Eric L-M Shuman

@barzai.com

Historian ecologist; astronomy and experiential learning. Masters (Ancient Mediterranean). 🎲🌌🏺♻️🪔🌱🖖🦬 linktr.ee/barzaiObservatory

And in an increasingly complex society in collapse, we are going to need more expertise, not less. There's no way that we as individuals can know all that we will need to know to survive the coming years.

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

After more than 200 years, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is coming home! I am proud to have worked with Chairman Rupnick to secure $1M to build a Tribal Government headquarters here, on Illinois soil. Honored to have played a small role in this long-overdue homecoming.

It was built by someone trained by/school of Archimedes. It featured differential gears way ahead of their time, a hand crank perpetual calendar. Abt the size of an old laptop, the inside covers were an engraved instruction manual. I did a lot of research on this thing. Love talking about it.

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows@rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 4d ago

Divers Found the World’s First Computer in an Ancient Shipwreck www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

If you hunt through the code there are some great comments, including this passage from the lunar landing routine that ends with "OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD...". The Wizard of Oz reference has a neat twist: the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West was also named Margaret Hamilton. (6/6)

A screenshot of code the THE_LUNAR_LANDING.agc. The comments read:
# BRANCH IF ANTENNA ALREADY IN POSITION 1
# ASTRONAUT: PLEASE CRANK THE
#                          SILLY THING AROUND
# TERMINATE
# PROCEED       SEE IF HE'S LYING
# ENTER             INITIALIZE LANDING RADAR
#                          OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD...

“When Pythagoras was asked about the purpose for which humans were created, he said, ‘To look upon the heavens’” τί δὴ τοῦτό ἐστι Πυθαγόρας ἐρωτώμενος, ‘τὸ θεάσασθαι’ εἶπε ‘τὸν οὐρανόν’, #Iamblichus