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— quoting núll (@nullpointered)
web weaver ✓ @deepfates · 8h
You see this across all types of societies. A sudden mania for tower building, and then just as suddenly it stops. only one tower survives. evidence of The wizard war
> QUOTED: núll ✓ @nullpointered · 10h
I think about this a lot
[Image 1: old illustration of a medieval city with dozens of tall stone towers, likely San Gimignano or medieval Bologna]
[Image 2: modern aerial photo of Bologna showing the Two Towers (Asinelli and Garisenda) rising above the city, most other towers gone]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A humorous historical observation (medieval Italian "tower societies" like Bologna/San Gimignano, where competitive tower-building booms then collapses to a few survivors) framed jokingly as "evidence of a wizard war" — general internet-history curiosity, no direct AI content.