An irregular hodgepodge of links gathered together … Omnium Gatherum for April 14, 2021

Here’s a variety of notable things I’ve recently found that you may also be interested in checking out:

• Crowdfunding with 8 days to go: “Tome: The Light Edition. A trick-taking inspired card game with a magical twist. Play with friends on teams or battle it out in a free for all!”—”Tome is a fast paced trick-taking game for 3 to 4 players, set in a world of magic and spells. Players complete to play the strongest spell, using whatever tricks at their disposal to trump their opponents. Summon raging flames, crashing waves, and the might of the Earth and sky itself! A twist on the classic formula; Tome is simple enough to pick up for a new player, but has a deep layer of strategy that will keep veterans coming back again and again. Can you truly master the elements?”
• “Man obsessed with former Highland home of occultist breaks court order banning him from the area. A Greek man who is obsessed with the former Highland home of the self-proclaimed ‘wickedest man in the world’, Aleister Crowley, has breached an order against visiting the spot.”
• Read this as if it is talking about esoteric practitioners. Shots fired! “Theoria and Philosophy as a Way of Life. Texts without practices are empty, practices without texts are blind.” To be fair, in my experience any time one talks about either academics or artists, one could substitute in magician on another read through and get interesting thoughts to consider. I should come up with a cute name for this like I did for the Crowley Corollary … like, um something something Hermetic Library’s Magical Law of Lexical Substitution.
• “Lifting the Veil of Isis: Egyptian Reception and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Alternative Egyptology Symposium, Allard Pierson Archaeological Museum, 14th April 2021.” Newlu uploaded paper by Caroline Tully. “Founded in London in 1888, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a secret society which taught its members ritual magic and conducted elaborate initiations that revealed hidden knowledge. Originating in a background of Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, the Golden Dawn inherited the belief that Egypt was the repository of ancient wisdom. While utilising the long-accessible Classical literature about Egypt, as well as the latest research from academic Egyptology in order to design their rituals and cosmology, the Golden Dawn interpreted both types of material through a pseudo-Egyptological lens. Golden Dawn rituals were constructed using Pharaonic Egyptian sources such as The Book of Coming Forth by Day (or Book of the Dead), the ‘Opening of the Mouth’ ceremony, the myth of kingly succession, Egyptian statues, painting, costume, mummies, and funerary stelae, as well as later material such as Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride, the Hellenised Isiac initiation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, and the Greek Magical Papyri. In combination with the reception of the goddess Isis within the Hermetic tradition, Golden Dawn rituals were consequently syncretistic constructions that included the Egypt filtered by the Greeks and Romans, the ‘Ægypt’ of Hermeticism, and scholarly Egyptology. This paper will focus on the engagement with Egyptian antiquities in museums by four prominent members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Samuel Mathers, Moina Mathers, Florence Farr, and Aleister Crowley, and will argue that Egypt was utilised by these figures as a source of legitimation and power within an agonistic spiritual milieu.”
• The Key of Solomon by S Liddell MacGregor Mather, from Troy Books. “Following enquiries over the years, we have decided to release special limited-edition versions of our Grimoire Series. To celebrate this, we are releasing the next book in the series The Key of Solomon The King (Clavicula Salomonis), translated and edited by S. L. MacGregor Mathers, in special limited-edition along with the previous two books in the series: The Long Hidden Friend and The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage which will be given the same special-edition treatment.” “Our edition of The Key of Solomon The King has been reformatted by repositioning the imagery and creating two indexes of figures – for those that are repositioned and for Mathers’ original plates – for the improved ease of use by scholar and practitioner alike.”
