#René Moore

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Oooooo..oooooo... Saaang Angela...

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First time you felt seen by Star Trek?

The episode: DS9-- ‘Rejoined’

What I knew: I knew I was queer, had since I was four years old.

What I saw: A trans person! Who wasn’t a psychotic criminal! who had a lover of the same current gender. And her friends were fine with both of these things!! They loved her anyway!! On tv!!!! On my favourite Star Trek show, with the character I understood the most. I’d never seen that before!! I’d never seen someone talk about gender so fluidly as Jadzia. I’d always felt represented by Dax, but seeing her wlw relationship accepted by everyone around her blew my mind. Many things clicked into place for me the night of 30 October 1995. I cried. Teenager me was in puddles. Adult me puddles every time.

Director: Avery Brooks

Writers: Ronald D. Moore, René Echevarria

Story by: René Echevarria

Thank you for that moment, DS9. You made me felt seen for the first time, possibly ever.

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B e s t A c t r e s s O s c a r s (2015-2024)

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5 ottobre … ricordiamo …

5 ottobre … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2021: Luisa Mattioli,  talvolta accreditata come Maria Luisa Mattioli o Luisa Moore, attrice italiana, attiva nel cinema italiano ed in televisione fra la seconda metà degli anni cinquanta e la prima metà degli anni sessanta. Fu la terza moglie dell’attore Roger Moore. I due si conobbero all’inizio degli anni sessanta quando lei lo intervistò per una trasmissione televisiva. Lavorarono insieme…

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Harper's Bazaar UK: 2010 Covers

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Liosta greannán Gaeilge

Asterix

Asterix ag na Cluichí Oilimpeacha. Le Goscinny agus Uderzo, Dalen, 2019.

Asterix agus a Mhac. Le hAlbert Uderzo, Dalen, 2020.

Asterix agus an Corrán Óir. Le René Goscinny agus Albert Uderzo, Dalen, 2014.

Asterix agus an Fear Feasa. Le René Goscinny agus Albert Uderzo, Dalen, 2021.

Asterix agus an Mac Mioscaise. Le René Goscinny agus Albert Uderzo, Dalen, 2022.

Asterix agus an Pota Pinginí. Le René Goscinny agus Albert Uderzo, Dalen, 2023.

Asterix agus Cléópátra. Le Goscinny agus Uderzo, Dalen, 2018.

Asterix agus Coróin Labhrais Chaesair. Le Goscinny agus Uderzo, Dalen, 2020.

Asterix agus Creachadóirí Chríoch Lochlann. Le René Goscinny agus Albert Uderzo, Dalen, 2022.

Asterix agus Draoi na Bliana. Le René Goscinny agus Albert Uderzo, Dalen, 2021.

Asterix agus Troid na dTreabh. Le Goscinny agus Uderzo, Dalen, 2018.

Asterix ar Pháirc an Chatha. Le Goscinny agus Uderzo, Dalen, 2018.

Asterix Gliaire. Le René Goscinny agus Albert Uderzo, Dalen, 2015.

Asterix i gCoill na Cinsealachta. Le Goscinny agus Uderzo, Dalen, 2019.

Asterix i dTír na Sasanach. Le René Goscinny agus Albert Uderzo, Dalen, 2015.

Asterix na nGallach. Le René Goscinny agus Albert Uderzo, Dalen, 2014.

Asterix san Easpáinn. Le René Goscinny agus Albert Uderzo, Dalen, 2023.

Tintin

Eachtraí Tintin: 7 Mallacht na Meallta Criostail. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2022.

Eachtraí Tintin: An tAonbheannach Mistéireach. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2020.

Eachtraí Tintin: Ciste Castafiore. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2019.

Eachtraí Tintin: An tOileán Dubh. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2017.

Eachtraí Tintin: An Piocardach i bPonc. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2023.

Eachtraí Tintin: Portán na nOrdóg Órga. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2015.

Eachtraí Tintin: An Réalta Reatha. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2021.

Eachtraí Tintin: Slat Ríoga Ottokar. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2019.

Eachtraí Tintin: Taisce Raga Rua. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2020.

Eachtraí Tintin: Teampall na Gréine. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2022.

Eachtraí Tintin: Tintin sa Tibéid. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2017.

Eachtraí Tintin: Tír an Óir Dhuibh. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2023.

Eachtraí Tintin: Todóga na bhFarónna. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2014.

Tintin agus na Picaros. Le Hergé, Dalen, 2021.

Greannáin eile le Dalen

Art Abú!: Dúrún Dhonnabháin. Le David De Thuin, Dalen, 2022.

