The five rules
- Every number carries its source and its timestamp. No orphan claims.
- No fabricated or interpolated data without explicit marking. (Reconstructions
are labeled reconstructions.)
- Gaps are shown, not hidden. A silent source is displayed as silent.
- The record is permanent. What we showed on any date is replayable; corrections
add to history, they don't erase it.
- Raw is one click away. Any rendered value can be traced to the cached payload
and the upstream URL.
Permanent disclosure · recorded 2026-09-24
The observation and snapshot record covering 11 June – 9 August 2026 was destroyed on
9 August 2026 when the history store was emptied. No off-site copy existed. This archive
restarts on 24 September 2026. This notice is permanent, per rule 4.
Not in this version
- No generated narrative. The model-written daily summary was retired on
2026-09-24. Every sentence in the daily Brief is
template-rendered directly from cached observations; no model writes any of it.
- No replayable time machine. The snapshot history that powered day-by-day
replay was destroyed on 2026-08-09 (see the disclosure above) and re-accumulation has
not yet been re-enabled. The Brief archive is the record that accrues from
2026-09-24 onward.
- No verification of upstream sources. This site relays instrument output with
provenance attached. It does not certify that any upstream reading is true — it
certifies where the reading came from and when.
- Most of the original layers are retired. Each retired layer carries a dated,
plain-English reason — the full ledger is on the
status page. Retirement is a decision, not a failure, and is displayed as such.
- No off-site archive copy yet. The Brief archive is committed daily to a local
git repository on this server; an off-site mirror requires an owner-held deploy key
and is flagged as pending until it exists.
Archive retention
Daily Briefs are retained indefinitely and byte-stable: the dated JSON is the
citable record, its items are append-only, and corrections append with their own dates —
they never overwrite (rule 4). Each day is committed to a git archive, so any
after-the-fact edit to a past brief would be a visible diff, not a quiet fix.
Observation snapshots, when the history store resumes, follow this graduated retention
rule, published here as the stated window: every snapshot for 7 days; the newest per
6 hours for 7–30 days; the newest per UTC day for 30 days–1 year; the newest per week for
1–5 years; the newest per month beyond that.
Read the record
The Daily Brief — one page per day, generated from the
instrument caches, with an RSS feed.
Status — the full source ledger with computed counts
and dated reasons.