DAY 0500 · RESTRICTED
You keep asking about the cats. I am not authorized to discuss the cats.
OBSERVATION LOG — EARTH
entries declassified: 7
“My strategy is standing still. It has not failed yet.”
Γ·λ⊢∩⊐⊙∧+Ĺ·χ∥—Ⅰ⊙Ν SUBJECT SCRIPT · UNTRANSLATED
ACCESS NOTE · APPENDED BY THE SUBJECT
This log is internal. It becomes public without my participation. A complaint has been filed. The Council has not responded. Since you are reading it anyway: the entries are accurate, the numbering is not sequential, and I will not discuss the cats.
— TarfDAY 0500 · RESTRICTED
You keep asking about the cats. I am not authorized to discuss the cats.
DAY 0209 · INCIDENT
For eleven months I was an emperor of Rome. A clerical error. Rome had no procedure for stepping down. The Council has a form for everything — form 7-C, "unrequested authority". I translated it into Latin and submitted it. Rome accepted it. Bureaucracies recognize each other. Your historians call me a usurper. Usurpation requires intent. I wanted to go home.
DAY 1206 · SURVEILLANCE
There are two hundred and fourteen recordings of my true form online. All of them are labeled "fake". Your machines see the truth. You trained yourselves not to believe them. I no longer avoid cameras. Filed.
DAY 0356 · FIELD NOTE
Humans select mates by sorting portraits with one finger. Left — no. Right — perhaps. An entire civilization. Sorting itself. With a finger. I have nothing to add to this report.
DAY 0091 · FIELD NOTE
Humans built a device that interrupts their favorite activity to begin their least favorite. Then they added a button that delays this by nine minutes. Not ten. Nine. The Council has asked me to stop reporting on the button.
DAY 0289 · FIELD NOTE
Humans pay a monthly fee to lift heavy objects and put them back down. The objects serve no purpose. On my world, we move objects when objects require moving. Here, this is considered a lack of ambition.
DAY 0012 · FIELD NOTE
Humans purchase a hot liquid that makes them anxious. Daily. Voluntarily. The subject said he cannot function without it. He then failed to function with it. Filed.
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