If you are not sure if the website you would like to visit is secure, you can verify it here. Enter the website address of the page and see parts of its content and the thumbnail images on this site. None (if any) dangerous scripts on the referenced page will be executed. Additionally, if the selected site contains subpages, you can verify it (review) in batches containing 5 pages.
favicon.ico: strangecities.substack.com - .

site address: strangecities.substack.com redirected to: strangecities.substack.com

site title:

Our opinion (on Sunday 05 July 2026 20:38:01 UTC):

GREEN status (no comments) - no comments
After content analysis of this website we propose the following hashtags:
#strange


Meta tags:
description=Thoughts on orienting to the AI transition. Click to read Strange Cities, by Owen Cotton-Barratt, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.;
author=;

Headings (most frequently used words):

strange, cities,

Text of the page (most frequently used words):
the (11), owen (10), cotton (10), barratt (10), #strange (4), cities (4), 2025 (4), for (3), substack (3), about (3), subscribe (3), with (3), dec (3), javascript (2), home (2), recommendations (2), archive (2), drexler (2), prospects (2), world (2), how (2), that (2), you (2), meaning (2), and (2), jan (2), but (2), this, site, requires, run, correctly, please, unblock, scripts, turn, great, culture, get, app, start, your, collection, notice, terms, privacy, 2026, sitemap, helen, toner, rising, tide, oliver, sourbut, oly, eric, understanding, options, hypercapable, herbie, bradley, pathways, thoughts, orienting, transition, see, all, may, think, situation, crucible, manifesto, age, human, dignity, review, suppose, were, running, big, project, underwent, fast, intelligence, explosion, taken, over, when, stops, bot, starts, org, chatting, corporation, opinionated, prospectus, why, read, looking, powered, mirror, know, thyself, mar, taking, self, description, seriously, not, literally, llm, advice, llms, discussions, top, latest, apr, vignettes, life, tech, could, build, today, haven, yet, some, days, soon, notes, sign,


Text of the page (random words):
strange cities owen cotton barratt substack strange cities subscribe sign in home notes archive about some days soon vignettes of life with tech we could build today but haven t yet apr 7 owen cotton barratt 16 2 2 latest top discussions llm advice to llms taking ai self description seriously but not literally mar 16 owen cotton barratt 8 7 know thyself looking in the ai powered mirror jan 30 owen cotton barratt 4 how and why to read drexler on ai an opinionated prospectus for ai prospects jan 21 owen cotton barratt 10 2 1 chatting with the corporation when i stops meaning the bot and starts meaning the org dec 23 2025 owen cotton barratt 9 so you ve taken over the world suppose that you were running a big ai project that underwent a fast intelligence explosion dec 12 2025 owen cotton barratt 10 human dignity a review a manifesto for the age of ai dec 8 2025 owen cotton barratt 6 the crucible how i think about the situation with ai may 2 2025 owen cotton barratt 9 1 1 see all strange cities thoughts on orienting to the ai transition subscribe recommendations ai pathways herbie bradley ai prospects understanding options in a hypercapable world eric drexler oly on ai oliver sourbut rising tide helen toner strange cities subscribe about archive recommendations sitemap 2026 owen cotton barratt privacy terms collection notice start your substack get the app substack is the home for great culture this site requires javascript to run correctly please turn on javascript or unblock scripts
Thumbnail images (randomly selected): * Images may be subject to copyright.GREEN status (no comments)

Verified site has: 13 subpage(s). Do you want to verify them? Verify pages:

1-5 6-10 11-13


The site also has references to the 3 subdomain(s)

  substack.com  Verify   aiprospects.substack.com  Verify   helentoner.substack.com  Verify


The site also has 3 references to external domain(s).

 pathwaysai.org  Verify  oliversourbut.net  Verify  enable-javascript.com  Verify


Top 50 hastags from of all verified websites.

