🖤✊🏿 Rest in power Assata Shakur

If you canceled your Disney+ and Hulu, but still shop at Target, how does that work?

You don’t need facts when you have an imagination.

Every time I get on a call from a conference room this is what I look like.

When the bureaucracy is too difficult to understand, people turn to magic. Perhaps this is one reason to vilify and defund education. If I wanted to be an autocrat, I’d break every system and have my people talk about me like I’m a mythical savior.

Exactly who is the radical left?

Right now, there's a lot of Americans complaining over being inconvenienced. I'm not sure if they have the brain capacity to understand what happened from 1865 to the present. I think brains would explode if they tried to rationalize what happened up until 1865. It didn't have to be this way…

Season 10, episode 2: Smug Alert! of the documentary, South Park, illustrates this perfectly. Moral superiority only leads to you smelling your own farts.

Spike Lee’s newest film, Highest 2 Lowest, was a joy. Jeffrey Wright is once again showing why he is one of the best actors of all times.

This is what it feels like being Black in the US, since... well forever. We out there minding our business, and here comes the stray. Every. single. day.

Military theatre at L’Enfant Plaza in DC this morning. I’m not 100% sure, but these mini soldiers didn’t make me feel any safer.

Y’all are expecting a lot from a country that couldn’t’ ratify the Equal Rights Act.

We are currently witnessing Reconstruction 2: Electric Coup-aloo where the ancestors of the losers of the Civil War have figured out how make life hell for brown and Black folks.

Most people can’t grok how difficult it is to be Black in the US. We are only 1-2 generations of being a free-ish people. The law classes us as second class citizens. With all of that, there are still successes, but that’s too much for some who fight to make the oppression worse.

Anyone doing any interesting non-coding stuff with GenAI?

It feels good, but no one likes the “I told you so person”. So instead of basking in the social media doom and gloom reports, I’m looking for happy news.

It’s the 30th anniversary of what might be the best album ever made.

I want for a day when I don't need a PhD in philosophy to understand what wrong and right actually are.

I’m about the same. The world has been messy my entire life, but my life is pretty damn good and I want to celebrate that in public more.

There’s a difference between genAI not being good and not being able to get good results when using genAI.

Do the leopards get full from all the faces they are eating? Do they take a break for a bit? Do the second tier leopards take over?

This is why I don’t get asked to do panels anymore. #rbf

We’d rather justify tipping and not give everyone an equal vote. The US could go real far by fixing the sins of slavery. There’s be no tipping, elections might be fairer, you’d have better health care, our policing would be different, and and for profit prisons. We’d also have less people in prison.

When you think of everything as a business, you reduce everything to a transaction. This is why government isn’t a business. Healthcare and other social services aren’t line items to be reduced by a PE firm. I hope yall got some savings, a stash, and an escape plan.

They used to get people to pose in front of lynchings to make postcards.

If it makes you feel any better, we’ve never been the land of the free or the home of the brave. It’s actually been worse in my parent’s lifetime. The only difference now is more people are noticing.

I’m convinced the members of congress don’t take their jobs seriously. It’s a 9-5 with great perks that vastly increases your net worth. How else can you explain taking away healthcare, creating a police state with a straight face, or being on the losing side and thinking “we’ll get them next time”?

Billionaires are a symptom of the problem. You could tax or remove all of them, and it might not fix anything. What we need to do is remove money from politics. If your slush fund couldn’t buy you or someone else a seat, that would be actual progress. I want to see campaign finance reform.

Coding with tools like Cline or Roo is incredibly beneficial for my ADHD brain. Instead of getting sidetracked, I can have the agent write notes or tasks, allowing me to concentrate on the current task. If a side mission is necessary, I can document the current state to avoid forgetting.

I’ve lived in the US for most of my life and I still don’t get tipping culture. Today I saw a bill with a mandatory service charge and an additional blank for a tip. That doesn’t make sense to me.

You want change? Create your list of grievances. Go occupy those counters. Sit where you want on busses. Don’t stop fighting for what’s right even when it’s inconvenient or painful. Know that change starts with you. You know what doesn’t work? Suggesting that we need something new on social media.

Random MCP shirt sighting in London. MCP is everywhere these days.

Happy Juneteenth! I’m celebrating abroad because the US is bugging this year. None of us are free until all of us are free.

In the US, kids are taught Union vs Confederates, not US vs traitors. We’ve normalized evil and then wonder why adults have a difficult time picking up on it.

I called Juneteenth the most important holiday of the year in a meeting today.

Everyone is talking about using genAI for coding, but I’m seeing the huge wins in genAI for productivity.

Communism is things I don’t like, and Socialism is when people I don’t like get things - Reddit

40 years ago, the police bombed a neighborhood in Philadelphia from a helicopter and destroyed 61 homes.

I took my iPad in for service because the screen got scratched. First, I’m a bit miffed that they sent me to a Best Buy. Second, this cat proceeded to try to open apps to “diagnose” without consent. He received a firm, but kind, public scolding.

On 1/1/2026, the 2017 tax plan expires in the US. Many will pay more taxes. Perhaps 20% more in some cases. This might be a reason why the current government is trying to burn everything to the ground to come up with a way to pay for it. The grift has so many layers.

Were y’all’s parents or grandparents saying “America is over” and “Democracy is dead” when Jim Crow was the law of the land just a few decades ago?

My plan is working! I only want to give away ideas that make other people better versions of themselves.

How are you all not boiling over with anger right now?

I’m reading Bill Gates’ autobiography, and I’m constantly amazed by how people can shine when society doesn’t try to hold them back. How many brilliant minds and innovations did we lose because of skin color?

Are we at the point in history where Germans didn’t want to help their Jewish neighbors because, “how bad could the ruling party be?”

From an internal conference

Coding with AI tools is now called vibe coding? I bet someone, somewhere, is real proud of that term.

I read this book called “Let Them”. It’s super popular a en has sold lots of copies. The problem is that it is full of feel good mono with no substance. When you “let them”, you get the situation the United States is currently facing.

There are over 240 schools and multiple counties in multiple states named after Confederate leaders. Today, they are tearing down Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC. The mayo world is healing.