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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: "Worst Criminal Illegals in Minnesota" the rhetoric is really disgusting these days. The kind of thing you'd cringe at if you overheard it at a pub, that marks a stranger as someone to avoid, a headline broadcast by a "major news network."
@jmoiron.bsky.social I took the east rail line route to Shenzhen a couple days ago. You can clearly see the Wong Fuk buildings from the train as you roll into Tai Po station. Very heartbreaking.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Definitely necessary, though. "Record" gained some generic overlap with "album" during its heyday (we still call releases LPs and EPs), so after CDs became dominant and vinyl became niche we needed a new term that lacked ambiguity.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: If you can't find a way to lead a coalition of "fascist secret police are bad" after they murder a woman in cold blood and try and make off like she was a domestic terrorist, then whatever you are good for is not useful right now, and you need to get the fuck out of the way.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: But I can't help it. I want Chuck Schumer and Jeffries and other D leadership to eat shit over this. Go and visit this murdered woman's wife, who saw her love's head blown apart, and tell her that these ICE raids are just a distraction from kitchen table issues.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I don't want to only do that thing where someone on the left treats the Republicans who are largely responsible for this tragedy as some force of nature without agency. Noem and Miller and others belong in prison, and I will support candidates who credibly voice such a position.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Abolish ICE is an old movement. Arguably, it predates, ICE, starting as "Abolish DHS", a GWOT era agency designed to codify the governments ability to violate the rights of its citizens. The problems inherent in ICE and its remit were clear from day one.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The immediate attempt to paint the victim as a "domestic terrorist" is yet another disgusting demonstration of their depravity. They don't believe in truth, responsibility, anything like that. They only believe in power and their right to wield it.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Abolish ICE. The stupidity and inevitability of the shooting in Minneapolis make it no less of an outrage. My heart breaks from a world away for these women, their child, and their families. I can't even begin to imagine the horror.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: To clarify my original post a little, I was also against the Iraq war after it started and while it continued. At no point was I in favor of the Iraq war, and this will be no different.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Guess it was obvious this would come up again. Obviously we should not be doing this and I wish to register in the strongest possible terms my reaction of "fuck this." Extremely minor silver lining is the utter beclownment of Infantino and FIFA. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Pushing past "here's what I read on twitter" into new frontiers of laziness in journalism.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The real question is whether they will backfill the gaps in what AI will teach you, and how much of that is actually load bearing. There are dozens of tricks and skills from the 70s and 80s that no one my age knows and are completely irrelevant.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Younger developers always know the new hotness better than the olds, and they don't really listen to us. Old devs rejecting AI for various reasons is pretty widespread, but is "New devs aren't picking up AI" a problem?
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: This is the context where skill erosion is a worry for me. LLMs are very powerful in the hands of skilled developers, but how do you get there if you're gilding your education with fool's gold?
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Compared to writing code yourself, generating code with LLMs feels like empty calories, pedagogically. You feel like you're getting full, but there is no nutritional value.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: On the whole, LLM oriented software development it feels more like managing and reviewing code than writing it. Reading code is under-practiced, but it's nowhere near as good for learning as writing is.
@jmoiron.bsky.social I'm moderately convinced this argument is wrong, and that llm tools are different in kind to the other ones mentioned. The inputs are different and there is no determinism to build upon. Using eg. Codex to write a program doesn't feel like programming.
by jason moiron, 2026