Angelino Desmet.🌹 @stardust@qoto.org

One of the greatest flexes in history, by Buckminster Fuller:

“Bucky was sent to Harvard. It was here that his long battle with authority began. Halfway through his first year he withdrew his entire college allowance from the bank to romance a Manhattan chorus girl and was promptly expelled. He was readmitted the next year and thrown out a second time for ‘irresponsibility and lack of interest’. He would later write:

“What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.”

In the end, the man who was to become the greatest architect of his age didn’t graduate. The only degrees he ever received were the forty-seven honorary doctorates he was awarded many years later.” —https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6929497-the-qi-book-of-the-dead

#education

WOMBO's AI generative art is fantastic, but it's incredibly disappointing that they fell for Web3's greed-inducing, societal- and environmental-destroying hypercapitalistic narrative:

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/web3-bullshit.html.

“Me and @Chen_Hao have made some progress on visualizing rank 4/5 hyperbolic Coxeter groups. We are happy to announce that there are infinitely many "pseudo Kleinian" fractals, generated from Coxeter groups of rank 5 and level 3. The 12 scenes are all from different groups” —https://twitter.com/neozhaoliang/status/1440727093864587267

I wish people like this, and academics in general, would lead the migration from twitter to Mastodon (@qoto.org).