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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • The lack of aviation fuel is a direct consequence of the deterioration of Cuba’s energy system, exacerbated by the disruption of external supplies and the regime’s inability to ensure stable imports. For years, Cuba relied on oil from Venezuela for much of its energy consumption, a supply that has been interrupted following Nicolás Maduro’s decline.

    What’s with this wording? The fuel is unavailable because the USA illegally invaded Venezuela and stole all its oil, and because the USA is trying to break Cuba through a blockade. And Maduro didn’t “decline”: the USA kidnapped him. It is the USA doing all of this.





  • It was the first time in weeks, maybe months, that I’d felt something that used to be common in my day-to-day: excitement about the lines of code in front of me. I used to write (approximations of) Good Code most days. Somewhere along the way, everything changed. Nowadays I don’t even write the first version of most of the code I commit. I’m definitely far more productive with an agent at my side. They’re not at all horrible at this coding stuff, just not truly great at it. At the end of the day, the code they spit out is… acceptable. It gets the job done, it passes my litmus tests, but it certainly isn’t Good Code.

    You use an agent to write code, the code is not very good, and it makes you miserable. You claim to have written good code every day in the past and to have been happier that way. So why do you still use the agent? Just write the code. Why complain in a blog post? Just do it the way you prefer that also gives better results.













  • The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he would like the agency to implement a system of trucks that rounds up immigrants for deportation in a system similar to how Amazon delivers packages around the US.

    I guess the USA doesn’t have a very good railway system.

    “We need to get better at treating this like a business,” the acting Ice director, Todd Lyons, said. He said that he wanted to see a deportation process “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”. His comments were first reported by the Arizona Mirror.

    Several speakers, Homan included, echoed the opinion of having a deportation system that is run like a business, with assurance that the Trump administration is depending on the private sector for completion of its mass deportation agenda. Many representatives from the military-industrial complex were in attendance.

    It does present plenty of business opportunities.

    He expressed hopes that the agency could utilize artificial intelligence to “free up bed space” and “fill up airplanes”, allowing Ice to deport immigrants at a quicker pace.

    They want to run it with industrial efficiency so they can keep freeing up those beds.

    The Ice director also said that he has been working with Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) for access to social security numbers to look for “voter fraud”.

    Now why would they be demanding lists of voters from every state and discussing this in the same breath as the industrial scale rounding up of undesirable people?