Everywhere in my field wants you to be a developer now.
It’s sad to see. And pointless. They’re different disciplines. A lot of roles these days expect you to be an expert developer, an experienced manager and a great sysadmin, while doing 10-20 other things as well.
This is just not possible. And I have absolutely no interest in being a developer, which is about all that seems to be valued anymore for whatever reason.
It’s a terrible time in tech.
Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down To Protect Users From ‘Authoritarian Governments.’
Klarna hit by buy now, pay later backlash as it targets $15bn IPO. Evil stuff.
‘Chaos’: Trump cuts to NOAA disrupt staffing and weather forecasts. Also evil stuff, and harms the entire country and world for that matter.
Large majority of Europeans support retaliatory tariffs against US, poll finds.
Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production.
The Coming Recession Will Be Self-Inflicted.
Green card holders, travelers caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown.
The CDC Has Been Gutted. Insanely idiotic.
Yay, guys, we’re ahead of Algeria! Woooo!
(I have no idea where that list is from, but seems about right to me.)
I do like that Kat is consistent. And she’s right. Due process is most important when it’s applied to people you “know” are guilty, like evil men default rapists or “terrorists.”
Recession chance remains at 90%, Great Recession II chance is 90% now and depression chance is 85%.
Dark times ahead; prepare accordingly.
One of the reasons I liked Companion so much is that I lived a lot of my early life like Iris, with people not wanting me around, treating me strangely or with barely-concealed scorn. All with me having no idea why. Yes, I was an unkempt weird kid with no social skills. That’s what happens when you’re raised by fucking wolves with parents who don’t do anything to help you. It just seems like people could’ve been a little easier on me? But they weren’t. At all.
Anyway, the dinner party scene in Companion with poor Iris doing her best to fit in, to smile, to listen attentively and tell her own stories while everyone treats her disdainfully or barely acknowledges her — sister, I’ve been there. And it really sucks. It crushes your soul little by little. That scene reminded so much of my childhood and adolescence. I got that very same treatment if I wasn’t actively getting punched, kicked or otherwise beaten down.
Luckily (unluckily?), it wasn’t because I was an automaton, though I certainly wasn’t treated any better due to my humanity.
I mean, the whole point of Companion is that Iris acts with more humanity and compassion than the narcissistic, bumbling bio-humans all around her, even though she’s literally being used as a tool for some harebrained scheme. I think I did my best to do the same growing up in rural North Florida.
Though she had way better hair.
Ok, I‘m not judging, I‘m just showing the facts.
1. Migrants are mainly young men, not women and children as the left green media tends to portray them
2. Refugees lie about their age to enjoy minors benefits, the spike just under 18 years is simply statistically not possible pic.twitter.com/vyVhHwOnR7
— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) March 29, 2025
Allowing in a lot of unattached young men, often from countries with quite backwards/Western-averse cultures, is a terrible, terrible idea. That’s not racism. That’s just reality.
Most dreaded question: how many years of Microsoft experience do you have.
Pretty much all of them. I first used MS-DOS sometime in 1981, shortly after it was released. That’s 42 years of experience.
If professional office experience, then 31 years; the time, it do fly.
I assume this question means “Microsoft Office” or something as it’s too broad to really answer well, but I’ve used just about every major application MS has ever made and a whole lot of their minor ones too. Alas.
A Marine’s decision to eject from a failing F-35B fighter jet and the betrayal in its wake.
The average college student today.
A cretaceous fly trap? remarkable abdominal modification in a fossil wasp.
Over 17 million EVs sold in 2024 – Record Year. I remember when this was “impossible” and would “never happen” a decade ago. Degrowthers suck.
As DOGE Mauls Social Security, Profit-Hungry Private Equity Is Swooping In.
People aren’t fungible tokens.
RFK Jr. Expected To Lay Off Entire Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy. Blisteringly moronic.
How Does Disease Modeling Work?
Here’s what military planning usually looks like — and why it doesn’t include Signal.
Trump’s war on immigrants is the cancellation of free society.
Lego Introduces ‘California Home’ Set Where Kids Fill Out Permit And Wait 2 Years For Approval.
When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed.
Basically, the right is ruled by people who don't read books and are proud of it, while the left is ruled by people who say "read a book" in response to everything without reading any books themselves. https://t.co/lz0yIP3rOQ
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) March 30, 2025
Largely true, alas. The Right wants to be appear dumb while actually being the dumbasses they valorize, while the Left pretends to be intelligent intellectuals while also being the dumbasses they make fun of and disparage.
None of it is any good.
Someone from my former side gig (who is also a friend of mine) contacted me good-naturedly complaining that they’d had to hire four different consultants to do what I used to do by myself, and in far less time. On a project that’s still not done after weeks, that I used to handle in a few hours.
So that was nice.
No one knows the difference now between “conscious” and “conscience.” That one bugs me quite a lot as they are completely different concepts.
But another lost cause, I guess.
Sundance Picks Its New Home: Boulder, Colo.
The Secret History of America’s Involvement in the Ukraine War.
We’re In a New Age of Techno-Spiritualism.
Coyote, Roadrunner Loitering Drone Interceptors To Arm U.S. Navy Destroyers.
Trump admin moves to end federal HIV prevention programs. ‘Catastrophic’ consequences, experts say.
Why Did the Government Declare War on My Adorable Tiny Truck?
Hunt for Red October’s English Switch Is Still the Best Way to Handle Languages in Movies. Agreed.
Elon Musk’s war on Social Security unmasks the GOP’s true disdain for retirees.
I just imagine these people watching like, "Fargo" and being furious that they don't want to fuck Francis McDormand https://t.co/JTQ1uTXXJS
— Jane Coaston
(@janecoaston) March 30, 2025
I can’t understand it either. One of the reasons I like watching UK TV shows is that they have more normal-looking people in them. I don’t need or want every single person in a TV show to look like a damn supermodel. It’s distracting and it’s nothing at all like real life.
I was glad Bella Ramsey got cast in The Last of Us for instance as she looks just like a regular person, not one out of a million beautiful.
We overvalue beauty and undervalue character.