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People's nerves are frayed and everyone is lashing out. I am so fucking tired.
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HIM at Union Theatre
Director Simon Fielding has assembled a very strong cast for this second outing of Natalie Ekberg’s play HIM.…
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Nuova crisi in casa Microsoft: i licenziamenti in Xbox toccano quota 1.868, nel quadro di un piano che prevede 3.200 tagli entro l’anno. Previste due ulteriori ondate di esuberi a novembre e gennaio. Il settore osserva con preoccupazione la ristrutturazione. #Xbox #Microsoft #Gaming
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https://www.booksns.com/232391/ Cool sci-fi/spec-fic that explores alternate realities? #BookSuggestions I just finished Diaspora by Greg Egan, and it felt like it rewired my brain. I found the whole concept of the virtual polis vs. flesher existence and the exuberants/the bridgers required to communicate with them very fascinating. There’s so much to think about when existence is possible in so many different ways. I would
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Armory – Echoes of the Astrolith Review By KenstrositySci-fi and speed metal. If that isn’t enough to get your hyperdrives boosted, then I don’t know what will. This particular combo isn’t as well represented in the metalverse as some of the more common varieties—sci-fi and black metal, campy horror and death metal, you know the ones—which puts Swedish speed freaks Armory in a prime position to dominate. With three full lengths under their belt so far, one of which positively received by our own Ape ov Steel, and a new vocalist at the helm, what new wonders await in fourth excursion Echoes of the Astrolith?
Well, MOAR speed, of course! This is high-octane, laser-focused fare set to collide with Earth at warp 9.5. Touchstones ranging from Agent Steel to Bütcher to Riot City inform Armory’s various traipses through speedy riffs, heavy metal bravado, and black metal flourishes. Melodies move with an almost Xoth-like wiggliness that brings a lot of whimsy and exuberance to otherwise dark and seedy songwriting (“Interceptor Squadron,” “Frequencies of Terror”). Riffs pound and pummel with the vigor of death metal without venturing into the structures that genre often builds, which gives Armory a sense of heft and fullness not unlike what Dark Angel’s seminal Darkness Descends must’ve felt like when it was new (“Sanity Disposed,” “The Final Invention,” “Astrolith (Rising)”). Of course, it wouldn’t be speed metal without 10,000^10 ft/lbs of torque to send it flying off the galactic rails, and thankfully Armory fueled up extra before launching. Echoes of the Astrolith moves with an urgency rarified even in this vigorous style (“Return of the True Godz,” “Frequencies of Terror,” “Pillars of Fire”).
While new vocalist Chris Rostoff acquits himself with aplomb here, guitarists G.Sundin and N.Ingelman steal the show and make Echoes of the Astrolith a clinic in guitar wizardry. If it isn’t by way of screaming solos that nosedive and pitch back up in aerobatic fashion (“Interceptor Squadron,” “Frequencies of Terror”), Armory’s axe arsenal displays electrified pyrotechnics through monolithic riffs that find a perfect center position between death, thrash, and speed (“Astrolith (Rising)”); or with melodious leads and tremolo flares that writhe impatiently from measure to measure as they pull the rest of the band into unexplored space (“Return of the True Godz,” “Cosmic Dreams,” “Pillars of Fire”). A.Holmström blisters his way through asteroid fields with double-bass pummels, sharp blasts, and menacing gallops all throughout. Yet, his unhinged fill work sends his weaponry into overdrive at every opportunity to leave even the space dust in Armory’s wake obliterated (“Interceptor Squadron,” “Omens,” “Sanity Disposed”). Chris Rostoff, as previously mentioned, proves himself an absolute powerhouse on the mic here. His sneering bark and soaring wails are a perfect fit for this sound, and his scalpel-precise pitch-work is nothing short of astounding at the record’s peaks (“Interceptor Squadron,” “Pillars of Fire”). I just wish I could hear Jesper Lundin’s bass better. I’m sure he’s keeping up with the band with ease, but his presence lacks oomph in many quadrants and what playing I do hear with clarity follows the path laid by the rest of the rhythm section (“Frequencies of Terror”).
Quality speed metal albums like this make me rethink my high estimation of other quality acts like Hellripper ever so slightly, but it’s hard to know what kind of staying power Echoes of the Astrolith has. Certain highlights such as “Interceptor Squadron” are sure to be trapped in the event horizon that is my playlist rotation. At 39 minutes, Echoes as a whole is tight enough to get regular spins out of me regardless of long-term memorability. However, a small question of consistency in songwriting quality nags at my thoughts. “Cosmic Dreams” is fun, but its mid-paced and slightly repetitive riffing introduces a poorly timed speed bump in the first quarter. In the second half, fluffy three-minute instrumental interlude “Spaceworkz” once again interrupts Echoes of the Astrolith’s momentum right before two high-octane bangers save the final third from certain doom. In the center, Echoes of the Astrolith keeps up a consistent level of songwriting quality—one that any band in this space should be proud to have penned—but a preponderance of overlong intros (“Omens”), and overlong outros (“The Final Invention”) conspire to pull these works back from greatness.
