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The Singularity Atlas

The news of the AI build-out — models, fabs, capital, robots, launches — does not arrive as one story. The Singularity Atlas is a local situational-awareness dashboard that fuses those public feeds into a globe, eight live vectors, a composite Singularity Index, and a daily brief, so you can watch the approach in one place instead of fourteen tabs.

What you get when it boots: datacenters, fabs, labs and pads on a 3D globe; Capability · Compute · Capital · Embodiment · Agency · Security · Space · Culture as live panels; entities that cross two or more streams in 72 hours; a 0–100 index with a Slow Takeoff → Point of Inflexion → Singularity dial; and The Daily Loop, written on-machine (Ollama) or by heuristics if the LLM is down. No API keys, no account, nothing uploaded.

./setup_and_run.sh --sync      # deps + neo4j + seed + Loop feed + first ingest + serve → http://localhost:8055

Fresh machine from a clone: QUICKSTART.md.

Ideas borrowed from worldmonitor, and what they became here

worldmonitor	The Singularity Atlas
3D globe (globe.gl) + layer catalog	Same library. Layers: datacenters, fabs, labs, launch pads + upcoming launches, geolocated AI signals, co-mention flow arcs
Panel inventory	8 vector panels: Capability · Compute · Capital · Embodiment · Agency · Security · Space · Culture
AI-synthesized briefs	The Daily Loop — qwen3 (Ollama) writes today's edition from the top signals
Country Instability Index	Singularity Index — composite 0–100, 8 sub-indices, sparkline, Stross epoch dial (Slow Takeoff → Point of Inflexion → Singularity) + countdown to 2045
Cross-stream correlation	Convergence radar — entities crossing ≥2 streams in 72h (click for constellation + "Alex wrote about this")
Feed freshness tracking	/api/feeds health (last fetch, items, errors)
Local AI via Ollama	Same. Zero API keys, zero registration

Plus what only this atlas has: the Loop Archive — the Innermost Loop editions (kept current from the author's official Substack feed) seeded into the graph and full-text searchable — and the Accelerando epoch dial with rotating Stross quotes.

Architecture

• Ingest runs every 15 min inside the dashboard process (APScheduler, not cron — it stops when uvicorn does); POST /api/ingest for a manual cycle, POST /api/brief/regenerate to re-synthesize today's edition.
• The Loop Archive syncs daily from the author's official Substack feed. New editions are written to data/loop_issues/ and pushed straight into the graph; POST /api/archive/sync pulls immediately. /api/state.loop_sync reports when the feed was last checked and what arrived.
• The LLM is optional: everything degrades to heuristics when Ollama is offline.

Setup

Clone-from-scratch, prerequisites, and what a fresh clone does not include: QUICKSTART.md.

uv sync
docker compose up -d          # singularity-atlas-neo4j: http :7476 · bolt :7689 (neo4j/singularity-atlas)
ollama pull qwen3.8:27b-mtp-bf16                    # optional, for the LLM brief (any qwen3 works — auto-detected)
uv run python -m singularity_atlas.seed           # local archive → graph (once)
./setup_and_run.sh --sync                         # or all of the above in one step, plus Loop feed + first ingest

Useful CLIs: uv run python -m singularity_atlas.feeds (smoke-test all feeds) · uv run python -m singularity_atlas.pipeline (one ingest cycle).

./setup_and_run.sh is the canonical entry point (--setup-only, --no-tests, --sync, --help); it runs one feed ingest before serving so the dashboard is not empty on first paint, then uvicorn's scheduler keeps ingesting every 15 min (not cron). It clears a stale dashboard holding the port before starting, since a forgotten instance keeps ingesting in the background. scripts/dev.sh is a shim that forwards to it.

Configuration

Everything lives in singularity_atlas/config.py: feeds, vector weights, epoch years, globe site catalog, ports, model name. Env overrides: ATLAS_PORT, ATLAS_NEO4J_URI, ATLAS_NEO4J_PASSWORD, ATLAS_MODEL, OLLAMA_HOST.

Notes

• ref/innermost-loop/ is not in version control: the newsletter archive is all-rights-reserved third-party content, so it is kept locally and never published. A fresh clone therefore starts with an empty archive — the archive panels return nothing until the daily sync (or POST /api/archive/sync) populates data/loop_issues/ from the public feed, which exposes the latest 20 editions. Accelerando is not in the repo either — read it from the author's free edition (link in NOTICE).
• Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
• Feeds are all public: no auth, no registration, no API keys.
• Neo4j browser: http://localhost:7476 (try MATCH (e:Entity)<-[:MENTIONS]-(s:Story) RETURN e, s LIMIT 80).
• The README gif is a capture of the live dashboard (docs/dashboard.gif). Regenerate with the server up: uv run --with playwright python scripts/capture_readme_gif.py (?demo=1 slightly speeds the globe and ticker so ten seconds of gif still shows motion).
• Architecture figure source: docs/architecture.html (diagram-design). The PNG is a diagram-only export of that file.

Licence

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE. That grant covers the code in this repository only.

It does not cover ref/, which is gitignored: a local Accelerando (Charles Stross, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) and a local Innermost Loop archive (Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross, all rights reserved) may sit on a developer's machine, but this repository does not redistribute either. NOTICE records the full attribution, the acknowledgements, and the scope of each licence.