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Kurt Kemple

@digitalvandal.xyz

Leading Developer Relations @ Slack. Lover of motorcycles and photography. Advocate for second chances. kurtiskemple.com

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Whatโ€™s wild is this actually reflects the growing global anxiety being experienced by billions of people over the last few years now manifesting in LLMs through training data. ๐Ÿซ 

06.03.2026 17:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Identity is a flow, not a fixed point.

24.02.2026 13:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I quit Apple 20 years into my career and became homeless. Hitting bottom led me to heal and find a new path. An Apple engineer quit her job and couldn't get hired after several months, becoming homeless. She shares how school helped her start over and heal.

I was interviewed by @businessinsider.com in their "As-Told-To" series about people beginning second careers.

Thank you to Tess Martinelli for sharing my story and big changes since leaving Apple in 2021.

per ardua ad astra! ๐ŸŒŒ

www.businessinsider.com/apple-engine...

03.12.2025 23:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've completely moved on from "dark mode" and now prefer "earth mode," which is warm, soft earth tones. Feels so so much better for me at this point.

27.11.2025 13:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I apply this to everything from product strategy to helping my kids with their math homework. ๐Ÿ’ผ๐Ÿงฎ

24.11.2025 19:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You can apply this to so much! I refer to this as โ€œlabs thinking.โ€ Itโ€™s where you allow yourself the degrees of freedom needed to explore the problem space.

Then once youโ€™ve formed a better world model you can build a more accurate representation within tighter constraints.

24.11.2025 19:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...

... listen to Steve Wozniak.

21.11.2025 19:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 6999 ๐Ÿ” 1875 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 100 ๐Ÿ“Œ 104

Oh no. Did the protest make it hard to do your wittle school work!? If thatโ€™s all it takes to derail you, youโ€™re pretty fucking weak, honestly. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Like, thatโ€™s not something Iโ€™d be advertisingโ€ฆ๐Ÿคญ

17.11.2025 00:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Learning is living and I plan to live a full life.

16.11.2025 21:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You are fucking disgusting.

14.11.2025 22:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is so disingenuous. Literally shameful.

14.11.2025 22:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Writing to incarcerated people is an act of radical care, a refusal of disposability, and an abolitionist politic in practice.

03.11.2025 04:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 238 ๐Ÿ” 59 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Everybody always wants to put me in a box. Kurt, you can't do this or that, that's not what I've decided you are! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

Boxes are for assholes with tiny minds. Be whoever you want to be, do whatever you want to do. No one gets to tell you what you are or are not capable of.

01.11.2025 09:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

The Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant because of anti-DEI requirements imposed by the Trump administration

pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

29.10.2025 16:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Method > credentials.

13.10.2025 16:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also love how you "care so much" about trans women in sports but throw around the R word without a care in the world.

Selective compassion isn't compassion; it's insidious and appalling rhetoric.

01.09.2025 13:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's been FOUR years since I filed an NLRB charge against Apple, which was investigated and sent to DC recommending charge issue within MONTHS. It took THREE years for charge to issue and a hearing to be scheduled.

When Abruzzo was fired, and Carey nominated, the hearing was cancelled.

01.09.2025 11:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 22 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Okay, Momma's special boy, don't worry, you're so smart and clever.

01.09.2025 13:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is so fucking funny ahahhaha, so you're telling me that with the globally available and irrefutable data that clearly shows men indiscriminately abuse and harm women, that a subset are changing their sex to do it?? ahahahhahahaha

What a moronic thing to say out loud.

01.09.2025 13:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Literally couldn't summon a logic point if you gave it your all.

Honestly, I feel pity for you...

31.08.2025 11:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How does it feel to be so simple-minded?

31.08.2025 11:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is such a dumb ass straw man argument ahahahhaha!!!

dO yOu ThInK wOmEn ShOuLd Be AbUsEd??!!! ๐Ÿคก

31.08.2025 11:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you're a legit fucking moron lol. literally just so dumb ahahahaha

31.08.2025 11:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nothing you have stated is falsifiable, lmfao! That, however, does not make it true; it renders it an abstraction, not grounded in empirical evidence.

Lastly, I don't care about your "truth" on this topic. I'm discussing your approach to knowledge and stated willful ignorance, lol.

28.08.2025 14:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, my apologies, ahahaha. What an example to use! Let's follow your statement to its illogical conclusion.

Two of Buddhism's primary tenets are compassion and the practice of transcending one's identity.

Which of those qualities are you exhibiting here? Lastly, show me the source of this "truth."

28.08.2025 12:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, just speaking your "truth" are you? ahahaha

Just completely lacking in critical thinking...astonishing. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

28.08.2025 12:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Imagine having such a shit life and personality to match, you have to get on the internet and be hateful to make yourself feel better.

The absolute bottom of humanity is on full display for the world to see, AND YOU'RE ACTUALLY PROUD OF IT!! ๐Ÿ™ƒ

Proud to be ignorant... how fucking embarrassing. ๐Ÿคก

28.08.2025 12:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pedantic reply guy says what?

28.08.2025 12:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Every "impossible" thing humanity has overcome shares four traits:

- Flight? Time + information + tools + each other
- Moon landing? Time + information + tools + each other
- Disease eradication? Time + information + tools + each other

One thing seems pretty clear: we only get there together.

23.08.2025 11:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(x,y,z,t) = (iร—โ„“_v, jร—โ„“_v, kร—โ„“_v, nร—ฯ„_v) = ๐ŸŒŒ๐Ÿ“

16.08.2025 16:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0