"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees.
In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay.
Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024.
Textbook corporate greed.
Military occupation of areas loyal to the political opposition is what you see in a civil war, kids.
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.
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.
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...
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.
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/0...
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.
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 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.
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.
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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?
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
Was wondering whether this was a medical conference about tuberculosis in the young…
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.
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