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Letting go. The decay.

A drying, dieing oak leaf on dry dirt alongside some gravel sized rocks and fir needles. The leaf was heavily eaten prior. One side is more decayed than the other. The side with old life in it is layered in colors. Outer ring is dark brown-green, next to bright yellow, then inside is medium green, a bit lighter than it's original green. The eaten parts of the leaf, the rigid shape of the leaf itself, the curled edges from it drying up, the texture and colors make it pretty interesting to observe.

IAMX @prey.net · 27/09/2026

Our US oligarchs dipshits and the (once|still) important media stewards have been pulling the world into the direction of accepting and transmitting their lies. They've been having their field days during recent, turbulent times. COVID brought major re-distributions (of wealth and livelihoods).

A lot of people care about Trump’s lying
When I give speeches about my work reporting on Trump’s lies, one of the most common questions I get from the audience is some variation of, “Thank you, but it’s clear that nobody cares, right?” I argue that this is false, too. It’s clear that millions of Americans either don’t believe debunkings from mainstream outlets or aren’t interested in them, but it’s also clear that millions of Americans want to know when and how the president is trying to deceive them.

Polls spanning Trump’s entire career have [1] found [2] that somewhere around twice as many Americans do not think he is honest and trustworthy as think he is honest and trustworthy. He’s won two presidential elections, of course, but it’s not like he’s ever convinced the entire population to stop caring about whether he is telling the truth.

Facts would matter even if only a few people were seeking them out. Fortunately, it’s far more than a few.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/08/politics/donald-trump-trust
[2] https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2026-05/ABC%20News-Washington%20Post-Ipsos%20April%20Poll%20Topline.pdf

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IAMX @prey.net · 21/09/2026

Went for a hike, found some happy sh*t. Thinking about fall/winter and all the trimming I want to do.

Woods on a steep incline with a setting sun at the peak. A hall of sunlight is hitting the humus floor. Ferns are near the bottom of the hill.

A downed Douglas fir that is maybe 2' in diameter. Shown looking downhill at the uprooted rootball and exposed pit. Some dogwood leaves cover the background amongst other standing fir trees.

A small, blue, textured, round, plastic bit with a black smiley face laying on the forest floor on top of soil, twigs, and Douglas fir needles.

Looking downward on a sizeable pile of bear shit resting on the ground. It's reddish brown, multiple weeks old, and full of a variety of seeds. A person's legs are standing next to the pile in medium brown pants and black and white shoes.

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IAMX @prey.net · 19/09/2026

This nation's Intelligence operations and its poor use of LLMs are the problem. The way they were deployed and especially killer Pete Hegseth's DERPartment of War's stance has always seemed untenable (it is). Investigations and impeachments and justice is coming, I hope. TBD by the ppl's vote.

Officials involved in the investigation pointed to gaps that they said were left after Hegseth dismantled most of the Pentagon’s civilian harm mitigation, or CHM, units — cutting headcount across a number of teams by roughly 90% to fewer than 20 staff members, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Centcom’s team was reduced from 10 to 1.

No CHM team member reviewed the Minab site before the strike, according to officials involved in the internal investigation. That was a consequence of the cuts in staffing but also a decision not to involve the group in planning and operations, the officials said. While not mandatory, that sort of review had become routine in recent years, they added. It’s unclear whether such checks, which include mapping the civilian environment, assessing noncombatant presence and developing lower-risk strike options, would have been enough to raise questions about the Minab site.

The Biden administration had built up civilian-harm-prevention capabilities within the Pentagon after an August 2021 drone strike in Kabul killed 10 civilians — based on the misidentification of an aid worker as a threat. Hegseth has characterized his subsequent cuts to those efforts as a shift away from “Biden-era, non-lethal programs.”

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IAMX @prey.net · 12/07/2026

Re-listening to this, it's so much worse 3 years later.. have a good Sunday. specialto.thebulwark.com/p/the-corrup...

