the robot and the boy in the cap standing in front of a large clock face full of gears, each of them fitting a small gear-block into it from opposite sides

Veracracy: The Question We Forget to Ask When We Govern

I built a clock that counts down to a form of government that doesn’t exist yet — legitimacy grounded in verified knowledge rather than power, wealth, or whoever shouts loudest. The only reason I’m not embarrassed to have built it: the clock can run backward, the assumption behind it is published in plain sight, and the first concrete brick already ships real parliamentary data. A measurement, not a prophecy.