Org card (index.html): new cover, anti-establishment voice, case study, affiliation + Stripe

HF renders org card from index.html, not README.md. Bringing index.html
to parity with the new direction:

- Banner swapped from constellation banner.svg to cover.png (LinkedIn cover).
- New stance blockquote: 'Academic publishing is broken, and the
gatekeepers know it.'
- New 'Why this exists' section with anonymized case study (94%
self-overlap iThenticate desk-reject from a large commercial publisher).
- 'Persistence' section foregrounds free-to-submit / no APCs / annual
paperback + ebook, with submit + journal CTAs.
- New 'Affiliate with the Institute' section: ICSAC-NNNNN ID, printable
QR-verified PDF credential, right to use affiliation on future works.
- 'Support the work' adds Stripe (Donate/Support/Sponsor via
/community/donate) alongside Manifund.

index.html

@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@
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 	<title>ICSAC — Institute for Complexity Science and Advanced Computing</title>
-	<meta name="description" content="An independent research institute running open, fully-public peer review for complexity science, information theory, and computing. Fort Wayne, IN." />
+	<meta name="description" content="Open peer review for independent researchers. Free to submit, no APCs. Accepted work published annually in Persistence (paperback + ebook). Fort Wayne, IN." />
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 <div class="icsac-card">
 	<div class="wrap">
 
-		<img class="banner" src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/ICSAC-Institute/README/resolve/main/banner.svg" alt="ICSAC — Institute for Complexity Science and Advanced Computing" />
+		<img class="banner" src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/ICSAC-Institute/README/resolve/main/cover.png" alt="ICSAC — Institute for Complexity Science and Advanced Computing" />
 
 		<p class="mark">ICSAC · EST. 2026 · FORT WAYNE</p>
 		<h1>Institute for Complexity Science<br/>&amp; Advanced Computing</h1>
 		<p class="tagline">
-			Open editorial infrastructure for independent and heterodox researchers.
-			The whole pipeline &mdash; prompts, rubrics, scoring, redaction, audit &mdash; is published here.
+			Open peer review for independent researchers. <strong style="color:var(--ink);">Free to submit. No APCs. Ever.</strong>
+			Accepted work runs in our annual print &amp; ebook journal, <em>Persistence</em>.
 		</p>
 		<p class="meta">Fort Wayne, Indiana &middot; Founded 2026 &middot; <a href="https://icsacinstitute.org">icsacinstitute.org</a></p>
 
 		<blockquote class="stance">
-			Independent and heterodox researchers have legitimate cause to be skeptical of black-box editorial AI.
-			The reasonable response is not to hide the system behind a &ldquo;trust us.&rdquo; The reasonable response is to publish it.
+			<strong>Academic publishing is broken, and the gatekeepers know it.</strong>
+			Paywalls in front, four-figure APCs in back, opaque desk-rejects in the middle, plagiarism detectors that flag a researcher&rsquo;s
+			<em>own</em> prior work as misconduct. ICSAC is the answer we built after the system told us no for the wrong reason.
 		</blockquote>
 
-		<h2>What ICSAC does</h2>
+		<h2>Why this exists</h2>
+		<div class="case">
+			<p>A peer-reviewed paper from this lab was desk-rejected by a large commercial publisher&rsquo;s flagship journal on a 94% plagiarism flag &mdash; <strong>entirely from self-overlap with the author&rsquo;s own prior open-access papers</strong> on the same research program. Iterative thinking, properly cited, dressed up as misconduct by a content-matching tool and rubber-stamped by an editor who didn&rsquo;t read past the score.</p>
+			<p><em>That is not peer review. That is liability-management automation wearing the costume of peer review.</em></p>
+		</div>
+		<p class="lede" style="margin-top:14px;">
+			So we built the alternative in the open. A 5-reviewer AI panel, a Review-Quality-Control audit that scores the panel itself, and a human curator with their name attached who confirms, modifies, or overrides every recommendation.
+			<strong>The redacted review record is published alongside the accepted paper.</strong> Receipts, in public.
+		</p>
+		<p class="lede">
+			Prompts, rubrics, scoring code, citation verification, redaction layer, RQC audit &mdash; <strong>all published here, MIT-licensed</strong>. Fork it. Audit it. Run it yourself. If we get something wrong, you can see exactly where.
+		</p>
+
+		<h2>The journal &mdash; Persistence</h2>
 		<ul class="bullets">
-			<li><strong>Open peer review.</strong> A 5-reviewer AI panel + Review-Quality-Control audit + human curator who confirms, modifies, or overrides every recommendation. The redacted review record is published alongside the accepted paper.</li>
-			<li><strong>The journal &mdash; <em>Persistence</em>.</strong> Annual print + ebook + free curation records online. No APCs. Authors retain copyright. First issue May 2027.</li>
-			<li><strong>Open machinery.</strong> Prompts, rubrics, scoring code, citation verification, redaction layer, RQC audit &mdash; published. Fork it, audit it, run it yourself.</li>
+			<li><strong>Free to submit. Free to read. No APCs &mdash; ever.</strong> No fast-track for friends, no slow-walk for outsiders.</li>
+			<li><strong>Annual paperback + ebook.</strong> Accepted papers run in the print volume of <em>Persistence</em>, with a permanent free online record of the full review trail. First issue <strong>May 2027</strong>.</li>
+			<li><strong>Authors retain copyright.</strong> DOI on accept via Zenodo. ORCID-gated submission, 5&ndash;10 day turnaround.</li>
 		</ul>
+		<div class="cta-row">
+			<a class="cta" href="https://icsacinstitute.org/submit">&rarr; Submit a paper</a>
+			<a class="cta warm" href="https://icsacinstitute.org/journal">About Persistence</a>
+		</div>
 
