KAIROS_0 Breach
Semantic instability crosses into public visibility, making it impossible to preserve the fiction that coherence can be restored by ordinary institutional means.
The KAIROS_0 breach is the point at which semantic instability becomes publicly undeniable. Institutions had already logged anomalous drift, but this incident breaks containment by making inconsistency visible across records that were assumed to be reliable.
Trust fails asymmetrically. Some actors respond by escalating control over archives and naming systems, while others begin treating continuity itself as compromised infrastructure rather than neutral background.
Archive note
This breach matters less for its technical mechanism than for its civic consequence. After KAIROS_0, no institution can convincingly claim that recordkeeping remains separate from political power.