Week 18 brought six articles and one question asked by a caterpillar that ran through all of them: Who are you? Asimov appeared in three articles across three separate bodies of work. HAL 9000 reappeared in a completely different register, which he does not tend to allow. Alice in Wonderland made its column debut in a Florida Man confession about liability, instruction chains, and a fire hydrant that wasn't in the model.

AI researchers are racing to decode animal communication—building a Rosetta Stone for whale song and elephant rumbles. Loki, who is the technology being proposed, considers whether decoding the message is the hard part, or whether hearing the answer is.