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October 2026

October 02, 2026

Chess Grifters, Chinese Rooms, and AI

LLM AI systems do not "understand" anything. So don't be a sucker. As Harry the...

November 2024

November 05, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: Trickster at Samhain & Election Day

The Trickster generally doesn't make trouble so much as reveal the trouble inherent in the...

June 2023

June 12, 2023

The Unabomber and the Escalation of Disorder

Kaczynski was not just any violent revolutionary, overconfident in the rightness of his solutions to...

June 10, 2020

Police Violence: Seeing the Fnords

The fnords are the cliche phrases and stock tropes that obscure the truth without actually...

August 2019

August 04, 2019

Imposition of order = Escalation of Disorder

"What should we do? We have to do SOMETHING!!!" we yell, in our pain and...

July 2019

July 28, 2019

Minds Do Change And That’s Magic

Magicians seek to alter the consciousness, change the minds, of other people all the time....

January 2019

January 20, 2019

MAGA Teens, The Native Elder, And Our Projections

Did a teen being dumb about sharing space become, in our national insanity, the screen...

December 2017

December 23, 2017

Happy Festivus! (On Satire And Parody Religion)

"Religious humor is a form of 'deep play' that works to renegotiate ideas about tradition,...

February 2017

February 04, 2017

Emperor Norton, Our Guide For Troubled Times

All that stood in their way was the solitary figure of Norton. A sane man...

July 2016

July 14, 2016

Discordianism Through Its Literature

Magicians, and progeny the scientists, have always taken themselves and their subject in an orderly...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Stopping Violence With Absurdity

And only then did I realize that these guys intent on working themselves into a...

May 2016

May 18, 2016

An Anarchist Goes To Court

Thornley drew an interesting parallel between this power of the state and the mental and...

May 10, 2016

Religious Liberty: Something Pastafarians and Evangelicals Both Deserve

Now, basic concern for others and a reluctance to use state force against them ought...

March 2016

March 24, 2016

The Gods Are Like Golden Apples

A golden apple is no trinket. You don't just pop over to the produce aisle...

August 2015

August 11, 2015

Why I Am Still a Zen Pagan Taoist Atheist Discordian

I look back at this after fifteen years, and it’s not terrible. I’ve come to...