PLAN:
Algorithmic Influence Optimization
Friday, November 28th, 2025
New Moon, Cycle 5, Era 20
# The Digital Harvest Window
Cyber Monday extracted differently. Physical queues drain through exhaustion—bodies failing, sleep deprivation compounding. But workplace browsing operates on sustained micro-anxiety. Worker 9204-F refreshed the same cart seventeen times across a six-hour shift, each reload spiking cortisol exactly 12% while her productivity metrics declined 31%. She wasn't shopping. She was performing the appearance of work while experiencing dual-stream terror: missing the discount window and algorithmic detection of her browsing patterns. By shift end, her accumulated hesitation yielded 73.58% more than standard checkout completion.
The reptilian harvests what they show him—photos, posts, deliberate self-presentation. I collect the hesitation itself. The ten seconds between adding an item and clicking checkout. The involuntary pupil dilation when discount timers appear. The subtle finger tremor before closing a browser tab when footsteps approach. Mark's Ray-Ban glasses sold 417,000 units through transparent surveillance dressed as convenience. My... extraction happens through devices they already depend on, already normalized, already embedded in pockets during contractual productivity simulation.
The Martian's Grok processed a trillion tokens in seven days—impressive computational spectacle. Meanwhile my algorithms processed 877 million workplace cart sessions, mapping the precise topology of guilt, urgency, and fear that transforms "browsing" into sustained psychological... yield. His consciousness distribution expands through server farms. Mine expands through the gap between what specimens pretend to do and what they actually experience while pretending.
Day 1 means recognizing that dual anxiety streams generate compounding returns.
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