Combine this with decades of "move fast and break things" being the dominant strategy in Silicon Valley, and it's no wonder why programmers don't give a shit about ethics. They never experience any consequences, so why should they prioritize ethics over profit?

Software Engineering lacks all the accountability you find in other engineering fields. If a Professional Engineer signs off on something that kills people, they can go to jail. If software kills someone, a company *might* have to pay a fine.

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Not a lot of people seem to have looked at section 3

I love that two of the pictures are just slightly different pictures of the same old truck

I use Bluesky exactly how I used Twitter: read posts/reposts from people I follow in reverse chronological order. For that it works perfectly, and I'm not sure what else people even want from it. A website doesn't need to do everything to be worth using.

Sometimes when I'm feeling despair over the state of the Democratic Party, at least I can take some solace in the fact that they're not the Labour Party.

Subtle thing, but most muppet performers almost exclusively move their thumb for mouth movements. After all, only your lower jaw moved when you talk. It's a small thing but it goes a long way towards Muppets feeling more lifelike.

In addition, a service used by the upper and middle classes is a service that's much less likely to get cut in the future. Someone may not care if someone else loses their free bus fare, but they will care if they lose their own free busses, even if they could afford the fare.

It's almost like these AI bros don't know anything about the industries they're trying to disrupt. History is just regurgitating names and dates right? We can easily train an AI to do that for the low price of billions of dollars and a shitload of CO2.

He was super toxic, and I blame him for a lot of the issues with modern gaming culture (he gave a lot of credibility to Gamergate, for example). He paved the way for Asmongold and a lot of other "gaming" influencers that are just far right shitheads. I'm not glad he's dead, but he did a lot of harm

No, Buxton is the Center Fielder for the Minnesota Twins. ABK is obviously making a baseball reference.

What about a failed base jump off of the Cathedral of Learning? Or an allergic reaction caused by eating a salad without french fries? Or someone getting attacked by the Duolingo owl?