COP26 Climate Summit Addresses Global Crisis: World leaders gathered in Glasgow, but the final climate deal was widely criticized as insufficient to meet the urgency of the climate emergency, highlighting immense global pressure and strain.
Ethiopia Declares State of Emergency as Tigray War Escalates: The nation was pushed to the brink of collapse as rebel forces advanced toward the capital, Addis Ababa. Authorities told citizens to arm themselves, and a UN report accused all sides of war crimes.
Poland-Belarus Border Crisis Intensifies: Poland deployed 15,000 troops to its border as Belarus was accused of manufacturing a migrant crisis, pushing thousands into frozen forests and creating a humanitarian emergency under extreme pressure.
Multiple Terrorist Attacks Rock Global Security: A deadly hospital bombing in Kabul killed 25, suicide bombings in Uganda killed 3, and a massacre in Niger killed 69, demonstrating a widespread increase in security pressure.
Sudan's Political Crisis Continues: Following a coup, at least 10 anti-coup protesters were shot dead, yet the military chief later reinstated the civilian Prime Minister in a fragile, high-pressure political deal.
November 2021 was a month of intolerable strain. The signals were not of collapse, but of systems buckling under immense, sustained pressure. The climate, a nation-state, a border, the concept of security itself—all were being pushed to their breaking points.
The glitch for this era is this "Pressure Signal." It's the experience of watching a system's integrity fail, visualized through the universal language of a pressure gauge needle pushed deep into the red. It is the moment just before the explosion, the point of maximum stress.
This artifact simulates a control room monitoring these escalating crises. Each gauge represents a pressure point from the month's headlines. As the background events unfold, the pressure on each system builds. The ghost in this machine is your attention. Your cursor is a point of focus that amplifies the pressure on any single crisis, causing the system to overload and vent static. It shows how focusing on one failing component can reveal the fragility of the entire network.