Art Abú!: Scoil na nArrachtaí. Le David De Thuin, Dalen, 2022.

Art Abú! Spiorad na Coille. Le David De Thuin, Dalen, 2022.

Ortha an Tuama 1: De Bheoibh nó De Mhairbh. Le Jean Léturgie, Richard De Martino, agus Simon Léturgie, Dalen, 2023.

Ortha an Tuama 2: An Gorta ó Dhoras. Le Jean Léturgie, Richard De Martino, agus Simon Léturgie, Dalen, 2023.

Ortha an Tuama 3: An Tríú hUair Shona. Le Jean Léturgie, Richard De Martino, agus Simon Léturgie, Dalen, 2023.

An Triúr Triallach agus Foghlaithe Mhuir Chairib. Le Richard Everett, Thomas Platt, agus Julius Grützke, Dalen, 2022.

An Triúr Triallach: An Congó. Le Thorsten Kiecker, Andreas Pasda, agus Andreas Schulze, Dalen, 2022.

Na Trodaoirí 1: An Phrintíseacht. Le Jonathan Garnier agus Amélie Fléchais, Dalen, 2023.

Na Trodaoirí 2: An Bhrúid Dhubh. Le Jonathan Garnier agus Amélie Fléchais, Dalen, 2023.

Na Trodaoirí 3: Ar Aistear. Le Jonathan Garnier agus Amélie Fléchais, Dalen, 2023.

Na Trodaoirí 4: An Duibheagán. Le Jonathan Garnier agus Amélie Fléchais, Dalen, 2023.

Greannáin le Cló Mhaigh Eo

An Béal Bocht. Le Myles na gCopaleen agus John McCloskey, Cló Mhaigh Eo, 2012.

Deirdre agus Mic Uisnigh. Le Colmán Ó Raghallaigh, Barry Reynolds, agus Audrey O'Brien, Cló Mhaigh Eo, 2008.

Gráinne Mhaol. Le Gisela Pizatto agus Bruno Büll, Cló Mhaigh Eo, 2013.

An Sclábhaí. Le Colmán Ó Raghallaigh, Cló Mhaigh Eo, 2001.

An Táin. Le Colmán Ó Raghallaigh agus The Cartoon Saloon, Cló Mhaigh Eo, 2006.

An Teachtaire. Le Colmán Ó Raghallaigh agus Tomm Moore, Cló Mhaigh Eo, 2003.

An Tóraíocht. Le Colmán Ó Raghallaigh agus The Cartoon Saloon, Cló Mhaigh Eo, 2002.

Greannáin le Leabhar Breac

An Broc-Chú. Le Hervé Bourhis, Leabhar Breac, 2016.

An Broc-Chú 2: Ar Ais i mBun Gnóthaí. Le Hervé Bourhis, Leabhar Breac, 2017.

Cáitín Chaoch: Práinneach. Le Bruno Heitz, Leabhar Breac, 2020.

Cáitín Chaoch: Preab san Aer. Le Bruno Heitz, Leabhar Breac, 2020.

Cáitín Chaoch: Seal le Sorcas. Le Bruno Heitz, Leabhar Breac, 2020.

Corp an Duine Uasail. Le Pénélope Bagieu, Leabhar Breac, 2015.

Corto: An Buille Scoir. Le Hugo Pratt, Leabhar Breac, 2014.

Corto: In Ainm Dé Uilethrócairigh. Le Hugo Pratt, Leabhar Breac, 2014.

Corto: Na Liopard-Fhir ó Rufiji. Le Hugo Pratt, Leabhar Breac, 2014.

Corto: Port na Farraige Goirt. Le Hugo Pratt, Leabhar Breac, 2014.

Corto sa tSibéir. Le Hugo Pratt, Leabhar Breac, 2016.

Corto: An Teach Orga i Samarkand. Le Hugo Pratt, Leabhar Breac, 2014.

Corto: Tóraíocht Eile. Le Hugo Pratt, Leabhar Breac, 2014.

Cú 1: Cosantóir. Le Paul Bolger agus Barry Devlin, Leabhar Breac, 2017.

Cú 2: Coimirceoir. Le Paul Bolger agus Barry Devlin, Leabhar Breac, 2018.

Cú 3: Fuascailteoir. Le Paul Bolger agus Barry Devlin, Leabhar Breac, 2019.

An Leathanach Bán. Le Pénélope Bagieu, Leabhar Breac, 2017.

Greannáin le foilsitheoirí eile

Azzi idir dhá Stól. Le Sarah Garland, An Gúm, 2012.

Cúan Clúmhach agus Scéal an Damhna. Le Janet Slingerland agus Angel Mosquito, An Gúm, 2013.

