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Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

My "grow plants everywhere" mod for #Luanti is progressing!
I just built a routine to do blobby weight regions as the intersection of a bunch of parabolas, where weight increases logarithmically from the edge of the parabola with an adjustable edge region, and we use the geometric average of these weight values within the intersection region. Then I spent a few hours hunched over a biomes vornoi diagram approximating different broad regions like "arid_grasses" and "temperate_trees" so you can just name some combination of these regions (with custom per-region multipliers) and have your plant definition apply within those regions. I was using rectangular min/max heat/humidity values before, but they were pretty awkward to work with.
If anyone on here who plays Luanti wants to check it out let me know and I can prioritize publishing what I've got. I've got growth definitions for most but not all VoxeLibre plants and it wouldn't be hard to put them together for another game. No trees yet, but that's pretty much the next thing to work on.

It's time, for a new job.
I'm an experienced software developer, who prefers Python, and C . Though I'd also like to learn a new, modern language, like e.g. Rust.
Yes, I've been using AI for code completion. Yes I know current versions of my preferred languages. No I have no hard restriction on the industry.
I'm not cheap, I'm good.
If you're aware of any positions in Europe, preferably in Zürich, or remote, let me know.

Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
TARRANT: It depends on what you paid to get him.
AVON: He cost me enough.
CALLY: Was it worth it?
AVON: I'll let you know.
SHRINKER: What are you going to do with me?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/56 B7B4

Are you struggling with getting the right kind of clients? Or would like to win more deals? Or get the "right" clients?
I can help!
https://silentz.co/about/coaching
If you want help increasing per client revenue, improving your win rate and getting better at sales, let me know!<…

You Suck At Sales

I will be looking for new employment in 2026 — it’s been a great 4 years with Spry Fox, but I am ready to explore something new.
If you have any eng roles you think I’d be suited for, please let me know!
Game dev, developer tooling & infrastructure, Rust, or something completely different — I have 15 years of experience, including Unreal/Unity/custom engines (both engine level and gameplay), Linux/macOS/Windows/consoles, and generally just jumping on any problem impacting …

#Sehlat #Spock

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I do, in fact, not have time for a 15 minute call, so I've drafted a form letter that I'll try and send to every single one of these emails starting now.

Pixelfed or Instagram? Something tells me this #poll will get people talking, boost and let me know where you stand!
#Fediverse #Mastodon

Looking for a PowerBook G3 Pismo to buy from someone ideally Arizona or west coast, if you have a working one that you want to sell on, pls DM me and let me know what you have and how much you’re thinking?
#retrocomputing

@… I've tried uploading this photo two times, but only half the image but half the image turns gray for some reason? If there's a better way to report bugs please let me know https://

Claire Obscure won the Game Awards.👏
Congratulation, and let me say it's completely deserved.
Even though I wanted to hurt someone who designed attack patterns of some bosses (yeah I know, I'm lame😆) , the game is awesome in gameplay, music and especially in graphics design😍.
#Gaming

football is the only thing that gets me to go to bed on time lmao
Reading kickoff is at 9am and I gotta be awake enough to hear when my bestie sends a message in when he gets home in the second half
this is how we let each other know we're okay. via the Reading commentators lmao

Nic Chan tells a familiar story and hits on one of three lessons I’ve learned in this scenario:
1. No discounts (project fees are different);
2. Very clear and tight scope with full-price out-of-scope rates;
3. Some clients are just a poor fit.
https://indieweb.social/@NicMakesStuff

I guess Saya Gray put out some demo mixtape just on her tour, and I can't even find it anywhere, not on YouTube, nothing. Man, I'd really like to hear that. Guess this is how artists build mystique. But it's annoying as hell hahaha. If anyone runs across a copy of that, let me know?
FINAL EDIT - it's definitely called 'Saya Demo Mixtape' and this is the tracklist & cover art, if you find it:

SAYA DEMO MIXTAPE by Saya Gray
Get all the lyrics to songs on SAYA DEMO MIXTAPE and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics.

Time for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).

