#replicant — Public Fediverse posts

Essai de portrait à l'acrylique.
Rachel dans Blade Runner.
#dessin #cinema #zaitchick #sciencefiction #filmnoir #film #blaguesetdessins #DessinDeZaitchick #portrait #bladerunner #RidleyScott #peinture #acrylique #replicant #VISAGE #femmefatale #Coiffure #cigarette #fumee

Will this finally reveal who the replicant is? Only one way to find out . . .

https://jetse.substack.com/p/who-is-the-replicant-part-5

#AI #consciousness #replicant #sciencefiction #shortstory

Encore + de smartphones compatibles avec ROM Finder !
Le moteur de recherche permet désormais de vérifier la compatibilité de ton smartphone avec :
• #LineageOS
• #LineageOSmicroG (nouveau)
• #eOS
• #GrapheneOS
• #iodeOS
• #Replicant

Suite à cette maj, 635 appareils compatibles référencés pour taider à protéger ta vie privée, prolonger la durée de vie de ton smartphone et limiter son impact environnemental.

👉 https://tutox.fr/rom-finder/

#Android #Privacy #Ecologie #DeGoogle #libre

ROM Finder évolue !

Le moteur de recherche permet désormais de vérifier la compatibilité de votre smartphone avec :
• #LineageOS
• #eos
• #GrapheneOS
• #iodéOS (nouveau)
• #Replicant (nouveau)

Un moyen simple de savoir si votre appareil peut être dégooglisé, pour mieux protéger votre vie privée, prolonger sa durée de vie et bénéficier de mises à jour de sécurité plus longtemps.

👉https://tutox.fr/rom-finder/

#android
#privacy
#rom
#smartphone

A very interesting material about freedom on mobile devices:

https://youtu.be/XIEXPLdM8rQ

#android #linux #freesoftware #fsf #opensource #replicant #proprietary #phone #smartphone #os #softwaredevelopment #software #hardware #it #tech #technology #freedom #foss #floss

There’s a lot of weird shit floating around the metalsphere, and that includes Voidthrone’s newest addition, Dreaming Rat. The Seattle quartet has been kicking around for a decade, and in that time have released three prior platters of escalating lunacy. Without question, Dreaming Rat is Voidthrone’s most unhinged concoction to date, and a quick look at their Bandcamp credits gives prospective listeners a window into the alchemical ingredients they cook with, including Otamatone, conch shell, jaw harp, vibraslap, digeridoo, spoons, and a fretless bass. Throw in vocalist Zhenya Frolov’s deranged vocal stylings, and you’ve got yourself a bona fide manic expression of dissonant blackened death metal. With so many disparate components in Dreaming Rat’s stew, does Voidthrone soothe the savage beast or unleash a waking nightmare?

Listening to Dreaming Rat is a bit like experiencing an auditory fever dream, where disconnected fragments congeal into lurid, atonal anarchy. Voidthrone didn’t arrive at this sound overnight, though. Debut Spiritual War Tactics whipped and frothed with the restrained vitality of Krallice, and follow-up Kur added jazz-informed touches in the vein of Imperial Triumphant. Physical Degradation evolved Voidthrone’s sound, integrating more unconventional instrumentation and pushing the band’s songwriting past its comfort zone. On Dreaming Rat, Voidthrone takes the blueprint laid out on Physical Degradation and indiscriminately expands the range for strange. The result sees Frolov stretching his vocal performance into frenzied tirades, covering the gamut from Replicant’s vomitous barks to Sigh’s oddball deliveries. The instrumentation also gets exponentially wackier, as it conjures the rabid wrath of Pyrrhon along with the chaotic instincts of Afterbirth, resulting in an unpredictable romp to the end of the world.

At Dreaming Rat’s core, Voidthrone details the life and death of a solar system through bleak eras, segmenting the album into present, past, and future. The arcs are presented in that order, with each one comprised of three songs. The present describes the apex of a civilization, harnessing the promises forged upon the hopes and chaos of the past. Meanwhile, Voidthrone paints a grim outlook for the future, specifically calling out ‘an extinguished, lonely death of the physical, spiritual, and cognitive.’1 The lyrics throughout Dreaming Rat read like the demented ravings of a madman’s manifesto,2 and while I don’t think I could have divined the album’s overarching concept from them alone, reading them amplifies the bedlam Voidthrone has crafted on Dreaming Rat.

