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  • Heart Sutra in Quenya

    Original translation by u/ramcinfo. I’ve changed things a little for my personal taste. My preference was to keep the names transliterated as well as the mantra, but I’m open to suggestions for any of the rest. 2. Aina Avalótir cuivienáve, cacárala nurá angolwe-aráte-cardava, eccendane i ear úmion lempe, ar imeastanto cumná tuntanes, ar lahtanes ilyai…

  • Diversity Equity Inclusion

    The attack on DEI is a symptom of a dying empire. It should surprise no one that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are under attack. The ruling class has always moved to crush anything that threatens its hegemony, and DEI, imperfect and often co-opted though it may be, at least gestures toward redistributing power. That…

  • Respectful Platforms

    Respectful Platforms is sort of a Constitution for the internet that aims to provide a framework for an internet that values privacy and user data integrity, values that are very much important to the voidCOMM mission. I’m thinking of ways I can help with this effort and adopt these rules into the voidCOMM DNA. this…

  • Hail David Lynch

    I wrote this on fedi a while back, but I think it bears re-posting here. I’m thinking I may do some more cross-pollination between here and fedi in the future, so here’s what I said about heroes, and David Lynch in particular. It’s important to be skeptical of your heroes, right? This is the lesson…

  • How to Opt Out

    Take control of your online footprint. The Opt Out Project gives us some really detailed guidance on how to reclaim your online sovereignty, improve your privacy and security, and changing fundamentally the way in which you interact with the internet for the better.

  • no ai

    I was once a chatGPT user. I never paid for the service omg no, but I did try it out and wrestle with it and try to make it teach me new things, even though I was always very skeptical that this would be useful. I had it help me out with ideas for games…

  • welcome to voidcomm

    Void is the space between spaces, the networks between networks. COMM is the communications we connect through the void, routing around authoritarianism and networks that have been captured by fascism. Here, we explore computing not as an extractive industry but as a craft rooted in resilience, minimalism, and human-scale design. We look to forgotten texts…