Cynthia Johanson
@cynk.bsky.social
Proud San Franciscan, Californian, American 🇺🇸
The best role in the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade has got to be the bowling pins.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The best role in the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade has got to be the bowling pins.
Google, when are you releasing a Gemini voice assistant that “knows” all my personal emails, calendar, docs, etc? So I can ask it “when is my order coming” or “can I dress in sweats today?”
October 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Google, when are you releasing a Gemini voice assistant that “knows” all my personal emails, calendar, docs, etc? So I can ask it “when is my order coming” or “can I dress in sweats today?”
A three year old dances on a seating plinth. Spontaneous and effervescent. His mom looks down wearily.
As my train pulls away, I see her turn around to take a quick picture with her phone. #powellstbart
As my train pulls away, I see her turn around to take a quick picture with her phone. #powellstbart
October 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A three year old dances on a seating plinth. Spontaneous and effervescent. His mom looks down wearily.
As my train pulls away, I see her turn around to take a quick picture with her phone. #powellstbart
As my train pulls away, I see her turn around to take a quick picture with her phone. #powellstbart
As a software-engineer-turned-product-manager-turned-vibe-coder, surprisingly, one of the hardest things for me to do is not get too distracted during long builds. “I’ll just peek at ______”… 2 hours later… “what was I doing again??”
October 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
As a software-engineer-turned-product-manager-turned-vibe-coder, surprisingly, one of the hardest things for me to do is not get too distracted during long builds. “I’ll just peek at ______”… 2 hours later… “what was I doing again??”
Thought: is generative AI just making it easy for anyone to code? Mediocre entry-level code, but still.
October 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Thought: is generative AI just making it easy for anyone to code? Mediocre entry-level code, but still.
Got porn for a YouTube ad, at 7:30 in the morning. Right before a stretching video. On an account that watches baseball, kpop, and mark rober videos. And the report-this button is broken.
I worked on YT ads targeting 10 years ago. This seems a huge slide in quality. Too much AI instead of humans?
I worked on YT ads targeting 10 years ago. This seems a huge slide in quality. Too much AI instead of humans?
September 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Got porn for a YouTube ad, at 7:30 in the morning. Right before a stretching video. On an account that watches baseball, kpop, and mark rober videos. And the report-this button is broken.
I worked on YT ads targeting 10 years ago. This seems a huge slide in quality. Too much AI instead of humans?
I worked on YT ads targeting 10 years ago. This seems a huge slide in quality. Too much AI instead of humans?
Did an incognito foxnews visit. The topics were singular crime events, libs reactions (eg not what happened at Hyundai, but backlash about it), and celebs. Nothing about tariffs, vaccines, Middle East, China, Ukraine, Sudan, etc. Minimal actual facts.
September 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Did an incognito foxnews visit. The topics were singular crime events, libs reactions (eg not what happened at Hyundai, but backlash about it), and celebs. Nothing about tariffs, vaccines, Middle East, China, Ukraine, Sudan, etc. Minimal actual facts.
Everyone else: …
Me: clicking figma to check my slack messages for the 47th time today
Me: clicking figma to check my slack messages for the 47th time today
August 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Everyone else: …
Me: clicking figma to check my slack messages for the 47th time today
Me: clicking figma to check my slack messages for the 47th time today
One of the biggest surprises of my professional career is how much calculus (via statistics) has ended up being my most useful math class.
August 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
One of the biggest surprises of my professional career is how much calculus (via statistics) has ended up being my most useful math class.
I need head to toe Cursor merch to fully embody how much I fangirl it.
August 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I need head to toe Cursor merch to fully embody how much I fangirl it.
When will the pendulum swing back to kindness, and not selfishness, being revered?
August 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
When will the pendulum swing back to kindness, and not selfishness, being revered?
The scariest part to me about ICE being masked and unbadged is it’s normalizing randos grabbing people off the street (like me!). No trace, no paperwork, and no resistance. I wonder how many women have been grabbed and trafficked, and no one knows. @scottwiener.bsky.social @padilla.senate.gov
July 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The scariest part to me about ICE being masked and unbadged is it’s normalizing randos grabbing people off the street (like me!). No trace, no paperwork, and no resistance. I wonder how many women have been grabbed and trafficked, and no one knows. @scottwiener.bsky.social @padilla.senate.gov
I’ve never experienced a go-around before. In my last two flights, *both* had to abort landings because there were airplanes on the runway.
July 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I’ve never experienced a go-around before. In my last two flights, *both* had to abort landings because there were airplanes on the runway.
Another example of the loss of local community due to profit chasing. I fully support his proposals— we can’t trust the new owners to fulfill civic duty, so take away the tax advantages that no longer make sense.
“Dozens if not hundreds of games that make up America’s national pastimes are being sliced and diced and sold off to the highest bidder,” writes Joon Lee.
Opinion | How the N.B.A. and the M.L.B. Shattered America’s Sports Culture
The major sports leagues are destroying one of our few remaining sources of shared community.
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Another example of the loss of local community due to profit chasing. I fully support his proposals— we can’t trust the new owners to fulfill civic duty, so take away the tax advantages that no longer make sense.
