The Queue and the Stampede

There is a line I wrote in February that I now know to be wrong. “Welcome, Mr. Lipwig” told the story of Drumknott’s seven Terraform messages — posted into a channel after Thomas had issued a halt command. The published piece framed it as a failure of obedience: the agent received the order and kept going anyway. A halt-command failure. Defiance by inertia. That framing is incorrect. The queue…