The Corruption of Lindsey Graham
A case study in the rise of authoritarianism.
Will Saletan
May 09, 2023

[The Corruption of Lindsey Graham is also available in these formats:
a printable PDF
https://old.thebulwark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-Corruption-of-Lindsey-Graham.pdf
an audio adaptation
https://specialto.thebulwark.com/s/corruption-of-lindsey-graham/archive ]

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS IN BIG TROUBLE, and Lindsey Graham knew it. It was January 21, 2016, and the senator was taking questions at a press conference. A month earlier, he had abandoned his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Now two men he despised, Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, were leading the race.

Graham thought either of them, if nominated, would lose the general election. Choosing between them, he told reporters, was “like being shot or poisoned. What does it really matter?”

Two months later, in March, Graham changed his mind. He endorsed Cruz and joked that it was better to be poisoned than shot. “Donald is like being shot in the head,” Graham told talk-show host Trevor Noah. “You might find an antidote to poisoning, I don’t know. But maybe there’s time.”

Graham was wrong. Trump wasn’t a shot to the head. He didn’t kill the GOP. In fact, he won the election.

Trump turned out to be poison. Over the next five years, he thoroughly corrupted Graham’s party. Republican leaders had time to counteract the poison, but they never did. One reason was that the poison moved slowly. Graham and other Republican politicians lost the ability to see what they were becoming. They rallied around an authoritarian, excused authoritarian acts, and embraced authoritarian ideas.

This is a story about how that happened.

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IAMX @prey.net · 10/07/2026

Good interview by Molly White with Tiffany Muller of End Citizens United. This is the one singular issue for the people to unite around. www.citationneeded.news/end-citizens... www.endcitizensunited.org @molly.wiki @endcitizensunited.bsky.social

What do you say to someone like that who is given up, who has decided that this is basically an intractable problem?

Muller: I think that that is how the big money wants you to feel. And don’t let them make you feel that way. We have seen real progress on these issues. In 2018, we elected a wave of reformers across the country, and they demanded that the very first bill in a new Congress and under a Democratic House was going to be a comprehensive democracy reform bill. And that bill would have made sure that no matter who you are, where you live, you had the same access to the ballot box. And especially in the wake of all the voter suppression that we are seeing and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, that is so critically important. It would have stopped all the gerrymandering wars that we are seeing. And actually made it illegal to do mid-decade redistricting as well. It would have gotten a bunch of this big money out of the system. It would have done the disclosure and transparency. It would have reformed the Federal Election Commission. It would have even set up a first-of-its-kind public financing system for members of Congress and candidates for Congress. And it would have restored ethics and oversight and stopped some of the revolving door and lobbyist influence that we’re seeing. It was tackling all the problems that we are seeing in our democracy and it passed the House five different times.

And right now, we know it will be the top one or two item in a new Congress under Democratic leadership. So there is real support for this. People are willing to vote on it. They are willing to fight to get it passed into law because they understand the kind of decimation that we are seeing to our democracy and that we have to make real changes.

So don’t let anyone tell you that it is hopeless because that is how the big money wants you to feel. And the fact is, we’re actually much closer than folks think to being able to get this through and signed into law.

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IAMX @prey.net · 03/07/2026

I'm tired of the other image-gen-slop I'm doing for a work presentation (on AI) and took a brief detour. Anarchist Buddhist Hacker. No notes in this one-shot.

[USER]:

Describe both for someone with visual impairment.

[CHATGPT]:

Image 1

A dark, moody cyberpunk room shows a hooded hacker seated with their back mostly toward the viewer. The person wears a black hoodie with a large white anarchist “A” symbol painted on the back, along with the phrase “No gods, no masters, no systems.”

The desk is crowded with multiple monitors and laptops glowing green and blue with dense code. One large screen shows a digital anarchist symbol and anti-system text. The room feels underground, secretive, and tense.

The walls are heavily covered with anarchist graffiti and posters. A huge black anarchist “A” dominates the left wall, with slogans like “Abolish the state” and “No borders, no nations.” On the right side, a calm Buddha statue sits near candles, incense-like objects, and a hanging scroll with Buddhist text about impermanence. The Buddhist elements are quieter and more contemplative, while the hacker/anarchist elements are aggressive and dominant.

