Work's slop-led climate carries r/workreform's ordinary billionaire and labor-reform volume, while the sweep's sharper read on the same theme sits with an essayist calling inequality itself 'hot' rather than with any single dated event.
Both layers point at the same subject without confirming a move.
how work was measured today
Counted layer · the radar, 136 of 208 sources reporting
Work's day ran 12.3 per 100 sources; usual is 10.2
counted 17:12 UTC · per 100 reporting · against 20 stamped days
1 day 12.3 +0.40 sd 3 days 13.4 +0.09 sd 7 days 13.6 −0.39 sd 0 10 20 per 100 reporting · tick = a stamped day 1 day 12.3 +0.40 sd 3 days 13.4 +0.09 sd 7 days 13.6 −0.39 sd 0 10 20 per 100 reporting tick = a stamped day The idea Each window counts the sources a day publishing on work, per 100 sources reporting, so a day when more sources report does not read as busier. The signed number is today’s distance from its usual, in standard deviations.
Look for The dot is today; each tick is one of the 20 stamped days before it. The band is the usual range, one standard deviation each side: 12 of 20 days fall in it. 1 day and 3 days sit above their usual; 7 days sits below. The numbers +0.40 1 day, in standard deviations
12.3 sources a day per 100, today
10.2 its usual, the mean of 20 days
20 stamped days behind it
Limits It says the volume moved; it does not say why. It counts sources publishing, not a share of all talk. Under 14 stamped days a window reads early, a hollow dot; under 7 it does not print. How it is measured Per 100: sources publishing on the domain in the window, a day, over sources reporting that day, times 100. Usual: the mean of up to 56 stamped days before this sheet, one per scan, this sheet’s own scan left out; the spread is their standard deviation. Deviation: today less the usual, over the spread. src/data/cover-2026-09-20.json counted.domains, scripts/build-cover.py rep_scores.
This is the counted layer: how much the feeds we read published about work, per source reporting, against what they usually publish. The story above is the heard layer, written from sources. They are kept apart on purpose.
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