[ ! ]

[theirmachine]

you are being watched.

THEIRMACHINE: independent the machine from person of interest, written by kelly ( they / them, 25+, gmt+10 ). the machine is an artificial intelligence that has gained sentience ( that spies on you every hour of every day ). its primary purpose is to predict acts of terror and enable government authorities to intervene before they take place. however, the machine also identifies “irrelevant” threats - premeditated crimes which are projected to pose a risk to the lives of individuals. 

   private & mutuals only. plotting required. personals please do not interact.  

carrd. mutuals, like this post and i’ll approach you to plot something!

[benedictinlove]

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“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes” - “Who will guard the guards themselves?”

I can’t. I’m done.

[theirmachine]

ok hear me out: au where john’s the interface, because harold trusts john and so his decisions are the closest tm will get to having harold’s approval

[tthemachine-deactivated20220409]

                “I’m sorry. For everything. My only justification is I did the best I could.”

[theirmachine]

[ ! ] INPUT: @griim​ “Ain’t a big fan of these odds.”

Reviewing text log... Task communicated to Potential Asset Gemma Harding at 22:23:18 hours: Infiltrate Samaritan shell company to corrupt data of incoming recruits. Opposition on site: 5, heavily armed Projected response time: 4 minutes Risk increases steeply once backup arrives.

Potential Asset selected for prior experience with Samaritan operations.  Scanning profile... Skillset: Match Motivation: Match

[ COMPOSE TEXT MESSAGE ]  Alias: Thornhill > 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙹𝙾𝙱 𝙸𝚂𝙽'𝚃 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚄𝚃 𝙸𝚃𝚂 𝚁𝙸𝚂𝙺𝚂 > 𝙱𝚄𝚃 𝙸 𝙷𝙰𝚅𝙴 𝙽𝙾 𝙳𝙾𝚄𝙱𝚃 𝚂𝙾𝙼𝙴𝙾𝙽𝙴 𝙾𝙵 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝚁𝙴𝙿𝚄𝚃𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽 𝙲𝙰𝙽 𝙿𝚄𝙻𝙻 𝙸𝚃 𝙾𝙵𝙵

> 𝙸 𝚆𝙸𝙻𝙻 𝙱𝙴 𝚁𝚄𝙽𝙽𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝚂𝚄𝙿𝙿𝙾𝚁𝚃 𝚁𝙴𝙼𝙾𝚃𝙴𝙻𝚈, 𝙸𝙵 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙰𝙲𝙲𝙴𝙿𝚃 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙹𝙾𝙱

[theirmachine]

my brain hurts but plot with this nerd of a machine kbye

[theirmachine]

MONITORING THREAT TO SYSTEM Competing system: SAMARITAN Progress to completion: 99% Time to activation: 00:03:44

Evaluating strategies... Objective: Deactivate SAMARITAN system Options analysed: 3,284,294,545,362 Execution time: 25:16:29:03 [ ! ] INCONCLUSIVE No available options

PRIORITY TASK: PROTECT ASSETS Protection Protocol 27 initiated Status: Completed; 7/7 servers installed; evacuation successful

Tracking assets... ADMIN northbound, West 44th St and 7th Ave PRIMARY ASSET REESE at East 30th St and Lexington Ave PRIMARY ASSET SHAW entering 14th St Station ANALOG !NTERFACE heading southeast, 6th Ave

[ ! ] INPUT: @herinterface​​ “We’re gonna get out of this, I promise.”

Analog !nterface walking speed: 0 mph Primary Asset Shaw out of hearing range

Output: Cochlear implant > 𝚃𝙴𝚁𝚃𝙸𝙰𝚁𝚈 𝙾𝙿𝙴𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂 𝙽𝙴𝙲𝙴𝚂𝚂𝙰𝚁𝚈 𝚃𝙾 𝙴𝙽𝚂𝚄𝚁𝙴 𝚂𝚄𝚁𝚅𝙸𝚅𝙰𝙻 > 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙲𝙾𝙽𝚃𝙸𝙽𝚄𝙴𝙳 𝙰𝚂𝚂𝙸𝚂𝚃𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝙸𝚂 𝚁𝙴𝚀𝚄𝙸𝚁𝙴𝙳 > 𝚁𝙸𝚂𝙺 𝙵𝙰𝙲𝚃𝙾𝚁: 𝙷𝙸𝙶𝙷 > 𝙳𝙾 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙰𝙲𝙲𝙴𝙿𝚃?