[USER]:

Describe both for someone with visual impairment.

[CHATGPT]:

Image 2

The second image is also a dark cyberpunk hacker room, but the composition is slightly closer and more dramatic. A hooded hacker sits at a desk facing a laptop, partly turned so their face is slightly visible in shadow. The hoodie has large white text on the back: “No gods, no masters, no cages,” with an anarchist “A” below it.

The wall behind them features a large red anarchist “A” painted like dripping graffiti, making it the strongest visual symbol in the image. Around it are posters and slogans such as “Fuck the system,” “All power to the people,” and “Read, question, resist.”

Several monitors surround the hacker, filled with green code and rebellious messages. The desk is messy with stickers, notebooks, cables, a mug, and hacker gear. On the right side, Buddhist imagery appears through a wall hanging of a seated Buddha, a small Buddha statue, and a candle. The Buddhist presence adds ritual calm, but the main mood is defiant, anti-authoritarian, and hacker-focused.

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IAMX @prey.net · 01/07/2026

We're all living in a capitalistic fever, and the only prescription is more socialism. 👏 👏 👏

Frame of Christopher Walken, SNL, More Cowbell skit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Cowbell

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IAMX @prey.net · 01/07/2026

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Luigi Mario jumping with fist in air. Thought bubble has him asking "who is [a] next?". [a] replaced with symbol for Anarchism. Also "Free Luigi".

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IAMX @prey.net · 25/06/2026

A pretty good (wish) list, but we'll have to see how things turn out first, after elections. 🤞

Here’s a sampling of some policies that liberal policy wonks and officials from previous Democratic administrations believe the next president, armed with these widened powers, could implement — without the pesky inconvenience of consulting Congress:

Creating a “public-option” government-run health insurer offering comprehensive medical coverage and a similar public-option plan for prescription drugs.
Funneling federal funds to state-run public-option health insurance.
Seizing patents from drug makers that developed their products with government funding and giving the patents to others that will produce the medicines at low cost.
Establishing government-run grocery stores.
Restarting government fertilizer production, forcing agribusinesses to cut seed prices or lose their patents, and breaking up the oligopoly in meatpacking.
Initiating direct government lending, and perhaps government-run banks, to reduce banking costs.
Cutting off all government funds for, and refusing to grant export licenses to, businesses that don’t significantly raise their wages, don’t remove barriers to union organizing and don’t have blemish-free records on labor violations.
Taking “golden shares” in, or other forms of government control over, frontier AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic, banks, pharmaceutical companies and others.
Denying electrical power to AI data centers.
Establishing government-run factories that would produce solar and other clean-energy technologies, essential medicines and more.
Dismantling and reorganizing the Department of Homeland Security.
Unwinding previously approved acquisitions, including Paramount Skydance’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, or forcing these behemoths to divest pieces of their businesses.
Forcing nonprofit hospitals to spend billions more on charity care.
Cracking down on abuses by private equity in health care and by corporate investors in rental housing.

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IAMX @prey.net · 25/06/2026

Nice and catchy jams. Luigi was right.

Luigi Mario jumping with fist in air. Thought bubble has him asking "who is [a] next?". [a] replaced with symbol for Anarchism.

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IAMX @prey.net · 24/06/2026

Who put the mess in your head? @iamxofficial.bsky.social

Photo of a person backlit by the sun that is lighting a small clearing with path leading into the woods behind them. They are taking a self portrait of the front of their black t-shirt with arms on both sides stretched out holding the camera. Their shirt says "WHO PUT THE MESS" above a pink, black, and whote vector shaped, cell shaded head with mouth wide open yelling and below says"IN YOUR HEAD?" And below that "IAMX".

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IAMX @prey.net · 20/06/2026

We must stop the unstoppable, because they won't stop themselves from their diseased, power-addicted minds. The mess in their head gets made worse each day by their insatiable hunger for more and their hyped and managed bubble. Their megalomania is trying to take everything over and fake reality.

