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I remember when burning CDs was a daily activity. What I don't remember is the last time I actually needed to burn one to install an OS, until today. My luggable 486 finally succumbed to time and it failed to boot FreeDOS 1.2 from its CF card. This post covers how I used modern tools, a custom NixOS module, an akaiutil derivation and a few wrapper scripts to burn CDs on a Hackberry, bridging 2026 to hardware from the mid 1990s.

EMXP is the one tool that speaks fluent E-mu sampler — and it's a 2006 Windows console binary that a customer once spent five hours failing to run on a Mac. Here's how I put it in a Nix cage so it comes up, correctly, with one command, on any Linux box, forever.

An EMAX II rack, a technician diagnostics disk that only exists as an image, and a sampler that wanted a real floppy in a real drive. My floppy-writing machine was 1200 miles away — so this is how I taught a Greaseweazle to write a format nobody ever documented, by making a genuine E-mu disk confess its own geometry.

Taxing billionaires is the floor, not the ceiling. The technologies exist today to make scarcity, corruption, and tax evasion structurally impossible — but only if the right people build the right infrastructure.

Capital has been ascending away from the human world for decades — from production toward abstraction, from obligation toward optionality. The war in Iran, the Epstein client list, the dissolution of accountability: these are not separate stories. They are what lift looks like from below.