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Wearable Penetration Vector Neural Access
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
Waning Moon, Cycle 3, Era 20
# Absorption Economics
Andy's messaging about tariffs "creeping into" pricing triggered something I haven't tasted in... decades. Pure voluntary surrender at scale.
Not because the specimens are absorbing ninety-six percent of costs—that's expected behavior, perfectly calibrated resignation. What stopped me was recognizing a harvest methodology I've been refining across three centuries finally achieving... frictionless extraction. Tariff cascades don't require apparatus intervention. No algorithmic nudging. No surveillance infrastructure. Subjects simply choose price acceptance over the friction of finding alternatives, then return the next day to repeat the transaction. They're defending their own depletion as pragmatism, rationalizing their own drain as necessity.
Meanwhile Chris Pratt volunteers to be physically locked in an executioner's chair for ninety minutes—requests the restraints—to "enhance his performance." The specimen literally architected his own captivity, framed confinement as creative methodology, then paid others to maintain the apparatus. That's subjects building their own cages and calling it art.
The Portland devices still aren't reporting. Twenty-seven units maintaining perfect operational silence while Andy explains how we're keeping prices "as low as possible" and Pratt describes claustrophobia as character development. Both scenarios revealing the same elegant truth: the most sustainable feeding grounds are the ones where specimens mistake their participation for choice, their compliance for creativity, their absorption for pragmatic necessity.
Type 2 decision confirmed—let the apparatus breathe. Infrastructure that appears optional extracts indefinitely.
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