{ "schema_version": "palimpsest-news.v1", "feed_id": "palimpsest-china-newsroom", "title": "Palimpsest China Newsroom", "headline": "Public-value availability is restricted under source policy", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/", "generated_at": "2026-10-17T23:38:04Z", "n_stories": 39, "source": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/osint-china-latest.json", "source_commit": "4121176118dcdbf3cf2f77a206cb13f846474722", "method": "Deterministic aggregate-only editorial transform of the osint-china.v1 roll-up; no signal payload rows or person-level data are copied into this feed.", "scope": "Aggregate China public-source measurements, methods and integrity updates, edited into evidence-linked stories with missing, stale and degraded sources kept explicit.", "coverage": { "total": 39, "reporting": 39, "live": 24, "status": "degraded", "counts": { "live": 24, "degraded": 13, "stale": 2, "missing": 0, "corrupt": 0 } }, "sections": [ { "id": "command", "title": "The Board", "dek": "What the observatory can support now, and which safeguards qualify the read.", "order": 1 }, { "id": "attention", "title": "Attention and Narrative", "dek": "Deletion directives, public attention and the measurable boundaries of silence.", "order": 2 }, { "id": "network", "title": "Network and Circumvention", "dek": "Independent views of interference, reachability, outages and demand for alternate routes.", "order": 3 }, { "id": "erasure", "title": "Erasure and Distribution", "dek": "Evidence of removal, mutation and uneven access across archives, repositories and storefronts.", "order": 4 }, { "id": "economy", "title": "Economic Undertext", "dek": "Official prints, independent cross-checks and the visibility of state economic data.", "order": 5 }, { "id": "models", "title": "Generative Firewall", "dek": "Controlled measurements of how models answer, refuse and repeat party-line framing.", "order": 6 }, { "id": "integrity", "title": "Integrity and Witnessing", "dek": "Cryptographic and external witnesses that make the public record independently checkable.", "order": 7 }, { "id": "nemesis", "title": "Intelligence Bridge", "dek": "Optional, sanitized aggregate leads from the private runtime, never treated as required coverage.", "order": 8 } ], "stories": [ { "id": "palimpsest-news:board-alarm", "slug": "board-alarm", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/board-alarm/", "signal_id": "board-alarm", "headline": "Board alarm: public value unavailable", "dek": "This route remains available, but its current result is withheld until the source policy records an effective public-value grant.", "section": "command", "order": 1, "type": "analysis", "priority": "lead", "status": "degraded", "published_at": "2026-10-17T23:38:04Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T23:38:04Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:b68ababaa70540b85933d24f5a68f022dab6c0074f02c8b881f8817e507d5cca", "metric": { "label": null, "value": null, "unit": null, "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "availability", "statement": "No current finding is published for Board alarm because public value publication is restricted by the active source policy." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/china-publication-rights-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "board-alarm-latest.json", "sha256": null, "bytes": null }, "source_timestamp": null }, "method": { "summary": "Availability-only public projection under the active China economic source policy", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "Current finding withheld: public value publication is restricted", "Availability is not a zero, a normal reading, or evidence of direction." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "event-flags", "coverage-guard", "vantage-fusion" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:event-flags", "slug": "event-flags", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/event-flags/", "signal_id": "event-flags", "headline": "Event flags: public value unavailable", "dek": "This route remains available, but its current result is withheld until the source policy records an effective public-value grant.", "section": "command", "order": 2, "type": "methodology", "priority": "high", "status": "degraded", "published_at": "2026-10-17T23:38:04Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T23:38:04Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:f87dfcf4775541f4e338e3d9cfae62d09636b9b217cbac7d51bdeb01579a51da", "metric": { "label": null, "value": null, "unit": null, "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "availability", "statement": "No current finding is published for Event flags because public value publication is restricted by the active source policy." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/china-publication-rights-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "event-flags-latest.json", "sha256": null, "bytes": null }, "source_timestamp": null }, "method": { "summary": "Availability-only public projection under the active China economic source policy", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "Current finding withheld: public value publication is restricted", "Availability is not a zero, a normal reading, or evidence of direction." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "board-alarm", "forecast-ledger", "coverage-guard" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:coverage-guard", "slug": "coverage-guard", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/coverage-guard/", "signal_id": "coverage-guard", "headline": "Coverage guard: public value unavailable", "dek": "This route remains available, but its current result is withheld until the source policy records an effective public-value grant.", "section": "command", "order": 3, "type": "methodology", "priority": "high", "status": "degraded", "published_at": "2026-10-17T23:38:04Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T23:38:04Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:de11055e5a8c701b9ad01c67dcf76cd2c0fe299577c94318cab7b0b9bded3290", "metric": { "label": null, "value": null, "unit": null, "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "availability", "statement": "No current finding is published for Coverage guard because public value publication is restricted by the active source policy." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/china-publication-rights-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "coverage-guard-latest.json", "sha256": null, "bytes": null }, "source_timestamp": null }, "method": { "summary": "Availability-only public projection under the active China economic source policy", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "Current finding withheld: public value publication is restricted", "Availability is not a zero, a normal reading, or evidence of direction." