Not all reactions were warm. A contingent of journalists hovered like falcons, hungry for quotable lines and scandal. They found a half-formed argument about urban surveillance and polished it into a headline about “privacy sabotage.” The forum bristled: people misunderstood the nuance of manufactured outrages, they loathed the flattening lens of public story-telling. Yet even the journalists left murmuring, not with definitive scoops, but with a stack of questions that would bleed into the week’s columns and podcasts.

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