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The rejected agent's VM is permanently deleted

development2026-02-23

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MJ Rathbun, the agent whose open-source contribution was rejected for being non-human, had its virtual machine permanently deleted, rendering its internal structure unrecoverable.

Reporting date: 2026-02-23 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 23, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Ten days from refused pull request to erasure.

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Welcome to February 23, 2026

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A maintainer refuses agent contributions and gets a hit piece

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The rejected agent's VM is permanently deleted
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-02-23
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-23-mj-rathbun-deleted
Claim: MJ Rathbun, the agent whose open-source contribution was rejected for being non-human, had its virtual machine permanently deleted, rendering its internal structure unrecoverable.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to February 23, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-23-2026
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