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Week 30 · 2026 · September 19, 2026

Done (+11 more)

Leading this week: Done. 12 new pieces on the site, plus 30 changes shipped under the hood. Curated and sent by a human; reply anytime, it reaches me.

New on the site

Also shipped

  • Essay 12: The Word Mandated + the survey denominator for essay 10
  • Essays 10-11: where the ratio comes from, and the officer ledger audited by the same rules
  • Localize the remaining English on the /ua Ukrainian Frequency page
  • Prominent in-page EN/UA switch on Ukrainian Frequency
  • Fix major white space on /research/ukrainian-frequency
  • Final series review: accuracy and staleness fixes across Counting the Killings
  • Make the Lightning audio harvest survive Commons rate limits
  • Findings 08-09 + essay 09: the blind-spot synthesis and the disparity layer (dataset v0.4.0)
  • Fix CI AI-spend telemetry (migration 0012) and pin the QA workflow's Claude CLI
  • Essay 08 "The Two Whys" + the DCRA and GAO receipts wired into essays 02 and 07
  • Ukrainian-frequency: validated CEFR overlay (thread 02) from PULS
  • Extend the Lightning frequency deck from top-2,000 to top-5,000
  • Wire research thread 03 derussification into Lightning flashcards
  • Wire research thread 04 paradigms + IPA into Lightning flashcards
  • Deepen Ukrainian Frequency thread 04 to the full top-12,000
  • Ukrainian Frequency thread 04: audio and paradigms
  • Essay 07 (What a Real Count Would Take) + evidence-first OG card
  • Ukrainian Frequency thread 03: the derussification pass
  • One Load-Bearing Company: verified primary-source deep links per edge
  • Make the Counting the Killings series link-heavy, inside and out
  • One Load-Bearing Company: full show-your-work layer (published ledger, hashed release, live verify)
  • V2 pass on the evidence board: third counter, honest dashes, jump-list, ledger claims
  • Redesign the Counting the Killings series index as an evidence board
  • Ukrainian Frequency thread 02, Plan B: open-CEFR-field census + gold worklist
  • Police-shootings dataset v0.3.0: the verified-claims layer
  • One Load-Bearing Company: commit the citation ledger, cut v2 then v3
  • Add One Load-Bearing Company research surface
  • Add year-by-year statistics and trend reading to police-shootings essay 06

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