SJ Games vs. the Secret Service

OK, so here's a slightly left field entry for #TechnopaganTuesday this week then. But a cautionary tale from the early days of the online space that still haunts the modern web. Yes, I'm talking about that time the US Secret Service went after a role playing games company. No, seriously.

Extra entry for this oddly necromantic #TechnopaganTuesday, thanks to a recommendation by @sremi.bsky.social in my comments. Really interesting for sure, #ParanormalSky.

OK, so how about some analogue necromancy for #TechnopaganTuesday this week, #WitchSky? Not saying I believe it really is the dead playing DJ, but I'm definitely intrigued by the results.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hw-...

Technopaganism Reloaded Disk One Of all the short lived movements that branched out from the main body of occult practice in the modern era, few have encapsulated mankind’s obsession with their tools to a greater degree than techn…

So #TechnopaganTuesday again. For those who missed them the first time, I started a series of articles on the history of the Technopagan current a few years back. Sad I never got to finish the set due to the demise of the platform, but here's the first one.
theacceleratedchaote.com/2024/03/16/t...

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us ...

To #TechnopaganTuesday then. While using modern social media to share such a grungy, utopian vision of angry #Cyberpunks holding out against corporate and governmental tyranny at the fringes of cyberspace is at best ironic, it remains valuable to do so. What we lost, eh?
www.eff.org/cyberspace-i...

Well I missed #TechnoPaganTuesday this week, but here's my entry anyway. Found this pretty listenable #BBCRadio version of #Neuromancer a while back, and while I tend to be wary of #RadioPlay adaptations, due to what they cut out, this 2003 attempt is not bad at all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S89B...

So yes, it's not #TechnoPaganTuesday today, but I couldn't pass up sharing this one. There was a time when the UK Internet was not all social media sites and over reaching ID checks. TV show like this are proof. Watch this for the history, stay for the unintentional cringe.

youtu.be/Pq_j8YFA3Ms?...

Today's #WitchTip ties nicely into #TechnoPaganTuesday, #WitchSky. There is a saying in cyberpunk circles, thanks to author William Gibson, "the street finds its own uses for things." And it does. So yes, certain #Writers or groups are at best problematic. Crowley was no saint, and ... (1/3)

Bruce Sterling. Cyberpunk in the Nineties

It's #TechnoPaganTuesday time again. And I have a real treat for those who love the #CyberPunk genre as much as I do. Bruce Sterling has always been a sour but much needed voice in the zeitgeist. As he is with this article, originally published in Interzone, June 1991.
lib.ru/STERLINGB/in...

For #TechnoPaganTuesday this week, one of the best academic works on the #FreeFestivals and #RaveCulture in a #NeoPagan context. Took me a while to find a copy that was accessible online for you all, but worth the effort. Christopher Partridge was on point with this.
voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/u...

A Grail for game designers - Hipbone Games - Hermetic Library

I googled it, and bingo ! Charles Cameron Hip Bone Games has been archived on the hermetic library ! Thanks @hermetic.com ! 5/
hermetic.com/hipbone/index
hermetic.com/hipbone/gbgs

So, this is also my contribution to #TechnoPaganTuesday

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us ...

Fresh up for #TechnoPaganTuesday I am sharing one of the most important, and perhaps prescient, manifesto declarations in the history of the online space. John Perry Barlow saw a much richer digital realm than the corporate hellhole we now inhabit. Such a shame.
www.eff.org/cyberspace-i...

It's #TechnoPaganTuesday and I have a speculative, but definitely prescient, view of the onrushing digital #Dystopia for you all this week. I am no Luddite, I dream of a harmonious merging of culture and technology. But that is looking less and less likely now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg0...

One and done entry for #TechnoPaganTuesday this week, as I'm super busy. But this one is notable for two reasons. First, it is a left over excerpt from the #BBC's short running 1994 to 1998 tech show, The Net. Second, it's classic Gibson from the early days.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUbm...

It's #TechnoPaganTuesday on #WitchSky, so here is my entry this week. An intriguing, if a little scattershot, overview of the interaction between hundreds of years of technology and paganism by someone who was there during the early days of the modern internet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHBX...

The Dead Media Project Home page of the Dead media Project

Bonus #TechnoPaganTuesday post as I think this one is only tangentially related to the esoteric, being more a fun little internet dead end all its own. Bruce Sterling created the Dead Media Project way back when, and it is literally what it sounds like. I miss 'net 1.0 so much.
www.deadmedia.org

Fresh for #TechnoPaganTuesday this week, an intriguing modern discussion on the intersection between technology and magick in a digital context. Some very good points made here, even if he mistakenly gives Wired Magazine too much credit for coining a certain term.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cdr...

Being a little naughty on this #TechnoPaganTuesday and sharing two of my own articles. These were supposed to be part of a much wider narrative, and at least three more were originally planned.
Part One - theacceleratedchaote.com/2024/03/16/t...
Part Two - theacceleratedchaote.com/2024/03/23/t...

The Sheldrake - McKenna - Abraham Trialogues These trialogues are from a series of lively, far-reaching discussions between Rupert and his close friends Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna, that took place between 1989 and 1998, in America and En...

#TechnoPaganTuesday

The McKenna-Sheldrake-Abraham trialogues :
www.sheldrake.org/audios/the-s...

Cyberplague About the plague of words which have been formed in recent years from the prefix <em>cyber</em>.

Not forgotten it's #TechnopaganTuesday, I've just been super busy is all. So here is an interesting article on the fleeting use of 'Cyber' as the start of compound words in the English language around the late 1990's. A short, but useful, time capsule for sure.
www.worldwidewords.org/articles/cyb...

Mark Pesce * Outside the Light-Cone

#technopagantuesday
I found that the old @mpesce.arvr.social.ap.brid.gy‬ website is still running (Mark Pesce co-created VRML with Tony Parisi, and is featured in Erik Davis' famous article on technopagans. (There is a 9 hours discussion with Terence Mc Kenna here !)
hyperreal.org/~mpesce/

#TechnoPaganTuesday

Conceiving Ada, with Tilda Swinton, and the participation of Timothy Leary, John Perry Barlow, and
@rusirius.bsky.social

And it's about Artificial Life, currently eclipsed by the success of Deep Learning, but which I’m sure will make a comeback!
youtu.be/Xf8ysuivyxk?...

Technoshamanism: Digital Deities in Cyberspace - Christian Research Institute This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, Winter (1997). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org/christian-research-j...

It's #TechnopaganTuesday again, and my link this week may at first seem strange. This article from a Christian publication back in 1997 is steeped in #SatanicPanic, true. But it offers some useful context on #Digital occultism if you can bare to read between the lines.
www.equip.org/articles/tec...

#TechnoPaganTuesday
on Wednesday, I know...

"Flicker" on the dream machine...
youtu.be/rJFgNMVePaQ?...

I'm not expecting this #TechnoPaganTuesday to be as popular, what with it falling on #ChristmasEve and all that, but here is another old documentary musing on the nature of #CyberPunk and #CyberCulture from 1990. Very #Mondo2000 in atmosphere and outlook, for sure.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxbZ...

The user instructions for the >_"PROJEKT".. egregore. It shows a picture of a skull cut along vertical lines and interwoven with computer parts on a black background. The green text below the image reads: >_"PROJEKT".. is the ghosts of networks past. Solidified on Mastodon by the overwhelming response to Projekt Lunarsigil and the burning desire for a return to the more free and user centred online experience of the early internet it dwells in the Stacks, actively facilitating and aiding in the administration of positive polarity decentralised internet events. Invoke >_"PROJEKT".. by name at the start of your online event to watch the code dance in your favour and barriers to communication fall away.

The #TechnoPaganTuesday hashtag has led to some very interesting discussion so far then. Just as I had hoped. It is certainly a multifaceted subject. Here is a bonus entry from me today. A #Servitor that I released into the digital astral after a #SigilBomb I ran on #Mastodon a couple years ago.

Episode 2 - Ancient Technopagans — Magic in the United States It’s the late 1980s. With a computer, modem, and phone line, you hear the crackle of a modem as you log into PODSnet – the Pagan and Occult Distribution System network. It’s an early BBS, or Bulletin ...

A proper contribution to #TechnoPaganTuesday
PODSnet - the Bulletin Boards that predate the wordwide web.
www.magicintheunitedstates.com/season-1-epi...

Great! didn't know this one !
And here is my contribution to the #TechnoPaganTuesday !
youtu.be/mDCZoV-wjRg?...

OK, so first post for the new #TechnoPaganTuesday tag here on #BlueSky, and it is a fantastic old documentary musing on possible #Internet futures. Some early #WorldWideWeb royalty interviewed in this one from back in 1998, when digital tech was still the #WildWest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iFw...