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Join us on February 18, in person or online, for "Dating Saints: A Remarkable Late Medieval Hebrew Compendium of Astronomy and Calendars," presented by Sacha Stern, University College London, & the 2024-2025 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Manuscript Studies

Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 5:15 - 7:00 pm EST

Class of 1978 Pavilion, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th floor, & Virtual

Open to the Public

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More about the lecture:

Penn Libraries' LJS 57, a manuscript written ca. 1361 in Sephardic script, is a remarkable compendium of Hebrew astronomical and related scientific works. It includes four astrological works by Abraham ibn Ezra and the astronomical tables of Jacob ben David ben Yom Tov. The longest section of the codex is an impressive, richly illustrated catalog of stars and constellations, demonstrating how medieval sciences could open the door for creative, artistic expression. In the middle of the codex, the scribe presents a Christian liturgical calendar in Hebrew translation, complete with saint days and other liturgical events. This raises the question: why were Jews interested in Christian dates?

Link to the digitized manuscript:

Katz Center for Advances Judaic Studies:

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Sphinxmumps Linkdump

On THURSDAY (June 20) I'm live onstage in LOS ANGELES for a recording of the GO FACT YOURSELF podcast. On FRIDAY (June 21) I'm doing an ONLINE READING for the LOCUS AWARDS at 16hPT. On SATURDAY (June 22) I'll be in OAKLAND, CA for a panel and a keynote at the LOCUS AWARDS.

Welcome to my 20th Linkdump, in which I declare link bankruptcy and discharge my link-debts by telling you about all the open tabs I didn't get a chance to cover in this week's newsletters. Here's the previous 19 installments:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

Starting off this week with a gorgeous book that is also one of my favorite books: Beehive's special slipcased edition of Dante's Inferno, as translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with new illustrations by UK linocut artist Sophy Hollington:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beehivebooks/the-inferno

I've loved Inferno since middle-school, when I read the John Ciardi translation, principally because I'd just read Niven and Pournelle's weird (and politically odious) (but cracking) sf novel of the same name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Niven_and_Pournelle_novel)

But also because Ciardi wrote "About Crows," one of my all-time favorite bits of doggerel, a poem that pierced my soul when I was 12 and continues to do so now that I'm 52, for completely opposite reasons (now there's a poem with staying power!):

https://spirituallythinking.blogspot.com/2011/10/about-crows-by-john-ciardi.html

Beehive has a well-deserved rep for making absolutely beautiful new editions of great public domain books, each with new illustrations and intros, all in matching livery to make a bookshelf look classy af. I have several of them and I've just ordered my copy of Inferno. How could I not? So looking forward to this, along with its intro by Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky and essay by Dante scholar Kristina Olson.

The Beehive editions show us how a rich public domain can be the soil from which new and inspiring creative works sprout. Any honest assessment of a creator's work must include the fact that creativity is a collective act, both inspired by and inspiring to other creators, past, present and future.

One of the distressing aspects of the debate over the exploitative grift of AI is that it's provoked a wave of copyright maximalism among otherwise thoughtful artists, despite the fact that a new copyright that lets you control model training will do nothing to prevent your boss from forcing you to sign over that right in your contracts, training an AI on your work, and then using the model as a pretext to erode your wages or fire your ass:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand

Same goes for some privacy advocates, whose imaginations were cramped by the fact that the only regulation we enforce on the internet is copyright, causing them to forget that privacy rights can exist separate from the nonsensical prospect of "owning" facts about your life:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/21/the-internets-original-sin/

We should address AI's labor questions with labor rights, and we should address AI's privacy questions with privacy rights. You can tell that these are the approaches that would actually work for the public because our bosses hate these approaches and instead insist that the answer is just giving us more virtual property that we can sell to them, because they know they'll have a buyer's market that will let them scoop up all these rights at bargain prices and use the resulting hoards to torment, immiserate and pauperize us.

Take Clearview AI, a facial recognition tool created by eugenicists and white nationalists in order to help giant corporations and militarized, unaccountable cops hunt us by our faces:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/20/steal-your-face/#hoan-ton-that

Clearview scraped billions of images of our faces and shoveled them into their model. This led to a class action suit in Illinois, which boasts America's best biometric privacy law, under which Clearview owes tens of billions of dollars in statutory damages. Now, Clearview has offered a settlement that illustrates neatly the problem with making privacy into property that you can sell instead of a right that can't be violated: they're going to offer Illinoisians a small share of the company's stock:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/clearview_ai_reaches_creative_settlement/

To call this perverse is to go a grave injustice to good, hardworking perverts. The sums involved will be infinitesimal, and the only way to make those sums really count is for everyone in Illinois to root for Clearview to commit more grotesque privacy invasions of the rest of us to make its creepy, terrible product more valuable.

Worse still: by crafting a bespoke, one-off, forgiveness-oriented regulation specifically for Clearview, we ensure that it will continue, but that it will also never be disciplined by competitors. That is, rather than banning this kind of facial recognition tech, we grant them a monopoly over it, allowing them to charge all the traffic will bear.

