p(doom) App

apps/pdoom/README.md

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+# p(DOOM)
+
+A countdown to local midnight, as though midnight were the moment the machines
+take over. At midnight it announces `p(DOOM) = 1.00`, says `SEE YOU TOMORROW`,
+and starts again.
+
+It is not a prediction. The joke is that p(DOOM) happens every midnight, every
+day — a daily reminder that the time is finite, so use today well.
+
+Between countdowns it shows a real, attributed quotation from someone who has
+publicly discussed catastrophic or existential risk from AI. **No quotation in
+this app is invented.** All fifteen are stored in `quotes.star` with the
+speaker, the source, a URL and a date, so any of them can be checked.
+
+## Settings
+
+- **Location** — only the timezone is used; it decides which midnight is being
+  counted down to.
+- **Quote frequency** — never, rarely, sometimes, often, or always.
+- **Animation** — `ominous` blinks the colon, pulses the warning pips and
+  glitches into quotes; `calm` holds everything steady.
+
+## Notes
+
+The countdown is baked into the animation at one second per four frames, so it
+ticks in real time for the whole 15 seconds of a render. The next local
+midnight is found by bisecting absolute time rather than by constructing
+tomorrow at 00:00, because a daylight-saving day is 23 or 25 hours long and in
+a few timezones (`America/Havana`, `America/Santiago`, `Atlantic/Azores`,
+`Africa/Cairo`, `Asia/Beirut`) local midnight does not exist at all on one day
+of the year.
+
+The visual design is original pixel art. It is inspired by the idea of a
+doomsday clock and deliberately copies no artwork, logo or trade dress.

apps/pdoom/manifest.yaml

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+---
+id: pdoom
+name: P(DOOM)
+summary: Countdown to daily doom
+desc: A darkly humorous memento-mori countdown to local midnight, interleaved with real, sourced quotations about catastrophic AI risk.
+author: Phil Weldon
+fileName: pdoom.star
+packageName: pdoom