#wildspeculation — Public Fediverse posts
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It niggles me that the #Babylonians, who used base 60, divided a circle into 360 degrees, not 60 (like the minutes of a clock face) or 3600. It seems untidy.
So I'm wondering whether what they were actually dividing up, into 60 parts, was one of the angles of an equilateral triangle: the simplest angle to construct.
Six of those fit nicely and satisfyingly inside a circle, so that's the obvious next step and gets you your 360°.
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@ninawillburger
A hare, a farmer with a sickle gathering crops, a child(?) petting or feeding a sheep/goat(?)
Possibly lots of fertility symbolism. Maybe it belonged to a farmer; or a mother who imagined that she had benefitted at some time through magic. Are they snakes or ribbons on the middle section?
I wonder what's on the other side?
#WildSpeculation is fun :-)
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I wonder if #DeepSeek is why I had to block most Chinese data center IP addresses from accessing the inkscape website.
If so, it's one hell of an aggressive bastard, practically assuming everyone is on a cloud instance and hammering your nginx with thousand of queries a second.
Yes, I know #ConspiracyTheory with no proof. #WildSpeculation with no correlation. Let alone causation.
But someone's been hammering websites with filter evading signatures.