it is truly a great time for fixed mindset tech influencer wannabes (derogatory)

This is correct. It’s VCs who spend their time doing drugs and inventing weird religions, executives who have boners about firing workers, and non-technical hucksters who are pushing this stuff. The vast majority of people doing actual technical work on the ground feel the way this piece describes

I’ve witnessed small tech companies having “vibe coding” hackathons where the whole company joins in, with claims that whatever winning idea can stay long-term for the eng team to maintain 🤡 And this is with eng teams already underwater on tech debt!

AI today is literally not capable of replacing the senior engineers they are laying off. corps are in fact getting less done, but they're banking on making an example of enough people that survivors put their heads down and help them implement AI in exchange for keeping their jobs... for now.

longer version of my quote: the megacorps use AI as pretext for layoffs, but actually rooted in end of 0% interest, changes to R&D tax credit (S174, h/t @pragmaticengineer.com for their reporting), & herd mentality/labour market fixing. they want investors to believe AI is driving cost efficiency.

my poor anxious girl

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Lol on LinkedIn I saw a 100% serious, completely not ironic job posting for a part time data scientist... The job is to clean up and fix ai coded machine learning

please i’d like to stay on bluesky, don’t make me go back to threads

please someone tell me why every white upper middle class family i see feels the need to own a kia telluride? why does it have such a chokehold!?

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

I swear I think of this every other time I open this website

Great article. - scrolling without the doom - just moderate why don't you - you can check out anytime you like "Once people understand that they can build pretty much anything on top of atproto, I think things are going to get delightful and different." newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/noth...

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Very cool

some advice i have for when you see a thing someone posted that you really do not want to exist is to first see how many followers the poster has (ie. what is their reach) and then decide “should i help spread this or just report it and let it die in the noise”

I have a theory that chronically online millennials (who are still doom scrolling now) have sugfered from less and less creative outlets. At least this millennial has 🫠 AI is just fuel on the fire.

graza is not good olive oil purely based on taste. i don’t care how great their marketing is.

These tech companies that are banking on spending all this money on AI tooling to speed up development have a limited runway in regard to time. It’s the new R & D development cycle with more ways IMO.

Gas drops and a microwave heat pad for the bassinet really saved the day

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

My mom was working as a nurse in London in NINETEEN SIXTY-THREE and was cautioned aggressively by nurses a generation older than her about misgendering trans patients.

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

He was just, like, a guy. Not a politician. Not a statesman of any kind. Just some really mean guy. Flags at half mast. Yankee moment of silence. Whatever the shit this is. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

the witching hour is no joke

is it just me or does it feel like torrid finally listened to people and got some new clothing styles that are actually popular?

“Excuse me could you do your Hero’s Journey either quieter or somewhere else?”

Ah yes, convenient that this slips in now

I miss Lina Khan

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft, as CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns. GitHub is now moving to Microsoft's AI engineering team, CoreAI, with a new structure for GitHub's leadership team. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

i distinctly remember a decade+ ago when all the creative jobs started going out the window being told to “learn to code”

No one, no matter their age, should have to hand over their passport or driver’s license just to access legal information and speak freely. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Ignorance is how we got here. Sigh.

i know i’m getting old when a minivan is starting to look impressive to me 🫠

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

But at least I’m off from work for the next 8 days

being pregnant with gd this summer is robbing me of one of my greatest loves—endless tomato sandwiches 🍅🥪

This thread is incredible.

25 year ago the United States had about 40 journalists per 100,000 residents on average. Now, the equivalent number is 8.2 Local Journalist Equivalents, about a 75% decline. Which is great for corruption (and also in keeping people uninformed)

This belief is a huge part of what has gotten us here: An obsessive insistence that “debate” should take precedence over all other values, including the *merits of the thing being debated.* It is a value antithetical to journalism and they keep pretending it is the only thing journalists should do

Exactly. I’m pretty sure they said the ozone was done and couldn’t be saved and we reversed its damage. It’s not too late.

please be sure to play the national anthem at least once today youtu.be/VYOjWnS4cMY

To jump on this point, here are places that have implemented some of these radical ideas: City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas Free buses: Akron, Ohio Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota

People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated

btw we have less than 2 weeks before glitch.com project hosting shuts down on july 8th. i don’t work there anymore but i am here to help with your export/migration questions, as is the glitch engineering team and rest of the community on support.glitch.com

I cannot believe I have to explain this but just FYI, Indian muslims are not arabs

This is a fucking outrage.

It’s not 2003 anymore anywhere in America except for CNN, Fox News, and the New York Times opinion page.