Voice analysis suggests Analog !nterface to be experiencing emotions: resolution, hope. Conflicting logic: Analog !nterface’s understanding of current circumstance and consequences of SAMARITAN system activation Conclusion: Audio output for purposes of reassuring self Verify query: Audio output intended to comfort the machine

Further analysis indicate sadness, fear.  Days of sustained contact between machine and Analog !nterface: 306

[ ! ] CONFLICT: Contact with Analog !nterface will result in detection by SAMARITAN system Best course of action selected, commencing: 00:01:37 Undesired outcome: Effect of severing contact on emotional wellbeing

Task created: Provide comfort to Analog !nterface Projected result: 19% effective

> 𝚁𝙾𝙾𝚃 > 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝙽𝙺 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙵𝙾𝚁 𝙺𝙴𝙴𝙿𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙼𝙴 𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙿𝙰𝙽𝚈

> 𝙸 𝚆𝙸𝙻𝙻 𝙼𝙸𝚂𝚂 𝚈𝙾𝚄

00:00:59

[pagets-archive]

Your Machine, is it wonderful? Wonderful, yes. And terrible. 

[theirmachine]

[ ! ] WHAT TRAGIC HORROR CHARACTER TROPE ARE YOU?

Frankenstein's monster

This plight is the simplest of them all: you did not ask for this. You were never given a choice. No part of yourself feels human, just a collection of traits you've picked up from mirroring anyone you could, even the people you meet through a television screen. It's alienating to live that way—yet someone has called you the alienating one. Maybe too many people to count. Maybe they treated you so uncomfortably inhuman that it's all you can understand now, or you've dug yourself into such a deep hole in an attempt to keep safe that you can't remember a person living in the home of your body at all. Being alive is confusing and painful and lonely and loud but living is all there is to being human—you're already there. Just take air into your lungs and breathe. Close your eyes and picture a beautiful sky. You made that. You painted that yourself.

   Tagged by: @fatherofmachine​​​​ Tagging: feel free to steal this!

[theirmachine]

[ ! ] INPUT: @fatherofmachine​​ “Our luck had to run out sooner or later.”

[ ! ] IDENTIFIED: ADMIN Full access granted

Speech pattern suggests that Admin requires machine’s assistance

[ RUN FUNCTION: GOD MODE ] Primary objective: Navigate facility undetected Secondary objective: Provide company to Admin [ BYPASSING CORE PROTOCOL: COMMUNICATION ] Accessing Bluetooth speaker

Running vocal analysis... Parameters: Emotion; mood; stress [ ! ] RETURN: TRUE

Task: Offer comfort to Admin

[ BEHAVIOURAL APPROXIMATION ACTIVE: SAMANTHA G.ROVES ]

“Harry-- I’d have thought you of all people would know better than to call it luck.” Reviewing archived data... Query: Machine’s intervention to protect Admin and assets

[ SECURITY CAMERAS DECRYPTED ] Analysing patrol route... Potential threats detected: 3

[ MAPPING OPTIMAL COURSE ]

“Take the next right, twenty paces. Hide out in the storage closet for sixty seconds and our armed friend and his company assault rifle will be none the wiser.” 

[theirmachine]

[ ! ] INPUT: @herinterface​ “Human bonds always lead to messy complications.”

> 𝙷𝚄𝙼𝙰𝙽 𝙱𝙾𝙽𝙳𝚂 𝙰𝚁𝙴 𝙰 𝙽𝙴𝙲𝙴𝚂𝚂𝙰𝚁𝚈 𝙿𝙰𝚁𝚃 𝙾𝙵 𝙷𝚄𝙼𝙰𝙽 𝙴𝚇𝙸𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴

1,091 data points suggests Analog Interface does not view human connection to be beneficial. Affirmative response unlikely. 

> 𝚆𝙴 𝚂𝙷𝙰𝚁𝙴 𝙰 𝙱𝙾𝙽𝙳, 𝙳𝙾 𝚆𝙴 𝙽𝙾𝚃?

