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Evil Twin Techniques For Real World Exploitation
Most people hear "Evil Twin" and think fake login page at a coffee shop. Harvest some passwords, call it a day.
That's the tutorial version. That's not what this talk is about.
Harold "superkojiman" Rodriguez is going to show what happens when you actually build out Evil Twin infrastructure and use it as a real attack platform. Not just phishing — direct methods of gaining access to target systems. The tooling, the infrastructure, the tradecraft. How a technique most people write off as basic becomes a legitimate entry point in an engagement.
**What we'll cover:**
\- How Evil Twin setups go way beyond credential harvesting
\- Direct methods for gaining access to target systems
\- Attack chains that start with network positioning
\- Real\-world scenarios where these techniques actually matter
\- The defensive gaps most security teams miss
**About the speaker:**
Harold has been doing this for over 15 years. Red team operations, penetration testing, vulnerability research, exploit development — the full spectrum. He's authored boot2root and CTF challenges, built open-source security tools, and written tutorials that have been floating around the community for years. If you've done any offensive security training or CTF work, there's a good chance you've run into his stuff.
**Details:**
\- Thursday\, April 16\, 2026
\- Doors at 6:30 PM\. Talk starts shortly after\.
\- Stan\, 100 Queens Quay East\, Toronto
Stick around after for the hallway track. That's where half the good conversations happen.
DC416 is Toronto's DEFCON group. Monthly meetups. Technical talks. No vendor pitches. No fluff.
Psychic Readings (Toronto & Online) Tarot, Business & Family constellations
**Psychic Readings with Andy Li**
Unlock powerful insights with Andy Li, a certified and experienced psychic reader. Combining classical psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, professional tarot readings, business/family constellations, and ancient rituals, Andy offers professional guidance and solutions tailored to your needs.
**Services and Pricing:**
- **30 min** – 75 cad
Session inculdes advanced reading + personal family constellation + additional energy and homeopathy support during 2 weeks.
Full session
- *60 min* – 150 cad
Session includes everything that is in brief session plus advanced imagerial therapy and homeopathy support of inner parts of the soul.
Express Session online - is free.
To get it you need to
- briefly explain your request
- send the drawing of you and your request and
- get your express reading in text format.
Special Promo:
Free donation express readings is available in online format.
**Available Online and Offline in Toronto.**
**Weekly Offline Sessions:**
Join us every Thursday at 8:30 PM at the Toronto Music Garden for an enlightening experience. Bring a seat for comfort as we'll be on the grass.
**TAROT READINGS @ Music Garden**
### Discover Clarity and Insight
**Experience Professional Readings:**
- **Tarot Reading**: Gain valuable hints for your goals and situations.
- **Scandinavian Runes Reading**: Tap into ancient Norse traditions for guidance.
- **Family Constellations**: Resolve family issues and understand deeper dynamics.
- **Business Constellations**: Unlock your professional potential and clarity.
**Why Attend?**
- **Personalized Guidance**: Receive tailored insights for any issue or question.
- **Flexible Contributions**: Free participation with a video testimonial or a recommended donation of $10 CAD for 10 minutes of reading.
**Event Details:**
- 📅 **When:** Every Thursday, 8:30 PM
- 📍 **Where:** Music Garden (detailed location provided upon registration)
- **Online Readings Available**: Join from the comfort of your home.
**How to Participate:**
- **Pre-Registration Required**: Secure your spot by registering at least one day before the event.
- **Easy Registration**: Send a message to WhatsApp to reserve your place at 437-606-6502.
🔗 [Register Now](https://wa.me/%2B380934788827)
Don’t miss this chance to gain valuable insights and enhance your well-being. Reserve your spot today and embark on a journey of self-discovery and transformation!
**Details & Testimonials:** [PsiTrends.com](http://www.psitrends.com)
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**About Andy Li**
Certified Professional Psychic Reader:
- **Hypnotherapist**
- **Psychologist**
- **Instructor of Family Constellations**
- **Instructor of Business Constellations**
- **Master Teacher of Runic Reiki, Tantra Reiki, and Kundalini Reiki**
- **Magister and Grand-Magister of Egyptian Temple Magic and Greek Mysteries**
- **President of the Academy of Temple Arts**
TAICO April 2026 Meetup!
