"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."
I worked on an XP team once where we genuinely had 100% test coverage. It was awesome, we could make changes so fast, and yes we still had the occasional live defect
Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.
Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.
He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.
The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
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Whenever I’m reminded of Google and the company’s greenwashing, I also think of their Google Urban Forest outside Santiago, Chile.
I'm sick and tired of that being your answer to everything!
AI is the ultimate amplifier. If your org has Taylorists as senior leaders, you're in for a tough ride and I emphasise
@stevesmithtech.bsky.social goes deeper on this in this episode on the Modern Software Engineering channel, check it out here: youtu.be/kDBeFOscZpc
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No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...
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'Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence.'
Many big companies adopted gitflow because it had a cool poster and tons of Microsoft/GitHub marketing dollars. The rest followed suit because 'best practice' and Gartner quadrants.
They don't mistrust us, they don't even know us!
kind of seems like the people saying data center energy use is overstated were full of shit
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Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study
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A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes "because it plays better"; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles (Gautam Mukunda/Bloomberg)
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In this golden age of surveillance, making E2EE chat normal and expected has been privacy's biggest win. I hate to see it getting rolled back. thehackernews.com/2026/03/meta...
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Happy St Piran's Day to one and all #kernowbysvyken
Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.
I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward
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Everything is political
Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
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"AI has removed the developer bottleneck"
If developers really were your bottleneck, throwing developers at a problem would actually have worked in the past 20 years
If it has smart in its name, it didn't need to be smart
Black Mirror: Robot dogs will hunt you down
Reality: Robots will use your love of dogs to hunt you down
"TDD slows me down"
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