Therapist: how long ago did your OCD issues start?

Me:

New hospital study: air purifiers cut airborne COVID by 98%. Rooms with HEPA ventilation had 0 virus detected. Clean air is essential public health infrastructure — not a luxury.

#COVIDisnotover #wearamask #cleantheair #itsnotoverjustbecauseyouareoverit

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021850225000643

We’re sponsoring and will be attending GodotCon Boston, happening May 5–7! 🎉 Get tickets:

https://conference.godotengine.org/2025/

We’ll be showcasing our Block Coding plugin and moddable games, connecting with the community, and sharing insights on building a journey from consumer to creator.

Don’t miss the talk from Heather and Justin from our learning team, and be sure to visit our booth for a sneak peek at what else we’ve been working on… 👀🎮

#GodotCon #GodotEngine #GameDev #IndieDev #GodotConBoston

It’s official! elementary does not accept AI-generated code or design contributions as a matter of policy across any of our over 150 source code repositories. Our operating system is made and shared by real people

https://github.com/elementary/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about what you’re making the moment before you actually start making it. That’s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; it’s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didn’t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.

When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning that’s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.

#AI #VibeCoding #design #development #making #creation #artiface #craft #coding #programming #technology #humanity

You don't need to be a futurism savant to notice the connection and extrapolate a certain kind of future from these 2 sentences:

'Thursday afternoon in #SanFrancisco: On one side of Mission Street, hotel workers chanted and banged on a drum outside the Marriott Marquis, part of a monthslong strike for higher wages and more #jobs. On the other, a tech company’s billboard proclaimed, “Stop #hiring humans.”'

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sf-artisan-billboards-stop-hiring-humans-19969672.php

#AI