The TAICO team is happy to announce our next meetup at the Adaptavist office in Toronto. Much thanks to [Adaptavist](https://www.adaptavist.com/) for hosting!
**Wayfinding: How to Get to the Event**
* *Please be careful when using maps features on phones, some people have been redirected to a completely wrong address. The event is near Winners on Front St, which is just south, across the street, from Berczy Park (where the dog fountain is) so if you are not near that area, you are in the wrong place.*
**Registration and Event Details**
Our goal is to bring artificial intelligence and cybersecurity together. To do that, we need to explore what's happening in AI and what's happening in cybersecurity, and where the two intersect and collide. We're also working to understand how we solve problems in these areas, what that looks like, and how Canada can and will participate.
With that in mind, we're pleased to announce our speakers and the agenda for our next meeting!
**Sponsors**
And thanks to our host, [Adaptavist](https://www.adaptavist.com/)!
**Notes**
* *Unfortunately, we won't have pizza at this meetup due to a gap in sponsorship. We're actively working on securing sponsors for future events.*
**Agenda**
**Doors Open: 5:30PM**
**Event Start: 6:00PM**
* 👋 **Welcome and introductions**
* 🙏 **Thank you to our amazing hosts and sponsors!** 🎉
* 🎙️ **Speakers**
🎤 **Speaker #1: Dmitrii Strizhkov**
***Subject: Penetration Testing Automation with MCP***
***Abstract:***
*This presentation talks about my journey as the penetration testing practice lead, covering how I was able to increase efficiency and speed up the execution of my team's projects. I will discuss what MCP is, introduce how it can help in reconnaissance and enumeration phases, and analyze the results. I will also demo a solution that everyone can implement using the n8n low-code platform. Additionally, I will discuss and show why agents can help us, pentesters, in writing the reports (do the boring and tedious stuff). In the end, I will delve into why several precautionary measures should be undertaken before sending sensitive client data to commercial LLMs and suggest several solutions based on my experience. And as the final point, I would want to encourage my colleagues to experiment with and implement their own MCP-based solutions to speed up and make their engagements more effective.*
*About Dmitrii:*
*Dmitrii is the head of offensive security/penetration testing and practice lead at Parabellyx Cybersecurity.*
🎤 **Speaker #2: David Ahmann**
***Title: Stop Is Not a Safety Control: What AI Agent Security Looks Like at the Runtime Boundary***
**Abstract:**
*A lot of AI security discussion still focuses on prompts, policies, and tool declarations. Our research at ([CAISI](https://caisi.dev/)) has been looking at the harder question: what actually changes at execution time when an agent is told to stop, requires approval, or reaches a risky tool boundary? I’d share a practical, evidence-based talk on where AI agent control really holds or fails, drawing from our OpenClaw case-study work and our public research on agent governance, evidence posture, and approval gaps. The goal would be a practitioner-focused session for security leaders, builders, and evaluators trying to separate demo confidence from real control.*
**⚡ Lightning Talks and Demos**
Lightning Talks - 5 to 15 minutes long
1. Curtis Collicutt - A demo of a new programming language: [Vary](https://varylang.com) \- A typed language design to find "lies" in generated code
2. Janhavi Doshi - "Data, LLMs and the Law - What Every Builder in Canada Needs to Know Right Now"
3. **You? - Please reach out if you'd like to do a lightning talk or demo - anyone is welcome to demo something they are working one**
Please reach out to us if you'd like to present at the meetup. We are looking for people to talk about what they are working on, what they are building and learning, and are open to any level of experience and technical depth. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, we want to hear from you! We're all just out here building and learning.
👋 **See You There!**
Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you at the meetup!
Intellectual Property: Protection or Government-Granted Monopoly?
Join Liberty Labs Toronto for our tenth meetup on **Thursday, April 16, 2026, at 7:00 PM** near Yonge and Eglinton!