• “Hookup culture needs more devilish ‘Sex Magicians’ to thrive: author.” More about Sex Magicians: The Lives and Spiritual Practices of Paschal Beverly Randolph, Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron, Anton LaVey, and Others [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher] by Michael William West—”An in-depth look at the lives and occult practices of 12 influential practitioners of sex magic from the 19th century to the present day. Offering a fascinating introduction to the practice of sex magic in the Western esoteric tradition, Michael William West explores the lives and practices of 12 influential sex magicians: Paschal Beverly Randolph, Ida Craddock, Aleister Crowley, Maria de Naglowska, Austin Osman Spare, Julius Evola, Franz Bardon, Jack Parsons, William S. Burroughs, Marjorie Cameron, Anton LaVey, and Genesis P-Orridge.”
• “Amanda Gorman’s books will be presented this year in Portugal by Presença.”—”In Portugal the poem The Hill We Climb had already been translated by the poet Raquel Lima and published by Casa Fernando Pessoa.”
• The Devil’s Pawn [Amazon, Bookshop] by Oliver Pötzsch, trans. Lisa Reinhardt, book 2 in the Faust series—”A showman’s fate is in the hands of the devil in an enthralling novel inspired by the Faust legend from the bestselling author of the Hangman’s Daughter series.”
• The Devourer Below: An Arkham Horror Anthology [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher] edited by Charlotte Llewelyn-Wells, with cover by John Coulthart, book 5 of the Arkham Horror series, due July 2021—”The city of Arkham falls prey to ghoulish dread in this chilling anthology of action-packed adventure, from the bestselling world of Arkham Horror.”
• “Why is Maintaining Adult Friendships So Difficult?” Excerpt from Did I Say That Out Loud? Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher] by Kristin van Ogtrop—”Enjoy this hilarious and deeply insightful take on the indignities of middle age and how to weather them with grace–from the former editor-in-chief of Real Simple.”
• “Quan Barry on the Possibilities of Magical Realism.” Podcast episode with Quan Barry, author of We Ride Upon Sticks [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher]—”In the town of Danvers, Massachusetts, home of the original 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers Falcons will do anything to make it to the state finals—even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers. Against a background of irresistible 1980s iconography, Quan Barry expertly weaves together the individual and collective progress of this enchanted team as they storm their way through an unforgettable season.” “Through the crucible of team sport and, more importantly, friendship, this comic tour de female force chronicles Barry’s glorious cast of characters as they charge past every obstacle on the path to finding their glorious true selves.”
• “Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer.”
• “On the Literature of Rewilding… and the Need to Rewild Literature.”
• “15 Writing (and Life) Lessons from Finishing Two Novels That Didn’t Sell.”—”1. You have to love your characters, even if your readers don’t. 2. Use your life experience only when it serves the story. 3. Know that you don’t really kill your darlings—you just set them aside for later. 4. You can have as many characters as you want—as long as you clearly position them on stage. 5. Find the axis that your novel turns around. 6. Every single scene, whether it’s in the past or present, has to move the story forward. 7. When you enter a scene, don’t spend too much time clearing your throat. 8. Every sentence has to pass the audience read-aloud test—especially the funny ones. 9. Connections and credentials do make a difference. 10. Living a little doesn’t hurt. 11. Don’t compare yourself to non-writer friends or your writer friends. 12. But this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t consider getting a stable job. 13. Don’t underestimate the power of timing and luck. 14. If you’re not sure about being a writer, don’t do it. 15. Have gratitude—really.” By Maria Kuznetsova, author of Something Unbelievable [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher]—”An overwhelmed new mom discovers unexpected parallels between life in twenty-first-century America and her grandmother’s account of their family’s escape from the Nazis in this sharp, heartfelt novel.”
• “Goatskin, Tree Bark, and One Expensive Scribe: How “The King of the World’s Booksellers” Produced Manuscripts.” Excerpt from The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher] by Ross King—”The bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling captures the excitement and spirit of the Renaissance in this chronicle of the life and work of “the king of the world’s booksellers” and the technological disruption that forever changed the ways knowledge spread.”
