S3 E35 The Hidden Children of OSHO: A Conversation with Sarito Carroll
In this episode of the Cult Vault podcast, host Kacey interviews Sarito Carroll, author of 'In the Shadow of Enlightenment,' who shares her experiences growingSpreaker
Encountered my first mask ban in Canada. I had hoped we were smarter than this, but I suppose I'm not surprised. I guess they value their bottom line over public health, but it's a vape store, so I suppose that tracks.
Edit: autocorrect
Edit 2: It has been pointed out to me that there is an exemption for medical masks in the tiniest font imaginable at the bottom of the sign... almost as though they don't want you to read it.
So, I've been using nov.el for #emacs to read epubs. It does a pretty decent job of it, but I have one point of irritation: I can't for the life of me find a way to tell how far through the book I am. Is there some way to see this?
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@Zenie The feature might actually exist for all I know, so I hesitate to put in a feature request. I was just hoping that it was an already solved problem.
I glanced at the code. But I'm not at my usual computer so I can't look at help, the mode or the code more thoroughly. I only just installed it recently so don't know it well.
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Little by little I've been going more and more analog. I still track every little thing I need to do in my #OrgMode system to help manage my #ADHD, but that list itself can get a little overwhelming. I've started combing over it in the morning, picking out the most critical things for that day and writing them down on a paper checklist in a small notebook I keep in my pocket. The notebook has the advantage of not distracting me with a thousand notifications every time I'm trying to do something productive.
Plus, I just really like having an excuse to put a nice #FountainPen and ink to paper.
Edit: slightly less clumsily worded
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Trying to design a custom phone holder for the dashboard of our car because it's a weird design that makes conventional ones unusable (I don't trust the suction cup ones).
Taking the measurements has made me painfully aware of just how... curved everything is on a dashboard. ๐คฌ
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@Brian Sullivan We've got a similar one that suction cups to the windshield. I didn't want to permanently affix the plate to my phone (especially since we have two phones between the two of us).
Thought I could get around it by putting the plate inside of the case, but it holds much less securely that way (though the suction cup has still historically been the weakest link).
Our current solution involves a wooden block and a sock. It works, but my plan is a decided upgrade.
Katy needed a washi tape dispenser. She was using an old aluminium foil box as a makeshift one, but she didn't like it.
An hour with OpenSCAD later and I've designed us a simple custom one that fits our use case exactly. I just need to get it printed.
God, that was satisfying.
Fun question: #OrgMode tables don't support cells that span multiple columns/rows, do they?
Just spent a good half hour pulling my hair out trying to figure out why one of the #elisp functions I had just written was always returning nil when I tested it. Turns out, my test was mistakenly passing its inputs to the wrong (but similarly named) function (pivot-table-get-columns instead of pivot-table-get-body).
#Haskell's type system would've caught this. ๐
C's type system would also have caught it, and it isn't worth a hill of beans.
By caught it what do we mean? This is not a case of some undetected error escaping your attention due to dynamic typing. You know you got a nil which is unexpected and wrong. It's in a test case which catches it.
The only thing a type system would change is that you would instead waste a half hour not understanding how your obviously correct function call can possibly have the wrong return type.
@Kazinator I feel that that would have been much more useful information.
nil is about the least useful failure state there is.
S3 E34 His Way Ministries - Granddaughter of a Pro-Life Activist and Cult Leader
In this episode of the Cult Vault podcast, host Kacey speaks with Emily, a third-generation cult survivor whose grandfather was the leader of His Way MinistriesSpreaker
Okay, so this keeps happening. Up 'till now I've been able to fix it with a thorough cleaning, but no such luck this time.
Suggestions?
So Katy has a #Jinhao10 and today the clicker seems to be jamming. When pressed, it seems to resist extending or retracting the nib. I'm giving it a cleaning right now to make sure there was no debris or anything in there stopping it from working, but I don't know if that'll fix it.Has anyone experienced this before? Is there a fix?
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Possibly related: github.com/tbanel/orgaggregate , could always use an easier interface =)
GitHub - tbanel/orgaggregate: Aggregate tables in Org mode
Aggregate tables in Org mode. Contribute to tbanel/orgaggregate development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
@Sacha Chua This looks like it could solve my problem but I've already started down the rabbit hole.
haha, no worries, I'm sure your adventure will help you learn interesting things!
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#cfw got an org-table import/export functionality. Just select the org-table and run M-x cfw-org-load. Analyse, sort, edit, filter your table in CFW. Then update the original org-table by M-x cfw-org-save.If there was no original org-table (the table was created from scratch or from other source like CSV), the cfw-org-save places the exported table into the kill-ring. This way org pivottables can be generated from CFW.
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If your business model does not enable you to pay your workforce a living wage, your business should fail. End of story.
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So, keeping a #journal in #teeline has had some unexpected benefits for my #ADHD brain beyond my handwriting just being more able to keep up with the rate of my thoughts.
I might blog about this later, but the TL;DR is that the process of transcribing my entries requires me to think deliberately about the meaning of every word I've written.
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To be fair C-u *is* a numerical argument so you're not really meant to differentiate (it means the number 4). ๐
@Alessio Vanni Yeah, it's just very magic number-ey.
Ah well, such is the way it is with legacy code sometimes. No way to change it without breaking about a billion other things.
Nintendo in my email today: We have updated our terms of service. If you agree, do literally nothing. If you disagree, please jump through the hoops necessary to delete your account.
How is this legal?
