@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-27 04:05:41
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.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-26 20:58:03
WHEN POPE LEO XIV presented his first encyclical on artificial intelligence at the Vatican on Monday,
he invited Christopher Olah, cofounder of Anthropic, to speak.
The move signaled an unprecedented alliance between the Catholic church and Silicon Valley.
But to understand how this partnership came about, we need to go back to Anthropic's founding.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-07-25 12:10:15
Finally watched Masters of the Universe. I don’t see how you could make a better He-Man film in 2026. Loved every minute of it.
@mlawton@mstdn.social2026-05-26 03:18:27
Finished reading “Platform Decay” by Martha Wells.
Murderbot and Three, a newly freed sec unit, run a rescue mission across a torus station orbiting a strip-mined planet.
Eight books in, Murderbot is still discovering itself. The emotion-check module forces an honesty it can’t hack around.
Corporate reach extending across systems, strip-mined planets, the grinding machinery of exploitation…not hard to extrapolate from our present universe.
5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@bilbo_le_hobbit@mamot.fr2026-07-25 08:40:14
L'actualité brûlante me fait immanquablement penser Š "Ravage", le livre d'anticipation dystopique de René Barjavel. Un livre puant par son côté survivaliste fasciste, mais sa description de l’effondrement d'une société par les flammes d'un mégafeu global et universel ne m'a jamais paru aussi proche de ce que nous sommes en train d'assister. On y est presque. (sauf qu'on aura peut-être le fascisme avant l'effondrement mais ceci est une autre histoir…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-05-23 13:38:30
Each week, Metacurity offers our subscribers a run-down of the top infosec-related long reads we couldn't get to in the daily crush of news.
This week's selection covers
--France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches,
--AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio,
--Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle,
-- Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention,
--Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety an…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-05-24 02:46:45
RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116623365748048798
“My guess is it is not as ubiquitous as the nightly news, legislators, and the frantic calls from university administrators make it seem.”
…
“Urgency is meant to flood the mind of the customer so they can’t take a pause to consider whether the thing that’s being sold really needs to be bought.”
Thank you, Sonja Drimmer — and Baldur for sharing the link.
1/2
@servelan@newsie.social2026-05-21 23:43:19
"While it is unlikely that the disease will spread globally, there is a 'high' risk that it will continue to gain ground in Central Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned."
Ebola in the DRC: 'The epidemic is unprecedented in scale'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2026/05/22/ebola-in-the-drc-the-epidemic-is-unprecedented-in-scale_6753705_124.html
@arXiv_physicsaoph_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-05-26 07:41:41
Quantification of atmospheric carbon dioxide from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES East)
Aaron Sonabend-W, Sean Campbell, John Platt, Christopher Van Arsdale, Anna M. Michalak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23991 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.23991 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.23991
arXiv:2605.23991v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: There is a growing urgency to track greenhouse gasses with the resolution, precision and accuracy needed to support independent verification of $CO_2$ fluxes at local to global scales. The current generation of space-based sensors, however, only provides sparse observations in space and time. This challenge has fueled interest in the potential use of data from existing missions originally developed for other applications for inferring global greenhouse gas variability. The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) onboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-East), operational since 2017, provides full coverage of much of the western hemisphere at 10-minute intervals from geostationary orbit at 16 wavelengths at an approximately 2$km^2$ spatial resolution. Here, we leverage this high spatial coverage and temporal revisit to develop a single-pixel, physics-guided neural network to estimate dry-air column $CO_2$ mole fraction ($XCO_2$). The model employs a time series of GOES-East's 16 spectral bands, ECMWF ERA5 lower tropospheric meteorology, MODIS surface reflectance, solar and satellite viewing geometry, and day of year. Training used collocated GOES-East and OCO-2/OCO-3 observations. We also present case studies illustrating the use of the model to observe $XCO_2$ enhancements over urban areas and drawdown over agricultural regions. Overall, while the precision of GOES-East derived $XCO_2$ can never rival that of dedicated instruments, the unprecedented combination of contiguous geographic coverage, 10-minute temporal frequency, and multi-year record offers the potential to observe aspects of atmospheric $CO_2$ variability currently unseen from space.
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-22 22:58:51
The buck stops at ChatGPT
OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an ‘unprecedented’ hack of another company
AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems
that it suspected was caused by an AI agent autonomously acting on its own.
“We suspected last week’s cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab,
given the sophistication of the agent,”
Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Dela…