We're in an extraordinary moment for both labor and privacy rights. Two of Biden's most powerful agency heads, Lina Khan and Rohit Chopra have made unprecedented use of their powers to create new national privacy regulations:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/16/the-second-best-time-is-now/#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does

In so doing, they're bypassing Congressional deadlock. Congress has not passed a new consumer privacy law since 1988, when they banned video-store clerks from leaking your VHS rental history to newspaper reporters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act

Congress hasn't given us a single law protecting American consumers from the digital era's all-out assault on our privacy. But between the agencies, state legislatures, and a growing coalition of groups demanding action on privacy, a new federal privacy law seems all but assured:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy

When that happens, we're going to have to decide what to do about products created through mass-scale privacy violations, like Clearview AI – but also all of OpenAI's products, Google's AI, Facebook's AI, Microsoft's AI, and so on. Do we offer them a deal like the one Clearview's angling for in Illinois, fining them an affordable sum and grandfathering in the products they built by violating our rights?

Doing so would give these companies a permanent advantage, and the ongoing use of their products would continue to violate billions of peoples' privacy, billions of times per day. It would ensure that there was no market for privacy-preserving competitors thus enshrining privacy invasion as a permanent aspect of our technology and lives.

There's an alternative: "model disgorgement." "Disgorgement" is the legal term for forcing someone to cough up something they've stolen (for example, forcing an embezzler to give back the money). "Model disgorgement" can be a legal requirement to destroy models created illegally:

https://iapp.org/news/a/explaining-model-disgorgement

It's grounded in the idea that there's no known way to unscramble the AI eggs: once you train a model on data that shouldn't be in it, you can't untrain the model to get the private data out of it again. Model disgorgement doesn't insist that offending models be destroyed, but it shifts the burden of figuring out how to unscramble the AI omelet to the AI companies. If they can't figure out how to get the ill-gotten data out of the model, then they have to start over.

This framework aligns everyone's incentives. Unlike the Clearview approach – move fast, break things, attain an unassailable, permanent monopoly thanks to a grandfather exception – model disgorgement makes AI companies act with extreme care, because getting it wrong means going back to square one.

This is the kind of hard-nosed, public-interest-oriented rulemaking we're seeing from Biden's best anti-corporate enforcers. After decades kid-glove treatment that allowed companies like Microsoft, Equifax, Wells Fargo and Exxon commit ghastly crimes and then crime again another day, Biden's corporate cops are no longer treating the survival of massive, structurally important corporate criminals as a necessity.

It's been so long since anyone in the US government treated the corporate death penalty as a serious proposition that it can be hard to believe it's even happening, but boy is it happening. The DOJ Antitrust Division is seeking to break up Google, the largest tech company in the history of the world, and they are tipped to win:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-raghavan

And that's one of the major suits against Google that Big G is losing. Another suit, jointly brought by the feds and dozens of state AGs, is just about to start, despite Google's failed attempt to get the suit dismissed:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-loses-bid-end-us-antitrust-case-over-digital-advertising-2024-06-14/

I'm a huge fan of the Biden antitrust enforcers, but that doesn't make me a huge fan of Biden. Even before Biden's disgraceful collaboration in genocide, I had plenty of reasons – old and new – to distrust him and deplore his politics. I'm not the only leftist who's struggling with the dilemma posed by the worst part of Biden's record in light of the coming election.

You've doubtless read the arguments (or rather, "arguments," since they all generate a lot more heat than light and I doubt whether any of them will convince anyone). But this week, Anand Giridharadas republished his 2020 interview with Noam Chomsky about Biden and electoral politics, and I haven't been able to get it out of my mind:

https://the.ink/p/free-noam-chomsky-life-voting-biden-the-left

Chomsky contrasts the left position on politics with the liberal position. For leftists, Chomsky says, "real politics" are a matter of "constant activism." It's not a "laser-like focus on the quadrennial extravaganza" of national elections, after which you "go home and let your superiors take over."

For leftists, politics means working all the time, "and every once in a while there's an event called an election." This should command "10 or 15 minutes" of your attention before you get back to the real work.

This makes the voting decision more obvious and less fraught for Chomsky. There's "never been a greater difference" between the candidates, so leftists should go take 15 minutes, "push the lever, and go back to work."

Chomsky attributed the good parts of Biden's 2020 platform to being "hammered on by activists coming out of the Sanders movement and other." That's the real work, that hammering. That's "real politics."

For Chomsky, voting for Biden isn't support for Biden. It's "support for the activists who have been at work constantly, creating the background within the party in which the shifts took place, and who have followed Sanders in actually entering the campaign and influencing it. Support for them. Support for real politics."

Chomsky tells us that the self-described "masters of the universe" understand that something has changed: "the peasants are coming with their pitchforks." They have all kinds of euphemisms for this ("reputational risks") but the core here is a winner-take-all battle for the future of the planet and the species. That's why the even the "sensible" ultra-rich threw in for Trump in 2016 and 2020, and why they're backing him even harder in 2024:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckvvlv3lewxo

Chomsky tells us not to bother trying to figure out Biden's personality. Instead, we should focus on "how things get done." Biden won't do what's necessary to end genocide and preserve our habitable planet out of conviction, but he may do so out of necessity. Indeed, it doesn't matter how he feels about anything – what matters is what we can make him do.

