I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already ablaze. Host of @PNWeirdPod , and an avid 🌵 fanatic
Oregon, USA
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New episode of the pod is out, and guys, The Fire is truly Rising with this one. . .
Very proud to announce that my interview with @MatthewMWolfe about his new book "Fires in the Night" is now out. Covering an extensive swath of eco-activist history and federal infiltration, all based around Eugene, Oregon, this is already essential listening for any PNWeirdo.
This is an extremely common lie that has been repeated ad nauseum by mainly white people until it has become a full blown historical misconception. Native cultures in the Americas knew very well what fermentation was, they just didn't make "liquor".
I got reassigned to remedial history for telling my AP history teacher that the idea of pre-columbian peoples being uniquely incapable of producing alcohol pre-contact was absurd & didn't fully explain cultural dysfunction, I apparently really tore into the guy & was so mad-
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I think part of the misunderstanding comes from the place alcohol held in European vs Native societies:
For whites, alcohol, beer or liquor, was an everyday affair, while for native cultures that used it, alcohol was tightly controlled and used ritually or by certain classes.
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Here we have a mechanical monster whose body fills whole factories, and whose demon power, at first veiled under the slow and measured motions of his giant limbs, at length breaks out into the fast and furious whirl of his countless working organs.
I am begging for people to read Samuel Butler's letter on machines that inspired Frank Herbert
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
Yup, tastes like fizzy banana slime, what more can you say really
Pear Kvass is finished, but tbh the 2nd round of my bread Kvass came out better. Cheers comrades 🍻
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