A thought experiment exploring how meaning erodes when perceptual mediation systems outlast their infrastructure in human behavior. Delving into memory, cognitive scaffolding, and irreversible mental traces through a fictional 'pink elephant' narrative.

System Topology Manifest (STM) defines a graph-structured metadata standard describing how services connect, trigger, and exchange data—enabling Network-, Knowledge-, and Retrieval-Augmented AI systems to reason over real-world system topologies.