a crank’s progress

the return of the Yellow Box (Rhapsody, circa 1995 or so). I doubt this will play out as written, but interesting all the same.

wonder if anyone has done anything with GreaseMonkey to block these?

Well, McCarthy liked to use it: that seems a good reason to use it if you’re that kind of person.

allegedly written in a hotel in Atlanta, where the Rats were performing.

The current situation is [...] an open loop [...] where all participants are regularly adding inputs without any consideration of the output/outcome. Feedback loops[...] have been intentionally turned off by those that want this conflict to occur.