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In 2016, resistance meant defiance. This time it means sabotage.

That’s the meta-lesson that emerges from me reading this piece from @jaykuo and The Big Picture. The essay is mostly about strategy for D politicians, but that that larger lesson there? That’s for all of us.

Not just defiance. Sabotage.

thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p

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The Big Picture · What A Democratic Resistance Would Look Like Under TrumpBy The Big Picture

What does that mean in practice? Well, here’s a relatively gentle practical example:

Suppose you’re on a software team that gets a contract doing work that will benefit the fascists.

Defiance means you refuse the project, maybe quit your job.

Sabotage means you finally embrace that management mandate to use more AI. Really embrace it. Be incredibly productive. Generate lots of code. LOTS of code. Utterly obscene quantities of code.

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My fellow software folks, we all know how make a project drag on for •years• giving off all the signs of making progress while never, ever reaching the point of being releasable before the whole thing is finally scrapped.

At last, this is an ability we can use for good.

I jest, but actually I don’t jest. Sand in the gears, people. Burn the fash’s resources. Run out the clock.

Not just defiance. Sabotage.

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@inthehands "I heard Google's writing 25% of their code with AI now,"

Paul Cantrell

@joe “we need to set a benchmark of 25% minimum AI code to meet Google-level quality benchmarks”