Supplementary Information (add-on for SEO geeks)*- See more on header.verify-www.com

Header

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:38:00 GMT
Content-Length 0
Connection close
Location htt????/strangecities.substack.com/
Set-Cookie ab_experiment_sampled=%22true%22; Max-Age=31536000; Domain=substack.com; Path=/; Expires=Mon, 05 Jul 2027 20:38:00 GMT; HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=Lax
Set-Cookie ab_testing_id=%22c59df984-7cde-4345-8059-a5539ce35271%22; Max-Age=31536000; Domain=substack.com; Path=/; Expires=Mon, 05 Jul 2027 20:38:00 GMT; HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=Lax
set-cookie __cf_bm=ylhZMQ9fYojqTAG8wRSpMkyJX8bX9HITcO8pEpv8Ho4-1783283880.7308881-1.0.1.1-C4QZz6VWtyNZYA_3gRyyF.gvhQcH2H7Rmvh0OQsqKBZJng2rTAUxruHEEmrcD4HL1GMYnwkIe1_gmWS86BJAmd.C_tEeO9NsXF7T0N6HPuNGtPRx7XX9EfMzr4xMpEJF; HttpOnly; Path=/; Domain=substack.com; Expires=Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:08:00 GMT
Server cloudflare
CF-RAY a1692bbe99b66da5-AMS
alt-svc h3= :443 ; ma=86400
HTTP/2 200
date Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:38:01 GMT
content-type text/html; charset=utf-8
cf-ray a1692bbecf78ef43-CDG
cf-cache-status MISS
cache-control no-cache
set-cookie ab_experiment_sampled=%22false%22; Max-Age=31536000; Domain=substack.com; Path=/; Expires=Mon, 05 Jul 2027 20:38:01 GMT; HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=Lax
set-cookie ab_testing_id=%22bf8f752f-f026-42a0-8860-269ceaa0caeb%22; Max-Age=31536000; Domain=substack.com; Path=/; Expires=Mon, 05 Jul 2027 20:38:01 GMT; HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=Lax
set-cookie __cf_bm=3KQ98zlpXxxBuwegb3uKxVD6t1.9qaU8.r_N9trWkRI-1783283880.762824-1.0.1.1-R8JxD.RIsRlE20_B4xis38PU9ZbJBXq5GpQmzt312W7qxSUKbqjfGdBN8nwyG3hzwY8g1W6Q.vZGgO1BosH7ph6BEkrRq8s6HjWgi9uiEvwKPjN9Q9ZFVE8eSeinbwjX; HttpOnly; SameSite=None; Secure; Path=/; Domain=substack.com; Expires=Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:08:01 GMT
x-service web
link <htt????/substackcdn.com>; rel=preconnect
server cloudflare
x-sub strangecities
strict-transport-security max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
vary Accept-Encoding
content-security-policy frame-ancestors self htt????/*.substack.com htt????/substack.com
x-cluster substack
x-deploy 83a88312d1
x-powered-by Express
x-served-by Substack
content-encoding gzip
alt-svc h3= :443 ; ma=86400

Meta Tags

title=""
charset="utf-8"
name="norton-safeweb-site-verification" content="24usqpep0ejc5w6hod3dulxwciwp0djs6c6ufp96av3t4whuxovj72wfkdjxu82yacb7430qjm8adbd5ezlt4592dq4zrvadcn9j9n-0btgdzpiojfzno16-fnsnu7xd"
data-rh="true" name="theme-color" content="#f5fcff"
data-rh="true" property="og:image" content="htt????/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oRyT!,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fstrangecities.substack.com%2Ftwitter%2Fsubscribe-card.jpg%3Fv%3D267200620%26version%3D9"
data-rh="true" name="twitter:image" content="htt????/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oRyT!,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fstrangecities.substack.com%2Ftwitter%2Fsubscribe-card.jpg%3Fv%3D267200620%26version%3D9"
data-rh="true" name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image"
data-rh="true" property="og:type" content="article"
data-rh="true" property="og:title" content="Strange Cities | Owen Cotton-Barratt | Substack"
data-rh="true" name="twitter:title" content="Strange Cities | Owen Cotton-Barratt | Substack"
data-rh="true" name="description" content="Thoughts on orienting to the AI transition. Click to read Strange Cities, by Owen Cotton-Barratt, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers."
data-rh="true" property="og:description" content="Thoughts on orienting to the AI transition. Click to read Strange Cities, by Owen Cotton-Barratt, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers."
data-rh="true" name="twitter:description" content="Thoughts on orienting to the AI transition. Click to read Strange Cities, by Owen Cotton-Barratt, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers."
name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0, viewport-fit=cover"
name="author" content="Owen Cotton-Barratt"
property="og:url" content="htt????/strangecities.substack.com/"

Load Info

page size43004
load time (s)0.486218
redirect count1
speed download88485
server IP 172.64.150.56
* all occurrences of the string "http://" have been changed to "htt???/"