Unpopular fact: Issac Newton spent more time on the bible than on physics and mathematics, yet what he achieved in science hasn’t been replicated by any mortal
We created gyms because modern day work no longer required physical activity. Without exercise, our muscles atrophy.
I predict we’ll need gyms for our brains too, once AI starts doing our knowledge work.
Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug.
You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form.
You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages.
You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution.
You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis.
You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from.
Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.
Every game ever put on a cartridge, disc, or download will get decompiled, modded, and ported with AI.
If one dev and four Claude agents can decompile most of CoD MW2 (2009) in under a month, and Halo Combat Evolved (2001) is already running on browsers, phones, Macs, and Nintendo 3DS days after its decomp, AAA teams should be a bit scared. Fans won’t need to wait for remasters anymore.
Studios can and will send DMCAs, but they won't outpace the frontier models being shipped.
Open source gaming is here.
Ready Player One's closer than we think.
"Y creó Dios los grandes monstruos marinos y todo ser vivo que repta, que poblaron las aguas, según su especie, y toda ave alada según su especie. Y vio Dios que estaba bien"
― Génesis 1:21 #𝑳𝒂𝑩𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒂𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒆 https://t.c
@4pf_GMI Can’t figure if this is engagement farming but you clearly don’t know about Wikicat by @sirmapy for @smcdao which reached a MCap of $250M ATH. Currently wiki-cat:native at $34.5M
@seth_doe22 Point made. Bold and strategic in a sense as well.
But should a motive for a better Ghana hinge on the shoulders of “white tourists”?
The African narrative already isn’t something to write home about and a move as such could have worse rippling repercussions.
I started something new in our house:
We watch a short video about something fascinating -- technology, art, history, psychology.
Then I ask one question, & we have a Socratic dialogue.
This morning, we watched a video about the lives of early settlers.
My question: How would your view of life change if you had to make everything yourself?
They started with gratitude. Then the conversation took a turn.
We talked about convenience. What we gain from it. What we lose.
Why do people still grow food in their backyard when they don't have to? (we have a garden fyi)
What happens if AI eventually does everything for us?
Then my 9-year-old said: “You lose something if you don’t do it yourself.” Exactly. It was powerful.
It's such a simple practice: have a conversation about the world.
But in the process, children learn to question, examine, and think deeply about the life they're living.
You don't need a complicated curriculum.
Give them something interesting to think about, ask a question, and then listen... really listen♥️
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
— Frank Herbert
“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
— Thomas Carlyle
how can you not believe in God when octopuses DREAM and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little SKIN POCKET and cows have BEST FRIENDS and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through INTERPRETIVE DANCE and they have REGIONAL DIALECTS??
cats are PURRING at frequencies associated with bone healing??? forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing FLOWERS??? dolphins literally invent NAMES for themselves and yell them across the ocean??? penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the PERFECT LITTLE ROCK to give their beloved???
CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD.
goats have ACCENTS. rats GIGGLE when you tickle them. elephants mourn their dead. whales make SONGS and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new hit single.
monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN. sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an OCEAN they have never seen, disappear into it for like THIRTY YEARS and then somehow come back to THE SAME BEACH???
birds can see COLORS THAT WE CANNOT SEE. there are colors happening RIGHT NOW that we don’t even get to know about.
there are sea slugs that eat algae and STEAL ITS CHLOROPLASTS and then are just like great thanks I’ll be PHOTOSYNTHESIZING NOW. there are mushrooms communicating underground. there are seeds sitting in the dirt for DECADES like no actually I will wait.
squirrels plant MILLIONS OF TREES because they simply cannot remember where they put their snacks.
A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG, DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC SOUP, REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND LEAVES.
and you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a 70-foot oak tree??? nobody tells it what to do??? it just has TREE INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE IT???
your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. and that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on ELECTRICITY without you even asking it to???
the iron in your BLOOD was made inside a STAR.
I’M SORRY?????
we are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of FIRE and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?????????
The movies was never just for Entertainment it was to tell you exactly what they are about to do to us all. It might not be at the moment it might not be in 3 years but it will happen when you least expect it.