A podcast player with a live knowledge layer. The people, places and ideas surface exactly as they're mentioned — each linked to Wikipedia, placed on a globe, and set in time. A moving map of whatever you're listening to.
Real audio, real output — press play. This is a public-domain LibriVox reading of H. G. Wells's A Short History of the World (1922), glossed by Gloss: the words, nodes, dates and places are exactly what the app produces.
History isn't linear, and neither is listening. Gloss watches every episode it has read and finds the threads running between them — so a subject you met in one show turns up, months later, as the heart of another. These are real crossings from the current library:
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