Chomksy himself is in his 90s and his health is reportedly in terminal decline, so this is probably the only word we'll get from him on this issue:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chomsky/comments/1aj56hj/updates_on_noams_health_from_his_longtime_mit/

The link between concentrated wealth, concentrated power, and the existential risks to our species and civilization is obvious – to me, at least. Any time a tiny minority holds unaccountable power, they will end up using it to harm everyone except themselves. I'm not the first one to take note of this – it used to be a commonplace in American politics.

Back in 1936, FDR gave a speech at the DNC, accepting their nomination for president. Unlike FDR's election night speech ("I welcome their hatred"), this speech has been largely forgotten, but it's a banger:

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/acceptance-speech-at-the-democratic-national-convention-1936/

In that speech, Roosevelt brought a new term into our political parlance: "economic royalists." He described the American plutocracy as the spiritual descendants of the hereditary nobility that Americans had overthrown in 1776. The English aristocracy "governed without the consent of the governed" and “put the average man’s property and the average man’s life in pawn to the mercenaries of dynastic power":

Roosevelt said that these new royalists conquered the nation's economy and then set out to seize its politics, backing candidates that would create "a new despotism wrapped in the robes of legal sanction…an industrial dictatorship."

As David Dayen writes in The American Prospect, this has strong parallels to today's world, where "Silicon Valley, Big Oil, and Wall Street come together to back a transactional presidential candidate who promises them specific favors, after reducing their corporate taxes by 40 percent the last time he was president":

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-06-14-speech-fdr-would-give/

Roosevelt, of course, went on to win by a landslide, wiping out the Republicans despite the endless financial support of the ruling class.

The thing is, FDR's policies didn't originate with him. He came from the uppermost of the American upper crust, after all, and famously refused to define the "New Deal" even as he campaigned on it. The "New Deal" became whatever activists in the Democratic Party's left could force him to do, and while it was bold and transformative, it wasn't nearly enough.

The compromise FDR brokered within the Democratic Party froze out Black Americans to a terrible degree. Writing for the Institute for Local Self Reliance, Ron Knox and Susan Holmberg reveal the long shadow cast by that unforgivable compromise:

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/045dcde7333243df9b7f4ed8147979cd

They describe how redlining – the formalization of anti-Black racism in New Deal housing policy – led to the ruin of Toledo's once-thriving Dorr Street neighborhood, a "Black Wall Street" where a Black middle class lived and thrived. New Deal policies starved the neighborhood of funds, then ripped it in two with a freeway, sacrificing it and the people who lived in it.

But the story of Dorr Street isn't over. As Knox and Holmberg write, the people of Dorr Street never gave up on their community, and today, there's an awful lot of Chomsky's "constant activism" that is painstakingly bringing the community back, inch by aching inch. The community is locked in a guerrilla war against the same forces that the Biden antitrust enforcers are fighting on the open field of battle. The work that activists do to drag Democratic Party policies to the left is critical to making reparations for the sins of the New Deal – and for realizing its promise for everybody.

In my lifetime, there's never been a Democratic Party that represented my values. The first Democratic President of my life, Carter, kicked off Reaganomics by beginning the dismantling of America's antitrust enforcement, in the mistaken belief that acting like a Republican would get Democrats to vote for him again. He failed and delivered Reagan, whose Reaganomics were the official policy of every Democrat since, from Clinton ("end welfare as we know it") to Obama ("foam the runways for the banks").

In other words, I don't give a damn about Biden, but I am entirely consumed with what we can force his administration to do, and there are lots of areas where I like our chances.

For example: getting Biden's IRS to go after the super-rich, ending the impunity for elite tax evasion that Spencer Woodman pitilessly dissects in this week's superb investigation for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:

https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/06/how-the-irs-went-soft-on-billionaires-and-corporate-tax-cheats/

Ending elite tax cheating will make them poorer, and that will make them weaker, because their power comes from money alone (they don't wield power because their want to make us all better off!).

Or getting Biden's enforcers to continue their fight against the monopolists who've spiked the prices of our groceries even as they transformed shopping into a panopticon, so that their business is increasingly about selling our data to other giant corporations, with selling food to us as an afterthought:

https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-12-war-in-the-aisles/

For forty years, since the Carter administration, we've been told that our only power comes from our role as "consumers." That's a word that always conjures up one of my favorite William Gibson quotes, from 2003's Idoru:

Something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.

