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Need to find a way to make software developers quit thinking it's cool to develop in 3GLs and start thinking harder about how to climb the abstraction ladder. As long as the software world stays mired in and growing the 3GL mud ball, the state of the art will never advance.

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There’s No Gay Gene. In Fact, There’s No Anything Gene.

The nation’s press is trying to atone today for the sins of its past: A few years ago a research team conducted a small study that located a few epigenetic markers that seemed to be associated with being gay. Not a single working geneticist—and I say this advisedly—not a single one suggested this was the […]

From Victories to Union Militancy, 5 Reasons for Workers to Celebrate This Labor Day

Labor Day often gets short shrift as a worker’s holiday. Marked primarily by sales on patio furniture and mattresses, the day also has a more muddled history than May Day, which stands for internationalism and solidarity among the working class. Labor Day, by contrast, was declared a federal holiday in 1894 by President Grover Cleveland, fresh off his administration’s violent suppression of the Pullman railroad strike.

Trump Administration’s Court-Packing Scheme Fills Immigration Appeals Board With Hardliners

In his first six years as an immigration judge in New York and Atlanta, from 1993 to 1999, William Cassidy rejected more asylum-seekers than any judge in the nation. A few years ago, Earle Wilson overtook Cassidy as the harshest asylum judge on the Atlanta court, which has long been considered one of the toughest immigration […]

30,000 Blue Tarps, 2.4 Million Downed Trees, Billions Short: 5 Ways Puerto Rico Is Still Struggling to Recover From Maria

Tropical Storm Dorian skirted Puerto Rico’s western corner yesterday, before heading north towards Florida, where it is expected to develop into a Category 3 hurricane. While the storm spared Puerto Rico of much damage, it raised attention to how the island is still in recovery mode—and ill-equipped for another natural disaster. Hurricane Irma struck Puerto […]

Users of a Major Online Trump Hub Expect They’ll Be Kicked off Reddit—and They Don’t Know Where to Go

For years, Reddit had hesitated to take action against one of its most prominent toxic communities: r/The_Donald, which in addition to being the site’s fan club for supporters of President Trump, has become a noxious hotbed of hate speech and bigotry. That finally changed on June 26 when Reddit “quarantined” r/The_Donald message board, making it […]

Food-waste study reveals trends behind discarded items

Americans throw out a lot more food than they expect they will, food waste that is likely driven in part by ambiguous date labels on packages, a new study has found.

How Ohio’s Chamber of Commerce Killed an Anti-Pollution Bill of Rights

Emails reveal that the Ohio Chamber of Commerce enlisted a key Republican lawmaker in a successful effort to nullify the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.

The post How Ohio’s Chamber of Commerce Killed an Anti-Pollution Bill of Rights appeared first on The Intercept.

From Philadelphia to Oregon, the Insurgency Is Making Waves in Municipal Elections

So far this year, Working Families Party-backed candidates were elected into more than 50 offices at the local and municipal levels in nine states.

The post From Philadelphia to Oregon, the Insurgency Is Making Waves in Municipal Elections appeared first on The Intercept.

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