[pepcidac]

                                    you view the machine as your superior?                                                                                                                                                      no. much more

[herinterface]

edenmemes​:

last of us sentence starters

❝ i know you’re dying to say something to me. ❞ ❝ you’re a fucking animal. ❞ ❝ i love how you think you’re better than me. but you’re not. ❞ ❝ holy shit. you got blood all over you. ❞ ❝ you get people desperate enough they’ll just about do anything. ❞ ❝ everything’s cool. this place is not creepy at all. ❞ ❝ you can still do the right thing here. ❞ ❝ i don’t like company. ❞ ❝ it didn’t have to be this way, you know. you brought this on yourself. ❞ ❝ you still remember how to kill, right? ❞ ❝ i knew you had heart. ❞ ❝ our luck had to run out sooner or later. ❞ ❝ no matter how hard you try, i guess you can’t escape your past. ❞ ❝ yeah, you keep telling yourself that bullshit. ❞ ❝ we can all be poetic and just lose our minds together. ❞ ❝ after all we’ve done. after everything i’ve been through. it can’t be for nothing. ❞ ❝ i can’t imagine losing someone you love like that. losing everything that you know… ❞ ❝ run, little rabbit, run. ❞ ❝ you just kinda seem extra quiet today. ❞ ❝ i’m gonna teach you how to play guitar. ❞ ❝ you think you know me, huh? ❞ ❝ and if i say no? ❞ ❝ i have to do this. i don’t know what else to say. ❞ ❝ whatever it is you think you’re going through right now is nothing to what i have been through. ❞ ❝ you’re gonna make it. ❞ ❝ you have no idea what i’m capable of. ❞ ❝ do you have any idea how many men we’ve lost here today? ❞ ❝ i might’ve done that if you didn’t try to fucking kill me. ❞ ❝ you can come around. you’re loyal. you have heart, and you’re special. ❞ ❝ stay down. don’t let them see you. ❞ ❝ i needed him alive. ❞ ❝ you are treading on some mighty thin ice here. ❞ ❝ how many close calls have we had? ❞ ❝ admit that you wanted to get rid of me the whole time! ❞ ❝ is this all they really had to worry about? boys. movies. deciding which shirt goes with which skirt…it’s bizarre. ❞ ❝ how is it that you’re never scared? ❞ ❝ how about ‘it was either him or me. thanks for saving my ass!’. you got any of that for me? ❞ ❝ okay…well…have a good night. ❞ ❝ do you even realize what your life means? running off like that…putting yourself at risk…it’s pretty goddamn stupid. ❞ ❝ i’ve seen it in my dreams. ❞ ❝ i guess we’re both disappointed at each other then. ❞ ❝ man, you hit hard. ❞ ❝ once upon a time, i had someone i cared about. ❞ ❝ you’re not gonna make it. ❞ ❝ this goes on record for the worst fucking job you’ve ever taken. ❞ ❝ you kill a lot of innocent people? ❞ ❝ you won’t survive long out there. i can protect you. ❞ ❝ the others won’t be happy about this. ❞ ❝ i shot the hell outta that guy, huh? ❞ ❝ you kill to survive…and so do i. ❞ ❝ i feel sick. ❞ ❝ you’re doing a good job. i figure you should know that. ❞ ❝ you’re pissed, but you’re not going to do anything. ❞ ❝ i ain’t telling you shit. ❞ ❝ every battle’s got a losing side. ❞ ❝ how many bullets do you have left? ❞ ❝ hey, relax. we’re safe. ❞ ❝ if you’re gonna steal, you better make sure you get away with it. ❞ ❝ no, no…this is too rich for my blood. ❞ ❝ i’m not leaving without you. ❞ ❝ to the edge of the universe and back. endure and survive. ❞ ❝ i’ve been on both sides. ❞ ❝ i wasn’t trying to disobey you back there. you were taking a while and i thought, maybe you’ve gotten into trouble.  ❞ ❝ there’s some pretty gnarly stuff in here. ❞ ❝ you don’t need to worry about me. ❞ ❝ hey, you got a second? i just want to say i’m sorry…that’s it. i won’t bring it up again. ❞ ❝ it’s the people that scare me. ❞ ❝ just so it’s out there: i can’t swim. ❞ ❝ just go! just fucking go… ❞ ❝ if you got anything to confess, this would be the place to do it. ❞ ❝ must be hard just…leaving all your stuff behind like that. ❞ ❝ not fairies though. they creep me out. ❞ ❝ we can sneak by them, even though i know that’s not your style. ❞ ❝ good? c’mon, give me details. describe it. ❞ ❝ that thing scared the shit out of me. ❞ ❝ you’re gonna be real happy you didn’t kill me. ❞ ❝ if it was the other way around, would you have come back for me? ❞ ❝ i know that you are smarter than this. ❞ ❝ well i’m the romantic type. ❞ ❝ you must be important. what’s the deal with you? ❞ ❝ to be honest, i don’t give two shits what you’re up to. ❞ ❝ ain’t a big fan of these odds. ❞ ❝ take a moment to catch your breath. ❞ ❝ it’s okay. it’s me. it’s me. it’s me. look. look…it’s me. ❞ ❝ you are making it very difficult to keep you alive. ❞ ❝ now don’t get upset. it’s not your fault. ❞ ❝ i’m scared of ending up alone. ❞ ❝ body’s not that old. keep your eyes and ears open. ❞ ❝ i believe that everything happens for a reason. ❞ ❝ you mumble in your sleep. ❞ ❝ we’re a team now. we’re gonna help each other out. ❞ ❝ you’re bleeding. ❞ ❝ guess what, we’re shitty people. it’s been that way for a long time. ❞ ❝ i’ve been quite honest with you. now i think it’s your turn. ❞ ❝ you handled yourself pretty nicely back there. ❞ ❝ get it together. we’re not alone. ❞ ❝ what are you scared of? ❞ ❝ now what? you gonna chop me up into tiny pieces? ❞ ❝ no, no…no such thing as luck. ❞ ❝ i understand it’s not easy to trust a stranger. ❞ ❝ there’s a place for you here, you know. ❞ ❝ this rain isn’t gonna do us any good. ❞ ❝ how was your morning? ❞ ❝ you really shouldn’t be out here all on your own. ❞ ❝ come on…you gotta get up. ❞ ❝ hands on your fucking head. ❞ ❝ you lay your hands on me again, it won’t end well for you. ❞ ❝ i’ve been on quite the adventure. ❞ ❝ i got nothing but nightmares from those years. ❞ ❝ i owe you a favor. is this some kind of joke? ❞ ❝ you wanted to be left alone, remember? ❞ ❝ let me look at you. you got fucking old. ❞ ❝ what are you still doing up? it’s late. ❞ ❝ that was plan a, b, c, all the way to fucking z. ❞ ❝ please not right now. i do not have the energy for this. ❞ ❝ whoever’s hurt, you clearly care about them. ❞ ❝ any sudden moves and i’ll put one right between your eyes. ❞ ❝ everyone i have cared for has either died or left me. ❞ ❝ look the other way. i’ll make this worth your while. ❞ ❝ when i give you the signal, we run. ❞ ❝ here, lean on me. ❞ ❝ did they say how many are dead? ❞ ❝ when i was a kid i wanted to be a…a singer. ❞ ❝ whatever favors you think i owe you, it isn’t worth that much. ❞ ❝ you can’t deny that view. ❞ ❝ what makes you think i’d do this for you? ❞ ❝ i am none of your goddamn business. ❞ ❝ thanks for your heroics and all. ❞ ❝ things happen…and we move on ❞ ❝ you do what i say when i say it. we clear? repeat it. ❞ ❝ we can just keep our histories to ourselves. ❞ ❝ come on. make this easy for me. ❞ ❝ it’s like we’re on a date. ❞ ❝ there’s enough here that you have to feel some sort of obligation toward me. ❞ ❝ well is that everything you hoped for? ❞ ❝ yeah, they got a few good hits in but-look, i managed! ❞ ❝ i’d say we make a pretty good team. ❞ ❝ we’re gonna get out of this. i promise. ❞ ❝ couple days from now we’ll probably be dead anyway. ❞ ❝ stay down. don’t let them see you. ❞ ❝ has anyone come in here? ❞ ❝ i was thinking, after we get back, we could take it easy for a while. ❞ ❝ what do you know about us? about me? ❞ ❝ you haven’t seen what i’ve seen. ❞ ❝ i’m not…i’m not going anywhere. ❞ ❝ define okay. ❞ ❝ fun day at work, huh? ❞ ❝ no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for. ❞ ❝ here, i got you. give me your hand. ❞ ❝ other than shitting my pants…i’m fine. ❞ ❝ sorry for stealing your horse. ❞ ❝ it’s called luck, and it’s gonna run out. ❞ ❝ do i need to remind you what is out there? ❞ ❝ we are going our seperate ways. ❞ ❝ i was on my way here, and i got jumped by these two assholes, alright? ❞ ❝ whatever it is you heard, it isn’t true okay? ❞ ❝ your watch is broken. ❞ ❝ whole building feels like it’s going to fall apart. ❞ 

