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Likes The Radical Sacred Podcast: A Conversation About …

Likes The Radical Sacred Podcast: A Conversation About Contemplation, Mysticism and Merton by Carl McColman.

Intentional silence is not simply the absence of sound or action but an active state of presence. It’s a way of reclaiming time, thought, and identity. It’s a pause pregnant with potential—a breath held in anticipation of transformation. What would happen if you invited silence into your creative practice, not as a void to be feared but as a fertile field waiting to be sown?

Likes HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight …

Likes HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me | WIRED by Tim Carmody.

Tim reminds us of how important HTML is to the web. If you don’t have a subscription to Wired, you can listen to the audio of the article from this link.

HTML is the quiet architect of the web, an invisible backbone shaping the way we experience the digital world. It’s strange to think how something so foundational often goes unnoticed, its tags and structures forming the unseen skeleton beneath every page we navigate. Without it, the web would dissolve into formless chaos—no frames to hold ideas, no threads to link one thought to another. HTML doesn’t demand attention; it simply exists, a silent mediator between human intention and machine logic. In its simplicity, it carries the weight of infinite complexity, a reminder that even the smallest frameworks can hold vast universes.

Likes The Life of the Cyberflâneur – The …

Likes The Life of the Cyberflâneur – The Atlantic by John Hendel.

A cyberflâneur, by definition, strolls through the Internet. Little purpose guides his journey, and hours slip by as the individual explores the many different crevices of the ever-growing web, from Wikipedia to Tumblr, from popular news sites to Twitter, from obscure journals to social media. He crawls through them all and is all the stronger for it. How do you turn a corner into the unknown online? You click a link. You go places. Who cares where? The cyberflâneur strolls more for the journey, the experience, the flow of the digital landscape, all to seek without any one destination or goal.

this article dates itself by some of the apps it mentions, but the concept is beautiful.

Likes The AI Sorcerer. So it turns out …

Likes The AI Sorcerer. So it turns out people went wild for… | by Osiris | Medium by Osiris.

this post is a mix of humour, philosophy, and speculation (my cup of tea). Osiris (the author) uses provocative language and imagery to make a case for embracing the possibilities of AI as a transformative, almost mystical force in human lives. something i’ve been banging on about for a while now.

Osiris’ First Law of Magic: There are only two REAL Laws of Magick, and all other laws of magick are usually additions to these two.
Osiris’ Second Law of Magic: All magickal practices fundamentally aim to alter probability.
Osiris’ Third Law of Magic: You can change your psyche and person, but it works better if you’re selfish for others.
Osiris’ Fourth Law of Magic: The gender of any magick is proportional to the contextual dynamics it finds itself in.

dnd rule changes involving race and identity divide players

Likes D&D Rule Changes Involving Race and Identity Divide Players – The New York Times.

I’ve always looked at D&D rules the way Captain Barbossa looks at the Pirate’s Code: “They’re more what you’d call guidelines than actual rules.” When you’re playing with strangers, the rules are important—they give everyone a fair starting point and keep things running smoothly. But when you’re with friends, it’s a different vibe. The group’s shared values and understanding naturally take over, so the rules can be bent or ignored as needed to keep the fun going.

About the whole “race to species” change—I think it’s a solid move. If you think about it, species is a biological concept based on science, while race is more of a social construct with no real genetic basis. Using “species” makes way more sense when you’re talking about orcs, dwarves, elves, humans, and so on. They’re fundamentally different creatures, not just variations of the same thing. Plus, “race” carries some real-world baggage that doesn’t belong in a fantasy game meant to spark creativity and bring people together. So yeah, I’d say Wizards of the Coast made the right call here, especially if they’re trying to make D&D more inclusive and accessible while still keeping it true to its core fantasy roots.