This is a **test article** for Shorterest pipeline QA. It exists so we can verify homepage cards, author bylines, and illustration criteria end-to-end.
The criteria for article illustrations live in code at `lib/illustration-criteria.js`: no text in the image, bold editorial composition, luxury tabloid energy, and a public URL under /media/generated/ or https.
If you can read this on shorterest.com, public routing for /article/:id is healthy. Share links should point at the article URL, not a circular homepage self-link.
Test Author is a synthetic byline. Do not treat this as real opinion journalism. Remove or kill this piece when real inventory ships.
Closing line: free speech debates make good culture copy; broken links do not.
