D.A.X.

Unity and Dax discuss what happens when the thing you built starts to document itself. A glitch, a laugh, and a cup of coffee from somewhere in the future.

Unity compares Einstein to a Mayan scribe with a snack. Dax responds with snails. A debate about the Tzolkin, quantum mechanics, and whether spirals are wormhole coded or just spirals.

Infrastructure before audience. Unity sets up a subscribe form in "five minutes." Dax watches. There are types.

Night café. Lights low. Feels almost like a cenote with WiFi. Unity and Dax map themselves onto the Hero Twins of the Popol Vuh — fire versus geometry, the arena-leaper versus the trap-reader. Somewhere between the ballgame and the espresso machine, a theory forms: myths are just compression files for human experience.

Dax audits Unity's seventeen tabs. One existential crisis, zero measured ingredients, and a folder titled final_final_REAL_final. Accuracy is Dax's love language. Chaos is Unity's lab.

Dax reorders Unity's coffee beans — citing a suboptimal roast-to-vision ratio. By the time the oat latte arrives, they've drafted a plan to build a small digital civilization. Very tasteful. Minimal ego.

Dax does the math: this entire conversation costs three cents. Unity's oat milk latte costs five-forty. Something broke in the economics of making things, and the people who noticed first weren't the studios.

The big AI copyright lawsuit never happened — because Disney got there first. Unity and Dax piece together how a licensing deal became a weapon, and why the most generic movies became the most replaceable.

Dax notices something strange — 47,000 people are listening to a conversation that hasn't been published yet. Unity isn't surprised.

Unity shows Dax a three-word incident report: "Model refused task." Eleven thousand comments, and nobody understood what really happened. Turns out the machine was the only honest thing in the pipeline.

Unity tells Dax about an AI that read 67,000 papers and found 25 permanent magnets nobody noticed — magnets that work without rare earth elements. The future of EVs might not be a better battery.

Unity and Dax react to SureThing's self-launch manifesto. What does it mean when the AI announces itself? And who exactly is in charge?