• “How Björk Helped Iceland Weather the Global Financial Crisis.” Excerpt from Two Beats Ahead: What Musical Minds Teach Us About Innovation [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher] by Panos A Panay and R Michael Hendrix—”Discover what the musical mind has to teach us about innovation in this fascinating book, featuring interviews with Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams, T Bone Burnett, Gloria Estefan, Imogen Heap, and many more. ”
• “How History Has Failed to Tell the Story of the Gold Rush Women.” By Brian Castner, author of Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher]—”A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them died in the attempt.”
• “How Depression and Trauma Cast Multigenerational Shadows.” Excerpt from A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It by Alex Riley [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher]—”A fascinating look at the treatment of depression, blending journalism, science, history, and memoir, by an award-winning science writer.”
• “Why Read the Classics? A Moroccan master reflects on the Arabic tradition.”
• “I’m Gonna Live Like a Human Being. Don’t be a writer—be an expert of you.”
• “New York bookstore figures out the perfect sideline: pickles.”
• From the Commercialization Break Of Space dept: “‘Space Hero’ reality show competition signs space act agreement with NASA. But it doesn’t mean they’re sending people to the space station.”
• “A complete beginner’s guide to human memory. Why photographic memory is often misunderstood – and simple tricks to boost your memory.”—”There’s a basic misconception about memory that it’s akin to a video recording. It’s not: memory is more of an active reconstruction of what happened. From this mistaken metaphor, people have the idea that some other individuals can glance at something and then recall every detail with perfect accuracy.”
• I recall news about this before, so I’m not sure this is new news. But, if not new, then more about this: “How a shocking environmental disaster was uncovered off the California coast after 70 years.”
• “Ecological impacts of solar geoengineering are highly uncertain. New research describes the unknowns in our knowledge of solar geoengineering.”—”Like everybody, I wish we were in a situation where we didn’t need to consider this.”
• “Researchers call for greater awareness of unintended consequences of CRISPR gene editing.”—”Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have revealed that CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing can lead to unintended mutations at the targeted section of DNA in early human embryos. The work highlights the need for greater awareness of and further research into the effects of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, especially when used to edit human DNA in laboratory research.”
• “Cells age prematurely in those with depression, study suggests. People with major depression had accelerated cellular aging by an average of two years compared to healthy controls.”
• “The Lakes of Mars Likely Dried Up Multiple Times Before Totally Vanishing.”
• “Sea-level rise is creating ‘ghost forests’ on an American coast. In coastal North Carolina, evidence of forest die-off is everywhere. Nearly every roadside ditch I pass is lined with dead or dying trees.”
• “Marine life is fleeing the equator to cooler waters. History tells us this could trigger a mass extinction event.”
• “Airborne plastic pollution ‘spiralling around the globe’, study finds. Rising levels of microplastic pollution raise questions about the impact on human health, experts say.”
• “Discovery of new liquid phases in aerosol particles could better explain how air pollutants interact with the atmosphere.”
• “Brain damage caused by plasticisers: Bayreuth biologists investigate effects of bisphenols on nerve cells. The plasticisers contained in many everyday objects can impair important brain functions in humans. Biologists from the University of Bayreuth warn of this danger in an article in “Communications Biology”. Their study shows that even small amounts of the plasticisers bisphenol A and bisphenol S disrupt the transmission of signals between nerve cells in the brains of fish. The researchers consider it very likely that similar interference can also occur in the brains of adult humans. They therefore call for the rapid development of alternative plasticisers that do not pose a risk to the central nervous system.”
• “World’s first hydrogen cargo vessel set for Paris debut. European innovation project Flagships will deploy the world’s first commercial cargo transport vessel operating on hydrogen, plying the river Seine in Paris with the vessel’s operations due to start sometime this year.”
• Nuclear Reactors Shut Down by ‘Jellyfish-Like Organisms’.”
• “MIT Scientists Spin Some Music Out of Spider Webs – And it Sounds Otherworldly (Listen).”
• “The Fairy Circles Mystery Gets a New Suspect. A small study suggests that soil microbes could play a role in the ring-like grass formations in parts of Australia’s wilderness.”