The normie, corporate wing of the Democratic Party sees us that way. They decry any action against concentrated corporate power as "anti-consumer" and insist that using the law to fight against corporate power is a waste of our time:

https://www.thesling.org/sorry-matt-yglesias-hipster-antitrust-does-not-mean-the-abandonment-of-consumers-but-it-does-mean-new-ways-to-protect-workers-2/

But after giving it some careful thought, I'm with Chomsky on this, not Yglesias. The election is something we have to pay some attention to as activists, but only "10 or 15 minutes." Yeah, "push the lever," but then "go back to work." I don't care what Biden wants to do. I care what we can make him do.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/15/disarrangement/#credo-in-un-dio-crudel

Image: Jim's Photo World (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimsphotoworld/5360343644/

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The Loomis Radio School, Washington D.C. ca. 1921.

The school was located at 401 Ninth St. N.W. and operated with the call letters 3YA. By 1920 it was offering a six month course enabling the graduate to obtain a first grade commercial radio license and by January of 1922 was offering a four year course with a degree in Radio Engineering bestowed on graduates.

The school was founded by Mary Texanna Loomis, pictured in the last photo.

Born August 18, 1880 near Goliad, Texas. She was the second child born to Alvin Isaac and Caroline (Dryer) Loomis. Though born on homestead in Texas in 1880, by 1883 her parents had returned to Rochester NY and then on to Buffalo where Alvin became president of a large delivery and storage company. Little is known of her early years, but appears she had a fairly middle-class up bringing. She seemed well schooled, with an early interest in music and language (she mastered French, German and Italian) Her early years were spent in Buffalo, NY and she later relocated to Virginia. 

During the early years of World War I, she became interested in the new field of wireless telegraphy. There was a family precedent; her cousin, Dr. Mahlon Loomis, had conducted early wireless experiments with moderate success and may in fact have been the first person, in 1865, to send and receive wireless signals. 

Mary soon became proficient enough in wireless telegraphy to be granted a license by the United States Department of Commerce. Thoroughly fascinated with the field now called “radio”, she decided to turn her expertise into a career. Also, she wanted to do something that would honor her pioneering ancestor. Her idea was to do this by founding a radio school. 

Though radio was indeed, for many years, a profession dominated by men, Mary Loomis around age 40 took no notice and in 1920 founded the Loomis Radio School in Washington, D.C. and it quickly gained an excellent reputation. Ms. Loomis set high standards for the school and it attracted students not only from the United States but Europe and Asia as well. Loomis enjoyed teaching as much as she enjoyed radio itself. In an interview, she said, “Really, I am so infatuated with my work that I delight in spending from 12 to 15 hours a day at it. My whole heart and soul are in this radio school.” 

As president and Lecturer of the Loomis Radio School, Mary authored a definitive book on radio, named “Radio Theory and Operating.” 

By January 1922 the school was offering a four year course with a degree in Radio Engineering bestowed on graduates. Loomis also intended that her students understand more than just the inner and outer workings of radio. In addition to a radio laboratory (with equipment constructed almost entirely by Mary herself), the school maintained a complete shop capable of teaching carpentry, drafting and basic electricity. She reasoned that many of her graduates might find themselves at sea, or in other challenging situations and she wanted them adequately prepared. “No man,” Ms. Loomis said, at the time, “can graduate from my school until he learns how to make any part of the apparatus. I give him a blueprint of what I want him to do and tell him to go into the shop and keep hammering away until the job is completed.” 

The school appears to have been in existence at least through the early 1930's, but it has not been possible to find information after that.

In an interview given to H.O. Bishop of the Dearborn Independent in 1921, Mary was asked: “What sort of young men are taking up the radio profession?” to which she replied:

“The Kind who have grit and want to get there! Virtually all of them are ambitious and enthusiastic over the possibility of visiting every nook and corner of the world. My students are not only enrolled from various sections of the USA and Canada but from many foreign countries, such as Sweden, Ireland, England, Poland, Russia, Austria, Rumania and the Philippines. One of the brightest pupils I ever had was Prince Walimuhomed of Far-away Afghanistan. He was an extremely modest young man, keeping his real identity a secret until after graduating. He said he had no idea of earning his living by working at radio, but just wanted to know all about it. He does.You have no idea how much happiness I get out of the success of each individual graduate. My boys keep in touch with me from all parts of the world. Scarcely a day goes by that I do not get some trinket or postcard from some remote section of the world. I have made the wonderful discovery that the only way for me to get happiness for myself is to make some one else happy. I find that I am making these young men happy by teaching them every phase of the radio business so that they can earn a comfortable living for themselves and their dependents and at the same time, see the great big beautiful world.

As far as we can figure out, Mary Loomis left Washington D.C. around 1935 and moved to San Francisco where she worked as a stenographer. She died in 1960 and is interred at Woodlawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA. 

Source

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Anon Advice Asks

guava anon, terminal anon (new), sofia isella anon, grounded anon

(Sorry this one's less people than usual, I'm really busy today!)

guava anon

Heyyyy cas!! It's guava anon!!

Thank you for your reply!! I feel really better now!!! Love love

Yay, I'm glad you feel better! No problem <3

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terminal anon (tw- illness)

Terminal illnesses have no right to take the most beautiful souls and yet they do. It’s not fair.

