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Raising money for her ring the only way I know how: by finally publishing the thriller I've been plotting for years. New chapters weekly. Read the Prelude and first one free 👇
There comes a sacred, electric moment in every human life when the soul whispers, and then roars, "Enough." It sparks in the shadow of an unjust decree, in the grinding exhaustion of a broken system left to rot, or in the quiet insult of being told to wait for permission to claim a better life. That defiant "no" is not born of bitterness; it is a declaration of inherent worth. When I declare that my dignity is uncompromising, I am simultaneously defending yours, for human value is indivisible. Deference that flows in only one direction is merely submission in disguise. I begin, instead, at the altar of mutual, unshakeable respect for every man and woman.
I likewise cast off the cold comfort of nihilism, the seductive lie that nothing matters and the future is already written. Cynicism is a fortress for the timid; it shields the heart from disappointment while leaving the world in ruins. My conviction is far bolder: human beings are architects of the better, and whenever history has handed us the chisels, we have carved out miracles.
Trace the lineage of human power. The Enlightenment pried the scepter from the grasp of monarchs, only to place it into the hands of a moneyed elite. The Industrial Revolution forged previously unimaginable wealth, yet locked the engines of creation behind the gates of a privileged few. Every great epoch has lifted the human condition, yet each has hoarded the levers of the age inside a gilded room.
Artificial intelligence is the hammer that can shatter that ancient mold. It is a boundless amplifier of human intent. For the first time in the long story of our species, the exhausted nurse, the master welder, the weathered farmer, the devoted teacher, the neighborhood shopkeeper, and the midnight student glowing in the light of a single laptop can command a tireless partner to help them learn, build, and mend. At long last, every individual can claim the helm of their own destiny.
If this extraordinary force remains locked in the vaults of the few, their empires will calcify while the rest of humanity waits for crumbs. If it is scattered like seeds across the earth, every human mind becomes a powerhouse. I choose to scatter the seeds.
Every life carries equal weight; every struggle deserves equal light. No distant bureaucrat or self-appointed expert should ever overrule the lived wisdom of a person navigating their own existence.
Those who bleed from a problem understand its anatomy best. Arm everyday people with knowledge, instruments, and the liberty to act, and they will conquer their own crises without waiting for a savior.
A hoarded breakthrough is a dying ember; a shared breakthrough is a wildfire. When solutions are laid bare in the commons, yesterday’s triumph becomes tomorrow’s foundation, compounding human ingenuity into an era of shared abundance, built not by lone titans, but by millions of hands lifting one another higher.
No monarch, boardroom, or institution holds the birthright to this new engine of creation. The means of intelligence must remain open, democratized, and as fiercely loyal to the plumber as to the potentate.
I am a builder, not a spectator. I neither cower before the horizon nor charge blindly into the fog. I forge ahead with eyes wide open, sharing my triumphs and mending my missteps in the unforgiving light of day.
Blind accelerationism hurtles into the dark and prays the road holds. I am an Exponentialist. I know that true progress catches fire only when every human being is armed to conquer their own obstacles and pass the torch to their neighbor.
I say we start seizing the wheel.
𝘽𝘼𝙄𝙇𝙀𝙔 𝙄𝙉𝘿𝙐𝙎𝙏𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙇 𝙂𝙍𝙊𝙐𝙋 retweeted
today we are sharing ANTI-DOOMER ANTI-MANIFESTO.
it answers some of the most critical questions about the anti-movement and it's purpose.
what is ANTI-DOOMER?
why ANTI-DOOMER?
what is the purpose of ANTI-DOOMER?
never doom, always bloom.
𝘽𝘼𝙄𝙇𝙀𝙔 𝙄𝙉𝘿𝙐𝙎𝙏𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙇 𝙂𝙍𝙊𝙐𝙋 retweeted
Open AI claiming the PHP exploit appears to be, as usual, a big twist of the truth to get the best marketing stunt possible.
I believe too much attention is given to people who swim against the tide and not enough to those who push it to the next level.
Found my next capabilities list
Who's gonna tell vibe coders about...