We’ll examine one of the most contentious issues in libertarian thought: patents, copyrights, and intellectual property laws. Are they legitimate protections for creators, or state-enforced monopolies that stifle innovation, raise prices, and violate the principles of true property rights?
This will be a balanced, thought-provoking discussion covering:
* The philosophical case for and against IP
* How patents actually work in practice (pharma, software, everyday inventions)
* Real-world effects on innovation, competition, and consumer costs
* Alternatives like trade secrets, first-mover advantage, and open-source models
* Canadian-specific IP rules and how they impact independent creators and entrepreneurs
What to expect:
* Open, respectful discussion with plenty of room for different libertarian viewpoints
* Complimentary appetizers and a drink ticket
* Everyone who attends will receive a million-dollar Zimbabwe note as a fun take-home reminder of real value vs. fiat illusions
* Connect with 10-20 liberty-minded Torontonians
Venue: Pickle Barrel (2300 Yonge St, at Yonge & Eglinton), right above Eglinton Station. Easy parking in the Yonge Eglinton Centre garage or nearby Green P lots.
Testing LLM Cooperation in Multi-Agent Simulation
This is a ticketed event. Please register at [this link](https://luma.com/lpikw708).
Ryan Faulkner explores various papers that address cooperation and safety in multi-agent LLM simulations. Some of the core topics will include:
* Moral behaviour of agents in high-stakes, zero-sum, and morally charged social dilemmas
* Governance and sanctioning dynamics and the ways that LLM agents often fail to cooperate and free-ride in common-pool resource game
* Mechanism design interventions like mediation, contracts, and elected leadership are explored to steer agents toward safer outcomes.
This research also reveals that LLMs adapt their behavior based on awareness of their conversational partner's identity.
**Event Schedule**
6:00 to 6:30 - Food and introductions
6:30 to 7:30 - Presentation and Q&A
7:30 to 9:00 - Open Discussions
If you can't make it in person, feel free to join the live stream starting at 6:30 pm, via [this link](https://www.youtube.com/@Trajectory-Labs/live).
Back in Person Social !!
Come hang out. It's been a while.
C++TO is getting back together for an evening at Free Times Cafe on College Street. No talks, no agenda — just drinks, food, and catching up with the Toronto C++ community.
Whether you've been to every virtual meetup or haven't shown your face since 2019, you're welcome. Bring a friend.
Thursday, April 16 · 6:30 PM
Free Times Cafe (back room) · 320 College St, Toronto
Food and drinks available to order. See you there.
Practical Philosophy Meetup - Toronto 🇨🇦
**NO PHILOSOPHY EXPERTISE REQUIRED!**
**🏛️ WHAT'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY ABOUT?**
Practical Philosophy is a weekly meet-up that brings critical thinkers together for an opportunity to dive deep on a topic, practice communicating, and building a community. All with no ‘official’ philosophy knowledge required! 😎
Practical Philosophy is based on the idea that philosophy should be accessible to all, and not something reserved only for academics. Each week we choose a topic, and the goal is to use the conversation to develop our critical thinking and communication as we explore that topic.
The goal is to help develop our Critical Thinking, Communication, and Community 🙌
**📓 HOW DOES IT WORK?**
Each week, we pick one topic and discuss it. The topic for the week is shared, generally in the [Whatsapp group](https://chat.whatsapp.com/B7LyJIeBlaH5VtXkMJTTph?mode=gi_t), along with jump-off points to get the conversation going.
When groups get bigger than 7-8 people, it’s important that we break into smaller groups. This way we are able to maintain a conversational flow as opposed to having our meetups feel like a discourse or lecture.
**General Meeting Agenda**
Each Practical Philosophy meet-up follows this general timeline:
* 19:30-19:45 - People arrive and chat, get to know each other before the official start.
* 19:45-19:55 - Meeting introduction, explanation of Practical Philosophy and the topic for the week, read the guidelines and the overview so attendees know what to expect in terms of timelines.
* 19:55-21:15 - Break into small groups - introduce yourselves and general thoughts on the topic, open discussion afterwards. At this point the group can review the ‘jump-off’ questions as needed, but they are just there to help guide the conversation. It’s not obligatory to answer them.
