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Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Reposting this would be very helpful. We're having a tough month at Skype a Scientist between much of my energy being devoted to Academy of Natural Sciences stuff. I need help!!

We're cooked, lol

"They're trying to wash us away, They're trying to wash us away...."

In 1266 a widow named Avelina le Marescal wanted to pay off some sins for herself and her late husband. And so, like you do, she donated some eels. Avelina gave the priory of Norwich all the eels paid in rent from her mill in Bywick, thus securing the monks' prayers & blessings.🗃️🧪

Country Roads being sung at the World Cup seems like an appropriate time to share an article I wrote many years ago about all the song's international variations

"Not the hero we deserve, but the hero wiener'd."

The so-called Save America Act will force 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates just to register to vote. Most do not have them ready. Turning paperwork into a barrier is a poll tax by another name. #SaveActIsPayToVote #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Here's the (free, online) course that Jevin and I developed for first-year college students. thebullshitmachines.com

Nuevo needs more than 29 reposts to save his life! Reposting him and saving him should be an Olympic Sport!

if you took my advice last year and bought used leather pants, wore those leather pants, and then resold them on eBay, you would have made more money than if you invested in bitcoin

Mon capitaine Jourdan Thibodeaux spittin' bars about our history with mass deportation and forced assimilation. #Cajun #réveillez #résistez youtu.be/AJJKttmFedc?...

My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left. See? We just need to talk to each other.

UPDATE: Betty is overwhelmed with gratitude for those who were kind enough to donate to her GFM, and she asked me to pass along her sincere thanks. I’d love for her to reach the goal, but if you can’t contribute, a retweet helps too.

“Thanks, man. Where was I? Oh yeah, so it was December, and I just wanted to get out of the cold. I knocked on some random guy's door. I’m tellin’ ya, dude was out of his friggin' mind! He kept asking me a bunch of super weird questions and whining about some chick named Lenore."

The frog is sweating. The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature. “He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs. All books about frogs have vanished from the library.

When I was a kid people said I was "gifted" and then when I was a teenager they were like "why are you wasting your gift" and now I think they're just happy I wear pants

Oh absolutely! Here, let me possibly ruin up to two different songs for you at once!

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

If you would be interested in a weekly progressive blog that has a nice, rational outlook, the occasional personal thoughts on top of the political, and some fun pet pics, check out patreon.com/theclawnews. It's a nicely bite-sized chunk...so much better than the usual firehouse you get most places.

Healthcare matters — and so does your roll. I've got a special message for you from ovaryroll.com: WE'RE SO OVA THESE IDIOTS

New #podcast dropped today. Reopened #coal #powerplant running #bitcoin #mining operation outrages residents in #NewYork state. So much for crypto powering "green energy." ioradio.org/2025/03/21/i... #ioRadio

"Between you and me, I don’t know if he’s working for someone else or just developed this business idea for himself, but I’m pretty sure what he is doing is illegal."

Jorts come watch tv. Jorts let’s clean your ears. Jorts put your toys away. Jorts do your timesheets. Jorts you’ve been in the hippo all day. Why are they so obsessed just let me stay in the hippo

Hello, I am in Hampton Roads Virgina and I need help rehoming my two female cats. Clementine The Calico is a little over 4 yrs old and Domino will be 2 in May. Clementine is a little shy but is very sweet. Domino is playful. @catsofyore.bsky.social @crits4cats.bsky.social #catsky