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Join Me at CrimeCon London 2025: Exploring Coercive Control
I'm thrilled to announce that Iโll be speaking live at CrimeCon UK in Londonย on June 7th and 8th, 2025! As the host of The Cult Vault, Iโve spent years exploring the hidden dynamics of coercive control โ and now, Iโm honoured to be joining a panel ofโฆcultvaultpodcast (TheCultVault)
S3 E33 Animal Abuse and Power: What You Are Not Being Told
In this episode of the Cult Vault Podcast, host Kacey speaks with Maya Badham, founder of Safeguarding Human and Animal Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Abuse (Spreaker
The Hidden Links Between Animal Abuse and Coercive Control: A Deep Dive with Maya Badham
In the latest gripping episode of The Cult Vaultย Podcast, host Kacey welcomes Maya Badham, founder of Safeguarding Animal & Human Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Abuse (SAHSDA), for a powerful and eye-opening discussion on the intersection of animalโฆcultvaultpodcast (TheCultVault)
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I like using org tables with org-babel like so:
#+NAME: test
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 6 |
#+begin src emacs-lisp :var test=test
(mapcar
'(lambda (r)
(mapcar '(lambda (x) (* x x)) r)) test)
#+RESULTS:
| 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 25 |
| 9 | 36 |
@hajovonta You are correct. The ridiculous thing was that I had literally just looked it up. My brain does strange things sometimes.
...and my phone isn't charging properly.
Super.
Okay, the problem seems to have been the charger. Still annoying, but less problematic.
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Just learned about interned vs. uninterned symbols. Feels like this would be a big piece of this puzzle.
So, I absolutely can't afford to start yet another hobby, but I really want to get into book binding.
Dane's law: There is not a hobby in existence that has any kind of an upper limit on how much money you can spend in it.
Fountain pens? Sure, there's the Platinum Preppy and Pilot Varsity, but also Momtblanc and Visconti!
Amateur Radio? Sure there's your $30 Baofeng, but also your $20,000 kilowatt at-home HF shack!
Drones? Sure, there's your $20 supermarket drone, but also tens of thousands of dollars super high performance FPV racing drones
Computing? $35 raspi vs at-home supercomputing cluster, just for giggles!
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So, I've finally settled on a technique to keep shimmer inks from clogging my #FountainPens and it's working well, but it's not exactly condusive to writing in #teeline which is what I use 90% of the time these days.
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@paradoxmo I'm currently using a TWSBI Diamond 580. As for the technique, I was basically just making a rookie mistake:
It looks like I wasn't moving the pen enough. As I would keep writing, the shimmer would collect in the feed until it just straight-up clogged. I didn't realize I had to periodically roll the pen around even while I was actively using it. This should have been obvious by the fact that my writing kept getting more and more, well... shimmery before the ink stopped flowing.I'll try this approach in the future.
Rookie mistake, but in my defense, I didn't even know that shimmer inks were even a thing until late last year.
Inside the Source Family: A Conversation with Wendy Baker on Cults, Counterculture, and Personal Growth
In a recent episode of The Cult Vault Podcast, I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with Wendy Baker, a former member of the infamous Source Family.cultvaultpodcast (TheCultVault)
It always amuses me whenever I think about the fact that I got one of my favourite #FountainPens for free with a bottle of ink. It's even more amusing that I've never inked that pen up with that ink.
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@Kate McDonald It's a bit of a pain to work with because I only use it with a dip pen* and have to juggle that with a UV flashlight. That aside, it works really well. Completely invisible under normal lighting conditions and shows up really well under UV.
* Because I feel that cleaning it out of a regular pen would be a pain.
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@Kate McDonald Here's a post about it I made in January.
Okay, I feel like a spy now. I have invisible ink! #FountainPens
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S3 E32 The Source Family: In Conversation with Father Yod's Daughter-in-Law
In this episode of the Cult Vault podcast, host Kacey speaks with Wendy Baker, a former member of the Source Family and daughter-in-law to the leader, about herSpreaker
So, with this past #Inkvent calendar, I've found myself in possession of a bunch of shimmering inks. Problem is that they tend to clog my #FountainPens. Are there any inexpensive pens that handle shimmering inks well?
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It looks like I wasn't moving the pen enough. As I would keep writing, the shimmer would collect in the feed until it just straight-up clogged. I didn't realize I had to periodically roll the pen around even while I was actively using it. This should have been obvious by the fact that my writing kept getting more and more, well... shimmery before the ink stopped flowing.
I'll try this approach in the future.
Rookie mistake, but in my defense, I didn't even know that shimmer inks were even a thing until late last year.
@redbanjer ๐ช๐บ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฝ Yeah, dip pens were my go-to solution. It's just annoying to have to keep mixing up the ink in the bottle in addition to continually dipping the pen.
Why do I always find little stupid mistakes in my code shortly after publishing a release? It's almost like code review is beneficial or something.
I have successfully built my first #Emacs package. I want to clean it up a bit before I consider releasing it though. Also, while I can build a simple (single file) package, buildig a multi-file one is still eluding me.
When I try to install it, I get the following (less than helpful) error message:Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
Is there a way I can get more detail on why this is failing?
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hereโs a large project, still in one file:
GitHub - protesilaos/denote: Simple notes for Emacs with an efficient file-naming scheme
Simple notes for Emacs with an efficient file-naming scheme - protesilaos/denoteGitHub
@๐บ๐ฆ Myke Yes, it can be done that way as well.
That still doesn't negate the point that I want to know how to build a multi-file package.
Besides, sometimes I like to learn stuff just for the sake of learning it.
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