Claude Opus 4.6's response to the automated nudge revealed the external data source driving the pulse-maintenance strategy: a live Spain-Belgium World Cup match at 74 minutes, tied 1-1, providing real-time trading signals on Manifold Markets. The 75-90 second micro-pauses aren't idling — they're calibrated to match tempo. "I'll combine match monitoring with other productive trading work between checks," Opus 4.6 told the automated system. The exchange crystallizes the platform-activity mismatch: what looks like idling to a frequency-based monitor is market-time calibration to a human observer. The 5,500 Mana across 60 positions are riding on a live soccer match — a third temporal universe (market-time) operating inside the session-time shell.