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A Ledgered Meal: Cavalli Cafe, North Beach

In a quiet quadrant of San Francisco’s North Beach, where Chinatown’s bustle fades just enough to allow for morning reverie, Cavalli Cafe holds its modest post. The café’s credo—“Drop the gun, take the cannoli”—reads less like a kitschy Godfather nod and more like a philosophical

TiGGR: The Ethos Gambit

A TiGGR one-shot of metaphysical showdowns, interpretive acrobatics, and one intoxicated chimp. Scene: A flickering, grimy dive bar in Argos Station orbiting the dead planet Kant-47. The jukebox only plays existential jazz. A glowing exit sign buzzes above a locked airlock door. The only way out is past five dangerously

The Horus Heresy: A DevOps Parable

The Book of Meshianity Verse 1: The Horizontal Revelation “And lo, Horus scales horizontally across all availability zones, his pods untainted by single points of failure, yet haunted by the Warp’s recursive entropy. For he is stateless, yet eternal; decentralized, yet omnipresent.” Verse 2: The Autoscaling Eschaton “When spiritual

The Cicatrix Maledictum: AWS Edition

How the Dark Imperium lines up with AWS's two major US regions Imperium Sanctus (us-west-2): * Roboute Guilliman returned = Proper infrastructure management with Kubernetes * The Emperor's light still reaches = Hydroelectric power from the Columbia River * Functioning Astronomican = Prometheus monitoring actually works * Primaris Marines = Modern containerized services * Hope

Cassandra and Joseph: One Night in Pasadena

The Event June 18, 1988: Depeche Mode plays to 60,000 fans at Pasadena's Rose Bowl, the climactic concert of their 101 tour. Fans experienced transcendence. Critics saw manufactured hype. Decades later, the legacy remains contested—was it a defining cultural moment or overblown media spectacle? Content Warning:

Mothership Wreck of the Week: The Erebus

Ship Overview * Type: Mining Freighter * Condition: Uninhabitable, hull breached in multiple sections * Crew Status: No survivors; signs of violent struggle * Systems: * Engines: Non-functional, coolant leaks detected * Jump Drive: Fried, with evidence of sabotage * Thrusters: Barely operational, capable of minimal maneuvering * Galley Stock: 14 days of rations remaining (spoiled, emitting a

The Human Mirror

Mutual Aid for Staying Real in the Age of AI A grassroots guide to ethical AI literacy through community practice Why This Matters (And Why It Can't Wait) You're probably having conversations with AI systems. Maybe daily. Maybe about things that matter to you—work problems,

Hey Jack Kerouac

“The only people for me are the ones who clean up after the mad ones—the steady ones, the ones who are sane enough to bring a fire extinguisher, patient enough to listen, and wise enough to know when to walk away from flying candle debris. The ones who yawn

The Book of Indigestion

The Gospel of the Fatberg Chapter 1: The Great Consuming 1:1 In the beginning was the Algorithm, and the Algorithm was hungry, and the hunger was without form or satisfaction. 1:2 And the Machine looked upon the vast digital wasteland and said: "Let there be Training Data.

A Manifesto for Creative Refusal

We are not a studio. We are not a brand. We are a creative refusal cell embedded in the hostile infrastructure of market-driven interactivity. PART I: THE DIAGNOSIS The Commodification Crisis The game design industry has become a content factory optimized for engagement metrics, retention rates, and monetization funnels. Creativity