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@DissidentKitty you should also definitely *not* try to get your textbooks on Library Genesis, which can be found here http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

@bryceyoungquist @DissidentKitty Al Kwarizmi, by the way, was the first exposure any Europeans had to the mathematical concept of “the number zero” and it freaked their fuckin beans. The kingdom of Florence actually banned the use of Arabic numbers to keep merchants from exploiting tax collectors with their sinister “zero”

the best competitive mtg player is Dana Fischer, hands down.

"is it because she's 9" yes it's because she's 9, I'm here for the enthusiasm and I'm here for watching fully grown adults getting beat by a 9yo, next question

So, there's this concept of "implicit feudalism" in online communities. Essentially, the vast majority of online communities - from old-school forums, to facebook groups, to large platforms like Twitter and Facebook themselves, even to fediverse instances - they're all run as dictatorships by default. It's built into the software - you'll have a top admin who has full, unconstrained power, they might delegate mods who have some limited powers, and anyone else has to listen to what these dictators and lords tell them. We talk about "federating" here in the fediverse, but each individual community - as far as I'm aware of - is a little dictatorship. A federation of dictatorships is not a free society, anymore than the UN, an international body composed of "liberal democracies" and authoritarian regimes is truly democratic. We need a way to start governing online communities through actual forms of democracy.

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Anyway facts about "people in general" or "the human race" are most often about people who aren't and have never been in the margins

@DissidentKitty along with the work of Heron of Alexandria and the rest of the treasure in the Toledo Library.

@bryceyoungquist @DissidentKitty that book, by the way, would spread across the Arab world into what is now Spain. Sometime in the 12th or 13th century CE it made its way to a young man called Fibonacci, who was influential in spreading it across Europe and reviving the mathematical tradition on the continent which had been dead for well over a millennium.

@DissidentKitty fun trivia: the two words are closely linked

Mohammed Al-Khwarizim was the writer of the book titled On Restoring What Has Been Separated Into Parts. bit of a clunky title, so people truncated it to On Restoring: Al Jabra.

so thinking about things like he did, in the anglosphere, became Al-Khwarizimic

So, yes, there was an Al Gorithm, and his name was Mohammed, and yes, he wrote the book on algebra