Updated daily
Narrative Heat Map
Every news cycle has a foreground and a background. The Heat Map tracks both, and the gap between them.
I run a daily scrape across roughly forty mainstream outlets, three hundred independent feeds, and a curated list of policy newsletters. The dashboard tracks which stories are gaining temperature, which are quietly cooling, and which are being suppressed by absence rather than by argument.
The interesting signal is rarely what’s hot. It’s what should be hot and isn’t.
Headline Metrics
Stories tracked today
▲ +82
Underweighted (should be hotter)
▲ +4
Overweighted (artificially hot)
▼ -2
Coverage divergence index
▲ +0.06
Watchlist
What I’m tracking now
Compute supply policy
Will be load-bearing in 18 months. Almost no coverage.
Sovereign debt stress
Three EM economies sliding. Buried below celebrity churn.
Cable news cycle
Domestic political churn at expected levels — but crowding out everything else.
Quantum biology
Slowly entering mainstream science coverage.
Recent Signals
What just moved
Jun 02, 2026
Story X cooled 40% in 48 hours
Coordinated cooling pattern across three networks. Worth noting which three.
May 27, 2026
Underweighted story finally crossed the threshold
Took eleven weeks. The lag from real to reported is the actual story.
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