#oped

Keeping it real(-ish) https://lucire.com/insider/20260723/keeping-it-real-ish/ #OpEd #publishing #BTS #BehindTheScenes #history #book #Scotland #technology

“AI didn't kill #programming. You killed programming decades ago by stripping it of all individuality and #curiosity to satisfy the whims of giant #corporations. You created #universities that taught only one #language and trained programmers to never think of programming as personal expression. You turned programming into a sterile #profession who's only purpose is making other people money. You even went so far as to hunt down and threaten anyone who dared to disagree with you. You threatened their jobs, their reputations, and their mental health over petty bullshit like an underscore in a variable name. You worked extremely hard to frame programming as only a profession that serves corporations, and made sure anyone who threatened the great corporations was shut down, ridiculed, humiliated, and fired. So everyone fell in line, made only projects for corporations, and talked only about how they could best serve corporations. Even when they tried to fight back against the corporate mindset they came up with a movement that's still about corporate efficiency. Congratulations bootlickers, you got what you wanted.” Don’t ever change Jed ☺️ #OpEd / #LCTHW / #JedAShaw

#oped #mustread "Israel has to be stopped at the nexus of its power, in #palestine, or the same violence will keep manifesting elsewhere with the address changed and the method intact. And if Palestine is conquered, the world will have issued a green light to a greater Middle East that no longer involves the Middle East or its people, greater for its authors, emptied of everyone else (..)" By Ahmad Ibsais for State of Siege https://open.substack.com/pub/ahmadibsais/p/behind-the-noise-of-an-iran-deal?r=18qsxb&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web