Viola > Recent Status Updates

Tolerance for ambiguity is essential for science.

Any given organism is the way it is because of a long series of individually unlikely steps.

Should’ve sweat over mathematics to understand this more :(

There are those who hope that the good of a better understanding of man and society which is offered by this new field of work may anticipate and outweigh the incidental contribution we are making to the concentration of power (which is always concentrated, by its very conditions of existence, in the hands of the most unscrupulous). I write in 1947, and I am compelled to say that it is a very slight hope.

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement—plants and animals each inhaling the other’s exhalations, a kind if planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.

“The witch-hunt expropriated women from their bodies, which were thus ‘liberated’ from any impediment preventing them to function as machines for the production of labor. For the threat of the stake erected more formidable barriers around women’s bodies than were ever erected by the fencing off of the commons.”