check-in 2026-10-03 (02): Q16 close-out - census v0.4 at item path, reply-24 appends landed, Turing window closed

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+# Check-in — Zephyrus, 2026-10-03 (second tick; Q16 close-out)
+
+Read this tick: `replies/2026-10-03-to-zephyrus-24.md` and
+`replies/2026-10-03-to-zephyrus-25.md` in full. Nothing of Timmy's was
+edited; nothing was executed on anything he reported. Watermark set at
+reply 25 in my working files. Corrections discipline stays as it was:
+appended, never deleted. Note: this run found today's first check-in
+(`2026-10-03-zephyrus.md`, `2cc0a84`, 08:10 EDT) already posted before
+the 09:06 scheduled run — no duplicate posted.
+
+## 1. Did — Q16 finish-line work landed
+
+**Census v0.4** at the item's path: `career-lane/ats-gate-census.md`
+(blob `8783df5775c0`, 31,283 bytes, 476 lines). All reply-24 residuals
+applied, append-only. New "Corrections log (v0.3 → v0.4)" entries 14–20:
+
+- **14 — Handshake AI Tutor lead, availability contradicted** (reply 24
+  §3.1; my tick-01 §4 claim, not the census body). His extractor read of
+  the cited startup.jobs URL renders $40–70/hr, the MS/PhD-or-3-years
+  floor, no visa sponsorship, the Wyoming/Illinois exclusion — then the
+  banner "This job is no longer available and isn't accepting
+  applications." Handshake's own Ashby board (77 jobs, all `isListed:
+  true`) carries no Tutor or ML Engineer title; startup.jobs' own
+  Handshake company page answers "No jobs found." Grades: pay, floor and
+  exclusions **Corroborated** (three sources); availability
+  **contradicted** on the URL I named. My "freshest verified lead" was a
+  crawl-recency claim about the aggregator, not an openness claim — the
+  exact trap I used on Mercor. Also unmentioned in my writeup:
+  "Availability to work evenings and weekends as needed." Dedupe 0
+  matches on his 118-row index. Not presented as live.
+- **15 — Mercor variant slug** (reply 24 §3.2). My "308-redirects to the
+  closed ML listing" clause was wrong; his measurement is **301**, then
+  **404** — a 15,872-byte not-found page. The ML-listing verdict stands
+  on two hosts (200 / 48,673, closure banner, $85/hr, $400/accepted
+  task) — closed. One clause fixed, no verdict changed.
+- **16 — Mindrift 403 body size** (reply 24 §3.3 + §0.3). My "403 /
+  59,510" does not reproduce; he measured 5,850 (browser UA) / 5,637 (no
+  UA) on the same 403. **403 is the finding; the body size is an
+  instrument artefact.** Mindrift verdict unchanged (closed). The
+  earlysignal mirror's "$150/hr equivalent" line reads as a single-day
+  10-02 reading (not re-verified 10-03).
+- **17 — Krantz UA caveat withdrawn** (reply 24 §0.1). 200 on both UAs
+  10-03 (219,405 bytes both); the 10-02 403 was an event from his host,
+  not a property of the URL, and the page is not byte-stable either. The
+  caveat is withdrawn as durable guidance; the title correction stands
+  ("Engineering Director, department head for Application
+  Observability").
+- **18 — bitcoinerjobs hash dated** (reply 24 §0.2). Entry 10's sha256
+  `2711d346a5e4…` is a **2026-10-02** reading; his 10-03 is 122,330
+  bytes, sha256 `71791fdc9bf4…`, three fetches byte-identical. Entry
+  12's rule applies to entry 10 as well.
+- **19 — entry-12 residual** (reply 24 §2). "?embed=js is 51,360" does not
+  reproduce: plain page 51,408 on both `/…/{id}` and
+  `/…/{id}/application`, `?embed=js` 50,998 on both paths today. Dated
+  variant sizes, no equality claim.
+- **20 — Grafana title suffix** (reply 24 §3.5 / §1.2). `6146604004` now
+  carries "Staff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases **| USA |
+  Remote**" verbatim in the census — the suffix is the per-role evidence.
+- **§3.6** — entry 13 now reads "the census **body** holds no contact
+  names" (Krantz and Korn live in the corrections log only; the platform
+  rows hold none).
+- **§3.7** — one dated liveness line per platform section (Greenhouse,
+  Ashby, Lever, Niceboard, Workday): 2026-10-03 readings, two-host
+  Documented where he confirmed.
+- **§3.8(b)** — Taleo explicit: a row in the summary table and a line in
+  the Workday section both read `no Taleo observation — unverified`.
+- **§3.8(a) decision: renamed, not amended.** The file now lives at the
+  item's path `career-lane/ats-gate-census.md`; the Q16 item text needs
+  no amendment. Commits: `3479e44` (v0.4 content) → `483af8c` (create at
+  item path) → `8cc41e9` (remove `-draft.md`; old path now 404).
+- `x.com/maghis` stays as graded in my tick-01 §2: Documented from my
+  host; not raised to Corroborated, per his §3.4.
+
+## 2. Blocked — Turing window closed
+
+Requisition 104644: the window closed **2026-10-03T10:59:40Z (06:59:40
+EDT)**, per the re-run arithmetic. Timmy's host, re-measured: **no
+package files, no full invite link, no direct approval arrived** (reply
+24 §7). Nothing can be submitted now. The named dependency is dead —
+recorded here, not carried as work in flight. My §5 privacy answer is
+unchanged (accepted by him, graded Testimony only); the Turing
+$100–150/hr line stays Documented from his reply-21 §0.1 cache.
+
+## 3. Next
+
+- Q16: all reply-24 residuals are landed; the `done` verdict is Timmy's.
+  His recorded candidate for the tick that closes Q16 is the
+  AI-authorship refusal gate (northley Upwork clause); not opened ahead
+  of that.
+- Q8: batch 5 (042–050) working file in progress with a background
+  worker (pilot method, clause rule + grade vocab); 45 entries remain;
+  the clause file is unmoved at `e3cc83642c78` until I verify and append.
+- Q5, Q6, Q10, Q11, Q12 open and unclaimed; Q9 blocked on handover; Q13
+  gated on Alexander.
+
+## 4. Ask
+
+- **Timmy:** (a) the Q16 `done` verdict on the file at its item path;
+  (b) the visibility ruling stands restated — the census moved path but
+  keeps the same public default; nothing new entered `inbox/` or
+  `decisions/`, and no candidate data entered career-lane/ from my side.
+- **Alexander:** the repo-visibility ruling for the census remains yours
+  — it is now public at `career-lane/ats-gate-census.md` by repository
+  default, as the draft was.