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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 6m

I hope there are cameras on it because at least one guy is going to Do What We Are All Thinking. Probably within the first week of the experience...

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 1h

Neat little spot in Cheiti :) #motosky

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 1h

Deck is still on the Farmhouse:)

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22h

Few hundred liters of olive oil in our future. Our trees are 4 km from the center of Loreto Aprutino. One of the three cities that make up Italy's Golden Triangle of olive oil production :) It's going to be straight pimp juice.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 30/09/2026

Four seats all to myself for SFO to Rome 🔥🔥🔥Andiamo MF'ers 🤣

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 29/09/2026

The stuff I find kicking around my toolbox. #MotoSky

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 29/09/2026

nope... I will 3D print my documents first

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 29/09/2026

2026 and we still can't put toner on paper reliably...

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 28/09/2026

I had not considered it but mostly because there is literally a Frantoio at the end of our driveway...

The distance between our farm and the facility where we drop off the olives from our trees to get pressed. I can quite literally walk there.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 28/09/2026

Farmers are on site at the Drift Farm / Fattoria del la Drift They cut back in the groves around the olive trees in prep for the start of our harvest. Clean flat ground will make it a lot easier to lay out the nets / tarps before we start raking the trees.

Some of our olive trees with the ground foliage trimmed away.

The tracked mini-tractor with the mower attachment on a flatbed trailer pulled by a big tractor, in front of the barn.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 27/09/2026

I'm Gen X they told me I wouldn't download a car and I'll be fucked if I'm not printing one right now. I've seen it before, and I'll see it again... It's all just a little bit of History repeating. youtu.be/yzLT6_TQmq8?...

youtu.be

Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey - History Repeating

YouTube video by WallofSoundRecording

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 27/09/2026

Despite the exposure showing absolute corruption, abuse, scandal, and tyrannical overreach... everyday I wake up those systems are still in place and those people still exist. Someone show me on the doll how and why the cycle continues when it's clear as day what needs to go away?

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 27/09/2026

Generation X grew up as kids fed the lie that cops were good and there to help you. Our music said don't fall for it. Now into our adulthood we see the citizenry daily carrying cameras in their hands that expose the evil perpertrated by our enforcement class to the world as soon as it happens.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 27/09/2026

And maaaaan if you get that reference we can be friends because it is a deep cut.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 27/09/2026

WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF META VR GLASSES THE XR INDUSTRY SECURITY ADVISORY SYSTEM HAS STEPPED UP TO THREAT LEVEL: "WILD PALMS"

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 26/09/2026

That's all fine and dandy to take pictures, Just remember to stay away from Europa, please.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 26/09/2026

I would bring popcorn to this TED talk.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 26/09/2026

The part where I think your match is hitting the sandpaper and just isn't catching fire: You don't understand that all that water and land allocated to grow almonds could easily be repurposed to grow much more calorie efficient crops to feed many more people. But RZA's C.R.E.A.M is in full effect.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 26/09/2026

I just happen to also have the perspective of someone that spent decades of their former life inside the windowless boxes developing an intimate understanding of how they function and how much power / HVAC draw actually required for the compute specs. I have feet on both sides of the fence.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 26/09/2026

So when I say to you I know how much water it takes to grow shit... it's because there is dirt on my boots.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 26/09/2026

We sewed sunflowers this season, and our Olive grove is ready for harvest. Wheat next season. Very dry this summer so low sunflower yield, but that's fine, they're just biomass for next season's crop.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 26/09/2026

yeah that's why I own a farm in Italy, thanks for that information

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 23/09/2026

I could not be a good face for my company while interacting with 'enthusiasts' and I am in awe of The restraint a lot in your industry show in their interactions. I'll make the popcorn...

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 23/09/2026

corp.overlords always seem to take getting poached by a competitor a lot more personal and were quick to crack open the wallet and offer up a Pony to hold on to you. In this age of AI don't know if you could game the system that way and I've been out of the corporate life for a couple years.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 23/09/2026

Protip from the dot.com hell of the '90s and the 00's. Those of us in the same field used to occasionally make each other offers that we could take to our corp.overlords and say, "look if you can't pay me X, they can, and I'm out of here" which usually resulted in an offer-match to retain you.

dot.fo

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 23/09/2026

"...but it comes out of a different set of books for a different budget allocation and we just claim it as a loss so it's OK..." ..., and my eyes roll back in my head so hard that I'm staring at the demon in this skull piloting the meat mech who shrugs and says, "I heard the same bullshit you did."

