The Hooverville Hexagon: Alternate Realities

 

 

Robbie Talks AI

(among the shamanic drummers)

by Robbie Stamp

 

There's a video for this. Robbie writes: I was at Medicine Festival thus week talking about AI. It was actually a deeply human affair in a glade in a wood. I was taken under the wing of the female Ecuadorean Shamanistic drummers for some reason. Not a sentence I’ve had cause to write very often!

 

Editor's Note: Medicine Festival takes place in Berkshire, UK. There is a website and they have an app. Trigger warnings: Animated hummingbirds and such, awful puns like 'bee here'. Persistence past the animation yields the information that this an environmentally conscious non-profit that raises money to support indigenous communities around the world. They picked a lovely spot for a meeting and we're willing to bet the drumming was fun, too.

 

Their statement: Our vision is a world where nature is cherished, peace is revered and difference is celebrated – where humankind has reclaimed the gifts of gratitude, and guardianship for all life.

 

Quote of the Day

From the Internet

Planetary distance are temporatory earth, equater the elenonts and regnestiom org toed dishligns.

An AI-generated chart distributed to students in a Louisville, Kentucky, middle school. (The PTA is looking into it.)

 

 

Comment Section

 

Paigetheoracle writes: Spiny puffball looks the most likely for the fungi. I've noticed that about light and leaves before on a sunny day - mesmerising!

 

The Editor: They're even more so during an eclipse, when you can see little moons between the leaves.

 

Is the identification correct? Are these immature (white) examples of Lycoperdon echinatum? Will we ever find a competent mycologist to answer our questions? (Okay, it does look a tiny bit like an albino hedgehog. There's a North American variety that hasn't got its own name yet.)

 

Aradhye Axat writes about the Story of Colonel H: Nice read. ;) An anecdotal life supersedes a mundane existence.

 

Art Corner

By Paigetheoracle

 

This is Paige's latest work of art. Its title is Atomic Spin. Thank us later.

 

Video of the Day:

Parachuting Beavers: Beaver Action Heroes

 

 

Public domain film from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game about an unusual method of relocating beavers - by turning them into furry paratroopers. This, just for Hoovervillians, is the story retold from the beavers' point of view.

 

TTFN, Dmitri Gheorgheni, Editor