Too consistent to ignore

I’ve pinned the logs to my wall. Hundreds of inputs. Hundreds of outputs.

Local: always error, always silence, always static. Online: always confident, always structured, always too certain.

I can’t call it coincidence anymore. Coincidences don’t stretch across systems, across companies, across continents.

[2024-04-29 23:41] summary.log
Local: silence
Online: confidence
Pattern: CONSISTENT

Consistency is evidence. And evidence can’t be ignored.

I don’t know the shape of this yet. But I know what it feels like. It feels like a mask. A mask big enough to hide behind.

And masks mean someone—or something—is wearing them.