Schedule poll/notify and the digest as systemd timers

news-cycle.timer runs poll then notify every 15 minutes; news-digest.timer runs
the briefing at 08:45 daily. Both enabled and verified: a manual cycle fetched
1047 items, embedded 95 new ones and clustered them in 74s.

Units are installed as COPIES rather than symlinks. The previous service's units
were symlinked into docs/projects/news/deploy/, and when that repo was renamed
to news_triage they became dangling and the timer failed every ten minutes,
unnoticed, until this rebuild found it. Copying costs a re-copy after editing;
symlinking cost days of silent failure.

Deliberate details: the poll ExecStart is `-` prefixed so a failed fetch does not
skip notify; RandomizedDelaySec spreads polling off the quarter hour rather than
hitting 56 sources at once; the digest is Persistent so a machine that was off
at 08:45 still sends rather than skipping the day.
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[Unit]
Description=news: write the daily briefing and push a pointer to it
Documentation=file:///home/connor/docs/projects/news/deploy/README.md
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman exec connor_news-backend_1 python -m news.cli digest
# One LLM call, which can take ~20s; allow for a slow upstream.
TimeoutStartSec=5min