This has been my experience exactly. I find I have to use all 35+ years of my programming experience to have an LLM produce good code. When I do this, the results are very satisfying and enable me to do things that I wouldn't normally be able to do... or that I dislike doing manually.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

Rather, an automation tool that requires the continuous and conscientious exercise of discernment will let individual practitioners improve their work in extremely satisfying and useful ways. It's a way to spend more on operations in order to produce better outputs. 73/

Somewhat Better Than Ezra

Sarah Day 🖋️🦊@sarahday.org · 3mo ago

Slightly increase a band The Mighty Mighty Mighty Bosstones

14 minutes for expired tags and then the cops run to check on their guy rather than the kid who's car was just totaled. As @gregdoucette.bsky.social says "Cops are great!" kfor.com/news/local/t...

Treat family sues Oklahoma law enforcement over response to crash that severely injured son

Former Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Treat is suing the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Canadian County Sheriff’s Office, accusing them of negligence in how they responded to a crash that …

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Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The NY Times saves its harshest skepticism for progressives. Instead of being impressed by 3,000+ coordinated protests, NYT dismisses the value of “hitting a number” and asks if No Kings will be “a primal scream that fades into a whimper.” F off, NY Times. We'll defeat fascism w/o you. (Gift link)

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I saw The Princess Bride with my whole family in a packed theater when I was a bit older than the character Fred Savage plays and was concerned that a movie about princesses might not be my cup of tea. I've never been happier to be wrong in my life.

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences? Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.

“It’s hard to understand why the focus is on expansion and technology that doesn’t get used when it’s the staff who make the work possible.” #UCDavis #ResetUCPriorities #IamUCDavisVetMed

UCD vet lab lays off workers

Working with dog and cat genetic testing at the UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Lab since late 2021, Brandon Toney began with livestock species — mostly through contracts with farmers and

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Happy Wombat Day, @tkingfisher.com! www.daysoftheyear.com/days/wombat-...

Wombat Day

Every year, on the 22nd of October, we celebrate a small, burrowing marsupial native to Australia known as the wombat. Wombat Day is dedicated to raising

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Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)

You helped will this into existence, you know...

This is a great story, especially if you've read the main series.

Erin Ampersand, Author@erinampersand.bsky.social · last yr.

Pre-orders are live for Engineer's Odyssey, a standalone side story in the Apocalypse Parenting Universe! As an experiment, I'm testing not putting this one on Kindle Unlimited. This means I can list it with tons of other services! Links to some of these in the response :) #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Hell yeah youtu.be/dBMguDfirgA?...

The truckers in a shed beating Tesla with 100-yr-old EV tech

YouTube video by The Drive

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literally every time I talk to friends

I’m the 2021 U.S. Muay Thai Open silver medalist.

As @gregdoucette.bsky.social says: "Cops are Great!" apnews.com/article/swat...

SWAT team raided the wrong Denver apartment and traumatized two young girls, lawsuit says

A Denver family alleges that a police SWAT team mistakenly raided their apartment in June 2023, forcing a mother and a grandmother out at gunpoint and then terrifying two young girls who were still in...

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Tell me about a recurring bit you do among your nearest & dearest (or one of theirs) My grad school brother-from -another-mother and I are partial to compliments-as-threats.

"Bullies don’t tend to tell you what their motivations were afterward, and they tend to lie about their intentions even to themselves during." Can confirm -- also applies to grifters and scammers (relevant to this administration)

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · last yr.

"The people who persuaded me that Republicans are fascist are Republicans. What this tells me is that actions are persuasive in ways words are not. I mention this because a lot of people seem to think that what is needed in this moment is persuasion." www.the-reframe.com/youve-persua...

Zero points because I'm old?

Dave@1701trekkie.bsky.social · 2y ago

One. I wasn’t cool enough to record music from the radio.

iT aLl hApPeNs oN x, tHe fReE spEeCh pLatForM www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Vancouver strip club marquee cited as hate speech on X after making jab at Trump | CBC News

Known for its cheeky marquee signs, The Penthouse's latest quip — a jab at president-elect Donald Trump's talk of making Canada the 51st state — has gotten the Vancouver strip club suspended on X.

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The team at Complexly did so much RIDICULOUSLY GOOD STUFF in 2024. I mostly stepped down from leadership and in that time: 🧵

Something Douglass Coupland said in an interview that stuck with me was when he said that the “future” is relatively new. And it is. The afterlife isn’t the future, he argues, it’s eternity. Eternity, once attained, is permanent, timeless, at least in a spiritual sense. Heaven, Nirvana, etc… (1/?)

Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Amazing story! 🧵

Josh Kaplan@josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 2y ago

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

In December 2021, I wove, a tapestry of sad and joyful memories that were in the front of my mind that year. It's one of the rare pieces I've written that I felt hit the notes I wanted to hit, exactly the way I wanted to hit them. I reposted it with thoughts: wilwheaton.net/2024/12/the-...

The Ghosts of Christmas Past – 2024

Originally written in 2021, The Ghosts of Christmas Past is a tapestry woven from painful and joyful memories that all decided to surround me that December. I’ve added to it once, in 2023, an…

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Folk hero in the making.