Shibaprasad Bhattacharya @shibaprasad@social.cleverlibre.org

Good people of Mastodon, I've been seeing a number of posts here that compare the Ayodhya judgment to a husband losing his wife to another man, treatment of rape victims etc. This is quite worrisome.

Women aren't property that one can win/lose claim over. Such comparisons reinforce the idea of ownership over women as passive objects. I have high hopes from this space and how we talk about women here.

So please do continue with the much-needed criticism, but please keep women out of it.

The idea that some infinities are bigger or smaller than other infinities is the sort of thing that gives people headaches.

"My soul is born on the shore of your eyes of mourning.
In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins."
#Neruda / #Tagore

Can someone connect me to someone looking for interns for #datascience.I ll buy you coffee :)

Data Visualization — Which graphs should I use? (Seaborn Examples)

A Simple Guide on How to Visualize…

https://towardsdatascience.com/data-visualization-which-graphs-should-i-use-55e214ee9cf1

"Bolivia’s Lithium resources are estimated to be at the level of 9 million tons (USGS), highest in the world as per individual country and 22% of the world’s total. This is significantly more than the second- and third-placed Chile and Argentina, which hold 18% and 16% of the global total resources respectively. The Bolivian government claims that it has 70% of the world’s lithium reserves and the most optimistic estimation claims there is 140 million tons of lithium in Salar de Uyuni."

@salad_bar_breath

http://lithium.today/lithium-supply-by-countries/lithium-supply-bolivia/

Knots and the Maxwell's Equations. (arXiv:1911.04486v1 [physics.class-ph]) http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04486

Relating Notions of Convergence in Geometric Analysis. (arXiv:1911.04522v1 [math.MG]) http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04522

Burgers equation in the adhesion model. (arXiv:1911.04515v1 [math.AP]) http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04515

It's so beautiful to see masses of people switch to Mastodon / the fediverse. Big hope feels.

@stux perfect timing. I just reached my hometown for a couple of days.

Kollam, Kerala.

Let's unlearn! I am no expert. Was reading a lot of your toots about fears, apprehensions, plans and anxiety about this, so I thought I should also put my thoughts up. Let's talk about it.

And let's make Mastodon what we want to.

4/n

#socialNetworks #fediverse #alternative

@shibaprasad There is a risk, although the fediverse has the advantage you can chose to be in a more sheltered, more actively moderated place and not exposed to any random insult from barbarians like in twitter.
However, there are yucky people in different instances too, and you might see their content in the "federated" feed.

I was dismayed to see a mirror bot with all the posts from the current US president. Woot.

Still, much nicer and civilized here. I like that communities are smaller and it's easier to get to know someone too.

I promised you flowers.
I took this in Kataragama in April. I kept it for so long, thinking there'd be a day when I'd share it with a thought, a quote, a caption.
But words aren't always necessary.
I also promised you poetry. It too will come.

@yantrajaal

Sadly the fediverse like anywhere else has plenty of extremists, both left and right wing extremists. However thankfully due to the federated structure, as you said, that sort of protects you.

We are a STEM instance so generally we dont have many extremists locally, they all tend to be on other servers. But that makes them easy to block as you can block an entire server from your account not just people.

@shibaprasad

@shibaprasad Are you asking about QOTO or the fediverse as a whole.

The fediverse as a whole has lots of interests and politics is among them.

At QOTO we are STEM based but not topic-enforced. So our users sometimes discuss politics like anyone else might. But generally in the past it wasnt really the most popular topic except when a significant political event takes place.

Based on past influxes (this is far from the first) we will see the political talk die down in about a week and go back to the usual topics we see (personal updates, and a lot of STEM stuff).

Basically people who post **only** or mostly politicial stuff just dont get many followers over time. So usually after a week or so they disapear to another server or just stop talking politics and move on to more interesting topics.

I'd say give it 2 weeks and should be back to normal around here with a few new faces.

A big shout out to @Gargron @stux and team @Mastodon for working so hard and making this possible.