Lucy Bailey
@labailey.bsky.social
Producer on BBC World Service radio's Newshour. Background / interest in science, politics & law esp. international / human rights. NUJ (union) rep. Jazz / garden / nature / food enthusiast now living in Tunbridge Wells. lucy.bailey@bbc.co.uk
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My companion piece explains the film’s context: USAID’s dismantling is estimated to have already killed 600,000 people, ⅔ of them children. Officials simply deny any harm, while halting data monitoring and firing inspectors general who’d have documented it. 2/
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November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
My companion piece explains the film’s context: USAID’s dismantling is estimated to have already killed 600,000 people, ⅔ of them children. Officials simply deny any harm, while halting data monitoring and firing inspectors general who’d have documented it. 2/
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
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See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...
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I got to say something about the Word Of The Year, "vibe coding", on the BBC World Service today. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 18:20 in, thanks @labailey.bsky.social.
It's 2 holy grails/silver bullets of software engineering in one: requirements *in nat language* to code automatically. Yeah. Nah.
It's 2 holy grails/silver bullets of software engineering in one: requirements *in nat language* to code automatically. Yeah. Nah.
Newshour - Some world leaders meet ahead of climate summit - BBC Sounds
As only a handful gather before COP30 in Brazil - is international commitment wavering?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I got to say something about the Word Of The Year, "vibe coding", on the BBC World Service today. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 18:20 in, thanks @labailey.bsky.social.
It's 2 holy grails/silver bullets of software engineering in one: requirements *in nat language* to code automatically. Yeah. Nah.
It's 2 holy grails/silver bullets of software engineering in one: requirements *in nat language* to code automatically. Yeah. Nah.
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One of the things I think the vibe coding stuff hasn't yet really come to terms with is junior developers and owners often think the key skill for developers is ability to write code, and principal developers know the /actual/ super power that distinguishes principals is their ability to debug.
November 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
One of the things I think the vibe coding stuff hasn't yet really come to terms with is junior developers and owners often think the key skill for developers is ability to write code, and principal developers know the /actual/ super power that distinguishes principals is their ability to debug.