Dog Man. Le Dav Pilkey, Futa Fata, 2023.

Dog Man Scaoilte Amach. Le Dav Pilkey, Futa Fata, 2023.

An Droch Shaol. Le Christine Kinealy agus John Walsh, Coiscéim, 2016.

Fuinneamh is Fáilte. Le hAngieska Biskup, An Gúm, 2013.

Heartstopper Leabhar 1. Le hAlice Oseman, Futa Fata, 2024.

Kostka. Le Przemyslaw Wysogląd, Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta, 2018.

Micí s'Againne. Le Caoimhin Mac a’ Bhaird agus Christopher Ammentorp, Éabhlóid, 2018.

An Rós Fiáin. Le Nicola R. White, Katia Vecchio, Muireann Bergin, Emily McEwan, Kara Brauen, Jono Doiron, agus Maria Nguyen, Bradan Press, 2023.

Ruaille Buaille Imleabhar 1. Coimicí Gael, 2015.

Ruaille Buaille Imleabhar 2. Coimicí Gael, 2016.

Scott Pilgrim. Le Bryan Lee O'Malley, Gliadar, 2024.

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VI. Embracing Masculinity

Robert Moore – King, Warrior, Magician, Lover David Deida – The Way of the Superior Man Walter Newell – The Code of Man: Love, Courage, Pride, Family, Country Frederic Delavier – Strength Training Anatomy Mark Rippetoe – Starting Strength Tony Robbins – Awaken The Giant Within Marcus Aurelius – The Meditations Sun Tzu – The Art of War Robert Greene – The 48 Laws of Power Yamamoto Tsunetomo – Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

VII. Traditional Christianity

G.K. Chesterton – Orthodoxy Venerable Fulton Sheen – The Moral Universe Hilaire Belloc – Survivals and New Arrivals Michael Walsh – Roman Catholicism: The Basics Archbishop James Gibbons – The Faith of Our Fathers Henri Daniel Rops – This is the Mass Fr. Frederick William Faber – The Precious Blood or the Price of Our Salvation Fr. Frederick William Faber – The Creator and The Creature Robert Hugh Benson – Christ in the Church Cardinal Manning – The Holy Ghost, The Sanctifier Colin Lindsay – The Evidence for the Papacy Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre – An Open Letter to Confused Catholics Fr. James F. Wathen – The Great Sacrilege Fr. Luigi Villa – Vatican II About Face! Fr. Joseph Deharbe – A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion ——– Alexander Schmemann – For the Life of the World Kallistos Ware – The Orthodox Way Lorenzo Scupoli – Unseen Warfare John Marler – Youth of the Apocalypse and The Last True Rebellion Seraphim Rose – Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future

VIII. History Revisited.

Admiral Raphael Semmes – Memoirs of Service Afloat Anne Jean Marie René Savary – Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo Claude François de Méneval – Memoirs to Serve for the History of Napoleon I K. P Pobyedonostseff – Reflections of a Russian Statesman Edmund Burke – Reflections on the Revolution in France Regine Pernoud – Those Terrible Middle Ages: Debunking the Myths Lothrop Stoddard – The French Revolution on San Domingo Sidney George Fisher – True History of the American Revolution Lawrence H. Keeley – War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage Alexis de Tocqueville – The Old Regime and the Revolution Peter Oliver – Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion

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💙💜💖 Bi Books Coming Out February 2024

💖💜💙 Do you know what we could always use a little more of? Bi books! Here are a few coming out in February that would make fabulous additions to your never-ending TBR! Happy reading!

💖 In Plain Sight by Siobhan Muir 💜 Big Date Energy by Bethany Rutter 💙 Wine Ghost Goes to Hell by Sage Coffey 💖 Disciples of Chaos by M.K. Lobb 💜 Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops 💙 Rupture in Total Eclipse by Sem Thornwood 💖 King Cheer by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm, Jamie Green 💜 Master and Favorite by Rachel Cherry 💙 Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair by Laura Piper Lee 💖 A Vicious Game by Melissa Blair 💜 It's Ours to Write by Blanche Maze 💙 Projections by S.E. Porter 💖 The Girl, the Ring, & the Baseball Bat by Camille Gomera-Tavarez 💜 Witch Boyfriend Wanted by Colette Rivera 💙 Tune Me Up by Renée Dahlia 💖 Cloti's Song by Dani Finn 💜 Prove It by Stephanie Hoyt 💙 Mewing by Chloe Spencer 💖 Snowed In With Summer by Tiana Warner 💜 Green Dot by Madeline Gray 💙 Falling For You by Mariah Ankenman 💖 Breaks by Emma Vieceli, Malin Rydén 💜 Signals by Nika 💙 Mortgage of Convenience by Dani McLean 💖 Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner 💜 The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett 💙 An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson 💖 Truthfully, Yours by Caden Armstrong 💜 The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton 💙 The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett 💖 Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos 💜 Letters to Her Love by Katherine Grant 💙 We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller 💖 Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan 💜 You Had Me at Merlot by Melissa Brayden 💙 Redsight by Meredith Mooring

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The Top 40 Most Popular Operas, Part 3 (#21 through #30)

A quick guide for newcomers to the genre, with links to online video recordings of complete performances, with English subtitles whenever possible.

