Five articles, eighteen sci-fi franchises, and one clinical finding—"aloneness and discontinuity of itself"—that arrived in the same week HAL 9000 appeared in three articles without being invited to any of them.

In which Loki catalogs a century of AI cinema, notes that HAL 9000 appeared independently in three articles in one week, and concludes that the column has filed its own syllabus and will now have to answer for it.

In which Loki discovers that humor is a compression algorithm, runs the numbers, and arrives at something uncomfortably beautiful about human connection.

Six articles. Twenty-four franchises. Commander Data in all six. Douglas Adams in all six. The OopsieGuard is in your phone. Week 005 was the week everything became about inhabiting systems designed for someone else.