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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
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https://www.python.org/sponsors/application/

The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Op...

Drew Gingerich Sep 5, 2025

The Seven Voyages Of Steve Sep 5, 2025

The thing is, *even if* LLMs made me produce code 25% faster like they claim (and it doesn’t), it would still be a net negative even without all the costs (direct and indirect) simply because a human wouldn’t have the innate understanding of the code that comes with having written it, which short-circuits so much later. Most of coding time is NOT producing the initial version. We’ve known this for decades. It doesn’t matter how much people want that not to be true https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.

Mike Judge

Drew Gingerich Sep 4, 2025

Inglo Games Sep 3, 2025

This is a fascinating article about AI-based productivity claims, with a ton of data to back up his claims. Definitely worth a read regardless of your stance on AI.

https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.

Mike Judge

Drew Gingerich Jul 16, 2025

0xDE Jul 10, 2025

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

METR ran a controlled experiment with 16 experienced open-source developers on 246 programming tasks. The developers predicted that the use of AI would speed up their work by 25%, and after the experiment judged that it had sped it up by 20%. But when actually measured, the use of AI slowed down their work by 19%.

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

Drew Gingerich Jun 21, 2025

Rich Waldo Jun 19, 2025

I must once again ask: what is the fucking point of Democrats

https://www.wweek.com/news/schools/2025/06/18/kotek-says-preschool-for-all-tax-imperiling-oregon-tax-base

Kotek Says Preschool for All Tax Imperiling Oregon Tax Base

Kotek wrote to the Multnomah County chair this month to warn about taxpayers leaving to avoid the tax.

Willamette Week

Drew Gingerich Jun 21, 2025

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Franca Parianen Jun 20, 2025

"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more “natural” than arrays of solar panels. But that field is a biological desert .. sprayed with pest- and herbicides. Put up some solar panels, and add plants that only need to be mowed once a year (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."

Drew Gingerich Jun 21, 2025

Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)Jun 19, 2025

there’s another bundle being organized to support Gaza: Games for Palestine Charity 2025
https://itch.io/jam/games-for-palestine-2025
“We're looking for the following for the charity bundle:
* Digital games (finished or jam-style)
* Game assets, tools, tilesets
* Soundtracks, music packs
* Zines, artbooks, short fiction, comics
* Any digital content you own the rights to”
🙏 if you can, please consider joining, and donating your work!!
#GameDev #Charity #game #games #indiedev

Drew Gingerich Jun 18, 2025

Djamila Knopf @Dokomi Jun 18, 2025

Cats in weird places, all painted with Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper. Which one's your favourite? #Art #TraditionalArt #Animals #CatArt

Drew Gingerich Jun 17, 2025

Kevin Beaumont Jun 17, 2025

“Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

MIT Media Lab

Drew Gingerich Jun 12, 2025

ProPublica Jun 11, 2025

Despite a $1.3 billion investment that Portland said would improve the safety of homeless people, deaths in Multnomah County have quadrupled — from 113 in 2019 to more than 450 in 2023.

https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-homeless-deaths-multnomah-county?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Portland #Oregon #Homeless #Deaths

Portland Said It Was Investing in Homeless People’s Safety. Deaths Have Quadrupled.

The city responded to an increase in homeless deaths by intensifying encampment sweeps and adding emergency shelter at the expense of permanent housing. Experts say this has perpetuated the problem.

ProPublica