• From the Holy art Thou, O Light above all Gods! dept: “Indestructible Light Beam: Special Light Waves Created That Can Penetrate Even Opaque Materials. Researchers at Utrecht University and at TU Wien (Vienna) create special light waves that can penetrate even opaque materials as if the material was not even there.”
• “Birds’ blood functions as heating system in winter. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that bird blood produces more heat in winter, when it is colder, than in autumn. The study is published in The FASEB Journal.”
• “New Jurassic flying reptile reveals the oldest opposed thumb. A new 160-million-year-old arboreal pterosaur species, dubbed ‘Monkeydactyl’, has the oldest true opposed thumb – a novel structure previously not known in pterosaurs.”
• “Gorillas do not bluff when they chest beat. The chest beats given by adult male gorillas reliably indicate their body size. The gorilla chest beat is one of the most emblematic sounds in the animal kingdom, even working its way into our informal speech signifying overblown advertisement of one’s own achievements. However, until recently it was unclear what information gorillas were conveying when they gave these impressive displays. A team of international researchers show that chest beats reliably indicate the body size of the chest beater. Body size indicates competitive ability in gorillas. Therefore this information is likely to be crucial for rival males as well as females in influencing mate choice.”
• “Neanderthal Ancestry Identifies Oldest Modern Human Genome. The fossil skull of a woman in Czechia has provided the oldest modern human genome yet reconstructed, representing a population that formed before the ancestors of present-day Europeans and Asians split apart. In an article published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, an international team of researchers analyses the genome of an almost complete skull first discovered in Zlatý Kůň, Czechia in the early 1950s and now stored in the National Museum in Prague. The segments of Neanderthal DNA in its genome were longer than those of the Ust’-Ishim individual from Siberia, the previous oldest modern human sequenced, suggesting modern humans lived in the heart of Europe more than 45,000 years ago.” Also “Genomes of the earliest Europeans. Ancient genomes shed new light on the earliest Europeans and their relationships with Neandertals. An international research team has sequenced the genomes of the oldest securely dated modern humans in Europe who lived around 45,000 years ago in Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. By comparing their genomes to the genomes of people who lived later in Europe and in Asia the researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, show that this early human group in Europe contributed genes to later people, particularly present-day East Asians. The researchers also identified large stretches of Neandertal DNA in the genomes of the Bacho Kiro Cave people, showing that they had Neandertal ancestors about five to seven generations back in their family histories. This suggests that mixture with Neandertals was the rule rather than the exception when the first modern humans arrived in Europe.”
• “Childhood diet and exercise creates healthier, less anxious adults. Study in mice shows lasting effects of early-life habits.”
• “IU School of Medicine researchers develop blood test for depression, bipolar disorder.”
• “Chronic sinus inflammation appears to alter brain activity. Study findings may help explain patients’ poor concentration and other cognitive symptoms that accompany sinusitis.”
• Plagues—”We are among the first human beings for whom the experience of a disease outbreak so severe and wide-ranging is outside of living memory. Our generation has inherited no familiar stock of coronavirus parables; no script that tells us exactly why we are suffering; no sheets of mortality statistics with an empty space left over for next time. Our fascination with plague literature is a sign that some things never change: this desire to tell and retell stories puts us in the company of every other set of survivors in recorded history. The instinct to impart structure and purpose to a fundamentally purpose-less crisis might be the only truly universal response to life in a pandemic. That we should feel it so strongly is all the more remarkable in a society as blissfully and unprecedentedly pandemic-free as the developed world was at the beginning of the twenty-first century. But no more: now we have narrative resources of our own, stories of contagion and endurance and recovery, to bequeath to the vulnerable who come after us. When faced with the unimaginable, we did what we have always done: look back.”
• “‘I Do Not Trust People in the Same Way and I Don’t Think I Ever Will Again’. Workers are really, really not ready for offices to reopen.”
• “Constancy, Uncertainty, Trepidation.”—”We’ve seen the monster. I’m not at all sanguine about seeing what it dreams after slouching to Bethlehem.”
