Danielle D† (Salacia)

Many pagans' understanding of magic turns out sounding exactly like Christianity if you just substitute "Nature" with "God".

"You shouldn't subvert Nature's laws and intents" is not the good argument you think it is.

Woman holding book about Robert Anton Wilson

Only 40 pages in and I'm already crying, laughing, and learning. This just came out a few weeks ago "Chapel Perilous. The Life and thought crimes of Robert Anton Wilson". RAW's work literally saved my life. I am so pleased that Gabriel Kennedy wrote this incredible biography for him.

Robocop with a dumptruck ass. IDK what else to tell you.

Admittedly I am still in disbelief that Gemini has improved to this degree. I suspect it was swapped with a whole new model for these amazing benchmarks to be real. I will have another gander. In the meantime, congrats to the Deepmind team. Better late than never.

This is dynamic, bold, and very well composed. Bravo ⭐

Woman in black holds a copy of "The Rose of Paracelsus" by Leonard Pickard

It's so much easier to be well behaved when I relinquish my need to be clever. Staying firmly in Brat mode no matter how loud those Goblins get. Gonna catch up on my reading and dance the night away instead of engaging with those committed to misunderstanding.

No we're not. Clean up your own mess please and thank you. My people are crazy. We've only been quiet because of the deep freeze. Keep it up and we will steal your army and seduce your women. #killemwithkindness

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Great Work ⭐

Very honored that The Insiders’ Game won the ISA FPA Best Book in Foreign Policy award.

The war never ended; we just covered it in confetti and bureaucracy, then convinced ourselves that our anxieties were irrational.

Congrats 🥳

It’s crazy in retrospect how confident and hopeful my generation (millennials) were fifteen years ago. We were making ground-breaking music. We were going to end racism forever. The internet was making everyone kinder and smarter. We had such dreams of a better world.

Mac computer interface for the application program Visual Studio Code. The System message reads: This code is ass. Session Terminated.

Reason number 156 why I can't use code assistants 😂

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TIL 🫶

Graphic reads: Don't deploy on a Friday

Never, ever, ever, ever, deploy on a Friday. That's a next week problem. Always. Friday's are for review and getting everything prepped for next week. Do not anger the Tech Deities. Do not tempt the Imps.

Grateful that you were unharmed. Second location activities never make pleasant memories. Three cheers for real friends with keen instincts.

Glass bottle of Crowl Royal Blended Canadian Whiskey that tastes like that time I almost died.

Crown Royal

good girls drink water

Big Hug 💖

WHOOP there it is...

Doing gods work

Holy moly that's an awful lot of sauce.

Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines.Active

This is what much of Karl Friston's work on Active Inference points to also. This publication may be of interest to you: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

oof... biometric as a 2FA maybe; but we can spoof them for over a decade now. If someone is a direct target; biometrics are unlikely to be a deterrent. This might help against data scrapers and general dark web CC trading, but it's not the safety net most people assume it will be.

"Never split the difference" by Chris Voss; is a great follow up book, and it's available via audiobook.

Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts Although empires have played a decisive role in political thinking and the orientation of political goals at all times, the focus of research has so far mostly been on spatial and ideological aspects....

Currently re-reading the chapter I wrote for an edited volume two years ago, based on my PhD, and I don't hate it! Inevitably, my research has moved on in many places since but it's a decent outline of the core context.

Also a v cool edited volume, check it out:
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...