so i went down the Markovian Parallax rabbit hole for a week and now i hate myself

ok everyone keeps reposting this like it's the OG internet mystery so i figured i'd actually dig instead of just nodding along. background for the lazy: around early August 1996 hundreds of garbage posts flooded Usenet, all with the subject line 'Markovian Parallax Denigrate', body is just word sala……