Writing music this lawless may seem haphazard, but over repeated listens, I’ve begun to glimpse the method to Dreaming Rat’s madness. Without question, everyone in Voidthrone earns their stripes. Ronald Foodsack’s guitars drench Dreaming Rat with warbling dissonance, perpetually in flux so that there’s never a riff or refrain to inhibit the music’s incessant lurch. Whether moving at frantic paces (“III-I. Surfing the Abyss”) or decelerating to a plodding crawl (“II-II. Morbid Seagull”), Ron’s six-stringed blitz never stalls. Additionally, Gavin Brooks contributes acoustic guitar and solos while manning the glorious fretless bass.3 Technical death metal has hogged the fretless bass for too long, and I’m glad Voidthrone has the stones to add it to disso metal’s tool chest. Tracks like “I-I. Bergen” and “II-I. Homeless Animal” showcase the character the instrument offers, bolstering the ever-shifting nature of Dreaming Rat. Drummer Josh Keifer grounds the band ably, locked into a supporting role that allows the other instruments to take center stage while he keeps things on the rails. Frolov’s feral vocals and the host of unconventional instruments further enrich Voidthrone’s distinctive identity, establishing what sounds like it could be the death throes of the universe.

What Voidthrone accomplishes with Dreaming Rat is fascinating and unique, and merits everyone’s attention. Sure, some songs could be trimmed to make such a scathing album a bit shorter and more palatable, and the three arcs could use some musical cues to distinguish songs thematically from one another, but Dreaming Rat is a crowning achievement for the band. Voidthrone’s psychedelic psychosis makes bold promises on paper and completely delivers in fact, and when I’m in the mood to get really weird with it, this will be the album I reach for.

Rating: Very Good!
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Self-Release
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: May 8th, 2026

For #ThursDeath:

#Growth: Under the Under

https://growthmusic.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-under

https://tidal.com/album/481650669

#ProgessiveDeathMetal

FFO #Cemetery #Replicant #Ulcerate

ARTIFICIAL HUMANS - VOLUME 05

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ARTIFICIAL HUMANS - VOLUME 04

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ARTIFICIAL HUMANS - VOLUME 03

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Sent by a friend in private email: that time someone administered the Voigt-Kampff test on Judith Collins on Twitter. See, it can be done on politicians here. And yes, the lack of empathy does suggest a replicant. Maybe a Nexus 3. #BladeRunner #replicant #SkinJob

ARTIFICIAL HUMANS - VOLUME 02

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ARTIFICIAL HUMANS - VOLUME 01

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@codepo8
> Keep Android Open

Some folks working to make it freedom-respecting too, for about 15 years so far;

https://replicant.us/

#MobileOS #Android #Replicant

@paw

Having missed the #FSF 40 anniversary live stream, all we can find out about #Librephone is

'Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF to bring full computing freedom to mobile computing environments. The LibrePhone Project is a partnership with Rob Savoye, a developer who has worked on free software (including the GNU toolchain) since the 1980s. "Since mobile phone computing is now so ubiquitous, we're very excited about LibrePhone and think it has the potential to bring software freedom to many more users all over the world."'

... which is not much. Given previous efforts, and the fact F-Droid was also represented, this is very likely to be some kind of #Replicant https://replicant.us/ reboot, which (for obvious reasons) saddens me a bit.

Edit: See @eliasr's post below. It's highly likely my speculation was totally off.

Ritual Mass – Cascading Misery Review

By Kenstrosity

It’s difficult to enter a conversation about death doom without thinking, at least once, of Incantation. Or Autopsy. Or Asphyx. Or any number of other acts in between. But not many of them choose “Christian Mysticism” as their primary theme. Here enters Pittsburg death doom upstarts Ritual Mass, primed to unleash their debut slab of biblical horrors Cascading Misery upon this God-fearing world. One can only wonder what fresh Hell this tome holds.

