Shyft

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Writes radical weird fiction. Composes music, sometimes heavy and/or pretty dance as Shyft, always genre-breakey progressive gabber metal in Red Ankh. In to process philosophy, the dark and wondrous, cyberpunk-flavored stuff, magical realism, old-fashioned (communal) rave culture, sound design, working class history, schizoanalysis, and trauma-informed models of psychotherapy. Anarcho-communist, polyamorous, agender.
pronounsthey/them in the agender and rhizomatic ways
Shyfted Minds homeshyftedminds.com
philopsycho blogmindofshyft.wordpress.com
boom boom chugga chuggas on Bandcampredankh.bandcamp.com/
boom boom beep boops on Bandcampshyft.bandcamp.com
ShyftApr 14, 2025
This is both fascinating and politically badass: one of our favorite musicians is working in collaboration to confuse and destroy generative AI models used to push musicians out of their own industry:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYm2d9bmEA #Disrupt #AI #MusicIndustry
The Art Of Poison-Pilling Music Files

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ShyftMar 24, 2025
Existential ComicsMar 24, 2025

The History of Political Authority

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/595

The History of Political Authority

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

ShyftMar 19, 2025
Existential ComicsMar 17, 2025

Nietzsche Goes on Hot Ones

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/594

Nietzsche Goes on Hot Ones

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

ShyftFeb 24, 2025
Existential ComicsFeb 24, 2025
Sartre and the Meaning of Life:
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/591
Sartre and the Meaning of Life

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

ShyftFeb 22, 2025
Max VaporFeb 22, 2025
A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-marriage-proposal-spoken-entirely-in-office-jargon
A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon

Our 4th most-read article of 2025. - - -GARY: Hey Cindy, remember the other day when we were talking about optimizations? CINDY: Yeah, I wanted to...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency
ShyftFeb 18, 2025
benlockwoodFeb 15, 2025

Exploring Solarpunk

https://write.as/benlockwood/exploring-solarpunk

Exploring Solarpunk

I'm exploring the solarpunk concept a bit at the moment. When I first came across this...aesthetic (I still don't know what to call it, b...

benlockwood
ShyftFeb 14, 2025
Total chaos gremlin energy, and not in the fun-cool way: cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-government

On the plus side, we now have the term "broligarchy" to describe the current platform-capitalism moment of descent in to techno-feudalism. #DOGE, #CyberSecurity, #News
DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier than Ever

A new investigation shows nuclear secrets and government servers are dangerously exposed to nation-state hackers.

Cyber-Intelligence Brief
ShyftJun 28, 2024
Yo, who loves wacky brutalism? Unfortunately, this place, the Wedding Palace in Tbilisi, Georgia, is not abandoned like many of these structures are, so we can't throw a sick rave party in there yet. #Brutalism #Modernism
ShyftJun 28, 2024
Doot doot we wrote this song in 2005, when we were in to goth metal and hardcore techno. We STILL in to goth metal and hardcore techno, and THROUGH RED ANKH think it's reached its final form.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUo0mMeXo68 #IndustrialMetal #IndependentMusic #ProgressiveMetal #WeirdMetal
Red Ankh - Eindringen {Gothic Industrial Metal/Progressive Gabber Metal}

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ShyftJun 28, 2024
Breaking the habit of pop social media to try the Fediverse kinda broke the social media habit in general. It feels good, but there's still our new music to be shared. Here's a wacky and eclectic progressive gabber metal tune from an upcoming Red Ankh album:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnALAKo46TQ

#EclecticMusic #Music #ProgressiveMetal #WeirdMetal
Red Ankh - Purge the Mundane {Progressive Gabber Metal}

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