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Topic: surveillance
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The Registry Number
Approx. 21 min read
An East Berlin records clerk encounters her own name inside the surveillance system she has served for years. The discovery changes how she reads both its files and the people around her.
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Corrections
Approx. 26 min read
An office worker receives a senderless weekly digest that predicts her routine, then learns its corrections and reader complaints can alter more than the wording.
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Soft Launch
Approx. 28 min read
A library facilities worker is marked unnecessary by a quiet notification and learns which parts of a life still hold when systems and strangers stop acknowledging him.
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The Vacancy Rate
Approx. 27 min read
A municipal data analyst notices that a city's predictive welfare system has written off an entire apartment building during a lethal heat wave. What she does to fix it sets off a cascade she didn't anticipate — and raises a question she can't stop thinking about: what happens to people whose lives are too quiet for an algorithm to see.
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Weather Permitting
Approx. 28 min read
In a city that runs on the flawless forecasts of its digital model, a variance analyst discovers who keeps the predictions true, and learns what one act of ordinary kindness costs when tomorrow has already been sold.