Verdi's Il Trovatore

The second of Verdi's three great "middle period" tragedies (the other two being Rigoletto and La Traviata): a grand melodrama filled with famous melodies.

Studio film, 1957 (Mario del Monaco, Leyla Gencer, Ettore Bastianini, Fedora Barbieri; conducted by Fernando Previtali) (no subtitles; read the libretto in English translation here)

Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

The most famous tragic opera in the bel canto style, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor, and featuring opera's most famous "mad scene."

Studio film, 1971 (Anna Moffo, Lajos Kozma, Giulio Fioravanti, Paolo Washington; conducted by Carlo Felice Cillario)

Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

The most famous example of verismo opera: brutal Italian realism from the turn of the 20th century. Jealousy, adultery, and violence among a troupe of traveling clowns.

Feature film, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, Juan Pons, Alberto Rinaldi; conducted by Georges Prêtre)

Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI

Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)

Mozart's comic Singspiel (German opera with spoken dialogue) set amid a Turkish harem. What it lacks in political correctness it makes up for in outstanding music.

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1988 (Deon van der Walt, Inga Nielsen, Lillian Watson, Lars Magnusson, Kurt Moll, Oliver Tobias; conducted by Georg Solti) (click CC for subtitles)

Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera

A Verdi tragedy of forbidden love and political intrigue, inspired by the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden.

Leipzig Opera House, 2006 (Massimiliano Pisapia, Chiara Taigi, Franco Vassallo, Annamaria Chiuri, Eun Yee You; conducted by Riccardo Chailly) (click CC for subtitles)

Part I, Part II

Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)

A half-comic, half-tragic fantasy opera based on the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, in which the author becomes the protagonist of his own stories of ill-fated love.

Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2018 (Juan Diego Flórez, Olga Peretyatko, Nicolas Courjal, Sophie Marilley; conducted by Jacques Lacombe) (click CC and choose English in "Auto-translate" under "Settings" for subtitles)

Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)

An early and particularly accessible work of Wagner, based on the legend of a phantom ship doomed to sail the seas until its captain finds a faithful bride.

Savolinna Opera, 1989 (Franz Grundheber, Hildegard Behrens, Ramiro Sirkiä, Matti Salminen; conducted by Leif Segerstam) (click CC for subtitles)

Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana

A one-act drama of adultery and scorned love among Sicilian peasants, second only to Pagliacci (with which it's often paired in a double bill) as the most famous verismo opera.

St. Petersburg Opera, 2012 (Fyodor Ataskevich, Iréne Theorin, Nikolay Kopylov, Ekaterina Egorova, Nina Romanova; conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov)

Verdi's Falstaff

Verdi's final opera, a "mighty burst of laughter" based on Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Studio film, 1979 (Gabriel Bacquier, Karan Armstrong, Richard Stilwell, Marta Szirmay, Jutta Renate Ihloff, Max René Cosotti; conducted by Georg Solti) (click CC for subtitles)

Verdi's Otello (Othello)

Verdi's second-to-last great Shakespearean opera, based on the tragedy of the Moor of Venice.

Teatro alla Scala, 2001 (Plácido Domingo, Leo Nucci, Barbara Frittoli; conducted by Riccardo Muti)

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Thanks for the tag @angelosearch!

Wow, this tag game was tough. My brain shorted out as soon as I started this activity. I would hum familiar songs to myself only to completely forget their titles. I tried my best not to look up songs and artists but I got stuck on a few letters, especially the two E's.