You know speed metal is really fucking good if I’m close to calling it Great, and Echoes of the Astrolith is almost great. Armory deliver an impressive salvo of cooler-than-you’ll-ever-be speed metal tracks embellished with blackened, deathened, and thrashened elements the likes of which are sure to set your blasters to kill. If you’re looking for something to jam while you scream directly into a space-bound dogfight with the enemy mothership, look no further than Echoes of the Astrolith!
Rating: Very Good
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DR: 10 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Dying Victims Productions
Websites: Bandcamp | Official
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Reading List – 2026-10-21
The agent workflows here depend on written constraints and design docs staying coherent as code changes. That shifts maintenance work from prompt setup to keeping those inputs and checks current. Separately, rising inference prices make token-heavy features an operating commitment. I’d treat caching and workload-specific cost checks as design concerns, not cleanup for later.
New prize launches for books co-written with AI
The Prix Pascal makes AI co-writing explicit: entrants submit unpublished French fiction, 10,000–50,000 words, and identify the model and prompt. I like the sound of it; it even has me considering whether to dust off my half-finished manuscript, though entering remains a maybe. The harder constraint is that fiction must also help solve an ethical, social, or ecological problem, so a submission has to satisfy two ambitions at once.
The career risk here isn’t only that a skill expires; a reputation can harden around the old way of working, even while those skills remain useful. The article makes that tension concrete: one employee keeps today’s organization running, while another builds experience with emerging technology, and the first may lose out after the transition. What catches my attention is how hard it is to protect time for that second track without neglecting the systems and teams that still depend on the first.
Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era
Rust off Rails puts its conventions, recipes, and stack choices in 60 Markdown files; an agent generates app code and tests it on SQLite and Postgres. The framework is the written constraint set, not a shipped library, while the generated code stays in the app. My maintainerd plugin has the same shape: Markdown skills and an agent loop run my software factory. The approach depends on keeping those written decisions coherent as the conventions evolve.
Design Docs, Nightly Audits, and Vycari’s Agent Development Loop
What stands out is that Vycari treats design docs as maintained inputs to agent work, not artifacts that go stale after planning. A nightly process compares them with code changes and proposes updates; PR follow-ups become issues with enough design detail for the implementation pipeline. That makes documentation quality and issue detail part of the system’s operating surface, not just project hygiene. I had fun recoding this conversation with Dan, and hope other people find the workflow useful.
Speeding up code review with `small-change` | Irrational Exuberance
Proposal for Allen to review: Imprint’s small-change gate uses concrete proxies—under 1,000 lines, an experienced author, limited service impact, and no high-severity AI-review findings—to make some PRs eligible for fast approval. I like the direction, but “small” seems less useful than low risk: a risk estimate from low to high could set the amount of review each change gets. Only about 10% qualify so far, so expanding coverage still depends on stronger verification.
DeepSeek Dials Up the Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic With Open-Source Inference Tool
Inference cost is becoming a product constraint, not just a serving-team metric. DeepSeek has made its production inference stack, DeepInfer, available on GitHub, though it currently supports only V4-1 Flash. The article says techniques such as speculative decoding could lower costs further; what catches my attention is how tightly those gains may depend on the model. For teams weighing a switch, the unresolved question is whether the savings hold for their workloads and deployment constraints.
Alibaba hikes DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 output prices by 230%
Proposal: Alibaba raised DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 output pricing from $0.40 to $1.32 per million tokens, a 230% increase. I read that as a sign that subsidized inference will become more expensive and less generous, especially for frontier and coding models. For teams building token-heavy features, this makes cost controls like caching and tighter prompts part of the product’s operating assumptions, not just later optimization.
LayerFS: The filesystem for AI coding agents
Each agent gets a writable workspace over shared committed history and commits its own changes, a useful shape for parallel work. I lose time getting agents’ dependencies set up, so a shared dependency layer would catch my attention, though this description doesn’t say LayerFS provides one. If it does, the question is how that shared setup stays reliable while agents work independently.
