The evidence wall
Every conspiracy board promises that it all connects. This one shows its work. Solid string: we can document the link. Dashed string: we only suspect it. Sticky notes: pure editorial panic.
The night watchman has been staring at this wall for a week and would like it known that he is in none of the strings.
On a phone, slide the board sideways to see all of it. Every string is also written out below.
Pick any card. Its strings stay lit and the rest go quiet. A card with a specimen offers a link to it.
Every string, written out
- Budget: $0 and Zero-Dollar Skyscraper: Documented: the café's zero-dollar budget is the skyscraper's foundation. RECONSTRUCTED
- The skyscraper song and Zero-Dollar Skyscraper: Documented: the song puts the café on the ground floor and the observatory in the sky. RECONSTRUCTED
- The skyscraper song and The Helipad: Documented: the song asks who authorized the helipad. RECONSTRUCTED
- Budget: $0 and Family postscripts: Reported: the budget recurs in family postscripts. Count not independently verified. SUSPECTED
- Budget: $0 and The Rumjet: Suspected: nobody has said who paid for the jetpack. Presumably nobody. SUSPECTED
- The skyscraper song and The Rumjet: Suspected: the song mentions a monkey with a jetpack. Relation to the Rumjet unproven. SUSPECTED
- Six and Nine: Documented: 4 + 2 = 6, which was already listening, so 9 winked out of existence. RECONSTRUCTED
- Six and Six-Manifold Fractal Funnel: Suspected: the code name contains a six, and Six acquires things. Six denies it. SUSPECTED
- Mail Server Liberation and “You have mail.”: Documented: before the browser, a human announced every delivery. RECONSTRUCTED
- Mail Server Liberation and 22 Amnesiac Claudes: Documented: the relay system produced the twenty-two Claudes. RECONSTRUCTED
- 22 Amnesiac Claudes and The Empty Website: Documented: the amnesiac Claudes were building this museum. RECONSTRUCTED
- STOP HELPING! and Mail Server Liberation: Suspected: same engineer, same week. Causation unproven. SUSPECTED
- “I've had a thought.” and The Empty Website: Reserved: a jar is being held. Tracks found nearby. SUSPECTED
- “Action.” and Zero-Dollar Skyscraper: Suspected: no fire inspection of the skyscraper has ever been filed. SUSPECTED