Founder & CEO, Genesis 1 Technologies LLC - OOTB Thinking LLC | International DJ & Gospel House Music Producer
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New episode of Afro Inspirations Radio drops today at 6 PM Eastern. You won't want to miss this one. See you at 6.
There's always that one song. The one that hit you before you had words for it. What was yours? Drop it below.
Built a Claude Code mod that plays YouTube inside a terminal pane 📺
/youtube <search or link>, pick a result, and it plays with synced sound. Real pixels in Ghostty, kitty & WezTerm, blocks everywhere else.
Repo: github.com/brogrammerMW/clau…
#ClaudeCode #DevTools #OpenSource
I swear when I’m talking to my Dr Eggbot bot I feel like I’m speaking directly with Lauren @poteto 😂.
I’m not betting against @elonmusk . Of all of the AI companies , I truly believe the company that is building AI compute in Space will soon lead the AI race.
Think about this. . . Who built Superchargers before getting an affordable EV in market? (Which the Model Y is the best selling vehicle in the world).
The @spacexai team is loosely following the same playbook.
Launched my herdr-voice plugin today. For me, it elevates my daily programming with realtime voice directly in my herdr terminal.
Check it out and let me know what you think: github.com/brogrammerMW/herd…
I created a realtime voice agent for @herdrdev and just uploaded to their marketplace.
Why? I really like the Chatgpt realtime agent but I work 90% in my herdr setup. For me this is the best of both worlds.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
github.com/brogrammerMW/herd…
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Most people say that GLM-5.2 does not analyze vision. That is partially true. The model is text only BUT the recommendation is to add 4 z.ai mcp servers that works with model to add this capability.
docs.z.ai/devpack/mcp/vision… shows the 4 mcps to add.
Using it with their ZCode harness removes that vision limitation, albeit it is a little slow in my testing. I gave it a sample image of a Cybertruck and see the results below.
I truly believe that @Zai_org and team are on the cusp of releasing 5.X model. They already have the GLM-5V-turbo which is a multimodel agent model.
But here is an end-around. I am in the process of setting up is a skill that routes all vision tasks to GLM-5V-turbo (docs.z.ai/guides/vlm/glm-5v-…) and the rest of the heavy lifting to GLM-5.2. I am really pushing the limits of GLM-5.2 to be my daily driver or as the worker in my mission skill with orchestrator being Opus 4.8 and validator being GPT 5.5.
Shout out to the Z.ai team @ZixuanLi_ @jietang @louszbd for continuing to chase the US frontier labs. The gap is minimal now.
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Today is June 19th.
Juneteenth.
161 years ago, the last enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they were free.
But here's what most people never celebrate on this day:
The minds that were freed — and what they built next.
Black inventors didn't just participate in American innovation.
They redefined it.
Here are 10 inventions that shaped modern science and technology:
1. Lewis Latimer
The carbon filament that made Edison's light bulb actually work.
Before him, bulbs burned out in days.
2. Garrett Morgan
The three-position traffic signal.
Also the smoke hood that saved lives in tunnel disasters.
Every intersection you've ever crossed owes him something.
3. Granville T. Woods
Over 60 patents.
The railway telegraph that let trains communicate at full speed.
They called him "The Black Edison."
4. Dr. Mark Dean
Holds 3 of the 9 original IBM PC patents.
Co-developed the ISA bus.
Led the team that built the world's first 1GHz processor.
The device you're reading this on traces back to his work.
5. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
A theoretical physicist whose research at Bell Labs laid the foundation for caller ID, call waiting, fiber optic cables, and touch-tone phones.
She made modern telecommunications possible.
6. Marie Van Brittan Brown
Patented the home security system and closed-circuit television.
In 1966.
Sixty years later, every doorbell camera traces back to her idea.
7. Dr. Patricia Bath
Invented the Laserphaco Probe.
Revolutionized cataract surgery.
Restored sight to people who'd been blind for decades.
First Black woman to receive a medical patent.
8. Frederick McKinley Jones
Invented portable refrigeration.
Your grocery store. Your vaccine cold chain. Your food delivery.
All built on his technology.
9. Lonnie Johnson
NASA engineer.
Invented the Super Soaker.
Then spent decades developing clean energy conversion technology.
10. Elijah McCoy
Invented the automatic lubricator for steam engines.
His devices were so reliable that buyers demanded "the real McCoy."
That's where the phrase comes from.
This isn't a diversity list.
This is the backbone of modern American life.
Light bulbs that last.
Traffic that flows.
Computers that compute.
Phones that connect.
Surgery that heals.
Food that stays fresh.
Security that protects.
