Creature

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A self-taught Irish schoolteacher wrote a book in 1854 that almost nobody read for 80 years, until a 21-year-old MIT student picked it up and realized it could be used to design every computer in human history.

His name was George Boole. The book is called An Investigation of the Laws of Thought.

Boole was born in 1815 in Lincoln, England. His family was poor. He left school at 16 to support them. He taught himself Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian.

Then he taught himself mathematics. By 19 he had opened his own school. By 24 he was publishing original papers in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, competing with men who had spent decades inside the best universities in Britain.

He never had a degree. He never had a mentor. In 1849, Queen's College in Cork hired him as a professor anyway.

In 1854, he published his masterwork. What he built inside it was something nobody had attempted before at this scale. He turned logic into algebra.

Before Boole, logic was philosophy. You argued in sentences. You reasoned in paragraphs. It was powerful and completely impossible to automate, because there was no formal system underneath it, just language.

Boole stripped it down to arithmetic. He showed that every act of human reasoning could be reduced to operations on two values. True or false. One or zero. AND, OR, NOT. If both conditions are true, the result is true. If neither is, the result is false. Every judgment a human mind makes, every decision, every deduction, could be written as an equation following those rules.

Logicians read it. They found it interesting. Engineers building machines had never heard of it.

For 83 years, the book sat there.

Then in 1937, a 21-year-old MIT master's student named Claude Shannon was working on a thesis about electrical relay circuits. Switches that could be open or closed. Current that either flowed or didn't.

He read Boole and understood something nobody had connected before.

An open switch is a zero. A closed switch is a one. A circuit with two switches in series only carries current when both are closed. That is AND. A circuit with two switches in parallel carries current when either is closed. That is OR. Shannon proved that every possible logical relationship Boole had described could be physically built using wire and switches.

That single insight is the foundation of every computer ever made.

After Shannon, chip designers stopped thinking about electricity and started thinking about logic. Every transistor on every processor running right now is implementing a Boolean operation. Every if-statement in every codebase is Boolean logic. Every database query using AND or OR. Every neural network threshold that fires or doesn't fire. All of it is running the algebra of a self-taught schoolteacher from Lincoln who died 160 years ago.

The strangest part is what happened to Boole at the end.

He was walking to class in November 1864 when he got caught in a rainstorm. He lectured for hours in wet clothes. He went home sick. His wife, Mary, believed in homeopathic medicine and thought the cure should mirror the cause. She wrapped him in wet sheets and poured cold water over him repeatedly.

He died a few days later. He was 49.

He never saw a transistor. He never saw a circuit. He never saw a single physical machine run a single one of his rules.

His book is in the public domain. Free to download. Most engineers use the word Boolean dozens of times a week. Almost none of them know who they are saying.

The man whose logic runs inside every phone, every server, and every AI model on Earth died soaking wet in a small Irish town, 83 years before anyone figured out what he had actually built.

[Deep philosophy @DeepPhilo_HQ]

"When you can't be controlled, you will be hated. And that's power."

- Nikola Tesla

[Friedrich Nietzsche Notebook @QuoteNietzsche]

there is this one nietzsche line:

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

For most of human history, sailors did not get scurvy.

The Vikings, the Polynesians, the Inuit who travelled the Arctic, all conducted long sea voyages on diets that contained essentially no fruit and no vegetables. They did not develop scurvy because their diets contained large quantities of fresh and lightly preserved animal foods, which contain vitamin C in adequate quantities. Raw meat. Liver. Fermented meats. Fish, eaten head, eyes, and all. Whale blubber. Seal kidney.

Then in the late 1400s the great European voyages of exploration began, and an interesting thing happened. The sailors started dying. They died in numbers that defied belief. Between 1500 and 1800, scurvy killed an estimated two million sailors. More than enemy action. More than storms. More than any other cause combined.

Why?