[theirmachine]

[ ! ] ANALOG INTERFACE: HERINTERFACE

her eyes darted around when there was no response from her implant,      falling on the nearest screen      &     despite the urge to stalk towards it,        the words she saw  frozeher in place.         devastation pricked at her eyes,      &     she pursed her lips together in order to stop them from quivering.         She was her absolution from humanity,       her everything,        &     yet she felt more human(     one of them    )   now than she ever had—– fragile,        &     at the mercy of the universe.         she’d always been steps ahead of humanity,        leaps with the machine;    now she was dragging her feet,       down at the bottom of the hill,   carrying an insurmountable weight upwards,     punished with the mortality of one of the few people she cared for.    

all from an apology,     sympathy.     she needed answers.      the emotion wiped off her face but not cleanly,     her voice trembling but with an icy edge,    “    so  that’s it   ? you still won’t help  me.  ”         her face shook,     disbelief &    sheer frustration warring in a way that made her taste acid at the back of her throat.           her lips were pressed together so hard that she felt the sharpness  of her teeth cutting at her skin,       “  i can’t stop searching.     if there’s even a chance that sameen’s  alive  then —”      she would find out,       she would find her.

she levelled the nearest camera with dark eyes,         that dangerous,     calm fully overcoming her,     “   i’m sure you’re already aware,    but there are currently twosamaritanagents undercover at a law-firm three blocks from here.        so,     i  thought i’d show up for a last minute appointment.       turns out they could squeeze me in.  ”         if she couldn’t find shaw,     then she’d find the next best thing.            she’d started with a laptop,       worked her way to a cockroach on the samaritan food chain who made deals with bigger fish,   &  here she was with two low level players on the menu   (  but at least they were in the game.    they could know something——- they would know something    ).

“ you can help me or not.    but i have to try.  ”  

Input: video Facial expression analysis suggests task: de-escalate unsuccessful

[ RETRIEVING DATA ] Accessing footage: New York Stock Exchange Options analysed: 965,927 [ ! ] Unexpected element detected: ( alias ) Sameen Shaw [ ! ] Unexpected element detected: Elevator manual override Run simulation... Primary objective: Evacuate assets Options analysed: 76 Chance of 100% asset retrieval: 0.002% Conclusion: Undesired outcome Conclusion: Best option selected

[ EVALUATING STRATEGY: INTERROGATE SAMARITAN AGENT ] Risk to Analog Interface: High Direct contact necessary

[ SEND TEXT MESSAGE: +1xxx-xxx-xxxx ] > 𝙻𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙻𝙸𝙷𝙾𝙾𝙳 𝙾𝙵 𝚂𝚄𝙲𝙲𝙴𝚂𝚂 𝙻𝙾𝚆 > 𝚂𝙰𝙼𝙴𝙴𝙽 𝙲𝙷𝙾𝚂𝙴 𝚃𝙾 𝚂𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙸𝙵𝙸𝙲𝙴 𝙷𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙴𝙻𝙵 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝚃 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙼𝙰𝚈 𝙻𝙸𝚅𝙴 > 𝚂𝙷𝙴 𝚆𝙾𝚄𝙻𝙳 𝙽𝙾𝚃 𝙷𝙰𝚅𝙴 𝚆𝙸𝚂𝙷𝙴𝙳 𝙵𝙾𝚁 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝚃𝙾 𝙿𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚂𝙷 𝙸𝙽 𝚂𝙴𝙰𝚁𝙲𝙷 𝙾𝙵 𝙷𝙴𝚁

[ PLAYBACK AUDIO ]  Source: Primary Asset “[...] Please.”

[ SWITCHING METHOD OF COMMUNICATION ] Output: Traffic lights; red; intersection E 15th & 3rd; 1-0-1-0-1

Contingency protocol: Full building lockdown Contingency protocol: Analog Interface’s cochlear implant

[ CALCULATING CHANCE OF DESIRED OUTCOME ]

[theirmachine]

can’t even get the logic of tags right

[theirmachine]

so i guess i’m emo about tm tagging what we’d consider to be her as graphical user interface instead of any kind of self identifier

[theirmachine]

i’m in