Hegseth & his henchmen seem to regard this as a videogame where they get points for each target they hit. These aren't human beings to them.

(Not to mention we aren't even in an armed conflict. We're just killing people in international waters. Just so many layers of horrifying wrongness.)

I think the trick for most people is setting up effective guardrails and knowing how to review code. I've noticed that a lot of devs who say it has no utility tend to be ones where they don't spend a substantial portion of their work day reviewing the code of juniors.

Like all we need to do is not be the cruel weirdos dehumanizing people

I think there's a difference between a lot of guys that fits and the huge huge swaths of developers who fall into that space. I've never personally met a right wing one, though I'm sure they are there

"loyal caucus of brainwashed drones" is such an objectively great phrase

I don't even mean it as a dunk when I say I found her quality indistinguishable from scores of other political writers. I read political writing all the time and if you put a gun to my head I wouldn't be able to tell you most of the bylines.

Oh, this is also why the color ultramarine is called that. The word means “beyond the sea”, and describes from whence painters in Italy would acquire the lapis lazuli to grind into that all-important pigment. It had to be imported from across the sea. The oft-quoted factoid that lapis lazuli was