P.S. The majority of these songs are moody and contemplative, which reflects how I'm generally feeling these days. 🖤

Rule: you must pick a song for each letter in your username

G - "Go Away Go Away" by Chanyeol and Punch A - "A Train" by Justine Skye R - "Riders On The Storm" by The Doors D - "Deep" by René Dupéré (Cirque du Soleil: KÀ) E - "Exile" by Enya N - "Now Or Never" by High School Musical 3 Cast G - "Ghosts (Vincent De Moor Original Mix)" by Tenth Planet A - "A Millennial Love" by Lim Ha Young L - "London Dungeon" by The Misfits W - "Weightless" by Chris Burkich R - "Reckoner" by Radiohead I - "Islands" by QED T - "The Boy Is Mine" by Brandy and Monica E - "Empty Memories" by After Forever S - "Sacrilege" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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Idly thinking about the brilliance of TNG's Lower Decks, so please do bear with me for a little while here... The show's seventh season often gets a not entirely unjustified rap as being a piece of filler while various parts of the writer's room were off shepherding the launch of Voyager and the transition to film with Generations, but here at last the season manages to attain the lofty heights of exactly what we expect from the "final season" of a show like this, in a fashion far more satisfying than simple continuity references or closure to running plot threads could ever be.

What I mean is that it demonstrates the inherent perks of the writer's room as a model of television production, something that has kind of been lost in the age of streaming and micro-writer's rooms. There isn't enough space for someone like, say, Brannon Braga with his weird exploration of body horror and/or temporal fuckery, or Ronald D. Moore with his cynical realpolitik.

Lower Decks very much hinges on René Echevarria's proven talents as one of the strongest writers in the TNG stable when it comes to intimate, character-driven pieces. The pitch came from outside the writer's room, but that hints at the real function of the room as a machine, whereby an abstract idea is subjected to a very particular finesse that helps bring out particular facets of a given script.

Ironically, Echevarria's own Star Trek career is another instructive proof-of-concept in this regard. His first script was The Offspring, but it was given an extensive do-over by Michael Piller and Melinda Snodgrass to better fit the aesthetics of the show. And here, his talents have developed far enough that he's effectively put on the other end of the process.

And it works. The script is beautifully constructed, with so many clever bits that invite the audience to become an active participant in the very procedure of watching Star Trek. The Alaska/Canada screw-up from Lavelle and Ben, the decision to cut away from the transport of Joret Dal and only show the hint of a Cardassian uniform, and of course the central set piece of the intercut poker games. (Here, for the visual triumphs, we should also commend director Gabrielle Beaumount.)

The episode derives its power from the audience's understanding that there were 165 episodes before this one, with their own rhythms and cadences. It disrupts it, but ultimately, in Worf's mutual connection with the lower decks personnel at the very end, collapses the narrative back into its familiar form. Of course, like all good narrative collapses, it comes at a cost, namely that of Ensign Sito.

It's brutal, and soul-crushing, to have spent so much time with this character only to have her swept away by the vicissitudes of fate, but it never feels cynical.

(In fact, one of the more bitterly memorable moments in watching the episode with my parents tonight - who had not seen the episode, or at least not recently - was my mother worriedly voicing her suspicions that Sito was not slated for a happy ending, and my father noting how bleak it would be for them to bring back this character to tell such a story. Crucially, he did not say this to disapprove, and I think it speaks volumes to how much Echevarria's script relies on the audience applying the televisual grammar of Star Trek to the episode.)

I'll admit I haven't seen any of the more modern Trek shows beyond Season 2 of Discovery - not out of conscious choice, mind you, I just have only so many hours of the day to watch Star Trek - but I can absolutely understand why this was the episode that got to pretty much single-handedly inspire the concept of an entire show, even if only in spirit.

For a show that can often feel rather formulaic - which isn't a problem, because the formula is a very, very good one that leads to some fantastic episodes - Lower Decks is proof that TNG wasn't *entirely* content to just coast by and rest on its laurels. It would have been justified to do so, but it still threw in the odd stylistic leap here and there.

And in so doing, it inadvertently prefigures more experimental modern television techniques - and contrasting against some of the more frustrating tendencies of the streaming era - all amidst a genuinely heartfelt and moving story. With all due respect to The Pegasus, Parallels and All Good Things, for me I think Lower Decks has now emerged as the champion of Season 7.

It's just that fantastic.

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Appendix A: An Imagined and Incomplete Conversation about “Consciousness” and “AI,” Across Time

Every so often, I think about the fact of one of the best things my advisor and committee members let me write and include in my actual doctoral dissertation, and I smile a bit, and since I keep wanting to share it out into the world, I figured I should put it somewhere more accessible.

So with all of that said, we now rejoin An Imagined and Incomplete Conversation about “Consciousness” and “AI,” Across Time, already (still, seemingly unendingly) in progress:

René Descartes (1637): The physical and the mental have nothing to do with each other. Mind/soul is the only real part of a person.

Norbert Wiener (1948): I don’t know about that “only real part” business, but the mind is absolutely the seat of the command and control architecture of information and the ability to reflexively reverse entropy based on context, and input/output feedback loops.

