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@raspberryswirl all the people who invented #chaosmonkey and other chaos testing strategies have now new ideas. 🍿

Oh, look! 🎉 Another groundbreaking #innovation on GitHub: Chaos Monkey for breaking your Zoom calls! Because who needs stable video conferences when you can have thrilling chaos instead? 😜 Just what we needed, more chaos in our lives. 🙄
https://github.com/MdSadiqMd/AV-Chaos-Monkey #ChaosMonkey #ZoomCalls #GitHub #VideoConferencing #ThrillingChaos #HackerNews #ngated

Chaos Monkey but for Audio Video Testing (WebRTC and UDP)

https://github.com/MdSadiqMd/AV-Chaos-Monkey

#HackerNews #ChaosMonkey #AudioVideoTesting #WebRTC #UDP #GitHub

China warns US of retaliation over Trump’s 100% tariffs threat - Beijing has told the US it will retaliate if Donald Trump fails to back down on his threat to impose 100% tariffs on Chinese imports as investors brace for another bout of trade war turmoil.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/12/china-warns-us-of-retaliation-over-trump-100-tariffs-threat #TrumpTariffs #Tariffs #TradeWar #China #economy #markets #finance #ChaosMonkey

@EugeneMcParland For some reason I'm reminded of this opensource tool.

https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey

#ChaosMonkey

A Second Postscript on Chaos Monkey and the Copper Tariffs

I have a lot of afterthoughts, and it’s always hard for me to decide how to present them: should I write postscripts as amendments to an existing post or are they best presented as new short posts?

On the one hand, I am hoping that a reader will make her way to the end of my post and wonder what more I might have to add — most likely a vain hope, and vain definitely strikes me as the right word here — or should I consider postscripts to be more than staircase thoughts, posts in their own right, deserving of separate attention and an email to my subscribers? I am always unsure.

At any rate, this Chaos Monkey question, which I took up the other day, is important enough that I have been trying to come to terms with it and look for evidence that runs in both directions.

A few days after I put up the Chaos Monkey post, and just one day after I’d written a postscript to that post, the Wall Street Journal ran an article about Ivanhoe Electric’s Santa Cruz mine, which announces (or at least strongly implies) in the headline that the proposed copper tariffs are working as intended: “The Race Is On to Build U.S. Copper Mines After Trump Pledges Higher Tariffs.”

The piece that follows doesn’t make good on that headline. Instead, we learn that Santa Cruz is an exceptional project because it is on private land and doesn’t require federal permitting; and the primary “purpose of these tariffs,” as Chris LaFemina says about halfway through the article, is to incentivize domestic smelting to counter China. (Santa Cruz will use leaching, not smelting.) You can almost hear the sad trombone.

The next day, the WSJ editorial board came clean: “Trump’s Tariffs Blow Up the Copper Market.” This editorial steps through all the reasons why the copper tariffs will have “chaotic” results, notes that the “tariffs won’t spur companies to build new smelters” (so much for the primary purpose of the tariffs), and labels the reasoning behind them “close to self-refuting” — which is a polite way of saying incoherent, i.e. utter nonsense.

Treating these tariffs as if they are coherent policy measures might be another instance of “pointless sanewashing,” as DeLong puts it in a more recent post (again on Ukraine, not on copper tariffs). A more charitable view is that it’s an all-too-human bid for coherence in the face of incoherence, sense-making in a shitstorm of nonsense. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, and can even lead to creative forms of resistance, productive disagreement, new shared commitment, and collective action, as long as the sense-making does not attribute sense to things that have none or where there is none to be found. Otherwise, it buys into and perpetuates the false and reassuring belief

that there is something called a “Trump administration” that can be usefully modeled a singular intelligent agent with consistent and coherent positions and goals that it pursues via some means-ends rational-actor process.

If we start from the assumption that there is no such agent currently at work in our world, if there is a government (in name, even in the newspaper headlines) but nothing that can be called governing, where are we?

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#chaos #chaosMonkey #coherence #exposure #government #incoherence #kakistocracy #nonsense #risk #tariffs

I am coming around to Brad DeLong’s view that Chaos Monkey is in charge.

I was going to write about the specious reasoning behind the copper tariffs announced earlier this week, but now, having read a little more about it, I hesitate even to call it reasoning. I am tempted to say that the story Howard Lutnick is telling about “the idea” of “[bringing] copper production home” by imposing tariffs on imports is an example of magical thinking, but that would imply that the idea is a serious idea, that it involved actual planning or something that can actually be called thinking, and also that that thinking carries some charm. It shows none, except perhaps as an arbitrage opportunity.

For similar reasons I resist even the Globe and Mail’s characterization of this idea of a concept of a plan as a “pipedream.” Dreams, including those from the pipe, can be illuminating; this is smoke and mirrors. What we’ve got here is at best a travesty of industrial policy, a tout, a vulgar ruse, flattery, hype, and bluster instead of responsible government.