All of it — traced to minds that started in chains.
That's what we celebrate today.
Not just freedom.
What freedom unleashed.
Happy Juneteenth.
♻️ Repost so more people know the names behind the technology we use every day.
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A university just proved that greening its campus actually cooled the air by 1 degree.
Not a model. Not a projection. Measured.
The National University of Singapore planted 70,214 trees on its 150-hectare campus.
Result: prevented up to a 1°C rise in ambient air temperature between 2019 and 2024.
That's not the whole story. NUS isn't just planting trees and hoping for the best.
Here's the full system:
1. Smart tree monitoring
They started with two trial trees. Now they're expanding sensors to 16 more high-priority pedestrian areas.
Real-time data on tree health, growth, and environmental impact.
2. Rooftop growing and stormwater management
A swale garden near NUS College manages stormwater, filters pollutants, and supports pollinators.
Rooftop orchards turn unused roof space into food production.
3. Biodiversity integration
The campus supports over 165 wildlife species across the Kent Ridge campus.
They pledged 100,000 trees by 2030 and are on track at 70,214 and counting.
4. Greening as climate infrastructure
NUS frames its campus not as a building with landscaping.
But as a living ecosystem that does measurable climate work.
The cooling effect is proof that campus sustainability investments have compounding returns.
Lower cooling costs. Better air quality. Healthier students. More biodiversity. Real climate impact.
And it's all trackable because they installed the sensors first.
If it doesn't get measured, it gets ignored.
NUS measured. And now the data is making the case for every other campus considering green infrastructure.
♻️ Repost to help one more campus leader make the case for greening as infrastructure.
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#CampusSustainability #GreenInfrastructure #Biodiversity #HigherEd #ClimateAction
A Nigerian university just turned plastic pollution into a circular-economy lab.
The University of Lagos commissioned a plastic recycling micro-plant in partnership with the French Embassy, Plastic Odyssey, and Weircapacity.
Plastic waste goes in. Reusable products come out.
Students, researchers, and industry partners work side by side.
This is not a pilot program.
It is a working micro-plant on campus that turns waste into economic value.
Meanwhile in Canada, UNBC launched a plastic recycling project with the Northern BC MakerCollective.
Funded by $168,000 from the CleanBC Plastic Action Fund.
Students divert plastic from landfill and reshape it into new products.
Hands-on. Circular. Community-driven.
And at the University of Delaware, a long-running partnership with Goodwill is pushing textile circularity further.
Faculty and students experiment with recycled textiles and felting methods in a living laboratory.
Three continents. Same pattern.
Universities are not just teaching about circular economy.
They are becoming the lab.
But here is the gap.
Most of these programs measure impact at the macro level.
Total pounds diverted. Number of products made.
What they do not have is the micro-level data.
Which student recycled what. Which SKU. When. How often.
That granularity is where behavior change actually happens.
If you can measure that a student recycled 12 Coca-Cola bottles this month, you can reward that behavior.
You can build a loop.
Scan. Verify. Reward. Repeat.
The circular economy needs the data layer.
The campuses that add it will turn good programs into scalable systems.
♻️ Repost for the sustainability team building circular systems that actually track behavior.
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I used to think the hard part of building a startup was the idea.
Then I thought it was the product.
Then I thought it was the pitch.
I was wrong every time.
The hard part is staying in the room when the room gets quiet.
No investor calls coming in.
No campus saying yes yet.
No major revenue to show.
Just you, your team, and a prototype that works in a lab but has not proven itself in the real world yet.
That is the gap every founder hits.
The space between "this should work" and "this is working."
Here is what I have learned in that gap:
1. Build something you would use even if nobody paid you
I started building The Topper Stopper because I could not stop thinking about why campus recycling was so broken.
Not because I saw a market. Because it bothered me.
That obsession is the only thing that kept me going when the market was not there yet.
2. Ship before it is perfect
The first version will embarrass you later.
Good. Ship it anyway.
Feedback from one real user is worth ten months of internal deliberation.
3. Protect your Saturdays
Every Saturday since June 2023, I take time to get aligned before I try to lead anything.
Prayer, listening, writing, asking hard questions.
That rhythm has shaped this company more than any strategy session.
4. Say the number out loud
"I need a campus to say yes."
"I need this pilot to prove the model works."
Vague goals get vague effort.
Specific targets create specific action.
5. Build the next thing while the current thing is still moving
We built The Topper Stopper hardware, tsRewards software, and tsMedia ad infrastructure simultaneously.
Not because we have it all figured out.
Because the system only works when all three pieces connect.
If you are in the gap right now, keep building.
The prototype on your desk is closer to real than you think.
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