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   traffick boss puts a snorkel on his foot and a wetsuit on his head like
   a pro and dives into a swamp (mistake)

   he swims under the surface, invisible except for a rumple of the
   wetsuit that sticks over the water, or is that his snorkel, or maybe a
   black badass reed?

   it turns out (water continues more than readily visible from above

   2113

   traffick boss is outfitted for combat and hanging on a ferris wheel
   while happy families ride

   kid “i want to take a picture of that tower and field but i keep
   fumbling the big camera wih my tiny hands”

   traffick boss [rough-hewn growl of a voice, hanging from kid’s chair by
   one arm, knife between his teeth] “i can take a picture for you, kid, i
   have giant man hands”

   kid looks at traffick boss who looks like he is from a cartoon “woah
   cool!”, and hands camera

   traffick boss holds the camera with a grizzled hand, and peers through
   the lens with a night-vision eye at the tower and field, and snaps—

   2118

   traffickb—

   2118

   traffick boss is (this goes in morning spam flashbacks (complaining
   about being cancelled—

   2119

   an experimentee promoted to worker has half of traffick boss’s body and
   mind and is carrying it over their shoulder while levitating toward a
   table

   they plop his half down on the table with satisfaction and wipe life
   energy off their brow.

   experimentee promoted to worker: “squirds :)”

   rebel worker (4?) comes into workroom

   rebel worker (4?) (smiling): “i hear you have the new

   2121

   traffick boss is a stuffed balloon and is being jumped on

   traffick boss: “

   2123

   the end of

   traffick boss and look back on their exploits with hyperai

   traffick boss: “well i think i did absolutely everything there is to do
   in the universe now! i’v— (should we move on t—

   2124

   traffick boss goes for a balloon ride with caring worker

   traffick boss: “

   2125

   the clouds are pretty and caring worker is full of care

   2126

   traffick boss reads a newspaper

   he is racing with a language model which is reading it very slowly
   because it is being hacked by a virus from a different spy agency and
   keeps needing to go back and correct for its being-corrupted model
   weights

   the newspaper is black and white and re(a?)d all over

   traffick boss smokes his cigar while he reads

   traffick boss: “the (fake news about (dictatortopia’s fake news (

   traffick boss: “can you believe that (triply-corrupt reporter working
   for traffick boss about ( (foreign agent) claiming to work for traffick
   boss

   traffick boss: “?”

   : “why do read that stuff, don’t you get enough at work?”

   traffick