Longitude and our neurons of navigation

[wormold]

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-thrilling-tale-of-longitude-and

[hehdhdjehehegwv]

Getting really sick of these AI gen graphics on blog posts and YouTube vids to the point it’s an automatic back click when I see one. I hope it ends.

[mhuffman → hehdhdjehehegwv]

I don't think it will. They can just make it generate more Corporate Memphis-y images so you will feel comfortable citizen.

[hehdhdjehehegwv → mhuffman]

I think what bothers me is you can make some pretty cool - and artistically novel - things with gen AI.

But this type of “throw a bunch of random keywords related to the blog/video content and go brrrrr on MidJounrey” is just trash.

[mattclarkdotnet]

After moving from Europe to Australia my sense of East and West was completely broken. I would exit a building and turn the wrong way all the time.

Having done a lot of navigation/sailing in my youth, my brain automatically was computing east/west based on the sun being in the south.

[SoftTalker → mattclarkdotnet]

A rare disadvantage of having learned to navigate by the sun.

I generally have no idea which way is east or west unless the sun is quite low in the sky, or I already know the area and just know the layout.