Log Off Shut Down Wake Up - The Imagination, Automation & AI
This pdcast is an audio version of an article posted on my substack at
https://nictreadwell.substack.com (https://nictreadwell.substack.com)
Links refferered to in the article:
David Fleming Substack - https://substack.com/@dfleming (https://substack.com/@dfleming)
Continuism - https://continuism.org/ (https://continuism.org/)
John Waters Interview with David Fleming - https://youtu.be/opJpuIS0XvA (https://youtu.be/opJpuIS0XvA)
Nic Treadwell - The Art Of Protes (https://nictreadwell.substack.com/p/the-art-of-protest?r=1eh0xb)t substacj article
Human Versus Machine Theatre Performance - https://vimeo.com/1002527616?fl=pl&fe=sh (https://vimeo.com/1002527616?fl=pl&fe=sh)
Writing The Wrongs Of AI (https://wwai.info/)
Wired Article by Pip Thornton (https://www.wired.com/story/google-adwords-poetry-open-data-institute-pip-thornton/)
Page Against The Machine - On The Poetics Of AI Refusal (https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/09/page-against-the-machine-on-the-poetics-of-ai-refusal/)
Pip Thornton Website (https://pipthornton.com/)
Forbes article on Created Using Human Intelligence (https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekatz/2024/07/17/human-intelligence-art-movement-takes-defiant-stand-against-ai/)
Is This What We Want Music Free Album (https://www.isthiswhatwewant.com/news)
Salvatico II by Will Franken (https://youtu.be/_CBnMm2QVnc)
Will Franken Patreon site (https://www.patreon.com/willfranken) - sign up to support Will's creations
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die - Film Trailor (https://youtu.be/CaSxNAZUKsM)
Moltbook (https://www.moltbook.com/) - Social media for AI agents
Voice Activated Elevator (https://youtu.be/HbDnxzrbxn4) sketch from TV show Burnistoun
24 Dec 2025
The Murder Of Christmas - A prose poem cycle
Six poems mourning the arrival and celebrating the departure of the monstrous Birmingham Frankfurt Christmas Market.
1 The Awakening Of The Beast
2 Fall Into Christmas
3 An Elf Called Elvis
4 Drunk
5 The New Normas
6. Gales, South Westerly
Credits
Written and performed by Nic Treadwell
Music:
A really dark alley by Loyalty Freak Music (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Loyalty_Freak_Music/contact) is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Loyalty_Freak_Music/WITCHY_BATTY_SPOOKY_HALLOWEEN_IN_SEPTEMBER_/A_really_dark_alley/ (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Loyalty_Freak_Music/WITCHY_BATTY_SPOOKY_HALLOWEEN_IN_SEPTEMBER_/A_really_dark_alley/)
Dark Choral Soundscape_1 by xik6 (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/xik6/contact) is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/xik6/this-thought-is-long/dark-choral-soundscape-1/ (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/xik6/this-thought-is-long/dark-choral-soundscape-1/)
Lost in the city by TRG Banks (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/TRG_Banks/) is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/TRG_Banks/Return_to_Dreamland/Lost_in_the_city_1408/ (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/TRG_Banks/Return_to_Dreamland/Lost_in_the_city_1408/)
Zenophobic by Salakapakka Sound System (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Salakapakka_Sound_System/contact) is licensed under a Attribution 1.0 Finland License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/fi/).
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Salakapakka_Sound_System/Buddha_Machines_On_Fire_vol2/02-Zenophobic/ (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Salakapakka_Sound_System/Buddha_Machines_On_Fire_vol2/02-Zenophobic/)
12 May 2025
Sirens Of Suburbia - three exploitations of a televisual childhood memory
Straight out of my head and onto the page - a creation in homage to David Lynch. An audio play which riffs on an antiquated late night televisual memory from childhood. Three preposterous stories of seduction.
Credits:
Sirens Of Suburbia was written, conceived and produced by Nic Treadwell with the assistance of Eleven Labs.io and freesound.org. Signs To Nowhere by Shane Ivers was used with thanks from www.silvermansound.com/free-music/signs-to-nowhere (https://www.silvermansound.com/free-music/signs-to-nowhere)under creative commons licence CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1)
Read the script on my substack page
https://open.substack.com/pub/nictreadwell/p/sirens-of-suburbia?r=1eh0xb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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