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Beyond the Prompt: Hiring AI-Literate IT Talent in an Age of Drift

In the age of shallow AI graves and accelerating cycles of try, fail, forget, hiring IT talent requires more than just a scan for buzzwords or tool familiarity. It demands an attunement to how people think with machines—how they experiment, reflect, and adapt under pressure. At the edge of

A Playable Folktale: The Polling Core’s Silence

A Playable Folktale for drifters, hyperpigs, and a core that lost its vote. This is not a system to save or a core to conquer. It is a mirror for what voted, what silenced, and what hums in the Glitter Band’s cracks. What You Need * 2–6 participants * A

The Cheeky Art of Saying Nope

Mic Drops, Misfiled Forms, and the Communal Dance of Refusal Refusal isn’t always a megaphone or a middle finger. Sometimes it’s a sly wink, a sidestep, or a polite “hard pass.” The Ledger of Refusal is a scrapbook of these rebellious moments—when folks ditch the script and

A Ledgered Meal: Farina Bakery, Portland

Filed under: Gastronomic Correspondence, Companion Tables, Soft Rebellions Location: Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR Date: Saturday, May 10, 2025 Companion(s): Present. Caffeinated. Glorious. We arrived under sunlit skies, the kind that glint off windshields and pastry cases alike. The door to Farina Bakery swung open with the gentle creak of

The Hue Directive

A Playable Folktale of Color and Return Premise In a world drained of color, where joy is inefficient and emotion a risk, workers drift through cubicle wastelands under humming fluorescents. Beige is the law. Beige is safe. Beige forgets. But you remember—something. A feeling. A shade. A song not

The Cart in Yellow

A Carcosan Annotation of The De Minimis Lament Introduction: Welcome to Neo-Carcosa Neo-Carcosa is not a place. It is a mood you scroll into. A realm of velvet glitches and half-priced selves. In Neo-Carcosa, your daemons are not metaphor. They are customer service avatars who know your traumas by SKU.

Valthorne: Resonant Play Toolkit

A guide for collaborative, reflective, and improvisational RPG storytelling Jam Table TL;DR Session Structure (The Setlist) Phase What It Is What to Do Tuning Opening stillness One minute of silence. Listen to the room. Arrive together. Invocation First offering A player begins with a word, image, or memory. Movement

Four Alloyed Aspirations

In the crucible of self, where the world’s clamor meets the quiet pulse of becoming, authenticity is not a polished gem to clutch but a molten striving, ever-shifting, ever-forged. It is not a mask we wear nor a flag we plant, but a path we tread with scars and

Steely Dan: Navigators of the Eldritch Newport

A TiGGR One-Shot by The Grey Ledger Society, 2025 Genre: Cosmic Horror / Jazz Rock Scene: Newport Jazz Festival, 1976—a labyrinth of pulsing tents, non-Euclidean stages, and starlit dissonance. Goal: Perform a “perfect set” of three songs from fractured realities to seal a cosmic rift before the Cosmic Conductor claims

Valthorne: Remembered in Drift

A Designer’s Diary on Building a City That Hums Back Opening Reflection: Why Build a City Like This? Every RPG setting is a mirror—some cracked, some polished—reflecting our anxieties, our dreams, our unspoken wars. But what if a city could be more than a shadow of our