Melissa Ingle

The Programmer’s Credo (an oldie but a goodie)

Talk about trouble for the party in power. Republicans are keeping us from our (literal) treats!

A company designs a product. While using that product for its intended use, a felony is committed. Why is this not prosecutable? If any of us went out and hacked a government website to get voter data, we would be (rightly) prosecuted.

Brazil reelects Lula! Congrats Brazil! Parabens! The US, and the rest of the world, can breathe a little easier.

Someone I haven’t seen in 15 years reached out that they are trans and at 70 years old are ready to explore what that means for them. They just completed a 2nd round of chemo & are ready to explore something they’ve felt their entire life! We’re going clothes shopping and I’m so happy for them!

Alright, Canada! Canada comes out on top with 64% of people having a university education, the highest share of any country. Next up, Ireland (59%), Japan and S Korea at 58%, and the UK rounding out the top 5 with 55%. Australia and the US come in 7th and 8th with 54% and 52%.

My dad is an Indiana University megafan. He’s 81 and last year went to IU’s NCAA champion football game and it made his decade. He hasn’t stopped talking about it. I’ve never watched a football game in my life? He’s texting me for the past week about ‘the big game.’ It’s so sweet.

Remember when the trailer for You Can See Everything was going around? You wondered ‘what if the whole movie is like this?’ Well, I saw it tonight and it was. It was excruciating and challenging and exhilarating and probably my favorite movie of the year. I’ll be thinking about it for a long time.

Nice of LinkedIn to publish this article so I can make sure my kids don’t go to any of these schools. Bonus content: Look at the company the author founded. 🤣😆

A TX HS had to cancel a production of Little Shop of Horrors - a 34 year-old musical based on a 66 year-old movie a girl was cast as the opposite gender. A practice going back to Ancient Greece all because MAGA are terrified their kids will learn that trans people exist.

This man is so good at this! What an amazing answer. A reporter asks how El-Sayed can campaign with Barack Obama when he has criticized him in the past. El-Sayed’s answer - that you can love someone and still criticize them - is spot on.

share.google/X6bG68cpuYsq... MacKenzie Scott donated $7B last year which alone accounted for one-third of America's $19.2 billion in megagifts last year.

Not to brag, but

Hey all - Tennessee is looking into whether it’s justifiable to kill someone if they’re transgender.

3 days after Trump called Andrews a ‘tranny’ she posted an ad calling trans women biological men. This is why Reps keep using anti-trans rhetoric to attack Dems. Because Dems fall for it. Every. Single. Time. This does nothing for her campaign but signals she’ll throw trans people under the bus.

To dem politicians worried about getting labeled a socialist, soft on crime, a trans rights supporter, or someone who believes in DEI - it already happened. You might as well show some courage and support what you know is right.

As SCOTUS begins its new term, I can’t get over the fact that they decide sometime >100 shadow docket cases, which are handed down quickly, often within a week. But the main docket handles far fewer, around 50-60 and we have to wait until June. The delay seems increasingly farcical and out of touch.

11,982 - that’s the number of books banned in the latest school year, most from TX (>8100) and FL (~3,000), most fiction, and the vast majority of which were about race, racism, and LGBTQ issues. pen.org/report/book-...

Shout out to this house in the Ingleside neighborhood of SF keeping the legend alive. #RIPOzzy

Students asking if they can do extra work because they have miss something don’t seem to realize I have to write a new quiz or assignment then grade it. I don’t generate quizzes of all possible material ahead of time. So, yes I’ll help you, but that’s extra work for me, too.

I saw Digger over the weekend and enjoyed it which puts me in the minority. Definitely YMMV but I liked that it was a huge swing and crazy. 1/3 of the way through there’s a confusing twist which I didn’t like but it’s resolved at the end. Regardless of the movie quality, the acting is phenomenal.

Looking for new data science teaching positions and came across this one. Should I apply, as a bit? For reference, I don't know what any of those creeds say.

While Carl Sagan’s quote is something he and all compassionate humans no doubt agree with, he did not in fact say it. I looked it up because it seemed too perfectly targeted at Musk, whom Sagan wouldn’t have known. Why do I care? It has 5.3k likes at the time I saw it. That’s a lot of misinfo

You know what I’m tired of? American exceptionalism. I’m tired of being the only country w/o universal healthcare. The only country that kills its prisoners, or has a globe-spanning military. I don’t care about US global dominance. I’m tired of our need for dominance used as an excuse for atrocities

Good. Now make the death penalty illegal.

All this pain and disruption from the tariffs and for what? A worsening trade deficit. Literally the opposite of what he wanted.

Can we just skip to the part where they ask for more money? This is getting tedious.

This is tragic and way too common. Humans move into someone else’s home, initially sharing resources, but then euthanize her and her extended family when their fair share isn’t enough.

Singapore has the right idea about AI. Use it to spread misinfo, go to jail. Good. We should do that here. Dude posted an AI image of a crocodile in a popular reservoir, which caused the reservoir to be shut down while authorities searched for it.

I know things are bad out there, but today I successfully defended my dissertation (Reasoning Chains in Large Language Models) and earned my PhD! You all, I’ve been working on this since I was at Twitter! It’s been a long road and I’m so proud of myself.

When your attorney general accidentally tells the truth. I don’t know, Todd, maybe try banning the guy who’s saying all the misinformation?

From Oct 2015 - Oct 2019 I drove 1,000s of hrs of DoorDash up to 40-50 hrs per week. I watched pay go from $12/delivery to $5, then guaranteed $5 with DD paying $1 and stealing tips. When I was at my lowest about to break SF settled with DoorDash and I got $17,000! These settlements are a big deal.

We are in hell

John Galt Blvd. Omaha, Nebraska- you are not a serious place.

I was trying to look up if it was okay for my adult dog to eat puppy food (ans: occasionally, but it’s a lot of calories) and these were the suggestions. What the hell, Google?

Tommy Tuberville: You can’t make this up. Narrator: He did, in fact, make this up.

Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have prevented the extradition of people for abortion and gender affirming care. That is, if someone in CA provides or travels to CA to access either kind of care, Newsom thinks it’s cool to extradite them to another state for prosecution.

Imagine banning ads for a play adapted from Virginia Woolf’s lectures about women in society. Meta and other tech companies are pushing a regressive global agenda.

In 2022, an anti-trans group who was dedicated to keep trans kids out of sports could only find 5 trans athletes in K-12. In 2024, the NCAA had 10 trans athletes. Why does every politician - Rep and Dem - need to comment on this? Can we all shut up about this forever?

Guys, I believe him. 🙄

Google wants everyone to know their AI model is also dangerous and a rebel bad boy. No! Stop laughing. It’s just as dangerous as ChatGPT and Claude.

As someone born in 1974, I object to the use of this photo.

Just a reminder, the Babylon Bee still sucks.

Ah yes thank you MacBook. It’s cool that you randomly rebooted while I was reviewing notes for a meeting to start in five minutes.