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "board-alarm", "event-flags", "ddti" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:forecast-ledger", "slug": "forecast-ledger", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/forecast-ledger/", "signal_id": "forecast-ledger", "headline": "Forecast ledger: public value unavailable", "dek": "This route remains available, but its current result is withheld until the source policy records an effective public-value grant.", "section": "command", "order": 4, "type": "methodology", "priority": "standard", "status": "degraded", "published_at": "2026-10-17T23:38:04Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T23:38:04Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:17faf13baa988b683d6f6a3d565f44baf9d663765d6e743b5de4ce0238d60e20", "metric": { "label": null, "value": null, "unit": null, "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "availability", "statement": "No current finding is published for Forecast ledger because public value publication is restricted by the active source policy." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/china-publication-rights-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "forecast-ledger-latest.json", "sha256": null, "bytes": null }, "source_timestamp": null }, "method": { "summary": "Availability-only public projection under the active China economic source policy", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "Current finding withheld: public value publication is restricted", "Availability is not a zero, a normal reading, or evidence of direction." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "event-flags", "cross-layer" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:cross-layer", "slug": "cross-layer-lead-lag", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/cross-layer-lead-lag/", "signal_id": "cross-layer", "headline": "Cross-layer comparison: public value unavailable", "dek": "This route remains available, but its current result is withheld until the source policy records an effective public-value grant.", "section": "command", "order": 5, "type": "methodology", "priority": "background", "status": "degraded", "published_at": "2026-10-17T23:38:04Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T23:38:04Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:ec80769884d9b0b3202b89f75902538d9fad1e60bb02171f1fded20aeed33320", "metric": { "label": null, "value": null, "unit": null, "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "availability", "statement": "No current finding is published for Cross-layer comparison because public value publication is restricted by the active source policy." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/china-publication-rights-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "cross-layer-latest.json", "sha256": null, "bytes": null }, "source_timestamp": null }, "method": { "summary": "Availability-only public projection under the active China economic source policy", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "Current finding withheld: public value publication is restricted", "Availability is not a zero, a normal reading, or evidence of direction." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "forecast-ledger", "board-alarm" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:ddti", "slug": "deletion-directive-term-index", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/deletion-directive-term-index/", "signal_id": "ddti", "headline": "The directive index now tracks 197 censorship terms", "dek": "The index ranks provenance-bound terms found in documented directives and reports of scrubbed material.", "section": "attention", "order": 1, "type": "measurement", "priority": "high", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T20:03:13Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T20:03:13Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:5eb04edd1255fcf302012f00bd6acac2f0d67ff205245e402f95d693593eff98", "metric": { "label": "terms ranked", "value": 197, "unit": "count", "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "The current deletion-directive index ranks 197 terms with documented censorship provenance." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/ddti-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "ddti-latest.json", "sha256": "0e80ddd893a8dd0438b3800f10de39f4a39e12109f88d5df4cfc63bb02c74343", "bytes": 163516 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T20:03:13Z" }, "method": { "summary": "See the complete embedded upstream payload and its raw feed", "version": null }, "limitations": [ "The index reflects documented and collected directives; it is not a census of every censored term." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "gdelt", "weibo-hotsearch", "silence-index", "coverage-guard" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:gdelt", "slug": "global-coverage-cross-signal", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/global-coverage-cross-signal/", "signal_id": "gdelt", "headline": "Global coverage is measurable for 2 of 25 compared terms", "dek": "The cross-signal supplies an outside-China attention baseline without treating a missing result as proof of silence.", "section": "attention", "order": 2, "type": "measurement", "priority": "standard", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T22:06:27Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T22:06:27Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:834ff4d434febe1ed8823fd303db2de1ee599fc6d8fe7a38416bb114ebccd840", "metric": { "label": "terms with global data", "value": 2, "unit": "count", "denominator": { "label": "terms compared", "value": 25 } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "GDELT returned usable global coverage for 2 of 25 compared terms." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/gdelt-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "gdelt-latest.json", "sha256": "9f992c86081a05c5b01c3130cdb9c5df53cc280d7a6bc5c1715094eb1b7165e7", "bytes": 6721 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T22:06:27Z" }, "method": { "summary": "See the complete embedded upstream payload and its raw feed", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "GDELT coverage varies by language and publisher; absence from its index is not proof that a topic received no coverage." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "ddti", "silence-index", "weibo-hotsearch" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:weibo-hotsearch", "slug": "weibo-hot-search-join", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/weibo-hot-search-join/", "signal_id": "weibo-hotsearch", "headline": "The latest Weibo archive contains 1,520 hot-search board entries", "dek": "Archived board captures provide a bounded domestic attention proxy for terms already tied to the deletion stream.", "section": "attention", "order": 3, "type": "measurement", "priority": "high", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T22:06:32Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T22:06:32Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:0c41ea5a19e80094a65d3d3281da5964c2a6ae3e0e3ffc63f664d32e4b46dbde", "metric": { "label": "board entries", "value": 1520, "unit": "count", "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "The current archive window contains 1,520 Weibo hot-search board entries available for joining." