Kevin Trainor

I get many of my better work-related ideas while riding my bike.

At this point they could announce that Ghislaine Maxwell is being put in charge of labor statistics and I wouldn’t even be surprised

Bullying is one of the few unifying themes that explain Trump behavior.

Democrats to Intro ‘Presidential Library Anti-Corruption’ Bill After Paramount, Disney Lawsuit Settlements With Trump Congressional Democrats led by Sen. Warren are introducing legislation to close 'loopholes' that allow unchecked donations to presidential libraries, coming after Paramount and Disney's settlements wi...

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Anyone who thinks college professors are in some kind of mind meld with each other where they all agree and indoctrinate their students with that unified message...has clearly never been in a faculty meeting.

Opinion | Revenge, Thy Name Is Emil Bove

If the Senate confirms the wildly unqualified Emil Bove, it will be responsible for the even Trumpier and more lawless Supreme Court for which the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is potentially but a Bovean stepping stone. He is an antijudge extraordinaire

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/o...

The Real GenAI Issue

In which I argue that arguments about whether #genAI is useful or not are the wrong arguments. The important issues are what it’s for and what it costs.

Having very unkind feelings about the people pushing it.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/06/AI-Manifesto

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody? Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?

Whatever is learned about the death, those details are going to raise serious questions about the deployment of law enforcement resources under Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s dragnet.

https://trib.al/VfQFOyb

The White House took down the nation's top climate report. You can still find it here The National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States.

They are cutting us from climate information at every turn.

The speaker of the Minnesota House, Melissa Hortman is assassinated with numerous other persons by a MAGA gunman whose screed says he wants the GOP to control the legislature. This barely causes a ripple in US media. Trump won't call the survivors to express condolences. Reps boycott her memorial.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren Under Trump and Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill,” 17 MILLION people will lose their health care.

Under Trump and Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill,” 17 MILLION people will lose their health care.

That’s your grandma with a walker, your niece who was born with a life-threatening condition, and your neighbor whose kid just broke his arm.

golden retriever, in profile, paws outstretched to hug her stuffed golden retriever toy

maybe this helps a little

Still using Eclipse for Java. Not using Kotlin, C#, or Rust.

This. Is. Insane.
Read this, please.

I don’t believe that my code that runs my production server involves using `manage.py runserver`. I think it just runs gunicorn directly. What is the use case for starting your production server using manage.py?

Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent' NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

Rachel Maddow sees Americans’ active resistance as key to overcoming Donald Trump’s strongman game "The opposition to him is the most important thing," the award-winning journalist told The Advocate in an exclusive interview.

www.advocate.com/news/maddow-...

Was wondering whether this was a medical conference about tuberculosis in the young…

Trump Is Calling Up National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Law

This is an ominous step toward martial law. The time for mobilizing peacefully but massively against this dangerous progression is NOW.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

My wife and I are attending the Chicago rally and march. We are putting finishing touches on our sign artwork today!!!!!!

Horrible for every person in the United States.

We really need a Creative Commons “EXCEPT AI training is prohibited at any time” license.

I want to share science openly, not feed the fully evil, electric/water greedy, hallucinating-dumb/crazy-things machines used to trick and oppress people who can’t fact check the plausible sounding garbage

Wow! I love this card on so many levels.

I agree that code review is a promising application of LLMs. LLMs would be great at exposing subtle code flaws or suggesting promising refactoring opportunities. But we are still going to need humans to point out our frequent misunderstandings of user requirements.

Python Community Interview With Katrina Durance PyCon US can be a unique experience for anyone, let alone a first-timer. We caught up with a first-time PyCon US attendee, Katrina Durance, to learn about her experience and how it will influence the code she writes going forward.

🐍📰 Python Community Interview With Katrina Durance

PyCon US can be a unique experience for anyone, let alone a first-timer. We caught up with a first-time PyCon US attendee, Katrina Durance, to learn about her experience.
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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

The one thing that you can depend on in our system is that the rich will find ways to get richer…

The unifying theme of the current administration is bullying. Bullies often pick targets of convenience. A high school bully might have a grudge against a particular group. But they will pick any convenient victim and give them a swirly if they feel the need to give someone a swirly.