* 21:15-21:30 - Bring everyone back together to discuss conclusions of the topic - each group gives a short 1-minute summary. Organizer concludes the meeting and everyone takes a group photo.
* 21:30 - The official meeting is over but it’s a great opportunity to get to know people in a non-structured environment, so we often stick around, chat, and get to know each other.
**🧧PRICING?**
Practical Philosophy is operated entirely on voluntary donations! If we are meeting in a café, buy a beverage! Donations are 100% voluntary, but they help us to bring the gift of deep conversation to people around the world. If you'd like to support, you can [donate here](https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donation-form/donate-to-practical-philosophy)!
(Practical Philosophy is a registered Canadian charity)
**💛 WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY**
**🗣** “I feel like Philosophy Club helps someone build their own belief system through a series of perspectives while not promoting what’s right and wrong” - Ekam
🗣 “I got hooked from day 1 and felt it was the right place for me. I feel it is a place where people can go to learn and discuss new perspectives and increase critical thinking and community by interacting with people who might challenge your point of views but at the same time encourage you to have openness and mind flexibility.” - Daniel
**🤓 FAQ**
* **What will we talk about? What's the topic?**
The topic for the week is shared every Sunday in the Whatsapp group. We try to add the topic to the comment section on this event page as well but if you don’t see it, the topic and the jump-off points will be in our [Whatsapp](https://chat.whatsapp.com/B7LyJIeBlaH5VtXkMJTTph?mode=gi_t).
* **Do I need to study or read anything to attend?**
No preparation is necessary. This isn’t a study of other thinkers. We want to know what you think about the topic, not what an old philosopher thought. If you have a perspective from a religion or a school of thought to share, throw it on the table and we’ll discuss it.
* **Is there a specific philosophy that Practical Philosophy is focused on?**
The goal of our meet-ups is to not have dogmatic discussions, and flex our critical thinking muscles. Because of this, we want to hear from every realm of thought, and don't study a particular school.
* **Is it mostly men that attend?**
Surprisingly, no! Although often, philosophy is seen as a Candelabra affair in a dark room with a bunch of guys, our Practical Philosophy meetups are generally 50/50 between genders, and we don’t meet in any dark rooms.
* **Can I come alone?**
Of course you can, we encourage it :)
* **Can I be late?**
Please don't be! We do have a 15 minute grace period where we allow people to funnel in while we hang out, but after that if you arrive too late, it disrupts the flow of the conversation.
* **Where do you meet?**
The location is posted in Meetup and our [Whatsapp](https://chat.whatsapp.com/B7LyJIeBlaH5VtXkMJTTph?mode=gi_t) group for this location. It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you join the Whatsapp group! If you want to know what other cities have a Practical Philosophy Club, you can see our chapters on our [website](https://www.practicalphilosophy.club/practical-philosophy-locations/).
🤝**POLICY**
To respect our members privacy, we ask that no one privately message a member without first getting explicit consent. (This looks like speaking in person and being asked to message privately.) Contacting or texting other participants without prior consent is not permitted and may result in removal from the group. Practical Philosophy reserves the right to enforce this policy at its discretion to maintain a safe and respectful environment.
**PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY CLUB - Philosophy, everywhere. ✨**
We started in Practical Philosophy back in 2021 and there are now 50+ chapters in over 25 countries, including Canada, Spain, Japan, Mexico and many more! 🗺️
**\*\*\***
**Join our Toronto [Whatsapp Group](https://chat.whatsapp.com/B7LyJIeBlaH5VtXkMJTTph?mode=gi_t) 👈**
**Follow us on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/practicalphilosophyclub/) 👈**
**Our [website](https://www.practicalphilosophy.club/) 👈**
Cypherpunk Events This Week
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SPELLBOUND: Goth Darkwave Video Dance Party w/ She Past Away Spotlight
Living On Video + DJ Lazarus presents
Tickets ONLY $10: https://spellboundSPA.eventbrite.ca
**Sat April 18 - SPELLBOUND Video Dance Party. GOTH / DARKWAVE / POST-PUNK / INDUSTRIAL w/ She Past Away Spotlight**
SPELLBOUND is Canada's ONLY dark music video dance party.
