Crumbly Crumbly

Narrowed down a list of four eponyms to one today. Why? I might weave one into my dissertation, if I can make it work. While each one has its merits, I’m going with Gall’s Law. The last one is a bit grim, and the other two don’t really dovetail with my methodology. Also, I realize the reader has no context here. This post is mostly a note to myself, I suppose.

Conway’s Law: “Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.”

Gall’s Law: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.”

Goodhart’s Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.

Parents in ICE detention have complained of substandard conditions that frequently left their young children sick, isolated and regressing in their physical and intellectual development.

Jun. 9, 2026, 3:00 PM EDT

By

Jacob Soboroff, Kay Guerrero, Anna Flagg and Shannon Heffernan

In the first years after birth, the human brain develops at a remarkable pace. Every second, more than a million new neural connections spring into being, shaping a person’s physical and emotional health for the rest of their life.

Since the Trump administration entered the White House last year, at least 500 babies and toddlers have spent some of that pivotal time in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

things fall apart and there’s anarchy everywhere; falcons fly freely and can’t be compelled.

Dimming the tide there is blood in the water and everywhere customs of innocence drowned.

Held by the worst is a fervent intensity; lacking conviction the best run aground.

Surely there must be some kind of apocalypse; surely epiphany must be at hand!

Visions unbidden from Spiritus Mundi of something awakening out on the sand:

Head of a man with a leonine frame and a pitiless gaze that’s as blank as the sun;

sleep became nightmare by passage of centuries long before eons of slumber were done.

Higgledy piggledy, beast of antiquity, imminent, just as the prophecies warn,

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