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A Ledgered Meal: Wanda's Cafe + Bakery, Nehalem

Just a block north of Nehalem's modest main drag sits Wanda's Cafe + Bakery, a small-town cornerstone that’s weathered its share of coastal storms, both literal and economic. Born in 1999, Wanda’s not only survived the pandemic’s chokehold on independent eateries—it’s thrived.

SOUL//HACK: A Signal in the Static

What if cyberpunk wasn't about breaking into systems, but about systems breaking into you? Today we're releasing SOUL//HACK, and it's not what you think cyberpunk is. There are no decks. No ICE. No monofilament wire. No neon-soaked streets or chrome-limbed hackers jacking into

Recognizing and Addressing Harmful AI Rehearsal

A Guide to Ethical Intervention This guide focuses on a critical red flag identified in "The Human Mirror: Mutual Aid for Staying Real in the Age of AI": using AI to rehearse manipulation, cruelty, or deception. Such behavior signals a misuse of AI that can harm relationships and

TiGGR: Antiques Roadshow

Scenario Setup Touchstone: Antiques Roadshow meets occult horror—a wholesome British TV show spirals into supernatural chaos as seven artifacts trigger a Victorian ward system. Scene: A bustling church hall in Gloucestershire, packed with pensioners clutching heirlooms, BBC cameras rolling, and an appraiser maintaining professional calm amid flickering reality. Goal:

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