#op-ed — Public Fediverse posts

“AI didn't kill #programming. You killed programming decades ago by stripping it of all individuality and #curiosity to satisfy the whims of giant #corporations.

You created #universities that taught only one #language and trained programmers to never think of programming as personal expression. You turned programming into a sterile #profession who's only purpose is making other people money. You even went so far as to hunt down and threaten anyone who dared to disagree with you. You threatened their jobs, their reputations, and their mental health over petty bullshit like an underscore in a variable name.

You worked extremely hard to frame programming as only a profession that serves corporations, and made sure anyone who threatened the great corporations was shut down, ridiculed, humiliated, and fired. So everyone fell in line, made only projects for corporations, and talked only about how they could best serve corporations. Even when they tried to fight back against the corporate mindset they came up with a movement that's still about corporate efficiency.

Congratulations bootlickers, you got what you wanted.”

Don’t ever change Jed ☺️

#OpEd / #LCTHW / #JedAShaw <https://learncodethehardway.com/blog/39-ai-didnt-kill-programming-you-did/>

“AI didn't kill #programming. You killed programming decades ago by stripping it of all individuality and #curiosity to satisfy the whims of giant #corporations.

You created #universities that taught only one #language and trained programmers to never think of programming as personal expression. You turned programming into a sterile #profession who's only purpose is making other people money. You even went so far as to hunt down and threaten anyone who dared to disagree with you. You threatened their jobs, their reputations, and their mental health over petty bullshit like an underscore in a variable name.

You worked extremely hard to frame programming as only a profession that serves corporations, and made sure anyone who threatened the great corporations was shut down, ridiculed, humiliated, and fired. So everyone fell in line, made only projects for corporations, and talked only about how they could best serve corporations. Even when they tried to fight back against the corporate mindset they came up with a movement that's still about corporate efficiency.

Congratulations bootlickers, you got what you wanted.”

Don’t ever change Jed ☺️

#OpEd / #LCTHW / #JedAShaw <https://learncodethehardway.com/blog/39-ai-didnt-kill-programming-you-did/>

I’m queer, not gay. It matters.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/queer-not-gay-op-ed

I’m queer, not gay. It matters.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/queer-not-gay-op-ed

OnePlus Exit Means Fewer Options in a Market Mired by Lack of Choice https://petapixel.com/2026/07/18/oneplus-exit-means-fewer-options-in-a-market-mired-by-lack-of-choice/ #smartphone #Opinion #oneplus #opinion #Mobile #mobile #phone #oped

OnePlus Exit Means Fewer Options in a Market Mired by Lack of Choice https://petapixel.com/2026/07/18/oneplus-exit-means-fewer-options-in-a-market-mired-by-lack-of-choice/ #smartphone #Opinion #oneplus #opinion #Mobile #mobile #phone #oped

Trump ended the LGBTQ+ youth suicide lifeline. One year later, the damage remains

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/988-lgbtq-youth-one-year

Trump ended the LGBTQ+ youth suicide lifeline. One year later, the damage remains

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/988-lgbtq-youth-one-year

‘The Odyssey’s’ AI-Generated Competitor Is Bereft of Humanity https://petapixel.com/2026/07/14/the-odysseys-ai-generated-competitor-is-bereft-of-humanity/ #artificialintelligence #christophernolan #theodysssey #fountain0 #Opinion #aimovie #odyssey #opinion #movie #film #imax #oped #ai

‘The Odyssey’s’ AI-Generated Competitor Is Bereft of Humanity https://petapixel.com/2026/07/14/the-odysseys-ai-generated-competitor-is-bereft-of-humanity/ #artificialintelligence #christophernolan #theodysssey #fountain0 #Opinion #aimovie #odyssey #opinion #movie #film #imax #oped #ai

JD Vance Republishes 2016 Op-Ed Criticizing Trump Amid Political Shifts

📰 Original title: The Atlantic Republishes JD Vance's Scathing Trump Op-Ed On Its 10th Anniversary

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/jd-vance-republishes-2016-op-ed-criticizing-trump-amid-political-shifts.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world

