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Entertainment — Interviews with immigrants in Silicon Valley by Helena Price [Web App, Politics, Tech]
Entertainmentest. 2017
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
-32.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse momentum is negative over 30 days (-32.0) — observed activity is receding. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 78% of 18 probesavg response 2125 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

BANNED's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Channelupvoteeducationtag-overlap83%8.00.0— unverified
Tech Habits with Francesco D'Alessioeducationtag-overlap83%40.00.0● live
The Most Damaging Wikileaksothertag-overlap80%37.6+7.2● live
TrailerNiteentertainmentsimilar80%0.00.0■ inactive
Distillentertainmentsimilar80%11.30.0● live
Discourse.Directorycommunicationtag-overlap80%8.00.0— unverified
Is SF Flooded Yet?othertag-overlap80%8.00.0— unverified
Movueentertainmentsimilar80%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 14:04Z749unknown
2026-08-17 13:45Z958unknown
2026-08-10 00:11Z2661unknown
2026-08-08 04:45Z817unknown
2026-07-31 15:43Z200bannedproject.comApache2547alive
2026-07-26 17:37Z200bannedproject.comApache2301alive
2026-07-18 14:21Z200bannedproject.comApache2198alive
2026-07-14 09:11Z200bannedproject.comApache1234alive
2026-07-04 16:15Z200bannedproject.comApache3080alive
2026-07-03 00:54Z200bannedproject.comApache3142alive
2026-06-24 13:51Z200bannedproject.comApache1638alive
2026-06-23 13:02Z200bannedproject.comApache2283alive
2026-06-21 21:21Z200bannedproject.comApache3437alive
2026-06-20 19:26Z200bannedproject.comApache2707alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · BANNED · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/banned · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.