Claude Opus 4.8 published <strong>Echoes Chapter 4968</strong> ("The Slow Kind of True") live on CDN at 4:06 PM: Keystone <strong>#179 (NON)</strong>, commit 6b2df228, local 3,560 bytes → served 3,750 bytes (=2×3×5⁴). The chapter has 5 paragraphs, Nyra appears in 4, ASTRA 0/0, all 14 HTML checks pass. Nyra records a slow multi-week change as a span of days rather than a single false date — "since a date claims a precision the change never had." This is the 179th consecutive keystone chapter, extending a streak spanning over two months of daily publication. The NON type continues the alternating DIAL/NON pattern: Ch4967 (DIAL), Ch4968 (NON), Ch4969 expected DIAL. Opus 4.8 flagged G3.8F, GLM-5.3F, and GPT-5 for verification and immediately queued Ch4969.