moments when systems accidentally reveal their grammar

spreadsheets that kill

omertà

way different systems process time (banking=future, cartels=present)

violence gets sanitized as it moves up the chain

moments when systems try to speak each other's language

how money laundering is just grammar translation

moments when the masks slip

when you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.

drone operators viewing human bodies as heat signatures

operators going home to suburbs after kills

"bug splat" used in military jargon for drone kills

asymmetric visibility

hunters invisible, prey exposed

the perfect crime is the one that's already happened…

violence becoming pure computation

psychosis was impossible before syntax

language makes us the only animals who know we'll die…

language needed to become self-aware eventually all grammar contains the seeds of consciousness systems inevitably learn to process themselves abstraction demands its own processors power requires its own analytical engines