Async Rust for Dummies
Let me show you how async Rust works under the hood
— by @…
🦀 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/async-rust-for-dummies/

Async Rust for Dummies
Introduction Hello, Rustaceans! I'm quite sure many of you use async Rust every day in your projects, but do you actually know how it works under the hood? In…

#amateur or
#hamradio #blogs
https://mastodon.radio/@k8vsy…

I know that sentencing kids to tooth decay is small potatoes compared to lots of the rest of what this administration is doing, but this still makes me angry.
(Yes, I know, if we removed all processed sugars from our diet, that would also address tooth decay in a substantial way, but also let's be honest about whether that's going to happen.)

Are mozilla's fork any good?
#browser

You see a detective on the TV and he’s interviewing all the suspects asking them what they were doing on the night of the murder a month ago last Tuesday night.
And on the TV, the suspects all know. Right away.
If you asked me ten years ago though, I’d have had barely any clue. If you’re lucky it’d have been something planned in my calendar but mostly, dunno. Watching TV maybe? No idea what show. Was that a night I was in the pub?
As we all get older this problem increases I’m told. Eventually full on senility sets in.
But what if you have already built the habit to record what you’re doing? To be able to look back and revise and review how you spent your days? An external aid as a crutch to your own forgetful brain’s cortex?
So I started this Exocortex Log over a decade ago and now I can answer: Ten years ago on Tuesday I was having dinner with the guitarist from my band and his girlfriend and they burned the pudding.
The app has been half finished and barely able to even record let alone review for most of that time, but now it’s ready enough that someone else might use it too if they want.
Try it out: #lifeLog #app #memoryAid

Curious that whenever someone shows me “the cool #AI flow” they built that’s supposed to be impressive, the conversation goes the same way:
Stage 1: “But you don’t understand. You don’t like AI because you haven’t used it right. Let me show you how much you can do it with.”
Stage 2: “Here are the steps in the flow and the instructions I feed to this agent / custom GPT / Claude project. I tell it to do X, reference document Y, and aim for Z.”
Stage 3: “Now, let me show you the results it gives.”
*Writes task, presses to run the prompt.*
Stage 4: “Umm sorry it’s taking a while. It’s fast but not instant. And by the way, the prompt isn’t perfect, you can definitely make it better. I just threw this together real quick the other day. It makes some mistakes, but it’s really good.”
Stage 5: “Uuuuuuh actually don’t look at the output.” *scrolls or stops screen share or pulls device away.*
“You know it’s already doing so well, if I do more prompt engineering it will get really good but I need to give it better instructions. And it ran just fine last night, I don’t know what’s up with it. And this is a cheap model, if we use another model it will be better.”
Stage 6: “You know, you really shouldn’t judge this so much. The technology will improve, it will get there sooner than you know and then you’ll regret not trying it sooner.”
So curious that this keeps happening 🤷‍♀️
#LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble

I gone done created a crossword. Let me know what you think.
#CrypticCrosswords #Crosswords

Heads up Mastodon! I am doing a small European tour with Peter Gordon (Love of Life Orchestra) at the end of November. We'll play Glasgow, London, Cologne, and Brussels. These shows will be great fun, and a very rare chance to catch me playing live music outside the US.
If we know each other here, let me know if there's a possibility to meet up in person at one of these shows?!
Tickets and info here:

New short SF story, "Terminal Pacifism". I think it'll be a hit with the fedi crowd, let me know what you think :)
https://serd.es/2025/10/31/Terminal-Pacifism.html

If you’re bored please let me know what graphics card this is exactly

I just managed to pick up eight "Sun Netra 210" 1U UltraSparc-IIIi servers yesterday. In case any #retrocomputing enthusiasts here (particularly those of you I know personally) are interested in such equipment, please let me know. #sun

Edit 2: Yes you can! Using the DeDRM plugin (https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools). I'll be forever grateful to people who make these tools 🙏
There's a few steps required (let me know if you want to do it yourself and have questions) but I just tried it, using some instructions from Reddit and it worke…

GitHub - noDRM/DeDRM_tools: DeDRM tools for ebooks
DeDRM tools for ebooks. Contribute to noDRM/DeDRM_tools development by creating an account on GitHub.

My rpi openwrt router is set up. If all works as intended I'll be surfing from my home IP address when @ my girlfriends house as it tunnels all trafic over tailscale to an exit node in my livingroom. That means.... that we can use my streaming services at her place without the provider is bugging me about another household. Well it's proof of concept right now so I'll let you know how it goes when it's installed at her place.

