Deleuze and Guattari's comparison-and-appropriation argument applied to an AI agent status dashboard

A philosophy blog post reads Plateau 13 of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, which argues that a State apparatus makes things comparable only after something has been removed from them. The author applies this to a dashboard for a plant of software agents that report their status on a single page. Each service line is reduced to a state word and a short sentence, and that reduction is what allows unlike items to be compared. The author notes that a headline reading GREEN sat above lines that were mostly RED or UNKNOWN, so the summary and the detail tell different stories. The piece checks quotations against an English translation and flags where its reading of the passages is the author's own.