What nation arrests and locks up the most 5 year olds in the world? 30,000 children under 10 since 2013? Clue #1: ~Half of the 5 year olds locked up are Black, because it's a super racist country. Clue #2: Other than Black parents, most of their own citizens don't care enough to oppose it.

Once again 90% 🤜🏻🤛🏾 of my Short Stack infosec lists on Mastodon and BlueSky are activism, tech ethics, and human rights posts and I'm very proud of you all. I just really wish more people got the things you do: - everything is political - nobody is coming to save us - action that matters is hard

To the end, friends. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIfq...

Europeans losing their shit about Trump. Everybody is starting to understand how bad this is. But we're still trying to blame random people instead of agreeing to face the real problem. Unchecked white supremacy.

Whew. Listen.

I'm Black so... Yes?🤷🏿‍♂️ My daughter was younger than that the first time I was pulled over with her in the car. Diamond Reynolds' daughter was only 4 years old and sitting in the car when cops shot Philando Castille to death. They then locked both the infant and mom in the back of a cop car.

Gemeinsam Software testen macht mehr Spaß als allein. Beim Ensemble Testing lernen Teams, wie sie Fehler früh erkennen und sehen, wie unterschiedlich jeder ans Produkt herangeht. Fehler finden wird so zu einem echten Team-Moment. @the-qa-guy.bsky.social teilt seine Erfahrungen: swt.fm/i0dg

I know that the way humans determine gender and deal with updating gender information is horrible and ridiculous. Reading how pragmatic and relaxed various alien populations approach this in an utopian sci-fi book made it even more obvious. I'll do what I can to make their approaches our reality.

Someone I know pointed out (they may have been quoting someone else, but I am not sure) that a lot of people in tech are willing to do things for Claude that they weren't willing to do for junior devs. What an utterly damning statement about the culture of the software industry.

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

Like I've said many times, I'm not worried about the nazis. Seriously. Life experience has taught me that it's not that important.🤷🏿‍♂️ I'm worried about the white people I have around me when the nazis show up. Experience has shown me that this is *super* important. That's where safety or danger is.

It's been hard (it's being hard?) to learn how to make human connections. It's still a learnable skill.

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And prepare yourself emotionally for that pendulum to swing back. Because if you are not prepared, it will smash you, and break your spirit. Ironically: a lot of Black people were less emotionally devastated by the anti-civil rights swingback, because we knew it was coming.🤷🏿‍♂️ It's a long game.

George Floyd died in 2020, so the US said, "OMG! Racism is bad! We can change!" In 2021, the US *talked about* some modest reforms. In 2022 and 2023, white grievance against those reforms had reached fever pitch. 2024 saw record police funding, record cops killing Black people, and DEI rollback.🤷🏿‍♂️

Unfortunately, this is the part where I remind people that Black 10th graders get beat up by cops every day. This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.

They'll say, "It's all too complicated! Better to not say 'Abolish ICE!' 🤡" But it's not complicated. It's not hard to justify opposing fascism in the US. At all. What's hard, is justifying opposing fascism for everyone else, but keeping it for Black people. That's an impossible argument to make

Occasionally, someone takes issue with me flagging a data breach as "sensitive" such that the email addresses can't be publicly searched because they want to dox the users. That's a *really* bad idea, for many reasons: www.troyhunt.com/who-decides-...

Punchline: I'm not joking when I say "Racism is fascism practiced on Black people first." It quite literally is. It was started on Africans and Indians, and then perfected on Native Americans and Black folk. The German nazis just tightened the definition of who was white enough to be a desirable.

This. The challenge is that people were taught *that* the nazis were bad, but not *why* the Nazis were bad. Studying Black History, Indian History, and African History, would have revealed why Hitler didn't see himself or the Nazis as bad, and the danger and rot lurking in our societies.

No. He did not get "internet pilled." That's not a real thing. He always held these views. The only difference is, back in the day, it was mostly Black people pointing out his racism and nonsense. Towards the end, everyone saw it. He wrote this in 2013, about how his views were trash back in 1979.

Oh shit.

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It’s also, I think, one of the reasons AI is doing so well. There’s legitimate value to be had, sure, but when the vast majority of tech is one flavour of a scam or another, well… It all but guarantees that AI is sold by scammers and to scammers. The utility of it is a happy accident, not an intent

Yup. This is one of the classic examples of how racism costs you money. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Over-focus on who you think is shoplifting (Black men), means that you also under-focus on who your own data shows is doing most of the shoplifting (white women). 🙂🙃 And yes, this isn't "race." This is "racism."

