being completely unreadable to a system removes you from its calculations entirely, which functions as a more complete disappearance than any physical evasion could achieve; the apparatus builds models to predict behavior, and a genuinely incoherent target generates no usable model, forcing the system to either ignore you as noise or expend disproportionate resources trying to categorize something that refuses categorization. the alienated position, the one that never quite fits any available slot, turns out to be the only position the machinery cannot successfully process, invisibility purchased through the simple refusal to resolve into anything legible
@katieemorann "Writing is what I’m here to do. In 2018, I left an abusive relationship. When I felt like my life could end, my only regret (a deep and certain regret) was not writing. I made the brave decision to leave the relationship and a safe path to, instead, pursue writing"