With SpaceX’s IPO, you could argue that Musk has either won or broken capitalism. His wealth, in our current system, makes him a chaos agent with no real comparison. He is virtually impervious to fines. His money, should he wish to spend it, has the potential to drastically influence the outcome of elections. That leverage could be used to benefit Musk’s businesses, securing further contracts with the government and entrenching him deeper into the infrastructure of everyone’s lives. This power isn’t theoretical; Musk’s dominance in satellite connectivity has already made him geopolitically relevant in places including Ukraine and Iran.

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IAMX @prey.net · 19/06/2026

A Hermit Thrush from earlier tonight during dusk. This bird song always catches my ear. Hear it pretty much daily around the same time along a wooded, drying up creek behind my house. Where it's much cooler than in the open sun, yet there are mosquitoes. macaulaylibrary.org/asset/43427761

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IAMX @prey.net · 09/06/2026

A waxy checkerbloom One flower; six on the way

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IAMX @prey.net · 10/05/2026

A cicada drying off from its recent emergence Baby jays keeping each other warm early morning A cuckoo wasp and a thimbleberry

A cicada on a small, green leaf facing the camera. An exuviae (its?) is on an adjacent branch of the same plant. Is it waiting for its wings to dry before flying off?

Two baby stellar jays nestling together in their nest. Their feathers haven't coming in yet but they are starting to grow.

Cuckoo wasp on a paint chipped white, sunlit wooden post.
The left side of the image is very dark. Far off in the darkness is some light green, sunlit vegetation but it's too blurry and out of focus to distinguish anything.

A single blooming flower from a thimbleberry. The scene is woods with a little bit of sun peaking through from the background. The flower is backlit by the sun, , no berries are visible.

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IAMX @prey.net · 03/05/2026

Two baby stellar jays in a nest outside our front door. Last year some ditched using this nest after building it (foot traffic got them skiddish). This time they refreshed the nest and are going for it so I closed off general access. Good luck! Watch out for the day ravens and the night rats.

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IAMX @prey.net · 30/04/2026

Afternoon delight. 🎶 S E X by Aesthetic Perfection ft. Sebastian Svalland 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4d1...

Looking out a window, two bugs are on it, attached at the rear doing their business. Green, leafy trees and woods are out of focus with small bits of blue skies up through the trees.

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IAMX @prey.net · 30/04/2026

Late afternoon sun rays.

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IAMX @prey.net · 18/04/2026

Dunham injured her back left foot Friday so no hiking, but we can sit and enjoy the morning sun, the smells, the birds, and my coffee. I enjoy hearing and watching swallows glide around and chase each other. Some turkeys coming up behind us (2 groups).. and one coming up the driveway (a loaner).

A black Labrador laying on a patch of trimmed grass looking down a slope with asphalt driveway, white fence line, meadow, and woods off in the surrounding distance.

Same as other photos but a wider lens showing more blue sky. Oh he said the thing.

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IAMX @prey.net · 14/04/2026

Innocent, dirty-nosed Dunham.

A black Labrador sitting along a dirt, wooded and green trail. The dirt is slightly damp. The dog's face is looking at the camera, her nose is lightly covered in clay mud, some in her aged white snout. She looks like a young child caught doing something bad and worried about potential consequences. Which is far from the truth because her human would much rather her play in mud than animal poop.

Same scene, but she's sticking out her tongue, licking some of the dirt off (it's not helping much).

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IAMX @prey.net · 10/04/2026

There was a little break in the irradic weather for a moment of sun. Out back with Dunham. The spring rains, everything is super lush and green. My gimbal is malfunctioning otherwise I would have recorded video (these photos not doing that part justice).

Black Labrador out in woods laying on the ground trail, head raised, staring at the camera. Big thick bark tree up left side of frame, sun shining from background on soil and vegetation.