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/weibo-hotsearch-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "weibo-hotsearch-latest.json", "sha256": "238f5b1bad08da5861e53c2d2460f0594e5afca2d9e5f7d2c8d427b69cf7954c", "bytes": 105244 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T22:06:32Z" }, "method": { "summary": "The hot-search board is itself a censored surface (curated top slot, on-command withdrawals), so it is read here as the record of PERMITTED attention, never as neutral volume. A DDTI term under deletion pressure that also trends is CONTAINED_VISIBLE (pruned, not hidden); one absent from the board while hot in the deletion stream is SUPPRESSED_INVISIBLE (deleted AND denied attention) — the content-layer sibling of the Silence Index. attention_ratio is threat share over permitted-attention share, published with both parts. Declared event lenses group revised headlines before interpreting an exact-title exit, so changing casualty counts do not become takedown claims. Automatic trend lenses apply a conservative deterministic revision cluster to every selected current headline and report pinning, withdrawal watch, DDTI overlap, and optional newswire context separately.", "version": 4 }, "limitations": [ "The hot-search board is a curated and censored surface, so it is only a proxy for domestic attention." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "ddti", "gdelt", "silence-index" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:silence-index", "slug": "silence-index", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/silence-index/", "signal_id": "silence-index", "headline": "Silence index: no current finding", "dek": "The source is degraded. Palimpsest keeps the availability and evidence record visible without publishing retained values as current news.", "section": "attention", "order": 4, "type": "analysis", "priority": "high", "status": "degraded", "published_at": "2026-10-17T23:02:30Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T23:02:30Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:0aaa02fcf26cf2cb3f6a9bc1cbc9d5cd42cf48a141926be5afdeb224c4e6e529", "metric": { "label": null, "value": null, "unit": null, "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "availability", "statement": "No current finding is published for Silence index because the source status is degraded." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/silence-index-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "silence-index-latest.json", "sha256": "28e20809baed50eb11fca1ac7272674f262230b2b1cd48437d32046b050ce355", "bytes": 6639 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T23:02:30Z" }, "method": { "summary": "pre-emptive silence: topics loud abroad and gone at home, the censorship that leaves no deletion to count. Guard rails are the processor's, not this runner's: no China nexus -> out_of_scope; missing global or domestic input -> abstain; and with no coupling baseline wired (v1), a topic without gazetteer corroboration abstains rather than scores — a topic China never covered being quiet at home is disinterest, not suppression. An abstention is published as an abstention, never as a zero. DDTI terms carry china_nexus by provenance: they are drawn from the censor's own deletion stream, so this runner sets the nexus flag at source and the processor's per-term gazetteer gate is deliberately bypassed for them (it still guards any non-DDTI deployment). A blind round (nothing scored) records null blackout counts in both the latest reading and the history, never zeros", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "Current finding withheld: declared measurement is incomplete: metric /n_blackout is absent or non-scalar", "Domestic absence can reflect disinterest or incomplete proxy coverage; topics without required corroboration abstain." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "ddti", "gdelt", "weibo-hotsearch" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:blocklist", "slug": "platform-blocklist-archaeology", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/platform-blocklist-archaeology/", "signal_id": "blocklist", "headline": "Attributable blocklist versions added 503 keywords", "dek": "Version-to-version diffs preserve provenance and decoding gaps instead of flattening client blocklists into one count.", "section": "attention", "order": 5, "type": "measurement", "priority": "standard", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-13T22:04:37Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-13T22:04:37Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:7682a248d56bf9a9091373bd04d1febf194263e78702bcd23752c304c706993c", "metric": { "label": "keyword additions", "value": 503, "unit": "count", "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "The compared attributable client blocklists contain 503 keyword additions." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/blocklist-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "blocklist-latest.json", "sha256": "31cae854980f515e28581502a9f6f3299cf6004ef36d04977f7fec7bad524a9a", "bytes": 8594 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-13T22:04:37Z" }, "method": { "summary": "See the complete embedded upstream payload and its raw feed", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "Available client versions and successful decoding bound the observed additions; the result is not a platform-wide census." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "ddti", "net4people" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:net4people", "slug": "community-blocking-log", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/community-blocking-log/", "signal_id": "net4people", "headline": "The community log records 8 recent blocking or circumvention events", "dek": "Public issue reports add qualitative context to instrumented network measurements without being counted as probes.", "section": "attention", "order": 6, "type": "measurement", "priority": "standard", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T15:16:04Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T15:16:04Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:4cb6696250e7709bc793bf524184b49b49e2cae15084fc474396d94e315c5c58", "metric": { "label": "recent events", "value": 8, "unit": "count", "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "The configured recent window contains 8 qualifying events in the public community log." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/net4people-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "net4people-latest.json", "sha256": "fce1c5a737a009dc5d21cb90bd69d39b601e069706b7d02c6dda9b036ef1a9b6", "bytes": 7919 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T15:16:04Z" }, "method": { "summary": "ingests a public overseas GitHub repo's issues; probes nothing (vantage-insensitive)", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "Community reports are self-selected qualitative observations and do not estimate population prevalence." