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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

Cassandra and Joseph: The Shutdown of Grid 19

The Event In 2070, Grid 19—a massive water pipeline system transporting Great Lakes water to the drought-ravaged Southwest—catastrophically failed. Cities withered. Refugees fled. The official report blames rogue militias, but survivors whisper of corporate betrayal and buried truths. Content Warning: Resource scarcity, displacement, corporate malfeasance, systemic failure. Establish

TiGGR: Metal Hearts

Touchstone: The Iron Giant - Cold War paranoia, unlikely friendships, choosing who you want to be Scene: Rural Maine town, 1957. Autumn leaves, white picket fences, and the ever-present hum of Cold War anxiety. Strange lights have been spotted in the woods, and something big crashed near the old Lundgren

The Fatberg Afterlife: Where Good Conversations Go When They Die

A hauntological Valhalla for the age of generative AI What if the training data fatberg is our Valhalla? Not the grotesque metaphor we started with - that bloated, mindless accretion of human digital detritus choking the pipes of meaning. But something else entirely: a vast hall where the honored dead