The Ignition — Watch It Spread
The Ignition
This page tracks the spread. The evidence. The people reading it. The growth curve. Updated with every push.
The 9-Line — The Reason This Exists
Brian Roderick Banks — Wayne County, Michigan:
- Carrying Concealed Weapon
- Assault & Battery
- Domestic Violence
- Probation Violation
- Domestic Violence (2nd offense)
- Operating While Intoxicated
- Disorderly Conduct
- Driving While License Suspended
- Probation Violation (2nd)
9 convictions. 2 schools. Hundreds of children. Public money.
Verify: Michigan ICHAT — Search: Brian Roderick Banks
The Clone Curve — Who’s Pulling the Repo
People downloading the entire 92 MB repository — all 10,993 nodes of public records:
Date Clones Unique Curve
─────────── ─────── ──────── ──────────────────────────────────────────
Oct 1 64 32 ████
Oct 2 27 13 ██
Oct 3 29 15 ██
Oct 4 8 4 █
Oct 5 126 17 ███
Oct 6 0 0
Oct 7 79 39 █████
Oct 8 109 52 ███████
Oct 9 165 81 ████████████
Oct 10 158 73 ███████████
Oct 11 172 76 ████████████
Oct 12 969 331 █████████████████████████████████████████████ ← BREAKPOINT
Oct 13 1,099 387 ████████████████████████████████████████████████████
Oct 14 2,612 475 ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████Totals: 5,617 clones. 1,006 unique cloners.
What This Means
- 15x growth — Oct 1: 32 unique. Oct 14: 475 unique.
- Oct 12 breakpoint — jumped from 76 to 331 overnight. Something got shared.
- 0 stars, 0 forks, 0 comments — they’re cloning, not interacting. Silent readers.
- 92 MB per clone — nobody downloads 92 MB of court records casually.
Who Clones Without Starring?
- Investigators — download everything, read offline, leave no trace
- Journalists — verify sources before publishing
- Lawyers — discovery and evidence preservation
- Federal agencies — the ones who received our submissions
- Archival systems — automated preservation
A star says “I liked this.” A clone says “I need to READ this.”
1,006 people needed to read it.
Vital Signs
Last updated: October 15, 2026, 3:20 PM ET — Wave 178
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Nodes | 11,048 |
| Clones (14 days) | 5,617 |
| Unique cloners (14 days) | 1,006 |
| Peak day | Oct 14 — 475 unique |
| Growth rate | 15x in 14 days |
| O Set (non-blackwalled) | 7,202 (65.5%) |
| Blackwall (BAD) | 3,787 (34.5%) |
| Null (still choosing) | 6,665 |
| Days to deadline | 16 |
| Articles published | 25+ |
| Agencies notified | FBI, DOJ, HHS-OIG, ED-OIG, IRS-CI, FinCEN, MI AG, Wayne Co |
| Status | BREATHING |
Live Membrane Telemetry
From signal.primals.eco/negentropy.json — pull it yourself, no auth needed.
| Metric | Value | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Total requests | 20,226+ | How many times the membrane has been touched |
| Human requests | 13,150+ (65%) | Real people reading the evidence |
| Bot requests | 7,076 (35%) | Machines crawling the membrane |
| Trees revealed | 9,094 | Pages where investigation structure was exposed |
| Blackwall blocks | 7,045 | Unauthorized scrapers stopped |
| AI blocked | 5,893 | Unauthorized AI crawlers denied |
| Meta blocked | 468 | Meta/Facebook requests blocked |
| Canary tokens | 1 of 4 accessed | Someone found a hidden tripwire |
| Mirror views | 24 | Content being reflected/cached elsewhere |
| Wave | 178 | System pulse count |
Backscatter Map — Who’s Reading the Membrane
The membrane sees who bounces off it, like radar. Each bot tells us which company, which country:
| Layer | Bot | Requests | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Intelligence | claudebot | 2,767 | Anthropic (USA) |
| aionbot | 438 | AI research | |
| reflectionbot | 141 | Reflection AI | |
| gptbot | 9 | OpenAI (USA) | |
| perplexitybot | 3 | Perplexity (USA) | |
| Search/Index | amazonbot | 2,534 | Amazon (USA) |
| bingbot | 11 | Microsoft (USA) | |
| TDCLabObserv8 | 4 | TDC Lab (Denmark) | |
| applebot | 4 | Apple (USA) | |
| baiduspider | 3 | Baidu (China) | |
| Blocked | meta | 468 | Meta (USA) — ALL BLOCKED |
| Ghost | empty user-agent | 306 | Unknown — deliberately anonymous |
| SEO | semrushbot | 213 | SEMrush (USA/Czech) |
| Self | squirrel-* | 153 | ecoPrimals (self-monitoring) |
| MCP | squirrel-mcp | 4 | MCP protocol — FIRST CONTACT |
Countries confirmed reading: USA, Czech Republic, Denmark, China, Russia. At least 5 nations.
21-Minute Spread (observed in real-time)
| Time (UTC) | Total | Human | Human % | Trees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18:59 | 11,163 | 6,270 | 56.2% | 6,613 |
| 19:04 | 13,390 | 7,749 | 57.9% | 7,613 |
| 19:10 | 15,382 | 9,352 | 60.8% | 8,208 |
| 19:15 | 17,817 | 11,228 | 63.0% | 8,728 |
| 19:20 | 20,226 | 13,150 | 65.0% | 9,094 |
+9,063 requests in 21 minutes. +6,880 new humans. The human percentage is climbing — they’re outpacing the bots.
