Uncommon RealityIn The Absence Of A Common One
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Colophon

This colophon explains how Uncommon Reality is made, what is public, what remains private, and how to read the project’s methods responsibly.

Project and collected works

The project is by Hulki Okan Tabak — with Codex. His collected works — books, photographs, essays, games, artworks, and other experiments — live at hulkiokantabak.ai.

Public site

Public website: Uncommon Reality

Public Reader Map: Reader Map

Public continuation repository: uncommon-reality-open-continuation

The canonical authoring and deployment repository remains private permanently. The public continuation repository is an audited, clean-history handoff for anyone who wants to build on the work.

The public website is generated from a curated publication allowlist and deployed through GitHub Pages.

Public/private boundary

The public site is for readers. It contains the public thesis, theory cards, cases, visualizations, selected reports, glossary, objections, ethics notes, and the Reader Map.

The private repository is for implementation and maintenance. It may contain drafts, validation tools, internal notes, stale-file audits, task prompts, and internal operational materials. Those are not published by default.

The standing rule is:

The public site explains the project. Private maintenance tools run the project.

Privacy and network behavior

The current public site does not load third-party analytics, advertising, remote fonts, tracking pixels, embedded frames, service workers, or background network services. It does not intentionally set cookies or use browser storage. Public pages apply a no-referrer policy so an ordinary reader-clicked external source link does not receive the page address.

External citations remain ordinary links activated by the reader. The site's required page-load resources are same-origin and are checked by publication and rendered-network gates. The superseded v1.8 reading pack was withdrawn from active delivery after a data-minimization review found an analytics-bearing historical page copy and an unfiltered operational classification table. Its checksum and private provenance record are retained; the curated v1.8.1 pack is the supported offline archive.

How the site is generated

The site is built from Markdown, data registries, generated cards, visualizations, and a publication allowlist.

The current allowlist is:

config/publication_allowlist.yml

Versioned predecessor allowlists are retained as historical release records.

Exact build-artifact inspection, deployed byte parity, and rendered live-origin experience are recorded as separate verification surfaces. An artifact audit is not described as a browser, assistive-technology, or real-human playtest.

Published reading packs are immutable snapshots. The ordinary site build copies the registered pack byte-for-byte; a successor receives a new filename, checksum, and lineage record rather than overwriting an earlier pack.

Claim cards are withheld from public output until they include required uncertainty, counterargument, falsifier, misuse-risk, and publication-status fields.

Method note

Some project documents use simulated intellectual-standpoint panels. These are not real participation, endorsement, or attribution to historical figures. They are a structured reasoning method for pressure-testing ideas.

The panel method is useful only if it produces disagreement, revisions, and falsifiers. It should never be used as theatrical authority.

Ethical boundary

The project’s most sensitive areas are fertility, propaganda, AI/synthetic media, and political legitimacy.

Fertility analysis must remain reproductive-agency-centered and anti-coercion.

Synthetic-media and propaganda analysis must remain defensive, provenance-oriented, and non-operational.

Theories must remain provisional and open to falsification.

Version status

This page describes the current public method and publication boundary. It is provisional rather than final. The project is a living document: public revisions should improve clarity, preserve provenance, and record substantive changes rather than merely add volume.