#atomization

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Predicting Droplet Sizes

Squeeze a bottle of cleaning spray, and the nozzle transforms a liquid jet into a spray of droplets. These droplets come in many sizes, and predicting them is difficult because the droplets' size distribution depends on the details of how their parent liquid broke up. (Image credit: I. Jackiw et al.; via APS Physics) Read the full article

[unconditionalcaretaker]

When I'm struggling not to return to Character AI, I watch this video. I am so grateful to the creator. He summarizes the social problems with AI in a succinct and genuinely horrifying way while remaining compassionate throughout. There are many environmental and artistic issues with AI too of course, but this video really drives home the way that AI enhances and enables isolation, allowing us to essentially pour love down the drain instead of into other people while simultaneously feeding our most unethical desires if we have them, and intensifying these desires to the point of absurdity.

I hope this will help people who are struggling with the same thing. I really don't want to talk to a human person some days, but if that means I spend the day alone, I hope I have the strength to do so. An AI chatbot is actually NOT better than being alone. It's worse.

CW: discussion of some of the most horrible things people do with chatbots, including ALL kinds of violence

"Interpersonal AI chatbots represent a very intense escapism that revolves around ficophilic faux-intimacy and artificial attachments."

"What have we done to get here? Why have people turned to this? How could we let this happen? Why have we let social media companies, corporations, and conglomerates rip people away from society like this? Why have we let people become atomized to this extent? Answering these questions is simple but not easy. The mechanisms of endless technological progress are no more adjustable than the Earth's spin, and the propagation of this technology, this harbinger of isolation, could only be slowed by a complete overthrow of the capitalist system."

[boof-chamber]

we happen upon a fellow human being, beat down, tormented, suffering in agony, and we think, “poor thing, hope someone helps them out,” then go on with our day as normal. it’s not our responsibility to help or even to care. the mere expectation that we should care for and about anyone we’re not legally obligated to is seen as exceedingly unfair. caring for and about others is a burden, thankless drudgery, a job someone else should get paid to do for us, someone who is qualified with the proper training and credentials.

those who find themselves in desperate need of others to care for and about them will eventually come to find out that it’s no one’s job to help them or care. so no one does. but everyone they encounter is fully confident that there’s someone, somewhere, whose job it is to do something to help. this unshakable faith that the markets provide an adequate substitute for human social connection allows them to go on with their day, free from any burdensome sense of responsibility toward their fellow human being.

[pollie-pockets]

Yoki the moment transparents

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Atomizer of history: How perfume research has shaped a century of scientific innovation

Is the quest for the perfect top notes responsible for some of the world's most influential scientific discoveries? A new article in the journal Isis argues that fragrance research has stimulated scientific endeavor for over a century, but that its contributions have been overlooked due to perfume's stigma as a frivolous, feminine luxury. In "Musk and the Making of Macromolecules: Perfumes and Polymers in the History of Organic Chemistry," author Galina Shyndriayeva demonstrates how tracing the history of perfume production clarifies and enriches the history of chemical innovation and industrial development. Leopold Ružička, a recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize in chemistry, was granted this honor in part due to a discovery he made while working for a Geneva-based perfume supplier: the synthesis of muscone, or artificial musk. Musk, a vital ingredient in the production of perfume, was expensive and time-consuming to source in its natural form, as it involved the hunting of male deer in Russia and the Himalayas region, and the musk pouches of up to fifty bucks were required to generate a single kilogram.

Read more.

[sunder-the-gold]

Collectivism versus Individualism

@gsirvitor @philosophicalconservatism @lockedkey

Could you provide your own thoughts to help me sort out these concepts?

Axiom A: American Conservatives tend to be individualists, whereas Progressives tend to be collectivists. Both in terms of personal versus collective responsibility, and in terms of independence versus codependence. [Some on either side of the divide define 'individualism' and 'self-reliance' to the point of 'living as a hermit', but I think most individualists do not interpret it so.]

Axiom B: Yet American Conservatives tend to believe in the value of family, particularly nuclear family, blood ties, and marriage. Whereas Progressives tend to abandon their families for any ideological disagreement, prefer self-selected friend groups ("found family") over biological kin (and will disown them just as quickly), and put much less stock in getting married or having children.

Axiom C: Progressives / collectivists accuse American conservatives / individualists of promoting the atomization of society, whereby communities break apart into completely disconnected individuals who only look out for their own self-interests.

Axiom D: Yet a society where everyone depends more on government welfare than on their family, and more on social security (paid for by total strangers) than their own children for retirement, and in fact where no one gets married and children are artificially bred and owned by the state... is not only the most atomized that humanity could be, it more closely resembles the society that progressives want than the one conservatives want.

Thesis Question: Why would collectivists simultaneously decry and yet advocate for a fully-atomized society, while individualists would seek to promote and preserve interconnected families and communities?

Hypothesis A: Collectivism dismisses each individual as a fungible, identical, completely-interchangeable member of a larger group. A single grain of sand on the beach. To atomize society is to realize collectivism, therefore collectivists promote that outcome in practice even as they want to believe they act against it.

Hypothesis B: American conservatism sees each individual as unique, non-fungible, irreplaceable. A distinct organ within a living creature, where an eyeball and a kidney cannot be switched without consequence. To see other individuals as sacred is to build families and communities.

[drytechengi]

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[atompalace-official]

Sweetheart Sylveon 🌈💌🎀✨ Happy Valentine’s Day!!! 🩵💕

[rirururu]

Why was this one shot lowkey the best animation I've ever seen from MHA? Bones, you did not have to animate each individual particle of Bakugou's blood for us 😭

[rakatapun]

Here is the second one in the drawing series, UNRINSEABLE... pretty sure that's how you spell his name.

[quy-twwo]

just a baby girl at his core 💔

[atomicapiary]

would you trust him? be honest bonus:

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Miniature Ice Stupas

Ice stupas are conical artificial glaciers built with snow cannons; they're used to store water for spring irrigation. Here, researchers explore a miniaturized lab-grown version made from atomized water droplets.  (Image credit: D. Papa et al.) Read the full article

[dndspellgifs]

look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,

If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.

Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.

What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.

Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.

Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.

[zeecriter]

Invincible p!links·˚ ༘

WARNING ➤ Pornographic content mdni! The links all have afab/feminine bodies, do not open in public.

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Rexsplode/Rex Sloan

Your thanks to him for helping you move into your new place

Rearranging your gutsss

You teased him all day what did you expect

taking him so well

Invincible/Mark Grayson

The type of videos he sends at 3am when he misses you

Fucking yourself on him when he’s playing cod

In the backseat of your/his car

watching his cum leak out of you is his favourite thing to see

Nerd!Mark eating you out

Omni-man/Nolan Grayson

Teasing your poor cunt :(

Making you squirt all over his fingers

One way to pass time on your way to talescria

He loves shutting you up like this

Atom Eve/Samantha Eve Wilkins

Fingering you on her lap

Bonding with your bsf

Thigh riding

Morning ✂️

˗ˏˋ ´ˎ˗ NOTE ➤ I love this comic/show sm and I’m pretty sure I’m the first person to make p links of invincible :p also this is my first post ever so please send requests!