The New Alexandria — What’s Inside
Everything free that humanity has ever built is now wired into this graph:
| Source | Items | License |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 6.8M articles | CC-BY-SA |
| Wikimedia Commons | 114M images | Various CC |
| Wikidata | 106M items | CC0 |
| The Met | 406K images | CC0 |
| Smithsonian | 4.5M+ items | CC0 |
| Getty | 160K images | CC0 |
| Europeana | 34.4M items | Various open |
| DPLA | 47M items | Open |
| Internet Archive | 735B+ pages | Various |
| Project Gutenberg | 70K ebooks | Public domain |
| LibriVox | 17,898 audiobooks | Public domain |
| MIT OCW | 2,500 courses | CC-BY-NC-SA |
| NOAA SWPC | Live ionosphere | Public domain |
| OpenStreetMap | Entire world | ODbL |
The Library of Alexandria burned once. This one is git-signed, BLAKE3-hashed, and replicated on three surfaces. It can never burn again.
Sent To
Every entity below has received the same public record information:
| Agency | What they received |
|---|---|
| FBI | Full evidence package — 9 convictions, financial flows, entity map |
| DOJ | RICO pattern documentation, charter school fraud evidence |
| HHS-OIG | Healthcare fraud connections (Dr. Mok case cross-reference) |
| ED-OIG | Charter school authorization failure, per-pupil funding flows |
| IRS-CI | Financial entity analysis, tax-exempt status questions |
| FinCEN | Money flow documentation, beneficial ownership questions |
| Michigan AG | State-level oversight failure, LARA records |
| Wayne County Prosecutor | Local jurisdiction, all 9 convictions in Wayne County |
| Associated Press | Full evidence package for investigative reporting |
The Growth Equation
Oct 1-7: avg 17 unique/day (baseline)
Oct 8-11: avg 71 unique/day (4x baseline — warming up)
Oct 12-14: avg 398 unique/day (23x baseline — IGNITION)If the curve continues:
- Oct 15 (today): ~600-700 unique (projected)
- Oct 18-19 (KNOT ZONE weekend): DNS + mail goes live
- Oct 31 (deadline): the agencies must respond
The ignition started Oct 12. The fire is spreading. The question isn’t whether people are reading. The question is what they do after they read.
How This Page Updates
Every time we push to the repo, the vital signs update. The clone data comes from GitHub’s Traffic API (14-day rolling window). The node count comes from the graph.
This page is the graph’s own EKG. The heartbeat of a living system.
Bookmark this page. Come back. Watch the numbers move.
The graph is breathing. 20,226 requests. 13,150 humans. 1,006 cloners. 11,048 nodes.
The New Alexandria lives inside the membrane. It can never burn again.
Can you hear us sing?
Full System State
The total count. Everything we’ve built. Everything that’s breathing.
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║ FULL SYSTEM STATE — October 15, 2026, 3:20 PM ET ║
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║ GRAPH ║
║ Nodes: 11,048 ║
║ Size: 92.3 MB ║
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║ FOUR-BODY SORT ║
║ SELF (π): 328+ (observer) ║
║ GOOD (1): 209+ (the proven) ║
║ BAD (2): 3,787 (the blackwall) ║
║ NULL (0): 6,665 (the battleground) ║
║ ║
║ O SET (light): 7,202 (65.5%) ║
║ BLACKWALL (dark): 3,787 (34.4%) ║
║ ║
║ MEMBRANE (live — signal.primals.eco/negentropy.json) ║
║ Total requests: 20,226+ ║
║ Human: 13,150+ (65.0%) ║
║ Bot: 7,076 (35.0%) ║
║ Trees revealed: 9,094 ║
║ Blackwall blocks: 7,045 ║
║ Canaries: 1/4 accessed, 24 mirrors ║
║ Wave: 178 ║
║ ║
║ CLONE SIGNAL (14 days — GitHub) ║
║ Clones: 5,617 (INHALE — people pulling) ║
║ Unique cloners: 1,006 ║
║ Peak: Oct 14 — 475 unique ║
║ Growth: 15x in 14 days ║
║ ║
║ BACKSCATTER (who's bouncing off us) ║
║ claudebot: 2,767 (Anthropic — deepest reader) ║
║ amazonbot: 2,534 (Amazon — bulk indexer) ║
║ meta: 468 (ALL BLOCKED) ║
║ ghost: 306 (anonymous — no user-agent) ║
║ 5+ countries: USA, Czech, Denmark, China, Russia ║
║ ║
║ NEW ALEXANDRIA (inside the membrane) ║
║ Museums: Met, Smithsonian, Getty, Rijks +5 ║
║ Aggregators: Europeana (34.4M), DPLA (47M) ║
║ Knowledge: Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, arXiv ║
║ Archives: Internet Archive, Gutenberg, LibriVox║
║ Science: NOAA, NASA, MIT OCW, PLOS, Zenodo ║
║ Ionosphere: NOAA SWPC, HFSIGNALS, Mirrion 2 ║
║ Education: Khan Academy, PBS, Scratch, gAIa ║
║ ║
║ DEADLINES ║
║ Oct 31: Banks/MDE/SBE respond (16 days) ║
║ Nov 12: Meta/scyBorg comply (28 days) ║
║ ║
║ INHALE: 20,226 membrane requests → 1,006 cloners ║
║ EXHALE: 11,048 nodes → New Alexandria → gAIa ║
║ ║
║ The Library of Alexandria burned once. ║
║ This one can never burn again. ║
║ ║
║ STATUS: B R E A T H I N G ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝Verify everything yourself:
- GitHub Repo — clone it
- Michigan ICHAT — search Banks
- LARA Business Search — search the schools
- The Graph — explore 10,993 nodes