Tyrice Porter Jr

Thyroid cancer survivor #introvert #infosec PhD student #dfir #osint #blind #lowvision views are my own RTs do not equal endorsement

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A wife went viral for admitting she and her husband are mediocre. Average looking, not funny, no friends, mentally ill. And she can't explain why their marriage feels like a fairytale.

A psychologist in Seattle solved this exact puzzle in the 1990s.

John Gottman wired an apartment near the University of Washington with cameras and brought in 130 newlywed couples to just live in it. He tracked something he called bids: the tiny reaches for attention partners make all day. "Look at that bird." "Listen to this." A sigh that wants acknowledging.

Six years later, 17 couples had divorced. When his team went back to the tapes, the still-married couples had turned toward those bids 86% of the time. The divorced couples had managed 33%.

That one behavior predicted the outcome better than anything else in the data. Looks never entered the model. Humor never entered the model. Intelligence, money, status, shared hobbies: none of it showed up.

Now reread her post. "I can spend every minute of every day with this dude and not really get tired of it. We can get in the car and just drive for hours and talk."

Two people driving nowhere for hours are exchanging hundreds of bids and catching nearly all of them.

She graded the marriage on every trait that predicts nothing, and missed that they're elite at the one behavior that predicts almost everything.

[The Jobfather ® 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇬🇧 @TheJobfather__]

Everyone on Linkedin should be watching House of Dragons.

They keep dropping Career Gems.

In the last episode Rhaenyra blessed us with the best auto email reply, that I will be using going forward

"I am awash in dilemmas and deficiencies. Let me find my footing and I will attend to your request."

Whoever wrote that line…I know your pen was on fire.

[Great House @xspotsdamark]

I’m watching this Colombia game, & an Afro-Colombian player, Yerry Mina, subs in for another Afro-Colombian, Jhon Lucumi, & my mind is just blown.
Mina is what Portuguese called enslaved West Africans from the Gold Coast because many of them were shipped from the slave fort El Mina in Ghana. And Lucumi comes from the Yoruba phrase Olu Kumi, meaning “My friend”, which is what enslaved Yoruba called each other in the Americas. Fascinating🤯

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

One of the smartest (and completely free) homeowner hacks I recommend:

​Create a dedicated email address for your home.

​Example:
[email protected]
From day one, send every home-related document there.

Closing documents:
– ​Homeowners insurance
– ​Survey, deed & title paperwork
– ​Mortgage documents
– ​Property tax records
– ​HOA documents
– ​Utility account information
– ​Appliance manuals & warranties
– ​Contractor estimates & invoices

Remodel receipts:
– ​Paint colors & flooring specs
– ​Landscaping plans
– ​Septic & well records
– ​Roof, HVAC & water heater warranties
– ​Security system information
– ​Smart home login details
– ​Permits & inspection reports
– ​Before-and-after renovation photos

Years from now, when you need to...
1. ​File an insurance claim
2. ​Replace a broken appliance under warranty
3. ​Sell your home
4. ​Refinance
5. ​Protest your property taxes
6. ​Remember the exact paint color in the guest room
7. ​Find your contractor’s invoice
8. Show permits for a remodel
9. ​Transfer utility information
10. ​Hand everything over to the next owner....
everything is in one searchable place.

No digging through old inboxes.
No searching random folders.
No wondering where that PDF disappeared to.

​It’s a 2-minute setup that can save you hours of frustration over the life of your home.
​Save this post... you’ll probably need it sooner than you think.

[Ronin @DeRonin_]

nobody gets a $350k offer from Anthropic with a certificate

they get it by showing what they've shipped

5 pet projects that make you unrejectable:

1. a production RAG system
chat-with-your-docs with reranking + citations, deployed.. the single most in-demand skill right now

2. an agent from scratch, zero framework
proves you understand the loop.. not just how to glue LangChain together

3. an eval harness
anyone can demo.. proving it works across 100 inputs is what separates seniors from juniors

4. a fully deployed product
docker, auth, cost caps, logging.. survives real traffic at 2am

5. a real business automation
lead qualification or support triage that saves someone actual money

they don't care what you studied.. they care what you shipped

the full roadmap to build all 5 is in the article.. save it

[The Jobfather ® 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇬🇧 @TheJobfather__]

AWS Educate. Hundreds of courses. Hands-on labs. Self-paced so you go at your speed. You finish, you get a shareable digital badge. If you're 18+ you also get access to an exclusive job board. Open to anyone globally. 13 and up. No AWS account needed. Free.

[The Jobfather ® 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇬🇧 @TheJobfather__]

Black people, OpenAI just dropped a free course platform and you need to know about it. /1

AI fundamentals, ChatGPT workflows, agentic tasks. Self-paced. Completion certificates issued when you finish. No tech background required. No paid subscription required. Just a ChatGPT account. /2

That certificate is a conversation starter in any tech interview right now. Get in. https://t.co/VxAfRydZhn

Stay Dangerous. /3

[The Jobfather ® 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇬🇧 @TheJobfather__]

Forgot the link my bad: https://t.co/K8zEGYSrVc

[The Jobfather ® 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇬🇧 @TheJobfather__]

AWS re/Start runs 12 weeks full time. You learn Linux, Python, networking, security, and AWS cloud skills. Resume coaching. Interview prep. And a free AWS certification exam voucher when you finish. That cert alone costs over $300 to sit. You walk out with it covered.

