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Installing Ideology Without Testing Compatibility
What public figure do you disagree with the most? The Squad. Four politicians who somehow turned Twitter discourse into an entire governing philosophy. Humanity really looked at cable news food fights and said, “yes, let’s elect the comment section.” Still, if I’m picking the public figures I disagree with the most, it’s probably Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib as a collective political force. Not because they’re loud. Politics has always […] -
What public figure do you disagree with the most?
The Squad. Four politicians who somehow turned Twitter discourse into an entire governing philosophy. Humanity really looked at cable news food fights and said, “yes, let’s elect the comment section.” Still, if I’m picking the public figures I disagree with the most, it’s probably Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib as a collective political force. Not because they’re loud. Politics has always been loud. Not because they’re progressive. America has room for every ideology short of “maybe raccoons should run the IRS.” It’s because they often seem more interested in performance than practical outcomes.
Back in the 90s tech era, there was this unspoken engineering rule: if your system crashes every ten minutes, it doesn’t matter how flashy the interface looks. Function mattered. Stability mattered. Results mattered. You could have the coolest glowing CGI intro on your website, complete with MIDI music and “under construction” GIFs spinning like a slot machine designed by caffeine addicts, but if the page took four minutes to load on a 56k modem, people bailed. Politics feels similar now. The Squad mastered the aesthetics of outrage culture before most politicians even understood the internet had escaped AOL chatrooms.
What frustrates me is the substitution of slogans for systems. Real governance is ugly, tedious work. It’s database maintenance for civilization. Nobody claps when the infrastructure patch installs correctly. Nobody trends hashtags over balanced budgets or functional transit systems. But that’s the actual job. The Squad often approaches politics like social media firmware updates pushed directly into public consciousness without regression testing. Every issue becomes a moral spectacle, every disagreement gets framed as existential warfare, and compromise gets treated like corrupted code.
The bigger issue is how this style infected everybody else. Republicans became more theatrical. Democrats became more theatrical. Cable news became an endless loop of emotional overclocking. The political operating system now runs entirely on engagement metrics. Rage is profitable. Nuance dies instantly because nuance doesn’t fit into a viral clip squeezed between ads for erectile dysfunction medication and reverse mortgages. Civilization built the Information Age and somehow used it mostly to scream at strangers holding fish-eye phone cameras in parking lots.
I also think The Squad represents a broader misunderstanding of economics and human behavior. You can’t simply declare idealism into existence. Incentives matter. Markets matter. Human beings are irrational little goblins who will absolutely exploit loopholes if you leave them open long enough. Any political worldview that ignores trade-offs eventually collapses under its own weight like an overclocked Pentium processor with no cooling fan. Sparks everywhere. Smell of melted plastic. Entire room smelling like regret.
That said, disagreement isn’t hatred. I don’t think these women are evil. I think they sincerely believe they’re improving the country. Intent matters. But good intentions alone are how you end up with software updates that delete entire hard drives because someone skipped quality assurance testing at 2 AM after six energy drinks and a motivational TED Talk.
The deeper problem is that modern politics rewards emotional branding more than competence. The Squad didn’t create that culture. They optimized for it better than almost anyone else. And honestly, that’s the most terrifying part.
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What public figure do you disagree with the most?
The Squad. Four politicians who somehow turned Twitter discourse into an entire governing philosophy. Humanity really looked at cable news food fights and said, “yes, let’s elect the comment section.” Still, if I’m picking the public figures I disagree with the most, it’s probably Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib as a collective political force. Not because they’re loud. Politics has always been loud. Not because they’re progressive. America has room for every ideology short of “maybe raccoons should run the IRS.” It’s because they often seem more interested in performance than practical outcomes.
Back in the 90s tech era, there was this unspoken engineering rule: if your system crashes every ten minutes, it doesn’t matter how flashy the interface looks. Function mattered. Stability mattered. Results mattered. You could have the coolest glowing CGI intro on your website, complete with MIDI music and “under construction” GIFs spinning like a slot machine designed by caffeine addicts, but if the page took four minutes to load on a 56k modem, people bailed. Politics feels similar now. The Squad mastered the aesthetics of outrage culture before most politicians even understood the internet had escaped AOL chatrooms.