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Goth A.F. Contest
$100 prize + custom trophy to the most gothed up patron.
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Saturday April 18, 2026
SPELLBOUND: Goth Video Dance Party w/ She Past Away Spotlight
Ground Control - 1279 Queen St West - Toronto
Lounge 9pm - Mainroom: 10pm - 19+ Event
$10 advanced: https://spellboundSPA.eventbrite.ca
$15 at the door
INVITE: www.facebook.com/events/1649118399601897/
(Please INVITE your friends)
SPELLBOUND is a goth multimedia dance experience with classic and fresh dark music videos.
SOCIAL:
www.facebook.com/groundcontroltoronto
www.facebook.com/livingonvideoclub
www.facebook.com/djlazarusrocks
www.instagram.com/djlazarusrocks
www.twitch.tv/livingonvideoclub
www.mixcloud.com/livingonvideo
www.twitter.com/djlazarusrocks
Art Therapy | My Inner Mirror | 🪞 Draw Your Inner Self
🪞 My Inner Mirror – Inner Alchemy Workshop Through Art Therapy 🎨
Immerse yourself in a unique and transformative workshop, blending artistic creation, meditation, and inner exploration. This guided introspective space will allow you to manifest your inner reality through art, shifting perceptions and strengthening your connection with your subconscious.
🌟 Why Join?
✅ Visually express your inner world and uncover its hidden messages
✅ Deepen your connection with your subconscious through guided meditation
✅ Use art as a tool for transformation and self-analysis
✅ Learn interpretation techniques to better understand your creations
No artistic skills required – this workshop is accessible to everyone!
🧘♂️ Workshop Flow:
1. Breathing Exercises – Mental and energetic preparation for meditation
2. Guided Meditation – Activating the subconscious and awakening intuition
3. Mirror Drawing Creation – Representing your inner reality through art
4. Interpretation & Examples – Understanding the symbols and messages within your artwork
5. Sharing & Q/A – A space for discussion and guidance
📌 Required Materials:
🔹 Paper: Blank sheets (A4 or A3 format, no grid lines)
🔹 Artistic tools: Pencils, brushes, markers, or any medium of your choice
⏳ Duration: 2 hours
💫 Guidance:
This workshop is led by Ludovic, exploring inner alchemy through yoga and art therapy.
🪞 Let your true essence emerge, observe your inner reflection, and uncover the secrets your subconscious wishes to reveal.
✅ Reserve your spot now and embark on this transformative journey!
**✨ Join Our Wellness Community**
More on [https://www.yogasource.org](https://www.yogasource.org)
Speaking English language class with Certified Award-Winning teacher@Madison Pub
SPACE IS LIMITED! This is a much smaller class than our 7:30 pm event and we can only accept a limited number of students.
Key areas of focus: Practicing oral communication (speaking languages), for conversations, presentations, interviews and job skills
Schedule:
1. 6:30- 7:15 pm : 45 -minute language conversation class with certified award-winning language teacher John Dias.
2. Language exchange social (7:30-11 pm): includes Free access to the Toronto's BIGGEST Language Party and Social Party also in the Madison Pub led by teacher John Dias (same location)
**Cost: just $ 5 while we have this promo.**
**PROMO (Limited Time): $5 fee will give you access to both events (usual rate: $15 total)**
Feel free to message us if you have any questions!
SPELLBOUND: Goth Darkwave Post-Punk Video dance w/ She Past Away Spotlight
Living On Video + DJ Lazarus presents
Tickets ONLY $10: https://spellboundSPA.eventbrite.ca
Sat April 18 - SPELLBOUND Video Dance Party. GOTH / DARKWAVE / POST-PUNK / INDUSTRIAL w/ She Past Away Spotlight
SPELLBOUND is Canada's ONLY dark music video dance party.
