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BERLIJN (ANP/DPA/AFP) - In Berlijn hebben duizenden mensen gedemonstreerd tegen de oorlog in Gaza. Onder de leus "Stop de genocide in Gaza" trokken volgens de politie ongeveer 12.000 mensen naar de Brandenburger Tor. De organisatoren schatten het aantal deelnemers op ongeveer 20.000.

Veel mensen liepen met vlaggen met de vredesduif en sommigen scandeerden de leus "Free Palestine". Mensen droegen posters waarop vrede en onderhandelingen in plaats van wapenleveringen werden geëist. Het protest verliep volgens de politie grotendeels zonder incidenten.

Politica Sahra Wagenknecht, oprichter van de links-populistische Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), was medeorganisator van de demonstratie. "Niets rechtvaardigt de moord en bombardementen op de bevolking van Gaza", sprak zij.

Duitsland is een belangrijke bondgenoot van Israël, maar er klinkt steeds meer kritiek vanuit Berlijn op Israëls campagne in Gaza. In augustus werd de export naar Israël van wapens voor gebruik in Gaza opgeschort.

"Freelance developers and entire companies are making a business out of fixing shoddy vibe coded software," writes 404 Media, interviewing one of the "dozens of people on Fiverr... now offering services specifically catering to people with shoddy vibe coded projects."

Hamid Siddiqi, who offers to "review, fix your vibe code" on Fiverr, told the 404 Media that "Currently, I work with around 15-20 clients regularly, with additional one-off projects throughout the year. ("Siddiqi said common issues he fixes in vibe coded projects include inconsistent UI/UX design in AI-generated frontends, poorly optimized code that impacts performance, misaligned branding elements, and features that function but feel clunky or unintuitive," as well as work o color schemes, animations, and layouts.)

And others coders are also pursuing the "vibe coded mess" market:
Swatantra Sohni, who started VibeCodeFixers.com, a site for people with vibe coded projects who need help from experienced developers to fix or finish their projects, says that almost 300 experienced developers have posted their profiles to the site. He said so far VibeCodeFixers.com has only connected between 30-40 vibe code projects with fixers, but that he hasn't done anything to promote the service and at the moment is focused on adding as many software developers to the platform as possible...

"Most of these vibe coders, either they are product managers or they are sales guys, or they are small business owners, and they think that they can build something," Sohni told me. "So for them it's more for prototyping..." Another big issue Sohni identified is "credit burn," meaning the money vibe coders waste on AI usage fees in the final 10-20 percent stage of developing the app, when adding new features breaks existing features.
Sohni told me he thinks vibe coding is not going anywhere, but neither are human developers. "I feel like the role [of human developers] would be slightly limited, but we will still need humans to keep this AI on the leash," he said.

The article also notes that established software development companies like Ulam Labs, now say "we clean up after vibe coding. Literally."
"Built something fast? Now it's time to make it solid," Ulam Labs pitches on its site," suggesting that for their potential customers "the tech debt is holding you back: no tests, shaky architecture, CI/CD is a dream, and every change feels like defusing a bomb. That's where we come in."

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The Nation goes hard: "It's a choice to write an obituary that begins 'Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.'"

Charlie Kirk's Legacy Deserves No Mourning:

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division.

Charles James Kirk, 31, died on Wednesday from a gunshot to the neck at a Utah Valley University campus event just as he was trying to deflect a question about mass shootings by suggesting they were largely a function of gang violence. He died with a net worth of $12 million, which he made by espousing horrific and bigoted views in the name of advancing Christian nationalism. The foundation of his empire was the group he cofounded and led, Turning Point USA, which is a key youth-recruitment arm of the MAGA movement. Kirk was able to launch Turning Point at the age of 18 because he received money from Tea Party member Bill Montgomery, right-wing donor Foster Feiss, and his own father, also a prolific right-wing donor. He was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct. He had children, as do many vile people.

It is rude of me to say all of this, because we live in a culture where manners are often valued more than truth. That is why a slew of pundits and politicians have raced to portray Kirk's activities, which harmed many vulnerable people, in a positive light -- and to give him the benefit of the doubt that he did not grant to anyone who wasn't white, Christian, straight, and male. California Governor Gavin Newsom framed Kirk's project as a healthy democratic exercise: "The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate." This downwardly defines both "discourse" and "good-faith."

There is no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign, and refusing to join in doesn't make anyone a bad person. It's a choice to write an obituary that begins "Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children."

Molly White:

Ashley Rindsberg and Fox News are furious at Wikipedia editors for "attacking" Charlie Kirk by... listing the viewpoints he prominently and publicly advocated

Charlie Kirk in His Own Words:

• Civil rights: "We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s."
• The death penalty: "[The death penalty] should be public, should be quick, should be televised... I think at a certain age, it's an initiation... At what age should you start to see public executions?"
• Empathy: "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up new age term that does a lot of damage."
• Guns: "It's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment."
• Martin Luther King Jr.: "MLK was awful. He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe."
• Transgender people: "You're an abomination to God."

Bluesky Really Doesn't Want People To Say 'Rest In Piss' About Charlie Kirk:

Over the course of the last night, Bluesky took aim at many but not all posts wishing Kirk a restorative piss bath. [...]

The reason provided to me and others by an automated Bluesky email was that typing the phrase "rest in piss" is tantamount to "glorifying violence, including the promotion of harmful acts that cause widespread harm and suffering, as well as showing admiration or glorification of the offenders responsible for such acts."

I appealed my suspension, arguing a simple counterpoint: No it isn't.

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