The Transparency Report Was an AirTag

The AirTag left California hidden inside a rare book. It pinged again outside Milwaukee, then spent two weeks sitting in a distribution warehouse outside Kenosha. When the dot started moving again, it headed west by truck, stopped overnight in Grand Junction, Colorado, and ended its journey at a warehouse in Las Vegas. We haven't discussed AI yet. Patience, padawans. Keep looking at the dot. There is an old cartographer's trick for situations where you suspect somebody is copying your work and would prefer evidence over a strongly worded hunch. In the 1930s, General Drafting Company mapmakers Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers put a place called Agloe at a dirt-road intersection in the Catskills. The name came from their initials. The town did not exist. That was the point. Agloe was a copyright trap. Anyone independently surveying New York should find roads, rivers and, crucially, absolutely fuck-all called Agloe. If another publisher's map suddenly contained Agloe in precisely the…