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intheflow

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3. When I was a children's librarian about 10 years back,

Reply to justaprogressive (Original post)

Sat May 23, 2026, 02:15 PM

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it pissed me off so much that STEM programming focused on coding, and a million kid’s books came out celebrating women in tech. The emphasis on tech when agriculture and Earth sciences are sorely needed in this epoch of climate change is as delusional as it is dishonest. Computers work with finite resources, but climate change is eternal.

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Learn to Code, They Said by Alexander Dao [View all] justaprogressive Yesterday OP

And since AI produces code so fast, a lot of bad, insecure AI code is being shipped and used highplainsdem Yesterday #1

kick Celerity Yesterday #2

When I was a children's librarian about 10 years back, intheflow Yesterday #3

I hate to stick the boot in when a lot of software engineers are really down meadowlander Yesterday #5

Learn to code, they said sakabatou Yesterday #4