The Very High Priestess

@TheVeryHighPriestess
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Avid knitter, constant gardener, polyamorous newbie, Discordian Very High Priestess and mother of one (dog). Runs on coffee, myths, sci-fi, fantasy and hugs.
Last night's show, uploaded and timestamped https://www.mixcloud.com/Filthy_Pagan/saturnalia-18042018/
Saturnalia 18/04/2018 by Filthy_Pagan | Mixcloud

Listen to Saturnalia 18/04/2018 and other great mixes, sets and podcasts by Filthy_Pagan on Mixcloud.

"In perhaps the creepiest example, Facebook applied for (and received, last year) a patent for a tool called Techniques, for emotion detection and content delivery. It would use the camera in your phone to take pictures of you as you scroll through content. Facebook would then use facial analysis to measure how much you did or did not like the content in question, so as to determine what kind of stuff to send your way."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-facebook-can-we-be-saved-social-media-giant-w518655

Taibbi: Can We Be Saved From Facebook?

The social media giant has swallowed up the free press, become an unstoppable private spying operation and undermined democracy. Is it too late to stop it?

900 years ago you left Earth on the colony ship Alexander to a planet in a different Solar System, Valhalla. You were cryogenically frozen. When you arrived you found Humans from Earth had already Colonized it... 500 years ago.
#writingprompts #writing
The awesome #sync when you think about versions of self and the next day a friend of yours invites you to #Pessoa #play, Pessoa being a poet who invented #heteronyms, ie. he wrote poems under various personalities of his self.

"So I reckon that #magic is our response to #consciousness and I think that magic is practically synonymous with #art and I think it’s practically synonymous with #language and I think that all of these four phenomena are language, magic and consciousness. I think that they’re four parts of the same thing, four aspects of the same thing."

http://www.superweirdsubstance.com/alan-moore-youth-conversation/

#alanmoore #interview on #creativity

Alan Moore & Youth In Conversation - Super Weird Substance

Today marks the first anniversary of our Super Weird Happening that took over the Dingle's Florrie for 14 hours of magick, music and mayhem. One of the highlights was this illuminating conversation between Alan Moore & Youth...

Super Weird Substance

With the #deletefacebook / anti-birdsite movement seemingly picking up speed, I have a few questions:
* How has it affected your social life?
* Did you manage to keep in contact with people far-away that you only spoke to occasionally?
* How did your relationship with social media / media as a whole change.
* How did your 'free time' change? Were you more productive or did you procrastinate elsewhere?

If you're replying, please say how long you've been without #Facebook / #Birdsite :)

'Deeply weird and enjoyable': Ursula K Le Guin's electronica album
In the 1980s, the #sci-fi author teamed up with musician Todd Barton, inventing new instruments and a language to create Music and Poetry of the Kesh

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2018/mar/27/ursula-k-le-guins-electronica-album-music-and-poetry-of-the-kesh

#scifi #leguin #music

'Deeply weird and enjoyable': Ursula K Le Guin's electronica album

In the 1980s, the sci-fi author teamed up with musician Todd Barton, inventing new instruments and a language to create Music and Poetry of the Kesh. Is the album any good?

Fuller House: 15 Geodesic Dome Creations Pay Tribute to Bucky’s Classic

Architect, engineer and inventor Buckminster Fuller developed the world’s most infamous dome structure while searching for the most efficient housing solution possible during the 1940s. The dome st…

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