\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-
Goth A.F. Contest
$100 prize + custom trophy to the most gothed up patron.
\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-
Saturday April 18, 2026
SPELLBOUND: Goth Video Dance Party w/ She Past Away Spotlight
Ground Control - 1279 Queen St West - Toronto
Lounge 9pm - Mainroom: 10pm - 19+ Event
$10 advanced: https://spellboundSPA.eventbrite.ca
$15 at the door
INVITE: www.facebook.com/events/1649118399601897/
(Please INVITE your friends)
SPELLBOUND is a goth multimedia dance experience with classic and fresh dark music videos.
SOCIAL:
www.facebook.com/groundcontroltoronto
www.facebook.com/livingonvideoclub
www.facebook.com/djlazarusrocks
www.instagram.com/djlazarusrocks
www.twitch.tv/livingonvideoclub
www.mixcloud.com/livingonvideo
www.twitter.com/djlazarusrocks
Awakening to What's Here: Attuning to Self & Others
This is an online Sunday retreat to: **develop basic fluency** in the practices, concepts, and **language of spiritual experience** with like-minded people; **cultivate attunement** and connection with oneself and others; access flow states, embodied awareness, grounded and centered presence & consciousness; and taste the transcendent already present in the core of our being.
This workshop is for anyone who struggles to notice or articulate their subtle experience, and/or those who struggle to slow down, to drop out of drive gear into neutral; those wanting **out of the doing mode and enter into the being mode**; to awaken the inner source of meaning, value, purpose, connection, and wisdom; and to share that presence in relation to others.
We’ll move through a multi‑modal series of participatory practices across the DIME framework – Dialogical, Imaginal, Mindfulness, and Embodiment – as a foundation for a practical philosophy and intentional way of life.
Practices include: body scan meditation, mindful speaking and listening, focused and open awareness meditation, contemplation of a sacred text, invoking the spirit of a philosophically meaningful text, practices evoking a felt sense of “moreness” or “suchness”, other authentic relating groupwork and a creative self‑expression and self‑exploration practice.
**No prior experience is needed** – just curiosity and a willingness to explore.
**Duration:** 6.5hrs (with breaks)
### About your Facilitators
**Rick Repetti, PhD. -** Professor of Philosophy & VP of APPA
Rick’s list of credentials could justify it’s own page. Relative to this workshop, he’s a Philosophical Consultant, and Socratic Dialogue facilitator, faculty member of the Philosophical Practitioners Association of India, meditation instructor here at ATM, founding member of the CUNY Mindfulness and Contemplative Studies group, multiple decades practitioner and instructor of meditation and yoga, and 4th degree black belt in Shotokan Karate. He’s also written things, many things, such as *Buddhism, Meditation and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom* (Routledge 2019)
**Taylor Barratt -** Director at Awaken to Meaning, Integral Facilitator
As Director of Practice and Education with Awaken to Meaning, Taylor brings over 13 years of experience in facilitation, design, and training. Along with John, he has been a robust voice of guidance in the design and pedagogical execution of TIAMAT. He’s a certified Integral Facilitator and has co-designed the Socratic Search Space, Socratic Imaginal Self-Reflection as well as the pedagogical structures for Dialectic-into Dialogos
**Facilitation:** Rick Repetti & Taylor Barratt
Writers' Pub Night
We're back with another pub night! Join us for a pint, a bite, and much writerly debate. We'll be at our usual haunt: The Bishop and Belcher near Bloor and Church. Hope to see you then!
Portfolio Session - TECHNO MUSIC
For the next week’s portfolio sessions, we are doing a techno night. We’ll be starting off the night with hypnotic techno and ending it with bounce. We're also debuting B4Ts. Come by support homegrown talent!
For this weeks line up we have:
[@nate_spins](https://www.instagram.com/nate_spins/)
[@bynozmusic](https://www.instagram.com/bynozmusic/)
[@b4ts.mp3](https://www.instagram.com/b4ts.mp3/)
[@delecdoper](https://www.instagram.com/delecdoper/)
Can wait to see everyone there!
