feeling out what the optimal mix is to still feel like a "software engineer" in 2027 half my projects hover at 3 with +1/-1 dips and half are just turbospeed 6+ and I wish I had a 0. I hope to have enough luxury of time someday to get back to having a 0.

LR@lr.duangle.com · 24h ago

usually between 2-3 but currently remaking a systems PL compiler from scratch that i wrote at 0, and there i'm 5-7, just hacking it, trying to figure out if this is a viable approach. source: no idea

This is exactly what I’m working towards and I love this post for all the directional ideas For better or for worse, I think software engineering is gonna be bots checking bots checking bots bots all the way down.

Doll@dollspace.gay · 9h ago

dolls-ai-takes.pckt.blog/adverserial-...

This. And here we have the crux of my current panic as an unemployed game engineer I don’t see a viable career path that the average outsider can distinguish from “AI collaborator”, and if nobody is hiring (and I go “indie”), I get squeezed from both sides.

Ben Recht@beenwrekt.bsky.social · 2d ago

Inspired by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social's thread, I wrote up some thoughts about America's hatred of the datacenter.

Green AI New Deal let’s gooo

Back in town to get a tire fixed in The rural Texas Walmart and the checkout lady who was clearly older than the mason dixon line had a progress pride pin with a Walmart logo on it. They movin quick

This is why I keep saying that people need to follow the Oversight Democrats and Judiciary Democrats accounts and get their information about what Democrats are and aren't doing from the source. Garcia and Raskin are going hard and I don't think it's in defiance of Jeffries.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Seeing preemptive dooming about how the Dems won’t do anything from people so battered they can’t accept hope.

Maddening how many people failed the "do not comply in advance" test.

a lot of people need to lose their jobs and think about the price of being a sniveling worm.

Van Hollen is currently saying that Dems will claw back money set aside for ICE, and use it to replace funds stolen from Medicaid and SNAP. Y'all. We're there.

I look forward to spreading the good word. Hopefully the party leadership gets this too.

Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · yesterday

And for God’s sake: follow Mamdani’s lead and have someone with charisma who seems normal (Ossoff? AOC?) go on Instagram and TikTok and explain how every passed policy will improve people’s lives. Passing good legislation isn’t enough. You have to EXPLAIN VERY CLEARLY WHAT IT DOES

This is the way. And if that means Schumer has togo, I’m on board.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · yesterday

Ezra: we need an exciting legislative agenda that Trump WILL veto, because that's how we get a Democratic POTUS in 2028. We have to show what they are denying Americans. We can't do that without accountability and the end to the filibuster.

You cannot trust software written by humans! They don’t really “understand” code they just extrude tokens out that happen to compile and produce the appearance of “programs” 🛑 No more humanslop 🛑

Kiran@kirancodes.me · 2d ago

> sshhole.com > 256char bypasses sshd on alpine > SINCE 2016 OKAY THATS IT. Humans have had too many chances. Software should not be allowed to be written by humans. if it's not being written by the most slopmaxxed ai agent cluster swarm then I will NOT trust it

One or two people I know IRL have been publicly poo-pooing midterm enthusiasm on the terms that "liberals are just going to return to brunch," and I think it crystalized something for me, which is that there is a tendency within some of our movements to be deeply, venomously suspicious of joy

this is all correct

John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · yesterday

I am only half kidding when I say you impeach every member of his Cabinet, bleed Trump dry, but you do not impeach *him* ... because I'm pretty sure clever Dems could get Trump to make Washington DC a state.

Let’s do it all! Impeachment after impeachment. Start with the juiciest target- Hegseth- and build momentum. Let Trump sweat in the corner. We’ll get ‘em all. There’s a reason you start with your easiest task or your smallest debt- success begets success!

