We didn't always use rectangles to plot land. This is a relatively contemporary practice. For most of our history we used methods similar to the "Metes and Bounds System". It relies on natural boundaries like rivers and landmarks like trees to mark the bounds of the plot of land.

"What is a straight line?" This question is so important to our intuition and civilization, that when you start to examine it more deeply, the world as we know it might start to unravel. Just have a look at this discussion on Stack Exchange https://t.co/gHtgCOrYgo

Only 10 years ago we thought that humans were the only species capable of symbolic thought. There is now evidence that crows, robins, prarie dogs, elephants and even domestic bees think, calculate and communicate like us in some ways.

Elephants have names for eachother. They are capable of arbitrary symbolism: the skill to assign a meaning to a speciffic symbol - a word that signifies a name. https://t.co/YO0bGnBlyg

All models are wrong, but some are useful

The For you tab on X is a special kind of hell. Why can't I default to the Following tab?

Our minds function at a right angle

Crows are smarter than monkeys. Crows can recognize rectangles, squares and geometric regularity. Similar to humans, they are sensitive to geometric properties such as parallel sides, symmetries and angles Paper: https://t.co/twO5r0tnhp

Chimps can understand ratios and proportions. In image a) Sarah the chimp is presented with a glass that is half full, and two wooden disks representing 1/2 and 3/4. In image b) she chooses the correct 1/2 disk and places it beside the half full glass https://t.co/r9GRZ0xvBr

All humans regardless of age, education, and culture can perceive and distinguish elementary geometric shapes. Unlike us, baboons lack these intuitions of simple geometry. https://t.co/7wocb9ZqKR

The oldest painted animal in cave art is not bison, deer or cattle. It's actually a pig. This painting is 50,200 years (+- 2,200 years) old and it's located in Indonesia. It also depicts 3 humans interacting with it.

The people that lived in Israel 23,000 years ago didn't have rectangular, nor circular bedding. Their sleeping hut had an irregular shape and their bedding was concentric or annular (ring-like), organized around the central hearth of the hut. https://t.co/bjDGYiQpyS

If I get rich in crypto , I wouldn't quit my job. I'd just act like this until they fired me. https://t.co/I8sspWpUcb

Beethoven from Temu. Literally

Half of my internet existence is now Björk.

Phenomenology of the imagination: a study of the phenomenon of the poetic image when it emerges into the consciousness as a direct product of the heart, soul and being of man. - From "Poetics of Space" by Gaston Bachelard

It's crazy because any platform can decide to implement their own native "Linktree" and all of those $ will go down the toilet.

Fluke, scam or the end of financial markets? Time will tell

I have a bone to pick with the transhumanist ideology. Living a disembodied virtual forever-life will not solve our existential dread. Existing is always going to be a problem for any self-aware entity.

We stopped thanking AIs after writing prompts. What has the world come to. 😑