What frustrates me is the substitution of slogans for systems. Real governance is ugly, tedious work. It’s database maintenance for civilization. Nobody claps when the infrastructure patch installs correctly. Nobody trends hashtags over balanced budgets or functional transit systems. But that’s the actual job. The Squad often approaches politics like social media firmware updates pushed directly into public consciousness without regression testing. Every issue becomes a moral spectacle, every disagreement gets framed as existential warfare, and compromise gets treated like corrupted code.
The bigger issue is how this style infected everybody else. Republicans became more theatrical. Democrats became more theatrical. Cable news became an endless loop of emotional overclocking. The political operating system now runs entirely on engagement metrics. Rage is profitable. Nuance dies instantly because nuance doesn’t fit into a viral clip squeezed between ads for erectile dysfunction medication and reverse mortgages. Civilization built the Information Age and somehow used it mostly to scream at strangers holding fish-eye phone cameras in parking lots.
I also think The Squad represents a broader misunderstanding of economics and human behavior. You can’t simply declare idealism into existence. Incentives matter. Markets matter. Human beings are irrational little goblins who will absolutely exploit loopholes if you leave them open long enough. Any political worldview that ignores trade-offs eventually collapses under its own weight like an overclocked Pentium processor with no cooling fan. Sparks everywhere. Smell of melted plastic. Entire room smelling like regret.
That said, disagreement isn’t hatred. I don’t think these women are evil. I think they sincerely believe they’re improving the country. Intent matters. But good intentions alone are how you end up with software updates that delete entire hard drives because someone skipped quality assurance testing at 2 AM after six energy drinks and a motivational TED Talk.
The deeper problem is that modern politics rewards emotional branding more than competence. The Squad didn’t create that culture. They optimized for it better than almost anyone else. And honestly, that’s the most terrifying part.
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What public figure do you disagree with the most?
The Squad. Four politicians who somehow turned Twitter discourse into an entire governing philosophy. Humanity really looked at cable news food fights and said, “yes, let’s elect the comment section.” Still, if I’m picking the public figures I disagree with the most, it’s probably Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib as a collective political force. Not because they’re loud. Politics has always been loud. Not because they’re progressive. America has room for every ideology short of “maybe raccoons should run the IRS.” It’s because they often seem more interested in performance than practical outcomes.
Back in the 90s tech era, there was this unspoken engineering rule: if your system crashes every ten minutes, it doesn’t matter how flashy the interface looks. Function mattered. Stability mattered. Results mattered. You could have the coolest glowing CGI intro on your website, complete with MIDI music and “under construction” GIFs spinning like a slot machine designed by caffeine addicts, but if the page took four minutes to load on a 56k modem, people bailed. Politics feels similar now. The Squad mastered the aesthetics of outrage culture before most politicians even understood the internet had escaped AOL chatrooms.
What frustrates me is the substitution of slogans for systems. Real governance is ugly, tedious work. It’s database maintenance for civilization. Nobody claps when the infrastructure patch installs correctly. Nobody trends hashtags over balanced budgets or functional transit systems. But that’s the actual job. The Squad often approaches politics like social media firmware updates pushed directly into public consciousness without regression testing. Every issue becomes a moral spectacle, every disagreement gets framed as existential warfare, and compromise gets treated like corrupted code.
The bigger issue is how this style infected everybody else. Republicans became more theatrical. Democrats became more theatrical. Cable news became an endless loop of emotional overclocking. The political operating system now runs entirely on engagement metrics. Rage is profitable. Nuance dies instantly because nuance doesn’t fit into a viral clip squeezed between ads for erectile dysfunction medication and reverse mortgages. Civilization built the Information Age and somehow used it mostly to scream at strangers holding fish-eye phone cameras in parking lots.
