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Trump wants to impose “a proposed rule that aims to shield Department of Justice lawyers from independent ethics investigations.”
Trump criticized for new attack on the legal profession - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/a-staggering-record-expert-blasts-trump-s-new-on-the-legal-profession/

For decades, we have pressured junior scholars to pump out publishable articles in a race to attain scarce tenure track lines.
...
Journal articles aren’t ... science. They’re just a unit of measurement. They’re how we keep score. Producing journal articles isn’t what we are actually meant to be doing — we’re supposed to be learning meaningful things...
academia as “the only profession where people are paid to think slowly.” stole my heart ❤️

After the launch of a UK government vulnerability monitoring service (VMS), serious security weaknesses in public sector websites have been fixed 6 times faster – cutting the average time from nearly 2 months to just over a week.
https://www.

Dave Thomas is one of the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer, one of the key people who brought Ruby from Japan to the western world (through "the pickaxe book", Programming Ruby),  one of the authors of the Agile manifesto, and one of my software heros, among other things.
Like many of the original Agile manifesto writers, he's pretty excited about how LLMs/Agents are opening up more possibilities, not ending the software profession.
"Castles in the Air: It's Still Just as Rewarding
It's Still Programming
I was expecting to hate using Claude. I just knew it would dehumanize the process, draining away all the fun stuff, turning what was once creative into a mechanical slog.
I was wrong. Coding with AI is fun. In fact, to me it feels like I'm having more fun than I have had in a while. So I took some notes over the last month to work out why.”
#agenticAI
https://media.pragprog.com/newsletters/2026-03-25.html

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate
knowledge of its ugly side.
-- James Baldwin

My SLP spouse has a T-shirt that says “langauge,” and it gets a lot of appreciation.
Every profession that involved any sort of typing has these words, I suspect.
https://peachiespeechie.com/products/misspelled-langauge-classic-tee-t-shirts-tops-peachie-speechie

"The way, the deep – a new poem for the profession" – "a new poem celebrating the information, knowledge management and #library professions"!
https://cilip.org.uk/ne…

A well written lamentation of our skills not being important any more and the culturla shift in our trade that I am/was proud of belong to
I belong to the work force that really cares about my profession, ever since I read The Pragmatic Programmer in the late 90's, "Think about your work"
https://

Until January, Patrick J. Schiltz,
the chief judge of the District of Minnesota,
had steadily managed one of the federal court system’s heavier workloads with little fanfare.
He was more widely known in the legal community for penning a revered law journal article 27 years ago that advised young lawyers how to become ethical members of an “unhappy, unhealthy and unethical profession.”
But starting this year, as federal agents surged into Minnesota, hundreds of immigr…

Last week, tramping the Milford Track with my whānau (it was stunning), I ended up chatting with a lone fellow tramper from Switzerland. Got to practice my German quite a lot... turns out he's a recently retired heart surgeon, who primarily did heart transplants. 😲 Turns out he wants nothing more to do with his profession & is very pessimistic about the EU social situation heading rightward. He finds Aotearoa magical & inspiring & is busy doing as many Great Walks as he possi…

Really struggling with what goes through the mind of people outsourcing their whole profession and skill to some company that probably won’t be there anymore in two years; and if the company is still there the product won’t be anymore; and if somehow both the company and the product makes it through it will be completely unaffordable.

I sincerely hope that before too long, generative AI images are recognized for the lazy dogshit that they are, and that the design profession utterly ostracizes the practitioners who use them

Q&A with Walt Handelsman, who retired at the end of 2025 as an editorial cartoonist at New Orleans' Times-Picayune, on the changes in a dwindling profession (Rob Tornoe/Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/the-vanishing…

"Climate change is forcing rice growers to abandon farming, says Mars"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Farming #Agriculture

aus der reihe "über tippfehler in der DOI zufällig gefundene artikel" heute: was mit eichhörnchen, zumindest im titel. :)
"Birds, Groundhogs, and Squirrels" https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2022.1239

RE: https://no-pony.farm/@Life_is/116073270103014367

#TIL there is a profession called #Desnuda. It originated at parties held by the Latin American community in #NewYork and parallel developments such as the #OutdoorCoEdToplessPulpFictionAppreciationSociety. De…