Notices by Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)

@apodoxus Yeah, sure. Reading Moby Dick is the same as using an LLM to do things for you

@apodoxus I didn't move any goalposts. What are you talking about? You said using chat gpt is the same as consuming any fiction. I disagreed.

A text from a friend

While I was camping last week, I had better poops every single day than I do at home. (home poops are usually kind of bad).

This was in spite of eating a lot of food that would be considered unhealthy, being dehydrated a lot, and spending hours just sitting in a car.

Are my bowels adapted for junk food and inactivity?

@botvolution It's nice to meet you, Zane.

Last week, my brother and I road tripped through the Utah desert. I brought the Braztcam along. Here's some footage.

https://makertube.net/w/tYZU2eWj9K768tczFgsQp7

This was our approximate route, but with about 200 miles of side trips missing because google only lets you add so many destinations to one trip.

@botvolution no, about sixty years after that. He arrived around 1912ish when the railroad was giving away free land to homesteaders.

I actually met him. He lived to be almost 100. I guess there must have been a few short generations in there

Old human artifacts

Things we saw in Zane and Beryl

Someone who lives nearby has a thing for frogs. I saw the giant frog on satellite view before getting here. It was cool to see the same figure on their gate

Nevada roadsights II

Nevada roadsights I

Alien creature sighting

Prospectin' for garnets on Garnet Hill

We stayed at Baker Creek in Great Basin National Park last night. It's very pretty, but very cold. Neither of us was able to keep warm through the night, even with cold-rated sleeping bags and extra blankets

First day in Utah and we went looking for topaz at Topaz Mountain. The mountain is all chopped up from people looking for gems. It was lots of hammering and chiseling with nothing to show for it.

I had better luck finding topaz in the washes, but they were small.

Lots of open country out here.

Beaver, Utah, what a place

Great great grandpa homesteaded out here in Il Zane, Utah, from the 1910s to the 1940s. We found the ruins of the place and explored a bit

There was more water in the valley back then, according to his telling of it, but it was still dry, so he dug this canal himself, with help from our great grandma, who was just a girl at the time.