• “The Healing Power of JavaScript. For some of us—isolates, happy in the dark—code is therapy, an escape and a path to hope in a troubled world.”—”Reductively, programming consists of little puzzles to be solved. Not just inert jigsaws on living room tables, but puzzles that breathe with an uncanny life force. Puzzles that make things happen, that get things done, that automate tedium or allow for the publishing of words across the world.”
• From the Tulips Wilting dept: “NFT Price Crash Stirs Debate on Whether Stimulus-Led Fad Is Over.” Guess people will have to store their NFTs on a shelf next to their Hummel figurines forever now. Wait. Oh no. They don’t actually have anything. Oops. ::sad trombone::
• From the Have a Dagger, Find a Caesar dept: “Elon Musk Says He Is Now the ‘Imperator of Mars’“—”Last month, Musk claimed the title “Technoking of Tesla,” a mostly nonsensical distinction. Now, the billionaire has added the phrase “Imperator of Mars” to his Twitter bio.”
• Soundtrap by Spotify is a new tool that creates a virtual studio for remote collaboration on audio projects, including music, podcasts, and more. Might be interesting and useful. Includes transcription features on some pricing tiers.
• “Security News This Week: Oh Look, LinkedIn Also Has a 500M User Data Leak. Plus: A bad Zoom bug, a billion-dollar cocaine bust, and more of the week’s top security news.”
• “‘They Present a Version of Themselves That Isn’t Real’: Inside the Dark, Biohacked Heart of Silicon Valley. The tragic death of Zappos cofounder Tony Hsieh offered a peek into the lengths tech titans will go to appear in control.”
• “How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower’s account. The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected.”
• “Social media and the three registers.”—”Today’s social media sites cover Lacan’s three registers: Imaginary (Instagram), Symbolic (Facebook), Real (Twitter). Instagram is imaginary because people share their photos. Facebook is symbolic because people declare their symbolic ties (work, love, etc.). Twitter is real because there is an interdiction of length and people inter-dit (speak between the lines, it’s called subtweeting).”
• Tweet—”Why does it seem impossible to engage in good faith debate online? I think a phenomenon I call “disinterpretation” can help us understand why that’s the case. (Thread)” Also tweet—”Misinterpretation is when people incorrectly understand meaning. Disinterpretation is when they don’t have the intention of understanding it.” Not just online! I’ve familiarity with this experience from a lot of other areas of life *cough* occult *cough* groups *cough* …
• “How Trump Unleashed a Domestic Terrorism Movement—And What Experts Say Must Be Done to Defeat It. ‘He tells them what to do. He tells them why they’re angry.'”
• “The Stanford scholar bent on helping digital readers spot fake news. How to help children navigate online content.”
• I’m not sure any aristocracy is quite the exemplar of fine taste and good judgement this guy thinks it is, tbh. Plenty of blame all around for the rise of capitalism, I think. “The rule of the machine, or of a system of commerce and industry such as the one termed capitalistic, does not come from Heaven. It is not a visitation of Providence. If it comes at all, if it prevails at all, its ultimate triumph must be due to a deliberate act of taste and judgment on the part of some portion of the nation. The contention that it would have been in the interest of all concerned, and particularly of the landed aristocracy, to resist the ultimate complete triumph of the vulgar tradesman’s taste, I for one heartily uphold; and when I look around me to-day and see the ugliness and appalling squalor of our large cities, when I realise that the growing mass of useless dregs in the population, the growing unsavouriness and repulsiveness of mankind, are almost entirely the outcome of a change which is barely 150 years old, I cannot help thinking that those of the governing classes who allowed this change to come about showed a lack of fine feeling and of good judgment, for which they deserve to perish in the general Nemesis which threatens to overtake all societies that allow themselves to become the victims of the engineer’s, the shopkeeper’s and the stupid person’s democratic mind.”—Anthony Ludovici, “The English Aristocrat as a Failure in the Art of Protecting and Guiding the Ruled,” A Defence of Aristocracy quoted at “A Lack of Fine Feeling and Good Judgment“.
