A federal district court judge declined California’s request to issue an immediate temporary restraining order that would bar Marines and National Guard troops dispatched to Los Angeles from doing anything other than guardian federal buildings.
The judge, Charles Breyer, instead scheduled a hearing for Thursday on the state’s request for a restraining order.
(Guardian)
Lmao he’s a Clinton appointee
This is an oldie but a goodie. It’s punk, but very good and very angry (also incredibly fun to play).
It just dawned on me that maybe the reason ThoughtWorks actually pulled off a legit culture of engineering excellence in the early 2000s - and managed to successfully apply all the stuff the rest of the industry cargo cults to this day - is that Neville Roy Singham is rather based. Not to fall into great man theory, but his Maoist politics probably helped foster the kind of collective, principled environment where those engineering practices weren’t just theory, but actually had the material support to work. That said, he really should’ve gone all in and made it a worker-owned co-op.
Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism
I still remember when I worked for a company that took on contracts with the USAF and the CEO defended it to upset employees by telling them to read “Better Angels of Our Nature” 
Interviewing fucking sucks ass and recruiters should go to the gulag. Last week I was told I have a take home project to do on Wednesday. Now they’re saying there’s a live coding session - possibly a replacement for or a supplement to the take home, but it’s unclear and they’re not sure on that. I gave my availability and they fucking responded with times outside of that. I have 20 years of experience.
Very very tempted just to tell them to fuck off 
J-Roc: You ain’t Che Guevara, you the Cheddar Guevara, real talk. Bun-damentally flawed, know what I’m sayin’?
Trying to tidy up my yard with a sickle, cut my finger with it but the yard is looking a bit better! Trying to cut in some paths and leave long grass - there’s a garter snake in there 🥺
And now for some comic relief:
Fraudster made £550,000 selling fake ‘Scottish-grown tea’
Prosecutors said he created the “CV of a fantasist” - claiming among other things that he was a multi-millionaire, a polymer scientist, a former bomb disposal expert and had invented the “bag for life”.
He also claimed to have developed a “special biodegradable polymer” that would make the tea plants grow in half the usual time. The court was told it looked like a black bin liner.
The problem is agile is picked and practiced the way it is because it allows managers, e.g. the representatives of capital to insert themselves in the production process. This allows them to optimize for “making money”, but in reality the optimization isn’t about making the most money, it’s about respecting the ideas that the “bosses” have about how they want to make money.
This reminds me a lot of some recent writing by Marxist product manager Charles Lambdin, who summed it up with this:
Our industry is generally depressing at the best of times (I’m currently trying to recover from burn out after being fired largely for political reasons), but once you apply a materialist lens to it things really get quite bleak, I must say.
In all these cycles the most important thing is that each future cycle must trend more strongly in the positive direction (a better understanding, better materialist outcomes, software that is cheaper to build maintain and is more resilient), rather than accumulating errors, which will eventually self-reinforce to middling and negative results and eventually collapse.
You might get a kick out of Residuality Theory if you’re not familiar - it seems closely align to what you’re describing here, and Barry is attempting to explain how to do architecture well from a perspective of the complexity sciences.
He spent a lot of time learning/thinking about philosophy to try and understand this well - this talk is good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ZOp8ayluU
One of the deeper issues, I think, is that - much like Extreme Programming or agile when practiced properly - I’m not sure Residuality Theory is truly compatible with capitalism, even though it can deliver significantly better outcomes.
I went to a big public sporting event recently and I gotta say, it was very funny hearing chuds say “can you tell me what oil the fries are cooked in?” at the crappy refreshment stall. The seed oil brain worms are doing their thing
New Ed Zitron slop: The Era of The Business Idiot
A generative output is a kind of generic, soulless version of production, one that resembles exactly how a know-nothing executive or manager would summarise your work. OpenAI’s “Deep Research” wows professional Business Idiot Ezra Klein because he doesn’t seem to realize that part of research is the research itself, not just the output, as you learn about stuff as you research a topic, allowing you to come to a conclusion. The concept of an “agent” is the erotic dream of the managerial sect — a worker that they can personally command to generate product that they can say is their own, all without ever having to know or do anything other than the bare minimum of keeping up appearances, which is the entirety of the Business Idiot’s resume.
It’s just a little flu 
I fucking hate interviewing, I don’t want the job or want to learn the stupid little parlour tricks needed to get it, but I must because our society is fucking stupid
They managed to Hogg out AND log out, amazing
Yeah the Mosleys don’t seem like the nicest bunch
Edit: lmao this is the most New Labour thing ever, Twatson is even involved:
By the late 1990s, he had become a donor to the Labour Party and a supporter of the government of Tony Blair. In 2018, Labour decided not to accept further donations from Mosley following accusations that he published a leaflet in the 1960s linking immigrants with disease. Mosley had already donated £500,000 to the office of deputy leader Tom Watson.
Brian Wilson has died.
I learned of this by mistakenly scrolling on Hacker News. A commenter there responded to someone asking “who are the Brian Wilsons of today” with “Ben Folds”