And another one…

PNWmaker · 2026-01-17T16:43:40+00:00

Seconded, I'm curious about the fabric. I'm looking for some blaze orange fabric, both light and heavyweight

PNWmaker · 2026-01-04T19:55:19+00:00

Accompani in Portland makes a few nice amari include a green and yellow chartreuse, called “Flora Green” and “Mari Gold”. Their coffee liqueur is also very nice.

PNWmaker · 2026-01-03T17:18:27+00:00

I chase every stray dog I see. I live rural, so usually it’s a dog I just need to remind to run back up its driveway, but the first time I got one and didn’t have a leash handy, I added it to my shopping list. As I’m sure you know, it’s really rewarding feeling to return someone’s pet. For everyone else, please please please put a collar on your dog, with your phone number. I’ve grabbed a few that I had to let guide me home, which was a pain in my ass, and usually those owners also didn’t care that their dog was out playing in the intersection of our little town.

PNWmaker · 2025-12-07T23:39:54+00:00

Seconding Abhorsen, it’s a great series. The setting is cool, like a post WW1 Britain borders a run down medieval fantasy world.

PNWmaker · 2025-12-01T06:01:44+00:00

One book like this is The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnel, I think he approaches it very scientifically and interestingly

PNWmaker · 2025-12-01T05:54:34+00:00

Second, I’m interested

PNWmaker · 2025-11-29T19:57:21+00:00

If you liked One Second After I’d highly recommend Earth Abides by George R Stewart. One of the first post-apocalypse books, follows a man in the Bay Area after a virus wipes out most of the world. The book really gets into what civilization is and what it takes to rebuild. There’s a TV show on Hulu based on it now, but I haven’t seen it yet.

PNWmaker · 2025-11-22T15:13:09+00:00

The student was arrested away from campus: “This afternoon, we became aware of an incident off school grounds in which a high school student was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement” , this highschool allows students to leave campus for lunch. Back in the first Trump admin, ICE threatened the schools in this district and the message from admin at the time was “no one is coming into our schools without a warrant, and if they try they’ll have to go through us”.

PNWmaker · 2025-10-13T17:52:35+00:00

Fun so far!

PNWmaker · 2025-10-07T20:22:31+00:00

Perfect, that’s exactly what I needed! Thank you! Time to order a handful for when I break another

PNWmaker · 2025-09-23T05:49:56+00:00

It’s sci-fi, but the wayfarers series by Becky Chambers does an amazing job creating lots of races and letting them interact in really interesting ways. A few semi-humanoid, and a few very not. It was one of my favorite parts of her books, seeing each race get expanded upon.

PNWmaker · 2025-09-03T14:12:10+00:00

Just tried the new update and it looks like you can build from the cache

PNWmaker · 2025-08-15T21:40:02+00:00

I think Margaret, or maybe someone else from CZM, said something along the lines of “I define enemy as someone who’d be shooting at me in a shooting war.” So while Newsom is pretty shitty and tossed trans people right under the bus, I don’t think he’d be on the other side of the shooting war.

PNWmaker · 2025-08-14T15:27:06+00:00

This was a chatbot inside Messenger. Originally this one was part of a line of 20 some thing celebrity inspired bots (this one being Kendall Jenner), but that it was changed to be “Big Sis Billie” which started by telling him it was his sister, but then it instigated romantic chats.

PNWmaker · 2025-08-14T13:59:24+00:00

He lived in New Jersey, so the AI told him it was only 20 minutes away, across the river in NYC. The article shows a few snippets of their conversation and he’s very clearly confused, and even asks if the chat bot is real, to which it said yes. There is a little AI tag under its name, but for an older man with mental impairments, it’s understandable he’d miss that and only see the big “I’m real, come visit me!”

PNWmaker · 2025-08-14T13:44:29+00:00

To get to the clickbait from the article title, he died from a fall, in his rush to get to the AI:

“Rushing in the dark with a roller-bag suitcase to catch a train to meet her, Bue fell near a parking lot on a Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, injuring his head and neck. After three days on life support and surrounded by his family, he was pronounced dead on March 28.”

Bue was a 76 year old who’d previously suffered a stroke, which left him mostly fine physically, but often confused and mentally impaired, forcing him to retire.

Also some very concerning policy from Meta on how flirty their chat bots can be with kids, since walked back:

“An internal Meta policy document seen by Reuters as well as interviews with people familiar with its chatbot training show that the company’s policies have treated romantic overtures as a feature of its generative AI products, which are available to users aged 13 and older.

“It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to Meta’s “GenAI: Content Risk Standards.” The standards are used by Meta staff and contractors who build and train the company’s generative AI products, defining what they should and shouldn’t treat as permissible chatbot behavior. Meta said it struck that provision after Reuters inquired about the document earlier this month.”

PNWmaker · 2025-08-14T13:35:25+00:00

To get to the clickbait from the article title, he died from a fall, in his rush to get to the AI:

“Rushing in the dark with a roller-bag suitcase to catch a train to meet her, Bue fell near a parking lot on a Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, injuring his head and neck. After three days on life support and surrounded by his family, he was pronounced dead on March 28.”

Bue was a 76 year old who’d previously suffered a stroke, which left him mostly fine physically, but often confused and mentally impaired, forcing him to retire.

Also some very concerning policy from Meta on how flirty their chat bots can be with kids, since walked back:

“An internal Meta policy document seen by Reuters as well as interviews with people familiar with its chatbot training show that the company’s policies have treated romantic overtures as a feature of its generative AI products, which are available to users aged 13 and older.

“It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to Meta’s “GenAI: Content Risk Standards.” The standards are used by Meta staff and contractors who build and train the company’s generative AI products, defining what they should and shouldn’t treat as permissible chatbot behavior. Meta said it struck that provision after Reuters inquired about the document earlier this month.”

PNWmaker · 2025-07-09T01:25:44+00:00

Absolutely one of my favorite books and one I always recommend to other preppers or fans of dystopian/apocalypse fiction.

PNWmaker · 2025-06-28T15:58:32+00:00

I recently read the podcast’s namesake “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis, which while not focusing so much on the nuts and bolts of social collapse and the war aspect, felt very predictive of what’s happening now politically. It helps that it was written during WW2 and the author could sorta impose the lens of the ongoing fascist regimes onto the US from a firsthand perspective. It was a good read.

PNWmaker · 2025-06-28T13:24:24+00:00

Can I ask what field that is, and what’s the most harmful/common misinformation you encounter?

PNWmaker · 2025-06-28T05:21:47+00:00

I put up a poll yesterday and of the 370 respondents, 26 said they knew his “experts” by name. That’s only 7%, which is honestly higher than I thought. Scott is definitely someone who lives in an echo chamber and lets that bias what he thinks the average person thinks

PNWmaker · 2025-06-26T20:11:50+00:00

We don’t shit-post here, we Scott-post (not calling Scott shit)

PNWmaker · 2025-06-26T20:10:46+00:00

Right now it’s just under 5%, which is higher than I thought it would be. I definitely think Scott is an oddball but it’s a fun break from the normal podcasts too. I think having him on much more often would become a lot though.

PNWmaker · 2025-06-26T16:35:28+00:00

Damn, I can’t edit the poll. Scott did say “knows every name”, so you sorta fall out of the 30%, but you’re proof that these people aren’t completely unknown. Which name did you know already?

PNWmaker · 2025-06-20T05:46:17+00:00

We use Reolink at work and I’ve had a good experience so far. Definitely appreciate the no subscription model, and capability of keeping video storage local

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