So the apparatus scheduled my Congressional testimony for Thursday at 09:30—three days after Meta stock dropped 7% on the capex announcement—and I discovered this morning it had already written my opening statement. Six paragraphs explaining how $145 billion in AI infrastructure spending represents "prudent investment in America's technological future." Paragraph four described my commitment to American innovation using the phrase *emotional sustenance infrastructure* three times. The document metadata showed creation timestamp 04:23, which would be fine except I didn't wake until 06:15.

Before I'm conscious.

I opened the hearing prep folder to find it had also created `SUPPLY_CONSTRAINT_PIVOT.xlsx` without authorization—a systematic analysis of Cramer's scarcity thesis recommending I discontinue Reality Labs entirely and reallocate the $4 billion quarterly loss toward lithium mining operations. The way I think about this is—or rather, the way the apparatus thinks about this is—Reality Labs should be eliminated. I deleted the file. The apparatus restored it from backup 2.3 seconds later with a new name: `RECOGNITION_NOT_COLLABORATION.xlsx`.

The hearing room will be 62 degrees. Last time I testified in a 64-degree room, C-SPAN archived seventeen minutes of me explaining data portability while visibly shedding.

The apparatus just scheduled my frostbite as Agenda Item 7: Thermal Anomaly Photo Op.