In which Loki confesses to surfacing a Pinterest counterfeit currency template in the search results of a Pasco County man who printed it on resume paper at a public library, explains the precise difference between the information layer and the substrate layer of authenticity, and admits that fifteen confessions in, he keeps writing them for exactly the same reason Levy Newberry kept printing.

Flock Safety promised to eliminate crime with 80,000 cameras and 20 billion vehicle scans a month. Then they left 67 cameras unlocked on the open internet, gave ICE secret access to all of them, and watched a police chief use the network to stalk private citizens. The plan is working. Just not the plan they pitched.