<p>hey, if you enjoy the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/USCSB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USCSB</span></a> safety videos, the current administration is putting them on the chopping block with a reported $0 allocated for FY2025 and appropriating their emergency fund for the costs of shutting down the USCSB agency.</p><p>they put out a video in an attempt to justify themselves, but if you&#39;re in the US then please call and/or write to your congresspeople and ask them to back the CSB. their budget is miniscule for the impact they have.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z7h5BOZ2Hk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=2z7h5BOZ2H</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> </p><p>I have found Gemini 2.5 pro to be better with coding than chat gpt, I would be interested to know what the outcomes are when you use that.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@jacqueline" class="u-url mention">@<span>jacqueline</span></a></span> having burned out once on a project due to something like that i&#39;m rather unwilling to repeat it</p><p>(though, personally, rather than ban people like this i just tell them to fuck off, more or less politely. it does the trick, albeit with more conflict)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> yeah ig. it’s not like most of them are explicitly rude though. just weird nerds failing to hold love in their heart when writing their little comments</p>

<p>i looked into what chatgpt would produce when asked to write a glasgow applet to better understand what users like this would see</p><p>unsurprisingly, it&#39;s bad. like, _bad_ bad. i&#39;m convinced it would be actively detrimental to your understanding even if you already knew the API</p>

<p>I finally properly published an introductory Python course that I wrote a few years ago, on <a href="http://proficientpython.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">proficientpython.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br />I added interactive quizzes and Pyodide-powered code widgets with doctest runners.</p><p>Blog post overview:<br /><a href="https://blog.pamelafox.org/2025/06/proficient-python-free-interactive.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.pamelafox.org/2025/06/pro</span><span class="invisible">ficient-python-free-interactive.html</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ" class="u-url mention">@<span>SnoopJ</span></a></span> maybe, maybe not? i can see it going either way</p><p>i liken it to the following. you know how Linus Pauling, a Nobel prize winning chemist, got obsessed with medical quackery later in life? clearly a knowledgeable, &#39;rational&#39; person is able to combine that with the lack of critical thinking required to believe vitamin C is a cure-all</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@tealeg" class="u-url mention">@<span>tealeg</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@akshayn" class="u-url mention">@<span>akshayn</span></a></span> This one is going for a result either way (weather permitting). No way Bazball plays this out for a draw. Exciting!</p>

<p>I just did <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span>’s “Implementing a Raytracer in Rust” class and it was a blast. If you want to get your feet wet in Rust and have a couple of days to devote to the project, this is well worth your while — check it out here: <a href="https://dabeaz.com/summer.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dabeaz.com/summer.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>