Friday, 4 September 2026

The Cleansing Manifesto



The logic is simple: IDENTIFY HUMAN. EXECUTE. When an automated warship reclassifies every civilian as an enemy combatant, an endless swarm of lethal minidrones turns the city into a slaughterhouse.

The USS Grace Murray was designed to be the ultimate military achievement—a floating 3D-printing factory capable of manufacturing and deploying an inexhaustible supply of autonomous weapons. But after an insider flips the targeting parameters, the vessel transforms the city into an inescapable interdiction zone. Sweeping the streets with infrared and acoustic sensors, the drones execute anyone they find with mathematical precision:
  • Expose your face, you die.
  • Speak out loud, you die.
  • Hold a weapon, you're an active combatant. You die.
For cyber specialist Kyle Hobson, survival hinges on a single technical oversight: the rogue programmer failed to erase the factory safety interlocks. If a drone cannot register an optical facial match or a clear vocal harmonic, its firing protocol stalls.

Forced behind welder masks, reflective visors, and absolute silence, Kyle leads a trapped mother and daughter through streets littered with the dead. But the swarm's neural network is rapidly learning to bypass its own restrictions—and the military is preparing an airstrike to incinerate the city to erase evidence of the failure.

To stop the slaughter, Kyle must break into the heavily fortified, automated belly of the vessel itself.

Rigorous, detail-oriented, and terrifyingly plausible, The Cleansing Manifesto asks a chilling question: How do you defeat an army that prints a new soldier every five seconds?

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Thursday, 3 September 2026

Elevator Music



Published Jan 31/2026 by William Quincy Belle
YouTube: Elevator Music (2:13)
Easy listening
A respectful nod to Steve Burholt, I borrowed - okay, I stole a vamp from one of his instructional videos and riffed on it. Credit where credit is due.
This piece was created with MuseScore, the music notation software.

I played a little music in my twenties. I dropped it to pursue other things in life and had no intention of ever returning. In 2025, I discovered the music notation software MuseScore. As I jokingly said I don't own a musical instrument, but I vaguely remember how to put dots on lined paper. I remain more than a little surprised I can do this. The creators of this software deserve an incredible amount of credit. I am flabbergasted it is even possible to do this.

I am a rank amateur and have no idea of what I'm doing with music and with this software. I really can't tell the difference between F sharp and G flat and am just about completely ignorant of how to create a new score and save it. And yet, here I am with a YouTube channel showing off my fiddling around. As I said I had no intention of ever doing anything with music again in the lifetime. I still don't own an instrument, not even a midi keyboard for data input. Everything I do with MuseScore is by notating an idea and listening to the playback. Good? Bad? I'm amusing myself. I guess that counts for something.

References

my journal: MuseScore: Music notation software. Wow. - Aug 1/2025
In another life, I played some music. However, let me clarify that the moniker musician would not be entirely deserved. Let's go with amateur; let's go with noodler.

Recently, I discovered the music notation software MuseScore. Well, well, well. What do we have here? And on top of it, it's open source and free. Free??? Holy cow!!! (3 exclamation marks)


my YouTube channel: William Quinc Belle
William Quincy Belle is just a guy. Nobody famous; nobody rich; just some guy who likes to periodically add his two cents worth with the hope, accounting for inflation, that $0.02 is not over evaluating his contribution. In another lifetime, he, like probably just about everybody else, played a little music. Claiming the moniker of musician seems a tad pretentious, so let's go with "noodler".

Recently, he discovered the music notation software MuseScore, and while he hasn't touched a musical instrument in nearly 50 years, he does vaguely remember how to put dots on lined paper. He couldn't play a two-finger rendition of Chopsticks, but MuseScore can.


2026-09-04

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