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Libra Engine has a new front door. Every venture sits on one page now, and this feed starts with it.

chadworks put itself in a table beside other Philadelphia web designers. Ten rows, same order for every firm, prices included.

chadworks.co is a server now, with the admin built in. Save an essay and it's live.

First time on Rising Compass? A short tour now walks you through the dial before you dive into the charts.

Rising Compass speaks one language now. A song's charge is its degree, from +100 to -100, and the tier that degree falls in.

Lyrical Charger now reads a song the same way Rising Compass reads its own charts. Same lens, same result.

Chad Lewine Radio opens over any page on chadlewine.com now, so the music keeps playing while you look around.

chadlewine.com has Thoughts now: short posts from Chad, on the homepage and in their own feed.

The Illus Caden opened Pinholes, a feed of short posts. Pinholes in the wall of the machine.

What deprogramming looks like has a home on libraengine.com. Five steps first, then the long argument.

ELDATUM Elevator is a live night of excavation and performance featuring ELDATUM artists, hosted by Chad Lewine. Venues and promoters can book it now.

The Super Individual name is retired. What it held is now the manifesto: the discography as one man's record of deprogramming himself.

Programs to Transcend is live on the Bridge. 33 programs on six shelves, one tape per program. The tenets are what to hold. The programs are what to see through.

V/S/R is open at chadworks: guided vision work that ends in a strategy and a roadmap you can act on.

Two new trackers on The Illus Caden count symptoms of late-stage capitalism from filed figures: self-storage and the secondhand trade. Every number links to its source.

The Intoxication Report counts how many charting songs are intoxicated and which substances they name.

The Rising Compass API has public pricing. Integrate gives you the full reading of a song, and Screen gives you the explicit-content check alone.

Chad Lewine albums ship on CD now, pressed on demand and mailed one at a time.

Slant Rhymer is free and needs no account. Type a word and get the near rhymes that still land.

The Illus Caden's Pop Music Tracker is live.

Any Rising Compass reading can live on your own site. Hit Share on a song page and copy the embed code.

Never written a song? First Song Writer walks you through one, verse by verse. One free song a day, no account needed.

New essay: The Complex Addiction Mobile Games Have Become and Their Profiteers. A Mobile Game Monetization Tracker launched beside it.

Every Chad Lewine album and single in one purchase, for less than buying them one by one. New releases join the bundle on their own.

The Whirl is open on chadlewine.com. 833 clips, portrait only, no counters. Watch one, then go make something.

chadworks dropped the Fractional CMO title. The title claimed a track record that wasn't there, so it's Web Consultant+ now: short-term help at one monthly rate.

Psyche Facts has a question for you now: what ails you? Answer it and the deck sorts itself to the songs that help.

When chadworks says a site was tested with a screen reader, it means a real one. The testing arena drives NVDA now.

ELDATUM keeps lists of movies and series worth your time, the ones that invoke critical thinking or pierce the veil. Titles we've actually watched are marked.

Lyric Transformer is public. A workshop for songwriters, built by one. Bring a verse that is almost there.

Every Rising Compass song page now shows its argument: the case for the reading, step by step.

LEAM is ELDATUM now. Same marble, same database, a name that can hold a label, a press and a film arm without straining.

Psyche Facts is live. Every song gets a label, like the nutrition facts on a box, so you know what you're taking in.

Offplat is live: a directory of artists who left Spotify, and where their music still lives.

Think Lyrical Charger misread a line? Contest it. Quote the line and the reading gets another look.

Rising Compass reads four daily charts. Now they add up to one: the Unified Charge Chart, one ranking and one charge for the day.

Don't Blame Me is out. The album downloads as AAC too, so it drops into your music library as one clean album, artwork and all.

Every Rising Compass chart has an RSS feed. Follow the daily readings in whatever reader you already use.

The Illus Caden is back, rebuilt from the ground up as version 2.0.

The Narrowing puts a number on it. Year by year, popular music sings about fewer and fewer things, and Rising Compass charts the drop.