Spotify canceled 🙃

Cancel SPOTIFY. They are running ICE ads. F them. www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

FEMA will not be there for us. We need interstate networks like the Governors Public Health Alliance to prepare and we need to do it well in advance. This sort of interstate alliance is essential to protect states from the damage being caused by the federal government.

Yes, more of this! Let's next get real that FEMA will not be there for Democratic states and start making our own network for coordinating disaster relief.

Please hear me out. We need to fund the police because we need to fire any that are unwilling to serve and protect their community. We need local law enforcement to protect our communities from abuse of ICE and federal law enforcement. We need funding to make it happen.

Tonight! Join us at The Hotchkiss Library of Sharon for a chill hangout with games and crafts. 5:30-8pm, every third Wednesday of the month. 10 Upper Main St, Sharon, CT 06069. Please message us with any questions or email [email protected].

Is it worth rebuilding US federal agencies? The federal government cannot be trusted. Even if this fascist oligarchy is defeated and democracy restored, it won't be stable without a new constitution. Short of that I think focus on the state level and regional alliances. Rebuild local.

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

Goddammit @wired.com I supported your journalism because of your political reporting but I don't think I can continue with you shilling for Bezos.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

With the US government shutdown and ICE terrorizing our communities and many afraid to leave their homes, now is a great time to support your local food depository network.

Pres. Reagan signed the Emergency Medical Treatment & Active Labor Act, requiring all Medicare-participating hospitals with emergency depts. to provide a medical screening & stabilizing treatment to ANY individual with an emergency medical condition, regardless of ability to pay or insurance status.

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As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

"The American military will follow lawful orders and disobey unlawful ones." If only this were true. The US military has already obeyed unlawful orders including the murder of Venezuelans.

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Steinbeck's The Moon is Down is a good book. Definitely recommend it as a book to think about the present moment in history.

The Democratic party has been largely unwilling to even argue for "left wing" issues. Why be surprised the general public hasn't been moved by arguments they haven't heard? Make the argument and there is at least a chance to move the needle. Surrendering principles losing before we start.

This is so nuts. There need to be consequences for these officers. Connecticut must do better.

This is a great start. Next let's figure out how we are going to do disaster response when FEMA is unable or unwilling to respond.

We must shift the debate from liberty to agency. Freedom means little in a society that does not empower the individual to exercise their freedom. The role of government should be to ensure the material means individuals need to have power in their lives.

Two more monarchs hatched out yesterday. To both the same request.

Met this helpful friend in the basement! I thought the snake skins I kept finding were milk snakes. Great to see one to finally confirm! This one was tiny. About as big around as a pencil.

New baby monarch butterfly spreading it wings.

So close to hatching! We'll have a butterfly in the morning for certain!

No, I don't want my water heater to be on the wifi. I don't want to have an app for my thermostat. You better not try to install a touchscreen either.

Documenting a useful form of the tree of void emanation for casting in ritual space. It symbolizes the upright and averse pentagrams as well as taking the form of a cube with two octahedrons, one above, one below, with the central pillar of the tree of void emanation in the middle.

Brought this friend inside from milkweed at the Sharon Historical Society. We also found a baby on milkweed from our yard.

I did wonder if calling my first principle "Chaos" is a bit edge-lord. Then I come across Theology of Arithmetic. "Likewise they call it 'Chaos,' which is Hesiod's first generator, because Chaos gives rise to everything else...." Chaos is good by Hesiod and Iamblichus then it is good by me!

I've been working on how to represent the folding of the tree of emanation into the icosahedron. Needed to get this out to explain the interpretive key of the court cards in the tarot. Pretty satisfied with it. Time to start adding it to the website!

Astrology. While I appreciate a good system of correspondences, I really could care less what planet is in which sign or whatever is in retrograde.

Finally got around to producing SVG versions of the C-ov-N logo.

Fool's journey through the twelve spheres.

I guess let's keep this newt thing going? I saw and photographed 18 on my hike. I also saw a lot of slugs! I think I may have intruded on their buffet.

I gather that y'all like newts. So here's another one from my hike. 😃

Here's a newt I saw on my hike this morning. They were out in force. I counted eighteen on my hike this morning on the Sharon Land Trust Goodbody preserve.

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My professional life has brought generative AI to my door and it is far worse than I imagined. I Spent the afternoon reviewing and rejecting slop PRs, but not before they broke our integration environment. Do not submit a PR you do not understand! It is probably completely broken! 🙏

The flower of emanation ties together the story of progression from void. It's 31 petals reflect the 11th prime and the fibonacci sequence.

Publishing my content now on covn.io using automated pushes with git automation, building from asciidoc using antora and netlify. It's barebones, but feels so good to be in control of my content.

It's like they say. Age is just a number. Time is a flat circle. We're all trapped in the cycle of eternal recurrence.

Submitted a proposal to present Emanant Void Magick ritual at the CarniVal of Khaos in August. Got a lot of work to do to prepare!

Yes! This! 100%

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It's surprising how fast one can try all the MMDD numbers on a combination lock. Odd that the alarm system didn't dispatch police. Maybe because of the active fire alarm?

Unfair! US citizens should also be eligible to get $1,000 to leave.

I met Jill Sobule once after a show in Chicago. She was super nice. So sorry to hear her passing.

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The big idea of AI agents is that we will surrender our agency to algorithms for convenience. The AI takes over decision making including spending and marketers can directly pay the AI company for influence.