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We all went absolutely bananas over the sheet-pan gnocchi with sausage meatballs, Brussels, and mushrooms this fall, and I’ve been dreaming up a new iteration for months. I’ve been traveling this week and have been majorly living the “don’t feel like cooking” lifestyle. I’m tired. My kids have been sick. I don’t feel like spending more than 10 minutes cooking dinner, okay?! Can I get an amen! So this felt like a good week for a “dump everything on a baking sheet, roast it, eat it” kind of recipe.

Dear Readers, Over the past few days, I have been able to write the first cut draft of the first chapter outline, addressing the question: Why should you read this book? Obviously, I plan to rewrite this many more times, integrating various sets of questions I have been grappling with in my yagna. Do share your evocations/questions if you feel called to participate in this yagna. I also plan to have a call to share the exploration so far.

Sūrah ash-Shams (The Sun) and Sūrah al-Layl (The Night) form the 91st and 92nd suwar of the Quran, respectively. When their contents are viewed side-by-side it appears that the two suwar parallel one-another. [A/A’] - Allah ﷻ begins both suwar with a series of oaths by His creation. Both suwar have reference to the night, the day, and end with human beings. [B/B’] - The suwar continue with Allah ﷻ expressing the different paths humans can take.

It certainly has. Eighteen months to be precise. But… And I am very excited, because it feels like India is exploding right now. Air India just placed the largest aircraft order of all time. Vedanta and Foxconn are setting up a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Gujarat. ISRO and the Indian spacetech industry keep banging out next-level rockets and satellites. Every week, it seems like we inaugurate a new high-speed train line or airport.

Hi, hey, hello.  In case a short introduction is necessary, I go by TurtleMe. I am the author of a self-published web serial, “The Beginning After the End,” which is now on its ninth volume and has been adapted into a webcomic across the globe.  So…why am I here? Well, I come from a bit of a non-traditional webcomic background, but I read a crap ton of web serials and webcomics for fun and to scout out the competition.

Stability AI made two announcements Friday. The first was about Deep Floyd IF, a new text-to-image AI model trained to render text more accurately. The second was for Stable Vicuna, a new “large-scale open source chatbot trained via reinforced learning from human feedback (RHLF).” DeepFloyd IF has the benefit of a demonstration application available today on Hugging Face. It has a simple interface with a dialogue box for your prompt and another for a negative prompt (Nice touch!

Stable Diffusion was once and likely still is the most widely used text-to-image AI foundation model. It rose to prominence in 2022 as an open-source alternative to OpenAI’s DALL-E, Midjourney, and other proprietary offerings. The control and cost benefits of Stable Diffusion’s open-source model made it attractive for many software makers who wanted to add AI-enabled image generation to their products. The core technology behind Stable Diffusion is Latent Diffusion, which was developed at Ludwig Maximilian University in collaboration with Runway.

Stacking stones, with the smallest one on top, is an age-old global tradition that taps into our universal need to leave a mark, however small, for eternity. Loren Eiseley, an eminent author who wrote about humanity’s place in the natural world, noted our “fondness for the building of stone alignments, dolmens, and pyramids” in his book All the Strange Hours, saying it “is an unconscious ‘ancient heritage.”  ncG1vNJzZmiikaO3sLTNrJynZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9KtmJyjmaO0br%2FTqKWeqw%3D%3D

Greetings and welcome back to The Archaic Allegory. In our previous affair, we traveled back in time, when all was more beautiful and now is more missed & discussed about the different art periods that have moulded, crafted the canvas we call as history. Stained with malign and neatly drawn with beauty & admiration and in the end, sharpened with a few strokes of blood, the history is home to all sorts of madness & beauty.