Modernity makes a quiet bargain with us. In exchange for convenience, speed, connection, and choice, it asks for something we rarely notice until it is gone: our innocence. Not innocence as ignorance or naivety, but innocence as the capacity for wonder, trust, presence, play, and unselfconscious experience. The feeling that the world is still enchanted, […]
How the disappearance of the old Christmas mall, the rise of digital consumerism, and the commercialisation of almost every aspect of human life reveal a deeper crisis of meaning. There was a time when the shopping mall came alive at Christmas. The great department stores decorated their windows. Christmas trees rose through the atriums, covered […]
Love, Greed, Revolution, Power, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Shared Destiny Abstract Humanity has spent thousands of years expressing its hopes, fears, contradictions, and aspirations through music, philosophy, politics, religion, science, and art. Although these expressions often appear to contradict one another, they may be understood as different attempts to answer a common question: how can […]
Humanity, Artificial Intelligence, Love, and the Unfinished Work of Living Together Introduction: The Question Beneath Every Conflict What if humanity has been trying to solve the same problems for thousands of years, approaching them from different directions, yet repeatedly creating new contradictions instead of resolving the old ones? We fight over freedom and control, equality […]
Abstract Critical AI literacy—the practice of using artificial intelligence to interrogate power while simultaneously interrogating the lens of AI itself—does not unfold in a neutral epistemic environment. This article develops a theoretical framework for understanding how power responds to critical analysis of AI and systems of control through two interconnected modalities: justification and prevention. Justification […]
A Critical Analysis of Arthur C. Clarke’s Vision and Its Relevance to the Age of Artificial Intelligence Introduction: Prophecy in Science Fiction Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End can be read as a remarkably prescient meditation on a possibility that has become increasingly relevant in the age of artificial intelligence: that humanity’s greatest achievement might also […]
Abstract This article examines the political economy of the “stars-seeding” vision—the proposition that industrial civilization should relocate its heavy and polluting activities off Earth—and argues that this vision is not inherently emancipatory. It can function either as a genuine horizon for dismantling the scarcity-generating architecture of contemporary capitalism or as an escape hatch that reproduces […]
Managing databases from the command line is one of the fastest ways to provision new applications on a Linux server. Instead of logging into the MySQL shell and executing multiple SQL statements manually, you can automate the entire process with a simple Bash script. This tutorial demonstrates how to create a new MySQL database, create […]
Apache 2.2 up to 2.4 need special configuration to be able to pass a PCI-DSS scan. Below is what you need in 2013 to pass a basic PCI-DSS scan on your webserver. Obviously a properly configured SSL certificate helps too. You also need to configure variables in conf.d/security if you are using Debian or Ubuntu.
If you have multiple child themes and you want to have a common functions.php between all of them, there is a simple way to do that. create the following file /wp-content/themes/common-funcs.php, and paste what you need in it. In the child theme functions.php use: