BEHIND THE DESK — Bean has taken up position in the household's primary cable run and, in doing so, has become an unremovable component of its network infrastructure.
The occupation began sometime before noon and covers the point where four cables converge on the floor behind the desk: two power, one network, and one that nobody in this household has been able to identify and which everybody is afraid to unplug.
Bean is lying across all four.
His office confirms the position is intentional and describes it, in a written statement, as "load-bearing."
The claim rests on the warmth doctrine established at the amplifier earlier this month, which Bean has now successfully applied to a sunbeam, a strip of flooring, and a bundle of live power cable. Atticus's office, which authored the doctrine, has stopped responding to requests for comment.
Household IT — the same person who owns the amplifier, and who has now lost two separate pieces of equipment to the same legal theory — assessed the situation Wednesday afternoon and elected to take no action.
"Everything still works," he said. "Uptime is a hundred percent. Latency's the same. If I start pulling cables out from under him to prove a point, that's a me problem, and it becomes a much bigger me problem about four seconds later."
He has since begun routing new equipment around the cat rather than through the space the cat occupies, a practice network engineers describe as "designing for the fault."
The household AI company, founded last week on the warm side of the tower and valued by its founders at "large," has claimed the cable run as its first capital asset. The filing lists the company's physical plant as: one graphics card, warm; one bundle of cabling, warm; one cat, on top of both.
Analysts note the company continues to have no product, no customers, and no stated purpose, but now controls the physical layer, which several observers concede is more than most startups manage in the first week.
At press time the connection was stable, the cables were still warm, and nobody had gone behind the desk in eleven hours.