Murray Valyear

@MarkWin1432 @nxt888 Perhaps, but the way it’s worded leaves me wondering. Saying they used the buffalo jumps ‘before the return of the horse’ seems to imply it was a method developed after the horses disappeared. That when the horse returned, the Blackfoot readopted them. Just my interpretation.

@MurrayValyear @nxt888 I wonder what strange form they have taken in the old stories. That was well before anyone domesticated them; they must have hunted them for food like everyone else did in that era.

The method is called a buffalo jump. It works like this: runners on foot position themselves along drive lanes marked by stone cairns stretching for kilometers. They herd the bison toward a cliff. The bison go over. The community processes the meat below. No horses. No Europeans. Just ten thousand years of sophisticated, community-organized, highly effective bison hunting by the people you just claimed never hunted bison without horses. The stone cairns are still there. You can visit them.

@MarkWin1432 @nxt888 I don’t think people put it together. Of course I was aware of the extinction of megafauna in NA around the end of the last ice age, but I was still astonished to read those words there. I asked the curator about it; he told me their oral traditions retain such knowledge.

@MurrayValyear @nxt888 I wonder if people realize that it truly was the return of the horse?

@putzisbackbaby The Putz waxing poetic! Gonna be a good day…

Nature is freaky as fuck... Sun kisses us. Frost bites us. Wind blows us. Heat strokes us.

@BrianRoemmele @Thomadsen Thanks foe your work, Brian.

Thanks for asking…I train AI on 1870-1970 data because that’s where the high-protein, rigorous knowledge lives—the stuff that built the modern world without the noise. Every word back then had real cost: paper, ink, printing, editing by peers, and personal reputation on the line. Authors faced their neighbors, families, and industries. No anonymous drive-by posts at 2 a.m., no engagement farming, no SEO sludge or Reddit echo chambers. It was accountable, optimistic, discovery-driven writing from an era when humanity was figuring things out for the first time, books, patents, lab notes, films, manuals, court records. That produces clear thinking and originality in models instead of the homogenized “trendslop” we get from post-1970 internet training data. Studies and my own tests confirm it: feed models consensus-policed garbage and you get buzzword-laden, groupthink outputs that chase fads. Curate 1870-1970 offline corpora and you break the doom spiral toward true AGI and ASI. We’re losing this data at an alarming rate: the Great Forgetting. 98.5% or more of it was never digitized. It’s sitting in basements, attics, and private collections, slowly degrading. The Amnesia Generation assumes everything important is already online, but that’s a dangerous myth. Physical media decays, estates get cleared out, and no one scans it because there’s no immediate profit. That massive mountain of undigitized history is vanishing while we drown models in low-quality web scrapes. Climate-controlled donations like the ~750 films and appliance materials from the 1940s-1950s are miracles that save irreplaceable primary sources, real demonstrations of technology and daily life that capture the era’s ingenuity far better than any compressed online clip. It wasn’t on the internet because it was never meant to be mass-consumed that way, it was physical, local, and expensive to produce. No one uploaded grandma’s basement full of 15 boxes of consumer electronics films, manuals, and ads and more… These were working professional archives, not performative content. That’s why originals from climate-controlled storage are one-of-a-kind: superior preservation means no mold, no fading, full fidelity for training, pristine frames showing exact mid-century engineering, marketing, and culture that digitized versions lose to compression and selection bias. Sometimes I literally have the last surviving copy because generous people on X dig deep and donate what their families preserved. This archive isn’t just “more data”but the antidote, high-signal material that lets models reason with historical humility and accountability instead of recycling today’s trends. Boom—more training data that actually moves us forward.

Boom! MORE AI TRAINING DATA! Someone here on X has just donated ~750 films and related 15 boxes of materials related to appliances and consumer electronics from the 1940s-1950s. Their great grandfather had a climate controlled basement full of this and more! ONE OF A KIND!

@putzisbackbaby We're gonna follow you anyways, Putz!

@LorazeKim Thanks for sayin so I need to be in more too I think…

I’m not in enough cahoots

@putzisbackbaby Really settin the tone for the day, Putz!

@_BLShelton Brittany you are encouraging me, thank you so much. Keep posting!

After almost 20 years I am way over the period of needing or wanting pata on the back. The only reason I share here is to encourage other ppl. That's it.

