Dispatch zero
What this wire is for, what it will not do, and the one promise that makes the rest enforceable.
Technology news has a supply problem in reverse: too much of it, too fast, too thin. The headline arrives everywhere within the hour. The reasoning arrives nowhere.
Reason Weekly is a wire for the second thing. Dispatches run short, carry their numbers in the first paragraph, link primary sources where the claims are made, and end with a builder's read: the flat statement of what changes for someone who ships software.
Three refusals, in writing. No rewritten press releases; if the only source is the vendor's announcement, the dispatch says so and reads it skeptically. No anonymous "sources say"; a claim that cannot carry its source does not run. No urgency theater; when a week is thin, the wire is quiet.
One promise makes the rest enforceable: corrections print at the top of the dispatch they correct, not in a footer nobody visits. Getting things wrong occasionally is the cost of publishing. Hiding it would be the scandal.
The builder's read on all this: one more feed will not save anyone time. One that tells you why might. Judge by the next dispatch, not this one.
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