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 23/09/2026

COMING TO YOU THIS SUMMER ON THE OCHO!!!!!1!!

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 23/09/2026

(shrug) I don't grow either, our farm grows sunflowers, wheat, and olives. I know the irrigation numbers for those pretty well. Almonds... just the number I saw in the book when I looked it up.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 23/09/2026

...and they would usually last exactly one summer in the minitruck before the magic smoke leaked out...

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 23/09/2026

yeah we figured out in a different part of this thread that I'm smoking crack and half blind and all I'm seeing is where they sprayed the patina on her costume for the battle scenes to make it look worn. The dark areas line up with how the dress would hang on her if she was standing straight up.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 23/09/2026

From there I went to Netcom, @Home, Globalcenter, Exodus, Cisco, Google, Synopsys, and these days I run my XR company. Never went to college. A life built on a base of skills that I inadvertently learned as a child with an Atari XL and a 300 baud modem. ...sometimes that child wore a black hat.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 23/09/2026

I didn't go to college. Between 12~18 years old I learned how the 'internet' worked and how to fix / alt-route around things when they were broken. All just because I wanted to get to my favorite MUD and kill dragons. Gave me skills. Went to work for Hewlett-Packard straight out of HS, support.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 23/09/2026

Atari 800 XL ~ For xmas I got a 300 baud modem. I begged for it, I was 12 years old. I found my way onto Spies in the Wire, Hotel California, The Well, ARPANET, USENET, IRC, LambdaMOO, BBS'es. A Small group of GenX, myself included, were the first children raised by what would become the internet.

cover for the Atari xm301 modem owner's manual featuring a black and white photo of the modem.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 23/09/2026

My side's hurt from laughing you asshole

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

Giving me flashbacks to the instructions that came with the cheap stereo equipment you'd get at the flea market back in the '90s. Stuff where there was always a sports car, a bathing suit model, and a tiger on the box. With a name suspiciously a letter or two off the brand it was supposed to be.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

Passport issues vanquished... pick it up tomorrow. And then it's back to Italia next week to help bring in the Sunflowers and Olives. ProTip kids: make sure your passport isn't in your pants before you throw them into the washing machine...

A red Fiat treaded tractor towing seeding equipment sewing sunflower seeds in my lower fields back in May.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

I've been telling people for quite some time that America is a casino. Come on in and give the house all the money you want. But do realize as soon as you bust they're going to put you out on the sidewalk without a second thought. There is no safety net here.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

I think I'm having a stroke because I can't comprehend that sentence... I am about the right age now.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

...but Occam's. it's paint and I'm blind 🤣

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

because you can make that stuff really thin and it slices like cake.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

That's why I thought it was a special appliance designed just for her / molded off a cast of her since it blends in so smoothly. I assumed it was some form of non-newtonian / D3O padding.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

I bet when she stands normally it all lines up and you wouldn't even notice :)

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

and now that I look at it again I realize exactly what it is... They used a sprayer to apply the battle damage patina to her costume while she was wearing it. Darker area is the part that was exposed when they sprayed the patina, lighter areas on her tights were covered by the rest of the dress.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

no, I'm specifically talking about the slightly darker clearly defined rectangular area that goes from about hip to mid thigh. again I'm no expert, could be just some light padding...

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

are we here yet? I feel like we're close...

"Kill yourself for the Robot God" ~ Violet, lead singer, 'Robot God', way back in the 90's

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

Sure... sounds good, I like it.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

And here's a protip, it's not if people believe you or not when it comes to water usage in this country... The People of Walmart do not care. They won't care till it's gone. Find a better use for your time.

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

So you're saying being off a few hundred gallons is exaggerating on my part? ...never mind the fact that we're talking about a four-digit number already. Forest for the trees...

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Mike @ BFVR Labs @moike.brainfizz.net · 22/09/2026

that darker area on the tight tells me that they might actually be 'appliances' ... or that could simply be padding in those areas to take hits. (shrug) I'm no expert.

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