Michael Darweesh

Michael Darweesh

@mdarweesh.com

Going hard until I O.D. I'm the new version of the old me. Love and Adventure, not Fear You've used my software. I like cats, hockey and pizza. https://linktr.ee/mdarweesh

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Matthew Guariglia
@mguariglia.bsky.social

Really happy to say that today's episode of @npr.org's Code Switch is wide reaching interview with me about the current state of police surveillance, the harms being caused by this system, and the deep history of how we got here.

npr.orgWhy we’re all being watched : Code SwitchThere’s a growing backlash to the surveillance systems that have quietly wired themselves into American neighborhoods, with concern growing among people who have never felt watched this way before. Ge...
Michael Darweesh
@mdarweesh.com

I may have moved away for almost 30 years, but I'm from NY. Fuck you if you think I'm a yinzer.

Doug Orleans@dougo.bsky.social

Busted. "You talk most like someone from New Jersey — about 56% of your answers match a typical resident."

Michael Darweesh
@mdarweesh.com

the bar was fully a mess when I approached. ~10 seats all uncleared and it wasn't dinner time yet. My Old fashioned was a water with a cherry and a shot of maker's. And my pizza was average and small for the price. Should I complain it wasn't plated when it arrived too? Who cares at that point.

Michael Darweesh
@mdarweesh.com

Spiderman was fine. You really should see X-men (Jean Grey) and Avengers and the previous Spiderman movies first. It felt like everyone was Tony Stark now with their gadgets and workshops. And there's obviously a next movie coming-up sometime i the futute.

Michael Darweesh
@mdarweesh.com

Big complaint was before the movie started, We got an out of character message from the cast that they're doing it for us. But somehow I still paid full price for the tickets and concessions.

Michael Darweesh
@mdarweesh.com

Just setup and ran a local LLM to compare with Claude Code and it was impressively functional, but exceptionally slow. So, the only advantage for me to pay for anthropic is their compute power/scaling/optimization. ollama, qwen3.6:latest, cline cli

Michael Darweesh
@mdarweesh.com

Democratic Socialists aren't radical. They are calling for: Healthcare reform, to reduce private equitity dominance, Worker/Labor rights, Affordability (focused on housing). They aren't calling for governmental ownership of corporations or communism.

Michael Darweesh
@mdarweesh.com

Finished www.goodreads.com/book/show/60... It was good. And, from its advice, I will be using more anecdotes, eye-contact, and emotion in my arguments! Thanks Mehdi

goodreads.comWin Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, an…NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Audie Award Finalist An Amazo…
Michael Darweesh@mdarweesh.com

Started reading Mehdi Hasan's @mehdirhasan.bsky.social book Win Every Argument. Good start. Good pace and straightforward content. With good anecdotes. Of course, to put these techniques into my toolkit, it going to require osme real effort and practice.