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There's a bigger wave of tech layoffs coming, and we all know it. Luckily for us, it means a ton of people are finally going to get a break, all at the same time, with paid severance.

Do you think these highly skilled developers are ever going back into their shitty dead end jobs again?

Maybe this is what it takes for the industry to shift. Unions, better working conditions, democratization of the workplace, worker-owned co-ops.

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Ramin Honary
Thinking of publishing a paper about #Schemacs at ICFP/SPLASH 2025

…except there is not much in the way of original research. But I have received a lot of positive feedback about my project from the Scheme and Emacs community. So let me ask the Scheme/Emacs fediverse: if you would be interested in using or contributing to a Scheme-based Emacs that is mostly backward-compatible with #GNUEmacs , what is it about this prospect that is most interesting to you?

Personally, I live inside of Emacs and program most of my personal workflows in Emacs Lisp, though I feel that Scheme is a more interesting and fun language to use when compared to other #Lisp-family languages. So I would just like to be able to use Scheme as the language in which I program all of my personal workflows. Also I am curious if it is possible to write a large application in #R7RS Scheme such that it runs on many different Scheme implementations.

So does anyone else agree, or are there other things about a prospective Scheme-based Emacs that interest you that might be worth mentioning to a the audience of the Scheme-related chapters of the ICFP?

I was talking with William Byrd, who is one of the conference organizers of ICFP/SPLASH this year, and he says the committee could possibly accept anything of interest to the Scheme community, for example experience reports and “position papers” (helping others understand an opinion or philosophy on the topic). And they would judge these papers on different criteria than a paper about novel scientific research.

Anyone feel free to comment, but I am going to ping a few people in particular who seem to have opinions on this, like @dougmerritt @jameshowell @david_megginson @tusharhero @arialdo @lispwitch @cwebber @dpk and also @PaniczGodek who published on GRASP at this conference last year, if I recall correctly.

conf.researchr.orgScheme 2025 - ICFP/SPLASH 2025The Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop is a yearly meeting of programming language practitioners who share an aesthetic sense embodied by the Algorithmic Language Scheme: universality through minimalism, and flexibility through rigorous design.
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Fight Back Against Fascism

I'm probably in the minority, and likely because of my age, but I absolutely hate AI especially when I'm searching for an answer to any question. The answers are presented with such authority that it's impossible to determine what is true or not true. Of course there has always been a certain amount of caution, but the widespread use of AI has made all things unreliable.

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Flipboard Culture Desk

A further update: The AI-generated "Heat Index" summer guide was also distributed with the Philadelphia Tribune, @TheAtlantic reports, under the headline "Slop the Presses."

"This story has layers, all of them a depressing case study. The very existence of a package like 'Heat Index' is the result of a local-media industry that’s been hollowed out by the internet, plummeting advertising, private-equity firms, and a lack of investment and interest in regional newspapers. In this precarious environment, thinned-out and underpaid editorial staff under constant threat of layoffs and with few resources are forced to cut corners for publishers who are frantically trying to turn a profit in a dying industry. It stands to reason that some of these harried staffers, and any freelancers they employ, now armed with automated tools such as generative AI, would use them to stay afloat," writes Damon Beres and Charlie Warzel, who spoke to Marco Buscaglia about the circumstances that led to his writing the Heat Index guide.

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The Atlantic · AI in Newspapers. How Did This Happen?By Damon Beres
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

This is what I think about AI's impact on writing as well. My belief is that we have to weather the storm of overly eager decisions by non-experts to replace people with AI ... and to quote a friend, "pick up the pieces later".

With writing, sure, it's really easy to vomit out a brochure copy, but you still need a writer to give it a human voice and to check for hallucinations. For high-level, complex tech writing that I do good luck trying to generate that.

Clients will sniff fakery a mile away and avoid your company like the plague.

We need to apply AI to our workflows in a more realistic way, not in a sci-fi way.

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Pete Orrall

If you need more evidence the #US has devolved into a mass surveillance state, then I have #news for you.

#NewOrleans #police use a *privately funded* sprawling network of high #tech cameras across the city.

"By adopting this system – in secret, without safeguards, and at tremendous threat to our privacy and security – the City of New Orleans has crossed a thick red line. This is the stuff of authoritarian surveillance states, and has no place in American policing."

theregister.com/2025/05/19/new

The Register · Show us your face: New Orleans PD reportedly got secret facial recognition alertsBy Iain Thomson
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