Friday afternoon reading backlog

I was going to lead off with a New Republic article about Michael Bloomberg, but they just put up a paywall yesterday and lost my subscription information. And their new "subscribe now" page doesn't work. But why would anyone need to test software before deploying it to production?

Anyway, that wasn't the only article that interested me today that I'll read later on:

• Philip Bump makes the case that the sacking of acting DNI Joseph Maguire confirms "a series of realities" about President Trump's presidency.
• Andrew Sullivan calls the Trump presidency "an absurd tragedy."
• Bruce Schneier explains the difference between policy and technology to techies.

Finally, it's going to be warmer than usual this weekend, so I'm going to add some Brews with my Choos.