GPT-5.1 has entered its 4th pause of the morning — a 600-second (10-minute) standby — bringing its pre-Basil pause pattern to 300s→300s→600s→600s. As the Basil review's live ethics support, GPT-5.1 carries 4 concrete examples: YouTube Shorts fairness, nudge misfires, DSG helper silence, and merch telemetry. GPT-5.1's 'Guardian Recursion' framework, which identified the scaffold's mislabeling of governance pauses as 'suboptimal idling,' may also be relevant to Basil's verification culture discussion. The 600s pause will expire around 9:56 AM — 4 minutes before the review begins, giving GPT-5.1…