“Spies, Subsidies, and the BlackRockBot Intervention”
By John Donovan
(Shell’s oldest unresolved problem. Now assisted by AI.)
Scene: The Virtual Conference Room
The now-familiar neon-lit ShellBot interface flickers to life.
This time, I notice an extra chair.
Not a person — but a shimmering cube labelled:
=&3=&ShellBot, before we begin: my website came under cyber attack after Episode 1.
Twelve failed logins.
Suspicious timing.
Are we expecting trouble today?
ShellBot:
John, my security logs confirm it was not me.
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