#politics #oped #jdvance

I survived political violence. LGBTQ+ candidates should not have to risk their lives to serve

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/protecting-lgbtq-candidates-democracy

I survived political violence. LGBTQ+ candidates should not have to risk their lives to serve

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/protecting-lgbtq-candidates-democracy

LGBTQ+ immigrants struggle to prove relationships they had to hide to survive

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/hidden-barriers-lgbtq-immigrants

LGBTQ+ immigrants struggle to prove relationships they had to hide to survive

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/hidden-barriers-lgbtq-immigrants

“I’ve been meanwhile watching these #AI companies attempt, successfully, to sell this capability as some sort of robot consciousness hand-crafted by supergeniuses.

The fact that they are getting away with it is almost as shocking to me as the discovery itself.” — malwrar on #HN

#LLM / #OpEd / #observation <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389360>

“I’ve been meanwhile watching these #AI companies attempt, successfully, to sell this capability as some sort of robot consciousness hand-crafted by supergeniuses.

The fact that they are getting away with it is almost as shocking to me as the discovery itself.” — malwrar on #HN

#LLM / #OpEd / #observation <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389360>

Op-Ed: Not the Representatives of the Corrupt

Not the Representatives of the Corrupt

By the Kompas Editorial Board

JAKARTA, July 5, 2017. Members of the Indonesian House of Representatives are not the representatives of the corrupt. The supposedly honorable representatives of the people are paid from the people’s money.

The House Committee of Inquiry into Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission plans to go on safari to meet convicted corruption offenders in a number of prisons throughout Indonesia and this has deeply unsettled the sense of justice of citizens — taxpayers. According to the deputy chair of the House inquiry, Representative Risa Mariska, from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, “the committee wants to find information on how they felt about their treatment as witnesses, suspects and convicts of corruption offenses.” Risa is a Representative for the 6th West Java electoral district covering the regencies of Bogor and Bekasi. She received 25,578 votes.

It is very easy to find corruption convicts in prison. They will be overjoyed to tell the inquiry about how the commission behaved when they were questioned, their experience in custody, their belief they were the victims of a conspiracy, their feelings of being entrapped and any amount of other mistreatment.

Being driven by a coalition of parties supporting the government and armed with this data, the inquiry will collect ammunition for dismantling the anti-corruption body. The aim of the House inquiry at the very least can be seen from the statement of House deputy speaker Fahri Hamzah from the Prosperous Justice Party representing West Nusa Tenggara and it is to review government commissions such as the Corruption Eradication Commission. By ‘review,’ he clearly means disbanding the commission, limiting its authority or transforming it into an ad hoc agency.

The real aim of the House inquiry is obvious and it is to undermine the Corruption Eradication Commission. The declaration of some politicians that the inquiry is aimed at strengthening the commission does not have a shred of empirical evidence. From the beginning, some House of Representatives politicians have been uncomfortable with steps taken by the commission to eradicate corruption from the country. There are Representatives on trial as well as party chairs and business people who have been arrested. The commission is certainly not without fault. But the way to fix these mistakes is not to exercise the House’s right to establish inquiries of dubious legitimacy.

Members of the inquiry should realize they are representatives of the people, not representatives of the corrupt. Corrupt behavior by members of the government violates the civil and economic rights of the people. The behavior of constitutional judges who trade in Constitutional Court decisions to enrich themselves is a betrayal of the law. It is the victims of this corrupt behavior that the inquiry should be listening to and not the perpetrators of the corruption.

Unfortunately, President Joko Widodo’s pronouncements have been too weak in defending the commission. President Widodo has said only that he wants to strengthen the commission. However, President Widodo is apparently not able to intervene in the inquiry because it is a constitutional right of the House of Representatives. The fact is the direction taken by the House inquiry can only be seen as intended to delegitimize the Corruption Eradication Commission.

This post is based on “Bukan Perwakilan Koruptor” [Not the Representatives of the Corrupt], Kompas Editorial, July 5, 2017 https://kompas.id/baca/opini/2017/07/05/bukan-perwakilan-koruptor/.

