From Where I Stand

Nobody laughs in a different language. Nobody cries in a different language. Parents worry the same. Kids dream the same. Love looks remarkably similar. We're living through a moment in time where the people in charge, the people with the most money, are telling us to fear one another. Fear one another. But we know better than that, don't we? First people that authoritarians try to shut down are not politicians. They're journalists who ask questions. They're the artists who refuse simple answers. They're the filmmakers, writers, actors, and musicians who insist that someone you never met is deserving of your empathy....

George Clooney

Again about Maia, added a few things to her like - ability to interact with other bots to download music - create me playlist with topics in her own group (which has been super useful) - bringing lyrics and music to chats and a few other https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQFWxy4P7AM

This is what happens when you spend too much time indoors and online I speak in thought now, instead of thoughts in words.

Someone should train a model for ሃበሻ መዳኒት, something local Cause gemini keeps telling me to go to a doctor for a broken arm

clearly there's something wrong with you @DagmawiBabi

https://youtu.be/0Ge3jKLDJaA 3Blue1Brown, Grant Sanderson

Recreated this with my sister

So a few weeks ago i built this random little side project for fun , turning a Stripe dashboard into a forest view…I posted it on X, got 215k views, and somehow 3 people from Stripe reached out. one was the Head of Design at Stripe, previously at Lyft, Airbnb, and frog. she suggested i apply for a remote design role, but apparently Ethiopia isn’t on Stripe’s hiring list, so that didn’t work out. she kinda liked the project so she told me she wanted to show it at a big design summit. funny enough, she actually did, here’s the exact moment (it’s less than 5 seconds, but it means a lot for something i literally made just for fun) (Presentation link) you really never know where a random idea can take you. @natyiu0

Stripe dashboards are boring. So I made this cool site that turns your Stripe data into something actually fun to look at… Your revenue, customers, payments… but visualized like a forest. Built this for fun. Might be onto something @natyiu0

There's something to staring at a fire, is it just me? I feel connected to my ancestors in some ways.

We live in the city and easily forget that roughly 75% of the population lives in rural areas facing a vastly different reality. -about 35% of the Ethiopian population does not have access to any toilet facility and relies entirely on open fields. -nearly 40% of the rural population does not have clean tap water and drinks directly from unprotected rivers, ponds, or lakes. -nearly 50% of the total Ethiopian population does not have access to electricity or a single lightbulb in their homes. -half the country lives in complete darkness after sunset while we casually leave lights on in empty rooms. -roughly 50% of the adult Ethiopian population cannot read or write a simple sentence in any language. -half of our people are quietly locked out of the written and digital world we navigate effortlessly every single day. -over 50% of the rural population does not have access to a basic medical clinic within a reasonable walking distance. -when a medical emergency strikes, they do not call for a ride, they carry their sick for hours on foot to find basic care. and we barley know what these numbers mean, we can not comprehend it.

________ "Civilians bear the overwhelming physical and psychological toll of modern conflicts, with non combatants making up the vast majority of casualties. Among them, children and women suffer intensely from malnutrition, displacement, and weaponized violence. Additionally, the elderly and persons with disabilities face catastrophic risks due to mobility barriers and the total collapse of medical infrastructure"

"When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia."

ባሎቻቱ ኮከብ ይግዙላቹ ለጭለማው

____ The house always wins, and the house benefits, as well as the payment providers.

____ The house always wins, and the house benefits, as well as the payment providers.

Ofcourse Hank Stole the money, when will the community organize an event like this 😭 https://youtu.be/_L1Rim7-IPo

Ugh yet another militia shenanigan. I don't remember the last time a bunch of militia got together and made a country better tbh. Isn't it sad that Ethiopia is one of the countries that everyone wants to leave.