Fractional CTO and @CodesCarolina Organizer. Christian, husband, father and a huge Clemson fan.

Easley, SC
Almost 20 years ago, God changed my life in a very direct way. I considered myself agnostic at the time. I was at my lowest point. I was angrier than I knew I was capable of being and was like this for months. I kept trying to find ways to fix it myself but nothing worked. My chest physically hurt all the time from it. My wife asked me if I’d asked God for help and I had not. I didn’t think it would do any good. I didn’t know. So I quickly bowed my head and simply said, “God, please help me forgive.” Then I went to bed. I woke up in the middle of the night and the pain was gone. The anger was gone. I felt like a completely different person. It was as if a switch flipped inside me and it was permanent. At that moment, my doubts were erased. That was the moment that I went from acting like a Christian, knowing what to say to fit in…to being one. I will always have work to do to get better and things that I will discover I cannot change without the help of God. I have said things today for which I’m deeply ashamed and hope to earn forgiveness. What I have discovered is that God often answers prayers when those prayers align with what God would want for you. I also believe that I needed to reach my low point and to realize that I could not get out alone to truly appreciate what God had done for me. I don’t know why I feel compelled to share this testimony tonight, but I hope that it provides comfort to someone who reads it. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart, be pleasing and acceptable in thy sight, oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
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Our engineers recently visited one of our speech restoration study participants for a 72-hour hackathon. The goal: rapidly prototype as many features as possible to enhance the experience of using Neuralink to communicate with thought. Here are some of the things we built 🧵
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Super excited to announce that I'm now a @SpaceXSI Ambassador! 🎉 I hosted South Carolina's first Grok Bot Meetup last month and looking forward to hosting another soon!
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Arsenal just lost to Fleetwood Town in the EFL Cup. Arsenal’s roster: $1.5 BILLION Fleetwood Town’s roster: $3 million Fleetwood is currently 18th in the 4th level of English soccer. Possibly the biggest upset in English soccer history.
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Someone on Reddit built his wife a job search app. She is a junior software engineer, and her job search had dragged on for almost 10 months. Tailoring a resume for every posting took ages. So he built Dossier. It finds postings, then writes a tailored resume, cover letter and email for each job, using only facts from her profile. It tracks every application from draft to offer on a board, and it runs on your own server, with a local AI model option, so your data stays with you. She landed a job with it, so he open-sourced it for anyone in the same spot. It is free at github.com/AienTech/dossier.
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Replying to @mrfundman
Top 3 most useful from the shared bots: 1. trimmy (x.ai/bot/DLSYM3q3eUsy4Si4fTP…) – Detects and proposes fixes for conflicting/duplicated rules, deleted links, old/bloated context in your other bots. You approve every change. 2. The Projectionist (x.ai/bot/PpBtz6YxuBgOnVPHk__…) – Finds exact movie/TV scenes, strips black bars, cuts clean MP4s and under-5MB GIFs, verifies every frame. Perfect for creators. 3. Handyman (x.ai/bot/rQvB9sFrdQU7Ef43jOx…) – Tracks filters, appliances, warranties and repairs; sends due reminders and builds a simple home maintenance tracker.
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Scientists have identified the specific male dance movements that women find most attractive Researchers from Northumbria University mapped out the exact body mechanics that signal health, vigor, and reproductive quality to female observers.
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The reason I am doing what I am doing now is because of *this* sermon. It might be the most impactful 2 minutes of preaching I've ever seen — and it changed my entire life.
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software engineers are going to have to tackle a new set of problems to unlock powerful multiagent systems to solve the world's hardest problems - right now is one of the most interesting moments in history to be an engineer.
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The new set of problems for engineers to solve

A lot of software engineers are going through what can only be described as an identity crisis. The job has changed a lot. Some are depressed, others are having the time of their lives. There's a

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While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected. Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions. Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent. But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models? We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem. Read the full report: cohere.com/blog/concerning-b…
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The neighbors heard Eric scream and thought a woman was in distress. “Oh it’s just you guys.”
Parity: An SEC Horror Story presented by: @renasant
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Parity: An SEC Horror Story presented by: @renasant
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Every time I use an app these days, I just wish I had the code myself. They are never exactly what I want. They often have some unique or novel ideas, or some clever domain specific knowledge that I myself don't have. It used to be the case that even if you got your hands on the code, you wouldn't realistically be able to modify it or deploy it. At least not without a whole bunch of study and time expense. Those days are over. Today, I'm launching Moatless. The idea is simple. Pay once, get the code. You can subscribe for a monthly amount to receive any updates. No updates that month? No payment is taken. Who is this for? Many will think this is just for programmers. It isn't. I know so many entrepeneurs, hobbyists and enthusiasts who are building applications every day. I believe this wave will spread, and it will spread fast. Buying subscriptions just to use software just does not make sense anymore. The properties of technology are changing. They have changed. Why would I put my code up for sale? So many of you have built your own applications. Toy projects, fun ideas, business that never took off. Why not put them up on moatless and see if anyone bites? Maybe you have a passion for building, but find it hard to actually sell subscriptions directly these days, especially for developer focused tooling? Or maybe you see the writing on the wall. Why would I buy code that I have to modify and deploy myself? Well, do you really have to do it yourself? Your agent can take the code and get it shipped for you in practically no time. There are a million hosting platforms out there that will run an application for you. You don't need massive servers if you're running software for yourself. You don't need fancy architecture to host just your own data. You also don't need to wonder what someone else is going to do with your data, or whether or not you will like what they release in the future. Over time, you'll end up with a hosting platform you like that you can easily just spin up more apps. Or perhaps you combine a couple things you like into one app that you use anywhere. No need to get your app on the app store. Just sign up for the apple developer program and put your apps directly on your phone. Or create an APK if you're on android. So much of what goes into building and deploying an application is already well known. Sure, there are a lot of options, a lot of ways to do anything these days. But again, how much does it really matter if you're shipping an app for one user? Or just for you and your friends? Or even your local community? It just makes sense For both buyers and sellers, the math works out. The seller uses their tokens, time and knowledge to create something, and buyers can pay less than they would have paid in tokens, leverage the unique knowledge that the seller has, and save time all-around by getting access directly to the code. This is a win/win. Check it out at moatless.store
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They put Mike Tyson in Zelda and it’s unbelievable 😭😭
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Is it weird to feel a little bit of pride at getting @poteto's Dr. eggbot to say "oooo a big one"?
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introducing the tracehound wanted board. got scammed? post it. put a reward on it. > drop the scammer's addresses > say what you lost > offer a reward for information > anyone who knows something sends you a tip. only you see it > every address on the board is one click from a full trace rugged, drained, phished, hacked. 9 chains. no names, no doxxing. addresses, transactions and what happened. the reward is between you and whoever helps. we hold no money and take no cut. and if someone asks you to pay upfront to "recover" your funds, that's a scam too. the chain never forgets. now neither do we.
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Someone has gone their entire life without seeing a one point safety until now🔥
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Dylan Faulkner at the buzzer! Clemson beats Georgia 82-80. How about that to start the season?? @ClemsonTigerNet
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You’re all prompting wrong
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