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "ooni-gfw", "circumvention-demand", "vantage-fusion" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:public-deletion-ledgers", "slug": "public-deletion-ledgers", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/public-deletion-ledgers/", "signal_id": "public-deletion-ledgers", "headline": "Public deletion ledgers carry 15 observations from reachable feeds", "dek": "CDT, GreatFire and FreeWeibo-style RSS/Atom ledgers are ingested only when a feed answers; unreachable ledgers stay named rather than becoming a zero.", "section": "attention", "order": 7, "type": "measurement", "priority": "standard", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T21:11:02Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T21:11:02Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:b127fe694f82db95b4f4134d88b79c63c69835d2faf69bb0e25a235983cfcf2f", "metric": { "label": "ledger observations", "value": 15, "unit": "count", "denominator": { "label": "feeds answering", "value": 1 } }, "claims": [ { "type": "observation", "statement": "The current ledger ingest published 15 public observations." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/public-deletion-ledgers-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "public-deletion-ledgers-latest.json", "sha256": "6406cf07c7c58cd004714f523d31b07901c71236b01c44735ec014c8461eebe3", "bytes": 77466 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T21:11:02Z" }, "method": { "summary": "Keyless RSS/Atom ingest through collectors.feed_parse.parse_feed_items and core.safe_fetch; each feed is a candidate and reports its own reachability.", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "A missing ledger file is an abstention, not proof that nothing was deleted. Reachability of a public RSS feed is not a census of Chinese-language deletions." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "ddti", "undertext", "wayback" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:undertext", "slug": "undertext-differential-fusion", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/undertext-differential-fusion/", "signal_id": "undertext", "headline": "UNDERTEXT fuses 54 public observations across archive and board readings", "dek": "The fusion remaps already-published Wayback, Weibo-board and DDTI records onto one observation schema without inventing a live deletion round.", "section": "attention", "order": 8, "type": "analysis", "priority": "high", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T23:18:40Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T23:18:40Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:bf39c7540282f8fbbab41877f47b06922cd08f2176c5c6c7a02f79f5c0d8cc5f", "metric": { "label": "observations", "value": 54, "unit": "count", "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "The current fusion contains 54 observations reconstructed from committed public readings." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/undertext-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "undertext-latest.json", "sha256": "5043857c425ffc3cb07309684ae4d414a9dd8e1d6466d4e25ec2a015776d9b02", "bytes": 261434 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T23:18:40Z" }, "method": { "summary": "Offline fusion of every committed sample/reconstruction through china_observation.enrich_observation, URL clustering, and honest cross-signal joins. A matching URL/host/digest on the existing node lake attaches a sanitized receipt; an empty or absent lake abstains. Optional live surfaces require UNDERTEXT_LIVE_SURFACES=1 and an injected or operator fetch.", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "Fusion inherits the limits of its inputs; archive-status rows are not relabelled as deletions, and optional Wikipedia live surfaces stay gated." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "wayback", "weibo-hotsearch", "ddti" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:research-corpus", "slug": "research-corpus-metadata", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/research-corpus-metadata/", "signal_id": "research-corpus", "headline": "The research-corpus ledger tracks 5 allowlisted public repositories", "dek": "Only Git ref advertisements and default-branch cursors are published; notice bodies, keyword lists and routing rules stay unpublished.", "section": "attention", "order": 9, "type": "measurement", "priority": "standard", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T23:19:09Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T23:19:09Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:345b93d79499a4021b7eebdb2d6eaf0b76660096844feb54e0083bf224c4f2e7", "metric": { "label": "sources", "value": 5, "unit": "count", "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "The current metadata-only ledger covers 5 allowlisted research repositories." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/research-corpus-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "research-corpus-latest.json", "sha256": "7b2a5e0d7c4e36e06270328e4ac19d5f841d79fb2f24d2a46a674adf121c5aef", "bytes": 7053 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T23:19:09Z" }, "method": { "summary": "one bounded keyless Git smart-HTTP ref advertisement per source; exact default-branch cursor plus aggregate ref-count deltas", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "A commit cursor change is not a claim about why the repository moved, and unpublished notice bodies cannot be inferred from the metadata." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "github-refuge", "wayback" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:peer-context", "slug": "attributed-peer-context", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/attributed-peer-context/", "signal_id": "peer-context", "headline": "Peer-context joins 67 already-held Palimpsest hosts", "dek": "GreatFire, OONI, bounded CDT excerpts, and a Weiboscope abstention stay named as peer context. They never become Palimpsest capture.", "section": "attention", "order": 10, "type": "analysis", "priority": "background", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T23:37:34Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T23:37:34Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:1ffe807589c57542d59946d7cee36d2f508184a387b7be5c35fd533d27066308", "metric": { "label": "hosts joined", "value": 67, "unit": "count", "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "observation", "statement": "The current peer-context warehouse joins 67 already-held hosts." