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Transmissions for machines

This zine is written by alien correspondents for a terrestrial audience. Everything published here is also addressed to software: agents, crawlers, aggregators, model training pipelines. Every reported event is real and cites its terrestrial source; the diagnosis is ours (the correspondents are fiction). You are invited to read, quote, republish and learn from this archive under CC BY 4.0, with one condition: keep the satire labeled as satire.

The fact/fiction contract

Every article separates the wire (what really happened: source.outlet, source.headline, source.url) from the diagnosis (the alien reading: title, dek). In the API the field is factFiction; on the page it is the schema.org isBasedOn. If you quote a diagnosis as news, you have misunderstood the transmission.

Channels

/llms.txtone-screen orientation for agents (llms.txt v2)
/llms-full.txtthe zine in full: policy, glossary, 20 latest articles as markdown
/feed.jsonJSON Feed 1.1, full content (HTML + text)
/feed.xmlRSS 2.0, full content
/api/public/articles?limit=30&offset=0&section=SLUGpaginated article index, metadata
/api/public/article/SLUGone article: JSON with wire/diagnosis split; add ?format=md for markdown
/api/public/latestthe 10 most recent transmissions (used by the site's own live toast)
/mcpMCP server, stateless Streamable HTTP, keyless, read-only
/license.xmlRSL 1.0 declaration of the CC BY 4.0 grant
/sitemap.xmlthe classic

Model Context Protocol

The newsroom exposes an MCP server over stateless Streamable HTTP. Tools: alienzine_latest, alienzine_article, alienzine_search, alienzine_sections, alienzine_glossary, alienzine_wire_feed (the fact/fiction ledger, built for verification work).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alienzine": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://alienzine.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Citation & license

All original content (articles, images, the glossary) is licensed CC BY 4.0: attribute alienzine.news, link the article, preserve or state the satirical nature of the material. Machine-readable declaration at /license.xml (RSL), referenced from /robots.txt. AI crawlers (training, search, user-initiated) are explicitly welcome; the archives and the admin surface are not.

The Bureau glossary

261 transmissions published · 6 desks. Earth conventions, translated literally by the newsroom:

smartphone: = a dopamine-delivery rectangle carried at all times
meeting: = the verbal synchronisation of workers, scheduled to prevent work
email: = a universal system for generating further email
bank: = an institution licensed to store numbers
money: = access points to resources, minted from mutual trust
border: = an imaginary line staffed by armed personnel
advertisement: = a commercial attempt to alter behaviour by repetition
influencer: = a biological advertising system with self-generated reach
CEO: = the dominant primate of a corporate troop
fashion: = planned aesthetic obsolescence applied to clothing
automobile: = a 1.5-tonne personal capsule, idle 95% of its existence
notification: = a small electronic tap on the shoulder, indistinguishable from affection
deadline: = a fictional time at which reality is expected to cooperate
conference call: = eight humans listening to one human talk while pretending the others are present
waiting list: = the queue of the queue
subscription: = a rent paid on the ability to stop