Stefan Nikolovski

@davidsenra Exactly, we can still have capitalism if we taxed the billionaires more

"Capitalism created the possibility of the win win win. It used to be a zero sum game where somebody won, somebody else lost. The biggest mistake people make, intellectuals in particular, they still think we're in a zero sum world. They're obsessed with some billionaires because Bernie Sanders thinks that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk somehow stole the money from the people. They don't understand that it's this prosperity machine that's creating more, not just for those billionaires, but for everything that they're touching. They're creating value for their customers, they're creating value for their employees. Their suppliers are flourishing, their investors are seeing their capital go up. It can be reinvested and compound. All philanthropy ultimately comes from business. That's where the profits are. Where does all the taxes come from? It ultimately comes from business as well. This is the engine that's lifting humanity out. The entrepreneurs are the drivers of that engine. Somebody like Elon Musk, he gets a very, very, very tiny sliver of the value that he creates for the whole world." — @iamjohnmackey

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 philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/3114…

@liron Both?

Is it getting smarter or am I getting dumber

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. instagram.com/reel/DRPpGcZjd…

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?

@da_fant You're saying US tech companies play so dirty that the fines they pay are bigger than the collective tax of all EU tech companies? Wild

EU makes more from fines on US tech, than tax from ALL of public European tech in 2024 EU fined US tech companies €3.8B meanwhile public internet tech companies paid only €3.2B in income tax

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: #core-R12-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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 sci-hub.se/10.1038/293568…

All humans regardless of age, education, and culture can perceive and distinguish elementary geometric shapes. Unlike us, baboons lack these intuitions of simple geometry. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC40…

@BoredElonMusk All I heard is spaghetti ankles

I have never seen a man crush his testicles harder than this dude.

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

@KennethDredd This image is the perfect conjunction of the tech spheres