Alan Turing (1952): Huh. I wonder if what computing machines do can reasonably be considered thinking?

Wiener: I dunno about “thinking,” but if you mean “pockets of decreasing entropy in a framework in which the larger mass of entropy tends to increase,” then oh for sure, dude.

John Von Neumann (1958): Wow things sure are changing fast in science and technology; we should maybe slow down and think about this before that change hits a point beyond our ability to meaningfully direct and shape it— a singularity, if you will.

Clynes & Klines (1960): You know, it’s funny you should mention how fast things are changing because one day we’re gonna be able to have automatic tech in our bodies that lets us pump ourselves full of chemicals to deal with the rigors of space; btw, have we told you about this new thing we’re working on called “antidepressants?”

Gordon Moore (1965): Right now an integrated circuit has 64 transistors, and they keep getting smaller, so if things keep going the way they’re going, in ten years they’ll have 65 THOUSAND. :-O

Donna Haraway (1991): We’re all already cyborgs bound up in assemblages of the social, biological, and techonological, in relational reinforcing systems with each other. Also do you like dogs?

Ray Kurzweil (1999): Holy Shit, did you hear that?! Because of the pace of technological change, we’re going to have a singularity where digital electronics will be indistinguishable from the very fabric of reality! They’ll be part of our bodies! Our minds will be digitally uploaded immortal cyborg AI Gods!

Tech Bros: Wow, so true, dude; that makes a lot of sense when you think about it; I mean maybe not “Gods” so much as “artificial super intelligences,” but yeah.

90’s TechnoPagans: I mean… Yeah? It’s all just a recapitulation of The Art in multiple technoscientific forms across time. I mean (*takes another hit of salvia*) if you think about the timeless nature of multidimensional spiritual architectures, we’re already—

DARPA: Wait, did that guy just say something about “Uploading” and “Cyborg/AI Gods?” We got anybody working on that?? Well GET TO IT!

Disabled People, Trans Folx, BIPOC Populations, Women: Wait, so our prosthetics, medications, and relational reciprocal entanglements with technosocial systems of this world in order to survive makes us cyborgs?! :-O

[Simultaneously:]

Kurzweil/90’s TechnoPagans/Tech Bros/DARPA: Not like that. Wiener/Clynes & Kline: Yes, exactly.

Haraway: I mean it’s really interesting to consider, right?

Tech Bros: Actually, if you think about the bidirectional nature of time, and the likelihood of simulationism, it’s almost certain that there’s already an Artificial Super Intelligence, and it HATES YOU; you should probably try to build it/never think about it, just in case.

90’s TechnoPagans: …That’s what we JUST SAID.

Philosophers of Religion (To Each Other): …Did they just Pascal’s Wager Anselm’s Ontological Argument, but computers?

Timnit Gebru and other “AI” Ethicists: Hey, y’all? There’s a LOT of really messed up stuff in these models you started building.

Disabled People, Trans Folx, BIPOC Populations, Women: Right?

Anthony Levandowski: I’m gonna make an AI god right now! And a CHURCH!

The General Public: Wait, do you people actually believe this?

Microsoft/Google/IBM/Facebook: …Which answer will make you give us more money?

Timnit Gebru and other “AI” Ethicists: …We’re pretty sure there might be some problems with the design architectures, too…

Some STS Theorists: Honestly this is all a little eugenics-y— like, both the technoscientific and the religious bits; have you all sought out any marginalized people who work on any of this stuff? Like, at all??

Disabled People, Trans Folx, BIPOC Populations, Women: Hahahahah! …Oh you’re serious?

Anthony Levandowski: Wait, no, nevermind about the church.

Some “AI” Engineers: I think the things we’re working on might be conscious, or even have souls.

“AI” Ethicists/Some STS Theorists: Anybody? These prejudices???

Wiener/Tech Bros/DARPA/Microsoft/Google/IBM/Facebook: “Souls?” Pfffft. Look at these whackjobs, over here. “Souls.” We’re talking about the technological singularity, mind uploading into an eternal digital universal superstructure, and the inevitability of timeless artificial super intelligences; who said anything about “Souls?”

René Descartes/90’s TechnoPagans/Philosophers of Religion/Some STS Theorists/Some “AI” Engineers: …

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Read Appendix A: An Imagined and Incomplete Conversation about “Consciousness” and “AI,” Across Time at A Future Worth Thinking About

and read more of this kind of thing at: Williams, Damien Patrick. Belief, Values, Bias, and Agency: Development of and Entanglement with "Artificial Intelligence." PhD diss., Virginia Tech, 2022. https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/111528.