Again, you can be as mad as you want. I didn't sit out the election, but I do speak to Black men who intentionally sat out the election. Most of y'all don't. What y'all are still not hearing: * Black men experience ~2 Renees *a day* * There were *fewer* Black men killed by cops in 2025 than 2024

My prediction is slightly different. I mean, it’s mostly this, but also there’s gonna be a very weird thing happening over the next few years: AI is horrifically inefficient and too expensive. It’s just subsidised beyond belief. But that’ll end shortly (it kinda has to?). What happens after?

Race isn't real. Racism is very real. You have to first invent race, just so that you can then be mad about it. And yes, the concept of race was just invented one day.

People are experiencing ICE the way we've always experienced the police. It's a new feeling for them. That law enforcement is not here to protect you, but explicitly sent to fuck you up. If we ever get past this fascist takeover, it'll be interesting to see if we're ready to revisit #DefundThePolice

The thing is some of us grew up in that environment. Whether it be community violence or violence from the police. Many Black people are very familiar with the feeling that things can go from normal to deadly very quickly. A lot of other Americans are not used to it.

Racism is just fascism practiced on Black people first.🤷🏿‍♂️ How cops treated Black people, is being expanded to immigrants and to all people that care about immigrants. The violence that's happening to ICE protesters in Minneapolis and Chicago, has always been happening in Minneapolis and Chicago.

The military pulled me out of a dark spiral as a delinquent teen on the spectrum, and I have a very complicated relationship with that - but these days I mostly put "retired military" in my social bios to have credibility when I argue with conservative tacticool chucklenuts.

Finding your people is hard. Especially if you're not sure they even exist. But don't ignore that feeling that you're out of place in your current circles. When you feel accepted and valued for being exactly who you are, those are your people. Keep looking.

🤡"By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!" "Easterlings" The people from the east. Bad guys.🤷🏿‍♂️ "Southrons" The people from the South. Also bad guys. Known for their war elephants. Subtle.🤷🏿‍♂️ "Orcs" Bad guys. Described by Tolkien as, well, just read it.

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We really need to come up with better metaphors for AI agents than junior developers and interns. It’s far more of a reflection of how disrespectfully we treat those roles than it is a useful metaphor for how agents behave

Nuance evaporates when oversimplification serves someone's agenda.

This is what I mean when I say that race isn't real, but racism is very real. If Vanna White isn't white, then none of y'all are white.🤷🏿‍♂️ If you can lose 80% of the white folk in Puerto Rico just by showing them DNA test results, and mistreating them after a hurricane? Then white isn't even real.

Periodic reminder: We win in the end.

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Another day, another bill for someone else's account - because apparently my email belongs to a stranger according to a major telecom provider. The irony? I've been getting laughs telling this story at conferences. They have no idea they're now part of my material.

However, despite the continued slip in diversity behind the camera, the study found that underrepresented storylines – regardless of the lead actor’s gender – increased in 2024. “Even as diversity drops overall, we find that the stories are still there,” That's... Not a good thing...

One of the weirdest things about this: * Bodybuilding competitions are beauty contests for men, by men. That's all they are. * The standards for winning are mostly arbitrary. They're chosen by straight and gay men, not women. * They intentionally decided to choose West African physical features.🤡

Counterpoint: Your art is your own. You owe it to no one. Many US art forms, but especially jazz, were born out of joy in the face of resistance. It was not made to entertain the people being resisted. Your body dies when you die. But your art may be spoken of for hundreds of years. Cherish it.

“We don’t have a contest culture”. Ok buddy, sure, but you: - only hire “top talent” - reward individuals, not teams - fire low performers - have a Wins channel where you “celebrate” individuals - laser focus on KPIs/OKRs - don’t hire juniors - do RIFs vs retraining Guess what! Contest cultures!

And nuanced: He was not saying, "I don't see race." He was saying, "I do see race. I am white. You are Black. I just don't let that be a reason to stop us being friends or to discriminate against you. And in a racist country, me pretending not to see your race would be contributing to your harm"

Yup. I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡 Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money. Actions: Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly. Words: Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine

There are better candidates. Here are our choices: A) Fascism for everyone! B) Fascism, but only for Black people! C) No fascism for anyone. Fascism is bad. This shouldn't be hard. This isn't a trick question. Choose "C."

"Same racism, but make it blue!🤡" Doesn't work for us. So many US folk are confused by the current moment, because they've lived their entire lives never having to really consider what it's like being a Black person in this country. Now they're getting to experience a fraction of that treatment.