Signals and prose

The signal stream is what turns the globe from a static map into a live picture. Every eight minutes, SENTINEL pulls fresh posts from a curated roster of X accounts, a wider Telegram channel set, and a comprehensive Google News topic search across every active flashpoint. Posts are deduplicated, country-tagged, scored by a relevance and severity classifier, and persisted to disk so a server restart does not blank the feed.

The X roster is intentionally short and high-signal: fifteen accounts that consistently surface verifiable open-source intelligence rather than commentary. The Telegram set is broader, weighted toward Russian, Ukrainian, Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese-language channels that surface front-line and theatre-specific reporting in the original language. Non-Latin posts are pre-translated into English on ingest so the EN translate button serves instantly without a round-trip to Google Translate.

The Google News feed runs against a comprehensive set of topical searches covering every active conflict, every contested chokepoint, every nuclear-weapons state, and most major Latin American, African, and Southeast Asian flashpoints. Each result is tagged to the most plausible country (often more than one), filtered for OSINT relevance, and merged into the same per-country signal pool the X and Telegram feeds populate.

The classifier reads the merged stream against a known event grammar: maritime incidents (UKMTO, AIS-off rendezvous, dark-fleet movement), strategic strikes, drone intercepts, mass-casualty reports, weapon-of-mass-destruction events, infrastructure strikes, air-defence activations. Every event family carries its own minimum precision bar and its own classifier rules. Posts that clear the bar are flagged as cinematic-worthy or notification-worthy, and the same flagged set drives the on-globe noteworthy panel, the cinematic broadcast loop, and the Discord alert channels.

For each catalogued country, the dossier panel shows the most recent signals tagged to that country, separated by source platform (X / Telegram / wire articles). Each post carries an EN translate button when the original is not in English; signals tab counts visualise the per-source split so the operator can see whether activity is coming from social, official wire, or a mix.

The daily SENTINEL brief is the editorial layer on top. A generation pass writes the lede each morning from the structured pattern data, the active hazards, the curated headlines, and the top scored signals; a verifier pass cross-checks the claims against fresh search results and drops anything it cannot back. The output is a 2000-character newswire-style summary that subscribers receive by email and read in-panel on the live globe.