Sirack's Universe

Joe Studwel appeared on the odd lots podcast. Ethiopia was mentioned multiple times. Interesting tidbit, Ethiopia's GDP per capita grew an average of ~5% consecutively for the past 25 years. No other African country matches this stat

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke's Third Law

[Technological Determinism and Human Freedom] #weekendread

25km baby 🚀 Best way to start the weekend

u gotta control your temptation and intrusive thought when u find vulnerable db :) @AfroSec

I am chasing an obscure bug that is causing Android's system server to crash. Burnt lots of tokens already. Anyone dealt with such issue before?

Call me skeptical but I always view this kinda announcements with suspicion. Anthropic was literally born because Dario didn't think OpenAI had enough on safety. That's all gone now. No lab would risk "pausing" or slowing down and missing once in a generation opportunity. At all costs! Obviously there are many engineers that take safety seriously but business interests triumph https://x.com/i/status/2089787807611195475

Nostalgia 😁

God's Bridge / የእግዜር ድልድይ Chain of mountains separating Lake Abaya and Lake Chamo. Leads straight to ነጭ ሳር national park

God's Bridge / የእግዚር ድልድይ Chain if mountains separating Lake Abaya and Lake Chamo. Leads straight to ነጭ ሳር national park

Arbaminch Recovery 😍

Imitation has a ceiling imo the perfect example of why corporate imitation has a ceiling is when Tesla launched ፈስ "Emissions Testing Mode" (the fart feature) and the Boombox custom horn options, it proved that they weren't just building cars; they were playing a completely different game rooted in internet culture, software flexibility, and absolute irreverence. in other legacy Auto companies the Boardroom Kills "Unfuckwithable" Ideas for Fear of Embarrassment. Traditional boardrooms demand a clear financial return on every single engineering hour. You cannot easily justify the "Return on Investment" of a digital fart machine to a group of strict financial stakeholders. like Robi isn't beholden to some investor interest, so escaped The ROI Trap pushing meme sound to prod. 👏 Play Doesn't Need Permission and you cannot out-compete or imitate someone who is willing to be completely absurd while you are trapped trying to look serious. tesla folks realized a vehicle is just a rolling computer with an external speaker. While competitors were busy benchmarking leather stitching and door-slam sounds, Tesla engineers were writing code for digital pranks. It cost them almost nothing to deploy over-the-air, but it generated millions of dollars in free viral marketing. Build a category of one.

Easy Jog. I went to Entoto today. 3000m above sea level Fun fact - Each breath deliveres ~10% less oxygen as compared to Addis Ababa at 2300m 😊

[Jeff Dean is leaving Google. 27 years 🤯]

Winter is coming

This was an interesting listen about the private market of Dinosaurs. It raises the question of why something is valuable. Most people consider old/extinct things valuable. Dinosaur fossils can be worth up to 150 million dollars a pop. It also makes me wonder if any pre-AI artifact might be worth much more, given most of the content (including creative art ;( )will be AI-generated. Image, text, audio, video, you name it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2026-05-02/odd-lots-inside-a-booming-market-for-dinosaur-fossils-podcast #weekendread

Tadaaa Deal Closed 🎉 It's finally time to leave my Legacy Design on the 12 million-user CBE Mobile Banking app Looks like I don't need to finish my portfolio after all... it'll be everywhere 😄 Thank you Jesus 🙏 @OnyxDesignx

I feel vendicated :)