Ep 186 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 3 - Scratch-Fact-Check, The Global Pothole

03/01/2026 14 min Episodio 187
Ep 186 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 3 - Scratch-Fact-Check, The Global Pothole

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Experiment Zero – The Peace Experiments: Ch 3 - Scratch-Fact-Check, The Global Pothole
A routine local story takes an unexpected turn when Kitty O’Compost realizes her reporting has begun to attract attention far beyond Midway. What started as a single pothole on County Route 12 now sits at the center of a widening web of polite warnings, unfamiliar acronyms, and unusually interested observers.
As Marzipan delivers increasingly emphatic scratch-fact-checks, Kitty begins to name the pattern emerging beneath the language of “harmonization” and “metadata.” This chapter introduces the idea of the global pothole—the space between ordinary facts and the carefully managed stories meant to contain them—and marks the moment when simple journalism starts to feel like evidence.
Experiment Zero is the prequel to The Peace Experiments, a peace-forward series where a group of young people are brave enough to challenge conventional arguments against peace and disarmament.
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