“… he said that an entirely other kind of catastrophe wasn’t merely possible, it had happened before. It was a deluge, of a kind unimaginable. A deluge of »time. Where lethal ‘chunks’ of the future and the past exploded into the temporal experience and minds of the peoples of our world… resulting in madness, prophecy… and all sorts of economic, military and cultural behavior that were at first just considered ‘odd’. Quickly, however, it became clear that time was shattering »into itself… as each moment and hour passed. No one had ever imagined anything like this… and the direct experience of it was, at first, ignored… until it became obvious. Clocks no longer agreed. Numbers failed to properly account for situations. The technologists saw the first unequivocal evidence, but by the time they could form theories about it… their own minds had begun to collapse. The phrase “You can’t measure anything that affects what you’re measuring with.” was bandied about, and shortly after that, abbreviated in graffiti around the world.”

— YCMATAWYMW (became YCM (became Y))