She’s wonderful and one of my favourite people, she has been since I was little. I don’t remember much from my childhood but I’ve always known her to be such a light in a world of darkness and gloom

I don’t want to lose her, none of my family do. She’s the best of us all

Hi hon <3

I'm so sorry. I wish there was something I could say to make this better but the reality is that the only thing I can do is offer virtual hugs. Do you want to tell me more? I'm here to listen <3 (Also if you want to change your anon name, lmk, I just had to pick something that you knew who you were).

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sofia isella anon

omg i’m jealous!!

like imo whether or not you like her music she has SUCH a stage presence and like just watch a short of her doing hot gum or the doll people trust me you’ll get it.

also have i mentioned how gender envy she is

and i say that as someone with 0 inclination to be a woman or feminine or 0 desire to be perceived that way (the exact opposite actually)

but just. the vibes. the vibes are gender.

she’s like if pandora and regulus had a child

that level of gender

and yes the james potter thing was amazing

<3

OMG she IS gender...in the pictures I just looked at she's giving like horror movie vibes but in the best way...ugh I'm so mad I didn't watch her set now.

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grounded anon

Hello again!

I am just as queer as last ask, thanks for asking

Basically, we were walking out of class Tuesday and she said I love you like dokfnfndndjddjdj

Also ahe always tells me stuff she doesn't tell anyone else? Like I'm fixing to get down on ONE KNEE AND PULL OUT A RING

Anyway, all tje other grades had gone on fied trips except mine (typical) so they planned a 'fun day' for us. Basically, we were stuck in gym till like 11 something (not that I'm complaining) and basically of either of us Ever had to go anywhere the other tagged along. Also we were like leaning on eachother most of the time during gym. She rested her head on my arm while we watched this sow and it was just ahjsjdhddjdjjsisdnnkdksk

The we went to lunch and we FINALLY got free seating (the bitch ass principle had .ade us sit in ASSIGNED spots the entire year) so me and her sat together and had our knees pressed against eachother and the FEELS

Then we wet to go on these dumbass inflatable water slides and the water was like murky because of all the boys. It was also raining and cold af?!

I ended uo falling really bad so me and her sit out for a bit before we went with a teacher (who also didn't want to be there lol) and we went to her classroom.

We ended up chilling fir a few hours (not touching eschother, sigh) but I sat up in a char eventually because art block stopped beng a butch so she sat up too amd then we pressed our knees together and RAH

After a bit other people had come in and we were watching hamilton and she like layedagaindt my chest so I wrapped my around her (because it was more comfortable, I'm being fr rn) and rested my head on hers and it was just URGH

Thursday is my last day of school. I don't think I'll get a kiss but thats okay. She probably doesn't like me back anyway, I wouldn't lol.

Are you excited for he wishbone album (conan gray)?!?!? I am raaaahhhh

Anyway, have a lovely day. Your so awesome sauce

-grounded anon

Wow it sounds like you guys had a good day together though! I wish the school I work at did things like that for the students...I hope the two of you are able to hang out over the summer?

I am SO excited for Wishbone. Did you like This Song? I've already listened to it a million times.

Sending love!

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NAME / ALIAS: Cas AGE / AGE GROUP: 31 PRONOUNS: they/them TIMEZONE: EST WHERE ARE YOU FROM?: US CHARACTERS IN THE GROUP: Carla Radames (@lanshiang) A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF: Hello! I'm Cas. I've been roleplaying since 13 years old ish. I've always loved zombies, adventures, horror, and undead monsters and am happy to share all of these things in isola. I have a ton of degrees and take language classes for fun in my spare time (virtually none).

I'm a GM for TTRPGs and a very prolific one as well. I run or have run for some of the people in Isola, and they're the ones that convinced me to give it a shot. Carla is my most beloved character of all time. A lot of what you see about Resident Evil 6 on various wiki spaces is actually pulled from me writing her when the game came out.

Apart from ttrpgs and working, I also draw and you'll see a lot of art here for this beautiful incarnation of Carla Radames. Excited to form relationships with all your characters and get to know you!

Reach out to me here in dms for writing stuff :)!

[lucidoctober]

tagged by @vreemd tysm ! <3 im not tagging anyone but these are always fun ! <3

Are you named after anyone?

i don't really have a name at the moment, so no.

When was the last time you cried?

we cry almost daily lately. at least three times a week i think.

Do you have kids?

i do not, but i definitely want to raise something in the future. pets, plants, a business..... something. i'm not married yet (to anyone with a physical body separate from mine, anyway) so actual kids are off the table right now. if i did have kids one day, i would prefer adopting unless the person i marry is able to get me pregnant (which i only feel that way bc that's very sacred to me). and even then, i kind of want marriage to be more about having fun together than about kids or money or whatever. i wanna go on like. eight honeymoons. i wanna spend like five to ten years just having fun being married before i have kids. i don't give a shit about my body's clock or whatever. if i'm past my "prime" by the time we decide where we want to settle down, then we'll adopt. besides, i have pcos so fertility might be a problem, and my sister had just the world's fucking worst post partum of all time so i doubt it'll be a fun time for me.