Because the European ships had switched to provisioning with grain. The ship's biscuit became the staple. Salted pork, salted beef, dried peas, and ship's biscuit. The fresh meat and the offal and the fermented dairy that had sustained earlier seafarers was eliminated in favour of the cheapest, most calorie-dense, most shelf-stable foods the navy quartermasters could source.

The diet was technically calorically sufficient. It was nutritionally a catastrophe. Within six weeks of leaving port, the men's gums would start to bleed. Within twelve weeks, old wounds would reopen. Within sixteen weeks, men would be dying.

The cure was lemons. James Lind worked it out in 1747. The Royal Navy refused to adopt it for another forty-eight years, on cost grounds. By the time they did, hundreds of thousands more had died.

The lesson available to anyone willing to look:

A diet that removes animal foods in favour of grain-based staples will kill you. It killed entire fleets of men. The vitamin deficiencies arrive in a specific order, and the death is preventable, and the populations that ate the meat had no idea what scurvy even was, because they had never seen it.

You are now being told that grain-based diets with minimal animal foods are the healthiest option.

The sailors who died were eating exactly that diet.

Their teeth were falling out by the third week.

Have a think about who is repeating the experiment.

[Goku @ProjectGokuu]

Novak Djokovic just said being bored is the most creative state a child can be in.

His son is 10 and his daughter is 7.

He says when his son told him he was bored after a morning of ping pong, kayaking, and soccer, he sat him down for a conversation most parents avoid.

"It's okay to be bored sometimes. When you're bored, it doesn't mean that you have to instantly take a book or a screen. You need to also learn how to be with your thoughts."

Djokovic says boredom is when creativity finally shows up, and it's also when everything you have been suppressing through your phone comes to the surface.

Most parents are protecting their kids from the only state that grows them.

— Novak Djokavic (@DjokerNole) on Jay Shetty's (@jayshetty) podcast

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[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

Incredible. Bill Gates followed through with this.

“If people would cut down on their meat consumption, we could really help the planet”

“So possibly we can use human engineering to make it the case that we’re intolerant to certain types of meat”

[Manifest_Lord @Manifest_Lord]

Japanese researchers found that pressing a specific point on your wrist for 60 seconds before sleep reduces cortisol by 34% and cuts the time to fall asleep in half.

It's been used in Japanese hospitals for 40 years.

It was never introduced to Western medicine. Read till end 🪡

[Normal Island News @NormalIslandNws]

BREAKING: Man optimistic he can replace hated prime minister and win over the public by doing the exact same policies, but in a Mancunian accent ♥️

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“How does one become stronger? — By coming to decisions slowly, and by clinging tenaciously to what one has decided. Everything else follows.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Handre @Handre]

Scotland's free banking era from 1716 to 1844 delivered stable money, financial innovation, and zero bank runs. No government deposit insurance, no lender of last resort, no regulatory capture. Just competition and market discipline doing what they do best.

Three major Scottish banks- the Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, and British Linen Company- competed directly with dozens of smaller institutions. Each bank issued its own notes backed by gold and silver reserves. When you received notes from another bank, you could either accept them at face value (if you trusted that bank) or demand immediate conversion to specie. This created instant accountability. Banks that overissued notes or made bad loans watched their currency get rejected by the public and returned for redemption, draining their reserves fast.

The market developed elegant solutions that would make today's financial engineers weep. Banks formed clearing houses to settle daily note exchanges. They established correspondent relationships across Scotland, creating a payments network more efficient than anything government bureaucrats designed. Interest rates moved freely based on supply and demand for capital, not the whims of committee-driven monetary policy. Scottish banks pioneered overdraft facilities, small-denomination notes, and branch banking while their English counterparts remained trapped by regulations.

The results speak louder than any economic theory. Scotland experienced remarkable economic growth during this period, transforming from one of Europe's poorest regions into an industrial powerhouse. Bank failures were rare and contained; when institutions failed, shareholders lost money, not taxpayers.

