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. GOSSIP is the Grassroots Open-Source Social Intelligence Platform: the murmur of the masses, collated, and handed back to the rooms it came from. 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 2026-09-23 19:11 UTC Newest row 2026-09-23 18:35 UTC
What moved in culture today?Eight domains, each against its own baseline, and what moved under them. Can I check a number?Every reading prints the query and the count behind it. Run one and say what you got. Which open sources cover a domain?Every kind of public source the house reads, and whether it is live.
the roomthe daily reading of culture · wednesday, september 23, 2026Read today
what today looks like

Relationships leads the board for a third straight day, its tradwife-economics signal now six days old with still no mainstream match.

the domains of culture
techled by human against slop
fashionled by human against slop
musicled by taste against the algorithm
foodled by taste against the algorithm
languageled by human against slop
workled by human against slop
relationshipsled by taste against the algorithm
bodyled by taste against the algorithm
the day's read

Tech stays the board's laggard under its loudest week yet

Sweep loud, radar still barely moving.

the readXbox's consolidation confirms itself in both layers on the same dayBoth layers agree.
the read · relationshipsRelationships' tradwife signal stays radar-only into a sixth dayStill the day's most valuable unconfirmed signal.
169 arrived in the last 72 hours, across 5 domains
musicBlue Bendy Announce New Album One Day This Will All Be Lore: Hear “Dragonslayer”stereogum.com
musicHayden Panettiere’s Death Caused by Overdose of Fentanyl and Other Drugsnytimes.com
foodThe Golden Age of Asian American CPGtastecooking.com
the workspacea notebook on a seeded scope · audience decode · the fieldOpen the workspace
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

5 crowds on one ground · read r1, 2026-08-16 · worked example, first read, no harvest behind it

listeningthe sources as they report · 7-day deviation against each domain's own baselineOpen the listening layer
the domains of culture
relationships+0.90Σ72 items measured
music+0.72Σ72 items measured
body+0.71Σ72 items measured
language+0.68Σ72 items measured
fashion+0.61Σ72 items measured
work+0.59Σ72 items measured
food+0.58Σ71 items measured
tech+0.43Σ72 items 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 2026-08-31, 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 directoryevery 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.
130,776 rows in the corpus
75,477 rows published in the last 30 days
30 segments, all at k ≥ 20
67 readings published
208 sources active of 230
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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.

kept until you unsubscribe; nothing else is collected.
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.