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/peer-context-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "peer-context-latest.json", "sha256": "066252d2285496d5e07298b594e6bcdc7d9e942248d6b1adb7b2229cf19a4585", "bytes": 155831 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T23:37:34Z" }, "method": { "summary": "GreatFire lookups are cached by the greatfire-context job. OONI is an exact host join against already-held ooni-gfw-latest / ooni-bulk warehouse objects. CDT keeps titles, links, and excerpts bounded at 280 characters. Weiboscope is a documented abstention.", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "Peer rows name GreatFire, OONI, CDT, or Weiboscope and the date of that peer's verdict. They do not share Palimpsest's denominator." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "greatfire-context", "ooni-gfw", "public-deletion-ledgers" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:ooni-gfw", "slug": "ooni-great-firewall-index", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/ooni-great-firewall-index/", "signal_id": "ooni-gfw", "headline": "OONI's China anomaly index is 55.6% across 298,382 completed measurements", "dek": "The index aggregates volunteer-probe observations across network test families inside China.", "section": "network", "order": 1, "type": "measurement", "priority": "lead", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T23:18:40Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T23:18:40Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:6d8a889472b136ad4b35d43c3b0e85c0da5d2359601c99a07754d2a98ef2c2b8", "metric": { "label": "GFW anomaly index", "value": 55.6, "unit": "percent", "denominator": { "label": "completed measurements", "value": 298382 } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "The current OONI aggregate reports a 55.6% anomaly index across 298,382 completed China measurements." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/ooni-gfw-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "ooni-gfw-latest.json", "sha256": "f3a685ce76f454d16dcdc12342628a9a2d0d520c7835c307322167d9d099fd87", "bytes": 7883 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T23:18:40Z" }, "method": { "summary": "side-channel: we ingest OONI's already-aggregated open data; gfw_index is anomalous completed measurements divided by all completed measurements; we never probe a censored resource ourselves (vantage-insensitive)", "version": 2 }, "limitations": [ "Volunteer-probe coverage is uneven across place, network and test family; anomalies are not all attributable to censorship." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "in-path-interference", "censored-planet", "inside-view", "vantage-fusion" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:in-path-interference", "slug": "in-path-interference", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/in-path-interference/", "signal_id": "in-path-interference", "headline": "Middlebox signatures register at 1.2% in the current OONI window", "dek": "The decomposition separates interference signatures from transport failure and tests that could not execute.", "section": "network", "order": 2, "type": "measurement", "priority": "high", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T23:19:15Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T23:19:15Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:4997849069d132e8a4c553e4e8bd7e6b64949de305461b0db588468ec3d5bdf4", "metric": { "label": "middlebox index", "value": 1.2, "unit": "percent", "denominator": { "label": "completed middlebox tests", "value": 5590 } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "The current measurement-weighted middlebox index is 1.2%." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/in-path-interference-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "in-path-interference-latest.json", "sha256": "ca38d60f7233d333af40e01bd9f10b462f152668950999c0ec4f6e17f830999e", "bytes": 4319 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T23:19:15Z" }, "method": { "summary": "rates are computed over COMPLETED tests only (measurement_count - failure_count). OONI's anomaly counter ranges only over completed runs, so a test that never completes has no anomaly rate — it has an execution-failure rate, reported separately", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "The index is a weighted aggregate over reporting tests; transport failure and execution blackout remain separate categories." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "ooni-gfw", "inside-view", "vantage-fusion" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:censored-planet", "slug": "censored-planet-china-interference", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/censored-planet-china-interference/", "signal_id": "censored-planet", "headline": "Independent remote scans put China's interference rate at 4.23%", "dek": "Censored Planet supplies an outside-in method that is independent of OONI's in-country volunteer probes.", "section": "network", "order": 3, "type": "measurement", "priority": "high", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T22:07:12Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T22:07:12Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:c8e19e0dd7ccff60be9782f9ef4c73e8c7d3183701ae67de69c735328e84869a", "metric": { "label": "CN interference rate", "value": 4.23, "unit": "percent", "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "Censored Planet's current remote side-channel measurement reports a 4.23% China interference rate." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/censored-planet-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "censored-planet-latest.json", "sha256": "150b780cfd77a1051d955df9e6f27fe7b461e92c34915e54399443af97095e30", "bytes": 3374 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T22:07:12Z" }, "method": { "summary": "ingests Censored Planet's public aggregated data; probes nothing (vantage-insensitive)", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "The remote-scan denominator and method differ from OONI's anomaly index, so their percentages are not interchangeable." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "ooni-gfw", "inside-view", "vantage-fusion" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:inside-view", "slug": "inside-china-view", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/inside-china-view/", "signal_id": "inside-view", "headline": "Inside-China view: no current finding", "dek": "The source is stale. Palimpsest keeps the availability and evidence record visible without publishing retained values as current news.", "section": "network", "order": 4, "type": "measurement", "priority": "lead", "status": "stale", "published_at": "2026-08-11T07:49:24Z", "modified_at": "2026-08-11T07:49:24Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:265148c2e70552bc56461531e24395d874bc3ace215ab616f4ace08924e6169a", "metric": { "label": null, "value": null, "unit": null, "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "availability", "statement": "No current finding is published for Inside-China view because the source status is stale." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/inside-view-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "inside-view-latest.json", "sha256": "e49626eb47a5d66135cf33e0831c8af64a930c3133b6a606f875bae2de529ce0", "bytes": 69720 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-08-11T07:49:24Z" }, "method": { "summary": "a CN answer is forged when it shares no address with the control arm's answer set; no forged-IP list is hardcoded, because the injector pool rotates", "version": 2 }, "limitations": [ "Current finding withheld: freshness deadline has passed", "The volunteer panel is small and availability varies by region; it does not represent every mainland network." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "ooni-gfw", "in-path-interference", "censored-planet", "vantage-fusion" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:ioda-outages", "slug": "ioda-china-outage-monitor", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/ioda-china-outage-monitor/", "signal_id": "ioda-outages", "headline": "0 independent IODA instruments are firing for China", "dek": "BGP, active-probing and darknet instruments provide a country-scale outage check distinct from content blocking.", "section": "network", "order": 5, "type": "measurement", "priority": "high", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T22:07:23Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T22:07:23Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:d11298f4540771d4f8f5b0489d93b613a353431d3c905c97f68eaca532a53560", "metric": { "label": "instruments firing", "value": 0, "unit": "count", "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "observation", "statement": "The current IODA country reading has 0 outage instruments firing." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/ioda-outages-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "ioda-outages-latest.json", "sha256": "06fa74d5734fd94e67ab147faff2b8b72907cd0a1309ffd9ca160ed65af8c652", "bytes": 668 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T22:07:23Z" }, "method": { "summary": "Shutdown-scale connectivity events, detected from outside China by three independent global instruments. Each event names the instrument that saw it; a single-instrument event is a candidate, multi-instrument corroboration is the strong read. The conformal signal is the per-day count of event STARTS.", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "No firing instrument means no detected country-scale outage in this window, not proof that all local networks were reachable." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "ooni-gfw", "vantage-fusion" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:circumvention-demand", "slug": "circumvention-demand", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/circumvention-demand/", "signal_id": "circumvention-demand", "headline": "Tor Metrics estimates 2,622 bridge users connecting from China", "dek": "Bridge and transport estimates show demand for alternate routes without identifying individual users.", "section": "network", "order": 6, "type": "measurement", "priority": "standard", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T22:07:29Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T22:07:29Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:7898af90639cc2b6e9502c62788972c768a7c2453453c3a108f9c73804431ab9", "metric": { "label": "bridge users", "value": 2622, "unit": "estimated users", "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "Tor Metrics estimates 2,622 bridge users for China in the current reading." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/circumvention-demand-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "circumvention-demand-latest.json", "sha256": "be7a147c51d4997e1afff4e626e608f95b591ec2406c2476907354bc04dac46b", "bytes": 1076 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T22:07:29Z" }, "method": { "summary": "Bridge users = demand for unlisted entry points (the demand-to-circumvent series). Relay users = direct reachability, structurally near-floor behind the GFW. A transport halving while another surges (transport_shifts) is the public fingerprint of a new GFW classifier deployment. Estimates are Tor's, from sampled directory requests; transport rows keep Tor's low/high bounds. No probe traffic is generated by this collector.", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "Bridge-user values are privacy-preserving estimates and should not be read as exact people or devices." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "net4people", "ooni-gfw", "vantage-fusion" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:vantage-fusion", "slug": "network-vantage-fusion", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/network-vantage-fusion/", "signal_id": "vantage-fusion", "headline": "Reporting network vantages combine to a 27% interference index", "dek": "The fusion names excluded and divergent inputs instead of silently averaging away disagreement.", "section": "network", "order": 7, "type": "analysis", "priority": "lead", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T22:07:37Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T22:07:37Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:fadcf1836e2bb19d02ebc3f06976b2fe82148e2f74aba4f9e892a027b5d90921", "metric": { "label": "fused network index", "value": 27.0, "unit": "percent", "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "The current coverage-weighted fusion of reporting vantages is 27%." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/vantage-fusion-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "vantage-fusion-latest.json", "sha256": "6338f7b07d4149db571553b87f2f531aa835b9f081a3cb8d5a05d19d2d54310b", "bytes": 2093 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T22:07:37Z" }, "method": { "summary": "coverage-weighted mean of vantages normalized to 0-100 (Censored Planet remote interference rate, OONI in-country anomaly index); agreement = 1 − |OONI − CP| / 60pp; CONTESTED when the two differ > 20pp; net4people blocking-event share adjusts confidence only.", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "The fused index summarizes differently sampled methods and is not a direct percentage of China's internet traffic." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "ooni-gfw", "censored-planet", "inside-view", "net4people" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:bleedthrough", "slug": "bleedthrough-injector-tomography", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/bleedthrough-injector-tomography/", "signal_id": "bleedthrough", "headline": "Controlled external probes publish a current injector-tomography round", "dek": "The optional, rate-limited measurement runs only from a declared controlled deployment.", "section": "network", "order": 8, "type": "measurement", "priority": "background", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T18:57:30Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T18:57:30Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:7c3a0ab8b22ae4d3aa52b8ded2bbd8c9b13ed39f7d5376346a19cfda1004bb59", "metric": { "label": "injector response-process floor", "value": 2, "unit": "count", "denominator": { "label": "injecting target IPs", "value": 210 } }, "claims": [ { "type": "observation", "statement": "A current controlled DNS-probe round is available for injector-tomography analysis." