Dijkstra on the foolishness of natural language programming

But like, what does he know? He wasn’t an AI-native vibe orchestrator.

Midwest $3.59/gal today

I would think Reticulum would be a good fit

Regular git CLI, with like 15 years of aliases

But if they had tried to put his name on the policy: “Sorry, can’t insure someone who doesn’t exist yet”

Maybe through CXL you’ll be able to “download more RAM” (renting it, really)

zooms out a bit

Ah, so it’s like a mini pandemic?

zooms out a bit more

…or like a “normal day” in the few years leading up to 2008. That’s a good sign…

They don’t want to save capitalism. They believe capitalism is about to be over, and they want to be in control of whatever it is that comes next.

You might wanna check out what immigration looks like on the easiest setting: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/06/doge-ball/

This is a photo of my second O-1 (“Alien of Extraordinary Ability”) visa application. It’s 800 pages long:

The next one was 1200 pages long.

They’re worried they’re not spending enough on AI.

Classic MLM tactics. “If you’re not seeing a return on Herbalife, it’s cuz you’re not spending enough on it!”

Money is fine. Financialization is not.

The references in that video contradict its own content.

There is no evidence, historical or contemporary, of a society in which barter is the main mode of exchange;[27][26] instead, non-monetary societies operated largely along the principles of gift economy and debt.[25][24] When barter did in fact occur, it was usually between either complete strangers or potential enemies.[29]

The documentary “Finding The Money” has a takedown of this exact myth (Link to timestamp)

Not exactly. If you’re interested in the history of money and how it works, you should check out Finding The Money

Slavery

Don’t trust internet strangers to weigh in on this. Talk to a therapist or someone you trust to thoroughly consider the details that you haven’t (and shouldn’t) share here. Without the details, we’re just guessing, but even then a single post-and-reply exchange is not a good substitute for a full IRL conversation.

I’ll let someone much smarter than me speak to this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM&t=4420

Exclusive, luxury

Beautifully put.

I especially like that they called out the “it’s just a tool” BS:

Yet technological artefacts cannot be separated from the conditions under which they are created, or from the realities of who controls and profits from them. Today, developing these technologies expands racial capitalism, intensifies imperialist extraction, and reinforces the divide between the global North and South. The technology is inseparable from the labour that produces it — the expropriation of work by writers, artists, programmers, and peer-production communities, as well as the highly exploitative crowdwork of data annotation.

Oh there’s lots of trans people in orchestra