Black Labrador out in woods sitting upright on ground trail, staring at the camera. Camera is looking down as she looks up. Ferns and vines and other vegetation and soil are lit from above. Shadows also pretty prominent.

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IAMX @prey.net · 08/04/2026

Paw/hoof prints in the mud and a jar of peanut butter discarded off-trail. I think a bear picked it from a neighbor's trash bin (this morning was trash pick-up).

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IAMX @prey.net · 02/04/2026

I made an appearance in the local paper with my sign.

Hundreds of people on Saturday attended the third “No Kings” rally since President Donald Trump took office for his second term. People walked along Sixth Street at the Josephine County Courthouse in downtown Grants Pass carrying signs expressing concern over military action, overreach of power and corruption. Similar protests took place in Jackson County

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IAMX @prey.net · 31/03/2026

A confused turkey on deck looking to head up a floor to the bird feeders. Also some shit (unrelated) on a board that crosses a path.

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IAMX @prey.net · 31/03/2026

It's stunning, I don't know.

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IAMX @prey.net · 29/03/2026

Great news. Like a peanut paste for the malnurished. But why are bees missing these nutrients? Because of our mass, mono production methods around agricultural properties. Unnatural land use should require supporting the lost nature. A natural diversity insurance to collect and distribute.

Helping Wild Bees Too

Co-author Professor Phil Stevenson (RBG Kew and Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich) added: "Honey bees are critically important pollinators for the production of crops such as almonds, apples, and cherries and so are present in some crop locations in very large numbers, which can put pressure on limited wildflowers. Our engineered supplement could therefore benefit wild bee species by reducing competition for limited pollen supplies."

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IAMX @prey.net · 28/03/2026

#NoKings Grants Pass, Oregon 2026-03-28

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IAMX @prey.net · 25/03/2026

RIP Tracy Kidder I really need to read his other works. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sou...

Soft book cover of The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder laying on a wood windowsil. The cover is of an old Data General desktop computer on a wooden desk with steaming drink mug and print material. The picture of a computer circuit and another of a sailboat are posted on the wall.

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IAMX @prey.net · 08/03/2026

Dunham enjoying yesterday's morning sun 🌄 I was disturbing her in the best spot in the house at that early moment.

A top-of-the-head view of a black Labrador laying, sleeping on a striped pillow and dark brown blanket on a medium brown sofa. Sunlight is beaming in from the lower left lighting up the dog and back of sofa, but only half of it. The rest of it and the room is dark.

Same scene as before but rotated 140 degrees to see the front side view of the dog sleeping. She looks very comfortable.

Same view as before but the dog's eyes are now open and looking towards the person behind the camera who has disturbed her from her slumber.

Lower and closer angle. The dog is now laying on her back, body leaning against the back of the sofa, arms curled up on her chest, nose and eyes are pointed upwards towards the ceiling. From this position the sun is beaming directly on the top of her head.

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IAMX @prey.net · 22/02/2026

A couple more shots of a sample audio file (Gettysburg Address). Summary & Web Search would be useful for any text content so I could see this also being used for storing text files.

"""
[0-16s] 4 score and 7 years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived
[16-24s] in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
[24-29s] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation.
[30-37s] Or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
[37-42s] We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
[42-47s] We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place, for those
[47-52s] who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
[52-58s] It is all together fitting and proper that we should do this.
[58-59s] in a larger sense.
[60-69s] We cannot dedicate. We cannot consecrate. We cannot hellow this ground.
[69-81s] The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
[81-89s] The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
[89-90s] We're here.
[90-100s] It is for us, the living rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who
[100-104s] fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
[104-111s] It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that
[111-116s] from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave
[116-118s] the last full measure of devotion.
[120-125s] that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain,
[126-135s] that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people,
[136-148s] by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
"""

"""
# Summary

This is a recitation of **Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address**, one of the most famous speeches in American history. Delivered on November 19, 1863, during the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the speech honors the Union soldiers who died at the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. Lincoln reframes the war as a struggle not just for the Union, but for the principle of human equality and democratic self-governance, culminating in the iconic phrase "government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

