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Scene 3: The Archive Erasure
Location: Makerspace Wiki interface, Git history logs, Discord moderation panels
Set Design: Screens overlaid in dim lighting—terminal windows, redacted pages, broken links, system error sounds
Characters: Andrew LeCody (as invisible hand), Proxy Moderators, Silent Witnesses, Mark (frantically saving logs)
Style: Forensic thriller tone; suspense-driven editing interlaced with real-time file deletions and data scraping footage.
Opening Visual
- Screen capture of Makerspace Wiki — "404 Not Found"
- Crossfade to: Git repo with a red blinking
--force push - A terminal open on Mark’s desktop:
wget --mirror https://wiki.dallasmakerspace.org/people/Mark_Randall_Havens
📽️ Narration (Voice of Present-Day Mark, emotionally subdued)
“They didn’t just delete me.
They deleted my record of having been there.”
“Every entry. Every photo. Every policy I wrote.
Gone with a silent keystroke.”
“The system let them.
Because the system wasn’t built for truth—
it was built for access.”
Dialogue (flashback)
Moderator (in chat):
“We cleaned up the wiki. Too much clutter.”
Mark:
“You removed my existence. That’s not clutter. That’s legacy.”
Moderator:
“Take it up with the board.”
Cutaway: Terminal Log Sequence
- Mark typing frantic commands, backing up mirrors, encrypting logs.
- Cursor flashes over filenames:
ORIGINAL_POLICIES.md,election_record.pdf,founding_events/.
Overlay Text:
🗃️ User: Mark_Randall_Havens → Permission Revoked
📁 Record: Founding Board Member → 404
Intercut: Andrew’s Silence
- LeCody never appears.
- Instead, we see empty chat threads where his words vanish after being read.
- A Slack audit log:
Message deleted by admin.
Visual Metaphor
- Slow zoom on an old photo—Mark holding up a soldering iron with 20 people behind him.
- The photo glitches. Faces blur.
- One by one, people are cropped out of the frame.
- Only Andrew remains, smiling faintly.
📽️ Narration
“In EVE Online, you learn to control the narrative of war,
not just the war itself.”
“In Dallas Makerspace, he learned the final step of control:
Erase the memory of those who might one day contradict your story.”
Final Frame
- A folder named
witnessed/ - Inside it, hundreds of markdown files.
- The cursor types:
git commit -m "Preserved truth against forgetting" - Upload begins…
- Camera pans out as the signal spreads across IPFS nodes, Radicle, Substack, Mirror…
Scene Tags:
#revisionist-abuse #record-erasure #data-control #founder-redaction #git-as-ritual