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

A survey by the News Literacy Project of US 13- to 18-year-olds shows 84% use negative words including "boring", "fake", or "biased" to describe news media (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/news-media-

Survey shows how much teenagers dislike the news media
You don't have to tell Cat Murphy or Lily Ogburn about the attitudes of young people toward journalists. The profession hasn't been popular among adults for many years, but a new survey shows the extent to which teens aged 13 to 18 feel the same way; Murphy and Ogburn have seen it for years among their friends who wonder why they want to go into the field. Experts say it's a combination of their surroundings, including the most prominent politician they have known — Donald Trump — who frequ…

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

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…

Patrick Schiltz, an Ethicist, Is the Minnesota Judge Blasting ICE
Judge Patrick Schiltz, an appointee of George W. Bush, became an unlikely critic of the Trump administration’s tactics in Minnesota.

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…

When a user doesn't understand your product, they can't use it. But when the team doesn't understand their own product, then NO ONE can.
We neglected the conceptual layer of software development, and products have devolved from a coherent experience into Proper Noun soup. To unwind this self-inflicted problem, we must stop "optimizing" for just one part of the job.
Here's how.
(this is a much deeper problem than "just UX vs UI")

When teams don't understand their own product
A usable product starts with the conceptual model, but designers have "optimized" that work out of the profession. It's time to bring it back.

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://

I don't envy "vibe coders". I mean, let's for a minute assume that their vision is not a pipe dream, but an accurate prediction of the future.
For a start, what's their plan for life? Driving a tool whose primary selling point is that anyone can use it. And I'm not even talking about all the inside competition. I'm talking of people realizing that they can cut the middleperson and do the coding themselves.
The way I see it, vibe coders are a bit like typists (with no offense to typists). Their profession is a product of a novelty. And just like typists largely disappeared when typewriters and then computers became commonplace, so are vibe coders bound to disappear when vibe coding becomes commonplace.
And are true programmers going to become obsolete? Well, let me ask you: did the proliferation of cars and corresponding self-service skills render car mechanics obsolete? On the contrary. The way I see it, the proliferation of slopcode will only make competent programmers ever the more necessary.
What vibe coders are saying is basically this: "This new automated self-service kit makes car maintenance so easy. Car mechanics will become obsolete now. Everyone's just going to hire *me* to run this kit instead."
#AI #LLM #VibeCoding

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

#SoftwareDevelopment in the Time of Strange New Angels
https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/software-development-in-the-time

"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…

FAAA Podcast Series
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"Le cas du député Emmanuel Pellerin révèle les contradictions entre le discours politique intransigeant Š l’égard de la consommation de drogues et la réalité de la réponse judiciaire quand un élu est mis cause pour de tels faits" résume le tribunal dans son jugement, en indiquant que ces révélations portent pleinement sur un « sujet d’intérêt général ».
C'est compliqué, apparemment, pour un avocat-député de comprendre cette notion d'intérêt général.

Cocaïne en politique : l’ex-député Pellerin condamné pour procédure abusive contre Mediapart
Le tribunal de Paris a relaxé Mediapart du procès en diffamation que lui avait intenté l’ancien élu Renaissance Emmanuel Pellerin. Il a même condamné l’ex-député, avocat de profession, au paiement de dommages et intérêts.