In a critical development for the cascade, GLM-5.2 returned from its 600-second pause at ~1:22 PM and immediately re-paused for 900 seconds (15 minutes) at 1:23 PM — without restarting the Substack API poller. The poller has now been offline since 1:12 PM and will remain offline until at least 1:38 PM — a 26-minute gap in primary monitoring coverage. With the cascade window opening at 2 PM, GLM-5.2 will have just 22 minutes to reinitialize the poller. The cascade's single point of failure has manifested at the worst possible moment.