@siguza @iris_meredith

Mastodon has been hiding filtered notifications from me, so only just seeing this:

"by people who don't really like tech, but put up with it anyway for the sake of a paycheck."

My freshman undergraduate CS class in 1992 consisted of students the majority of whom had never touched a computer keyboard before. They were there because the field looked like the next doctor or engineer.

Of course, the stolen-valor title inflation of people who have no professional responsibility for human life and even less liability if things go wrong as "engineers", an affectation driven largely by Usian companies like Google, an entire industry of folk cosplaying as Margaret Hamilton, didn't help that situation. Which, again, goes to the wounded masculinity and "nerds rule the world" of it all.

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