They are warnings.
Arthur raised the remote. He didn’t know why. He pointed it at the screen. Chunghop Rm-l688 Universal Remote Manual
The television in the living room turned on by itself. The volume maxed out. Then dropped to zero. Then came back at half. A channel was changing—not flipping, but scanning, agonizingly slow. It landed on an old black-and-white movie. A man in a fedora was walking away from the camera, into fog. They are warnings
A small victory. He turned it back on manually. The Chunghop’s volume button worked. Then the channel changer. He flipped through the digital wasteland—infomercials, old sitcoms, a preacher shouting about the end times. He was about to toss the remote aside when he noticed a section in the manual he had never seen before. He pointed it at the screen