friends, neighbours, fedizens, could you again help me with some reach?

It's hard for #indie #artists to try and have a semi ethical online presence. Even harder when the artist comes from the darker nooks and crannies of the sonic palette, like a boss fight and one of your Famicom buttons is sticking.

Have I reached the end of the verse? Are there any endemic creatures of the night and beauty in the darkness friends out there or, might you pleasantly surprise yourself and hopefully your neighbours with some dark disco, #ebm, #industrial, #goth house, #synthpop, #futurepop, #dance, cathartic #powernoise, #horror, #dystopian, dark and noisy cinematic #soundtracks? We got it all on UHF.

It's been a rough and expensive week at the oontz farm and super quiet here in the digital neighbourhood.

Could you:

- Chuck me a follow here and/or subscribe to my occasional and zero corporate tracking mail list as the feed is not always reliable to communicate events and releases?

- Check out my growing #peertube channel including footage from my NHAM/tibTV concert. @controlfreak https://makertube.net/c/controlfreak_channel/videos

- Have you checked out REPLICATE 1.0, my recent dark electronic renditions #covers album of alt and pop bangers and clangers from the 80s to present? #newRelease #nowPlaying #fediMusic https://music.control.org/replicate1/

- In addition to serenading your neighbours, I would love to be the soundtrack to your moving pictures, animation, video game, physical installation space, haunted house, or any and all cool or punching upward projects you might have or could link me up with? I am seeking donate what you can if you can #commissions for remix and sound assets and am also super happy to offer or tweak existing things from the catalogue for your brief. I can brighten up the tone and sound if that suits.

- Or #donations always welcome if you don't need any sound but would like to just support/sponsor more of all of the above happening, I do enjoy having heat and meds, keep my inclusive and safer online live shows growing as I am unable to physically tour or work for others' tours, and help a subsistence farmer get more aggressively positive sonic assault out there free for the people. https://control.org/#solidarity

- boosts on things from my feed are swell but EVEN BETTER, if you have a minute, maybe tag me up and make a post in your own words about something you enjoyed or was pleasantly surprised by etc from my shows, releases, remixes? I have no idea what to say.

Thanks for your help.

Let's stomp in solidarity.

Free or donate what you can music catalogue #faircamp:
https://music.control.org

independent mail list:
https://mail-list.control.org/subscription/form

I like cleaning drains more than doing promo waffle but I did an interview about the REPLICATE 1.0 release and more:
https://nham.co.uk/2026/02/interview-with-controlfreak/

#music #art #fedimusic #fediart
control.org | control freak studio

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MakerTube

I am irked by management's requirements that "#AI" (read: #LLM agents) *must* be used.

"The AI is great" we're told. However, "the AI can make mistakes" so we need to double-check its output (if we trust the output without verifying, we're to blame).

If we check the output and it's wrong, then we're again to blame for not providing the correct prompt.

If we check the output and it's correct, but consumes too many tokens, then the prompt must become a "skill" (gosh how I hate that label), which is a glorified shell script.

if we question why we can't just write the script in the first place and skip the agent, we are labelled as a pariah for not being "efficient enough".

And here's the #dystopian kicker: the company uses a homebrew wrapper around the agent, so that they can measure compliance. In other words, the push to use "the AI" turns out to be not for technical reasons, but as a means to exert control over the employees, to ensure that their agency over their subject matter expertise is removed, and that any knowledge acquired during an employee's tenure at the company has as little portability as possible, should the employee choose to quit. This is middle management on steroids.

Ray Bradbury’s Writing Style
https://boldly.blue/ray-bradburys-writing-style/
Ray Bradbury's writing style blends lyrical prose, poetic metaphor, and sensory dread into something entirely his own. Here's why and how.
#RayBradbury #WritingStyle #SpeculativeFiction #ScienceFiction #LiteraryAnalysis #Dystopian #NarrativeCraft
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Book Promotion: MONSTERS: The story of a teenage girl who's turning into a monster - literally. "Excellent! A gripping dystopian future world." "Action-packed and well-plotted, this is a real page turner." #police #apocalypse #corporations #military #audio #reading #legendary #crimefiction #amreading #ku #kindle #inprint #manchesteruk #dystopian #mustread #audiobook #detective #bookworms #genetics #ebook #goodbooks #writing #monsters #boost #readers #fedibookfair #epichttps://taupress.com/monsters-s1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Early Commission Art of Volume 1 Cover for the Webnovel 'Obliviana' authored by Soultinge (Formerly known as Dimresin).

#MastoArt #webnovel #obliviana #dystopian #art #animeart #mangaart #darkfantasy #fantasy #SciFi #action #seinen #digitalart #commission

#bookstodon #bookstoread #dystopian The president is a figurehead; They split the states into Red and Blue. Kidnapping across state borders of females able to breed is a business. For women of certain bloodlines, having eggs removed and stored while getting a tubal ligation is a safety precaution. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGJRRR76 or https://books2read.com/u/b5jlVl

I’ve been watching V play Cyberpunk 2077. It feels too optimistic about our society in the future.

#Cyberpunk #Dystopian #Optimism

Intrinsic by France Pinzon

A compelling future, a timeless tale: Intrinsic follows a teenager uncovering the truth of who she really is in a dystopia of political intrigue.
The post Intrinsic by France Pinzon appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/03/27/intrinsic-by-france-pinzon/

#bookreview #399orLess #dystopian #FrancePinzon #indiebookreview

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A compelling future, a timeless tale: Intrinsic by Franze Pinzon follows a teenager uncovering the truth of who she really is in a dystopia of political intrigue. Reviewed by Shelby Zwintscher.

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