[The Jobfather ® 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇬🇧 @TheJobfather__]

Black people trying to get into cloud or AI — Google has a free Developer Program membership that gives you 35 learning credits every month. /1

Use them on Google Cloud Skills Boost for hands-on labs, skill badges, cert prep. No prerequisites. Just need a Google account. /2

This is how you start building toward a Google Cloud cert without spending a dollar. Link: https://t.co/7PIZy9p3L8 Stay Dangerous. /3

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

get a haircut every 2 weeks to stay sharp, wait 5 secs before answering the phone to control the rhythm, always arrive 15 mins early, stay away from free lunches, never talk about people who aren't in the room and when anger rises, wait 10 mins before reacting. these habits may look rigid but they're the hidden discipline of the elite.

[Alvin @Alvin1492840]

Marriott is quietly hoping you never learn how their loyalty program actually works.

I did.

There's $1,800/year in free upgrades, free nights, and hidden rate codes sitting inside the same Bonvoy account most guests use for nothing except checking in.

One woman sent a single email before her stay. Marriott upgraded her to a $3,000 suite. For free.

Most guests book on Expedia, check in, check out, and never touch the 9 features Marriott buries behind the login screen.

Here's the full playbook 🧵

[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

Anthropic engineer:

"You're not supposed to prompt Claude. You're supposed to build a system that prompts itself."

In 45 minutes she shows exactly how to build an agent that improves itself.

Most people are still doing all of this by hand.

Watch the session, then save the guide below.

[Harman @itsharmanjot]

This shouldn’t be free.

Someone open sourced a bookmark manager that replaces Pocket, and it auto-tags everything with AI so you never lose a link in the void again.

It’s called Karakeep. Formerly Hoarder. Every link, note, image, and PDF you save, running on your own server instead of a company’s cloud that can shut down without warning.

→ Save links, plain notes, images, and PDFs all in one place, not four different apps

→ AI automatically tags and summarizes everything you save, no manual folder sorting ever again

→ Fetches a title, description, and preview image for every link, so you’re not staring at a wall of bare URLs

→ Full-text search that searches the actual content of what you saved, not just the title

→ Browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox, one click to save whatever page you’re on

→ Self-host on a Raspberry Pi, a home NAS, or a VPS, your data never touches a third party’s database

Mozilla just killed Pocket. Read-it-later apps have a track record of dying and taking your saved links with them. Karakeep’s answer: stop trusting a company’s roadmap with your own memory.

Built for the person with 40 open tabs and a bookmarks folder they never open again.

Open source. AGPL-3.0. Self-hosting first.

[dev @freeallpenguins]

sorry i passed out. it's only been one day for me but i swear i could feel my spine and hamstrings (also knees?) cranking and creaking as they opened up after 24 years of use unuse and abuse. i sobbed a little. here's the vid https://t.co/SCU47vm1qr

[Greg Carr @AfricanaCarr]

The jerseys have the names of both the settler colonies and the damned invader countries on them.

The men wearing those jerseys are overrepresented by those who were invaded, trafficked, pulled by violences of separation and curated, generation after generation, as capital assets by Western nation-states suckling on far away and somehow regenerating motherlands in their wake.

The “World Cup,” like the Olympics, puts this on display.

Here’s to the “hoods,” extensions of points of origin worlds away from where they gather themselves to struggle against predator states who cheer them on, until they don’t.

What is the French team but a machine fueled by African batteries?

What is “Portugal” vs “Spain” but a metaphor for the first two major criminal enterprises battling each other with weapons pilfered from far off lands? Or “Brazil” or the “US“ teams as strewn with bodies born from peoples held in everyday contempt except when on the pitch?

The Beautiful Game is indeed that. Thanks for reminding us of the sources of so much of its beauty.

[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

In his song “We Is We,” Chalkdust criticized young people in Trinidad who were looking to Africa to find their roots and identity. In time, his own appreciation for the African roots of Trinidad’s culture deepened to where he was making songs which chastised Trinidadians who try to run away from their African roots. He also ended up publishing one of the best books on African cultural survivals in the Caribbean.

We cannot fully understand and appreciate the roots of our culture if we continue to limit our history to slavery without examining the culture of our ancestors before they were enslaved. This helps us to really understand the resiliency of our ancestors who did what they could to sustain as much of their culture as possible.

[BIG MALCOLM X PLAY COUSIN @Omowale99949437]

#FunFact: Barry White was a member of the Businessmen. A Black Los Angeles gang that was formed to protect their neighborhood from a white supremacist gang named the spook hunters. Before he was the "Maestro Of Love" he was the headbusser of skinheads

[Stef. | Content + Marketing Director 👨🏾‍💻🛠 @STEFisDOPE]

I love learning about Black male scholars from previous eras. They often go unrecognized, and largely unknown today.

Look in his eyes. This is a serious man, who knew he had a serious purpose.

Salute to this ancestor.

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Oh my god. @CyberCakeX has progressed their Harden Windows Security app into something phenomenal. It's even on the App Store!
https://t.co/PZQ6aa1xOh

I've mentioned it before but this is $250k cyber consultant security advice and tooling for home user machines essentially.