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		throwuwu on Sept 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rethinking the Luddites Woah woah woah buddy you’ve got that completely backwards. Journalists started that whole learn to code bullshit and then got justly lampooned about it when there were a bunch of media lay offs afterwards. It was a huge meme a while back so I’m not sure how you missed it.

bamboozled on Sept 27, 2023 [–]

It doesn’t matter who said it, people bought it, used it and spread it.

booleandilemma on Sept 27, 2023 | [–]

Yeah but he's correcting the parent, who said "the mantra of some in the tech field", which is wrong.

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