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Okay, resume rewritten and we're now on hour 3 of the red beans and sausage part of red beans and rice that I'm having for supper. Feeling pretty productive, gonna send out the first batch o' resumes once I read over the new resume. However, one slight problem: the entire house smells delicious...I am so very, very hungry.

Aviation / flight sim geeks: There's plenty of flight sims focused on fixed wing airline flying, combat, etc.
But are there any for more technical / specialized operations? I'm picturing "DCS for wildland firefighting and SAR" where you get to pilot a rotary or fixed wing water attack aircraft, land on a lake to refill then dump it on the flank of a fire, hover above a rocking ship to lower a rescue swimmer to it (maybe the latter being a team game with NPC or players…

Australia is failing to meet its environment targets, argues ecologist https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026/05/australia-is-failing-to-meet-its-environment-targets-argues-ecologist/

Australia is failing to meet its environment targets, argues ecologist
Australia is one of 17 “megadiverse” countries that account for 70% of Earth’s biodiversity. However, Australia is unique in having the highest mammalian extinction rate in the world. That makes conservation on the island continent, where most of the wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth, all the more urgent. Conservation and environmental scientists have […]

"People…suffering while…people w/…power to change it argue…Children…falling asleep to…bombs. Parents…wondering whether they can keep…people they love alive. People w/disabilities…watching…hard-won protections…dismantled piece by piece. Older adults…wondering whether dignity has become too expensive to protect. Families…carrying burdens that grow heavier while those w/…power…keep finding new excuses…Communities are paying…price while power protects itself."

What the Fuck Are We Doing?
What the fuck are we doing?

Excellent deep dive into that mysterious and overlooked cyberattack last December on Venezuela's state-owned oil company, which may not have been a ransomware attack but a US-originated wiper.
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/hwiper-targeting-venezue…

Mystery Around Venezuelan Cyberattack Deepens, with New Discovery of "Highly Destructive" Wiper
The mystery around a cyberattack that struck Venezuela's state-owned oil company in December is growing, following an announcement by researchers this week that they had discovered a "highly destructive" wiper program that appears to have been designed to target the oil company and may have been used in the December

This kernel vulnerability looks interesting to look at.
crypto: caam - fix overflow on long hmac keys
VLAI Severity -> High (confidence: 0.9638)
https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/CVE-2026-43330

Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

Waffles with strawberries and whipped cream today.
When I finally establish my hermitage, however tangled the Buddhist lineages might be, we are definitely following Dogen's model for food.

So the Roger Williams Park Zoo (@) is offering free admission today and tomorrow due to the extreme heat
HOWEver, because of the extreme heat, they are noting that many of the animals are likely going to stay inside, so you may not see them 😂
(h/t to my wife)

Distinct legal existence:
This is a distinct legal entity, such as an LLC. Your "church" will need a governing body to run the legal entity it's formed under. However you decide to do this, it must be spelled out clearly in filing forms. There are a lot of ways to "govern" a community, and, since diversity allows evolution, I'm not going to describe any of them.
Basically, all you need is *some* legal incorporation. This is important for the legal aspect (if you are trying to subvert the legal framework within the legal framework). You will need this in order to own bank accounts and property collectively, and you may need this to remove or reduce the influence of the dominant system on your collective governance of finances and property.
If you, on the other hand, just have a communal squat that operates economically entirely in black markets then I don't know why you're reading this.
(Fun fact, which I'm skipping to because I don't want to forget it: As I understand it, The Church of the Subgenious skipped a lot of this by including "paying taxes" in their definition of their church. They pay their taxes every year, and the IRS rejects their payment, which proves they're a church. OK, back to what I was talking about...)
Edit: One thing I forgot about this. There must be *at least 3 /unrelated/ people* named on the legal documents. That is the minimum number to be a legal church.