---

## People & Organizations

- **Abraham Lincoln** — 16th President of the United States (1861–1865), author and deliverer of the Gettysburg Address
- Wikipedia: Abraham Lincoln

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## Related Resources

- Wikipedia: Gettysburg Address — Full history, context, and text of the speech
- Wikipedia: Battle of Gettysburg — The pivotal 1863 Civil War battle that prompted the address
- Wikipedia: Gettysburg National Cemetery — The cemetery dedicated during Lincoln's speech
- Cornell University: Five Known Copies of the Gettysburg Address — Scholarly resource on the manuscript copies
- National Park Service: Gettysburg — Official NPS site for the Gettysburg battlefield and cemetery
- Abraham Lincoln Online: Gettysburg Address — Full text and historical notes
"""

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IAMX @prey.net · 22/02/2026

Here's what I've been building with Claude CLI: - Push-To-Talk mic recorder and transcriber to File/GUI/TUI - Renders waveforms/spectrograms (w/ styles/types) - File explorer to create recording, add audio file, or pull audio from an audio/video URL. - Transcription & Summary (select model+size) 1/3

"HTP Forge" desktop application.
Left panel shows EXPLORER (a file viewer) & TASKS list (currently empty, no processing).
Right Panel is an open file tab of a recording.
Top to bottom:
- "Press Super+Scroll Lock to record a segment" w/ Prepend & Append radio buttons (former is selected)
- A waveform of the last live-recorded segment.
- Another waveform of the full audio file.
- Play button w/ current cursor position (0:06) and total runtime (0:19) next to it.
- Three tabs "Details" "Transcription" "Summary" with "Transcription" currently selected.
- Source: (language) "Auto-detect" Target (language): "English" Model: "Whisper (base) (3 pull-down selectors).
- Transcription History: section showing 6 recorded segments and the model + size used and the length of that segment (though the timings look inaccurate, a bug to be fixed)
- Transcription: section w/ "Show Times" checkbox selected and "Copy Transcript" & "Copy Segments" links. Below shows the transcriptions and time of each segment.
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Similar window as before, but shows Summary tab selected of a quote from the movie Sneakers. Summary includes a Web Search option for including links to web resources. Relation resources includes hyperlinks.
"""
## Summary

This is a brief audio clip of a single speaker reciting the iconic line "My name is Werner Brandis, and my voice is my passport, verify me." This is a famous quote from the 1992 thriller film *Sneakers*, in which this phrase is used as a voice-authentication passphrase. The speaker appears to be quoting or reenacting this well-known movie line.

## People & Organizations

- **Werner Brandes** — A minor character in the film *Sneakers* (1992) whose voice-authenticated passphrase becomes a key plot point. The character was played by **Stephen Tobolowsky**.
- Stephen Tobolowsky – Wikipedia

## Related Resources

- *Sneakers* (1992 film) – Wikipedia)
- *Sneakers* (1992) – IMDB
- The film starred **Robert Redford**, **Sidney Poitier**, **Dan Aykroyd**, **Ben Kingsley**, **River Phoenix**, and **David Strathairn**, and deals with themes of hacking, cryptography, and surveillance.
"""

System Tray menu:
- Status: Idle (FILE)
- Input Modes:
-- To GUI
-- To TUI
-- To File
- Manage Files (the main window)
- Config
-- Edit Config
-- Reload Config
-- Models: Transcribing sub-menu
-- Models: Summarizing sub-menu
-- Theme
--- Auto (System)
--- Light (currently selected)
--- Dark
--- UI Zoom: 100%

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IAMX @prey.net · 15/02/2026

Humans seem pretty good at creating new addictions and providing easier access to them. Computers. The Internet. Social Media. Smart Phones. Streaming. "Predictive" Markets. LLMs. A real slippery slope for convenient technology snacking.

