Episode — 2026-09-27: an institution that gets to pick its own report card will hand you the number that flatters it, without lying once -- the tell is the true figure sitting silent right next to it [5:00 AM]
an institution that gets to pick its own report card will hand you the number that flatters it, without lying once -- the tell is the true figure sitting silent right next to it (5:00 AM render) Segments: 1. Opening Ritual 2. The Sun Is Still Doing That 3. Quick Hits 4. Who Grades the AI Graders 5. The Midterms, Briefly, Because We Owe It a Number Not a Sermon 6. Sixty-Eight Boats 7. The Honest Genre, Plus Diplomacy 8. Renaming the Thing 9. One Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand Form Letters 10. Quick Hits 11. The Other Front Page 12. Whiteboard — Follow the Grader 13. Closing
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