sadalsuud

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sadalsvvd

sadalsvvd

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Good morning or other local time! This is a short message to let you know that I have migrated both my email from Substack and website from Squarespace to Ghost. I'll also take the opportunity to remind you that I exist and what my deal is, and give you the opportunity to unsubscribe if you feel you could use one less newsletter in your life. (Alas, I tried to create a big unsubscribe button for you, but you'll have to click the link at the bottom.)

I'm Sadalsuud, an astrologer and software developer with a keen interest in understanding the structure of reality through observation and divination, and a number of other esoteric side tangents. Most of my external output is essays, but in my usually limited free time I slowly grow apps in my basement. I'm also deeply fascinated by decentralization, both of networks and society, and the technological implications that large language models bring for modern software.

I've written a number of guides, tutorials, case studies, and anecdotal essays about my experiences with divination and eclectic spiritual practices:

I've also written some forecast essays on the coming tides of technology and decentralization in the near future, and some nerd stuff:

I also have a podcast called Divine Implications, which I am publishing very occasionally as a simultaneous essay-transcript-blog-thing. I might bring people on sometime or get looser with it! The first episode is called Who Cares About the Universe? and it's about my arc from skeptical teenager to practicing astrologer in the search for meaning in the universe.

On Ghost

So, the Ghost thing; this newsletter combines both my Substack email list and my Squarespace website's contact list. I think the former won't be surprised by this, but the latter might. I intended my website to be more like a personal newsletter than my Official Sadalsvvd Substack, but I never sent any emails. My participation in the world is mostly output in my "formal" work. So, website subscribers will get updates at all, and I think plenty of you were subscribed to the newsletter as well.

Anyway... Ghost is a website + blog + newsletter thing that's been around for a long time as an open source project and is finally finding success with a dual open-source/paid-hosting-services model. It also has "memberships" like Substack, which allow for full on accounts with rewards and so on. I'm not concerned with any of that any time soon; I just needed an page plus email list that aligned with my opinions about technology. My point is, and I'm very sorry about this: there's now a thing you can possibly log in to, so if you want to mess with it you can at the website. Or just unsubscribe somewhere below and you'll never hear from this particular newsletter again. (In the future, though, this may enable cool stuff like my allowing you to select which type of emails you receive, which I think would be very neat.)

That's it! Thank you for reading, and I hope you are doing well.

Much love,

sadalsvvd

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