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libraries rhetoric magic 🌵 https://hdl.handle.net/11274/16756
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Our mission on this platform is to build alliances that extend beyond this platform. We may never again have this much opportunity to do it. I have no doubt that this platform will be targeted in the future, because it’s a stronghold of accurate, critical information against this regime.

Honored to be in the Societas Magica newsletter, writing about the rhetoric of chaos magic! societasmagica.org/userfiles/fi...

@kairyssdal.bsky.social good editorial comment tonight at the end. Well spoken! 🙏

I don't understand how faculty hiring committees are supposed to work without other faculty... ?! www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/t...

“What wretched question have you prepared for me?” My surreal Q&A with Alexander Lukashenko. He claimed his opponents had “chosen” prison or exile (in reality the authorities had chosen to target them.) Plus, "Prison is for people who opened their mouths too wide" Thanks @lizashuvalova.bsky.social

Brian Eno & Karl Hyde: Lilac - from their 2014 album, High Life www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGUE...

youtu.be/v8pVP4xeRyk?...

Azul 29 - Video Game [Brazil, Electronic/Synthpop] (1984) https://redd.it/6zo7vk https://youtu.be/VE869CUq8n4

*When your own town burns or drowns from climate crisis, they're not gonna say "climate crisis," instead they're gonna say "thoughts 'n' prayers, but that town was no angel"

Using an entire library for bibliomancy: what a wonderful exercise for creative writers and mystics alike. Finding the common thread among six prompts is the essence of my equinoctial practice. (Thanks @nmamatas.bsky.social for sharing this inspiring post.)

For my part, this idea didn't end up going anywhere or getting traction hermetic.com/memoria/index but consider the importance of preserving of the living memories of practitioners in your community of practice as part of an overall digital preservation effort.

book review of _On Trans-Humanism_ by Stefan Sorgner (lots on history of humanism, variety of posthumanisms, how tech fits into the history, etc.): www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

New professorship announced at Uppsala University in Jewish thought, including medieval Jewish philosophy. Spread the word! #medievalsky www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

It's really just a "John Cage Bubblegum" phase. My phases last decades. youtu.be/YYId-4lX-yY?...

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.