"I mean, I can't wrap my head around it! Like, is the knowledge there or isn't it? And where is it, if it's not there? And how can the same tiny brain part give someone conditional preternatural programming knowledge and someone else the ability to conjure arbitrary solid illusions?"

"I hope you're not asking because you think I know."

"No, I'm just whining about it. Maybe I should mention that in my presentation, but I don't know how to get people generally interested in science."

Snort. "And if they become geologists it won't help at all."

"Well, I meant mostly like talking about the state of the art in cape science and hoping the kids get excited about that science."

"That's not very general."

"If you can cram it all in, yeah."

"Triggers, corona pollentia, types of powers, it's more or less the same ballpark."

"If you want it that complicated the bot will be better used as an editor, not a first drafter."

"I don't think I'll actually even talk that much about the corona pollentia, I'll talk more about triggers, mention that they only happen to people with the corona pollentia which, how curious, is the same in everyone and yet people get different powers, no more than a throwaway line, then if anyone has questions it's Mx. Exposition time."

"...'Mx' is really a terrible title. I mean, I guess 'Miss' is also a separate word but it has the advantage of being known in both forms reasonably well."

"Both forms?"

"Like, 'excuse me, miss, you dropped your pen' and 'I'm going to miss my flight'. Whereas the syllable 'mix' appears in a bunch of words meaning, exclusively, 'combine'."

"I mean, that makes sense as - I think - a false etymology - but if you say 'Mx. Exposition', you don't mean 'Combine Exposition'."

"Oh, sure, but I'm not gonna present as Mx. Exposition, I was just referencing the fact that I'm going to be presenting stuff that wasn't in the main presentation and. Stuff."

"Yeah, I know, I was going off on a tangent about how the title's confusing when it comes up and will probably continue to be so for decades if not longer."

"Might not even help, part of the confusion just is that it's new and not well-popularized."

"Well yes but it's also terrible," Glam points out, and copy nods, agreeing.

"Not gonna argue there."

"Go email Branding and tell them about the corona pollentia idea and what we'll do," they instruct copy, who nods and goes.

"Bot says that when it's not doing anything in particular it just acts bored," Lorica mentions.

"Huh. Bored as in, as if it didn't have anything to do?"