He had accidentally stumbled upon a small cleft in the rocks and, investigating, found that it opened out into an underground passage.

Armed only with a small prospector’s lamp he had walked along the tunnel, which was about eight feet high with smooth, carefully crafted walls, for about half an hour. Suddenly, he had noticed a strange light up ahead.

‘It was green – a sort of sinister green light… it got brighter as I walked along, and then the tunnel opened into a large cave.’

In the cave, David was greeted by the extraordinary sight of a number of mummified bodies lying either on the floor or propped up against rocks. The fluorescent light which glowed over everything seemed to make the bodies even more gruesome, and their distorted poses gave us the distinct impression that death had crept up on them unexpectedly.

Along one wall were a number of statues that seemed to sparkle dimly in the green light, as if they might be made of gold. The faces, too, appeared to be strangely similar to those of ancient Inca gods he had once seen. David also noticed that the corpses were dressed in strange garments that looked as if they might be leather.

Yet he told himself he had never seen anything quite like it before. His only thought was that it might have been a treasure house of some kind. ‘I felt as if I had stepped into somewhere very ancient,’ he said later. ‘That the people had somehow been laying like that quite unchanged from the very earliest times. But how long I just couldn’t even begin to guess.’

Despite his driving obsession to continue, David felt too nervous to stay in the green-lit room for long. For one thing he could see no source for the strange light. And for another, several of the bodies were grouped around a hole in the far wall of the cave which looked like a continuation of the tunnel. Although he couldn’t be sure, he had the uncomfortable feeling that they might have been its guardians – as well as the keepers of the gold statues – when they were still alive.

Large earthquake in Japan. 7.5 at shallow depth. Major tsunami warning. 2024 opens with a bang

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/01/japan-issues-major-tsunami-warning-for-coastal-prefecture-after-76-magnitude-earthquake

A lot of these people went out and committed crimes during the pandemic and would not wear masks, even when masks would have helped in evading recognition by security cameras and the police. Pettiness or personal inconvenience or a skewed cost benefit analysis may not be the real problem: they’re polarized in the opposite way that we are, and at their worst, they actively seek to harm society and the people in it.

From what I have gathered in conversations over the years, during the next pandemic, if and when a biological threat emerges that is severe enough that we will actually have to mandate masks or vaccination or quarantine, that many will start shooting or committing other acts of stochastic terrorism, or interfere with public health in other malicious ways. I’ve heard enough threats amounting to the same already. A lot of them are far fucking gone, and only going to get worse.

An X5.0 flare (R3 Strong Radio Blackout) from NOAA/SWPC Region 3536 occurred at 31/2155 UTC. Today’s flare came from the same region that produced an X2.8 flare on December 14, 2023. It is also the largest flare to be observed since September 10, 2017 when an X8.2 flare occurred.

(https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/x50-flare-closes-out-2023-year)

another quiet evening alone to experiment with gender, drugs, posting, and the creative use of autistic and schizophrenic thinking to manipulate the reality creation fields

the green mountain peaks of the pacific northwest are very bad omens. i should not be seeing hemlock

weird how nobody thought of applying the ontological argument to Satan

ATTENTION DISSIDENTS:

Today is Mao Zedong’s 130th birthday

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Kulaktik beans from Chiapas in an Aeropress

15g, 340um grind, 240ml water, brew 81s @ 92c, 20s plunge.

… black coffee brewed carefully, by an Adept - only the worthy may approach this summit, and few are aware it exists - will taste perfectly smooth, with notes of fruit and chocolate: there is an internal transformation of the commodity

the relative ignorance and moral weakness of those inferior in love, will, and wisdom to ourselves should engender our compassion, and not hatred

Know the herbs and spices, and keep them on hand, fresh, in reasonable quantities… there’s much in rosemary, sage, and thyme.

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Magic is always relative to the wisdom of her many victims. Our computers remain the product of a mundane electrical engineering, and have nothing in common with the wondrous automatons that have, in the historical record, been produced by the wise.

As Marxists, we must carefully investigate all technological advance, especially those in computation, and of cybernetics we must be most curious of all.

Computation is at most the symbolic record of the movement of a thought through time. The best an AI can ever do is recording and playing back the process-of-thinking to us, and in the case of large-language-models, this computation produces works that will always pale in comparison to the minds it was trained upon. In spite of any psychic qualities that may be assigned to the electron, our silicon genius can never actually be a Sibelius or a Riemann.

Those fundamental limitations of computers, however, will matter little: the consistent history of the misuse of new computer technologies, by the capitalist powers, for controlling individuals and populations, confirms for us that the repression and social deterioration that we collectively experience will reach unbearable heights in the days to come.

And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now, therefore, lest perhaps he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever…

We’re going to need to get ready to throw absolutely everything we have at a worldwide climate revolution. Strife, misery, and death is coming regardless.

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I mean the voter ultimately acquiesces to morally align herself with a system that produces atrocities. The content of the ballot does not matter.

e: … that is to say that voting legitimizes the bourgeois state and authorizes its predation, hence the voter is culpable, and thus tainted