Featured image credit: Paula Bronstein www.paulaphoto.com/. University students protest on top of Indonesia’s capitol building in Jakarta after President Suharto resigned May 21, 1998, “This photographer has spent decades covering war. But she doesn’t focus on the front lines”, Photographs by Paula Bronstein, Story by Tristen Rouse, CNN, September 7, 2024 https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2024/09/world/paula-bronstein-retrospective-cnnphotos/.

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Op-Ed: Not the Representatives of the Corrupt

Not the Representatives of the Corrupt

By the Kompas Editorial Board

JAKARTA, July 5, 2017. Members of the Indonesian House of Representatives are not the representatives of the corrupt. The supposedly honorable representatives of the people are paid from the people’s money.

The House Committee of Inquiry into Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission plans to go on safari to meet convicted corruption offenders in a number of prisons throughout Indonesia and this has deeply unsettled the sense of justice of citizens — taxpayers. According to the deputy chair of the House inquiry, Representative Risa Mariska, from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, “the committee wants to find information on how they felt about their treatment as witnesses, suspects and convicts of corruption offenses.” Risa is a Representative for the 6th West Java electoral district covering the regencies of Bogor and Bekasi. She received 25,578 votes.

It is very easy to find corruption convicts in prison. They will be overjoyed to tell the inquiry about how the commission behaved when they were questioned, their experience in custody, their belief they were the victims of a conspiracy, their feelings of being entrapped and any amount of other mistreatment.

Being driven by a coalition of parties supporting the government and armed with this data, the inquiry will collect ammunition for dismantling the anti-corruption body. The aim of the House inquiry at the very least can be seen from the statement of House deputy speaker Fahri Hamzah from the Prosperous Justice Party representing West Nusa Tenggara and it is to review government commissions such as the Corruption Eradication Commission. By ‘review,’ he clearly means disbanding the commission, limiting its authority or transforming it into an ad hoc agency.

The real aim of the House inquiry is obvious and it is to undermine the Corruption Eradication Commission. The declaration of some politicians that the inquiry is aimed at strengthening the commission does not have a shred of empirical evidence. From the beginning, some House of Representatives politicians have been uncomfortable with steps taken by the commission to eradicate corruption from the country. There are Representatives on trial as well as party chairs and business people who have been arrested. The commission is certainly not without fault. But the way to fix these mistakes is not to exercise the House’s right to establish inquiries of dubious legitimacy.

Members of the inquiry should realize they are representatives of the people, not representatives of the corrupt. Corrupt behavior by members of the government violates the civil and economic rights of the people. The behavior of constitutional judges who trade in Constitutional Court decisions to enrich themselves is a betrayal of the law. It is the victims of this corrupt behavior that the inquiry should be listening to and not the perpetrators of the corruption.

Unfortunately, President Joko Widodo’s pronouncements have been too weak in defending the commission. President Widodo has said only that he wants to strengthen the commission. However, President Widodo is apparently not able to intervene in the inquiry because it is a constitutional right of the House of Representatives. The fact is the direction taken by the House inquiry can only be seen as intended to delegitimize the Corruption Eradication Commission.

This post is based on “Bukan Perwakilan Koruptor” [Not the Representatives of the Corrupt], Kompas Editorial, July 5, 2017 https://kompas.id/baca/opini/2017/07/05/bukan-perwakilan-koruptor/.

Featured image credit: Paula Bronstein www.paulaphoto.com/. University students protest on top of Indonesia’s capitol building in Jakarta after President Suharto resigned May 21, 1998, “This photographer has spent decades covering war. But she doesn’t focus on the front lines”, Photographs by Paula Bronstein, Story by Tristen Rouse, CNN, September 7, 2024 https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2024/09/world/paula-bronstein-retrospective-cnnphotos/.

