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  "tags": [
    "lowkey: critical\ncoding club",
    "permacomputing principles",
    "I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.",
    "Agentic Coding is a Trap",
    "Computing as a social activity"
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  "textContent": "These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week.\n\n##  🔖  lowkey: critical\ncoding club \n\nlowkey: critical coding club is first and foremost a coding club - a series of hangouts for anyone who wants to write computer programs with other people. Whether you’re new or experienced, need inspiration, or just want to throw on headphones and hack, you are welcome to join. Expect it to be laid-back and self-organised outside usual hierarchies: study groups, spontaneous pair programming, parallel working/body doubling, or just folks with laptops.\n\nIn lowkey we are focused on creating a space for diverse coding practices and building a community outside the usual institutions and sites with temporary contracts. E.g., academic institutions, businesses and entrepreneurship with ethical compromises, or “expert” meetups. Through the lens of critical technical practice, we are also open to address politics and social issues tied to coding, but rather than discussing them in the abstract, we focus on integrating this into our practice of coding.\n\n##  🔖 \npermacomputing principles \n\nCommentary from the hacker news community…\n\n##  🔖 \nI Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.\n\n\nI wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do.\n\nSo I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. Three minutes later — done. Badge acquired. I felt a tiny dopamine hit of legitimacy.\n\nThen I did what apparently nobody does. I went and read the privacy policy and terms of service.\n\nNot LinkedIn’s. The other company’s.\n\n##  🔖 \nAgentic Coding is a Trap \n\nDespite the countless failed attempts at trying to democratize coding while not understanding coding, we’re faced with the reality that you cannot understand code without engaging with it. And it’s become clear that if you don’t keep engaging and writing it, you can lose touch with that understanding, which will in turn make you a less capable orchestrator in the first place, rendering this phase of AI coding a strange and needlessly stressful interlude.\n\n##  🔖 \nComputing as a social activity \n\nBy using LLMs to reduce their dependence on other humans, developers risk abandoning that social foundation. They work through roadblocks not by interacting with other developers on forums, but by asking a model trained on a millions of StackOverflow posts. They review code that no one has written, or submit code that will be reviewed by no one. Until now, FOSS has been conducted as a conversation, humans responding to other humans in the formal languages of code and project management, but increasingly it’s a conversation conducted between chatbots.1",
  "title": "Weekly Bookmarks"
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