Scorn is highly effective against Patriarchs, because they are all scared little boys possessed by the Father Complex. That's why you aren't allowed to use scorn, especially against Patriarchs. They try to make it seem like precious, fragile women can't handle scorn ("Hell hath no fury like a…

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"You are going to be so beautiful tomorrow!"

"I know, Mom." Kelly had heard this a million times before.

"I'm just so proud of you!"

"It's just another day."

"Oh, you'll understand someday." Kelly's mom reached over and slowly poured some honey into Kelly's teacup.

Kelly sighed, already…

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I posit business, meaning good business, as an undertheorized third thing between capitalism (the King) and refusal (the Priest or Hierophant). Like the Deleuzoguattarian war machine, business—true business—finds itself a contested power alternately appropriated by capitalism and enemies of the state. Traditional communisms are refusal-oriented, and do not…

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The question isn't: Did the DoD have AI before everyone else—the real question is: How long did they have AI before everyone else?

I find it hard to believe—almost incredible—that the DoD didn't have LLMs before everyone else. The DoD basically prints money, and they have their hands…

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Doing Nothing on Purpose: Rigorous Magic and the Recovery of Meaning in POSIX sh

The v1.1 PDF of my Semanthesis essay, on using the POSIX null command as a rigorous place for meaning, intention, and magical language inside shell scripts without altering behavior.