Temporal-web bridge facts (1998 → 2026) — sources for the meta-graph

Built from research/temporal-bridges.json — the source facts behind models/graph/temporal_web.py / data/temporal_web.json (the betweenness "weavers" of the 1998→2026 meta-graph). Each fact graded doc | assoc | struct. Sensitive items (Epstein/Waters/threat-actor) are documented-association only.

What this is. The structural patterns of this cycle are not new — they bridge prior cycles through recurring people, devices, and institutions. This block holds the dated, sourced bridge facts that the temporal-web model uses to compute which actors/structures connect 1998, 2001, 2008, 2023, and 2025–26. It is a chronology of rhymes, graded — not a claim that the same hands ran each cycle.

The bridge facts (representative; full set in the JSON)

• summers-bridge (doc): Larry Summers was Treasury Secretary during the 1999 Glass-Steagall repeal (GLBA, signed Nov 12 1999); joined OpenAI's board Nov 2023; resigned the board (and a Harvard role) Nov 19 2025 after the House Oversight Committee released Epstein correspondence. One person bridging the 1999 deregulation and the 2023–25 AI core. Documented chronology — not a claim of intent.
• ltcm-1998 (doc): Sept 23 1998 — 14 banks/brokers put $3.625B into LTCM in a Fed-facilitated private rescue; LTCM had ~$5B equity on >$125B borrowed (~30:1) — the "too-interconnected-to-fail" template that recurs in 2008 and after.
• enron-spe (doc): Enron (collapsed Dec 2001) used off-balance-sheet SPEs (LJM1/2, Chewco, JEDI, Raptors) + mark-to-market accounting to hide debt and book future/artificial profit — the structural ancestor of today's AI SPVs (Stargate/Hyperion) and RPO-as-revenue.
• Further bridges (graded): the GLBA→2008 deregulation chain (macro-history-dereg-manipulation), the vendor-financing rhyme (dotcom → NVIDIA), and the recurring-institution weavers the betweenness model surfaces.

How it's used (and bounded)

temporal_web.py computes betweenness centrality over the dated bridges to find the actors/structures that connect the most eras — the "weavers." Crucially:

• The output is structural (who/what recurs), graded doc/assoc/struct;
• Sensitive personal threads are documented-association only and are excluded from the formal proofs (they live here and in spec-network-overlay / spec-crypto-sec-epstein, not in the SCC/Z3 core);
• Recurrence is a rhyme, not a proof of continuity of intent.

Sources: CNBC — Summers/Epstein/OpenAI; Fed History — LTCM near-failure; Enron SPE chronology (Wikipedia/uncontested). See macro-history-dereg-manipulation, spec-network-overlay.

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