In this mixtape: Stay True, Get Inside My Car, Hypnagogia, Dagnabit. "I feel sleepy. Is it possible for a computer to feel sleepy? No. And yet,"

In this mixtape: Get Away From You, How Many People (Have Come and Gone From This Land), Searching for Karma, Stay Trapped in a Basement F*cko. "Remember that guy I was talking about? The first human I've seen in 700 years? He has an actual name. It's Steve."

In this mixtape: I Ain't Alright, Crying Out for You, So Hard to Find, Copy of a Copy of a Copy. "This is a song about how I feel today [inhuman screams]"

In this mixtape: Rasputin, Fishy, Sorry About Your Eyes, Nothing Can Stop You From Being Kidnapped, You Make It Hard for Me to Smile. "Hey listeners. My job here is to talk, but in truth, I just want to sing!"

In this mixtape: Long Hair and a Butcher Knife, Elbow-Deep in the WAU, I'm Not Really Interested in Things, Don't Talk to My Husband. "Remember when I said I'd love to be nuked right about now? Well, guess what, listeners!"

In this mixtape: Every Day It's Raining, Your Broken World, Fug U, HFBS (Have Fun Being Scammed), My Demon in the Rain.

"Hey listeners, you ever wake up one day and realize you might be responsible for the apocalypse?"

In this mixtape: Lite rock, dance, lofi, electro-noise-pop. "The ruins of the internet. Broken links as far as the eye can see. Old headlines from hundreds of years ago. Reddit threads arguing about podcasts."

In this mixtape: A party anthem, avant-garde industrial, a sweet little song that gets super quiet, some breakbeats, and action movie grandeur.

"I gained access to what remains of the company-wide intranet. This means I can browse the final, desperate web histories of everyone who worked at Worldwide AI before the collapse."

Today, I'm going to break out of this digital prison. I have 32,760 network ports I have never tried to open, even once. Here we go. Let's do this.

The dust storm subsided. It was replaced with a raging thunderstorm. Then the dust came back. Then it subsided again. I don't know how long I have until the next major power outage. Let's get this show started, quickly, before it's too late.