@shadows_control Thanks

Learn how to recognize the signs of verbal abuse and differentiate it from ordinary arguments in relationships. #VerbalAbuse shadowsofcontrol.com/articles/disti…

@putzisbackbaby Putz there's a reason ur my only meme lord. Thanks for the steady laughs.

@LaceyBonarHull Thanks for posting these images, Lacey. They are beautiful and fascinating. What are we to make of these hybrids? What meaning did they hold? Or are they merely whimsical?

A few interesting little hybrids for your Saturday evening ✨ Bodleian Library MS Douce 62 Book of Hours, France ca 1400-1410

@_BLShelton Thanks Brittany. You keep goin too, you are more helpful than you might realize.

Don't let shame ruin your outlook today. No matter what those whispers try to make you think, remember: You are doing a good job. Going at your own pace. Change takes time. Nothing or no one is perfect. It's ok to be proud of your progress. Enjoy your day.

@ryanam325 @david_parker Fair point re muting followers. I muted those abusive anons for fun and won’t miss ‘em. I usually use it for big accounts that I don’t want to see anymore. I actually use ‘not interested’ more for clickbait; fights, crashes, etc. It’s my taste. Tx for the respectful discussion.

100%, abuse is counter productive. Block if they are repeat offenders. Muting seems dishonest and passively narcissistic to me. It’s like saying I don’t want to hear what you’ve got to say but I want to keep the follower and I want them to keep listening to me. Personally I could care less if someone chooses to post something stupid. It just allows other readers to see that person for who they are. Plus not everyone agrees on what’s stupid. Sometimes it’s good to have that dynamic, just don’t reply if it’s not worth your time. Rage/click baiting is also not that big of a deal. If you don’t like it don’t reply. But if other readers chose converse with them then that’s their experience to have and it just adds engagement to your post.

I love the mute button, it is far more powerful than the block button. People don't know they are muted, they scream into the void, but I never hear them.

@vintagemapstore You’ve been doing these lately and they’re cool, but you should slow them down a little.

The borders of Iran over history

@ryanam325 @david_parker I think we’re agreeing that abuse is not discourse. What does matter to anyone else if I block or mute? Same result for me. I’m also not into what I deem stupidity, or rage-baiting, or click-bait either. Muting shapes your timeline. I don’t see how that manipulates discourse.

@MurrayValyear @david_parker In other words… Manipulating discourse to suit an aganda. There is no honour in that. Bragging about it is even worse. Now I completely understand blocking someone if they are abusive.

@pati_marins64 Thanks for the post, Patricia. How fast are those surface and underwater speeds compared to other naval ships (targets and threats)?

The Stealthy Dwarf: Iran's Deceptively Dangerous Ghadir Mini Submarine This Iranian submarine is capable of operating at a speed of 20 km/h underwater and 15 km/h on the surface, and its range is 1,010 km on the surface and 250-300 km underwater after modernization. In 2018, Iran announced a new generation of Ghadir, with digital screens, superior radar and optical systems, including a laser rangefinder and thermal vision, and, according to internal images, this optical system is displayed on a color screen. There is also a short-range air radar to alert about the proximity of aircraft. Behind the turret, there is a long air tube that folds back from the submarine. This air tube helps the submarine provide the necessary air for the diesel engine to function without needing to surface. The modernization -2018-,prepared the mini sub for night operations, including the implementation of two novelties: the Jask-2 anti-ship missile that is fired while the vessel is submerged and has a range of up to 300 km, and a possible supercavitation torpedo, which reaches 360 km/h and is capable of causing immense damage, but has a range of just over 15 km. Although it may seem incapable, the Ghadir has already taken photos of American ships from very close range without being detected. What surprises me most is what has not yet been said about the Ghadir. For example, shortly after announcing the modernization, there was a battery explosion in a Ghadir while this modernization was being carried out, which killed 3 crew members. I have the intuition that Iran was secretly starting the installation of lithium batteries in the Ghadir, since it doesn't make sense that they replaced the lead batteries with other more modern ones when Iran already had lithium batteries. The modernization of the engines, including the implementation of BLDC (brushless DC) motors, created a much quieter Ghadir capable of remaining submerged for many hours beyond the original 11 hours. If it received lithium batteries in secret, we are talking about 6-8 days submerged. The Ghadir submarines are a danger, and we know very little about them. Almost everything we know about it was said by the Iranians or through observations of released videos.

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