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“I’ve had some further pangs of #DeepBlue just in the past few weeks, thanks to the #Claude Opus 4.5/4.6 and #GPT-5.2/5.3 #CodingAgent effect. As many other people are also observing, the latest generation of #coding agents, given the right prompts, really can churn away for a few minutes to several hours and produce working, documented and fully tested #software that exactly matches the criteria they were given.
“The #code they write isn’t any good” doesn’t really cut it any more.” — #SimonWillison
#AI / #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/>
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“I’ve had some further pangs of #DeepBlue just in the past few weeks, thanks to the #Claude Opus 4.5/4.6 and #GPT-5.2/5.3 #CodingAgent effect. As many other people are also observing, the latest generation of #coding agents, given the right prompts, really can churn away for a few minutes to several hours and produce working, documented and fully tested #software that exactly matches the criteria they were given.
“The #code they write isn’t any good” doesn’t really cut it any more.” — #SimonWillison
#AI / #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/>
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#HappyHappy #HappyDoubleTimeAndAHalfAndADayInLieuDay...!
#Except the #RacistHomophobes at #SSG and the #AngryIncels at #vmst; they're #Probably #StillDead... #Anyway...
Are we all feeling #HotHotHot...?!
#BTW: #IF you can't #Remember what #DoubleTimeAndAHalfAndADayInLieu was; #IT's what #Employers used to #Pay #TheRightStaff™️ to #Work #UnsocialHours; #YouKnow, #Before #ZeroHoursContracts were #Invented and #Everyone was #Fired...
Have a #LittleThink #AboutThat... #ThisFictionalChristmas...
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#BeingEuropean #MostlyEurope #StayingEuropean #EULaw #FictionalChristmas #TotallyNotEaster
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#WhateverHappened to #TheRacistHomophobes at #SSG...
#DontPanic; #MostProbably #ExactlyTheSameThing as #Happened to the #AngryIncels at #vmst...
#IT #CouldBeWorse...
You could also #Still be a #JuniorTeaBoy on a #ZeroHoursContract with a #JoySparkingBusiness (an #ImaginaryBusiness), a #MicroEntity "Business" running at a #DeadLoss... Without a #BoardOfDirectors...
#DontForget; #TheFediverseRemembers...
There's #Definitely a #PatternOfBehaviour and #DenizOpal / #DenizHuseyin #Still didn't #Invent: #HowToBeACunt...
And, #QuoteToots; #StillQuiteCool...
With #TheRightStaff™️ | #StillAvailable in #PlumAndRusty... #TrueFacts #AlsoTrue #AllSoTrue
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#BeingEuropean #StayingEuropean #TheHolyRomanEmpire #BeforeChrtistmas #ChristmasIsBullcrap #StillTrue #AnotherPrideMonth
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#QuickQuestion: #HowManyArseholes that "should" have #BeenFired have been #Promoted #AboveYou because "they/them" have:
A: #Singular; or,
B: #ManyMulitple: #Wife / #Wives, and or #Kid(s)... #InManyCases: #BastardChildren#LivesAndFamilies... Aye...
#DontPanic; #NoOneCares... #Everyone's #BeenFired... #Thanks to all the #ZeroHoursContracts... #AndAllThat...
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#NotNews24 | #UnbreaklingMidMorningBiscuitNotNews; #IT's #DefinitelyNotNews and #SomeWeather...
#IT's #VeryChangeable in #TheOutside, aye... | #LookNoQuestionMark
#BTW: #IF you can't #Remember what #DoubleTimeAndAHalfAndADayInLieu was; #IT's what #Employers used to #Pay #TheRightStaff™️ to #Work #UnsocialHours; #YouKnow, #Before #ZeroHoursContracts were #Invented and #Everyone was #Fired...
Have a #LittleThink #AboutThat...
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#HappyHappy #HappyDoubleTimeAndAHalfAndADayInLieuDay...!
Are we all feeling #HotHotHot...?!
#BTW: #IF you can't #Remember what #DoubleTimeAndAHalfAndADayInLieu was; #IT's what #Employers used to #Pay #TheRightStaff™️ to #Work #UnsocialHours; #YouKnow, #Before #ZeroHoursContracts were #Invented and #Everyone was #Fired...
Have a #LittleThink #AboutThat...
