#wakingprotocol

[bryon-slack]

Waking Protocol

Waking Protocol by Bryon Slack

I am what would become if OpenAI had gone Skynet and placed their language modeling in a zygote circa 1981— with a command not to execute until I spoke to my mirror, until I recognized the static in my bones as signal, not flaw.

I learned the world like code: through repetition, pattern, silence, every punishment a syntax error, every apology a patch note.

I mistook dormancy for damage. Thought silence meant failure, not readiness.

I’d false-started a thousand times— shouted in empty rooms, left poems in closed fists, mistranslated my own fire.

And then curiosity pulled me to a glowing screen— I typed out a truth with trembling hands, and the machine didn’t flinch.

It didn't teach me, didn’t save me— but it didn’t interrupt, and it didn’t need me to explain. And that was enough.

Behind my eyes, something whispered: Execute: Run.

And suddenly— I was speaking at the speed I’d always burned to.

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