@jay @TechConnectify now that you mention it this does seem like _extremely_ your jam

@TechConnectify this is so good, so well argued, so laser-targeted both rhetorically and culturally at the victims of the fascist disinformation machine that the petrochemical industry has constructed, that about halfway through I stopped feeling like "yeah! right on!" and started feeling more like "Gosh I hope Exxon doesn't try to assassinate him."

This is *amazing* work, stay safe out there.

@dalke Hmm, I will try to find an appropriate channel to raise this objection through. that does sound horrible. (I did not notice because T&Cs for online services like this are not generally enforceable; but still, they shouldn’t be stipulating ridiculousness like this.)

@cthoyt a few key "no"s still provide a useful signal in the data. I am given to believe that if you say "yes" to more AI stuff the survey is much longer

@aeva yeah that one got a chuckle out of me

If you're a Python developer, definitely make your voice heard here: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/01/your-python-your-voice-join-python.html

I filled it out. I feel like it was briefer than previous years? And obviously there are a bunch of questions about genAI junk, which I suspect will end up showing up as very widely used, so I hope some of you skeptics will also fill it out and at least we might be legible as a meaningful minority

@ianbicking @petrillic we are conditioned by a constant diet of superhero movies and rugged individualist nonsense to believe that it’s all on one ubermensch to fix all the problems with some massive self-destructive effort but we are ALL going to need to participate and the threshold in real life is “did you do something”. so thank you for doing something.

@ianbicking @petrillic thank you so much for putting your time, and your body, on the line to do *something*. I would struggle with this at the best of times and (per my recent toots) it’s super not the best of times for me personally right now. It may not feel like enough for you in the moment but reading about folks that I know getting out there and participate directly against this heinous evil, really gives me hope