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BREAKING: Total Monkey War
January 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
BREAKING: Total Monkey War
January 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
liberals do things more sneakily so stupid, well meaning people like you eat it up. Take care!
January 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
liberals do things more sneakily so stupid, well meaning people like you eat it up. Take care!
"There is hope in this sense only..."
from Once upon a Time in the West by Jan Zwicky
from Once upon a Time in the West by Jan Zwicky
January 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
"There is hope in this sense only..."
from Once upon a Time in the West by Jan Zwicky
from Once upon a Time in the West by Jan Zwicky
"Norse encounters with North American indigenous peoples seem to have filtered into Irish immrama [tales of a hero's journey to the Otherworld]"
January 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
"Norse encounters with North American indigenous peoples seem to have filtered into Irish immrama [tales of a hero's journey to the Otherworld]"
Traditional song-maps of seafaring Tubetube islanders (Papua New Guinea) use birds as measurement
"When the song refers to long distances between islands, birds are often mentioned to indicate the relative closeness of land."
"When the song refers to long distances between islands, birds are often mentioned to indicate the relative closeness of land."
January 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Traditional song-maps of seafaring Tubetube islanders (Papua New Guinea) use birds as measurement
"When the song refers to long distances between islands, birds are often mentioned to indicate the relative closeness of land."
"When the song refers to long distances between islands, birds are often mentioned to indicate the relative closeness of land."
CROCODILIAN EARTH MONSTER
January 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
CROCODILIAN EARTH MONSTER
It definitely does, the Luba were traditionally nonliterate and only developed an orthography in the 19th century whereas these memory boards are definitely older, perhaps quite ancient
January 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
It definitely does, the Luba were traditionally nonliterate and only developed an orthography in the 19th century whereas these memory boards are definitely older, perhaps quite ancient
"Lukasa, "the long hand" (or claw), is a memory device that was created, manipulated and protected by the Bambudye, a once powerful secret society of the Luba."
(nowadays the southern Democratic Republic of Congo)
(nowadays the southern Democratic Republic of Congo)
January 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"Lukasa, "the long hand" (or claw), is a memory device that was created, manipulated and protected by the Bambudye, a once powerful secret society of the Luba."
(nowadays the southern Democratic Republic of Congo)
(nowadays the southern Democratic Republic of Congo)
"A superbly realized line portrait of a giraffe. This artist had the skills of a modern cartoonist."
2,000-6,000 years old, Namibia
2,000-6,000 years old, Namibia
January 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"A superbly realized line portrait of a giraffe. This artist had the skills of a modern cartoonist."
2,000-6,000 years old, Namibia
2,000-6,000 years old, Namibia
"This was first thought to illustrate a battle, but it is now considered more likely to represent the mystical struggle against evil spirits by shamans in trance."
Pakhuis Pass, Clanwilliam District, Western Cape, South Africa
Pakhuis Pass, Clanwilliam District, Western Cape, South Africa
January 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
"This was first thought to illustrate a battle, but it is now considered more likely to represent the mystical struggle against evil spirits by shamans in trance."
Pakhuis Pass, Clanwilliam District, Western Cape, South Africa
Pakhuis Pass, Clanwilliam District, Western Cape, South Africa
Denys Thompson on how integral poetry/song is for non-literate/non-mass-literate societies
January 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Denys Thompson on how integral poetry/song is for non-literate/non-mass-literate societies
Lucretius, 1st Century BC // scientists, 2013
January 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Lucretius, 1st Century BC // scientists, 2013
we’ve gotta revive this trend
January 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
we’ve gotta revive this trend
saffron vending machine in Mashhad
January 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
saffron vending machine in Mashhad
[developing the keyboard that maximally fucks with language and culture]
January 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
[developing the keyboard that maximally fucks with language and culture]
googling when the first known European map was made: "6th century B.C., not much known about it. 50 years later another guy made a slightly better one."
googling when the first known Chinese map was made: [incredibly cinematic tale of a failed assassin, on the edge of my seat]
googling when the first known Chinese map was made: [incredibly cinematic tale of a failed assassin, on the edge of my seat]
![For constructing his world map, Anaximander is considered by many to be the first mapmaker.[22]: 23 Little is known about the map, which has not survived. Hekatæus of Miletus (550–475 BC) produced another map fifty years later that he claimed was an improved version of the map of his illustrious predecessor.
The oldest reference to a map in China comes from the 3rd century BC.[41]: 534 This was the event of 227 BC where Crown Prince Dan of Yan had his assassin Jing Ke visit the court of the ruler of the State of Qin, who would become the first leader to unify China, Qin Shi Huang (r. 221–210 BC). Jing Ke was to present the ruler of Qin with a district map painted on a silk scroll, rolled up and held in a case where he hid his assassin's dagger.[41]: 534 Handing to him the map of the designated territory was the first diplomatic act of submitting that district to Qin rule.[41]: 534 Jing then tried and failed to kill him. From then on, maps were frequently mentioned in Chinese sources.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iufhw3nbiiyuptg7aeu4rfz5/bafkreieutnxewdd4lyiqa74tqxqeod6ydjrgmruqf3ee7vkwv4irekfbdu@jpeg)
December 18, 2024 at 8:24 PM
googling when the first known European map was made: "6th century B.C., not much known about it. 50 years later another guy made a slightly better one."
googling when the first known Chinese map was made: [incredibly cinematic tale of a failed assassin, on the edge of my seat]
googling when the first known Chinese map was made: [incredibly cinematic tale of a failed assassin, on the edge of my seat]
human intelligence is inherently creative and artistic because it's so metaphorical - and this seems very hard to mechanize
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...
December 18, 2024 at 5:39 PM
human intelligence is inherently creative and artistic because it's so metaphorical - and this seems very hard to mechanize
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...
Article argues "mistakes" of early contact Aboriginal Australian rock art (guy holding rifle like spear, kangaroo-like horses) a metaphor for us and AI's "superior intelligence."
A dead mathematician responds: no, the mistakes come from what's so special about human intelligence
A dead mathematician responds: no, the mistakes come from what's so special about human intelligence
December 18, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Article argues "mistakes" of early contact Aboriginal Australian rock art (guy holding rifle like spear, kangaroo-like horses) a metaphor for us and AI's "superior intelligence."
A dead mathematician responds: no, the mistakes come from what's so special about human intelligence
A dead mathematician responds: no, the mistakes come from what's so special about human intelligence
Petroglyphs and dinosaur tracks
December 17, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Petroglyphs and dinosaur tracks
"Until now, however, scholars have paid little attention to petroglyphs with geometric designs that ancient artists incised into the same sandstone outcrops between 9,000 and 3,000 years ago. In some cases, the designs are mere inches from the dinosaur tracks."
archaeology.org/issues/janua...
archaeology.org/issues/janua...
December 17, 2024 at 4:28 PM
"Until now, however, scholars have paid little attention to petroglyphs with geometric designs that ancient artists incised into the same sandstone outcrops between 9,000 and 3,000 years ago. In some cases, the designs are mere inches from the dinosaur tracks."
archaeology.org/issues/janua...
archaeology.org/issues/janua...
we should all treasure our Newtonian oases
December 17, 2024 at 12:22 AM
we should all treasure our Newtonian oases