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advanced cat befriender @tr_babb on twitter Oakland, CA
How many corvids would norvid's buddies study, if norvid_studies' buddies studied corvids?
approximate 3D analogue to the mandelbrot set; found in the early 2010s. A lot of movies around that time used it as a special effect; Annihilation's alien is a mandelbulb, Big Hero 6 and Doctor Strange used it to signify alternate dimensions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelb...
and if you can make an icosahedron, then you must be able to make a dodecahedron by exchanging faces for vertices
the x's are snapshots of a person's mind state person x3 and person x3' are both person x2, but person x3 and x3' are different people
actually, looks like it's blocking you I wonder if that's why I couldn't see the thread either? bsky really needs better UX about all of this
TIL that at the height of Earth's orbital eccentricity, there is 20% (!!) seasonal variation of the size of the sun in the sky
here is a chart (of unknown reliability) showing murder exonerations by year of conviction. above theory would explain the peak as clearing previous mistakes; the subsequent fall as a decreased rate of new mistakes. source: www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/the-hum...