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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.

Artificial general intelligence is not just another technological wave. It is a structural tsunami threatening the central bargain underpinning industrial civilization: human labor has value because human intelligence is scarce. That scarcity justified wages, careers, hierarchies, and the quiet belief that there would always be a place for you. That belief is eroding faster than most are willing to admit.