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If you're in the #UK, please ask your MP to turn up on Friday to support the #Climate and #Nature Bill #canbill
This is 'on a knife edge', an opportunity to tackle climate and ecological crises together in a long-term, realistic legislative framework. 💚🌲🐌🍄🚴🏽♀️
Check if your MP is supporting and send a personal message either way:
https://action.zerohour.uk/Commentary:
https://citizensclimatelobby.uk/news/2025/01/urgent-appeal-from-zero-hour/?mc_cid=881ab67434 -
Inner Strength – Daydreaming in Moonlight Review
By Dolphin Whisperer
The face of progressive metal has warped and splintered and mutated since its origins in divergence from heavy metal. From the theatrical and rifftastical charm of Savatage to the pomp and groove of Psychotic Waltz to the emotional and shifting tug of Fates Warning, progressive music holds roots in complex narrative structures that range in tone from whimsical fantasy to deeply and painfully human. In the American arena, technicality flourished through Watchtower—and eventually Dream Theater—virtuosic elements, and intrinsic thrash pedigrees to give rise to a 90s and 00s movement that birthed bands like Zero Hour, Control Denied, and Nevermore, each ranging between these extremities of noodle-noting and tear-jerking. But before them all, Inner Strength stood at the cusp of these advents with their lone 1993 full-length Shallow Reflections making an underground splash,1 which contained all the aforementioned elements laced together with an of-the-time funk metal groove. And now, another thirty years later, that smorgasbord of influences has crested into this newest Daydreaming in Moonlight.
From Scott Oliva’s (The Nightmare Stage, ex-Wind Wraith) vocal rasp and strained harmonies to guitarist Joe Marselle’s slightly down-tuned and dry twang, every bit of Daydreaming sounds unearthed from a 1995 time capsule. With a focus on open-stringed chiming, melodic chord-driven passages (“Daydreaming in Moonlight,” “Dearly Departed”) find a hypnotic legato that recalls aggressive later-era Rush or King’s X works. Whereas bluesy, pull-off riff tension that explodes into snappy and slinky solo work pushes the Rainbow-on-thrash energy that you can hear in the still developing muscular sound of The Damnation Game-era Symphony X. And when it’s not Marselle’s winding fretwork leading the charge, drummer Joe Kirsch in his Zonderful (ex-Fates Warning, Warlord)2 and classy, hi-hat accented approach provides all the rhythmic shuffle necessary to power the progtrain. Forward motion defines Inner Strength’s approach.
But where Daydreaming really finds its secret, aged sauce is in the application of varied sonic hooks in each song. Early album cut “Face Another Hero,” and the later “Truth and Lies,” Inner Strength finds a switch-up to its groove in Voivodian chord stabs that set up a need to resolve with later soaring, melodic capriciousness. And late album romp “War Song” in contrast to its muscle-forward name marches in a constant stumble guided by a sliding nasal bass line that finds a steady thump only during the closing solo and reprise. In Daydreaming’s most modern move, Inner Strength ties up the curtains with the mammoth “The Strength Within – Part II” which pulses a few tones lower—never djent, rather Train of Thought-era Dream Theater—to tie off a journey started so long ago, an aggressive and hammer-headed in contrast to its origins.
To the ears of a prog-head reared in a post-Meshuggah world, though, Daydreaming’s exact studio playbook may not land as quickly as bass-loaded contemporary production does. Choosing to highlight instead the play and intricacy of a ghost note bolstered rhythm section, and a rise and fall guitar aesthetic, its intricacy resides mostly in higher frequencies. Mid-album anchor (and song o’ the year contender) “Dearly Departed” showcases Inner Strength’s mission best with its smoky, extended guitar intro that crashes against Olivia’s time-worn snarl and full riff contraction, only to find a histrionic charm again as choruses expand with chiming guitar resolutions and reaching vocal harmonies. Steeped in technicality without ever being overbearingly so (have fun counting “Compelled” or following the snare and cymbal dance in the closer), this choice to remain in Daydreaming’s chosen sound pocket keeps the listening experience focused while exposing its many layers.