1. SQL Injection
2. XSS
3. CSRF
4. CORS
5. SSRF
6. IDOR
7. Path Traversal
8. Mass Assignment
9. Clickjacking
10. Content Security Policy
11. Security Headers
12. Input Validation
13. Server-Side Authorization
14. Row-Level Security
15. Least Privilege
16. RBAC
17. Secrets Management
18. .env in .gitignore
19. API Key Rotation
20. Secret Scanning
21. Hashing vs Encryption
22. Password Salting
23. bcrypt & Argon2
24. JWT Expiry
25. Refresh Tokens
26. OAuth 2.0
27. OpenID Connect
28. Session Fixation
29. MFA
30. Brute Force Protection
31. Account Enumeration
32. Timing Attacks
33. File Upload Validation
34. Webhook Signature Verification
35. TLS Certificate Expiry
36. HSTS
37. Encryption at Rest
38. Dependency Vulnerabilities
39. Supply Chain Attacks
40. Threat Modeling
41. Indexes
42. EXPLAIN ANALYZE
43. N+1 Queries
44. Full Table Scans
45. Connection Pooling
46. Database Migrations
47. Down Migrations
48. Transactions
49. ACID
50. Isolation Levels
51. Deadlocks
52. Optimistic Locking
53. Pessimistic Locking
54. Normalization
55. Denormalization
56. Foreign Keys
57. Unique Constraints
58. Cascading Deletes
59. Soft Deletes
60. UUIDs vs Auto-Increment
61. Cursor-Based Pagination
62. Full-Text Search
63. Read Replicas
64. Replication Lag
65. Sharding
66. Partitioning
67. Hot Partitions
68. Postgres VACUUM
69. Materialized Views
70. Backups
71. Testing Your Restores
72. Point-in-Time Recovery
73. Change Data Capture
74. Outbox Pattern
75. ORM Lazy Loading
76. CAP Theorem
77. Eventual Consistency
78. Strong Consistency
79. Raft Consensus
80. Leader Election
81. Split Brain
82. Quorums
83. Clock Skew
84. Distributed Locks
85. Consistent Hashing
86. Bloom Filters
87. Two-Phase Commit
88. CQRS
89. Event Sourcing
90. Race Conditions
91. Backpressure
92. Load Shedding
93. Bulkheads
94. Jitter
95. Retry Storms
96. Cascading Failures
97. Thundering Herd
98. Cache Invalidation
99. Cache Hit Ratio
100. TTLs
101. Cache Warming
102. Write-Through vs Write-Back
103. Redis Eviction Policies
104. CDNs
105. Cache-Control Headers
106. ETags
107. Dead Letter Queues
108. Poison Messages
109. At-Least-Once Delivery
110. Exactly-Once Semantics
111. Message Ordering
112. Kafka Consumer Groups
113. Partition Keys
114. Background Jobs
115. Webhook Retries
116. DNS
117. DNS Propagation
118. HTTP Status Codes
119. HTTP Method Semantics
120. Keep-Alive
121. HTTP/2
122. WebSockets
123. Server-Sent Events
124. Long Polling
125. gRPC
126. Protocol Buffers
127. API Versioning
128. OpenAPI Specs
129. Backward Compatibility
130. Request Size Limits
131. Compression
132. Latency vs Throughput
133. Egress Fees
134. VPCs
135. Subnets
136. NAT Gateways
137. Firewalls
138. Security Groups
139. Service Mesh
140. Ingress Controllers
141. Health Checks
142. Liveness vs Readiness Probes
143. Graceful Shutdown
144. Connection Draining
145. Stateless Services
146. Failover
147. Multi-Region
148. Availability Zones
149. Single Points of Failure
150. Disaster Recovery
151. RTO & RPO
152. SLAs
153. SLOs
154. Error Budgets
155. Incident Response
156. On-Call
157. Runbooks
158. Postmortems
159. Chaos Engineering
160. Graceful Degradation
161. Autoscaling
162. Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling
163. Cold Starts
164. Capacity Planning
165. Load Testing
166. Memory Leaks
167. OOM Killer
168. Structured Logging
169. Log Levels
170. Log Rotation
171. Distributed Tracing
172. OpenTelemetry
173. Correlation IDs
174. Metrics Cardinality
175. p99 Latency
176. Alert Fatigue
177. Error Tracking
178. Profiling
179. Flame Graphs
180. Infrastructure as Code
181. Terraform State
182. GitOps
183. Blue-Green Deployments
184. Canary Releases
185. Rollbacks
186. Feature Flags
187. Environment Parity
188. Staging Environments
189. 12-Factor Apps
190. Multi-Stage Builds
191. Non-Root Containers
192. Image Scanning
193. Resource Requests & Limits
194. Pod Disruption Budgets
195. Semantic Versioning
196. Lockfiles
197. Reproducible Builds
198. Branch Protection
"When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don't stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven't hoed,
And shout from where I am, 'What is it?'
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I plod down to the stone wall
For a friendly visit."
— Robert Frost, from A Time to Talk
When you remove the context of how assets are valued against the activities surrounding them, it seem unfair.
Owners should pay for the infra they benefit from is the bare minimum.
They should also be paying for all of the things that the gov does to increase the value of their assets. Econ dev, higher Ed, hospitals, parks. If they don't like it, they can sell
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