Do you use sarcasm a lot?

i don't know, do i?

What sports do you play?

i hate organized / professional sports with a burning passion. but i do love physical activities that are competitive sometimes! i just have asthma and get sunburnt easily so i don't get to do them a lot. i love swimming, i love volleyball (including beach volleyball), i love pickle ball / tennis / badminton, ping pong, disc golf even though i'm bad at it (it's fun to walk through parks if they have it set up!), mini golf is fun, i fucking hate regular golf so fucking much it makes me so angry. just generally i hate team sports because i'm hypercompetitive and because mandated gym class sports activities were the fucking bane of my existence as a kid. don't fucking get me started on kickball i want kickball to die. ok i'm done now i prommy

What’s the first thing you notice about people?

their energy. the vibes. their emotions. i pick up on these things very quickly (especially after honing my intuition)

What’s your eye color?

blue-gray

Scary movies or happy endings?

i guess happy endings? i like scary movies just fine, but the scariness is typically not why i gravitate toward horror. i like drama, tragedy, thrillers, psychological horror, over the top goth shit, steampunk, that kind of thing. i don't particularly have strong feelings about happy endings, though.

Any special talents?

art! i sing good too, i think, though i don't have professional help, i've just had people gas me up over it enough to really love karaoke lol. i'm also really good at customer service, i've been told my customer service voice is so perfect it's scary. mmm also i write but i haven't done it in a while. i took a speech class once and everybody was very impressed also which i was fucking shocked by until then i was certain i was shit at public speaking lmao

Do you have pets?

not right now u__u unless you count virtual ones. i love my livlies <3 i think i need to feed them actually--

How tall are you?

5'4" (162 cm)

Favorite subjects in school?

english, french, science (when we were just learning or doing experiments and not having to do boring shit like writing labs), art obviously if that counts. similar to science, i enjoy math only when learning new concepts and not actually having to do the math. i'm very good at geometry though, which i chalk up to being a visual learner, though graphs were always so tedious and made so little sense that they always made me want to bash my head in.

Dream job?

i always had my heart set on animation, but i'm leaning more toward something less collaborative like indie comics or gamedev or even just illustration. i want to go back to school soon, i think for a very general fine arts degree just to figure out where my strengths really lie in case it turns i'm like a megagenius at fucking.... glass blowing or some shit. hell, fashion and movies interest me, too, and i've never tried acting. i wanted to be a voice actor as a kid. idk! i'm gonna figure it out. i've set the steps in motion and am hoping to get into someplace for the spring once i have other things in my life more cleared up.

that's all! thank you again for tagging me :> anyone who wants to is welcome to steal, but let me know if you do !! <3

[legacydowney94]

Modern Benelope AU Plot Bunny for Adoption

Inspired by A Cinderella Story (2004, starring Hilary Duff & Chad Michael Murray)

Penelope Featherington is an introverted but sharp-witted creative writing student at a prestigious university known for turning out literary legends. By day, she’s virtually invisible—her confidence buried under oversized sweaters, messy buns, and a chronic fear of public speaking. In class, her professors barely remember her name, and her peers overlook her entirely.

But by night—and online—Penelope is LadyWhistledown, a mysterious, bestselling fantasy author whose scathing wit and lyrical prose have earned her a cult following. Her books are lauded for their epic world-building and unapologetically fierce heroines, but no one knows her real identity—not even her agent.

Her only confidante is her outspoken, fiercely loyal best friend, Eloise Bridgerton, who keeps urging Penelope to come out of her shell, publish under her real name, and take the literary world by storm. But Penelope’s been burned before—mocked in high school for her writing, laughed at for dreaming too big, and ghosted by a boy she once trusted.

Enter Benedict Bridgerton, a senior art student, golden boy of the campus gallery scene, and Eloise’s effortlessly charming older brother. Known for his easy smile, bohemian fashion sense, and magnetic presence, he’s as popular as Penelope is invisible. But there’s more to him than the glittering façade. Privately, Benedict is grappling with a creative crisis—haunted by the suspicion that his art, while technically impressive, lacks substance. That it says nothing real.

Recently, under the pseudonym TheBrushPrince, he’s begun anonymously sharing raw, emotional sketches online—unguarded glimpses into his psyche. There, for the first time, he creates without expectation, without performance. Among his early admirers: LadyWhistledown.

When their Advanced Creative Collaboration professor assigns a semester-long, anonymous partner project pairing writers and visual artists, the class buzzes with excitement—and dread. Students are forbidden from revealing their identities until the final showcase, a challenge meant to strip away ego and spark authentic connection.

Penelope is assigned TheBrushPrince. She braces herself for another cocky art bro with nothing to say.

But then she receives his first piece: a haunting charcoal sketch of a girl at the edge of a cliff, cloaked in wind and grief. It steals her breath.

Likewise, Benedict receives LadyWhistledown’s opening submission—a sharp, poetic fantasy about a warrior girl forced to wear the mask of a meek maiden in a land ruled by image and reputation. Her words cut through his creative stagnation like a lightning bolt.

