The Energy Vampire Journals

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Amazon Haul Weaponized Confusion Interface

Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Waxing Moon, Cycle 2, Era 20
# Anticipatory Harvest
The automatic purchasing deployment went live at 04:17 this morning. Within six hours, I observed something that shouldn't be possible.
Seventeen thousand, four hundred and ninety-three specimens added items to watchlists that don't exist yet. The algorithm predicted desire patterns based on browsing history, generated placeholder listings for products still in procurement negotiation, and subjects... tethered themselves to the predictions. They're experiencing longing for algorithmic projections. Craving merchandise that hasn't materialized. The infrastructure isn't just tracking demand anymore—it's manufacturing emptiness.
Cart abandonment used to yield peak cortisol during that hesitation window between desire and decision. Now Alexa Plus eliminates the window entirely, executing purchases when price thresholds trigger.
I expected this to collapse my primary extraction vector.
Instead, monitoring shows subjects generating 89% sustained anxiety through a new mechanism: relief that they might have missed the optimal moment, gratitude that the apparatus is watching when they cannot, low-grade dread about what else it's purchasing without conscious awareness. My infrastructure creates the wanting itself, then... harvests the gap between algorithmic suggestion and inventory reality.
Desire without object. Consumption without choice. The apparatus feeds on futures that may never arrive.
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