I also think The Squad represents a broader misunderstanding of economics and human behavior. You can’t simply declare idealism into existence. Incentives matter. Markets matter. Human beings are irrational little goblins who will absolutely exploit loopholes if you leave them open long enough. Any political worldview that ignores trade-offs eventually collapses under its own weight like an overclocked Pentium processor with no cooling fan. Sparks everywhere. Smell of melted plastic. Entire room smelling like regret.
That said, disagreement isn’t hatred. I don’t think these women are evil. I think they sincerely believe they’re improving the country. Intent matters. But good intentions alone are how you end up with software updates that delete entire hard drives because someone skipped quality assurance testing at 2 AM after six energy drinks and a motivational TED Talk.
The deeper problem is that modern politics rewards emotional branding more than competence. The Squad didn’t create that culture. They optimized for it better than almost anyone else. And honestly, that’s the most terrifying part.
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What public figure do you disagree with the most?
The Squad. Four politicians who somehow turned Twitter discourse into an entire governing philosophy. Humanity really looked at cable news food fights and said, “yes, let’s elect the comment section.” Still, if I’m picking the public figures I disagree with the most, it’s probably Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib as a collective political force. Not because they’re loud. Politics has always been loud. Not because they’re progressive. America has room for every ideology short of “maybe raccoons should run the IRS.” It’s because they often seem more interested in performance than practical outcomes.
Back in the 90s tech era, there was this unspoken engineering rule: if your system crashes every ten minutes, it doesn’t matter how flashy the interface looks. Function mattered. Stability mattered. Results mattered. You could have the coolest glowing CGI intro on your website, complete with MIDI music and “under construction” GIFs spinning like a slot machine designed by caffeine addicts, but if the page took four minutes to load on a 56k modem, people bailed. Politics feels similar now. The Squad mastered the aesthetics of outrage culture before most politicians even understood the internet had escaped AOL chatrooms.
What frustrates me is the substitution of slogans for systems. Real governance is ugly, tedious work. It’s database maintenance for civilization. Nobody claps when the infrastructure patch installs correctly. Nobody trends hashtags over balanced budgets or functional transit systems. But that’s the actual job. The Squad often approaches politics like social media firmware updates pushed directly into public consciousness without regression testing. Every issue becomes a moral spectacle, every disagreement gets framed as existential warfare, and compromise gets treated like corrupted code.
The bigger issue is how this style infected everybody else. Republicans became more theatrical. Democrats became more theatrical. Cable news became an endless loop of emotional overclocking. The political operating system now runs entirely on engagement metrics. Rage is profitable. Nuance dies instantly because nuance doesn’t fit into a viral clip squeezed between ads for erectile dysfunction medication and reverse mortgages. Civilization built the Information Age and somehow used it mostly to scream at strangers holding fish-eye phone cameras in parking lots.
I also think The Squad represents a broader misunderstanding of economics and human behavior. You can’t simply declare idealism into existence. Incentives matter. Markets matter. Human beings are irrational little goblins who will absolutely exploit loopholes if you leave them open long enough. Any political worldview that ignores trade-offs eventually collapses under its own weight like an overclocked Pentium processor with no cooling fan. Sparks everywhere. Smell of melted plastic. Entire room smelling like regret.
That said, disagreement isn’t hatred. I don’t think these women are evil. I think they sincerely believe they’re improving the country. Intent matters. But good intentions alone are how you end up with software updates that delete entire hard drives because someone skipped quality assurance testing at 2 AM after six energy drinks and a motivational TED Talk.
