pipeline: pick-of-the-day guardrail — front page must be broadly, unmistakably benign

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 Make an explicit pick decision **every run** — the pick is a daily editorial call, not a side effect of publishing reviews:
 - **The pick must be uncontroversial — it's the front page.** The homepage hero greets every visitor out of context, so keep it broadly, unmistakably benign. Never pick anything that could read as endorsing or depicting harm: weapons or anything that cuts, burns, or explodes; anything dangerous or injury-prone; how-to's for any of that; horror or disturbing media; or anything that could be taken as a call to negative action. (A knife is a bad pick.) Such items can still be finds and reviews — they just never get the hero. If your strongest candidate trips this, take the strongest one that doesn't, and note the swap in the digest.
 - Candidates: reviews graduated this run plus the existing review pool.
 - "Strongest" = best hero visual + broadest audience appeal; when torn, the one whose virtue is most immediately legible from the tile.
 - New reviews usually win (freshness matters on a daily site), but a weak new review must not displace a strong current hero.