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I don't know who this "senior developer advocate" ho over at GitHub is in real life. I am taking issue with what they're saying here:

“And I think that says a lot,” Griffiths says. “The gravitational pull of existing ecosystems is enormous — libraries, tooling, community knowledge, production infrastructure. A new language doesn’t just need to be better for AI. It needs to justify abandoning everything developers already have, and that shift is not [going to] happen overnight.”

This is another MicroCrap person and serious Wintel user (Windows + Intel) who is using their lofty position at Github (which is for all intents and purposes a real monopoly in the software repository world) to tell the rest of us older developers — who were and are still today responsible for a majority of the upkeep with supporting the continued maintenance of good software (the Open Source kind of software) — that we don't mean anything. That's a bullshit take, Andrea.

Re-read what they wrote. "[N]eeds to justify abandoning everything developers already have..."

Fuck no, Andrea. And fuck *you* and GitHub for thinking that the rest of us outside of your corporate fiefdom do not matter one iota since in your worldview where perfunctory globalisms dictate the terms of your existence that all human software engineers will be replaced by AI with its data fully backed up by Microsoft's Azure services, no doubt.

The change in software in general and the slow encroachment of AI is a two-fold problem with solutions and problems which can create additional problems.

On the one hand, we have idiots and corporate-funded naysayers such as Andrea Griffiths at GitHub, which is still to this day owned and operated by Bill Gates' brainchild: Microsoft. They blithely tell us that we will not ever amount to anything as real software creators because some great magical force will come down from the sky and do all of the developers' jobs for us.

That's how Elon Musk thinks. He wants to use Starlink to wipe every broadband company off the map in North America and use Starlink to provide satellite-based internet service across all 50 states.

That is how crazy the richest man in the world is. That's neither feasible nor realistic. Goes to show that people who have shit tons of money are not necessarily the best tools to use from your toolbox.

Some of us developers are really tired of these cultural wars. It's not just the really sour and malignant politics in North America today.

It's crap such as what Andrea Griffiths at GitHub is promulgating by using their position to "pull a fast one" or hoodwink the rest of us into submission.

Our first mission is our clients. Or call them our customers or user base. Or it would simply be answering to our bosses — whose careerist job is to plainly answer in a reasonable and effective way customers' questions and inputs through support and marketing channels and avenues.

Microsoft lost their way a long time ago. They missed the smartphone revolution and tried to blame Apple. That fell flat on its face.

Now people such as Andrea Griffiths feel that they're still relevant in the #OpenSource world. Meh. Not so much to people such as me. Microsoft has a long, storied history of initially accepting, then outright refusing, then bringing back Open Source components into their software libraries much too late in the game and without enough proper focus and ongoing support for more open libraries and toolchains.

@lauren Not my problem. I found the link. Suit yourself.

@lauren Interesting. Do you have a link?

Congratulations Pete Hegseth and Trump. You guys have some really gutsy moves. You are real men — now.

Way to exacerbate an already tense situation in the Middle East, you orange-skinned m*therfucker.

DJT has taken part in this type of activity all of his adult life. Everything Trump Touches Dies. As a so-called leader, he has always gone into these kind of situations ( the FUBAR situations such as the Iran debacle ) against other countries and made everything 4X worse by being the worst human being imaginable.

The Trump Administration is bellicose and unaccountable in the extreme. 85% of this administration is nothing other than a bunch of appointed shills who privately collect kickbacks from D.C. lobbyists connected to the oil industry and Trump's wing men that are connected to the moneyed interests within national defense and the multi-national corporations.

Might does not make right. Trump should have learned this in Butler, Pennsylvania when he was the target of someone's wrath. Donald Trump, being the prima donna that he always was, refused to step down or demure on the question of electoral viability. We already knew he had no heart. The man felt that he could take extraordinary measures including risking his own life to get what he wanted, which was just more money for himself and his super-rich family. Butler was a literal warning shot across Trump's bow. It also shows that the President of the United States is certifiably insane. It's not dementia. President Trump is really nuts because he was born that way. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Dr. Mary Trump the psychologist and podcast host who has spoken about this numerous times when the subject of her famous uncle is up for discussion. Psychologists are trained to spot human duplicity and callousness. Dr. Trump sees this in spades with her uncle by blood — Donald J. Trump — and she is absolutely right.

Now... Who knows where Iran will take the USA? Nobody knows what the future holds. The US military's base of operations that the President has tapped to run this troubled, fake war (unnecessary is what this war is, actually) over in Iran seems to be operating in an anarchic state. Are these "professionals" finishing what they start? Hey Trump, I wouldn't have put your spies directly in front of this foreign adventure. The CIA does not need to fully support and enable Trump's clandestine war over in the Middle East. They should have stopped Trump beforehand.

There. I got these words out as much as some of this writing of mine disturbs me. ️ All of that is basically why JFK was knocked off. The botched Bay of Pigs invasion was over some military generals being mad about the timing of that down in Cuba. Nobody in the US's mainstream press has dared to write much more than that. ️ That dark history which took place in the US during the early sixties is much too close to what just went down in Iran with Trump. Trump got his modern "Bay of Pigs" invasion and so much more, too. The man gets everything he wants and he thinks that he still doesn't have enough. The way that he does this is odd. He projects, and says that it's the US that doesn't have what he needs. This is highly false and also a dangerous kind of projection, in my view.

