Ian McLean

@mrthewalrus
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Dire Millennial Wizard/Web Developer, fond of real science and imaginary worlds. Opinions not my employers', yet, but I'm working on it. He/Him.
We are at a point where if the Republican leader goes on TV and instructs his followers to murder their neighbors, there will be massacres in every city and township, in many cases abetted by government officials and law enforcement, yet if anyone suggests drastic measures be taken to curb him and his party, it is they who are framed as dangerous radicals.
American capitalism has been designed to rely on “prisoners with jobs,” to quote a phrase. https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/111160796477789223
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The truth about US immigration law is that the US economy relies on immigration, and making migrants legally powerless benefits employers, so nothing is done to crack down on employers and everything is done to leave migrants even more scared and powerless. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/magazine/economy-illegal-immigration.html

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I can't wait for my AI generated email that gets 75% of my intent to be summarized by the recipient's AI assistant that misses the message and tells them I feel awkward ordering coffee online, when in fact I'm trying to warn them about a vulnerability in their Java web interface.

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

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Republicans: we and only we stand against the elites who despise our nation’s hard working blue collar workers

Also, we will bar anyone not wearing a silk pocket hanky in a suit worth at least $2k from attending any vote on our series of labor bills making it legal to torture union members

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@Kit @cstross @Menhit @feorag

Nothing says "single-minded focus" like a black cat that has seen some food it thinks it might want to eat.

#caturday

Bill Maher is a scab? Wow this totally changes my previously high opinion of that smug Islamophobic racist transphobic misogynistic attention-whore.
@drahardja @sj @inferis Too many of them believe they are uniquely-capable, indispensable experts, fundamentally unlike the fungible workers who form and benefit from collective bargaining units.