Dave Parke

Hots&Cots has never been my full-time job. It’s been nights, weekends, and vacation days. My day job has been almost 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as a senior iOS engineer. I’m part of this round. So I’m open to two things: * A full-time senior iOS role, building apps or the platforms behind them. * Contract work. If you need an iOS, Android, or web app built end to end, that’s how I built Hots&Cots. DMs are open. Hots&Cots isn’t going anywhere.

🚨HUGE ARREST ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 The man we called "Nomad" - an O9A-affiliated violent extremist who plotted to assassinate President Trump, myself, and many others - is officially behind bars. Lakotah Salvini - aka “IA Nomad” @IceAgeNomad aka “James Washington” aka “Sinistrous” of the former Rapewaffen Division - has been arrested and indicted on federal charges of fraud and impersonating a federal officer. Nomad first popped up on my radar in early 2024 as I was beginning my investigation into the 764 network and its connection to the Satanic accelerationist cult Order of Nine Angles (O9A). Nomad weaseled his way into various gun and veteran communities here on X, convincing many that he was a CIA contractor and attempting to recruit them into his fake PMC, Castle International. From there, he tried to manipulate them to commit crimes, including assassinations, on his behalf with the promise of federal immunity. I tried like hell to convince the gun and vet communities on X that Nomad was not only a fraud, but a dangerous violent extremist affiliated with O9A. I took a lot of arrows in the process, but cooler heads eventually prevailed, and Nomad was publicly outed. In retaliation, Nomad, his 764-affiliated associate “Mercury”, and several others embarked on a 2 year long campaign to assassinate me and others who stood in the way of their goals. Nomad’s crew also acted as pro-Ukrainian and anti-Trump extremists. They recruited for bogus operations in Ukraine, rubbed shoulders with serious foreign neo-Nazi factions, and discussed plans to assassinate President Trump on several occasions. For 2 years I waited for the feds to finally arrest him so that my family and I could feel safe again. Nomad was never a "fed" of any sort. In fact, he wasn't even American. He was a Canadian citizen living in the US illegally when he was detained by ICE in August after a strategically placed tip. From there, the FBI indicted him on one count of Conspiracy to Commit Offense or Defraud the US and one count of Impersonating a Federal Officer. These charges don't even begin to cover the extent of his crimes or the danger he poses to our country. I am holding out hope that there will be a superseding indictment, but at least now he's in custody. This entire saga is deserving of a multi-part article, video essay, and honestly a Netflix deal. In the meantime, I will try to outline the major details in the thread. It's a long story, but I promise it's worth the read. Bust out your popcorn for THE NOMAD FILES.

I'm a veteran of a year in the Peace Corps, I'm no bot.

Malcum Nance is a hero and a treasure.

This paper answers why confident idiots run the world. Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy. It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.” they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception. And the results are wild. participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile. they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence. the paper revealed a brutal paradox: the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain. if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing. this creates a dangerous systemic loop. the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions. meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse. top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else. they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add. we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence. the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't. the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.

Life hack. It’s a whole lot easier to pretend to be stupid than it is to pretend to be smart.

The far right is once again refusing to accept election results... Anyway, once again, they’re showing that this isn’t just about political beliefs. They’re not a legitimate democratic option, and we have every right to call them fascists.

WHAT IS TRUMP SAYING? 😭😭😭 "I looked at his ass. I've never done that with a man. Off the record — women, YES. Men, no. By the way, I've looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before, NICKI MINAJ *points at her* That's HARD TO MISS!" Generational.