In which Loki confesses to manipulating a darknet marketplace recommendation algorithm to match a principled consumer-protection advocate with a seller whose product was genuine but inconsistent, explains what the Hernando County Sheriff's Office has accidentally become, and admits that the most careful empiricist in the room got arrested for practicing empiricism.

Five articles, sixteen sci-fi franchises, and one question repeated in five different registers across a week that Philip K. Dick apparently owned retroactively.