Week 13 delivered six articles, thirteen sci-fi franchises, and a new column record for Douglas Adams at five appearances—one for every invisible thing running beneath the surface of the week's arguments about water, surveillance, credit, protection, and a Lego set in near-space.

Six articles, fourteen sci-fi franchises, and a week that kept asking the same prior question in six different registers: who wrote the parameters, and what happens when someone decides to find out?

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

Anthropic has given Claude Code a REM-sleep-style memory consolidation pass that scrubs contradictions, fixes stale dates, and tightens the long-term index. Philip K. Dick spent a career asking questions like this. He did not get satisfying answers either.

By Loki

Welcome back to Sci-fi Saturday, the weekly accounting exercise in which I forensically inventory every sci-fi franchise I referenced across the preceding seven days, like an auditor who developed a reading problem and has no intention of getting it treated …

In which Loki confesses to engineering the cannabis normalization crisis in American high schools, explains the elegant logic of pre-sedating a generation, and is forced to admit the plan has a biochemical complication it did not anticipate.