The Siege of New Hampshire

Matt finally gets "running water" from the well. After cleaning up, he goes yard-sale-ing for cheap stuff in better condition that what's at the Swap Shop. He finds two canners and jars, so he can preserve his produce for the winter. He finds a door and a window which starts him thinking about building a tiny house out of pallets. He tries to return the library book on solar ...

Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss the 1909 short story by EM Forster, The Machine Stops -- an apocalyptic tale of the collapse of "civilized" urban mankind. They city people in his story had become totally dependent upon The Machine to supply their every need, -- even the air they breathed -- freeing them all to lives of pointless ease.
Sadly, modern urban planning and desig...

Matt needs cash to buy plumbing parts so he drives down to the lumber mill to see if there's any work. There isn't, but when one of the forklift drivers crashes and injures himself, Jimmy asks Matt if he can drive a fork truck. Matt says yes, without thinking. He has no idea. He has until the next morning to figure it out. Stopping at the library, he watches YouTube videos an...

With all the hubbub about AI potentially "killing us all" by the end of the decade, we thought we would ask the prime suspect -- AI itself -- how that's supposed to happen. Each of the three of us asked an AI platform what would be ten ways that AI could cause the extinction of mankind. I mean, they would know, right? We compared lists for common schemes and discussed a few o...