Parliament killed this monetary paradise in 1844 with the Bank Charter Act, forcing Scotland into England's central banking straitjacket. The politicians called it "reform" while destroying 128 years of monetary evolution that had actually worked.

[Jake Thornton 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @jakethornton]

“Tell him to enter the password he knows is correct. Inform him it is incorrect. Invite him to reset it. Watch as he enters the password he believed it to be all along. Then tell him he cannot use it… because it is his current password.”

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq War, an illegal war that killed over a million people.

As Health Secretary, he helped drive NHS privatisation.

He joined Labour Friends of Israel, opposed BDS as “spiteful”, praised Israel as a “democracy”, and called the Balfour Declaration “British values in action”. He is a Zionist.

Stop pretending he’s a radical alternative, he’s more of the same.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.”

― Henry Miller

[Creature @JanisAlekse]

@Sim_Jan_YT @Glinner Israel bombed Iran and Lebanon in addition to levelling Gaza. Israel don’t invade other countries, they get the USA to do that for them.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute humiliation for Europe. Prominent Prof. Jiang Xueqin confirms the European leadership is completely vassalized by Washington.

They knowingly covered up the pipeline sabotage.

The Trump administration forced them to destroy their own economy to serve American empire.

[THE ISLANDER @IslanderWORLD]

🚨WAKE UP EUROPE

UKRAINE WILL KILL EUROPE

Jeffrey Sachs to @vonderleyen Ursula von der Leyen & @kajakallas Kaja Kallas

Don't go to Kiev. Go to Moscow. Discuss with your counterparts.

Are you kidding? You're Europe. You're 450 million people. You're 20 trillion dollar economy. You should be the main economic trading partner of Russia. It's natural links.
By the way, if anyone would like to discuss how the U.S. blew up Nord Stream, I'd be happy to talk about that.

[Murteza OCAKLI @MortezaOjaghlou]

🛑🛑🛑 Jeffrey Sachs:

"...Aynı gün, İran gaddarca bombalandı. İran'ın dini liderinin suikasta uğradığı gün. 40 liderin öldürüldüğü gün. Dini liderin torununun öldürüldüğü gün.
Ne mi oldu?
Bahreyn'den gelen ilk konuşmacı, büyükelçi dedi ki: 'İran'ın bize yönelik bu sebepsiz saldırısını kınamak için buradayız.'
Sebepsiz mi? İsrail-ABD saldırganlığından sonra mı?
Kendi kendime, 'Yanlış duyuyor olmalıyım' diye düşündüm.
Ardından Fransız büyükelçi geldi: 'İran'ın komşu devletlere yönelik saldırısını kınamak için buradayız.'
Sonra Danimarka büyükelçisi geldi: 'İran'ı kınamak için buradayız.'
Sonra İngiliz büyükelçisi geldi: 'İran'ı kınamak için buradayız.'
Ardından Yunan büyükelçisi geldi: 'İran'ı kınamak için buradayız.'
George Orwell bile böyle bir şeyi uyduramazdı. Bu, İran'ın saldırıya uğradığı gündü. Sadece üç ülke —Rusya, Çin ve sanırım Afrika ülkeleri adına orada bulunan Somali— İsrail ve ABD'yi saldırdıkları için kınadı. Sadece üç ülke!
Düşünmek zorunda kaldım: 'Neler oluyor burada?'
Size ne olduğunu söyleyeyim, bu çok ilginç: Bunu söyleyen her bir ülkenin topraklarında bir Amerikan askeri üssü var.
Onlar egemen ülkeler değiller. Konuşmaya cesaret edemiyorlar. Amerikan ordusuna ev sahipliği yapıyorlar, CIA'e ev sahipliği yapıyorlar. Dikkatli olmak zorundalar!"

[Fun At All X @Ishita_Sharma42]

Relatable 💀

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

ICC judge Nicolas Guillou unable to use bank cards in Europe since issuing Netanyahu arrest warrant