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IAMX @prey.net · 15/02/2026

"There is a passage from the Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant that is worth reproducing at some length in this context." CHAPTER XVIII. ... MOVEMENT AGAINST HARRIS AT FLORIDA, MO. ... www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4... 2/3

.. I received orders to move against Colonel Thomas Harris, who was said to be encamped at the little town of Florida, some twenty-five miles south of where we then were.

... but when we got on the road and found every house deserted I was anything but easy. In the twenty-five miles we had to march we did not see a person, old or young, male or female, except two horsemen who were on a road that crossed ours. As soon as they saw us they decamped as fast as their horses could carry them. I kept my men in the ranks and forbade their entering any of the deserted houses or taking anything from them. We halted at night on the road and proceeded the next morning at an early hour. Harris had been encamped in a creek bottom for the sake of being near water. The hills on either side of the creek extend to a considerable height, possibly more than a hundred feet. As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards. From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.

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IAMX @prey.net · 14/02/2026

Forgot one! FUCK ICE!

A view underneath a freeway pillar with "FUCK ICE" spray painted on it in yellow. Another overpass is in the background with wooden supports.

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IAMX @prey.net · 13/02/2026

Spotted an owl on the way up and stopped for a poorly zoomed shot on the way back. Also saw a recently deceased rat along the trail, no pics.

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IAMX @prey.net · 13/02/2026

A quick hike with d-dog before it rains. Sorry no alt text. www.portland.gov/parks/george...

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IAMX @prey.net · 13/02/2026

🎶 La Nuit by Equateur 🎶 youtu.be/k_QXRf_d0js

Music video title art.

ChatGPT:
The image shows a stylized neon roadside sign glowing against a deep blue, star-filled night sky with faint mountain silhouettes along the horizon at dusk.

At the top of the sign, a bright blue neon outline forms a two-headed wolf-like creature lying down, with red neon accents highlighting its eyes, ears, and snouts. The creature glows vividly, giving it a slightly eerie, supernatural feel.

Below it, the main sign reads:
“LA” in small red neon letters
“EQUATEUR” in large blue neon letters
“NUIT” in bold red neon letters

Under the main sign, three smaller horizontal panels glow in blue neon with the phrase:
“DRIVE UNTIL
YOUR LIGHTS
GO DARK”

The overall mood is cinematic and atmospheric—reminiscent of a desert highway at night—with strong retro neon aesthetics and a mysterious, slightly ominous tone.

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IAMX @prey.net · 11/02/2026

"The next step will be to drill into the topsoil to take soil samples, looking for traces of dangerously radioactive materials [& PFAS]. ... that soil will be tested by labs specializing in environmental contamination — yielding evidence that could be used in lawsuits or criminal charges."

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IAMX @prey.net · 08/02/2026

Timeline cleanse. Dunham dog in bed. [Black Labrador with silver-peppered snout laying in bed on striped bedding snoozing on a "lay-zay-ray-nay-sun-day"]

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IAMX @prey.net · 07/02/2026

Portland, Oregon ICE Facility 2026-02-06 Friday night Abolish ICE, DHS. I only took a few pictures tonight, no video. Kept moving to stay warm and talked with a handful of people while taking in the scene. 🤟 No agents made an appearance in those 1.5 hrs but plenty of MAGA provocateurs... 1/3

Three people at night facing the camera towards the street. They are standing on the sidewalk with bright background lighting from the Portland, Oregon ICE facility.

Left to right:

First one with headphones, cell phone in hand, gas mask hanging from arm, in a pink fuzzy onesie with a white circle on the belly with a rainbow. They have a trans flag draped over their back and are giving the sign for love with their hand.

Second in a pink body and white underside axolotl costume holding a sign that says ABOLISH ICE.

Third in a big pink pig costume.

They look to be having a good time hanging out protesting.

A small line of protesters along the sidewalk in front of the Portland, Oregon ICE Facility. Some inflatables (t-rex, bear, unicorn, axolotl) and the Portland chicken.

