Tracy King

Thank you so much to @DCALive for the award! I am humbled and honored to be named one of DC’s Power Women of Tech.

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

I am well aware that there is no benefit for a woman to be as opinionated as I am, truly doing it for the love of the game.

@AniebietChrist3 Just narrowly escaping an autoimmune disorder

I stopped the night I realized I was the only one bleeding. We had been together four years. Same fights every week. She would go silent for days then blame me for not reading her mind. I apologized for things I did not do just to keep us calm. I skipped my brother’s wedding because she said she felt sick. Turned out she was at a party. Her friend posted the pictures. I brought it up and she called me insecure and controlling. That night I sat in my car for two hours outside her place. I asked myself why my chest hurt every time I went home. I remembered my dad telling me love should not feel like war. I went inside, packed my clothes, and left my key on the table.

Being afraid of reading "problematic authors" is due to your own insecurity with your beliefs and identity. You think that if you read "bad people", you'll become bad yourself, soaking up their toxins like a dim sponge. This is because you are stupid and can't trust yourself.

Your mother is problematic. Your father is problematic. Your son is problematic. Your aunt is problematic. The cashier at the local Tesco is problematic. You've probably bought a cookie from a bakery made by hands that have done unspeakable things. Every chocolate bar you've ever eaten has probably killed a 7 year old child slave in Cameroon. The gas that drives your car is fueled by engines of death. Every person who has ever smiled at you in the streets has committed some act that if you knew about it, would make you profoundly dislike them. We have all been bad, small, petty, unlikeable, cruel, downright mean. Authors are not special "problematic" beings, they're just more public. Part of being an adult is recognizing that without mercy for our fellow human beings, and ourselves, we'd all be condemned to death. Reading fiction should help us understand that we're all irreparably tainted with evil, every system is corrupted, every line is broken. And like, that's okay. That's what it means to be alive.

@jabhaikamkar @_wej01 @ceraliza +1…you did a wonderfully supportive thing *and* she experienced loss of control or purpose, which can cause low self worth. Give grace and support while she continues her journey. Instead of causing a fight, let her do what she’s gonna do so you can find out what she truly wants

@_wej01 @ceraliza You showed up for her when she needed stability. Now she might be trying to figure out who she is without relying on anyone. That shift can feel like rejection, even if it isn’t meant that way.

This Man said,,, My girlfriend was jobless and really struggling last year. I told her to move in with me - I covered rent, food, everything, no pressure. I just wanted to help her get back on her feet. She finally got a good job and started doing well. I was genuinely proud of her. We were happy, or so l thought. Then two weeks ago she sat me down and said she wants to move out. “I need my own space and peace.” I’m not against independence, but the timing feels off. She went from depending on me fully to suddenly wanting distance. Now she’s packing and talking about “finding herself.” Meanwhile I’m sitting here wondering if I was just a temporary safe place until she stabilized. Her friends are hyping her up saying she deserves to be “independent.” But I can’t shake the feeling that as soon as the hard times ended, so did the need for me. Relationships these days feel so transactional sometimes.

@PopBase Can’t wait to see where this lands on my Spotify wrapped

Olivia Rodrigo performs new song ‘begged’ on SNL.

@engineering_bae Ooh this is cool

Planning to try this next week.

I will take my Okta assessment in 2-3 week. Just fighting on which certification to get… Administrator, Developer, or Consultant Be mindful, I am new to this. Anyone with a Okta certification and provide me some insights on this, please

Anyone work in Cyber Threat Intel & looking for work in DC? We will sponsor you for a clearance.

@luke_pighetti I’ve noticed it but not sure if I’m biased

am i crazy or are all these software platforms degrading in quality over the last six months? feels like things are getting jankier and jankier

@asidorenko_ ❤️❤️❤️

> As a dev, I feel mentally exhausted from all the ai speculation Reduce your exposure to tech twitter. The algorithm optimizes for radical takes. You consume other people's anxieties and projections

@adamdotdev 🎉🎉🎉

Update: felt up to a 4 mile walk in the woods with a coffee and we are so fucking back

@be_like_ice Who cares about the label. Is the behavior something you can tolerate and still be happy?

Help. I’m in a relationship with someone who has ADHD and I’m honestly so confused. He disappears when things get overwhelming, like just stops replying for days. Then comes back saying he “shut down.” Is this actually an ADHD thing or am I being ignored?

@yungleanbrasil As it should be. Incredible 🤩

This is already being considered the music video of the year

May every word of her become your reality. ✨

@kembageorge @Rainmaker1973 🤣🤣

@Rainmaker1973 can someone please forward a comprehensive list of all creatures I had no idea existed? No more surprises

A Japanese man shared the moments he was attacked by his pet binturong (bearcat).

I don't work on reliability & scaling at GitHub, but the people who do aren't bad at their jobs. They're dealing with unprecedented scale from agents. It's easy to shit on GitHub from the outside if you're not in charge of 30X-ing capacity within a few months. Have some grace.

@EmmaBostian @kvlly Sounds amazing! Glad you got your account back ❤️

Hi, my account was hacked. I’m sorry if yall saw any terrible stuff from my account. Thanks everyone who helped resolve!! Anyway @kvlly and I are in cooking school in Tuscany 🥰 🍷