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 applies and is repeated in §6).
 
 Branch `claude/acdream-physics-divergence-5aa784`, 21 commits from `02578441`
-to `7b3e2895`. **Nothing is pushed** — the branch does not exist on the remote,
-and there are 388+ unpushed commits ahead of `origin/main`.
+to `7b3e2895`.
+
+**CORRECTED 2026-08-06 — the original line here said "Nothing is pushed — the
+branch does not exist on the remote, and there are 388+ unpushed commits ahead
+of `origin/main`". That was FALSE, and false in the direction that would most
+alarm a successor.** The campaign was merged to `main` and pushed the same day:
+`main` and `github/main` are both `d4e956b4`, and `git branch --contains
+7b3e2895` lists `main`.
+
+**The measurement error, because it will recur.** This repo has TWO remotes.
+`github` (`git@github.com:eriknihlen/acdream.git`) is the live one. `origin`
+(`https://git.snakedesert.se/erik/acdream.git`) is a second remote whose cached
+ref `origin/main` still points at `f6275f45` and whose ref file has not been
+written since **April 27** — three months stale. `main` is 412 commits ahead of
+that ref, which is where "388+ unpushed" came from. **Never measure push state
+against `origin/*` in this repo without checking the ref's age first**; compare
+against `github/main`, or check `git branch --contains <sha>`.
 
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