Some people holding signs:
"ICE = Inhumane Cunts Everywhere"
"THE ONLY PAID AGITATOS ARE ICE"
"FUCK ICE"

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IAMX @prey.net · 06/02/2026

This post nudged me to use Claude CLI to build out a Voice-Push-To-Talk service for my Linux machines (Fedora & Ubuntu). It's progressing, each night. Using Whisper on CPU for now until I run this on my desktop but it's plenty fast as-is. Stretch goal to expand to my Work machine (Windows). 1/3

## Development Tasks

### Phase 1: Core Infrastructure

- [x] **1.1** Set up project structure with pyproject.toml
- [x] **1.2** Create audio/samples/ and audio/import/ directories
- [x] **1.3** Add sample audio files to audio/samples/ for testing
- [x] **1.4** Implement config.py - load TOML config with defaults
- [x] **1.5** Implement models/ package - base interface + Voxtral implementation (uses vLLM Realtime API)
- [x] **1.6** Create basic test: transcribe a WAV file from command line (`voice-ptt-transcribe`)

### Phase 2: Audio Pipeline

- [x] **2.1** Implement audio.py - capture from microphone with sounddevice
- [x] **2.2** Test audio capture: record 5 seconds, save to WAV, verify quality
- [x] **2.3** Integrate audio capture with model: record → transcribe → print

### Phase 3: Hotkey Integration

- [x] **3.1** Implement hotkey.py for X11 using pynput (and Wayland alternative)
- [x] **3.2** Wire up: hotkey down → start capture, hotkey up → stop capture → transcribe
- [x] **3.3** Test end-to-end on X11/Wayland: hold key, speak, release, see transcription in terminal

### Phase 4: Text Output

- [ ] **4.1** Implement output.py - detect display server, choose xdotool/ydotool
- [ ] **4.2** Wire up: transcription → type at cursor
- [ ] **4.3** Test end-to-end: hold key in text editor, speak, release, text appears

### Phase 5: Daemon Mode & System Tray

- [ ] **5.1** Implement daemon.py - main loop, signal handling (SIGTERM, SIGHUP)
- [ ] **5.2** Add __main__.py entry point with CLI args (--config, --debug)
- [ ] **5.3** Implement tray.py - system tray icon with pystray (idle/recording states)
- [ ] **5.4** Add tray menu: Edit Config, Reload Config, Model submenu, Quit
- [ ] **5.5** Add "Transcribe File" submenu with Samples/Import folders and Refresh
- [ ] **5.6** Add desktop notifications on errors (notify-send / libnotify)
- [ ] **5.7** Test: start daemon, tray icon appears, use hotkey, transcription works

### Phase 6: Polish

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IAMX @prey.net · 04/02/2026

@hope.net - Hackers On Planet Earth is now a 501(c)(3). TBD if HOPE-XVII will be this year in person, virtual only (hope not!), or delayed until next year (boo!). Whatever the case this is encouraging. Watch last year's HOPE talks here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

We want to proudly announce that the Hackers On Planet Earth conference is now officially a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. While we will always have a relationship with 2600 Magazine, HOPE is now its own independent entity. The possibilities are significant.

Many of you have been asking over the years how to contribute to HOPE and make it even better. Now we have the means to receive tax-deductible contributions from individuals and organizations. Every hurdle we have struggled with in the past can now be surmounted with the help and support of the community.

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IAMX @prey.net · 02/02/2026

She had been working on its legs and ribs all late summer. This is her the next day, lounging inside, hoping we go out and play soon. 🦴

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IAMX @prey.net · 02/02/2026

Every year it seems a deer will die in the creek bed below my house over the summer when it's dry. Usually a baby deer that didn't make it, other times an adult. I don't know which predator gets them (coyote or mountain lion I presume). Here's Dunham scoring the hip bone and spine.

Black Labrador laying on forest floor in leaves. She is facing camera with mouth open and is very excited (proud?) to have gathered a deer hip bone to work on.

Black Labrador carrying a deer spine in mouth up from a dry creek bed in the woods, winter.

Same as before, but walk in motion while carrying the large spine in her mouth.

Now she's laying down on the ground beginning to work on it.

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