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Tech for Palestine runs a (free) incubator for civic tech. Would encourage the OP to apply!

https://techforpalestine.org/incubator


The author mentions the French revolution, and that is a really important thing for the elites to understand. Class mobility -- as much as it existed because for a lot of people it didn't -- is what keeps the heads of the elites attached to their bodies.

When the system gets destroyed, and when the wealthy extract all the wealth from society, a lot of desperate people start looking for reform. And when the wealthy control and limit all means of reform (buying politicians, limiting free expression on social media, etc), reformists realize the only remaining path is revolution.


Let's take the metaphor of writing. Would we say this guy is just a writer who started from another trade? No. Writing is something that used to require experts (scribes) and that now anyone can do and is just a normal part of doing any work.

Developers are scribes - we have sacred knowledge that is now being democratized because everyone can do it due to good enough tools. As a result, we won't be needed much going forward.


> Developers are scribes - we have sacred knowledge that is now being democratized because everyone can do it due to good enough tools. As a result, we won't be needed much going forward.

The ability to solve problems is what’s important. Not your ability to remember things or to hold sacred knowledge.


This. Software development probably requires some of the least boilerplate memorization in all of STEM. Deductive reasoning and imagination are far more important than being flexing that you’ve committed quicksort to memory.

If that were true, industry interview processes would be very different.

What is this “sacred knowledge?”

Is it knowing how to write a regex without a reference, or maybe implementing a distributed ec postgres cluster using bash, ooh how about writing a minimum cnn in C for edge classification ooohhh wooowee…

Ever worked construction? There’s hammer swingers that need one swing per nail and never miss. Or plasterers that make chalk look like marble. How about a high voltage lineman that can switch a 20kv oil-cooled transformer in less than 15 minutes to get the power to the school back on

No different from any tradesman - we’re not special


Writing is a tool, a technology. Much like hammers or saws, which are also commodified. And even though anyone can go buy a saw, not everyone is a carpenter.

> Writing is a tool, a technology.

Like paint, it can be used as a tool, to paint your house, or as a craft and artform, to paint the Rouen Cathedral.


Paint is a tool to deposit pigment on a substrate. The tool does not make the artist.

Exactly. and that's what development is becoming.

I am not a carpenter; I use a saw at least once a month.

Or we stop attacking sovereign countries simply because our allies (why are Israel our allies?) want to start wars.


The US shouldnt be starting wars with countries, and bombing civilians, at all.


Captain Obvious? Is that you??


Of course it is. There was no reason for the attack, except as Rubio admitted, Israel was going to attack so the US joined in. Why are we attacking anyone? Why are we dropping bombs on civilians in Tehran, destroying schools and hospitals, for no reason at all?

Same reason we did in Gaza - because Israel's goal is to destabilize the Middle East so that they can expand into Syria, and Jordan, and take over Palestine. Which is exactly what they're doing: https://theintercept.com/2026/03/10/israel-iran-war-west-ban...


Good time to remember that Wiz' VC was accused of paying bribes to CISOs to buy their portfolio's software (of which Wiz is one).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/10/28/this-vc-b...

> Two security executives told Forbes they rejected overtures from Raanan’s team after hearing about the firm’s “menu” of compensation. “I was completely aghast. It was against my principles,” one said.


As I mentioned at the time, the Wiz acquisition is the largest transfer of Israeli intelligence operatives into Big Tech in history.

Here's my full thread on it: https://x.com/paulbiggar/status/1902329587050148068


lol Let me tell you something even more worrying, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft already have larger engineering centers in Israel than most of Europe.

And over 90% of their workers served in the IDF! And many more in Israeli Intelligence! and they're also mostly Jewish!

Spooky stuff, our ads will never be safe now


Oy vey!

You've got to love how spewing such casual bigotry against random people doesn't ring any alarm bells for people like this Paul person. I'm sure he considers himself a "progressive" lol.


This guy has quite a history, no surprise. Check his twitter.


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It seems to be working for me.


If you think censorship is gone, try to talk about Israel's apartheid in Palestine and see how far you get.


What are you talking about? X is full of this shit, how can you claim that this gets censored when it is EVERYWHERE?


Show the class where you talked about it on X and it didn't get censored.


Go to X and use the search function and you find a lot of posts about it, even with more than 100k views and >10k likes.


One issue is that he is indeed saying this is for America. But, like, there are many people in the world (most, even) who are not American. If companies are willing to throw non-American people under the bus, that's neither ethical nor good business practices.


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