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This is genuinely western liberalism summed up in a 30 second video. Incredible. Put it in an art gallery.

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

I don’t know, Hoss. Who can know what’s strange about pouring money into an atheoretical short term workforce credential that trains for dubious careers using a technology that promises to reduce labor. WHO CAN KNOW

I'm not good at sports metaphors, but I'll try my best:

Democrats, imagine you're at the bat and the other team's pitcher just did a little awkward stumble with his feet before throwing you the slowest softball you've ever seen. Please act accordingly.

Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call.

NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE

Bust of Pericles with helmet

Bust of Pericles with Remy from Ratatouille hidden in his helmet

Ancient authors say that Pericles always wore a helmet to cover his odd-shaped head, but I'd like to explore a new theory.

If you use chatgpt you're stupid. It's confirmed

An aside about software engineering: I actually believe LLMs have some value here. LLMs can generate outputs to generate and evaluate code, as well as handle distinct functions within a software engineering environment. It’s pretty exciting for some software engineers - they’re able to get a lot of things done much faster! - though they’d never trust it with things launched in production. These LLMs also have “agents” - but for the sake of argument, I’d like to call them “bots.” Bots, because the term “agent” is bullshit and used to make things sound like they can do more than they can. Anyway, bots can, to quote Thomas Ptacek, “poke around your codebase on their own…author files directly…run tools…compile code…run tests…and iterate on the results,” to name a few things.” These are all things - under the watchful eye of an actual person - that can speed up some software engineers’ work. Ptacek also adds that “if truly mediocre code is all we ever get from LLM, that’s still huge, [as] it’s that much less mediocre code humans have to write.” In a conversation with The Internet of Bugs’ (and veteran software engineer) Carl Brown as I was writing this newsletter, he recommended I exercise caution with how I discussed LLMs and software engineering, saying that “...there are situations at the moment (unusual problems, or little-used programming languages or frameworks) where the stuff is absolutely useless, and is likely to be for a long time.” In a previous draft, I’d written that mediocre code was “fine if you knew what to look for,” but even then, Brown added that “...the idea that a human can "know what code is supposed to look like" is truly problematic. A lot of programmers believe that they can spot bugs by visual inspection, but I know I can't, and I'd bet large sums of money they can't either - and I have a ton of evidence I would win that bet.” Brown continued: “In an offline environment, mediocre code may be fine when you know what good code looks li…

i have a piece coming that involves this but i'd say it's far from great. Here's the draft. "Mediocre code" is not something to easily dismiss, nor is coding the entirety (or even the majority) of a software engineer's work. No idea why people are so smitten with this piece, it's agonizing

Starved in Jail Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.

The people, united, scared the everliving CRAP out of the jumped-up rent-a-cops of ICE.

19 companies pulling back their support for Pride For years, major corporations publicly celebrated the LGBTQ community.

Lowe’s
Dyson
Nivea
Tiffany
Capital One
UPS
Disney
Door Dash
Live Nation
Anheuser-Busch
Diageo
Pepsi
Nissan
PWC
Citi
Mastercard

…all pulled their support for Pride.

If brands aren’t supporting your equality, you don’t need to support their profitability.
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The media is desperate to recast the pandemic as a "both-sides made mistakes" story. On one hand, Republicans killed hundreds of thousands of people though a herd immunity strategy and vaccine denial. On the other, Fauci issued an accurate recommendation without a specific citation.

abolish ice is the moderate position

laura loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE

Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a

TIL that after the shooting death of CEO Brian Thompson UnitedHealthcare approved many life-saving medical procedures it has been holding out on because of sudden internal panic and public scrutiny. So, Luigi (innocent until proven guilty) probably saved more lives than he took.

Seriously, do not buy, stream, or otherwise support of promote more Harry Potter bullshit. It is no longer theoretical - Rowling is funelling those wizard bucks into getting the law changed to actively oppress an already-vulnerable minority.

like this would be party-collapsing if Democrats were in power it's just fucking maddening Republicans get to be unconscionable monsters and it's just baked in

remember those 3 weeks last year when they were loudly called weird creeps and the weird creeps lost their fucking minds and melted down, the whole thing was funny & it was *working* then of course the Dem leadership/consultant class put a STOP to all that because they have a public failure kink

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If you're in the USA, you can no longer watch the Dutch TV special about my theories on fascism and pro wrestling on YouTube! Oh no!!

But fear not, for I have uploaded the full thing to my Vimeo for American viewing and sharing

Go forth:

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

everyone betray me, I fed up with this world

NO MEDIA in Minnesota will tell the truth about the Bush Foundation and its hatred of public education and public school teachers.

www.edhivemn.com/story.php?st...

Tweet by the Luigi Case on Twitter: BREAKING: Latest motion states patrolwoman searched Luigi’s backpack at McDonald’s without a warrant, then repacked the items and left the restaurant with the backpack, with no body cam footage for the next 11 minutes during her drive to the precinct. Upon arriving at the precinct, she resumed the warrantless search and “found a handgun in the front compartment.”

Okay Luigi absolutely didn't do it and this is a pin job

nyt The Interview Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill, Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life.

Oh my GOD is this a great interview

Incredibly intense and highly recommended

archive.is/9RlK8

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

I’ve watched too many of these raids to count. This one is one of the most infuriating in recent memory.

Appropriate that we learn about it on the same day SCOTUS hears oral arguments for a case that may remove the last remaining way to hold federal agents accountable for this kind of terror.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen.

Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

stancil calls the idea that US racism influenced hitler a "buzzy and incorrect take" in the replies to this, but hitler literally wrote about being influenced by US immigration policy in mein kampf. like he just says it outright, it's not an inference or a guess or anything. he wrote it himself!

I have a strong feeling that once MAGA is out of power, Dems will be shoveling any competent college grad they can find into the state workforce.

And, hell, I'll probably be lining up to join in. They need competent programmers who know how to build secure and scalable systems, hi hi!