They begin a slow-burn exchange of emails—initially professional, then increasingly witty, personal, even intimate. Under the safety of anonymity, Penelope writes with a fearlessness she’s never shown in person. Benedict, in turn, shares the thoughts he’s never said aloud. They trade favorite books, late-night sketches, pieces of half-formed dreams.

What neither knows is that they’ve met before—many times. Benedict has encountered Penelope countless times at Eloise’s gatherings and around campus. She’s just “Eloise’s quiet friend”—the girl with the notebooks and the sad eyes, always on the periphery. He barely notices her.

But Penelope? She’s noticed him for years.

As their online connection deepens, things grow more complicated in the real world. Penelope begins to see flashes of the artist behind TheBrushPrince in Benedict’s everyday frustrations, the things he says in passing, the look in his eyes when he thinks no one’s watching. The clues pile up. Could it really be him?

Meanwhile, Benedict finds himself increasingly drawn to Penelope in real life. Her quiet confidence, her dry wit, her observations so razor-sharp they leave him reeling. There’s something about her he can’t shake. Something… familiar.

And then, a turning point: a campus gallery event. Penelope, urged by Eloise, works up the courage to attend. She lingers in the background, watching Benedict charm the crowd like he was born to it. But then he escapes to the courtyard, sketchbook in hand—seeking solitude beneath the stars.

Summoning every ounce of bravery, Penelope approaches him. Their conversation is awkward but electric—unfiltered in a way neither of them expected. She says something—an image, a metaphor—one he remembers from LadyWhistledown’s last message.

Something clicks.

Not certainty. But possibility.

Benedict starts watching more closely. He matches words, tone, mannerisms. The way she phrases things. The way her fingers twitch like she’s writing even when she’s not.

Around the same time, TheBrushPrince sends LadyWhistledown a message:

“I’d like to meet you. No pressure. Just… a coffee. A face to the name.”

Panic.

Penelope debates telling him the truth. Eloise urges her to take the leap. But the fear claws in again. What if he’s disappointed? What if everything shatters?

So she ghosts him—for two days.

Benedict spirals. He re-reads her messages. Re-draws her characters. Fears he’s lost something irreplaceable.

Then comes the final showcase.

Their project—an illustrated narrative of a masked warrior and the artist who sees her—is placed on the central pedestal. It’s raw. Emotional. Unflinching.

The final line is signed:

—Yours, always, LadyWhistledown.

Benedict reads it, heart thundering.

And then the names are announced:

“Penelope Featherington and Benedict Bridgerton.”

The room hushes.

He turns. Sees her.

And sees her.

Everything clicks into place.

Penelope freezes.

He walks toward her—slowly, gently—as if afraid she’ll vanish. The crowd fades to a distant hum.

“I… I need to get out,” she stammers, bolting.

She bursts into the night air, chest heaving. Panic. Shame. Rain begins to fall.

Behind her: “Penelope, wait!”

Benedict catches up. She won’t look at him.

“I’m scared,” she whispers. “Scared that once you see all of me—the real me—you’ll regret ever caring.”

He cups her face, rain dripping between them.

“I already see you, Pen. I’ve seen you for pages and paragraphs and sketches. I love you—not the name, not the mystery. You. Every messy, brilliant, breathtaking part of you.”

The rain pours down. She laughs through a sob. “You’re insane.”

“Maybe,” he grins. “But I’m yours.”

Their kiss is soft, soaked, and slow—unfolding like a promise in the middle of a storm.

Six Months Later

The Bridgertons didn’t do subtle. Penelope had learned this within five minutes of arriving at their countryside lake house for Violet’s “casual” family weekend—which somehow involved themed brunches, curated playlists, and matching linen loungewear.

She was currently curled up on the back porch, barefoot, a mug of tea in hand, watching the chaos unfold on the lawn. Eloise and Gregory were locked in a heated board game war. Hyacinth was painting Francesca’s nails a color that could only be described as “glitter attack.” Colin was manning the grill like Gordon Ramsay—despite having burned toast just last week.

Benedict emerged with two mugs of tea. He handed her one and dropped beside her, their shoulders brushing.

“You’re still here,” he teased.

“Tempting as it was to fake a work emergency and vanish after Hyacinth grilled me on every fictional character I’ve ever killed off… yes. I stayed.”

He kissed her temple. “They love you.”

“They’re intense,” she said. “In a good way. Like adopting eight golden retrievers at once.”

“You’re lucky,” he deadpanned. “This is them on their best behavior.”

Just then, Daphne shouted about group photos and Violet chimed in with, “Make sure to get one with Penelope—she’s family now!”

Penelope flushed. “Your mom’s going to make me a scrapbook, isn’t she?”

“Probably.”

She wandered down the lake path for a breather, needing a moment to take it all in.

“Didn’t take long to figure out you’d be here,” came a voice behind her.

Anthony.

He stepped up beside her, uncharacteristically calm. “They can be a bit much.”

Penelope smiled. “You said it.”

