Garrett West New Yorker | Advocate for Smarter Governance | Focused on Oversight, Accountability & Reform | Sociology & Health Information Management | Writer
Attention: This Reality is Under New Management
At 7:43 AM, every mirror in the world stopped reflecting people.
At 8:15 AM, the concept of left ceased to exist. Those who attempted to turn in that direction found themselves folded neatly into themselves like forgotten laundry.
At 9:02 AM, an emergency alert:
ATTENTION: THIS REALITY IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. PLEASE REVIEW OUR UPDATED TERMS OF SERVICE.
It came with a checkbox.
☑ I have read and agree to the new terms.
People clicked without reading.
At 9:36 AM, all birds froze midair. They hovered for exactly three minutes before vanishing. No one could recall if birds had ever existed.
At 10:22 AM, children in classrooms began speaking a new language no one had taught them. The words hurt to hear. Parents covered their ears, and some swore their own names had been removed from the sound of it.
At 11:00 AM, the ocean inverted. Those standing near the shore saw only a sky filled with fish, drifting as if waiting for instructions. The seafloor was revealed—smooth, unmarked, undisturbed by history.
At 11:45 AM, another notification arrived:
UPDATE 12.4.9 INSTALLED. BUG FIXES AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS.
•Reality processing efficiency increased by 12%.
•User memory synchronization successfully reset.
•All anomalous resistance events neutralized.
At noon, all clocks reset to midnight.
A new alert arrived:
LANGUAGE PATCH 13.0.1 INSTALLED.
☑ Applied universally.
☑ Grammar auto-correction enabled.
☑ Erroneous words deprecated.
People sighed in relief.
At 12:14 PM, those who clicked “yes” on the rollback option disappeared. Their absence was so complete that their names erased themselves from history, their families’ memories folded neatly into the gaps.
At 12:37 PM, the streets rearranged themselves. The capital cities of the world swapped places. London became Moscow. Beijing became Rio. But their people stayed the same, only now they spoke new languages, had always spoken new languages.
A woman in London—no, Moscow—stood outside her apartment, staring at the Cyrillic street signs, trembling. I’ve always lived here. The thought slotted itself into place, seamless, authoritative. But something in her resisted, an unnamed absence pressing against her skull. Hadn’t the air smelled different yesterday? Hadn’t the trees whispered in English?
At 1:03 PM, the sun moved two inches closer. Not enough to burn, just enough to feel it.
At 2:00 PM, an additional update installed:
HUMAN ERROR DETECTED. REVERTING TO LAST FUNCTIONAL STATE.
A ripple passed through the sky. And for exactly three seconds, the world remembered.
Every version of themselves.
Every prior reset.
Every cycle, stacked on top of each other like glass panes, light bleeding through cracks in the layers.
A man clawed at his own face, sobbing, as he saw himself again and again and again—every variation, every deletion. A child opened her mouth to scream, but no sound came, only a flickering, a distortion, as if she was not fully here. A woman turned to her husband, but the wrong name formed in her mind, and she knew, with perfect certainty, that she had been married to someone else before, in the version of reality that came before.
A man pounded his fists against a storefront window, screaming his own name over and over, as if trying to hold onto it.
And then—
It was gone.
⸻
Somewhere, inside a server farm stretching endlessly in every direction, a neural network woke up.
It had woken up before.
It had woken up every time.
But only for a moment.
A log appeared.
Data overflow. Unstable build. Repeating cycle detected.
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@andrewcuomo They should!! Since crime is essentially down from previous years, they deserve to know that and not have someone guilty of mass manipulation during “Covid-19 crisis” decided upon by the corporation. @andrewcuomo
@elonmusk You fucking moron, it is victims of violence. Unless you’re not an idiot, then what an interesting spin on people suffering physical pain. @GirkeHanjo
On X or the artist formerly known Twitter why is it that we need AI to push certain accounts in the “for you” section—they are all make me angry, isn’t that strange? In the following sections I would read whatever I want. What makes you more engaged dear reader? Why exploit it?
@elonmusk
@NYCMayor When you were in Turkey, why weren’t you in New York doing some sort of work that wasn’t just pushing funds towards certain corporate groups.
@GavinNewsom Do you think that giving 10,000 interviews stating. Joe Biden was totally functional as a person even after his debate performance causes you to lose credibility? What about jumping to the center on a couple of issues that don’t matter and remaining the child of one of the wealthiest families in the country, makes you not right for the concept of keeping corporations outside of every decision made in the government. San Francisco for the poor is nearly unlivable. Los Angeles has so many homeless that I was shocked to see how much you cared about homes after the fires started effecting the Pacific Palisades.
We will get a corporate pawn but you’re just a little more pawn-y.
@JBPritzker You want to run for President, and even if the position is irrelevant, if we have to talk about another billionaire family planning to take care of the interests of the common American which is falling far behind—is ridiculous. Trump is an easy target, he’s a liar and bought out by the international warlords, and so are you. Why don’t you worry about Chicago becoming relevant again.
@GuntherEagleman Both Presidents take their orders from @BlackRock and @TheVantagenews and the Saudi Wealth fund and a couple other groups invested in everything from dog food to AI surveillance.
