A signal begins as pure intention -- a thought compressed into electromagnetic form and released into a medium that will inevitably distort it. The first interference is gentle: a soft displacement, a warmth that was not in the original. The message persists. The meaning holds. But already, the edges are not what they were.
Authority is a signal like any other. It transmits with conviction but arrives with artifacts. The geometry that once organized meaning now admits gaps -- borders dissolve, alignments drift, the grid that held everything in place begins to soften. What emerges in the static is not chaos but a different kind of order: the architecture of entropy.
The pieces remember being whole.
extinguish / get lost / shut off
SIGNAL TERMINATED — 2026.03.08