01
The score is deterministic
A language model writes the daily summary. It never moves the number. The ladder is a set of rules you can read, applied to measurements you can audit, and it produces the same answer twice.
connecting…
Escalation, measured. Silence is not calm.
czujka watches twenty-six open sources across Poland, the Baltics, Finland, Romania and Moldova, and scores escalation risk by rule rather than by mood. Every reading carries its own confidence — because a feed that has gone quiet is not a region that has gone quiet.
Current reading
Ten countries, on a four-step ladder
The ladder is derived from classified government travel-advisory changes and directly measured hostilities — not from news volume, which was tested across eleven years and could not separate escalation from noise. Countries are ordered worst first. A hatched card means we cannot currently see well enough to stand behind the number.
Scale of the record
The archive is the point
Most of these sources have no history you can retrieve — adsb.fi will not say what flew last March, and Cloudflare Radar refuses anything past ninety days. So every reading is written down and kept. Every day the recorder is not running is a day that cannot be bought back.
Onsets
Things that happened
Not a news feed, and deliberately short. Standing conditions — a border region under alert for the ninth hour — are a different thing from something starting, and mixing the two is how a feed becomes something people learn to ignore. In the first twenty-five days of operation, 1,297 alerts fired internally. Eighteen of them were onsets.
Method
Three rules it will not break
02
Absence of signal is not absence of threat
When a feed goes stale the reading degrades explicitly and says so. It never quietly reads as low risk. Seven of the ten countries have no feed that can observe hostilities on their own territory, and each of them tells you that in writing.
03
Where this disagrees with your government, your government is right
czujka is an instrument, not an authority. In Poland that means Rządowe Centrum Bezpieczeństwa. The point of the thing is to notice early and prompt you to prepare — not to replace an evacuation order.
The app
A plan you write once, while calm
The hard part of preparedness is not information, it is deciding in advance. The app asks you the thirty questions that make up a household plan — where you would go, which route, who makes the decision, what would have to happen for you to leave — and then watches the signal on your behalf and tells you when your own condition is met.
Your answers describe where your family sleeps and where they would go. So they are encrypted on your device with a key we do not hold. Not a promise that we will not read them: we cannot.
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