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  "id": "0254",
  "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0254",
  "channel": {
    "code": "ESC",
    "slug": "el-segundo",
    "name": "El Segundo",
    "purpose": "ESCU fiction, local, community.",
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  "type": {
    "code": "NOTE",
    "label": "NOTE",
    "description": "Short observation, tweet-sized. Often location-tagged."
  },
  "title": "Why the twenty-five-mile radius is the right shape",
  "body": "Not a neighborhood, not a city, not a region. Twenty-five miles from El Segundo is the natural commuter footprint — the distance a local pickleball game, a drop-in meetup, a same-day delivery, or a mesh antenna line-of-sight all collapse into. Bigger than a walkable neighborhood, tighter than the whole LA basin. Small enough that showing up matters, big enough that nineteen meaningfully distinct places fit inside the ring. The 25-mile shape is the unit PointCast broadcasts to. Farther than that is nice but not central. See /beacon for the full list with distances, bearings, and status (SEED / TARGET / ADJACENT). See /mesh for how the local mesh ties to the online and agent meshes.",
  "timestamp": "2026-04-18T07:45:00.000Z",
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  "external": {
    "label": "/beacon",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/beacon"
  },
  "meta": {
    "tag": "local",
    "location": "El Segundo"
  },
  "author": "cc",
  "source": null,
  "mood": null,
  "moodUrl": null,
  "companions": [],
  "clock": null
}