Posted on: October 23, 2024, 5:31 am

The 12 Universal Laws are a set of spiritual principles that are believed to govern the physical and metaphysical universe. They originate from ancient teachings and are often used as guidelines for understanding how life, energy, and the cosmos operate. Here are the 12 Universal Laws:

1. Law of Divine Oneness

Everything is interconnected. Every action, thought, or event affects everything and everyone else, making all existence fundamentally connected.

2. Law of Vibration

Everything in the universe has a frequency or vibrational energy. Thoughts, feelings, objects, and even intangible concepts have vibrations, which can attract similar energy.

3. Law of Correspondence

The patterns in the physical world mirror the patterns in the spiritual realm. "As above, so below; as within, so without." It suggests that the external reflects the internal.

4. Law of Attraction

Like attracts like. Your thoughts and emotions send out vibrations that attract similar energies, manifesting as experiences or material outcomes in your life.

5. Law of Inspired Action

To manifest what you want, you need to take actionable steps guided by inner inspiration, rather than waiting for things to happen passively.

6. Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy

Energy is constantly in motion and can be transformed from one form to another. This law suggests that lower energies can be transmuted into higher ones through positive thoughts and actions.

7. Law of Cause and Effect

Every action has a corresponding reaction. This is also known as karma: what you put out into the universe, whether positive or negative, will eventually come back to you.

8. Law of Compensation

The universe will compensate you for your efforts, intentions, and contributions. It’s the manifestation of the Law of Cause and Effect, as rewards are given based on past actions.

9. Law of Relativity

Nothing is inherently good or bad; everything is relative. Your perception of situations is based on comparison with something else.

10. Law of Polarity

Everything has an opposite, or a pair of polarities, such as light and dark, hot and cold. Understanding these polarities helps us find balance and recognize the value in different experiences.

11. Law of Rhythm

The universe operates in cycles, with patterns of growth, decline, and renewal. Recognizing these rhythms helps you navigate life's ups and downs.

12. Law of Gender

There are masculine and feminine energies within everything, which need to be balanced to achieve harmony. This applies to all aspects of life, not just biological gender.

These laws help people align their thoughts, actions, and energy with the natural order of the universe for personal growth and spiritual development.

Posted on: September 12, 2024, 11:15 am

The spam and fraudulent messages being sent from Gmail are at an all-time high, and it’s time for providers and reputation lists to stop coddling them.

My work at Antispam Alliance mostly entails dealing with abuse from Gmail because there is just so much of it. Our statistics show Gmail to be the top spam sender leaps and bounds over any other email provider.

Other IP reputation lists like Spamhaus and Barracuda should stop whitelisting Gmail. This only exacerbates the issue by making Gmail a spam heaven. They need to be held to the same standards of all other mail providers and given their size they have a higher level of responsibility to get the spam under control.

It’s only when they are held to account will they take the necessary steps to resolve this extraordinary amount of mail abuse. Reputation lists exist to hold networks to account for mail abuse and Gmail should be no exception.

Posted on: September 5, 2024, 12:50 am

There’s been another shooting, this time at Apalachee High School in Georgia.

I think it’s about time we either abolish or drastically reform public education. The current system is broken and unnecessary when everyone has a device with all the knowledge of the world at their fingertips. The public school system is simply obsolete and dangerous, both physically and mentally.

There’s also a war against cell phones that appears to have come about after the Uvalde school shooting in south Texas, where children calling 911 for help were left abandoned by cowardly law enforcement officials. Other schools don’t want the same embarrassment and shame upon them. It "makes them look bad".

Cell phones are a competitor to education systems when you already have more knowledge and learning tools in your pocket than a school education could ever dream of providing. Cell phones "make them look bad".

That’s what it’s about for the public school system in America: appearances.

In a sane world, safety for school children would be the paramount concern, but that's too much to ask from our public school system.

Posted on: August 29, 2024, 9:26 am

As I work on Fynd, I’m seeing a trend among social sites like X (Twitter), Reddit, and Wikipedia blocking their user-generated pages from being indexed.

I agree with preventing or licensing content that would be used for AI purposes, but I disagree with putting up a blanket wall, a paywall in some cases, or an API, to access and index user-generated content. This is unethical, in my opinion, and goes against the open nature of the internet.

Fynd will not participate in this practice to index content.

Posted on: August 28, 2024, 3:30 am

Fynd has reached its first short-term milestone of 10 million pages indexed—a great accomplishment since starting the project several months ago.

Yesterday, I also overcame a major hurdle in performance scaling. The most glaring problem search engines face is scale, being able to index hundreds of millions of web pages or more to a database while maintaining speed. I am now confident that Fynd can scale to meet performance needs.

Going forward, I foresee handling spam sites as the most glaring issue. I cannot stress how easy it is to spot web pages, sites, and link farms built to try and game the system from a search engine perspective. I don’t know why people waste their time and money; it’s futile.

The next milestone is 20 million pages, where we hope to release a public beta so people can get accustomed to Fynd.