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Intro to the Runes w/Sophia WyrdWeaver
Sign up here: theravencollection9.wordpress.

Dates: Four consecutive Monday’s starting on June 2nd through June 23rd
Time: 6pm PST
Duration: 45 minutes per session
Cost: $35-$100 based on what you can best afford- more information including info on low income resources available in the sign up form.

This intro class will give students a solid historical basis for where the runes come from, how they can be learned, and used. The runes are a cultural device with different applications. This class precedes of my other rune classes on offer:
-Advanced Elder Futhark, which goes over each rune individually at length through a variety of lenses, including how they can be interpreted in a modern context for divination purposes.
-Rune Magic, which gives a deeper understanding of Norse magic and #Rune #magic from a historical perspective that you can apply to your modern practice.

I have an idea for a #Ouija board that removes human influence bias by putting the english frequency statistically weighted alphabet on a bunch of #bingo balls and getting the responses to answers that way...

Or did I just recreate #rune casting? :_runes: :bingo:

All 28 videos for my Patreon course on the #Younger #Futhark, Powering Up the #Viking #Runes, are now up on YouTube.
It's a video diary (edited for conciseness of course!) of a #magical #retirement I undertook in 2020, one day for each rune, resulting in my writing a #rune-poem. Lots of reflections on the Younger row and on the processes of magical knowledge.
It's free to my Patrons, Patreon link below. At the moment, that's the only way I'm releasing it.

My Patreon is at: patreon.com/c/Chaotopia

great summary of the #ThorChain collapse debacle. these guys are always promising "decentralization" right until the moment a centralized authority has to step in and genocide the users' bank accounts so as to make sure the insiders stay rich.

> "Tonight, somewhere on-chain, $200M worth of user funds sit frozen while THORChain's team tries to innovate their way out of their own innovation. Ninety days might buy them time to restructure, but no amount of governance theater can erase the fundamental truth - they built a leverage trap with no escape hatch."

> "Their 'community-driven' solution reads like a negotiation with no real choice - frozen funds transformed into tokenized claims and promises of future repayment. THORChain's original promise of trustless finance ends with a forced trust exercise."

rekt.news/thorchains-iceage/

rektRekt - THORChain's Ice AgeDeFi / Crypto - When you build leveraged experiments on top of working products, reality strikes. THORChain now faces $200M in frozen funds, a native token in free fall, and 90 days to choose between controlled demolition or total collapse.

There's this recent post pointing out there are a couple of interesting methods in the char class like IsLetter or IsLetterOrNumber. The .NET API is so vast that I'm not surprised people are discovering new methods. One reason for my posts is to get familiar with things that might not be universally known. The char class has a lot of interesting functions, but one has to be careful when using them.

For majority of cases we could use char.IsLetter to check if a character is a letter in a string.

That would be a mistake if, for example, we did it for words written in e.g. Osage. Checking letters with IsChar would yield 0 as a count. It's better to use the Rune class. Rune is a better replacement as it's aware of characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane.

In example 1️⃣, using char.IsLetter would return 0. If we switch to Rune.IsLetter (as in 2️⃣), we would get the correct value of 4.

Docs 📑: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotn

#dotnet #api #char #rune #unicode
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