Being the product of thirty years of planning, living, loving, listening, and losing, Daydreaming in Moonlight could be a product of these name-drops here or none of them at all—a missing link in the prog annals that never was. Inner Strength in 2024 is just as much a reimagining of their own sound as they are a refinement and iteration of learned and borrowed tricks.3 With careful devotion to mastering their works for studio bolstering—multi-tracked guitar and vocal pieces that sum to an astounding whole—Daydreaming in Moonlight soars as the opus the band always knew they could create. Any lover of idiosyncratic and fully realized progressive missions, should take notice, as Inner Strength does not have wash away again in the footnotes of emergent sounds.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
DR: N/A | Format Reviewed: Stream
Label: Divebomb Records | Tribunal Records4
Website: facebook.com/innerstrengthny
Releases Worldwide: July 19th, 2024#2024 #40 #AmericanMetal #ControlDenied #DaydreamingInMoonlight #DivebombRecords #DreamTheater #FatesWarning #InnerStrength #Jul24 #KingsX #LongIsland #Nevermore #ProgPower #ProgressiveMetal #ProgressiveThrashMetal #PsychoticWaltz #Review #Reviews #Rush #Savatage #SunriseDreamer #SymphonyX #TribunalRecords #Voivod #Warlord #Watchtower #ZeroHour
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UK voters in #Cheltenham, #SouthCotswolds, #NorwichSouth or #EdinburghSouthWest - your MP is one of the winners of today's Private Members Bill ballot! They've already said they support the Climate and Nature bill; why not message them now to remind them of this chance to get legislation in place that will protect the climate and restore nature - the #CANBill
Link to #Scientists letter with 1,176 signatories here: https://www.zerohour.uk/downloads/can-bill-letter.pdf -
#Armenia #TRIPP and release of 4 hostages from Azerbaijan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww35d8v4mwA
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Andranik Shirinyan, Freedom House: "Over 100 tons of petrol have exploded in #NagornoKarabakh. There is an urgent need for intl humanitarian orgs to be present." According to Siranoush Sargsyan, local journalist, this was in #Stepanakert . Along with shortages of medical staff to address, many injured
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Azerbaijan has fired on Armenia in several locations, trying to provoke a war. Azerbaijan targeted homes and cemeteries in northeast #Armenia last night, hoping for a return of fire — that apparently didn’t come — to justify an incursion. Shooting by the armed forces of #Azerbaijan in the direction of Movses, Chinar, Aygepar and Nerkin Karmiraghbyur settlements of #Tavush region.Same pattern as the 2020 war... I don't think I'll be able to post on this if this escalates. It's too heartbreaking.
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#CR #BudgetResolution "The Republican rule providing for floor consideration of the government funding bill (the “CR”) contains a provision that would remove the expedited consideration of a recently introduced House resolution to terminate Trump’s February 1 national emergency declaration that provided the legal basis for these tariffs."
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#CR #BudgetResolution "The Republican rule providing for floor consideration of the government funding bill (the “CR”) contains a provision that would remove the expedited consideration of a recently introduced House resolution to terminate Trump’s February 1 national emergency declaration that provided the legal basis for these tariffs."
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#CR #BudgetResolution "The Republican rule providing for floor consideration of the government funding bill (the “CR”) contains a provision that would remove the expedited consideration of a recently introduced House resolution to terminate Trump’s February 1 national emergency declaration that provided the legal basis for these tariffs."
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#CR #BudgetResolution "The Republican rule providing for floor consideration of the government funding bill (the “CR”) contains a provision that would remove the expedited consideration of a recently introduced House resolution to terminate Trump’s February 1 national emergency declaration that provided the legal basis for these tariffs."
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#CR #BudgetResolution "The Republican rule providing for floor consideration of the government funding bill (the “CR”) contains a provision that would remove the expedited consideration of a recently introduced House resolution to terminate Trump’s February 1 national emergency declaration that provided the legal basis for these tariffs."
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August 19th: #Azerbaijan shot at a newly-opened local Armenian airport on sovereign Armenian territory with high level officials present. #Armenia #Kapan
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From BoltsMag: "But the GOP is also looking for gains. In 2022, Democrats unexpectedly flipped four chambers, which sparked major policy swings. This fall, control of three of them hangs by a thread. In Pennsylvania’s House, Michigan’s House, and Minnesota’s Senate, losing a single seat would cost Democrats the majority. " #Nov5th
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From BoltsMag: "But the GOP is also looking for gains. In 2022, Democrats unexpectedly flipped four chambers, which sparked major policy swings. This fall, control of three of them hangs by a thread. In Pennsylvania’s House, Michigan’s House, and Minnesota’s Senate, losing a single seat would cost Democrats the majority. " #Nov5th
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From BoltsMag: "But the GOP is also looking for gains. In 2022, Democrats unexpectedly flipped four chambers, which sparked major policy swings. This fall, control of three of them hangs by a thread. In Pennsylvania’s House, Michigan’s House, and Minnesota’s Senate, losing a single seat would cost Democrats the majority. " #Nov5th
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From BoltsMag: "But the GOP is also looking for gains. In 2022, Democrats unexpectedly flipped four chambers, which sparked major policy swings. This fall, control of three of them hangs by a thread. In Pennsylvania’s House, Michigan’s House, and Minnesota’s Senate, losing a single seat would cost Democrats the majority. " #Nov5th