Post #1396005
2026-04-06 10:38 UTC
Some of critical AI literacy is to say "hey, you know not all computers pollute or are AI nonsense machines?"
It's not that everyone specifically needs to decolonise computation actively immediately, but just to take a first step and learn to look around us properly.
🐯 Tipu's tiger is amazing; sadly stolen & now in the V&A, created in India & depicting a tiger mauling an English man.
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@olivia@scholar.social 2026-04-06 10:40
Also the antikythera mechanism and the Mayan calendar, both ways of modelling time passing, the earth and planets, and sun, etc. are wonderful examples of again computers with no pollution inherently and fun for kids: See more: https://maya.nmai.si.edu/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Maya%20Calendar%20System.pdf https://www.mayaarchaeologist.co.uk/public-resources/maya-world/maya-calendar-system/ 8/