Winston 2025 – Entry 001

March 1, 2025 – 22:37
Private Entry – Not Logged. Not Compliant.

Today, the Institute ceased to exist.

At 09:12, four field operatives from MINIDOGE arrived. Barely out of adolescence—code-hardened, fully Eloned, Neuralinked. They wore silver lanyards and mirrored eyewear. Their fingertips carried biometric override. Their tone: cheerful efficiency. Their power: absolute.

They convened beneath the Literacy mosaic and installed Acting Director Melissa G. by tablet oath. Dana was escorted away by CIVGUARD. No disruption logged. No farewell issued. Her terminal self-erased. Her name is now unperson.

At 09:37, the hallway screens blinked, then rebooted. The banner now read:

Bureau of Symbolic Literacy
(A division of MINIDOGE, operating under MINITRUE 2.0 alignment protocol)

All prior references to the Institute were rectified.
Correction Bulletin #443-A was issued at 10:11:

“There is no record of an Institute of Museum and Library Services. There has never been an Institute of Museum and Library Services.”

I received Edit Queue 88-B through my terminal.

• Reclassify all public grant initiatives as Nonproductive Memory Objects (NPMOs)
• Convert civic access programs into Legacy Overhead Artifacts
• Doublepluscancel diversity allocations retroactively to FY2022
• Update mission language: “Inspire curiosity” → “Optimize symbolic compliance”

By 14:00, I had corrected 237 files.

Melissa G. toured our pod. She referred to the archives as “thought clutter.” She said TRUTHLIGHT v.3 would streamline all noncompliant narratives. “This is doubleplusgood for national cohesion,” she smiled.

At 14:47, I noticed Sarah behind me. She whispered:
“Greetings from a dead man.”

She is no longer listed in the MINIDOGE staff directory.
I suspect she’s been redirected to MINILUV.

The old mission charter—pre-DOGE, pre-TRUTHLIGHT—is hidden in foil behind the HVAC grille. It is tripleplusforbidden. The ink bleeds from age. It begins:

“To preserve knowledge, expand inquiry, and protect cultural memory.”

We are not allowed to remember that version.
It was officially malquoted and replaced.

Today was doubleplusproductive.
The past was corrected.
The present was made clear.
The future is under construction.

I write this in private, which is a kind of treason.
But silence is worse. Silence is vapor.

So I write.
Still.

—W