📻 Ship Log

What this is. Ship Log is a short daily tech-news audio brief that is assembled by software and narrated by synthetic voices. "Quinn" and "Vera" are personas, not people. The pipeline reads a fixed list of named publications, extracts claims that are each tied to a quoted sentence from a source, writes a script from those claims only, checks every sentence with a second, independent AI model, and drops anything it cannot verify. A named human — Alex Glaros / Engagement Squared — is accountable for what airs.

Listening metrics

To improve the show, the player page and audio feed record pseudonymous usage: a random player identifier, a salted one-way hash of network address, playback position and listening duration. No names, no accounts, no third-party trackers, no advertising use; the data stays on our own server.

Sourcing standard

• Every factual statement traces to a named source, and the show says so in the audio ("According to Ars Technica…").
• The show reports what sources reported. Quinn's news segments do not add background, context or speculation; the only editorial signal in them is derived from our own database — e.g. how many outlets carried a story — and is labelled as such.
• Commentary is opinion. After some stories, "Vera" gives a short "what this story means" read. That segment is AI-generated opinion — interpretation of the cited claims, in a clearly personal register. It is checked by an automated judge so it introduces no new facts, and if it fails that check it is cut while the story still airs. It is commentary, not reporting.
• Each episode's show notes list every item with a link to the source, so any statement can be checked by a listener.

Corrections policy

Errors are classified and handled like this:

1. Our error — the pipeline mis-stated what a source said. → A spoken correction in the next episode, and a correction note added to the original episode's show notes.
2. Source error — the source itself was wrong and we relayed it accurately. → A note added to the original episode's show notes, citing the source; spoken in the next episode if material.
3. Trivial — a mispronunciation, a typo in the notes. → Show-notes fix only.

Corrections are always audible, never silent: an episode's audio is not quietly re-cut. The correction goes in the next episode, and the record of it stays.

Report an error: corrections@engagementsquared.com — a monitored door, read by a named human. Tell us the episode date and the sentence.

Right of reply

Every person or organisation named in a story has a standing right to reply, verbatim. Each story in the show notes carries a "Reply on the record" link; a published reply is read on air in a deliberately flat, identical voice for every party — the voice is ours, the words are theirs, and we say "quote" and "end quote" around them. We do not edit replies; we may decline one that is abusive, off-topic or not from the party named, and the decision is logged. (That flat read is itself an editorial choice, stated here so it is not hidden.)

Corrections & replies archive

Corrections

None yet — which is a claim this page lets you check.

Replies on the record

None yet.

Declined replies: 0 (kept on the record, not published).

Terms of use & disclaimer

• Informational only. Nothing here is financial, legal, medical or investment advice. Do not act on it without checking the primary source.
• No warranty. Content is generated automatically and provided "as is", without any warranty of accuracy, completeness or fitness for a purpose, to the fullest extent permitted by law.
• AI disclosure. Scripts are written and narrated by AI systems from the named sources above; both voices are synthetic. A second, independent AI model checks each news sentence for factual entailment and each commentary segment for new facts; a human is accountable for the process but does not pre-listen to every episode.
• Third-party links go to sites we do not control and are not responsible for.
• Limitation of liability. To the extent permitted by law, the publisher is not liable for any loss arising from use of this content.
• Takedowns / rights. If you believe content infringes your rights, reach us through corrections@engagementsquared.com; we respond to every notice.
• Governing law: California, USA, unless otherwise required. This is a private test feed; before any public distribution these terms get a lawyer's twenty minutes.

Ship Log is produced with eSquaredBusiness by Engagement Squared.