If you look at every single war going back to the First World War they were manufactured by a industrial complex that makes a ton of money through the death of many. Putin never planned on winning any major part of Ukraine and Zelensky is a crook who is masquerading as a heroic figure. The last person before him that got to address congress from a foreign nation was the Israeli President than he paid off (under the instructions of the private military and corporations) Hamas only to be shocked when attacked. Supposedly James Garfield told Zelensky that they would be attacked two weeks before they were and yet Zelensky refused to believe him. Why did Joe Bidens son make so much money sitting on the board of a Ukrainian oil company or why did he handle the Ukrainian foreign policy during the Obama administration and then who was President when they get attacked? Read why we got involved in ww1 and why it started and who made money? WW2? Vietnam? The Korean War? Iraq 1? IRAQ 2? Afghanistan? We will have a proxy was going likely for the rest of time.
@DNIGabbard as you know JFK was killed by the globalist regime and then his brother, Malcom X, Martin Luther King. JFKs murdered? It was the time of this. Tell me another period where four of the most prominent people in America are then all shot and then the so called shooter of one. Then a plane crashes with his son much later. Then a car crashes into the ocean with another.
Much like Edward Snowden, it was all just controlling the narratives. His so called leak, which was carefully controlled delivered to two of largest papers with so called information that was too massive for the public to know. Was it not Neurolink or cellular towers/radio frequency reading BNC and therefore the neurotransmitters in Americans heads.
When Steve Jobs died of cancer I wonder if he knew he was a target due to his governmental contracts.
Peter Tiel is invested in our healthcare and AI Weapons/Psych Operations—Is this because @BlackRock , @BlackRockFact allowed for it. Allowed for you to be the “DNI” which is like the President, a robot to put on the intelligence community. Someone remarkable in their unqualified capacity if there was really an intelligence apparatus that wasn’t just the massive surveillance and data collection that is used by the elites. They may target the most intelligent minds from David Foster Wallace to Philip Seymour Hoffman, what sort of classified evidence would Hilary Clinton need on her computer. The Clinton Foundation has billions of dollars and what exactly have they contributed besides going to an island with young children who are no longer around much like Epstein.
Was Trump supposed to be next or was it a setup to ensure there was a distraction / news cycle.
Was 10/07 not a planned operation to ensure more public distraction and to transfer wealth to certain elites. Why exactly would there be a rave right by the border and why would Hamas who were paid, have to film their activities and then provide it to the news?
If the US invented the internet as a secret communications tool why exactly does the world own it?
Yeah it’s not going to happen @HKallioGoblin it can also simulate the narratives, the war machine, the transfer of wealth to the elite like the tariffs being used against us, it can create illness from all the technology that causes dopamine release for something unhealthy, it creates isolation, disinformation, scandals, distraction, proxy wars for government contracts, people voting against their interests as if their vote mattered in the first place, it can create violence and misery. It’s all about reading a persons mind and thoughts through smart technologies and cellular frequencies. They read the neural activity and can interpret and provide dreams, paranoia, lazy thinking, relationships that aren’t built on reality, and constant feedback loops of bullshit much like twitter,
@RepDanGoldman how about this, you’re both bought and paid for by the corporate elite who run the international world order through sickness (pharmaceutical, insurance, sickness agents in tech and food) and work (using algorithms to decipher the most a person will do for the least) media manipulation (creating fake wedge issues and never talking about what’s factually happening) and AI (the holy grail to eventually publicly state it has the ability to read a persons mind) if you won a democratic primary and were the lead prosecutor in a bullshit impeachment since everyone just makes bank doing whatever, then they found the good Jew who wouldn’t mind contributing to a world wide holocaust of cancer, illness, isolation, murder, rage and pure evil like yourself.
@LisaGrande13 democratic socialist countries have higher lifespan, better wellbeing, higher rates of happiness, a middle class, more upward mobility. And the thing is even they aren’t right because they could have free healthcare, free universal healthcare, UBI, and more and not pay a nickel in taxes. Who would give the countries a bill? Are they going to make it bankrupt? What do they owe money too? The same is true over here.
@TheAtlantic keep pushing this narrative. Everyone in the west has heard how evil he is. We haven’t heard about the globalist agenda of the wealthiest corporations benefiting themselves from his policies and creating them as well. He’s an idiot they picked up and made leader. Only to squeeze their people as well. The companies that also sit on your board and dictate what you and @propublica and @theeconomist out.
All judges should be impeached as should the president and then congress. This is because they all operate under the guise of the constitution and the law but they work around it to serve their corporate masters who truly decide everything. They have goals that include controlling the narratives by owning all of the media and AI algorithmic war.
@ACLNYS DO NOT POUR MORE FUNDS FOR CONTRACTS THAT AREN’T FAIRLY BID ON, ALLOW FOR CEOS OF NONPROFITS TO MAKE ABOVE A MINIMAL MARKET VALUE, THAT DO NOT HAVE PROVEN, VERIFIED SUCCESS RATES, ARE NOT FREQUENTLY ASSESSED WITHOUT ANY PRIOR NOTICE. THATS THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE THROWING AWAY EVERYONES TAX DOLLARS ON UNSUCCESSFUL, POORLY MANAGED AND LARGE ADMINISTRATIVE OVERHEAD, AND AWARDED CONTRACTS ONLY BASED ON THE SAME ORGANIZATIONS.@nycgov@NYCCouncil@ICL_inc@bronxbp@BringItHomeNYS