I don't know how this account doesn't have 10k followers. https://twitter.com/GlobalLandUse/status/1335396037402497025

I spend minutes looking at every single post.

I live for this stuff. Things like why Midwestern farmland looks like (1) and Louisiana farmland looks like (2).

(I know the answer, but I'm curious if anyone else does.)

The answer is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigneurial_system_of_New_France

The idea that differences in historical land tenure systems can generate physical distinctions in the land *that stark* should blow anyone's mind. Our *categories* carving up and shaping the world!

This happens *whenever* we categorize, but the effects aren't usually visible from space.

Anyway, different kinds of categorization effects like this are all I think about anymore, so.