gossip

Instruments that read culture, made public

What people in public rooms are saying about eight domains of culture, counted every day, at no cost and with no account. Social listening, sold on, is closer to surveillance. An insight carried back into the room it came from is the root of acquaintance.

The corpus, counted 2026-11-13 20:38 UTC Newest row 2026-11-13 20:13 UTC
What moved in culture today?Eight domains, each against its own baseline, and what moved under them. How is a number counted?The standard every reading is held to, and the records where it is worked. Which open sources cover a domain?Every kind of public source the house reads, and whether it is live.
read today’s sheet · every day
gossipThe RoomThe cultural corpus reading
Friday13November 2026
Sources181of 309 · to 17:22 UTC
A line by sheet date with a gap where there is no sheet, ending at 6.9 per 100.6.913 Oct13 Nov
Tech, sources a day per 100 reporting · 13 Oct to 13 Nov

Tech holds the board's warmest cell for a seventh straight day, and the week's story ends where days of reporting pointed: Nvidia's board removes Jensen Huang rather than wait out the investigation.

The readA closed label and a cooling board point in different directions
The read · workWork's AI-layoff story moves its own boardWork's own values reading leads for the first time this week as AI becomes the default explanation for a fresh round of cuts, even where the stated cause doesn't always hold up; the radar and the sweep now point the same direction, a reversal from earlier in the week.
The read · languageLanguage's cold spell holds for a fourth straight sheet with nothing to explain itLanguage keeps the board's single coldest cell, its own gender reading still one of the ten largest on the entire board; no story on either side of the ledger accounts for it. Radar only, and still the day's most open question.
the workspacea notebook on a seeded scope · audience decode · the fieldOpen the field
who is on this ground, and how much of it each one is
The Naturalist Posters31% · splitThe Aggrieved Neighbours26% · prospectThe Stewardship Volunteers22% · heldThe Data Hobbyists17% · prospectThe Logbook Keepers14% · held

Largest crowd: The Naturalist Posters, 31% of the ground · 5 crowds on one ground · read r1, 2026-08-16 · worked example, first read, no harvest behind it

listeningTech sits highest on the week, +1.41 sd; music lowest, −0.49 sd · the sources as they report · 7 days, per 100 reporting, in standard deviations from each domain's own usualOpen the listening layer
the domains of culture
tech+1.41 sd56 stamped days · measured
fashion+0.80 sd56 stamped days · measured
food+0.41 sd56 stamped days · measured
work+0.34 sd56 stamped days · measured
relationships-0.17 sd56 stamped days · measured
language-0.45 sd56 stamped days · measured
body-0.49 sd56 stamped days · measured
music-0.49 sd56 stamped days · measured

Each line runs 7-day, 3-day, 1-day, left to right, on one scale with the zero drawn in: where it falls away, the short window has stopped agreeing with the long one.

rising terms, week of 31 Aug, 74 days old, every one at k ≥ 20
starter+107171 accounts · reddit-sourdough
aita+83199 accounts · reddit-amitheasshole
plant+81105 accounts · reddit-houseplants
espresso+70102 accounts · reddit-espresso
yarn+6388 accounts · reddit-knitting
homelab+6284 accounts · reddit-homelab
pens+6186 accounts · reddit-fountainpens
fresh+5486 accounts · reddit-indieheads
acne+54120 accounts · reddit-skincareaddiction
the directory208 of 227 sources active; Reddit has 16 switched off · every open source the house reads · 14 kinds countedOpen the directory
sources by kind
rss81 of 84 active
reddit66 of 82 active
anchor12 of 12 active
steam8 of 8 active
youtube8 of 8 active
stackexchange6 of 6 active
arena5 of 5 active
apple4 of 4 active
bluesky4 of 4 active
hn4 of 4 active
market3 of 3 active
wiktionary3 of 3 active
trends2 of 2 active
youtube-trending2 of 2 active
the deep record
radar.corpus_ssa_names2,181,032 rows · 1880 to 2025
radar.corpus_atus7,266 rows · 2003 to 2025
radar.corpus_gtrends24,896 rows · 2004 to 2026
radar.corpus_gdelt2,899 rows · 2024 to 2026
radar.corpus_pageviews389 rows · 2024 to 2026
  1. Read today’s sheet: the eight domains, and what moved under them.
  2. Open the day’s lead, and the domain it sits in.
  3. See how it was counted: the standard every reading is held to, and the worked records.
278,700 rows in the corpus
87,966 rows published in the last 30 days
30 segments, all at k ≥ 20
113 readings published
309 sources active of 329

These counts and the frames above include Reddit’s rooms, shown while counsel reads Reddit’s terms and outside the corpus licence. Why

today in the corpus

110new on the charts · 13 Nov

42 UK videos, 38 US videos and 15 books among them. What the charts carried

254new to Wikipedia’s top thousand · 12 Nov

119 of them for the first time since 5 July. Wikipedia’s top thousand

24stories arrived in 72 hours · 13 Nov

10 of them in fashion. What arrived

intake by family

Steam reviews were 62% of July's intake; Reddit has been 55% since 19 August

9 JulAugSepOct
9 JulAugSepOct
9 JulAugSepOct

redditsteam reviewspress and newslettersother rooms and charts

items a day, 9 Jul to 16 Oct · Reddit empty on 4 days, dashed · pulled 17 Oct

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Open data reaches whoever can already read it. What changes that is one person telling another what was found, in their language, in the room it came from. If you take a reading from here, carry it back.

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Aggregate only  every segment at k ≥ 20 No individual egress  person-level rows never leave the private tier Licence  AGPL-3.0 code, corpus terms in the draft terms What we will not collect  stated in the method
The instruments · four tenses

Four ways to read the same rows

One serves every day from the harvest; one runs on a specimen; two are specified and not built. Every one reads the corpus above; none holds a corpus of its own.

Present

The Room

The daily sheet, and the front door of the listening arm: the eight domains, how far each sits from its own baseline, and what moved under them today.

Serving at /today/
Audience

Decode

Builds a working model of an audience from rule sets and evidence rather than demographics, so a move can be tested before it is spent.

Serving at /decode/
Future

Foresight

Runs ensemble counterfactuals on a Decode model and reports a distribution rather than a single trajectory.

Spec'd, not built
Past

Hindsight

Retraces how a position or a phenomenon came to be, carriers named and hops dated, and scores its own retrodiction.

Spec'd, not built

every count on this page is stamped from public.house_counts and re-read at each deploy. a source that stops reporting, a segment that thins below k ≥ 20, and a run that writes nothing all appear here in the same voice and at the same size as a result.