Brandon Kraft ❀️‍πŸ”₯🧑

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πŸš€ - With Automattic working on the Jetpack & WooCommerce plugins for #WordPress.

πŸ€΅πŸ‘°πŸ½πŸ‘§ - Husband & father x6

β›ͺ - #Catholic
πŸ™ - Oblate of the Order of St. Benedict, St. Meinrad's Archabbey.

🐴 - MSU Texas (MBA '24)
🀘 - UT-Austin (BA, '10)

⚾ - Watcher of baseball and youth league admin.

⚽ - FC Bayern and FC Austin casual fan.

🐘 - Admin of religious.social instance.

🏠 - Austin, Tex.

Formerly at @kraft

#fedi22 #utexas

Webhttps://kraft.blog/
GitHubhttps://github.com/kraftbj/
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Techy Account@kraft

This morning, the New York Times broke the story of horrible sexual abuse by Cesar Chavez. By the afternoon, Austin’s parade in his honor was cancelled and city leaders are calling to rename Cesar Chavez Street.

Sounds right to me.

We should also stop naming things after people until, say, 50 years after their death.

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

FLR-CDG-ATL-AUS

First leg delayed enough that I have a negative 14-minute layover. Hope they hold since the alternative flights are all tomorrow.

AUS-MSP-CDG-FLR

Austin: O- and O+ blood donors are particularly requested to donate if able after this morning’s shooting.

Donor Portal

#atx #austintx

Donor Portal - We Are Blood

We Are Blood
Governments must pass the highest bar to justify war and, even if justified in conducting warfare, must follow the highest of ethical standards when doing so. I have no faith in either today with the CIC and SecDef we have.
@manton I've tried to beat the train by running down that corridor when the trains were packed. Even if I waited for the next one, it would have been faster ... Would have missed the connection either way but alas. So, good choice on taking the train. πŸ˜ƒ
Anthropic being kicked out of the US government because it won’t allow Claude to be used for domestic surveillance or controlling autonomous drones makes them my favorite big AI company. #AI
Air France, this is the weirdest way to add AI to your site:

I discovered the `caffeinate` command yesterday to keep the computer awake during long-running scripts, e.g. `caffeinate long-script.sh`

Love it.