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Since this is also Witchcraft Wednesday, let’s talk about desire.Occult magic begins with wanting.Not wishing. Not hoping. Wanting. The kind of desire that keeps one awake, sends one back to the old book, makes them draw the circle one...
Twenty Years Ago on FITK … Another Saturday night and I ain’t got nobody, I got some money, ’cause I just got paid… How I wish I had someone to talk to, I’m in an awful way" -Sam Cooke A ritual in hundreds of cultures, for thousands of...
It’s definitely not covered really anywhere, but the early ’90s college music scene was super neo-hippie, so much so that there was a term: “neo-hippie frat rat.” I’m not sure there was anywhere in the world more full of neo-hippie...
A little less than six years ago, I started looking at moving from Doggcatcher to Podcast Republic. 24 Hours later I was pretty happy with my choice. Time and technology march on and, while looking at some software on Flathub, I...
Karl Bode: So prepare for a year of breathless and evidence-optional claims that Chinese AI is a dire threat to U.S. consumer privacy and national security, followed by an elaborate bipartisan train of bad policy and shitty new laws...
I am sitting on a chair in Victoria. I stayed with my brother’s high school friend. Me and my Italian cousin and my brother’s other friend. We swam in the ocean yesterday. We saw some sea otters. I found a ping pong paddle. ——- Later in...
A great how-to on moving from a Docker volume to a bind mount. That being said, I don't necessarily agree with their benefits breakdowns for each. For example, as a benefit of using Docker volumes, they say: Persistence: Even if the...
Patrick Dubroy, Fast is better than slow: Think about it — if you’re fast, you get data more quickly. That helps you make better decisions, sooner. It also means you learn faster, and over longer periods it means you learn more. Being...
I think one form the first big AI hack could take is a prompt injection worm.Let's piece this together.Open source models reach or surpass GPT 6 or FABLE 5 by the final months of 2026 or the early months of 2027.Some threat actor...
From the hip. I’ve noticed for a few months that I’ve distanced myself from the label “socialist” and have even started using it to refer to some political position besides my own. I think for a while I’ve been bothered by the idea that...
I’ve been watching crime drama so much, they made me anxious about my own mortality. I don’t know when it’s going to come but it will, and when it does there’s nothing I can do. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about combating anxiety,...
Stoked for the giant Monome Grid that Jackson Lamb plays in the trailer for the next season of Slow Horses. (I’m totally behind on the show, but totally up to date on the novels.)
Looks like Apple and the EU both have something they can finally agree on and can live with. Apple has never, as far as I can tell, sold iPhones as general-purpose computers, and Apple should be able to sell things that are not...
Michelle Barker: And maybe there will be a resurgence, as more people eschew the algorithms, remember the joy of coding, of craft. From the charred remains, green shoots. New life. Maybe we’ll wake up to find little websites everywhere....
The Oubliette has dominated Mega-City One for the last few months, and this week we have two stories connected to the Mega-Epic inside the Prog, as both Dredd and The Finders are drawn closer and closer to the explosive climax of this...