Dumb code is clever code; clever code is dumb code
Mark
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One day, I'll be good at producing quality software and will have intelligent things to say about it
Article from 2024 about how the west is failing: 
EDNEWS
Emmanuel Todd: “We are witnessing the final fall of the West”
Emmanuel Todd: “We are witnessing the final fall of the West”
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable"
LinkedIn profile prompt injection 
"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions." W.B. Yeats
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert Heinlein
They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
If correct, surprising that such a big incident scores the hackers so little. 
Decrypt
'Widespread' Crypto Exploit That Created Panic Steals Only $1K From Users - Decrypt
A major JavaScript supply chain attack targeting crypto wallets through compromised GitHub packages has stolen only $1,043.
Sounds like nostr but not json: 
- and by a very capable programmer
Intel
Unravel | Intel DevMesh | Eskil Steenberg, 04/04/2017
Re-enginering the fundamental internet protocolls.
Me working with a midsized typescript node_modules madness codebase - just substitute "crown" for "reasonable code"
Interesting takes on C
Penn and Teller burn a flag
Solid debugging advice:
Learning from dirty jobs
The terrifying power of conformity 
People will deny what they see with their own eyes
Social pressure can damage our ability to see reality.