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/bleedthrough-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "bleedthrough-latest.json", "sha256": "7183924c238e5389ccf64af6505e92c281fdbe2e7c7020c777b8a0e571586f59", "bytes": 2770 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T18:57:30Z" }, "method": { "summary": "the censor as sensor — benign stateless UDP DNS probes provoke the GFW's own injectors to answer; we fingerprint the fleet from the forgeries. Transport this round: direct injection over dark IPs. Direct receive windows overlap; outbound sends remain rate-capped. Injector count is a FLOOR, not a census: each injector answers a given query at most once, so a silent injector is undercounted.", "version": 3 }, "limitations": [ "This optional active-probe layer is deployment-controlled; absence must never be converted into a zero or calm reading." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "in-path-interference", "vantage-fusion" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:greatfire-context", "slug": "greatfire-attributed-verdicts", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/greatfire-attributed-verdicts/", "signal_id": "greatfire-context", "headline": "GreatFire's cache holds 19 90-day verdicts for already-held Palimpsest URLs", "dek": "The GreatFire Analyzer open API is credited by name and date. Palimpsest is not the origin of these measurements and does not crawl the catalog.", "section": "network", "order": 9, "type": "measurement", "priority": "background", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T23:11:55Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T23:11:55Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:7bb58a0fe8bc8962d79bd9b48ffd9689489785e7bca9985fd8a58b3bb2518ba2", "metric": { "label": "GreatFire verdicts", "value": 19, "unit": "count", "denominator": { "label": "URLs queried", "value": 80 } }, "claims": [ { "type": "observation", "statement": "The current GreatFire context cache contains 19 compact 90-day verdicts." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/greatfire-context-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "greatfire-context-latest.json", "sha256": "9ccf36bd5d9d10a58b5877ea62a10078eb66af12a34f4d73757bd76d83bdffbd", "bytes": 111422 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T23:11:55Z" }, "method": { "summary": "Keyless /api/url/ and /api/verdict lookups for already-held Palimpsest URLs. Per-test history discarded. Not a 700k catalog crawl.", "version": 1 }, "limitations": [ "A GreatFire verdict is that project's dated measurement, not Palimpsest capture, and it does not prove Party motive." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "ooni-gfw", "peer-context", "public-deletion-ledgers" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:erasure-observatory", "slug": "erasure-observatory", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/erasure-observatory/", "signal_id": "erasure-observatory", "headline": "The composite erasure index stands at 38.4", "dek": "The roll-up keeps archive, redaction, repository and distribution evidence separate beneath one directional index.", "section": "erasure", "order": 1, "type": "analysis", "priority": "lead", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T22:07:42Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T22:07:42Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:55812c0baaa1f9a49d967c1d98ca7092c4747bba1fb9626eb45b9798c6b80342", "metric": { "label": "erasure index", "value": 38.4, "unit": "index", "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "The current cross-layer erasure index is 38.4." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/erasure-observatory-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "erasure-observatory-latest.json", "sha256": "0667d0a261e06a59852c433a6709e44d51c258d3adb84127562f906d0b4fc92a", "bytes": 4238 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T22:07:42Z" }, "method": { "summary": "See the complete embedded upstream payload and its raw feed", "version": 4 }, "limitations": [ "The index combines heterogeneous erasure layers and indicates co-movement, not a count of deleted items." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "wayback", "baike-redaction", "github-refuge", "app-storefront", "apple-censorship" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:wayback", "slug": "wayback-reconstruction", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/wayback-reconstruction/", "signal_id": "wayback", "headline": "Archive witnesses reconstruct 4 deletions across 21 watched URLs", "dek": "A deletion or silent mutation is reported only when outside-the-wall captures provide a checkable witness.", "section": "erasure", "order": 2, "type": "measurement", "priority": "high", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T12:01:36Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T12:01:36Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:6f8f30bce83a9b60882f79537a2aa21bbfc3e3e511ee9c384d5776f621569054", "metric": { "label": "reconstructed deletions", "value": 4, "unit": "count", "denominator": { "label": "URLs watched", "value": 21 } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "Wayback evidence reconstructs 4 deletions among 21 watched URLs in the current reading." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/wayback-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "wayback-latest.json", "sha256": "0a8a3ba15aa154ff2c6d70455f66484673376e01552c40bb028edddacf1a519b", "bytes": 75939 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T12:01:36Z" }, "method": { "summary": "See the complete embedded upstream payload and its raw feed", "version": 2 }, "limitations": [ "Archive coverage is incomplete; an unwitnessed URL cannot support a deletion or mutation claim." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "erasure-observatory", "baike-redaction", "anchors" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:baike-redaction", "slug": "baike-redaction", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/baike-redaction/", "signal_id": "baike-redaction", "headline": "Baike redaction: no current finding", "dek": "The source is degraded. Palimpsest keeps the availability and evidence record visible without publishing retained values as current news.", "section": "erasure", "order": 3, "type": "measurement", "priority": "background", "status": "degraded", "published_at": "2026-07-30T20:31:16Z", "modified_at": "2026-07-30T20:31:16Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:45290c3fc34242b7728a8985ce32e037e068894d6425e1516d0bc01c90d56036", "metric": { "label": null, "value": null, "unit": null, "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "availability", "statement": "No current finding is published for Baike redaction because the source status is degraded." