Exceptional powers can expand beyond their original purpose, but persistence and expansion are not inevitable.
Rollback, sunsets, deletion, and institutional reform are part of the historical record too.
Provenance at the point of reading
Passage annotations
Consequential statements can be traced directly to the public claim ledger and preserved source identifiers—without publishing protected dossier bodies or pretending every sentence has the same evidentiary status.
30 annotations21 annotated essaysClaims own confidence, annotations own passage context
What an annotation does not mean
A marker does not certify the sentence. It records why the passage is consequential, which claim status governs it, which preserved dossiers inform it, and what qualification should travel with the prose.