Your algorithm curator used to ring a bell.

Before the feed existed, someone still had to decide what you heard. In medieval England, that person stood at the market cross, rang a brass hand bell until the crowd gathered, and read the royal warrant aloud.

Get it wrong — even a word — and it was a criminal offence.

The lineage is longer than you'd think: oral messenger → herald → town crier → newsboy → editor → algorithm curator.

Six roles. One job: filter the noise and amplify what matters.

The tools changed. The accountability? That part's still being worked out.

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