This. The loss of local news sources corresponds with the deterioration of local government as it operated unchecked. Fund the ones that are barely surviving. Rebuild the ones that died. There’s no quick fix.
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
June 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This. The loss of local news sources corresponds with the deterioration of local government as it operated unchecked. Fund the ones that are barely surviving. Rebuild the ones that died. There’s no quick fix.
Maybe the reason product managers are so good at utilizing genAI is because we’re already trained at telling enthusiastic but likely clueless people what to do.
June 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Maybe the reason product managers are so good at utilizing genAI is because we’re already trained at telling enthusiastic but likely clueless people what to do.
Saw a gay pride post on Instagram. For fun, I began blocking the homophobic commenters. It says “block any other accounts they may have”. As I continued, more and more of the “new” commenters were already blocked. I didn’t realize just how many trolls were multiples of the same accounts. ‘Til now.
June 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Saw a gay pride post on Instagram. For fun, I began blocking the homophobic commenters. It says “block any other accounts they may have”. As I continued, more and more of the “new” commenters were already blocked. I didn’t realize just how many trolls were multiples of the same accounts. ‘Til now.
#72 on my list of frivolous things I’d pay for if I had boatloads of money: power wash the Glen Park Bart, and plant trees in the planters.
April 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#72 on my list of frivolous things I’d pay for if I had boatloads of money: power wash the Glen Park Bart, and plant trees in the planters.
When will Gmail’s and Slack’s searches work like LLM queries?
April 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
When will Gmail’s and Slack’s searches work like LLM queries?
A couple observations after two days skiing under intense sunlight:
1) my skin burned with Korean sunscreen, but not with MDSolarScience’s mineral-based sunscreen. I was applying a stick form every hour. I’m taking this as Korean sunscreen is more like an spf 2-4; maybe ok for indoor but not outdoor
1) my skin burned with Korean sunscreen, but not with MDSolarScience’s mineral-based sunscreen. I was applying a stick form every hour. I’m taking this as Korean sunscreen is more like an spf 2-4; maybe ok for indoor but not outdoor
March 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A couple observations after two days skiing under intense sunlight:
1) my skin burned with Korean sunscreen, but not with MDSolarScience’s mineral-based sunscreen. I was applying a stick form every hour. I’m taking this as Korean sunscreen is more like an spf 2-4; maybe ok for indoor but not outdoor
1) my skin burned with Korean sunscreen, but not with MDSolarScience’s mineral-based sunscreen. I was applying a stick form every hour. I’m taking this as Korean sunscreen is more like an spf 2-4; maybe ok for indoor but not outdoor
I’m hearing 3 talking points for why undecideds went R that D’s need to address (and I don’t agree with these):
1) R is better for national security; that they’re able to make the hard moves with other countries that D’s can’t
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@indivisible.org
1) R is better for national security; that they’re able to make the hard moves with other countries that D’s can’t
…
@indivisible.org
March 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’m hearing 3 talking points for why undecideds went R that D’s need to address (and I don’t agree with these):
1) R is better for national security; that they’re able to make the hard moves with other countries that D’s can’t
…
@indivisible.org
1) R is better for national security; that they’re able to make the hard moves with other countries that D’s can’t
…
@indivisible.org
I believe the US is the most advanced nation because of diversity. Successful companies know more diverse groups outperform lesser ones. Look at the US in the Olympics.
The opposite of diversity is racism+misogyny. Those who think DEI creates unfair advantages are unaware of their privilege.
The opposite of diversity is racism+misogyny. Those who think DEI creates unfair advantages are unaware of their privilege.
February 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I believe the US is the most advanced nation because of diversity. Successful companies know more diverse groups outperform lesser ones. Look at the US in the Olympics.
The opposite of diversity is racism+misogyny. Those who think DEI creates unfair advantages are unaware of their privilege.
The opposite of diversity is racism+misogyny. Those who think DEI creates unfair advantages are unaware of their privilege.
Why yes, I am up late searching for my fave Tiktokers on YouTube because I can’t shake the feeling that Meta is part of the reason for the ill conceived and anticompetitive TikTok ban. I really need to get off insta.
January 15, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Why yes, I am up late searching for my fave Tiktokers on YouTube because I can’t shake the feeling that Meta is part of the reason for the ill conceived and anticompetitive TikTok ban. I really need to get off insta.
How is there not a highly rated biography of Galileo?
Speaking of which, any biography recs on par with Ron Chernow’s Hamilton?
Speaking of which, any biography recs on par with Ron Chernow’s Hamilton?
November 21, 2024 at 1:09 AM
How is there not a highly rated biography of Galileo?
Speaking of which, any biography recs on par with Ron Chernow’s Hamilton?
Speaking of which, any biography recs on par with Ron Chernow’s Hamilton?
I had a blast doing a casual family photo shoot last weekend, and I want to do more! Anyone interested in “hiring” me to take some pics? Nothing fancy, no editing- just having fun hanging out and taking photos.
November 19, 2024 at 6:36 AM
I had a blast doing a casual family photo shoot last weekend, and I want to do more! Anyone interested in “hiring” me to take some pics? Nothing fancy, no editing- just having fun hanging out and taking photos.