@cR0w All good points. Thanks for asking the question.

@cR0w Sorry for the delay.

The voting discrepancies found by independent researchers in the 2024 US presidential election are what even many smart folks would label a convoluted subject. cR0w, I am not sure what country you hail from. In the US some of our federal legal system has "jumped the shark." You are no doubt aware of the abuses by ICE and DHS, yes? It’s not just the immigration officers. Our country’s patchwork of voting systems is essentially each individual state deciding what they have to do through every state’s Secretary of State to effectively maintain their voting systems. No one state asked for a recount after November 2024 except for Michigan and I think that was just a problem in either one or two counties over some kind of lack of oversight in the elections process. In Michigan, I think that officials were looking at flawed results by individual county and not statewide.

Regarding adjudication in the US, rulings aren't just erroneous. They're ruling in pretty bad ways to basically gum up the works and help enable the idiots so that they can remain in charge. The worst of them is that one US district judge from Florida named Judge Aileen Cannon, who helped the federal DOJ remove the special prosecutor’s role over the simple question of who gets to decide. That’s literally all that motion of hers was about. Lawyers endlessly argue over details, yes… However I’m telling you now that *that* is what her decision was all about — with regard to the Special Prosecutor Jack Smith and him releasing his own findings of fact. The GOP in US Congress didn’t like what Smith found so basically they used Judge Cannon to shit-can (fire) Jack Smith and called it legal.

I just looked the history of that up. Cannon’s ruling in that classified documents case was about the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. She concluded that the prosecution of Trump violated the Appointments Clause because Congress had not passed legislation that explicitly gave the attorney general the power to outsource the investigation to an outside prosecutor. That’s a Federalist Society line of reasoning, if I’m not incorrect. Most of the conservative members of the Supreme Court are members of the Federalist Society. Leonoard Leo, who coordinated with the two billionaires Peter Thiel and Elon Musk to help hack the ES&S voting machines by using their minions to accomplish this, is a central player in the Federalist Society.

In my view, US Congress wasn't even supposed to certify the 2024 election. The information was not processed, collated, and presented on time due to US intelligence agencies abstaining from intervening because of their perceptions about what's called the Hatch Act. Depending on how you interpret that one act, NSA or CIA probably would not have violated the act if they had released an election monitoring report about the discrepancies in the 2024 election.

I have to write that most lawyers literally cannot count up to high numbers and that's most of the federal DOJ. So, because they cannot conceptualize the totality or the degrees of separation... or what legal professionals call personal encumbrance the general counsels at all of the intel agencies SAT ON THEIR HANDS AND TRUMP WON BY MUSK, ET AL. CHEATING. Welcome to America — where white is black and black is white. Down is up and also we have cats and dogs living together, ha ha. No, seriously.

The swing states' ES&S electronic voting machines were hacked by Musk's minions. Now, if you look at Zarnowski’s charts there is an x and y axis. One represents time and the other represents a type of plot on his graph showing the actual voting discrepancies from the electronic voting machines. What David A. Graham over at The Atlantic was publicly bickering about with Zarnowski last year was the veracity of the data points which both Zarnowski and another person published on Substack in late 2024 and throughout 2025.

US intel flagged this. Three different people working as cia and nsa monitors flagged this. The ex-CIA person who went public is named Adam Zarnowski: https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the

I think that at some point, Zarnowski had to step down from his job as a CIA officer. His background was primarily analyzing human trafficking worldwide. He published a book about this called Jörmungandr.

US Congress is derelict, and the rest of the intellectuals just blame the voters for Trump getting into office again.

I'm pretty sure we're living in an autocracy now.

Congress should not have certified the 2024 election. Because of course they did, being the knuckleheads that they are despite the decent evidence that ES&S voting machines in swing states were electronically hacked from on high.

A lot of local, city scenes and certainly the US politics have devolved to name calling: "Fucking asshole." "Piece of shit." This was more or less taking place during Pam Bondi's testimony before US Congress the other week.

I don't think this is sustainable.

I want to roll. I want to hide. I want to drift away from all of this.

Beyond these bombs. Beyond these walls. Beyond these hypocrites...

I have just my version of "Picture On The Wall" by the band Groundation running through my head. Groundation's front man Harrison Stafford is a white man from California, fondly nicknamed "Professor" who sings reggae music in the traditional "ragga" style.

Reggae music was originated by Toots & The Maytals, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and of course the world-renowned Bob Marley in the last fifty years or so. This style of music is mostly within the domain of predominantly Jamaican and African bands. Groundation was and still is a righteous band. They're somewhat different from other reggae bands and I really enjoy their music. They effectively put the message in their melodic and beat-driven music, and everybody who's conscience can benefit by slowing down and taking the time to listen to what the Professor sings about in his songs.

It is truly such a sad state of affairs for this esteemed nation. We are individually and collectively capable of so much and it seems that we get so little done — across the land — thanks to the pests in society and the powerful political hypocrites who keep trying to tell us what time it is.