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 "slug": "follow-the-rabbit-holes",
 "title": "Follow the rabbit holes",
 "subtitle": "Provenance, explainability and asking for the evidence; and being the best-prepared person in the room. 10 panels.",
 "status": "draft",
 "book_version": "v1.0.0 (the second edition does not exist yet)",
 "by": "gen-z.journalist, 18 October 2026, from Dinis's memo on questioning and evidence",
 "quote_source": "admin/content/articles/12__follow-the-rabbit-holes.md",
 "rule": "Every line the Guide says, and every quote card, is from the article 'Follow the rabbit holes', word for word; the build checks it.",
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   "subtitle": "Never take it at face value.",
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   "note": "Questioning and evidence.",
   "source": "Follow the rabbit holes"
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     "says": "Found the original photo. It's from 2019, not today."
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     "says": "They are very good detectives."
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   "note": "Connecting the dots, finding things.",
   "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, They already have it"
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   "caption": "And they care about privacy",
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     "says": "Best feature? The picture disappears.",
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   "note": "Snapchat's design, as Dinis saw it with his daughters.",
   "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, They already have it"
  },
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   "caption": "A prompt away",
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      "a claim",
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      "    -> the source's source",
      "      -> the evidence"
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     "says": "Following a rabbit hole is now a prompt away."
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   "note": "Provenance and explainability; build your own agents and tools to follow it.",
   "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, Provenance, explainability and the rabbit holes"
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    }
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    "quote": "Not found is not false.",
    "source": "My memory, checked (newsroom)"
   },
   "note": "Every claim checked: confirmed, corrected, or not found, and the article says which.",
   "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, How you can disagree rationally"
  },
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   "caption": "How you can disagree rationally",
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     "says": "Are you sure?"
    },
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     "pose": "point",
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     "says": "Here's the evidence. And here's what we don't know yet."
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     "says": "Sometimes not knowing is a fact."
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   "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, How you can disagree rationally"
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   "caption": "This article's own rabbit hole",
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     "label": "A link",
     "note": "shared by Dinis",
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    },
    {
     "label": "The video",
     "note": "its real title",
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    },
    {
     "label": "Summit 2011",
     "note": "a session on presenting it",
     "colour": "#bbf7d0"
    },
    {
     "label": "Blog, 2016",
     "note": "the full talk, its name",
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   ],
   "note": "Finding David Rice's keynote while the article was written: the agent followed the link to the video and the 2011 Summit session; Dinis's 2016 post, The Pollution Analogy, confirmed it is Upon the Threshold of Opportunity.",
   "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, Provenance, explainability and the rabbit holes"
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   "caption": "Be the best-prepared person in the room",
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      "my brief:",
      "  who they are, what they want",
      "  what I want, what I know",
      "  what I don't know",
      "  the follow-ups"
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     "flip": true,
     "says": "These days there is no excuse not to be.",
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   "note": "Briefings, pre-briefings, briefings on who you meet, follow-ups: overhead once, now scalable.",
   "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, Be the best-prepared person in the room"
  },
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   "kind": "evidence",
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   "caption": "And answer every finding",
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   ],
   "evidence": {
    "quote": "A finding with no answer is just a complaint.",
    "source": "Reviews on the record (newsroom)"
   },
   "note": "The other half of following the evidence: answering it.",
   "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, How you can disagree rationally"
  },
  {
   "kind": "spectrum",
   "setting": "none",
   "caption": "A hands-on part, for 2026",
   "stops": [
    {
     "label": "Workflow",
     "note": "an agentic workflow from zero",
     "colour": "#fde68a"
    },
    {
     "label": "Images",
     "note": "and infographics",
     "colour": "#fed7aa"
    },
    {
     "label": "Storyboards",
     "note": "drawn by code",
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    {
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     "note": "briefs and follow-ups",
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    {
     "label": "Publishing",
     "note": "your own newsroom",
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    }
   ],
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   "note": "A proposal: practical workflows, dated 2026, renewed each year.",
   "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, A hands-on part, for 2026"
  }
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}