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tether.

Built at Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon · Oct 26, 2026 · Remote

tether. — Demo video

tether. reads the news through history. For each headline, it identifies the underlying narrative structure of the event: who holds power, who objects, who is blamed, and where the story sits in its arc. It then finds a historical event built on the same structure and lays the two side by side, beat by beat. Readers see how the earlier story actually ended, so every headline becomes an open question: will this one end the same way? The comparison runs on archetypes, the recurring roles and dynamics Carl Jung described, used here as a vocabulary for narrative patterns. A team that blames the person who named its problem, an institution acting bigger than its standing, a figure who is cast out and may return: these structures repeat across centuries, and naming them makes a parallel something a reader can check.

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