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One time I wrote up a generative design system for creating novel broths for a friend on a liquid diet. That’s souper intelligence.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 11h

If we call these generative tools “super intelligence”: A. we can keep calling non-generative machine learning “artificial intelligence”, distinguishing it from the stuff folks hate B. we can change the definition of “super” to mean “unreliable and mediocre”, which will make “super car” very funny

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve spent twenty years dealing with weaponized social justice. It is a fringe when we make it fringe, through constant work and significant effort.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was hoping for a redemption arc where he escaped the land of mocks and learned to write software better. Instead he decided to go all King John III. What a weirdo.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have held a grudge for more than ten years against a dude for being smugly wrong about testing, and then he turns out to be a white supremacist. Now lots of people agree with me, but for far more serious reasons 🫠

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Have you been following the Scholarship Granting Organization scam? I am livid that red states are getting free cash for “schools” that don’t even have to be accredited.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Fascism, Taylorism, and Communism are all the same thing: a power fantasy where central control isn’t a complete disaster.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I am deeply frustrated by my opponents who even now think keeping the court its current size is more important than saving our democracy. This seems like the easiest thing in the world.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Every time I burn my toast, I get to blame a Democratic Socialist.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I was looking through old Massachusetts State House budget amendments and I got excited because there was one called “Revolutionary Spaces”. It was about 18th century buildings. Establishment politicians love history, but don’t want to be a part of it.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I went to WisCon for years, so there were a bunch 🙂 I put your panels on my schedule regardless of topic.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I am going to be appearing at the Danvers Democratic Town Committee that day, but folks in the Boston area: you should check this out. It’s my favorite professor and my favorite panel moderator (now both awesome authors)

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 09/06/2026

For the good of the entire open source community and all open source contributors, these people need to be sued into the ground

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I am leaving a one-star review

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is the book I recommend to anyone wanting to move from Senior Software Engineer to Staff+ Software Engineer. Cross-team organizing so we can do our jobs well is a totally different skill set. This book explains how.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is how people in power are using the tools we built. It is the responsibility of every programmer to stand up and resist.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

AI companies should absolutely use AI for anything they are selling it to customers to do. Customers should only buy these tools if their risk budget, like Anthropic’s, includes “it is fine if our entire source code leaks”.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I saw this coming a year ago. It is part of why I am running for Congress. Democrats have to be ready to take our seats, whether or not Republicans want us to.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Did you put in for an alternate or add-on delegate? You might still be able to go to the convention. I’m not up for a vote there, though: all I need are signatures! The easiest way is to join one of our door-knocking events 😉, but reach out to contact@bethfordemocracy.com & we’ll get them to you

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This is what I’ve been saying. And why I’m running for Congress. The problem isn’t that Democrats went “too far”. It is that our party hasn’t have the guts to stand up for Democratic values against the ridiculous anti-tax elites.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Anyone know which Democratic strategist is telling their candidates not to put policy positions on their website? When I said Democrats should try to act less like elitist Harvard academics, I didn’t mean they shouldn’t say anything at all 🤦

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I feel like people got lulled into a false sense of capability for LLMs. Text generation is a useful algorithm when you have a description of some text you want, but want the text itself generated. Software works that way: programmers often start with a spec & then generate text. War does not.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Why on earth are people trying to use text generation to wage war!?!

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Here is the original: www.nature.com/articles/s41... It isn’t about “demonizing” people: it is about knowing that the people on Twitter are being manipulated into being more conservative than they would otherwise be. Choosing to be manipulated that way is … a choice.

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Notice how many establishment Democrats (including some of my opponents) are still active on Twitter. Sure explains a lot.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

“AI did…” is a sneaky, sneaky form of passive voice. A computer only does what it has been told to do. Coming up with a digital Ouija board didn’t change that.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

No computer is prescribing drugs. Some patients are being allowed to prescribe their own drugs, as long as they use certain software.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It’s interesting you see that as nihilistic: I see it as simply explanatory. Shareholder primacy is a meme a la Blackmore, creating evolutionary pressure on elites. I find thinking of capitalism as a personified force gives more-accurate predictions, because it captures those incentives.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We’ve seen with other tools, like checklists, that even things that work well when incorporated into a culture can be counter-productive when imposed from above. Without a culture of empowerment & more-than-sufficient staffing, patient care suffers.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The point I was trying to make was about the adoption of AI. Workers aren’t being allowed to incorporate it in ways that lead to better outcomes, where they and patients would get the benefits. Instead, it is being imposed from the top down.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Humans + computers beat computers alone. Unfortunately, capitalism & our tax code don’t care if things work well. They just want to not have to give people jobs.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

As for what a “right” is, I think it’s whatever rules we can adopt to stop democracy from sucking. We’ve basically come up with the current a set of “rights” experimentally: when something shitty happened, we make up a right that would have stopped it. Though America’s set hasn’t gotten updated

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

But as we’re seeing right now, that relies on finding a way to give power to judges who care about rules for the sake of rules.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

That is the hard question The most successful approach seems to be making the process to change the process much harder than regular changes, and putting the rights in the rules. (Technically, any system can be changed if enough people decide to change it. But folks can temporarily agree not to.)

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I figure that is what the idea of “rights” is for. Some things should never be put to a vote. But it is also an example of why I prefer systems that build consensus over systems that let a majority rule. Even if they don’t scale as effectively.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

It is too bad the word “refactoring” never escaped computer-land. Having a way to say “make something better without breaking it” is incredibly useful.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Trying to summarize the news now is wild: “He announced the hunger games, went after Tomboy X, handed out a donativum by stealing troops’ housing, illegally named a building after himself, murdered five more people, convicted a judge, and ranted for 18 minutes on tv about how great things are.”

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I was there when it was written, for I watched music fans born in 1919 meet their first troll. (Two hours and hundreds of posts later, the server’s 8 MB of RAM was insufficient to the task and that community was no more.)

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Did they consider just not having XSS vulnerabilities?

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The CSP standard appears to have been written by someone who loves rules and hates web development

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Alone is just My Side Of The Mountain for grownups

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

In 2005 I decided to forever hold a grudge against Larry Summers. That decision keeps looking better and better.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

When Donald Trump said he wanted a war with Canada, I didn’t realize he meant retroactively losing the war of 1812.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Infrastructure is like crochet hooks. If we only ever buy the hooks we are absolutely sure we need, each project can require a lot of work to get started. We might give up rather than go to the store for just the one idea. When we invest in a set of typical hooks, we end up making way more things.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The flow of money represents the wants and needs of everyone in an economy. The problem with having billionaires is the same problem as trying to add huge numbers to tiny numbers using floating point. Except that in this case the “tiny numbers” that get lost are “normal people’s wants and needs”.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

One challenge I am finding on this campaign: I have great political metaphors that work for very niche audiences.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I’ve been promoting @cjsprigman.bsky.social’s proposal to limit jurisdiction by creating exceptions, because it is something that legislators could start trying to put into every bill today. But I’m also running for Congress because I don’t trust the Democratic Rep I’ve got to even try.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The introduction of machines actually did hurt workers, though, and the recent moves to automate manufacturing have decimated the American middle class.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Yeah, we don’t have a responsibility to robots the way we do to our neighbors. Doing things for robots doesn’t make their life better, because they don’t have one. That makes taxing automation more useful, tho. Otherwise it is just using public services to take our money & hand it to billionaires.

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