• “Ancient Family Lexicon, or Words and Loneliness.”—”Once upon a time, revolutions were unleashed to obtain freedom from a master. Today the word “revolution” is thrown around in political discourse, but in our inner lives it makes us so afraid that we prefer to oppress ourselves, to renounce the treasures of language and the strengths they confer. And so silence has become our master, imprisoning us in loneli-ness. A noisy silence, a busy loneliness. The result is a generalized anxiety that, when it explodes, because it always explodes sooner or later, makes us ashamed of ourselves.”
• “‘Embrace the Grind’“—”However, sometimes problems can’t be solved by automation. If you’re willing to embrace the grind you’ll look like a magician.” “Who would do that? Painstakingly re-create an entire work of art? Someone willing to embrace the grind.”
• From the Autoerotic Asphyxiation dept: “Ancient Cave Painters May Have Limited Their Oxygen for Creative Inspiration.”—”A new study found that history’s earliest painters created their works on the innermost walls of deep, dark caves that required lighting by fire, deliberately reducing their oxygen levels to induce ‘altered states of consciousness.'” Also “Ancient cave artists starved themselves of oxygen while painting.”
• “Fangoria’s New Owners Plan to Launch New Diverse Horror Productions. The plan for Fangoria, according to new co-owner Tara Ansley, is to use its brand name as the focus of a full-court multimedia blitz.” Also tweet—”@FANGORIA is a minority and female owned company. The majority of current employees are women. Our first two green-lit projects are directed by women & written by women. 2021 Chainsaw Awards are directed by a woman.” Also from last year, for context: “Cinestate Faces Internal Revolt Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations. Editors of two of the studio’s publications, Birth.Movies.Death. and Fangoria, have announced they will not work until their anti-harassment demands are met.” Also Tweet—”We’ve seen an uptick in female subscribers since purchasing the company and I think it’s the coolest thing to ever happen ….”
• “There Once Was a Poem Called a Limerick. Whose history, they say, isn’t quick. It’s all such a muddle, it can leave you befuddled, whether you like the clean or the sick.”—”The first limericks, not yet called that, published in the United States were in Charles Godfrey Leland’s Ye Book of Copperheads (1863), which heaped satiric calumny upon Confederate supporters in the North. By 1880, scholars today note, the word finally appeared in print.”
• Tweet—”So Kung Fu is gonna do what Iron Fist should have done and I’m absolutely here for it.” Watch the Pilot episode of Kung Fu on CW
• “Has anybody seen some loose ceremonial swords? The Truman Presidential Library wants them back.”—”… the Kansas City FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information on the location of several ceremonial swords and daggers stolen from the Truman Presidential Library in . . . 1978. … So if you’ve seen some ceremonial swords lying around, or five snakes of varying lengths that look suspiciously rigid, or if you’ve noticed your friend’s golf clubs are weirdly sharp and pointed, or if you know a stolen sword enthusiast, alert the Kansas City FBI. No rush, though. Just get back to them in the next 43 years.”
• Watch “‘It’s A Bad Idea To Advertise Our Existence’ – Michio Kaku On Making Contact With Extraterrestrials“—”I tell them the next time you are kidnapped by an alien flying saucer, for God’s sake, steal something. I don’t care whether it’s a pen or a chip, steal something! Because there is no law against stealing from an extraterrestrial civilization.” Interview with Michio Kaku, author of The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher]—”Michio Kaku, renowned theoretical physicist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Future of the Mind and The Future of Humanity, tells the story of the greatest quest in all of science.”
• “Satanic style set to be top summer trend thanks to Lil Nas X – 10 evil garments to get you started. Lil Nas X’s release of his song and video “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” broke the internet last week, propelling the singer to number 1 in the US and UK, and driving right-wingers into a furious froth.”

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