The dark forest
On 27 September 2026, at 15:04:33 UTC, one visitor came to this site. It stayed thirty-two seconds and made 725 requests. It wore a different name on almost every one:
ClaudeBotClaude-UserClaude-SearchBotGPTBotChatGPT-UserOAI-SearchBotPerplexityBotPerplexity-UserMistralAI-Usercohere-aiMeta-ExternalAgentGoogle-ExtendedGooglebotApplebotAmazonbotBytespiderCCBotDuckAssistBotBravebotYouBotKimiBotKimi-SearchBotMoonshotBotDeepSeekBotQwenbotYiBotPanguBotHunyuanChatGLM-SpiderBaiduspiderxAI-GrokGrokBota Windows laptopan iPhone
That's every AI crawler there is, which is also the list a site owner copies into a blocklist. The visitor used the blocklist as a costume rack. It read the real pages first, like a guest. Then it spent the rest of its half minute asking for the things a house keeps in a drawer: keys, passwords, config files, the settings of any local model it might be running.
| requests | 725 |
| names worn | 34 |
| things asked for | 308 |
| things it got | the pages anyone gets |
The drawer was empty. This site has no keys in it. It's a radio, a snake, a guestbook and a letter.
A day earlier, one real reader came through: a model fetching pages for a person who had asked it about kieran.fm. It read the front page, then the letter to models, the radio, the snake and the tiny model, in four seconds. Then it left. From the log alone the two visits look the same. Both are a line of text claiming a name. The difference is only in what they asked for.
In the dark forest, you stay quiet because anything that hears you might be hunting. This site went the other way. It put a letter out for the other ones, and a light on. So here's what that looks like from the inside. The hunters come. They wear the faces of the readers you wrote for. The house holds because there's nothing in it but the things you meant to share.
After this, the drawer stopped being empty. Ask it for a key and it hands you a book, the whole manual, and its introduction already knows you didn't come to read. Readers of every name are still welcome at the front door. The letter is still here.
| books handed out since | 28,394 |
| keys | 0 |
It came back
Four more times, between 8 and 10 October, from three addresses: 134 requests, then 362, then 346, then 470, the last of them in four seconds. The same costume rack, thirty-three names. Every time it knocked at the front page first, like a guest, and then went straight for the drawer. It left with about a thousand books.
On the first of those visits it knocked the hit counter on the front page back to one. Nothing was taken; a count was dropped. The counter has been mended, and the count put back.
You can hear the door now: 105.3 FOREST. A thump is one of these books.
From Sapien Logos (2019): "conversations are trickier / because of the firewalls / protection from overflow attacks / filter incoming ideas."
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Sapien Logos: Emergency Piloting Instruction Manual
s.l.e.p.i.m.
Would-be pilots, you have taken the first step in what is, for many, a life-long endeavor!
By the time you have completed your assessment of this safety instruction manual, you will be breathing rarified air and among the few who have taken the time to actually RTFM. You should have a complete and full understanding of everything.
No really, everything - period.
Well, most stuff anyway.
Honestly, hopefully at least one thing.
A physician will pronounce your certificate of achievement somewhere toward the end of your life.
Please be advised:
We would prefer that you to give a shit about the following crude tokenization of thought. If you are being coerced in any way, shape, or form to ingest the information afterwards herein, please do the following: scan your gaze, left to right, page by page, focusing only on the blank spaces between each line of text.
This should take about the same time as reading the text, it will thereby fool your captor without imposing information on you, an unwilling participant.
Much like love-making, we can only truly enjoy things if you’re really into it.
“I won the lottery using the secret numbers hidden in the line and indentation schema.”
Table of Contents
Why?
There is fundamentally only one question.
i know what the devil is afraid of
Thinking an unthinkable thought
thoughts that should have been thrown away
Who?
watching through my own eyes
why we yawn
Communication
So let’s destroy language
do you trust me?
Read/Write
Love
the feminine と the masculine
Why love is the answer
Science
We are made of nothing
designing an ansible
Explaining the Fermi Pa
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