dig.rest

news → a causal graph you can interrogate

11.9M events · 961k typed cause→effect turns

built by a 9B model · one GPU in my house · $0/month in services

go deeper than the headline · everything here is live

the loop — the GPU never idles

ingest: GDELT 15-min global files + RSS + open-access research (all free)
extract → NER → themes/tone → one node per event, timestamps never rewritten
embed (pgvector) → candidate pairs: shared keys + stored time order only
reason: Qwen3.5-9B FP8 @ 1M ctx → typed turns with why · evidence · confidence
judge nightly · frozen-fixture eval gate on every prompt change

~92 nodes/min · ~2,900 tok/s · fails 0 · 150 W cap on purpose

graph laws = database physics

DAG by INSERT law, not model politeness — strict stored time-order precedence
cycles at 12M rows: 0, verified nightly
scar #1 — echoes aren't causality: 20 outlets = 20 nodes → fake chains.
the model wrote "this is a duplicate" in its own why — and emitted the edge anyway
fix: write path refuses same-day follows @ trgm ≥ .55 — guard IS the metric's predicate
that metric yesterday: 1,028 · tonight: 0
scar #2 — token overlap can't split re-report from reaction → dedup is model-adjudicated
scar #3 — a 30B reasoning MoE ran here and scored 0 edges vs 104 — the gate killed the upgrade

the fractal runtime

every autonomous job = a capsule: typed envelope, allowed effects, TTL, lineage
kernel/supervisor: bounded spawn · deadline kills · storm breaker · descendant caps
effect receipts on irreversibles (forecast locks, email) — certain/uncertain
everything journals to PG; the whole execution tree reconstructs via API
declarations ↔ reality conformance tests gate the deploy — caught drift on day one

and the platform is built the same way: an orchestrator seat + Opus builder lanes,
adversarial verification, gated ships, a ledger any cold session resumes from

what you saw

THE CHAIN — strongest causal path, every hop typed + evidenced + dated
Flow — the story spine: numbered beats, junction chips, true tributaries
Web / Orbit — the dig at the center: event bloom + topic satellites + chord
THE CALL — a falsifiable house forecast per story, Brier record public

stack: Postgres+pgvector · vLLM · one RTX 4500 · CF Pages
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