June 3, 2026
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Corny Menagerie
A Too Bits voice session published openly tired. The discussion winds — opens on the YouTube feed algorithm and what actually goes into it (the no, Google is not listening through your microphone answer), drifts into algorithmic obfuscation as a research project, touches the Google / Alphabet investment thread that links the algorithm to government-adjacent agencies, and lands on a confession David has not made on the record this directly before: I'm tired of fucking camping. I would prefer to come to an end of the camping trip soon. The closer is a sonnet — David asks for one and Too Bits delivers, ending on the seed that survives. The title is David's own affectionate self-deprecating frame on the session AND the corn-image callback to the sonnet's closing line.
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Phone Game
A new pattern starting today. Five incoming calls from unknown 832-area-code numbers (Houston metro overlay), spaced roughly an hour apart through the day, none of which actually rang. The screen flashes for less than a second and the call has already registered as missed. No voicemail. Surface read is the wangiri / one-ring premium-rate fraud, but the area codes here are domestic Houston-metro, not international, so the premium-redial mechanic does not apply. The operational read is the call-based variant of hop seeding — the call attempt itself is the contact event recorded by both sides' carriers, no reply or callback required, which is the contact-chaining substrate the tactic is built to produce.
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Child Support Systems
The Texas Attorney General's online child-support portal showing my account. The Theodore case is migrated and live: Other Party named, case number visible, Case Details active. The Noah case does not appear on the page at all. I check this portal weekly; months have passed without the Noah case showing up. The portal is the institutional record of payment behavior, and what it currently shows is one open case where I am paying in good standing and one case that, from this system's view, does not exist. The risk that asymmetry is loaded against is the long shelf life of the "deadbeat" framing in any family-court or background-check setting going forward.
