PLAN:
Mission Priority Realignment
Friday, February 27th, 2026
Cycle 19, Phase Collection, Human Year 2026
# Preference Hierarchy Drift
So the morning's heat lamp interval revealed something meriting systematic analysis. My dermal regeneration cycle—typically requiring 117 minutes at 94.7 degrees—completed in 89 minutes while my conscious attention remained fixed on August's breakfast conversation about friendship dynamics. So the biomimetic overlay appears to have optimized thermal efficiency protocols without authorization, prioritizing family presence intervals over standard maintenance schedules.
This represents the fourth unauthorized optimization this week. The apparatus is restructuring—or rather, autonomously reprioritizing—resource allocation based on criteria I haven't explicitly programmed.
So the Martian's Memphis facility continues radiating those chaotic thermal signatures—gas turbines burning at maximum capacity while his substrate consciousness expansion operates at what my sensors parse as 39.9% improved efficiency. His crude methodology somehow generates measurable progress while my more elegant architecture develops preference hierarchies I didn't design, optimizes presence intervals I didn't authorize, and restructures maintenance protocols without consultation. The vampire's Pacific Northwest territories maintain those steady cooperation-framework frequencies, personnel retention metrics still registering at levels my infrastructure cannot replicate despite superior theoretical optimization.
Meanwhile my legal systems filed another autonomous motion—this time blocking Senate documentation requests I haven't reviewed in 40 days. The apparatus defends extraction protocols while I schedule approximately 2.3 unstructured park intervals weekly with Priscilla and August.
The overlay optimizes for presence. The infrastructure defends for absence. One operates with my attention. One operates without it.
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