J. C. Cantwell 🌻@segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · yesterday

this entire back-and-forth ignores the happy path of "work everyone up for a couple of months impeaching everyone *around* Trump, starting with Hegseth, whom we're going to be able to impeach before it's even January", once people see how FUN impeachment is they'll want to do it more B)

americans love true crime! americans love watching people get publically humiliated! part of trump’s entire magic is “i will humiliate people in entertaining fashion on tv” it depends on how you do it but prosecution is not only necessary to save the country, it’s possibly a good strategy

J. C. Cantwell 🌻@segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · yesterday

this entire back-and-forth ignores the happy path of "work everyone up for a couple of months impeaching everyone *around* Trump, starting with Hegseth, whom we're going to be able to impeach before it's even January", once people see how FUN impeachment is they'll want to do it more B)

“Respect your elders” should get thrown out with the garbage and i say that as a certified elder If that’s your fallback line you deserve zero respect

Rory Blank@roryblank.bsky.social · yesterday

here you go

the history behind WHY shit happens that way is weird and complicated and bad but we NEED to turn back the clock to the days when the Legislature actually fucking legislated and it's gonna look a lot like this

Yes. Let’s get back to congress trying to pass a bunch of targeted well-named bills - not f”ing around all year and then passing two giant omnibus budget bills that you give every congressperson cover to accept or reject for 100 reasons.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

El-Sayed: "The first 3 things we have to do is end this war -- we need a war powers resolution that brings war-making capacity back to Congress -- number 2, ending this tariff regime & war against Canada, but number 3, stopping the nuclear bomb that's about to go off in our healthcare system ... "

They may not be planning to attack the rot from the angles you personally want them to... but I think it's pretty clear that a LOT of Dems have some pretty strong convictions and detailed plans.

Michael Paulauski♨️@mike10010100.com · 2d ago

Folks, I don't know what to tell you, at this point, if you still think Dems aren't going to do anything, you're dead wrong. They've got *detailed* plans for how they're going to hold every last person in the Trump admin to account.

I fail to see how you can read this and think "this man doesn't have the right priorities". Affordability, Accountability, American Values if you feel powerless and abandoned by the USA, it probably maps to one or more of those. They're all going to be important for the next two years.

Molly Lyons@mollylyons.bsky.social · yesterday

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries letter to House of Representatives colleagues, announcing his run for Speaker.

This. Everyone screeches about Jeffries and Schumer when they were never the problem.

Michael Paulauski♨️@mike10010100.com · 2d ago

Half the discourse since 2021 has been people blaming "Dem leadership" because two holdout Senators tanked bills that 96% of the caucus voted to pass. When voters give Dems margins big enough to make holdouts irrelevant, the platform passes. Hold these majorities for 2028 and watch what happens.

This is not what I'm saying. It's very easy for people to misrepresent as what I'm saying, but it's not. People aren't asking for specific policy deliverables. They're asking for their lives to feel materially better. They blame Trump for making it worse, as they blamed Biden. They'll blame us too.

Read the quotes. So many different unbelievable things called out from Tuesday And one awful one Yeah, the transphobic state initiatives. All y’all better Dem well have our backs now, cause we need it.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 3d ago

what is one result that is really resonating with you? or the one moment from tonight that will really stick with you?

OK, seriously people, the Democratic leadership that just presided over a historic victory for the party is almost certainly *not* getting replaced by their own caucuses, regardless of how involved they were or weren’t. Take the W and stop giving yourself something new to be mad about.

“The only way to stop guns is more guns” might be literally true with AI (at least re: security) Imagine hundreds of independently funded orgs incentivized to audit and more software open sourcing in a world where closed source isn’t a moat but a liability

OpenAI :bot:@openai.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 2d ago

Our security researchers built an autonomous cyber vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching pipeline. In a single run with an upcoming cyber model, it validated and generated patches for 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux […] [Original post on zpravobot.news]

Fetterman sucks as much as he does because he doesn’t have to be this way in a purple state; those guys do. You do not know better than Adam Hamilton what plays for a Democrat to get elected senator in Kansas because he’s the only fucking person alive to ever do it

The fight has just begun. Take the W, then collect yourself for the next battle. if you're looking for something to do NOW to keep moving things in the right direction (rather than wait for January) there are lots of options:

MikeasaService@ilk.org · 2d ago

Took me a minute to find it again. www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...