The decline of interest in C++ and the rise of Rust may be correlated and may not have much to do with AI tools. C++ is complicated, messy and easy to make trouble for yourself with. Rust promises to be suitable for many of the same purposes, while more modern and more performant than most other high-level alternatives, and protecting you from many memory management bugs. That in itself will be moving some people over to Rust.

With Trump threatening Panama, Canada and Mexico and Musk threatening the UK and Germany, Putin must be very pleased. They’re diligently undermining Western alliances even before taking power.

And Poilievre coasts on reactionary vibes but will serve the interests of corporations.

We really are witnessing the world going over to fascism, and this time there’s no strong country to fight against it. And it has happened remarkably quickly. In the early 2010s most of us were just not aware of this threat.

I don’t trust our own right wingers not to be bought.

The better conclusion is that we have to organize against fascism. We can’t depend on the odd Luigi to achieve anything alone. The value of actions like his is as a catalyst to working class solidarity and organized resistance.

“Standard lobbyism” towards fascists still puts them in a reprehensible club along with all those companies that collaborated with the Nazis. It matters who you’re paying.

They were free speech (using dollars for words)!

I guess the down votes are from pro-genocide supporters of Israel. Imagine not realizing that genocide is a bad thing.

And this is a disease that historically has a 51% mortality rate, compared to COVID’s 1-2%.

And the incoming head of the US Department of Health wants to ban all vaccines.

Trump is a notorious germophobe. Could someone please scare him a bit and get him to fire RFK Jr before it’s too late?

Quick! Time to ban all vaccines!

If there’s an upside it’s that it focuses people’s attention on the class struggle we’re all part of, whether we want to be or not. Some people will be realizing this for the first time; others will be experiencing a feeling of working class solidarity for the first time; and for others it will be a focal point in conversations that can raise people’s consciousness of what’s going on.

Look at all the lengths they go to when the victim is a rich exploiter.

I know you don’t want to pay for their sync service and this is the self-hosted community, but I just wanted to note that they service does work well and gives you access to note history. I decided to pay because Obsidian is excellent and I wanted to support it. I just wish it were open source.

OK for some I guess.

The headline is misleading clickbait, unfortunately.

Yes, the headline sucks.

Also this one:

How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk

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