Jerome Hardaway

I had a blast on my latest talk. Being able to speak about GitHub Copilot at Microsoft. Last speaking engagement of the year and for a minute, cause my new role is even more demanding.

Facts. Most all small nonprofits are small cause they are actually spending the money on providing services, not on fundraisers and galas and shit.

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It’s one of the reasons why AI safety has become a passion of mine. I’ve been in the meetings where white dudes are dismissive and say, “we will have legal handle it.”

Isn’t @emilyfreeman.bsky.social there?

I say this from grand scale experience: content moderation is one of the toughest jobs out there.

I keep forgetting yall are civilians.

This feels like a prayer almost. I love it.

I will not grieve people whose only connection to my life is through the wrongs they have done. I owe them nothing and I reserve the right to celebrate how their death makes my life an inherently better place. That doesn't make me their killer, that simply makes me someone they cannot wrong again.

It’s so far from that and I’m happy. I was doing it trying to bring enterprise level skills to help our country but honestly, I feel like the country is cooked.

It was my job to study and analyze Charlie Kirk. I took every piece of content he made and created a data pipeline to leverage it as a knowledge base with AI. If you have anyone in your immediate circle saying anything beyond the fact that he was a horrible right-wing propagandist, run.

The project he had the alarmed me the most that frankly no one was speaking about was the 5C charter school program, a Christian charter school program that focused on indoctrinating K-12 with his ideology.

Charlie Kirk never spoke above a seventh grade reading level. Data shows that going above this alienates majority of Americans so he kept is conversations at that level. I researched a decade of his content, never went above that. Never pulled a Stephen Miller and used “Cosmopolitan” in a sentence.

While he was not a political figure, he was a powerful political citizen. To the point that the number one political conversation the first three months of this year was about who could be the Charlie Kirk of the left. It was a puzzle that democrats and civic engagement orgs spent millions on.

Charlie Kirk was one of the top ten originators of right-wing propaganda in America. When he wasn’t creating it he was bankrolling and training people in it.

The puff pieces that have dropped. Oof. I’ll subscribe for a year to the first media company that has some bravery and write about Charlie Kirk for real.

I can only say what I know and a 200 yard shot with the 14 mph wind in Utah is not something a lucky person can do.

The folks who great-grandparents used to take kids to lynchings sure have a lot to say about empathy today…

The way I look at is when he let those Jan 6 folks out it was a beacon to the country that depending who wins you can become the hero of the story through violence.

I think if you do everything to not see it you became desensitized to the news. The smells and visuals make you realize how real it is.

One of Charlie Kirk’s many projects was setting up propagandist K-12 schools. 5C charter schools. Your community might have one.

As a person who been the shooter and shot at, I think you need to watch the video. The country needs to see the consequences of its actions.

Charlie Kirk was not a politician, so this is not political violence. It’s revolutionary violence, the same distinction as the violence in Nepal. These are two private citizens with one happened to have ties to the State and it’s rhetoric but neither is an elected official. Get it right newspeople.

Lot of Dems with short term memories trying to use this moment be human to folks that wouldn’t pee on you if you were on fire.

Charlie is a private citizen. FBI ain’t gonna come knocking on your door if you laugh at the irony of this L.

I’m aware.

Civilians are weird. In the military I had never witnessed anyone try to take the high road when someone gets exactly what they deserve.

I spent a good portion of this year using Data Engineering and AI tracking all of Charlie Kirks operations and if you knew what I knew you'd honestly be shocked that it took this long for this to happen.