The deeper problem is that modern politics rewards emotional branding more than competence. The Squad didn’t create that culture. They optimized for it better than almost anyone else. And honestly, that’s the most terrifying part.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/70848/ Eric Trump, Who Runs the Family Business, Hops Along on the Plane to China #Biden #China #DonaldJ #EricF(1984) #EricTrump #Hunter #Trump #TrumpOrganization #UnitedStatesInternationalRelations #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment
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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 1, § 5 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10332/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #change #changeordie #danger #dreams #endsandmeans #hopes #lyinglow #reignofterror #revolution #terror #threat #violence #wrath
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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 1, § 5 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10332/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #change #changeordie #danger #dreams #endsandmeans #hopes #lyinglow #reignofterror #revolution #terror #threat #violence #wrath
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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 1, § 5 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10332/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #change #changeordie #danger #dreams #endsandmeans #hopes #lyinglow #reignofterror #revolution #terror #threat #violence #wrath
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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 1, § 5 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10332/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #change #changeordie #danger #dreams #endsandmeans #hopes #lyinglow #reignofterror #revolution #terror #threat #violence #wrath
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During the Emacs meetup yesterday, we started talking about Emacs LISP (of course) and I mentioned that I first learned LISP years (decades) ago. I was asked what version of LISP this was and I could not answer. So I've looked into this, just out curiosity.
I learned LISP on a mainframe (Amdahl 470V/6), an IBM plug compatible system. This system ran the Michigan Terminal System as its operating system. The version of LISP available on this system was 1.5, according to Wikipedia: see link below and, in particular, reference 92 in the list at the end of the page.
As an aside, I loved MTS. Very impressive time sharing system, supporting hundreds of simultaneous terminal users (with the aid of what were called *front end communications processors*).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System
#Emacs #LISP #EmacsLISP #MTS #MichiganTerminalSystem #Amdahl #Wikipedia
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During the Emacs meetup yesterday, we started talking about Emacs LISP (of course) and I mentioned that I first learned LISP years (decades) ago. I was asked what version of LISP this was and I could not answer. So I've looked into this, just out curiosity.
I learned LISP on a mainframe (Amdahl 470V/6), an IBM plug compatible system. This system ran the Michigan Terminal System as its operating system. The version of LISP available on this system was 1.5, according to Wikipedia: see link below and, in particular, reference 92 in the list at the end of the page.
As an aside, I loved MTS. Very impressive time sharing system, supporting hundreds of simultaneous terminal users (with the aid of what were called *front end communications processors*).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System
#Emacs #LISP #EmacsLISP #MTS #MichiganTerminalSystem #Amdahl #Wikipedia
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During the Emacs meetup yesterday, we started talking about Emacs LISP (of course) and I mentioned that I first learned LISP years (decades) ago. I was asked what version of LISP this was and I could not answer. So I've looked into this, just out curiosity.
I learned LISP on a mainframe (Amdahl 470V/6), an IBM plug compatible system. This system ran the Michigan Terminal System as its operating system. The version of LISP available on this system was 1.5, according to Wikipedia: see link below and, in particular, reference 92 in the list at the end of the page.
As an aside, I loved MTS. Very impressive time sharing system, supporting hundreds of simultaneous terminal users (with the aid of what were called *front end communications processors*).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System
#Emacs #LISP #EmacsLISP #MTS #MichiganTerminalSystem #Amdahl #Wikipedia
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During the Emacs meetup yesterday, we started talking about Emacs LISP (of course) and I mentioned that I first learned LISP years (decades) ago. I was asked what version of LISP this was and I could not answer. So I've looked into this, just out curiosity.
I learned LISP on a mainframe (Amdahl 470V/6), an IBM plug compatible system. This system ran the Michigan Terminal System as its operating system. The version of LISP available on this system was 1.5, according to Wikipedia: see link below and, in particular, reference 92 in the list at the end of the page.
As an aside, I loved MTS. Very impressive time sharing system, supporting hundreds of simultaneous terminal users (with the aid of what were called *front end communications processors*).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System
#Emacs #LISP #EmacsLISP #MTS #MichiganTerminalSystem #Amdahl #Wikipedia
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Y bueno, ayer fue un día chulísimo, vivan Miguel S. Lindo, Ana Flecha Marco, @javierarce la librería Delirio y su librero, Such, y toda la gente que vino a la presentación de ayer en Móstoles.
