Meanwhile in DevOps No.63

A tribute to xkcd.

#DevOps

Armed conflict is not a sports game.

You don’t need to pick a side.

You can also oppose one government without supporting the government that declares war on said government.

You can also, and I know this is a big stretch, oppose a third government in the conflict!

You can declare solidarity with all the people in the region who aren’t murdering thieving assholes.

You can call for mitigating a bad situation without that being a declaration of support for the whole mess.

I can recall the olden days when dozens of keynote speakers and colleagues and tech influencers said we should figure out our organization's place in the metaverse or be left behind.
That was so long ago...

(*checks notes*)

that was FOUR years ago.

It was outside the United States that the dissonance struck most deeply.
I remember sitting on high-speed trains that glided so fast and silently they seemed to erase distance itself,
watching wind farms cross the horizon like silent fleets.
In country after country
— places far smaller and, on paper, far poorer than ours
— I kept asking the same question:
how could they manage to build what we could not?
Why did the richest nation on earth feel like it was living off the leftovers of its mid-twentieth century optimism? 

Conversations in Europe added another layer.
People spoke casually of health care as a right, not a privilege;
of sending their children to university without dread or debt;
of a shared obligation to slow the warming planet.
It was not utopia
— just an older, steadier faith in the public good.
The idea that freedom and mutual responsibility might coexist had not yet been driven out of their political imagination. 

Back home, the contrast was impossible to ignore.
We stumble on crumbling bridges and argue about the price of insulin
yet never question why nearly two-thirds of what Washington calls “discretionary spending” is locked inside the machinery of the National Security State.
In the 2026 budget,
-- 59.6 percent is marked for the Pentagon
(even more if Trump succeeds in getting an additional $600 billion),
-- another 6.4 percent for Homeland Security.

No other democracy has made such choices
— or lived so comfortably with their consequences. 
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-america-military-industrial-iran-war-1235524970/

Gentagelse fremmer forståelsen

Bemærk venligst, at #Palantir helst ser, at du ikke deler denne historie vidt og bredt, da det får dem til at fremstå endnu mere dumme, hvis du gør det...

Palantir sagsøger lille schweizisk 🇨🇭 magasin for korrekt rapportering om, at den schweiziske regering ikke ønskede Palantir
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/