humbledaisy

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I have been mucking about with technology and coding for half a lifetime now. I am currently focussed building an onboarding bootcamp program for interns. My mission is to teach teams how to tell compelling stories in code.
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I am getting precariously close to building a new thing.
The future is not inevitable

One of the most American sentiments is this: Live and let live.

Stay out of others’ personal lives.

That’s what’s fueling this “MAGA Republicans are weirdos” vibe. It’s not just fucking weird but *wrong* that they are so concerned with how others, including every woman, chooses to live their own lives.

It rubs most Americans wrong. It’s not a liberal/conservative thing. It’s an American thing.

I think it’s a human thing too — and America should exemplify that aspect of humanity.

Posting this for reference…I think a lot of us are going to need it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4_COOh4VXw
They Might Be Giants - "Your Racist Friend"

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98% of the struggle is figuring out (often deciding) what I want the outcome to be. Once I am able to be clear in my intentions I find action to be, not quite effortless…but certainly more effective
The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

When people ask the "secret to my success," I like to respond with any of the many attributes that set me apart from my peers.

Here's one: whenever someone says anything remotely hurtful, think about it several times every week for the next twenty years and get very, very sad.

🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2024-06-28-16h17m01s/

Justin Searls @searls

When people ask the "secret to my success," I like to respond with any of the many attributes that set me apart from my peers. Here's one: whenever someone says anything remotely hurtful, think about it several times every week for the next twenty years and get very, very sad.

justin․searls․co
Ohh.,..Trump took a cognitive test…
Wait…the drug dog spot?
I am so very much hoping that Biden loses his shit and goes full on “FUCK YOUR FUCKING LYING MOTHERFUCKING CHEATING FELONIOUS TANGERINE BARON HATING ERIC BATING IVONKA DATING PATHETHIC BITCH FACE!”