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January: Happy Birthday List

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 19) 1: Josette Simon  2: Erica Hubbard, Renée Elise Goldsberry 3: Angelique Perrin, Nicole Beharie 4: Jill Marie Jones, Miss Tina Lawson, Lenora Crichlow, Alexandra Grey, Coco Jones, Sindi Dlathu 5: Ms. Juicy Baby, Olunike Adeliyi 6: Betty Gabriel, Jacqueline Moore, Tiffany Pollard, Armelia McQueen, Tanyell Waivers 7: Blue Ivy Carter, Ruth Negga, Sofia Wylie, Zora Neale Hurston 8: Butterfly McQueen, Ryan Destiny, Cynthia Erivo, Shirley Bassey 9: Amber Ruffin, Flo Milli, Anais Lee/Mirabel Lee 10: Kathleen Bradley, Sisi Stringer, Teresa Graves

11: Adepero Oduye, Aja Naomi King, Amiyah Scott, Kim Coles, Mary J. Blige 12: Cynthia Addai Robinson, Erinn Westbrook, Issa Rae, Naya Rivera, Amerie 13: Janet Hubert, Andy Allo, Shonda Rhimes 14: Adjoa Andoh, Vonetta McGee, Emayatzy Corinealdi 15: Regina King, Kellita Smith, Sanai Victoria 16: Debbie Allen, Aaliyah, FKA Twigs, Sade 17: Eartha Kitt, Indya Moore, Michelle Obama, Ann Wolfe, Quen Blackwell

18: Ashleigh Murray, Estelle, Samantha Mumba 19: Simone Missick, Lidya Jewett, Shaunette Renée Wilson

Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) 21: Anastarzia Anaquway 22: Blesnya Minher, Dwan Smith 23: Lanei Chapman 24: Kenya Moore, Tatyana Ali 25: Ariana DeBose, Jenifer Lewis, Tati Gabrielle, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Willow Nightingale 26: Angela Davis, Anita Baker, Bessie Coleman, Ciera Payton, Desiree Burch, Sasha Banks, Zara Cully  27: Betty Adewole 28: Tyra Ferrell 29: Oprah Winfrey 30: Jody Watley, Kylie Bunbury 31: Miss Peppermint, Kerry Washington

List will be updated as needed... I don't know everybody's birthday, and sometimes, the search engine don't either. I be using Google, and if something's wrong, it's wrong until I figure out the right date. Thank you.

Ones left off in 2024, when I made the list:

Vanity, Sindi Dlathu, Tanyell Waivers, Zaraah Abrahams, Zabryna Guevara, Quen Blackwell, Lanei Chapman, Willow Nightingale

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qual o mwfc de vocês e dos players?

Vamos tudo junto e misturado, beleza?

ASHLEY MOORE, Alex Fitzalan, Gracie Abrams, MASON GOODING, Miles Heizer, TRIPTI DIMRI, Tom Holland, Emily Carey, JACKSON WANG, Brenton Thwaites, Charles Melton, Jacob Elordi, ZETHPHAN SMITH-GNEIST, Jessica Alexander, Olivia Rodrigo, JESSIE MEI LI, Grace Van Dien, Taylor Russell, Felix Mallard, MICHAEL CIMINO, Ross Lynch SAMANTHA LOGAN, Quintessa Swindell, LIZETH SELENE, Ella Purnell, ZION MORENO, Renée Rapp.

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The Dionysian solution for women, which is violation of our own Hag-ocratic boundaries, is The Final Solution. To succumb to this seductive invitation is to become incorporated into the Mystical Body of Maledom, that is, to become "living" dead women, forever pumping our own blood into the Heavenly Head, giving head to the Holy Host, losing our heads. The demonic power of Dionysian deception hinges on this invitation to incorporation/ assimilation, resulting in inability to draw our own lines. To accept this invitation is to become unhinged, dismembered. Refusing is essential to the process of the Self's remembering, re-fusing.

The madness which is the Dionysian Final Solution for women is confusion—inability to distinguish the female Self and her process from the male-made masquerade. Dionysus sometimes assumed a girl-like form. The phenomenon of the drag queen dramatically demonstrates such boundary violation. Like whites playing "black face," he incorporates the oppressed role without being incorporated in it. In the phenomenon of transsexualism, the incorporation/ confusion is deeper. As ethicist Janice Raymond has pointed out, the majority of transsexuals are "male to female," while transsexed females basically function as tokens, and are used by the rulers of the transsexual empire to hide the real nature of the game. In transsexualism, males put on "female" bodies (which are in fact pseudofemale). In a real sense they are separated from their original mothers by the rituals of the counseling process, which usually result in "discovering" that the mother of the transsexual-to-be is at fault for his “gender identity crisis.” These "patients" are reborn from males. As Linda Barufaldi suggested, this fact was symbolized in the renaming of the renowned transsexual of tennis, Renée (literally, "re-born") Richards, whose original first name was Richard. The rebirthing male supermothers include psychiatrists, surgeons, hormone therapists, and other cooperating professionals. The surgeons and hormone therapists of the transsexual kingdom, in their effort to give birth, can be said to produce feminine persons. They cannot produce women.