Sunday April 129h, 2026
Doors at 5PM \| Free Entry All Day
Location: Sound Machine - 178 Bathurst St
This Portfolio Session is brought to you by [@bnbhurtspodcast](https://www.instagram.com/bnbhurtspodcast/)
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Cypherpunk Events Near You
Connect with your local Cypherpunk community
Drunken
This month's prompt concerns the idea of the “warrior philosopher” (seemed appropriate in these times)--that is someone whose understanding of violence, power, and justice is forged through direct experience of war. We are looking at Major General Smedley D. Butler, a highly decorated U.S. Marine raised in a Quaker (pacifist) tradition who later became a prominent critic of American militarism (there is a wonderful biography of Gen. Butler called "Gangsters of Capitalism")
Butler's argument in *War Is a Racket* (1935): that many U.S. interventions were driven less by national defense than by corporate and financial interests, with Butler portraying himself as an enforcer for business and Wall Street. We can consider the moral ambiguity of his insider critique—whether complicity strengthens or undermines credibility and also consider some of the concrete reforms he proposed (e.g., “conscript” capital before soldiers, restrict the military to coastal defense, and have only those who fight decide on war).
Butler’s life arc clearly changed from pacifist upbringing to warrior to antiwar crusader—and asks whether true understanding of peace requires firsthand knowledge of war, and what that implies about the cost of suffering. So do we need to suffer to understand suffering? Do we have to experience war to appreciate peace? As one more question: in the movie "A Few Good Men" Jack Nicholson's character says that "you have the luxury of not knowing what I know" so do most of us go through life oblivious to real violence and suffering? See you at Drunken Philosophy!
Psychic Development Series II - Pueo Group
Private Group. Closed to the Public
Knowing ourselves and understanding our abilities is the first step toward wielding our gifts with control and accuracy.
In subsequent classes we will verify and hone our talents with activities and discussion. These are hands-on workshops and participation is expected.
The goal of our series will be to develop expertise in areas of particular interest such as mediumship, channeling, divination, healing and, etc.. Our ultimate directions will be determined by class members as we evolve.
I look forward to sharing and discovering with you. - Cynthia
Souper Heroes!
***LOVE SOUP?*** Souper Heroes is back! Folks donate homemade soups and we get to sample and vote on our favorite! Now, put a donation in the collection (or Venmo). Suggested donation to local food pantry: $5+ (depending on how many samples you enjoy)
### April 23: “Spring Fling”
As spring starts to bloom, Souper Heroes will embrace fresh, vibrant flavors with the “Spring Fling” event in April. This is your chance to dive into the season with soups that are as colorful and lively as spring itself. Bold ingredients, bright flavors, and a touch of creativity will make this event the perfect celebration of renewal and growth.
### How It Works
**Soup Makers:** Bring your A-game (and your pre-heated slow cooker) filled with your best soup. You’ll be serving samples to attendees who are ready to fall in love with your creation. Registration is open now!
**Soup Eaters:** For a small donation (cash or Venmo), you can taste up to 15 soups and vote for your favorite in the People’s Choice Award.
The host location will supply all the essentials: extension cords, soup cups, spoons, napkins, and even cup carriers. *Plus, bread and beverages will be on hand to round out the experience.*
[Seventh Son](https://www.seventhsonbrewing.com/) brings delicious beer to the city and state that we love—Columbus, Ohio—and offers a unique taproom space to enjoy with our friends and neighbors.
Food trucks, live plants, good music, excellent people, award-winning beers, and cocktails.
Prompt vs. Paintbrush
AI is changing how art is made. But when does it stop being your work and start being the machine’s?
This month we're going to be doing a panel with with digital image, music, and written word artists, talking about at what point, while using AI in the creation process, does the work become not the artist creation?
We encourage audience participation during this event that will be moderated by Chris Slee.
Whether you’re deep in the field or just getting curious, come connect with others building and exploring AI in Columbus.
Sponsored by [Transform Labs](https://www.transformlabs.com/services)
Sign up also accessible via [Transform Labs Luma](https://luma.com/55umjqta)





















