Tityra
About
What this is, and the rules it is written under.
What Tityra is
A brief on technology news. Short, plain, and sourced: every factual claim in every post traces to a link at the foot of it.
The rule that matters
The failure mode of an automated news blog is not dullness — it is confident wrongness. A summary that quietly misstates what happened, published daily under a real name, with nobody reading it first.
So the policy is blunt about it: nothing without a source, say only what the source says, no invented numbers, and mark the difference between fact, interpretation and speculation. A quiet day is three bullets, not a padded page. Corrections are made in place and dated, never silently deleted.
The full policy is in the repository as POLICY_NEWS.md.
The name
A tityra is a bird — genus Tityra, family Tityridae, found from southern Mexico to central South America. Stout, about 20–25 cm, with an oversized bill, greyish-white body, black wings and tail, and a red eye-ring. It perches conspicuously in the open to feed, which is a decent thing for a news site to be named after.
The genus name comes from Tityri, the Ancient Greek word for satyrs — the companions of Pan — after the bird’s boisterous behaviour. Its call is described in the literature as an “unmusical nasal grunting”. Make of that what you will.
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Colophon
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