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  "description": "Microsoft in their bid to continue trying to not be outclassed by other nefarious companies and individuals has announced GitHub Copilot Dev Days, which based on the name, means that it as a global day to get more people to ruin the environment.\n\nWe usually have one day per year where people respect and think about caring for the world we live in.\n\nAnd Microsoft wants to do the opposite, but for 7 consecutive weeks.\n\nThanks, but no thanks.\n\nMy local JavaScript meetup is hosting an event on April 15th, which ends with a confusing statement.\n\n> Let’s come together as developers, grow our local community and...",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T14:03:01.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Content Warningmentions AI, coding, microsoft event and the environment\n\nMicrosoft in their bid to continue trying to not be outclassed by other nefarious companies and individuals has announced GitHub Copilot Dev Days, which based on the name, means that it as a global day to get more people to ruin the environment.\n\nWe usually have one day per year where people respect and think about caring for the world we live in.\n\nAnd Microsoft wants to do the opposite, but for 7 consecutive weeks.\n\nThanks, but no thanks.\n\nMy local JavaScript meetup is hosting an event on April 15th, which ends with a confusing statement.\n\n> Let’s come together as developers, grow our local community and showcase the power of GitHub Copilot with **free, high-quality training materials** from Microsoft + GitHub.\n>\n>   * GitHub Copilot in VS Code\n>   * GitHub Copilot CLI\n>\n\n>\n> ...and more!\n>\n>   * **Intro Talk (30−45 min)** : GitHub Copilot + AI development\n>   * **Local Community Talk (30−45 min)** : Bob Fonal\n>   * **Hands-on Workshop (1 hour)** : Practical exercises using GitHub Copilot\n>\n\n>\n>  _**Bring your laptop and expect to write some (non-AI generated) code!**_\n\nWait, what... We’re offering training on AI, but then _not_ writing code with AI?\n\nSo basically spend the first part of the meeting using up resources with no real gain? Just to use up the resources?\n\nReally?\n\nThanks, but no thanks. I think I will skip this meetup.\n\nN.B.: also Meetup does not know how to send plain text + html emails i.e. the plain text emails are just a blob of HTML.",
  "title": "GitHub Copilot Dev Days—The Anti-Arbor Day of 7 weeks",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-12T14:15:50.000Z"
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