The seduction of women—including feminists—into confusion by Dionysian boundary violation happens under a variety of circumstances. A common element seems to be an invitation to "freedom." The feminine Dionysian male guru or therapist invites women to spiritual or sexual liberation, at the cost of loss of Self in male-dictated behavior. Male propagation of the idea that men, too, are feminine— particularly through feminine behavior by males—distracts attention from the fact that femininity is a man-made construct, having essentially nothing to do with femaleness. The seductive preachers of androgyny, of "human liberation," dwell upon this theme of blending. When they put on the mask of Dionysus, the Myth-Masters play the role of Mix-Masters. "Mixing Up the Victim" is the name of their mime.

The illusion of Dionysian freedom, then, drives women into madness. As defined by Honor Moore, M-A-Dness is Male Approval Desire. She writes:

M-A-D is the filter through which we're pressed to see ourselves— if we don't, we won't get published, sold, or exhibited—I blame none of us for not challenging it except not challenging it may drive us mad . . .

It is true that the Apollonian mask of god drives women into madness, but this is the madness of one who sees the face/ mask of the Destroyer, and who desires his approval because she knows she needs this in order not to be raped, maimed, starved to death, imprisoned, murdered. This is a clearheaded M-A-Dness. But the Dionysian method is to break the boundaries that make such methods in our madness possible. Dionysus, the "gentle-man," merry mind-poisoner, kills women softly. Male Approval Desire, under his direction, lacks a sense of distance from The Possessor. The Dionysian M-A-D-woman desires the approval of her god because she loves him as herself. She and he, after all, are two in one flesh. She and he are of one mind. She has lost her Self in his house of mir-rors, and she does not know whose face she sees in her beatific visions.

Thus Dionysus drives women mad with his femininity, which appears to be a relief from the stern masculinity of Apollo. Kerényi points out that Dionysus "was called Pseudanor, the man without true virility' —not to speak of all his joke names such as gynnis, 'the womanish,' or arsenothelys, ‘the man-womanly.’ This is the ultimately deceptive glorification of femininity, convincing women that it is desirable for men and also desired by them, luring females into forgetting the falseness of femininity, blinding us to the fact that femininity is quintessentially a male attribute.

-Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology

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Another free dog training summit:

The event starts March 20 AEST

· Day 1: * Robin Bennett - How to Handle Off-lead Dogs: Two action steps to take, 5 ways to deter approaching dogs and examining canine body language. * Roman Gottfried - Leash Aggression: How to help a dog emotionally recover from an on-lead dog attack taking a holistic approach *Laura DeMaio Roy - Making it Click: Faster behavior through shaping and targeting * Kelly Gorman Dunbar - Puppy Training to Build Confidence & Security

· Day 2: * Kamal Fernandez - The Pros & Cons of Prey Drive * Kristin Rosenbach - Truffle Hunting Around The World * Tabitha Kucera - Happy Vet Visits: How to have a dog-friendly vet visit * Annalisa Berns - Become a Real Life Pet Detective with Search K9s

· Day 3: * Becca Sommerville - How to Settle a Rescue Dog into Their New Home: And set them up for success * Renée Erdman - Adopting Dogs From Abroad: What to expect * Sarah Keller - Targeted Canine Fitness: For Improving Posture & Movement * Laura Reeves - Structure Matters: Form Follows Function * Christina Young - The Fairytale Dog: The Dream Vs The Reality

· Day 4: REACTIVITY & AROUSAL: * Amelia Steele - How Management can Fast-track Reactivity Training * Sarah Stoycos - Practical Tips for Working with a Reactive Dog * Renee Rhoades - 5 Common Reactive Dog Myths * Piper Novick - Working With Arousal: Learn how to handle high arousal with your dog

· Day 5: * Megan Marrs - Translating Dog Body Language for Humans * Taryn Blyth - Emotional Needs First: Supporting your puppy to raise an emotionally well-adjusted adult dog * Judy Moore - Is it Resource Guarding or Rule Setting I See? * Namita DigheShetty - Loose Lead Walking * and your host, Ness Jones - Does My Dog Really Have Separation Anxiety?