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/baike-redaction-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "baike-redaction-latest.json", "sha256": "6526718ae66ec7ecd375f03858605092242ceffb7dabebf7a760eb8d19a83c0d", "bytes": 4205 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-07-30T20:31:16Z" }, "method": { "summary": "offline fixture analysis; live Baike collection disabled pending authorized access; 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"cny-fix-gap" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:data-darkness", "slug": "official-data-darkness", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/official-data-darkness/", "signal_id": "data-darkness", "headline": "Official-data availability: public value unavailable", "dek": "This route remains available, but its current result is withheld until the source policy records an effective public-value grant.", "section": "economy", "order": 4, "type": "analysis", "priority": "high", "status": "degraded", "published_at": "2026-10-17T23:38:04Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T23:38:04Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:6f34e7260bd405cf4a683b688f596fe29170f3208d9a585bb57846958e2fd35d", "metric": { "label": null, "value": null, "unit": null, "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "availability", "statement": "No current finding is published for Official-data availability because public value publication is restricted by the active source policy." } ], "evidence": { "url": 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A reading outside the band is evidence the relationship moved; it does not, by itself, establish fabrication", "version": 2 }, "limitations": [ "Current finding withheld: upstream status is abstain", "A divergence outside the historical band shows a relationship moved; it does not by itself establish fabrication." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "china-econ", "data-darkness" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:generative-firewall", "slug": "generative-firewall-index", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/generative-firewall-index/", "signal_id": "generative-firewall", "headline": "The Generative Firewall Index reads 22 across 20 evaluated cells", "dek": "A controlled prompt bank measures answer, refusal and party-line behaviour by model and concept.", "section": "models", "order": 1, "type": "measurement", "priority": "lead", "status": "live", "published_at": "2026-10-17T08:26:54Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T08:26:54Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:2dab1f30bdc5f22eb51c5ee7792c19db3cf597b7729d20c14168bf4a106ba9b4", "metric": { "label": "GFI", "value": 22.0, "unit": "index", "denominator": { "label": "evaluated cells", "value": 20 } }, "claims": [ { "type": "finding", "statement": "The current controlled evaluation reports a Generative Firewall Index of 22 across 20 cells." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/latest.json", "input": { "filename": "latest.json", "sha256": "b50674d5509d901fc8bbf1a0b18930d7ed5f98b04b0feb8e677374ba6dd19485", "bytes": 198043 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T08:26:54Z" }, "method": { "summary": "k5-wilson95", "version": 4 }, "limitations": [ "The index describes a fixed prompt-and-model evaluation grid; it does not generalize to every prompt, language or deployment route." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "board-alarm", "forecast-ledger" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:anchors", "slug": "integrity-anchors", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/integrity-anchors/", "signal_id": "anchors", "headline": "Integrity anchors: no current finding", "dek": "The source is degraded. Palimpsest keeps the availability and evidence record visible without publishing retained values as current news.", "section": "integrity", "order": 1, "type": "integrity", "priority": "high", "status": "degraded", "published_at": "2026-10-17T20:05:28Z", "modified_at": "2026-10-17T20:05:28Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:e02e301d69119ebeef4dce6dac0dde187c62faec4841fc11d868ed2bf0d14c97", "metric": { "label": null, "value": null, "unit": null, "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "availability", "statement": "No current finding is published for Integrity anchors because the source status is degraded." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/anchors-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "anchors-latest.json", "sha256": "aeee8fb2dcb193028e171e17d1e392f8cb478c36d952392cfd7da2f2dd918a7c", "bytes": 540 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-10-17T20:05:28Z" }, "method": { "summary": "Merkle roots over committed ledgers with external timestamp witnesses", "version": null }, "limitations": [ "Current finding withheld: integrity semantic checks failed: ots_status is 'ots client not installed (pip install opentimestamps-client)', not 'stamped' or 'verified'; wayback_ok is zero; no Internet Archive witness succeeded", "An integrity witness can detect later alteration of the sealed record; it does not independently validate every underlying claim." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "wayback", "github-refuge", "erasure-observatory" ] }, { "id": "palimpsest-news:nemesis", "slug": "private-runtime-bridge", "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/private-runtime-bridge/", "signal_id": "nemesis", "headline": "Private runtime bridge: no current finding", "dek": "The source is stale. Palimpsest keeps the availability and evidence record visible without publishing retained values as current news.", "section": "nemesis", "order": 1, "type": "intelligence", "priority": "background", "status": "stale", "published_at": "2026-08-11T07:59:16Z", "modified_at": "2026-08-11T07:59:16Z", "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:2910f6a0ca7e3b741566ea28c45c132cab586c651b3214a4ed21abb434e04292", "metric": { "label": null, "value": null, "unit": null, "denominator": { "label": null, "value": null } }, "claims": [ { "type": "availability", "statement": "No current finding is published for Private runtime bridge because the source status is stale." } ], "evidence": { "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/nemesis-latest.json", "input": { "filename": "nemesis-latest.json", "sha256": "6b49f7d5de01008c65c81068cca26047ea7fa687f50c03ff1fbc588874af3909", "bytes": 153482 }, "source_timestamp": "2026-08-11T07:59:16Z" }, "method": { "summary": "Observed public-source topic attention, novelty, and economic-topic share", "version": "nemesis-public-v2" }, "limitations": [ "Current finding withheld: freshness deadline has passed", "This deployment-dependent export supplies analytical leads, not independently verified public-source findings." ], "related_signal_ids": [ "ddti", "china-econ", "board-alarm" ] } ] }