The idea of a concept of a plan is unworkable in the short term for everyone but the commodity traders, confusing and offensive to trading partners like Chile (the source of around 65 percent of US copper), and (I’ll wager) the smart people are just politely hedging — and trying to cover their bets and not draw ire — when they say they are cautiously optimistic or taking a wait-and-see attitude.

I am more and more inclined lately toward the view of Brad DeLong, who, writing about a different subject (armaments to Ukraine), says that what we are seeing on nearly every front is not policy or ideas; it’s chaos monkey:

The absence of even a pale shadow or a bad approximation to a coherent policy process under Trump’s administration renders both allies and adversaries unable to predict American actions. That undermines global stability. In the world of international relations, predictability is not a luxury but a necessity. Nations calibrate their own policies, investments, and security arrangements based on expectations about the behavior of others—particularly when it comes to a superpower like the United States.

…when American foreign policy becomes a function of—I was going to say “presidential whim, as it has under Trump”, but that is wrong, isn’t it? That imposes more structure on the process than it in fact has. Chaos monkey is the only term even half-adequate. And so the result is a kind of international vertigo….

The net effect is a world system where trust erodes and the risk of miscalculation—and thus catastrophe—increases.

Postscript, 13 July 25: Krugman makes a similar point in this post: “I Don’t Disapprove of Trump’s Strategy, Because He Doesn’t Have One.” Correct. I balk a little at the final clauses of his final sentence: “there clearly isn’t a strategy, just the prejudices of an ignorant man and his enablers.” Sure, Trump demonstrates prejudice and ignorance in nearly all that he does, and having grown up in the New York area, I recognize his flavor of prejudice and ignorance; but prejudice alone doesn’t account for the trouble he’s making. After all, Prejudiced Ignoramus would offer a little more predictability and consistency — a little more structure, to use DeLong’s word — than Chaos Monkey. 

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#arbitrage #catastrophe #chaosMonkey #commodityMarkets #impracticality #industrialPolicy #kakistocracy #resourceHoarding #risk

So for tonight's speech, what are the chances that #Bronzer says anything that's actually still in force in a week? And will any of the Republicans criticize #ChaosMonkey for not wearing a suit if he shows up in a t-shirt and baseball cap again?

#uspol #trump #musk

@hrbrmstr rookie numbers Bob, rookie numbers 😉

#chaosmonkey in #rstats time

https://github.com/gadenbuie/repromonkey

@ccferrie

Some have theorized that the #Twitter acquisition was driven by the desire to hijack the platform to flood the #SocialMedia ecosystem with #Disinformation

Why do that?

Some #Technogarchs like #ElonMusk would like to dispense with nation interference disrupting their fantastical projects

Best way to do that is, create #FUD, disrupt the political system, destabilize fiat currencies, get #DonaldTrump back in the White House etc

Total #ChaosMonkey stuff

Seeking a refuge from...what do they call it now...Xitter? The amount of misinformation on #twitter is mind-boggling, especially since the #isrealpalestine crisis started. #elonmusk has no idea what he's doing. Or maybe that's the point. #chaosmonkey #justburnitdown

OH: Chaos Engineering vs Chaotic Engineering
#ChaosEngineering #ChaosMonkey

@benjaminhollon @deadtom

If it gets lost, it was meant to stay lost.

#chaosMonkey

@robonecon How do I choose between #MorbidlyWealthy and #ChaosMonkey for my favourite new phrase of the day?

Just heard the term #ChaosMonkey for the first time. Hey #GOP, this is about you.

i just realized netflix is using its data centre "chaos monkey" idea to the entire company - arbitrarily shoot down things that are working well, like password sharing and see if the company will survive the fallout. what doesn't kill it may make it stronger, or something.
#chaosmonkey #netflix #Netflixcanada

I'm a big believer in #ChaosMonkey. In companies like the ones i've worked in, every DevOps engineer has a requirement that their production services are sufficiently redundant to stay up even if one server dies. The looming threat of Chaos Monkey keeps them honest & compliant.

@Rjmcgarvey who needs #chaosmonkey (https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/)? when you can go old school 😆

@skempken frei geben = feuern? #ChaosMonkey

Yes! Utah played the role of #CFP #ChaosMonkey and beat #USC in dominating fashion.

Next up Purdue over Michigan?!?

#NCAAFB

Was doing some house chores when my #SynologyNas started beeping.

It turns out, my 3 year old daughter climbed up a book case and started pulling out hard drives. Two of my drives are now in bad states.

On the plus side:
- Everything is backed up elsewhere, so I *should* be able to recover.
- I have a long weekend where I can put my recovery process to the test.
- I have an excuse to buy a new drive.
- I have my own 3 year old #ChaosMonkey.

My only regret from leaving the #BirdSite is that I can’t directly observe what the #ChaosMonkey CEO is doing today.