Lisi Hocke

Welcome to Mount Stupid or The Illusion of Expertise If you think that the Mount Everest base camp can be a crowded place, you have not yet been to the top of Mount Stupid. And why is there a parallel between AI and woodworking? Let's find out. Mount Stupid is this virtual place that someone tends to reach when learning about a new topic. They start looking into it, and experience a steep learning curve.

AI coding tools make Mount Stupid a very crowded place. Everyone thinks now they know how to build software.
10 years ago I talked TestBash Brighton about the Dunning-Kruger effect. Today this phenomenon has reached new heights. Thanks to everyone thinking they are now software engineers!

All war is bad. Civilians get hurt the most. Mostly children.

And that's without this level of depravity.

👨🏻‍💼Sir, we recommend a daytime strike. 9:40 am to be precise.

👴🏻I thought we strike at night? Aren't all the high priority targets in the bunker?

👨🏻‍💼High priority ones, yes sir. But this target moves around. We know where he will be at 9:40 am.

👴🏻How do we know?

👨🏻‍💼He... drops his daughter off at school

Very much looking forward to SoCraTes UK this year! See you there? :)

SoCraTes UK - Tickets Join us for another year of SoCraTes UK happening on June 18th - 21st! The event is hosted at Milton Hill House, UK which is surrounded by 22 acres of landscaped grounds and forest, delivering…

...because tickets are on sale for SoCraTes UK 2026! socratesuk.org/tickets.html

We're meeting 18th to 21st June at our lovely countryside venue, @Milton Hill House in Oxfordshire. We're also delighted to announce the training day is back 👩🏻‍🏫on the Thursday.

SoCraTes UK - Tickets Join us for another year of SoCraTes UK happening on June 18th - 21st! The event is hosted at Milton Hill House, UK which is surrounded by 22 acres of landscaped grounds and forest, delivering…

Have you heard of the SoCraTes events? These are software crafting open spaces that happen across the world, in beautiful surroundings and with lovely people. So if you’re making plans for 2026 yet, now’s the time to brighten up your February and give yourself something to look forward to...

We can't even get people to get off Facebook and Twitter for their own good. I stopped expecting them to grasp geopolitical trends. I haven't yet found the right message that makes the average person start to understand why things are so messed up.

Yep.

This sad tale is the most American story ever.

You have a non-violent refugee, in need of help.

You have racist neighbors, calling the cops on him.

You have violent cops, beating him for "not complying" by not dropping his "weapon" (walking stick) then claiming they were hurt.

Then abuse by ICE.

🤷🏿‍♂️The backflips white people go through to try to justify police killing unarmed Black people for no reason while opposing ICE killing unarmed white people for no reason, is something quite amazing to observe.

Cops have killed 141 people so far this year. It's not even March yet.

CW: transphobia.

See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤

This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did.

But it's not just similar. It's *identical*.

In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938.

Paragraph 175 and 183.

If you live in a place named "the dry, arid zone" (Arizona)

Or "The Angels" (Los Angeles)

Or "Red colored" (Colorado)

Or "The Meadows" (Las Vegas)

Or "Mountain State" (Montana)

Or "Dry River" (Arroyo Seco)

Or "Saint Frank" (San Francisco)

Then I don't want to hear you complain about Spanish.🤷🏿‍♂️

This is so good!

Again, every city could have a mayor like this. There is nothing stopping us but ourselves.

mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io) Attached: 1 image Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! I still haven't made it to Black history. I'm close! But I'm still on white US history. It's everywhere! Q: Why does it seem like Black folk don't contr...

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 25: Invisibility

Q: Why does it seem like Black folk don't contribute much to society or science or history? Most inventions are from Europeans? Why does it seem this way? Don't cancel me!🤡

Click this link and read the whole thread. All of it.

When I see these bad actors, I often *also* see a lack of diversity, a lack of community investment, a lack of belonging, a lack of stewardship, and more. I often *also* hear about stories of past misconduct, abuses, and boundary violations that went unaddressed

So of course bad actors are welcomed

I would echo this. I *have* found people "without" discipline and curiosity, but usually this is correlated with:

1. They've been shut down and shut out
2. They don't feel valued
3. They've been stripped of self efficacy
4. They don't feel safe in their environment

So, y'know... I can't blame them

Why assume these are people without discipline and curiosity? As a learning expert in tech so with some professional perspective here I think, much more than that beginner, I've met the toxic expert who throws beginners into the garbage (usually with a side serving of sexism and racism)

AI developers who were willing to cause a hiring crisis and make workers and customers more miserable suddenly shocked their money is coming from unscrupulous military leaders who want just to use it for concentration camps and dubious military strikes.

Friends of Good Software Conference Friends of Good Software (FroGS) - Saturday 28 February 2026 CET (open space)

Only a few more days until we get to do #FroGSconf again! And you can still join this free online open space. Anyone who wants to talk software and quality is welcome. It takes place this Saturday, starting at 1pm CET.

Go to frogsconf.nl for more information and (not unimportant) to register.

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 24: DEI and STEM education.

Why is higher education so woke now? Albert Einstein didn't care about woke! He just cared about good science! Can we go back to that? 🤡

Read the whole thread. All of it.

C'mon people. This is the oldest trick in the fascist book. You agree to only focus on who is "culturally normal🤡." But then the definition changes over time.

One day you find that you yourself are not "culturally normal.🤡"

It's 2026. How are we still falling for this?

Meet the full #osco team:
opensecurityconference.org/about/team/

#cybersecurity #security #InfoSec #OpenSpace [nazneen & lisi]

The #osco organizer team continues to grow 💜
As we prepare for #osco26, we are excited to welcome Daniel, Felix, Kristof, Kushaagra and Max to the organizer group 🤩
They bring fresh perspectives and energy and we are excited to shape the next edition together ☀️

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 23: BMI

Q: Not everything is racism! E.g. Black folk die young because of high BMI from their bad diets! That's on y'all! How is this racism?

A: Black people in the UK have higher BMI than white people, and live *longer* than white people.🙂🙃

Read the whole thread.

I said what I said.

Black people with Tourettes have the same take👍🏿

I'm deeply uninterested in the takes of white people that have no empathy for Black people, and are just yelling over and over about intent but ignoring harm, and act like the only options are dungeon or Black people just take it

With this Tourettes discourse, I'm seeing a common pattern of conversations where Black and white people see the world very differently:

* Lack of empathy for Black people
* Lack of differentiation between malicious intent and harm

The empathy that I am seeing, is coming from folks with Tourettes

mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io) Attached: 2 images I'm going to keep sharing this info until it sinks in. Young voters do not get significantly more or less politically activated. Voter suppression gets more or less effective. Bal...

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 22: The Youth Vote

Q: Isn't it true that older people are more racist? Either people get more conservative as they get older, or norms were different and everyone was racist make then? Either way, the next generation will save us! Right?

Unfortunately not.

YouTube video by ESPN Alex Pereira’s #UFC313 walkout 😤

Here's what I mean when I say that people switch races all the time and not in a Rachel Dolezal way.

Alex Pereira grew up rough in Brazil. He always thought he was Black and Portuguese, because his parents hid that they were indigenous, to avoid prejudice.

When he found out, he embraced his roots.

The concept of AI text message summaries is so funny to me, because text messages are the summaries. There shouldn’t be any long or irrelevant information that needs summarizing.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...