Frater’s thread of unvetted takes that popped into my head.
All working ideas, not an official take or whatever. Most of these were probably read in a book and just recalled without attribution. Not claiming novelty at all…just trying to think out loud more.
The spirits of war, hate, numbness feel far too close to the surface these days. Stay safe friends. Find some love out there. It never leaves us even when the world tries to mask it.
A high animist thought:
Assuming they are conscious, I think solid objects can focus their mass a bit to parts of their structure to let them fall oddly. Think ‘slipped out of your hand’, or when things land in some unexpected way.
Someone better with charts than me can probably say why today was such a huge day for AI announcements. Multiple separate companies all announcing big news.
@WizardOfTheWay Haven’t with people yet (kiddo isn’t old enough) but I use it with the cat when he screws up:
“Sir! What the heck is this?”
It adds panache.
Biggest difference working for the megacorp vs a startup is that at a startup everyone internally is the harshest critic of the product. They enumerate and hate every flaw.
Big tech is about default cheerleading your product no matter how bad and shrugging of flaws.
Fatherhood and marriage have been two for me, I think any occult practices we call initiation must pass the same test or they are not an initiation. I find most do not pass this test. Encountering a real spirit however…sure did!
A true initiation is one where afterwards there is no going back. You can change again but you will never be able to be the same person you were before the initiation.