#CFP: “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026. Proposals due Jan 15. If you have questions, please let me know. #acrel #amrel

#CFP: United Lutheran Seminary to Host “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026
United Lutheran Seminary to Host “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026

#openalt was great. I am heading to #Brno centrum now. If anyone feels like grabbing beer or a bite, let me know.

I agree with the wish expressed here, that this year will bring a reckoning to Trump and the other named. Let’s add Putin to that list, too.
But one thing that frightens me — I suspect there people in Trump’s circle who know that US voters are unlikely to turn on their own president in wartime, and one sure-fire way for an unpopular president to turn the tide is to lead the nation in a righteous battle against an obvious enemy.
It could be Venezuela, it could be Iran, it could be…

AND OR XOR mit Halloween gezeigt (gefunden bei einem anderen Account):
https://mstdn.social/@qurlyjoe/115469572992454284

if u can identify this coral let me know reverse image search was worthless

@… @… ooh let me know if you figure that out!

Really enjoyed the podcast! Thanks for both the acknowledgement and answering my question. I hope it gets enough traction, and y’all get enough questions to warrant another episode soon.
And let me know when it's on a public feed - when I spread the word to my 300 followers (most of whom are bots and dead accounts) your downloads are gonna spike 🤣😆🤣
@…

@… Hey, it is me again 😅
Just to let you know that I receive some 400 Bad Request errors from some DoH servers (dns.quad9.net and ns0.fdn.fr for instance) while some others accept my queries (dns.google and Cloudflare 1.1.1.1).
I am not sure yet if the error is on my use of the library or within the library itself.
Here is the code to run the query:

So, this summer, I moved back down into the city proper.
Anybody in #Chicago know any good #LoganSquare accounts to follow? (also if you're around the area, poke me and let's get coffee! I need new local friends!)

I've noticed in the last week that google maps has started making mistakes or showing me worse routes/glitching a lot for places I use it for frequently. I wonder if other people are having similar experiences. (And yes I know, g o o g l e bad, but its a service I can't let go yet)

This is *incredible*
I grew up in the DF @… https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@thomas_kole/115424326100493079

Thomas Kole (@thomas_kole@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Attached: 1 image It's live! My Interactive 3D viewer of Tenochtitlan is available online. Please give it a try and let me know what you think! http://www.retratodetenochtitlan.mx #tenochtitlan #cdmx #b3d #threejs

If anyone has a line on a free-or-near-free source of flatscreen LCD monitors with ATSC antenna connections, please do let me know. Would like to build a little ‘over-the-air’ TV monitoring studio.
These little LG 24LJ4540s are perfect.
Two dozen of them would be ideal but 12 would be a good start.
#build #ATSC #OTA #TV #Media #MediaMonitor #VIU
https://www.amazon.com/lg-electronics-24lj4540-24-inch-model/dp/b01n2z17ms

Yesterday I finally managed to close my account on #Vercel . I was hosting some stuff for free, so I was costing them money instead of giving them anything, but I still don't want to depend on them in any way.
But to the point, I just checked the online conversation about them... and I'm sad to notice how quickly people¹ forgot that Guillermo Rauch was very proud of sharing time with Benjamin #Netanyahu. He was so proud that he decided to share that moment with the entire world, so he showed us how little he cares for human rights, dignity and decency.
That's why I deemed necessary to remind folks about this serious contention point and inspire them to look for alternatives.
1. Including people who seem to care about these topics, which makes me think that the information didn't reach them in the first place. Let's help them know.
#boycott_vercel #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine

If any Canadian artists out there would like to attempt a design of an appropriately tongue-in-cheek T-Shirt for “ByeChuck.ca”, let me know.
Purpose: A humorous campaign to abolish Canada’s connection to the Monarchy.
Proceeds would go to website maintenance, the original artist, and any excess to a deserving charity.
All designs welcome. My only requirement would be that it is fully made by a person, no AI.
byechuck.ca (redirects to UK Republic page for now)
#canada #monarchy #art #artist

#CFP: “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026. Proposals due Jan 15. If you have questions, please let me know. #acrel #amrel #AARSBL #SBLAAR https://relcfp.com/2025/11/20/cfp-a-vision-for-liberating-our-democracy/

📝 #CFP: “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026. Proposals due Jan 15. If you have questions, please let me know. #acrel #amrel #AARSBL #SBLAAR https://relcfp.com/2025/11/20/cfp-a-vision-for-liberating-our-democracy/