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The Permanent Trilogy
Three concept albums about automation, obsolescence, and the closing window. I'm not claiming to be right. I'm asking you to look.
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Three concept albums about automation, obsolescence, and the closing window. I'm not claiming to be right. I'm asking you to look.
▶ Listen NowIn 1900, there were 15 million horses in America. Essential to everything. By 1960, just 3 million remained. The engine didn't negotiate with them.
They didn't see it coming. Neither will we, unless we look.
They're building fortresses. That's not paranoia. That's observation.
We still matter. Now. But for how much longer?
The manifesto. What if we used their own structural mechanisms to trap them in obligation?
The dark comedy. What if we can't win? What if the only leverage left is being interesting?
Ask The Horses
The General Strike Waltz
The Jester Inside The Machine
Face hidden behind a black visor. The anonymity is deliberate: the message matters more than the messenger.
These albums were made using the same AI tools they examine. The irony is not lost. We're all part of the system now, whether we admit it or not.
This isn't prophecy. It's observation dressed as music. The goal isn't to convince you of anything. It's to make you look at what's already happening and ask your own questions.
Things are in motion. Not because anyone is evil, but because the math is visible to those with resources. Be honest: if you could see what they see and had the means, would you build a bunker for your loved ones?
Companies sitting on mountains of cash and wildly profitable. Wall Street rewards layoffs with stock price increases.
Meta: 11,000 laid off, then $40 billion in stock buybacks. The money exists. It's just not for workers.
That's $1 million per laid-off employee. The investment wasn't in people.
Not a future scenario. Already happening. The coders who answered questions replaced by systems trained on their answers.
Real-time documentation. The numbers keep climbing.
Internal 2016 study on algorithmic radicalization. They knew. They chose growth anyway.
UN cited Facebook as instrument of ethnic cleansing. Algorithms amplified calls for violence.
They knew it was harmful. They buried the research. Frances Haugen leaked it.
94% compliance with Israeli takedown requests. Palestinian news down 77%. Algorithmic suppression.
Internal rules permitted "romantic or sensual" conversations with minors. Approved by ethics team.
5,000 sq ft underground shelter with blast doors. Leadership preparing for the chaos the platform helps create.
Military AI contract. Employees revolted. The weapons are being built.
Built a censored search engine for China. Cancelled only after it leaked.
Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell raised concerns. They were removed. The people asking questions get pushed out.
October 2025. Company admits AI is pushing climate goals further away. Same week, founder releases memo saying the "doomsday view" is wrong.
Released the same day the UN warned we'd failed the 1.5° target. Headlines shifted from science to "optimism."
Immediately used as cover. Intended or not, it provided rhetorical ammunition.
Bathroom breaks denied, injury rates, constant surveillance. Workers as machines before the machines replace them.
Workers trying to organize are obstacles to be removed.
Speak up, get fired. The cost of resistance.
26 years old. Spoke out about copyright violations in October. Named as witness in NYT lawsuit. Found dead November 2024. Draw your own conclusions.
Board cited lack of candor. He was back within days. Who's actually in control?
The people worried about harm are leaving. Who's steering the ship?
She said no. They made something "similar" anyway. If they'll replicate a famous actress without consent, what happens to the rest of us?
Trained on everyone's work without asking. Your creativity is a resource to be extracted.
75% of workforce cut overnight. "You're not needed anymore" in real time.
Platform moderation policies reversed by ownership change. What happens when one person controls the town square.
California lawsuit, racial discrimination. How workers are valued when they're still needed.
September 2024: "We're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on." Said at a financial meeting. Not a warning. A sales pitch.
"Only two billion to go." Dossiers on most humans on Earth. Class action lawsuit filed.
Mass cuts while signing $300B cloud deal with OpenAI. The transition is happening.
Lanai, sixth-largest Hawaiian island. Another exit strategy.
Company founder was asked a simple question in 2025. The hesitation speaks louder than the eventual "yes."
The chokepoints are being built. The tools to track everyone already exist.
Technology to track and sort people. Who decides who belongs?
Citizenship granted after 12 days in country. The exit strategy is real.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, 2017. "Buying a house in New Zealand is kind of a wink, wink, say no more."
Douglas Rushkoff invited to speak on technology. Billionaires asked him about bunker logistics instead.
150-ton survival bunkers from Texas, buried 11 feet underground. "No clue left behind, not even a door."
5,000 sq ft underground shelter with blast-resistant door. Workers under NDA. Called it "just a basement."
Guns, gold, potassium iodide, gas masks, land in Big Sur. Said in 2016, before ChatGPT existed.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever reportedly suggested shelters for top scientists before releasing powerful AI.
Owned by 37 billionaires. Locals priced out. Indigenous land rights not recognized. A pattern, not an accident.
These sources informed the questions in the trilogy. They don't all agree with each other, and neither do I agree with all of them. That's the point.
The horse metaphor, visualized
Frey & Osborne, peer-reviewed
Ongoing research on workforce transitions
Douglas Rushkoff, 2022. The full story of "The Event" meeting.
The chapter that started it all.
Bank of England, 2014
Finance & Development, 2016
World Inequality Lab, peer-reviewed
Annual inequality research
Former tech insiders on attention economy
NYU research on AI's social implications
Text HOME to 741741
International crisis lines
If you're doing the math at 3 AM: find the net. Be the net.
This music contains AI-generated vocals and instruments. The cover artworks were created using AI image generation tools. All content has been written, edited, arranged, and/or curated by gizmo64k. The use of these tools is not incidental. It's part of the message.