Dogma is the simulacrum of the Dharma

https://captiveliberty.substack.com/p/the-new-angel

Part 4 in my series on Walter Benjamin asks "Can you kill an angel"? The answer, surprisingly, is Yes!

Ozzy
Judas
Britney
Slavoj
Scott

Surely many other first names are based on nationalities. What other ones?

Letterboxd but for albums

When to fight bad vibes and when to get the hell out.

Answers in my poem, "Vibrato". Read it here:

https://captiveliberty.substack.com/p/vibrato

Part 1 in a video series on numbers (numeric types) in Python.

Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/QsEJy8ALI4c?si=6xiHEGu5tE89KoNL

The babies absolutely lost it seeing this Kirby-Venom chimera. Went nuts, bouncing off the walls, howling.

@0xabad1dea Happened to me too

I am considering becoming an influencer.

Any tips appreciated.

Oooh baby do you know what that's worth?

Hell, also, is a place on earth.

It might be I have it the backward way forward. All image-production is self-portraiture. All writing is auto-biography. This is why writers must read. What you discover while writing pertains to what *you* know and what *you've* read. But if you overwork your art too far, you will expose more of yourself in it than strictly makes sense given the scope of that project.

...And maybe that's too far. Writing is discovery. The more you write the more you discover. Sometimes those discoveries relate to yourself. But that might not be what others are interested to read.

If you write enough, eventually you do get back to yourself. It's not there at first; you can write about anything. But if you keep digging, you can find your way back to yourself through the writing process.

Was Franz Kafka familiar with Pure Land Buddhist? He nearly certainly was not, and yet... https://captiveliberty.substack.com/p/infinity-eternity-and-immortality

I am taking this only so that you do not think you have failed to do anything.

--The Gatekeeper in Kafka's tale, "Before the Law"

If you don't have an internal monologue, you need to develop one. If you already have an internal monologue, you need to develop an internal dialogue.

The era of "Prompt Engineer" is over.

The new hottest job is "Chief Vibes Officer".

The first Benjamin post I made was a short story. Not sure if I posted it on here or not, but the title was "Rastelli the Programmer".

All of his essays inspire amazing creativity.

That's part of the problem in writing on Benjamin. You can never just go "Here's a summary of what it's about. Read it yourself if you care."

Instead they force you to think about them so far that you have to keep going. His essays demand to be taken to new places.

Feels like by even just IMAGINING that I could explain something of it to others I've somehow insulted his legacy... Am I going to far?

There are whole books on this one essay. Derrida wrote a hundred pages on it, and Benjamin's essay itself is just ten. So yeah I failed to crack it.