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The indie artists suing Stable Diffusion may not realize it, but they're doing the Mouse's dirty work. Disney and the rest of Hollywood have been eerily quiet about the launch of Stable Diffusion, despite the fact that this open-source A.I. software…
January 19, 2023
Article at Reason
Unless you’re on an episode of Naked and Afraid, your clothing is an important part of most survival situations. Think of clothes as life-saving shelter or armor that you carry with you all the time. This guide explains what to look for and…
July 13, 2021
Article at The Prepared
As an editor at The Prepared, I’ve spent a lot of time over the past two years professionally shopping for gear on the internet. When we put together one of our in-depth reviews, we go through a lengthy process where we first put together a list of…
December 18, 2020
Article at The Prepared
From the Inuit of Alaska to the Sámi of Finland, the winter survival skills of indigenous peoples were developed over millennia of trial and error. Much of the indigenous knowledge of how to get through winter falls into the following…
December 14, 2020
Article at The Prepared
Modern outdoor clothing is a miracle of science. Polyester, nylon, and other synthetic fabrics and blends have a combination of strength, weight, comfort, and protection that our fur-wearing ancestors could never have dreamed possible. But this stuff…
December 11, 2020
Article at The Prepared
William S. Forschten’s post-apocalyptic novel, One Second After, famously describes a post-apocalyptic world of clogged roadways and stranded motorists, as all the continent’s cars are instantly stopped by a single blast from a high-altitude…
November 24, 2020
Article at The Prepared
I have a confession to make: despite the fact that prepping is my day job, I didn’t really have my go-bag in good working order until this past April. Yeah, I had a go-bag, but it was more aspirational than operational — more “Jon’s bag of survival…
November 02, 2020
Article at The Prepared
Fats and proteins are a bigger challenge when putting together your food preps than other categories like grains and veggies. These critical nutrient families tend to have a terrible shelf life, so if you want either of them in a form that’ll last…
October 22, 2020
Article at The Prepared
Doomshopping — a vicious cycle of doomscrolling, fear-fueled impulse buying (of preps and supplies), guilt at overspending, and then back around to doomscrolling to justify the purchases and silence the guilt. So may Americans are doing it right now…
October 16, 2020
Article at The Prepared
Election-related fears have trapped way too many Americans in the doomshopping loop — late-night doomscrolling, then shopping, purchasing, a quick dopamine hit, followed by a crash into guilt and helplessness, then back around to doomscrolling to…
October 14, 2020
Article at The Prepared
As if you needed another reason to always have a go-bag constantly at the ready, a new NOAA report brings word that 2020 has already hit the previous annual record of 16 disasters that cost $1 billion or more — and there’s still a whole quarter left…
October 07, 2020
Article at The Prepared
Those readers who’ve been with us since our January coverage of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Wuhan, China, know that The Prepared has consistently predicted the twists and turns of this pandemic. Our blog has been early on many stories, and our…
September 02, 2020
Article at The Prepared
Covid-19 has given rise to a new blood feud—and the two camps are increasingly blaming each other for everything the pandemic has wrought. In the past few weeks, many Covid-19 hot spots around the country have seen their case counts surge and then…
August 18, 2020
Article at WIRED
Welcome to the newly revamped Key Developments, now twice weekly and with non-COVID news. Right now, it’s actually still mainly COVID news, but we’ll be slowly morphing it into something broader as we go. World events Many are worried about the…
July 29, 2020
Article at The Prepared
Back in November and December of 2019, before the viral apocalypse ravaged global supply chains and sent us all indoors, I redid my entire wardrobe. I threw out some 90 percent of the clothes I’d been wearing, and I started over from scratch with a…
July 17, 2020
Article at The Prepared
Fire season is upon us, and with wildfires comes rolling blackouts. Last year, California and other states saw widespread, rolling blackouts due to the wildfires. Now is the time to ensure you’re prepared to meet the challenges of fire season,…
July 14, 2020
Article at The Prepared
If there’s one or two products you’ve been trying to get your hands on, but they’re either always out-of-stock or going for sky-high markups, know this: it’s not just you. It’s also not just some random thing you’re trying to get your hands on. The…
July 09, 2020
Article at The Prepared
When it comes to knowing what’s next with the pandemic, I’ve found the following two methods have yet to let me down: I keep close tabs on what infectious disease experts are saying, and I regularly mask up and go outside to look around. For the…
July 02, 2020
Article at The Prepared
A lot has been made of the President’s claim that we should “slow the testing down,” a claim that he doubled down on in subsequent remarks to reporters. Most commentators state that he’s under the mistaken impression that if we just don’t look at the…
June 25, 2020
Article at The Prepared
ICUs in some areas of the United States are about to go into overflow mode, as you’ve probably seen. You may have even shared a story about this on a social media site. And if you shared one of those “ICU occupancy is surging” stories, odds are good…
June 25, 2020
Article at The Prepared