 		<h2>On Hugging Face</h2>
 		<a class="pin" href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/ICSAC-Institute/editorial-system">
@@ -146,27 +179,47 @@
 			One defensive exception: the prompt-injection signal in the RQC audit is withheld, to avoid teaching adversarial submissions what to evade. Everything else is in the open.
 		</p>
 
+		<h2>Affiliate with the Institute</h2>
+		<p class="lede">
+			For independent researchers, postdocs between posts, retired scientists who never stopped working, and anyone whose work is real but whose letterhead is not. <strong>Annual affiliation</strong> includes:
+		</p>
+		<ul class="bullets">
+			<li><strong>A verifiable ICSAC ID</strong> in the form <code>ICSAC-NNNNN</code>, listed in our public directory.</li>
+			<li><strong>A printable digital credential (PDF)</strong> with a QR code that resolves to your public verification page at <code>icsacinstitute.org/verify/&lt;id&gt;</code>.</li>
+			<li><strong>The right to list &ldquo;Affiliate Researcher, ICSAC&rdquo;</strong> on future works &mdash; papers, preprints, talks, conference proceedings &mdash; where appropriate and consistent with the venue&rsquo;s affiliation guidelines.</li>
+			<li><em>Persistence</em> digest newsletter, discount on the annual print, eligibility for merit-based promotion to Research Fellow.</li>
+		</ul>
+		<p class="footnote">
+			Affiliation does <strong>not</strong> include review or curation rights &mdash; those are earned through demonstrated participation, not purchased.
+		</p>
+		<div class="cta-row">
+			<a class="cta" href="https://icsacinstitute.org/community/membership-affiliation">&rarr; Become an Affiliate Researcher</a>
+		</div>
+
 		<h2>Where the rest lives</h2>
 		<ul class="links">
 			<li><span class="ico">SITE</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org">icsacinstitute.org</a></span></li>
-			<li><span class="ico">JRNL</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/journal"><em>Persistence</em></a> &mdash; annual, no APCs</span></li>
+			<li><span class="ico">JRNL</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/journal"><em>Persistence</em></a> &mdash; annual print + ebook, no APCs</span></li>
 			<li><span class="ico">PUB</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/publications">Accepted papers</a> with full review records</span></li>
-			<li><span class="ico">SUB</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/submit">Submit a manuscript</a><small>ORCID-gated &middot; DOI, arXiv ID, or PDF &middot; 5&ndash;10 day turnaround</small></span></li>
+			<li><span class="ico">SUB</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/submit">Submit a manuscript</a><small>Free &middot; ORCID-gated &middot; DOI, arXiv ID, or PDF &middot; 5&ndash;10 day turnaround</small></span></li>
+			<li><span class="ico">AFF</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/community/membership-affiliation">Affiliate Researcher</a> &mdash; annual, verifiable ID + QR-credentialed</span></li>
 			<li><span class="ico">ID</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/verify">Verify a member ID</a></span></li>
 			<li><span class="ico">DOI</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://zenodo.org/communities/icsac">Zenodo community</a></span></li>
 			<li><span class="ico">SRC</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://github.com/ICSAC">github.com/ICSAC</a></span></li>
 		</ul>
 
-		<h2>Submit from anywhere</h2>
-		<p style="margin:0 0 14px; color:var(--ink-soft);">
-			Independent researcher. Graduate student. Lab without an open-access budget.
-			<strong style="color:var(--ink);">The review is the same for everyone</strong> &mdash;
-			no fast-track for friends, no slow-walk for outsiders. The panel reads the manuscript, not the affiliation.
+		<h2>Support the work</h2>
+		<p class="lede">
+			ICSAC runs on bootstrap funding from <a href="https://3riverswebtech.com">3Rivers WebTech</a> and direct contributions from people who think rigorous, accessible peer review is worth keeping alive outside the gatekept circuit.
+			<strong>No grants, no university overhead, no APCs &mdash; so the math has to come from somewhere.</strong>
 		</p>
 		<div class="cta-row">
-			<a class="cta" href="https://icsacinstitute.org/submit">→ Submit a paper</a>
+			<a class="cta stripe" href="https://icsacinstitute.org/community/donate">&rarr; Donate &middot; Support &middot; Sponsor</a>
 			<a class="cta warm" href="https://manifund.org/projects/icsac-ai-assisted-peer-review-for-independent-researchers">Back us on Manifund</a>
 		</div>
+		<p class="footnote">
+			One-time donation, annual Supporter (name on /supporters), or annual Sponsor (logo + link). All run through Stripe at <a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/community/donate">icsacinstitute.org/community/donate</a>. ICSAC is not a registered 501(c)(3); contributions are not tax-deductible.
+		</p>
 
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