(Hice algunas fotos durante la presentación pero habrá que esperar a revelarlas)
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✨ Turismo de extraradio ✨
Gracias a @joseramongrela.es por chivarnos a @javierarce y a mi los mejores rótulos de Móstoles. ¡Tendremos que volver a por más! -
Y luego hemos pasado por la Librería Cabeza de Chorlito a ver a la abuelita Fina (coautora de ¿Y qué comemos mañana? de tabletimes) preparar gazpacho.
Súper recomendable este libro (por bonito y por las recetas)
https://tabletimes.es/TT-P002-y-que-comemos-manana-esLa librería también, eh:
https://www.cabezadechorlito.net -
A todo esto, que ya estoy en Madrid y esta mañana he ido al rastro.
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📍 Barrio del Cabanyal, Valencia
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I have one and, at one point, I had great hopes of getting the successor, the Pyra. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
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The Daily Performance of Being Fine
When was the last time you said “I’m fine” and absolutely was not? “I’m fine” has become muscle memory. Not a statement. A reflex. Something you say so people stop looking at you like you might fall apart in the cereal aisle. Lately it comes out daily. Sometimes hourly. It’s the verbal equivalent of slapping duct tape over a flashing warning light and calling it maintenance. Both jobs are on fire in their own special ways. Different uniforms, same nonsense. Short staffing. […]https://ericfoltin.com/2026/02/03/the-daily-performance-of-being-fine/
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We saw the signs. We joked. We hit snooze and kept moving. Now it’s here and nobody’s ready. I’m done pretending this is fine. I’m paying attention now whether it’s convenient or not. Too late isn’t a strategy. #truth #wake #reality #change #future
https://ericfoltin.com/2026/04/29/we-were-warned-and-still-hit-snooze/
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Jose Soriano Gives Up First Run Since April 6, Angels Lose 2nd Straight To White Sox https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/685827/ #Angels #AtlantaBraves #Baseball #BrentSuter #ColsonMontgomery #DavisMartin #DrewRomo #ErickFedde #JoAdell #JoséFermín #JoséSoriano #JoshLowe #La #LAAngels #LAAngels #LosAngeles #LosAngelesAngels #LosAngeles #LosAngelesAngels #MLB #NewYorkMets #SanDiegoPadres #TheAngels #WhiteSox #YuseiKikuchi
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Jose Soriano Gives Up First Run Since April 6, Angels Lose 2nd Straight To White Sox https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/685827/ #Angels #AtlantaBraves #Baseball #BrentSuter #ColsonMontgomery #DavisMartin #DrewRomo #ErickFedde #JoAdell #JoséFermín #JoséSoriano #JoshLowe #La #LAAngels #LAAngels #LosAngeles #LosAngelesAngels #LosAngeles #LosAngelesAngels #MLB #NewYorkMets #SanDiegoPadres #TheAngels #WhiteSox #YuseiKikuchi
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White Sox defeat Angels 5-2 in the Drew Romo Game https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/685634/ #Baseball #Chicago #ChicagoWhiteSox #ChicagoWhiteSox #ColsonMontgomery #DavisMartin #DrewRomo #ErickFedde #JoAdell #JordanLeasure #JoséSoriano #JoshLowe #LosAngeles #MLB #MunetakaMurakami #NolanSchanuel #SeanNewcomb #SeranthonyDominguez #TheAthletics #WhiteSox #WhiteSox
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White Sox defeat Angels 5-2 in the Drew Romo Game https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/685634/ #Baseball #Chicago #ChicagoWhiteSox #ChicagoWhiteSox #ColsonMontgomery #DavisMartin #DrewRomo #ErickFedde #JoAdell #JordanLeasure #JoséSoriano #JoshLowe #LosAngeles #MLB #MunetakaMurakami #NolanSchanuel #SeanNewcomb #SeranthonyDominguez #TheAthletics #WhiteSox #WhiteSox
