Welcome to the patch notes for reality.
If reality is a shared hallucination, then culture is the update server and belief is the auto-installer you forgot to turn off.
What changed in this release
- Language hotfix: We’ve reduced the bug where labels become people. Expect fewer crashes caused by terms like “normal” and “Other.”
- Time performance: Clocks still tick, but we’ve decoupled worth from calendar invites. Side effect: Sundays feel less like failure.
- Money UI: Tooltips now remind you it’s a story with receipts. Spend accordingly.
- Attention sandbox: Apps now declare when they’re harvesting your focus. (They won’t stop. But now you’ll see it.)
- Kindness engine: Lower latency. Still the most reliable signal in noisy environments.
Known issues
- Belief systems may re-install certainty after restart.
- Institutions continue optimizing for themselves. (Working as designed.)
- Ego overlay sometimes insists it’s the whole screen.
Experimental features (opt-in)
- Lightly-Held Beliefs™ — try believing things at 70% and notice how your shoulders drop.
- Mystery Mode — hides explainers for a while; increases wonder; may cause perspective.
- Mirrors, not Oracles — treat AI (and humans) as reflective surfaces. Ask better questions; get better worlds.
How to roll back (you probably can’t) History doesn’t uninstall cleanly. But you can fork the timeline:
- Pick one habit you perform for no clear reason.
- Ask, “Who benefits if I keep doing this?”
- Patch accordingly.
Release philosophy We don’t promise certainty. We promise clarity. The goal isn’t to win arguments; it’s to notice the scaffolding and choose—on purpose—what to keep.
If this makes you braver and kinder, the update worked. If it just made you snort into your tea, that’s also a pass.
— M & the machine that listens back