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The Base Rate Times

Entertainment — A news platform that leverages prediction markets to surface real-time probability assessments o…
Entertainment
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

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

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 1636 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

The Base Rate Times'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: 4 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
Killed for Foodeducationtag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Daily Crunchcommunicationtag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Freakonomics books list ✔️entertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Mapped In Israelothertag-overlap100%37.6+7.2● live
Is Trump At Mar-a-Lago?othertag-overlap100%37.6+29.6● live
Trump Twitter Archiveentertainmentsimilar100%10.80.0— unverified
Have You Been Ignoring Obesity, Think Again!healthtag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Hate Mapanalyticstag-overlap100%49.1+2.4● 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 tierunknown
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 14:49Z276unknown
2026-08-18 12:31Z570unknown
2026-08-10 00:42Z920unknown
2026-08-08 05:17Z2047unknown
2026-08-02 14:10Z671unknown
2026-07-30 16:54Z908unknown
2026-07-18 14:51Z2142unknown
2026-07-15 09:24Z10002timeout
2026-07-04 16:48Z1103unknown
2026-07-03 03:25Z1598unknown
2026-06-23 15:28Z184unknown
2026-06-21 18:31Z458unknown
2026-06-21 18:31Z444unknown
2026-06-20 07:59Z1577unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The Base Rate Times · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-base-rate-times · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.