Filmmaker Brett Gaylor (previously)
realized that Google had saved all the voice-searches his five-year-old
had done since he discovered the feature a year ago; in a charming
little animated documentary, Brett muses on the ambivalent miracle of a
child being able to do research on anything or anything (but while
storing all their intellectual history with a giant, creepy
multinational company).
I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been
The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”
my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”
Ancient Shitposting
Now on the History Channel
‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC – 43 BC
Yo I’m trying out making comics on an iPad Pro. So far so good but sometimes things are a little awkward. Normal things like the undo or save shortcuts. I think I might still be on the fence about it. Will report back with more info.
