I said no, Ken Lum, 2009
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Channel
@doctrinecast
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1,653subscribers
-15 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
| Telegram ID | -1001396082454 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @doctrinecast |
| Created | 3 October 2018 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 16 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/doctrinecast |
Art & design — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 17 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 90% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Sept 2026, 17:38 | 1,653 | -3 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 02:21 | 1,656 | +1 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 18:15 | 1,655 | -3 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 02:14 | 1,658 | -2 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 15:06 | 1,660 | -1 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 11:54 | 1,661 | +1 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 09:54 | 1,660 | -3 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 17:48 | 1,663 | -2 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 11:53 | 1,665 | -1 |
| 18 Aug 2026, 19:37 | 1,666 | -1 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 20:57 | 1,667 | -3 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 16:43 | 1,670 | -1 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 01:13 | 1,671 | +4 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 21:14 | 1,667 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 07:18 | 1,668 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 05:21 | 1,668 | first reading |
17 posts held, back to 14 June 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 2 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 17 posts for this entry, the most recent from 2 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
233 reactions across 17 posts, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 233 | 100.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 17 of the 17 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 233 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 17 most recent posts we hold, published 14 June 2026 to 2 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
I said no, Ken Lum, 2009
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Though mainstream AI has just arrived, we actually outgrew our mode of relating to images when the internet arrived; that, if today’s situation feels frighteningly new, it’s because AI pushed us to the necessary breaking point of an unsustainable period of semiotic limbo. All Images Are Quite Useless Now, Gideon Jacobs, 2026
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The decisive moment of human development is continually at hand. This is why those movements of revolutionary thought that declare everything preceding to be an irrelevance are correct—because as yet nothing has happened. Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms, 1917
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For some years the high status thing to do has been to start a company; now all the founders want to be longevity influencers too. The same utopian fervor once reserved for distributed systems is being used to construct ideologies of the body. Body Futurism, Toby Shorin, 2026
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The tie between information and action has been severed. Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it. Informing Our…
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There is no consistent, integrated conception of the world which serves as the foundation on which our edifice of belief rests. And therefore, in a sense, we are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.
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Mysticism is just tomorrow’s science dreamed today. Marshall McLuhan, Playboy Interview, 1969
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Making Sense: seven movements, Curry Hackett, Shannon Mattern, 2026
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Writing in his seminal work, “The Outermost House,” naturalist Henry Beston presciently intuited that, far from being background players in Earth’s vast cultural landscape, other animals are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.” They are neither brethren nor underlings, he wrote — “they are other nations.” Animals Have Culture, Too, Ryan Huling, …
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An echoborg is a person whose words and actions are determined, in whole or in part, by an AI. The echoborg method allows one to investigate how people behave and make attributions toward an AI when their psychological state is fully primed for human-human interaction.
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Fifteen of my Fifty with Tiffany & Co, Elsa Peretti, 1990
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The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2015
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Showing the 12 most recent of 17 posts we hold for @doctrinecast. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“doctrine” (@doctrinecast), 1,653 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/doctrinecast.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.