Peter Kisner ≈@twwombat
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Your Corporate Network and the Forces of Darkness
https://escapepod.org/2005/11/17/ep028-corporate-network/
#Podcast #EscapePod #Necromancy #Cybermancy #FantasyFiction #InformationTechnology
AlleyWurdsDoes anyone else here use contemporary technology in their magickal practice? What words do you use to describe it? #technomancy? #cybermancy? #technopaganism?
grimmwareStill very much in flux and currently totally undocumented, but TarotFS now supports writing your own deck structures simply by creating a directory with 3 text files: one with the major arcana names, one with the minor arcana names, and one with the minor arcana suits.
As an added bonus, if you leave the two minor arcana files empty, you can just have an arbitrary list of generic *things* for divination usage - as demonstrated in the default install, you can now use TarotFS to do runecasting with the Elder Futhark runic alphabet!
I'll get round to actually documenting the feature and making so that you can do per-spread decks some time soon, along with fixing it up so you don't end up with numerals in front of everything...
TarotFS now uses shuffling and top-deck drawing rather than an ordered pack with cards drawn from random positions. You can also re-shuffle the pack in-between draws by reading the `shuffle` file in a spread.
Next up I think I'll be looking at making the deck structure pluggable (i.e. defined by a set of text files) so that different decks can be used and also non-suited divination systems (notably nordic rune-casting) can also be supported! This should also help tidy up the card definition file structure (removing spaces) which will make it easier to write scripts around because `rc` fucking *hates* spaces in things.
I'm hoping to source some decent public domain or CC definitions and keywords to be able to include by default so that you can start using TarotFS to help you learn tarot.
I think it might have occurred to me to write my own very limited Lisp as a DSL for generating occult symbols but I’m not sure.
I wrote my “sigilum” project in Clojure using the Quil framework but it feels unnecessarily heavyweight and (paradoxically) occluded and I’d prefer to have something performant and knowable because the problem space is entirely within geometric constraints.
Part of me feels like I need a new project like I need a hole in the head but another part of me feels like some of those projects need to fade away anyway as they serve a projected idea of myself but don’t actually reflect me or my real intent.