Thankfully, I know what fresh hell this holds, and it is nasty. With serrated tones and a cavernous boom, Cascading Misery reeks of the same rotted death Incantation made a sensation, doomed and dour in pace and attitude. Yet, it is monstrous, bloodthirsty, and quintessentially evil at the same time, in the same way Replicant often is (“Frozen Marrow”). In six songs spread across 40 minutes, Cascading Misery portrays Ritual Mass as a capable, confident purveyor of anguish trained in the ways of olde death, twisted by the corrupted lore of hellish origin. A lack of distinct identity holds them back, though, as much of this material feels and sounds all too deeply rooted in methods and modes trademarked by the aforementioned legendary acts. Maybe this lands Ritual Mass into the worshipping class of modern revivals, but there’s much potential here for growth and distinction as they develop their sound further.

Much of this potential lies in funereal closer “Disquiet” and blistering tear “Cascading Misery.” In the former—a 14 minute epic of glacial, stripped down doom book-ended by vicious death freakouts—Ritual Mass showcase an unexpected tenderness that belies the violence of the beast that raged relentlessly for 30 minutes prior. This tenderness brings in a new voice, an unexpected dynamic that pulls me into a deep void of sorrow, a kind of sorrow that changes my entire perception of what this record seemed to be up to that point. Consequently, when it breaks in the third quarter into a desperate, screeching howl, I’m not stricken with fear and terror. I’m instead flooded with sympathy and a desire to hold close this wounded creature before me. On the opposite side of the same coin, “Cascading Misery” shreds through flesh, bone, and gristle with a maddened fervor, mercilessly terrorizing everyone and destroying everything around it. A ferocious spirit possesses that track, one that nobody on Earth or in any afterlife could ever hope to quell or heal.

This duality roiling within a single tortured entity is the core of Cascading Misery to these ears, and it’s what Ritual Mass needs to capitalize on further in order to stand out in a crowded musical space. Outside of an outstanding drum performance that routinely elevates every moment of Cascading Misery, it simply takes too long for this debut to showcase something remarkable. The first three tracks lack distinguishing characteristics, both from the cavernous genre that they occupy and within the microcosm of the record itself. Generic riffs, monotonous song structures, and relatively dull doom passages conspire to undermine those great ideas and ample substance contained inside Cascading Misery’s strongest material. This, ultimately, is an issue of consistency. In many ways, Cascading Misery is a perfectly competent, even good record based solely on what’s offered in the first half. However, in light of the presence and clever creativity that characterizes the second half, that perfect competence doesn’t feel so perfect anymore. Instead, it feels like more than just a few missed opportunities.

All things taken into account, Cascading Misery is difficult to rate. On the one hand, Ritual Mass offers a nasty slab of doomed death that deviates modestly, but still notably, away from the stereotypical subject matter. On the other, they don’t take full advantage of their creative juices, choosing to saturate the second half with killer ideas and leaving the first half a bit malnourished. The optimist in me believes wholeheartedly that this only means Ritual Mass left plenty of room for them to grow for their sophomore effort. Let us pray that this turns out to be the case!

Rating: Mixed
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Website: ritualmass.bandcamp.com/music
Releases Worldwide: September 5th, 2025

#25 #20BuckSpin #2025 #AmericanMetal #Asphyx #Autopsy #CascadingMisery #DeathDoom #DeathMetal #DoomMetal #Incantation #Replicant #Review #Reviews #RitualMass #Sep25

Time to die (2025)
Acrylic paint on stretched canvas, 70 x 100 cm.

#roybatty #rutgerhauer #bladerunner #replicant #art #painting #scifi #liketearsinrain

It's been a good day:
- #Gardening. Dug up a dead bush in the front and planted Salvia. I hope it survives the full sun and occasional dryness. Also the ticks are out in force!
- Worked through exercises with #Clojure #Replicant (https://replicant.fun) and #hiccup. Ordered another Manning book 🙄
- Did the NYT puzzles.
- Walked ~8km on the #railtrail with a friend

Flashback, a bit more than five years ago. The music still works, especially in home office mornings.

replicantmusic.bandcamp.com/al…

#music for mornings #bandcamp #replicant #memory lane