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Written by Woozle Hypertwin on 2025-01-24 at 01:34

This has the same shape as something I've been saying for at least a decade now:

(~1 hr ago) America’s Constitutional Crisis is Really About Technical Debt by @Daojoan via @theindex

What I've been saying is that our system of government was designed for a horse-and-buggy society. All we've done since then towards upgrading it is replace the horse with jet-engines -- "it's amazing" (I wrote during the Dubya administration, if memory serves) "that it hasn't come completely to pieces yet."

Well, folks, I think the last 10-15 years have let us watch exactly that in slow-motion, and the recent election was just kind of the final abrupt unplanned vehicle disassembly.

JW's argument is a little different than mine -- she correctly points out that there were deep flaws in the system as deployed.

I think we both agree that with proper code-review, these issues could have been patched before they started increasing exponentially -- but management didn't want its control threatened, and had become dependent on the backdoors it had demanded.

Like any badly-designed software, it put on a good show for awhile -- but eventually increasing load brought it to its knees and it is now processing a HACF (Halt and Catch Fire) inserted by black-hats through a giant unpatched security-hole.

We need to start building a new one. (I said as much 10-15 years ago, too.)

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Written by Jake on 2025-01-24 at 01:53

@woozle @Daojoan @theindex Halt and Catch Fire should be HCF! SORRY. Sorry

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Written by Woozle Hypertwin on 2025-01-24 at 14:21

@zagebo @Daojoan @theindex

Fixed! (It's important to get these technical details correct.)

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Written by Death by Lambda on 2025-01-24 at 22:29

@woozle @Daojoan @theindex

This was so on the money.

A once a generation/every 50 years rewrite of the constitution, perhaps with a referendum, would be great!

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