between the Maid and Knight roles, though it’s more likely an Apprentice Maid or Squire will transition rather than an experienced member of the class. It seems that through mechanisms like this, the community retains its social balance.

Interhive combat is rare and seems to be more about maintaining cross-hive social connections and gene exchange more than territorial control. Generally it’s highly ritualize and while the Melee between knights can get potential brutal, we have yet to observe a single death during or as a result of this ritualized combat. While the Knight’s equipment and shine of its armor seems to have a strong use in intimidation to avoid combat where possible(especially important for intraspecies conflict in other species), it seems to have little effect on the Melee but to rank individual Knights relative to one another, so each can quickly figure out the best opponent. As mentioned, thanks to the dutiful care of the Maids, there have been no reported casualties, but there have been…other inter-hive activities that follow.

Intrahive combat is similarly ritualized, but often lacks the pomp and pageantry that an Interhive event(often called a ’Tournament’ after the events of Medieval Europe that they so closely resemble). And as it doesn’t facilitate extra-hive genetic exchange, it’s believed to be more about retaining and refining the skills of the Knights and Maids, as well as to act as a ‘release valve’ for building pressure or conflict before it rises to potentially deadly levels. These combats don’t always involve physical violence, as everything from chess to a children’s card game has also been noted, especially between classes. That said, on at least three separate occasions, we have observed one member of the Hive taunt another to spark a fight, before immediately throwing(albeit sometimes putting up a good show first) and presenting itself to the ‘victor’. This seems to be a type of role-play between them, and we can’t rule out it occurring outside our observations either in this hive, or in others.

(one brave researcher managed to infiltrate the community as a Maid and while he will be missed, she seems significantly happier now. We would ask the reader to not attempt to contact her or her family)

[algebraic-dualist]

A warning for you all

One can only glue commutative diagrams along a path whose morphisms are going in the same direction. Were you to allow gluing along any path, even with alternating directions, then you would be forced to accept the following "proof" that every triangle in Set is commutative:

(A repost from my deleted blog as it might be helpful to someone to see this)