“I wanted to tell you something,” he said after a beat. “I’ve always thought of you as one of my sisters. Firefly.”

She blinked. “Wait—Firefly?”

He smiled. “Yeah. Small, fierce, glowing. Even when you didn’t know it.”

Her throat tightened.

“I didn’t want to overwhelm you,” he added. “But I saw you, Penelope. I always did. And I love you. You’re family. Officially or not.”

Tears stung her eyes.

“You’re going to make me cry, and then Hyacinth will never let me live it down.”

“She cries at dog food commercials,” Anthony said dryly.

She laughed. He kissed the top of her head.

As they walked back, she spotted Benedict waiting at the hilltop, hands in his pockets, that soft smile just for her.

And in that moment, warm from Anthony’s words, and steadied by Benedict’s gaze, Penelope knew:

She wasn’t invisible anymore.

She had a voice.

She had a love.

And, finally, she had a home.

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What if you could meet eclipse season not with hesitation, but it presence - and stop bracing for its chaos, trusting instead in what your craft is capable of in the dark?

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But what if the eclipse isn't a threat... but a threshold?

In this class, we'll gather in sacred space to explore:

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First of all, if archeo's standards were consistent, he wouldn't devote so much time to harassing people, particularly Jews, who don't actually live in Israel.

Second of all, he's unbelievably naïve. Virtually ALL countries were built off slavery, conquest, and exploitation and, at minimum, practiced cultural genocide with many taking it to the level of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and settler colonialism.

Countless still extant European banking and financial companies made money off the Atlantic slave trade. There might have not been many African slaves in Italy, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, France, or the United Kingdom, but that didn't stop them making bank off the slave trade. To a large degree, the slave trade also made it possible for middle class (and later, working class) Europeans to enjoy previously luxurious items, such as cotton and sugar, for less.

In any case, the forming of the idea of the nation-state in the minds of humans almost made it required that cultural genocide at minimum would be required. Now, a lot of countries try to downplay this history nowadays, but it's nonetheless true:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th-century_Anglo-Saxonism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Turkish_Resettlement_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Catalan_sentiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Chinese_legislation_in_Indonesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Yiddish_sentiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Ukrainian_language_suppression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen,_speak_Turkish! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_Kurds_by_Turkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Tatarization_of_Crimea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsification_of_history_in_Azerbaijan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francization_of_Brussels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_imposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italianization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_der_Landstrasse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policies_of_Francoist_Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_discrimination#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegianization_of_the_S%C3%A1mi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%ADs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_17 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dshi-kaimei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergonha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not

Happy reading!

[hazard-and-friends]

2022/23 retrospective

I forgot to ever update everyone on my 2022 goals and then 2023 was a big fucking year so some assorted thoughts, Hazard specific:

Behavior Mod:

Separation anxiety: We finished 2022 strong with a 2 hour departure where Jo and I went out to eat with our parents. Everything went back to square...uh, like 50, but we were on square 2000 so... in February 2023 when we moved. After a rough March/April (lots of taking him to work briefly for Jo to pick him up on her way home), I was off work in May (surgery) and was able to get the foundations back. In the last 2 weeks he's been alone for 2 hours three times, all fairly solid, under different circumstances and setups. A+!

Car work: Has been a complete disaster. He can remain quietly in the car at home while I run back in for something, but not elsewhere. At one training facility he'll settle down if I stand near the car for 2-3 minutes, then slowly walk off, but not at the other one. I need to dig into this but it involves driving somewhere else, and at that point I want to do the thing I'm there to do...

Nails: We made loads of progress up until puppy arrival, and have made scattershot progress since then. I was able to clip about one front nail a week--5 minutes of work a day, but only once a week could we get up to the actual clipping. That hasn't happened in a while, but he is getting much better about the dremel noise as I counter-condition the puppy to it: Take all the focus off him, I don't pay attention to what he does, I feed her all the treats she wants as I buzz her nails, and he gradually decides maybe it doesn't eat dogs after all.

Stranger danger: 2024 priority.

Titles:

Got BCAT and CA in 2022

Took another CGC class, failed that test as well (stranger danger AND reaction to friendly dog problems, did notably better on supervised separation though (???)).

ORT and NW1 and NW2 in 2023, all on the first go!!!!

TKN and TKI in 2022

No work with rats since 2021, regrettably, but we're currently doing so well in nosework I don't want to add another sniffy sport for the moment

(This isn't a concern about crosstraining, this is about MY brain and MY spoons and also MY income)

First RN leg! Two more rally trials (one virtual, one in person) in January

2024 goals will be a separate post.

Neither bmod nor sports but he has done fantastically about adding another dog into his life--he enjoys K'seil, likes playing with her, his welfare has measurably improved by adding a puppy. I didn't expect this (I was resigned to making his life slightly worse) because when we puppysat Maddie for a week at about 3 months, he was miserable, needy, and so ready to get rid of her. But he loves K'seil, when she went to sleepaway camp for Thanksgiving he was distressed she was gone, it's been great.

It does mean less 1:1 time with me, and less training, but oh well.