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LiveWire – Steel Surpasses Flesh Review By Grin ReaperWhen Sydney, Australia’s LiveWire dropped debut Under Attack! four years ago, they earned a glowing write-up from the Paragon of Porifera and even landed atop our resident Thrashhound’s top ten. Sophomore outing Steel Surpasses Flesh picks up where Under Attack! left off, and on it, LiveWire galvanizes listeners with full-throttle bangers that drill deep into your brain batter and ossify into permanent residents. Discharging unrelenting hooks at voracious speeds, LiveWire earns their name through eleven riveting tracks that won’t allow you to let go of their electrifying charm. Does Steel Surpasses Flesh top the high water mark of Under Attack!? The results may shock you.
Finger-flaying leads and gluey melodies secure LiveWire’s firm hold on what made their debut so damn powerful, and their consummate collision of melodic genres excites and delights with wild-eyed enthusiasm. Speed metal’s belligerent paces run rampant across Steel Surpasses Flesh, channeling the likes of Exciter and Agent Steel as they whip arrangements into tightly-wound ragers. Unlike classic speed metal, though, LiveWire dodges raw aesthetics in favor of a crisper production that suggests retro vibes while cutting the fuzz to allow the instrumentation to gleam. Classic heavy metal also rears it head with Riot’s Thundersteeled aggression anchoring cuts like “Pathway to Ruin” and “Steel Surpasses Flesh” while “Fast Mean Killing Machine” struts with the West Coast sleaze of Mötley Crüe united with Van Halen-tinged virtuosity as LiveWire looses lyrics that blur lines between fast cars and faster women.1 The rest of Steel Surpasses Flesh mostly operates with reckless momentum that careens and caroms between speed, thrash, and power metal. Rather than sounding scattershot or unfocused, though, LiveWire welds these backdrops with “Surgical Precision” and elicits finely forged, genre-fused bliss.
Like Under Attack!, Steel Surpasses Flesh inundates listeners with gigawatt riffage and anthemic refrains. “Epinephrine Attack” crackles with slickety licks from the moment you hit play, shining a dazzling spotlight on guitarists Anthony Ierardo and Chris Puglia. Their theatrics scorch fretboards and sear pickguards as the master shredders go “Lightspeed Crazy” in an “All Consuming Nightmare” of turbocharged audio adrenaline. The track names give away exactly the type of high-velocity hijinks that LiveWire deals, and marshaling those forces is singer/bassist Nick Wilks. Where his vocals took a backseat to the guitars and drums on Under Attack!’s mix, Wilks races to the fore on Steel Surpasses Flesh and delivers a confident performance that spends more time in falsetto reaches (“Demon Witch”), occasionally recalling Gama Bomb’s Philly Byrne (“Lightspeed Crazy,” “Pathway to Ruin”). I can understand why this might not work for some listeners, but he’s got great pipes and uses them while proving a deft bass player to boot. Lastly, George Delinicolis’s kitwork might feel unobtrusive compared to the stringed onslaught, yet he keeps the motör running and still finds opportunities to pour gasoline on LiveWire’s fire with savvy fills and rumbling double bass thunder.
Steel Surpasses Flesh revels in rampant fun, but don’t let its carefree attitude fool you into thinking LiveWire’s tunes lack substance. The compositions remain as sharp as before, and where Under Attack! hinged its success almost entirely on the almighty riff, Steel Surpasses Flesh hones the vocal arrangements to maximize fist-pumping rapture without sacrificing six-stringed ecstasy. I also appreciate the greater emphasis on Wilks’ voice in the mix, and though the vocals intermittently sound over-processed and glossy, I notice this less with each listen. Even so, the gang vocal echoes on “Epinephrine Attack” and “Lightspeed Crazy” are as irrepressibly exquisite as the surrounding instrumentation, and the production does a fine job balancing audibility and punch. With a band this talented it would be easy to succumb to excess, but these Aussies demonstrate a keen understanding of the tightrope walk between exuberance and restraint.
I’ve gone back and forth on which LiveWire album I prefer, and although Steel Surpasses Flesh edges out Under Attack!,2 I’m thrilled to have both. Excluding bonus tracks, Steel Surpasses Flesh runs about twelve minutes longer, but the only opportunity to cut bloat lives on “Speed Kills,” and one minute out of forty-two hardly merits consideration. Steel Surpasses Flesh has quickly become my de facto companion when I can’t decide what to listen to, and it’s only picked up steam since I got the opportunity to write about it.3 If you need a jolt of energy as the year winds to a close, don’t be afraid to pick up this LiveWire and let its juice flow through you.
Rating: Great!
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DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 256 kbps mp3
Label: Self-Release
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook | Instagram
Releases Worldwide: September 30th, 2026