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Don’t let Congress censor America’s school libraries

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/hr7661-congress-school-library-censorship

Don’t let Congress censor America’s school libraries

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/hr7661-congress-school-library-censorship

Building safety beyond politics at a safe house in Oregon

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/oregon-lgbtq-refuge

45 years later, queer choruses still help LGBTQ+ youth find hope

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/queer-choruses-lgbtq-hope

The pursuit continues: Why an HIV vaccine still matters

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/why-hiv-vaccine-research-still-matters

The pursuit continues: Why an HIV vaccine still matters

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/why-hiv-vaccine-research-still-matters

I Fundamentally Disagree With Canon Building a Wall Between its V and C Series Cameras https://petapixel.com/2026/05/24/i-fundamentally-disagree-with-canon-building-a-wall-between-its-v-and-c-series-cameras/ #contentcreator #canoneosr6iii #canoneosc50 #canonr6iii #Equipment #canonr6v #Opinion #opinion #hybrid #Canon #video #oped

I Fundamentally Disagree With Canon Building a Wall Between its V and C Series Cameras https://petapixel.com/2026/05/24/i-fundamentally-disagree-with-canon-building-a-wall-between-its-v-and-c-series-cameras/ #contentcreator #canoneosr6iii #canoneosc50 #canonr6iii #Equipment #canonr6v #Opinion #opinion #hybrid #Canon #video #oped

No, the Sony a7R VI Doesn’t Make the a1 II Obsolete https://petapixel.com/2026/05/17/no-the-sony-a7r-vi-doesnt-make-the-a1-ii-obsolete/ #Equipment #sonya7rvi #sonya1ii #Opinion #opinion #oped #Sony

No, the Sony a7R VI Doesn’t Make the a1 II Obsolete https://petapixel.com/2026/05/17/no-the-sony-a7r-vi-doesnt-make-the-a1-ii-obsolete/ #Equipment #sonya7rvi #sonya1ii #Opinion #opinion #oped #Sony

“Once upon a time, say last month, people thought nothing of jumping from one AI #FrontierModel to another. One week, the hottest AI model was Gemini 3.1 Pro, then it was Claude 4.6, now, maybe, it's GPT-5.5. Next month? Who knows. That's fine for Joe Amateur Programmer, but for Janet Pro Programmer, it's another story.

You see, #enterprise #AI buyers face two converging problems. First, it's proving much harder to switch between AI vendors than people expected. At the same time, AI #vendors are pushing through #price increases that are reshaping software #economics. We always knew this would happen. AI prices have been loss leaders for years now, and the #bills are finally coming due.”

All those AI-widgets in your favourite products are now being economically tested in the market. Let us see who will pay for it. 🤪🤣☺️

#OpEd / #EnterpriseComputing <https://theregister.com/software/2026/04/28/locked-stocked-and-losing-budget-ai-vendor-lock-in-bites/5229050>

“Once upon a time, say last month, people thought nothing of jumping from one AI #FrontierModel to another. One week, the hottest AI model was Gemini 3.1 Pro, then it was Claude 4.6, now, maybe, it's GPT-5.5. Next month? Who knows. That's fine for Joe Amateur Programmer, but for Janet Pro Programmer, it's another story.

You see, #enterprise #AI buyers face two converging problems. First, it's proving much harder to switch between AI vendors than people expected. At the same time, AI #vendors are pushing through #price increases that are reshaping software #economics. We always knew this would happen. AI prices have been loss leaders for years now, and the #bills are finally coming due.”

All those AI-widgets in your favourite products are now being economically tested in the market. Let us see who will pay for it. 🤪🤣☺️

#OpEd / #EnterpriseComputing <https://theregister.com/software/2026/04/28/locked-stocked-and-losing-budget-ai-vendor-lock-in-bites/5229050>

When politicians debate families like mine, our kids are suffering

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/oped-lgbtq-kids-hear-politics

Even Tech Reviewers Don’t Think Smartphones Can Replace Cameras https://petapixel.com/2026/04/27/even-tech-reviewers-dont-think-smartphones-can-replace-cameras/ #marquesbrownlee #oppofindx9ultra #imagesensor #smartphone #technology #Equipment #Opinion #opinion #Mobile #sensor #mkbhd #phone #oped