@peter.benjamin

[thwipandrelease]

So I know I can't be the only one who's had the unexpected pleasure of coming into possession of messages that aren't intended for my consumption. I'm not talking about you getting someone's private love letters or metaphorical cat video links, which I've gotten and deleted.

If I were back home, I'd be sliding this info to my nearest and dearest investigative journalist type. Since I'm not, well, I guess I've got to take matters in my own hands.

It's an interesting read, so, I'm just going to include the unedited details for all.

[what follows is a copy of the message that peter had received earlier, sent from lydia gill-jade, which seems the sort of thing that would come up in a current headlines search if it weren't presumably a secret. well, so much for that, huh?]

Maybe it's just me, but do people usually name successors for campaign donations?

Comments

@diana.prince

[monomachy]

It seems to me like they're more keen on taking things out of our heads because as far as I can tell, none of us can remember exactly how we got here.

Do you think that has something to do with the implant?

[she wants specifics, man. tell her your conspiracy theories.]

[gravemistake]

I know they're pieces of tech that can be messed with like anything else. How long do you think before something like this happens again?

[monomachy]

[YOOOOO]

I don't know. A hundred years is a long time to keep something like that quiet, if it's true. It wouldn't be easy to keep it off the books completely. [she should know] Especially not if it happened more than once.

[gravemistake]

It could've happened dozens of times. Upgrade the software and make it so nobody remembers.

[monomachy]

That wouldn't destroy records, though. And people here are very into social media.

[gravemistake]

They wouldn't have to destroy anything if they can just program people to not even know what they're looking at.

@jon.snow

[998]

Other people need to see this.

[Bad username or site: margaret @ carter] [Bad username or site: leo @ fitz] [Bad username or site: rey @ nolo] [Bad username or site: daenerys @ targaryen] [Bad username or site: daisy @ johnson] [Bad username or site: katelin @ philips] [Bad username or site: stephen @ strange] [Bad username or site: john @ jaqobis]

[forcevisions]

A program in their implants.
You think that's why it was easier to take down the ones we came across today? The EMP would have scrambled it.

[998]

You took the soldier already?

[forcevisions]

Yeah.
Before you ask, I don't know how it's going.
I left to find us a way up to the pyramid after I did my part.

[dragonwarder]

[WELP. Now she's REAL HECKIN MAD.]

Pigs.

Do you see what they call it?
ALIGN.

[998]

[...is she expecting him.......to get some reference....]

Is that something to do with the AI message?

[dragonwarder]

No.
”Loss of motor function”. It interferes with their movements.
Or perhaps it is meant to align them with someone else.
I have seen how they march.
Even the Unsullied are not so precise.

[rehandle]

[ ... oh, shit. ]

Thank you, Jon.

[ this is going to. help. in the immediate future

and hurt as things go forward. ]

[998]

It looks like a good deal of valuable information's been leaked. We ought to collect it all somewhere secure.

[hard copies of everything would be really useful right now!!]

Re: @jon.snow

[gravemistake]

Is this a surprise to all of you, or something?

[998]

[is a classified una memo a surprise to them.]

We know nothing about the workings of the UNA. No one's been able to get their hands on any of their records before this. We knew they interfered with the minds of their soldiers in order to control them, but we didn't know how.

Did you receive any other messages about the UNA at all?

[gravemistake]

Sorry, I can phrase it better. Why would we assume the UNA is not running programs through the implants?

[stabilis]

[ cool cool cool cool ]

I'm with Rey on this one. ALIGN sounds like a cute acronym for "do what we tell you to".

This is good, though. Tech has vulnerabilities, and we already know this programming has internal issues and doesn't hold up well to EMPs. Does make me wonder how thorough the UNA consent form is and whether these people know what they're signing up for.

[998]

If this isn't how they're controlling them, it's likely part of it.

Perhaps you and the other engineers could take a look at the soldier in our custody and see if you can find any other vulnerabilities.

[personalwar]

So they're just treating people like programs that need to be updated and patched when they start malfunctioning.

Guess that's what you do when you can't rely on AI anymore.

[gravemistake]

I like to think we managed to avoid microchipping the entire populace.

[No AI isn't an excuse!!]

[personalwar]

It's a pretty low bar.

But this world eliminated all AI, right? So I guess someone decided the next option was to make humans behave like machines for them.

[ It's all very yikes. ]

[variate]

Sorry to interrupt.
There are no more countries here, right? It's just the UNA. They're making people behave like machines, but to fight against what?

[gravemistake]

Proving once again that you can't just get rid of AI. Who knows what kind of programs they're running through everyone's implants?