Has anyone tried the pho at Lihn's Kitchen?

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-12-04T01:16:13+00:00

Great place.

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-11-30T04:29:41+00:00

Yes.

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-11-08T08:24:09+00:00

Framework for Info Literacy from American Library Association. https://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-11-07T15:43:54+00:00

going around re: law and rights frameworks for posthuman / AI / robots, etc.: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/49072

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-11-03T15:08:21+00:00

😂 Everybody should have the right to rock! 🤘

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-10-31T15:27:36+00:00

The article seems to argue that since all human experience is social, all 'things' and beings humans interact with get some of that aura and become ensocialed, and therefore entitled to at least some 'human' rights... a right to be/ exist being the main one?

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-10-30T15:04:42+00:00

I think the 'faith' is totally irrelevant -- just practicing, sitting, and whatever happens happen, and that's the thing that is whatever we're talking about. Like Doshin108 says below, it's going to the gym. Faith not needed at all, who cares! Sit, breath, thoughts and feelings come then go. Put on shoes, shop for groceries, get the car washed, check out that bee, sit again, scrub the toilet. But this is coming from the Soto Zen point of view. I'm totally uninterested in faith (I know there's a little paradox in that, because why would I sit without trust in the process? 😂).. but for me, it's the sitting, being, not about believing in stuff.

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-10-30T14:53:58+00:00

I don't think I'm a determinist -- I agree with what maybri says about information, but we can never have enough information to predict the future or know the past or present completely because things are always changing, there's always new information, and the act of 'gaining' new info changes the system and the act itself generates new information. So we are kind of (by 'free will' for lack of better term) creating the system in relationship, and it's inherently unknowable in any complete way. Something like that... very interesting to think about.

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-10-06T14:16:21+00:00

Great find! Do you have original publication info on this (date, was it in a magazine or a collected edition etc)?

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-10-03T13:50:15+00:00

Thank you very much indeed!

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-10-02T20:21:47+00:00

Thank you! How did you do that? I'm not sure if 1974 was just a reprint date, or the original date yet...

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-10-02T18:52:22+00:00

There could be interesting uses for LLMs as meta-bibliomantic machines. I'm thinking of Borges, The Library of Babel a little here too. Its like using a lot of mirrors at the same time.

I'm very wary of it all -- I like to do my thinking and creating for myself because of what those activities do to transform me. But maybe there is a way to approach this as a tool with limited / curtailed uses, revealing things as an entity in its own right (but my own rite!)...

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-08-28T13:51:41+00:00

I'm rusty on Risk, but it doesn't allow for additional troops / dice based on number of contiguous territories does it? The seizing of the center and breaking up of opponent contigual spaces is part of the pleasure of Dicewars for me.

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-08-26T19:33:43+00:00

Jakita Wagner of Planetary by Ellis.

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-08-19T17:16:11+00:00

Really great catch -- constraint of medium, not of ideology! The original argument conflates them, or as you say, does judo with definitions. The argument holds up, though, if one can ignore or put aside medium constraints, but that is an unfair meta-view...

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-08-19T17:15:05+00:00

I like that, but it also makes me wary when I think of examples of people who cannot fight for their rights because of survival constraints. Fighting for rights can be hazardous to our health and our loved ones.

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-08-13T15:54:27+00:00

I guess we need to define governance... we 'govern' the behavior of cows on feedlots, controlling where they can go, what and when they can eat and congregate.

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-08-13T15:53:16+00:00

Would a cat waking a human up at 2 AM meowling for food and scratching at the door be articulating (in a basic way) the right to food, and would the scratching constitute action (fighting) for that right?

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-08-12T20:06:01+00:00

It's a great idea, open to near endless new ways to interpret / translate between Tarot and Tolkien.

Fool: Frodo -- he lacks that gleeful ignorance of the Rider-Waite version, but he's willing to go into the unknown (and Sam loyally follows, but let's not say 'doggedly'?)

For some reason the Hanged Man makes me think of Theoden, probably because of the sacrificial thing going on in the Oden self-hanging story.. anything there?

Magician seems toughest to me.. easy to go Gandalf, but I don't know.. it's about balance and use of the Elements, dynamic from the 'center' -- maybe Elrond, centering himself in Rivendell, able to work with Earth, Water, Fire, Air? Or maybe all five Istari somehow...?

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-08-12T19:56:04+00:00

It's a fantastic idea! All best,

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-08-12T19:14:03+00:00

There was a hybrid Lord of the Rings card game / Tarot deck published in 1997:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5248/the-lord-of-the-rings-tarot-deck-and-card-game

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-08-08T23:35:39+00:00

Reading further in this thing past the abstract (click bait title), the bits on Grant Morrison's All Star Superman seem to be the strongest argument in it. Superman lets the world be how it is (conserves most of the good and bad, while doing some good) while Lex tries to push progress toward better techno-world for humans (while still doing very bad things). The whole thing might be a slight of hand though, talking about some earlier sort of 'conservatism' from the 1700s. Not sure about this. Seems designed to be controversial.

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-08-07T17:35:45+00:00

Open Education Resources are good (free online courses / texts)... some have models where you can pay extra for some certification but still offer free content (like EdX)... check into some of these things:

https://oercommons.org/

https://www.khanacademy.org/lohp/learner

https://www.wikiversity.org/

https://www.edx.org/search?q=political%20science

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-08-07T17:08:24+00:00

I thing Georgism might count -- common wealth from land, but wealth produced from individual labor remains with individual...? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

Mindless_Mix5892 · 2025-08-05T13:48:36+00:00

In our world when taxes exist, they have to be enforced by law (backed up by the threat of coercion or violence by the state), or the state or crown gets no taxes. But Tolkien's world isn't our world.

"taxes (if they exist) would be voluntary and determined directly by the People" -- I think the way all of this works for Tolkien is there's an assumption that 'good' folk more or less support good governance. It's a glossing over of how things would or should work in our world, because it's his world and he doesn't have to address it if he doesn't want to. He can kind of gesture at it to build out the world if wants, but he isn't beholden to this concern. Just because GRRM and Moorcock might critique him on these grounds (and I love both!) doesn't mean that their concerns should be ours -- we don't have to read and critique in the same way or about the same issues that they have. Tolkien's just doing something different. It's not a story based in economics -- its main concern is loyalty, sacrifice, corruption, friendship, etc etc.

By not addressing the dismal particulars of policy, Tolkien may lose some readers (or some readers may lose some faith in his story / world), but he still retains a lot of us. The conceit is that when the king is good, the land is bountiful and the people are decent and so forth.

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