Worlds
A thing with enough public relationships becomes, for as long as it matters, a publication with its own visual character — and then descends into the interaction grammars the estate already has. Same substrate, different presentation, no new application.
- world
- the-ground-moved
- title
- The ground moved
- character
- atlas
- template
- ghost-broadsheet
- lede
- Every earthquake the network recorded in the last hours, where it happened and how deep. Nothing here is a warning and nothing here is advice; it is what the instruments reported and when.
- subject
- sources
- usgs-quakes-hour,usgs-quakes-day,usgs-quakes-week
- filter
- grammars
- spatial,search
- cannot_infer
- a recorded event is not a felt one, a magnitude is not a consequence, and an absence of aftershocks in this list is not an absence of aftershocks
- world
- tonight-in-this-city
- title
- Tonight, in this city
- character
- zine
- template
- ghost-dope
- lede
- What is on after dark, assembled from the people who actually announce it. The big calendar is the outer shell; most of a night lives on flyers, in promoter posts and in listings nobody syndicates.
- subject
- sources
- dallas-observer,texas-tribune
- filter
- grammars
- board,spatial,stage,community
- cannot_infer
- a listing is not a door that will open, a time is not a set time, and a venue named on a flyer is not a venue that confirmed it
- world
- what-the-fediverse-made
- title
- What the fediverse made
- character
- scrapbook
- template
- ghost-bokeh
- lede
- Pictures and video people published on their own servers this week, with the account that made each one. No algorithm ranked this; it is what several instances say is being looked at.
- subject
- sources
- peertube-trending,tilvids-videos,makertube-videos,mastodon-links-hach,artic-artworks
- filter
- grammars
- board,vertical,community
- cannot_infer
- a boost is not an endorsement, a trend on one instance is not a trend on the network, and a public post is not a licence to redistribute it
- world
- what-broke-this-week
- title
- What broke this week
- character
- dossier
- template
- ghost-wire
- lede
- Advisories as they were published, beside the people writing about them and the rules the internet just agreed on. This is the filing, not the fix: nothing here tells you whether you are affected.
- subject
- sources
- nvd-recent,schneier,arstechnica,ietf-rfcs
- filter
- grammars
- work,search,inspector
- cannot_infer
- a published advisory is not an exploited one, an absence here is not an absence of vulnerability, and a severity score is a rating somebody assigned rather than a statement about your systems
- world
- somebody-shipped-it
- title
- Somebody shipped it
- character
- ticker
- template
- ghost-ease
- lede
- Every package four registries released in the last few minutes, in the order they arrived. Nobody curated this and nothing was ranked; it is the line coming off the wire.
- subject
- sources
- pypi-updates,crates-new,rubygems-latest,packagist-new,gh-search-trending
- filter
- grammars
- work,thread,search
- cannot_infer
- a release is not a working release, a download count is not a measure of quality, and a package appearing here is not a package anybody reviewed
- world
- look-up
- title
- Look up
- character
- almanac
- template
- lede
- What is overhead and what the sun has been doing, with the pictures the agencies published. The readings are theirs; the arrangement is ours, and neither is a forecast.
- subject
- sources
- nasa-apod-archive,nasa-neo,nasa-donki,gbif-recent
- filter
- grammars
- spatial,board,inspector
- cannot_infer
- an object passing near the earth is not an object on course for it, a notification is not a warning, and a magnitude is a measurement rather than a consequence
- world
- the-paper-came-out-today
- title
- The paper came out today
- character
- journal
- template
- ghost-source
- lede
- Research registered in the last hours across four indexes, with who wrote it and where it can be cited from. Preprints sit here beside reviewed work and are marked as what they are.
- subject
- sources
- openalex-recent,biorxiv-recent,europepmc-recent,crossref-newest
- filter
- grammars
- search,inspector,thread
- cannot_infer
- a registered paper is not a reviewed one, a preprint is not a finding, and appearing in an index says a record exists rather than that anybody agrees with it