a lot of the benefit of programming in a functional language is not actually the language itself, but rather the community of like-minded people who actually *want* to do things in a functional way and don't have to be cajoled to do so

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Voter turnout surges in NYC mayor’s race, with Boomers and Gen X leading the charge The data so far is good news for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, a political scientist said.

i hate to be that bitch, but my sources are telling me this early voting data has gotten Zohran's people rightly spooked and y'all better stop assuming this one's in the bag. GOTV

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I'm bothered by musical expression as competition.

It's pathetic in the form of electric guitar god territory.

Why should classical piano get a pass?

Interpretation and emotional response is incredibly subjective. This is just humans dehumanizing themselves without realizing the scope of it.

“NO KINGS” is more than a slogan; it’s the foundation that the United States of America was built upon. We wouldn't be a country if the founding fathers didn't believe that.

As such, the people peacefully protesting today in the streets across the country love the premise of this country.

No hate.

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Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

im working hard and hardly working at the same time

did you know that python had an implication operator? however, confusingly, the arrow is flipped!

One thing that really irks me is when devs justify using advanced techniques with the rhetoric "I'm not smart enough to not use it"

e.g. "I'm just a dumb dev, I'm not smart enough to program without formally verifying all my code"

Tries to be self-deprecating but comes across as condescending

Forget about “productivity”. Use whatever you want, because it’s more comfortable or fun or whatever

Nothing pisses me off more than "installers" that just wrap fucking docker compose and don't have any instructions for manual setup. Stop fucking patronizing me you daft cunt

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BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel's show is reportedly set to stop airing on ABC after he made a mistake about the Charlie Kirk killer.

Meanwhile Fox News continues to employ people who called for the murder of homeless people.

This is so utterly pathetic.

Kirk didn't "engage" with others in "discourse" in any meaningful sense, and certainly not in a sense any of us should emulate. His every interaction was in bad faith. He viewed none of his interlocutors as moral equals in an exchange of ideas, but as mere means to advance is propagandistic ends.

The reason why so many liberals don't meaningfully oppose Donald Trump is because his election win is seen by them as tacit approval to be open about their bigotry. He absolves them of the shame they once felt

I'm a big fan of the pomodoro technique for productivity, where I do my best impression of a tomato and sit in the dark for 48 hours before I am devoured by beings beyond my comprehension

Top Sexual Assault Hotline Drops Resources After Trump Orders

In response to Trump's executive orders, RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual-violence organization, has barred its crisis hotline staff from sharing resources specific to LGBTQ people, immigrants and other marginalized groups.

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Musk's xAI's 35 gas turbines in Memphis spew NOx, worsening asthma in low-income Boxtown. No permits, no controls—yet another sacrifice zone for Musk's AI ambitions. Federal regulations lifted due to his involvement at DOGE. Corruption to the extreme.

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I am seeing more "the election was hacked" messaging but none of that matters (yet). What matters is talking to your Congresspeople every week (or day) to support impeachment so we can eradicate our government and systems of these traitors and sentence them appropriately.

It may take decades.

yeah maybe don't go to lambdaconf everyone

i think a lot of people using AI tools incorrectly mistake "i enjoy using this tool" for "this tool makes me more effective"

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed.

Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance.

My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

"The Trump administration on Friday night furthered its goals of eliminating diversity and equity in the military by firing the two members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who were not white men", for example.

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