X-itter is great bc it has the smartest & funniest misfits. 🧠😁🤪❤️ I aim to contribute to that vibe and only get paid in follows, likes, reposts, etc. Pls follow me & tell your friends! I'm a value investment folks! Buy low! 📈

Halftone Printing In 1869 the first halftone photo was featured in newsprint. Before then, images were mostly just basic line drawings, painstakingly handcrafted like giant black & white stamps. But photos needed shades of grey. By placing a fine screen over the camera lens,

You're all way behind, I'm starting from principal principles.

If you think you can avoid being disliked, remember that some people hate Tom Hanks for some reason.

"Hardware is hard." Not exactly. It's really just slow to iterate bc shipping is terrible. A prerequisite for utopia is moving atoms like we do bits.

Snell's Law & Huygens–Fresnel Principle Light bends when it hits something. But why? Light interacts with a material as it passes through. Electrons oscillate in response to the light, which creates a secondary wave that propagates to nearby atoms. So when light collides with

Damnit Brisbane, why did you have to get the Olympics? Everyone will find out how bewildering great you are.

I am now officially the barber trimmed my eyebrows years old. 💈👨‍🦳

Either the sky is falling or we're ascending to the heavens.

Diplocoria Some people are born with two pupils. In rare cases, both pupils are functional, but most of the time it's just an extra hole in the iris. The extra aperture can cause vision impairment by disrupting eye optics. Treated with surgery or prosthetic contact lenses.

I keep trying to watch different Black Mirror episodes. Dislike it every time. It's cynicism porn.

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Ibn al-Haytham, a.k.a. Alhazen, wrote the "Book of Optics" (كتاب المناظر) between 1011-1021 AD. A key figure of the Islamic Golden Age, his seminal work was cited by Newton & Galileo and laid out much of our modern understanding of vision.

Acting confident is human but being confident is devine.

(Just brainstorming some ways perception can be influenced.)

You are drunk

I am confident

I appear rich

I remind you of just the right someone

I am photoshopped