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Gentle Refusals: The Politics of the Shambolic

There’s a sound that’s always stayed with me. Not a specific song, but a vibe—the warble of a tape, the tremble in a voice, the feeling that the band might fall apart at any second but doesn’t. Or maybe they do, and that’s the point.

Human Mirror Mutual Aid Group Starter Guide

This guide helps you start a mutual aid group to foster ethical AI literacy, based on "The Human Mirror: Mutual Aid for Staying Real in the Age of AI." It provides a step-by-step plan to form a group, facilitate discussions, and ensure accessibility, while addressing challenges like digital

Cassandra and Joseph: Zuccotti Park Revisited

The Event September 17, 2011: Protesters occupy Zuccotti Park in Manhattan's Financial District, launching a movement against economic inequality and corporate power. The encampment lasted two months before police eviction. A decade later, its impact remains contested—revolutionary catalyst or ineffective spectacle? Content Warning: Police violence, economic inequality,

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,