Dean Wampler
@deanwampler.com
The guy who is wrong on the Internet. AI Alliance and IBM Research, photography, history buff, cat massage expert.
Most people misunderstand the Schrödinger's Cat Paradox. It's not that the cat is neither dead nor alive until it is observed. It's about a cat standing in a doorway and not being able to decide which side of the door it wants to be on, while you are standing there observing it. #physics
Julia Curlee was the first CIA officer to transition openly and keep working at the agency. The Trump White House needed her—until her identity became public. She recounts her time in service in The Atlantic’s October issue: theatln.tc/siKCHgiR
I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭 Low T Pete will never live this down.
It could go both ways, I guess?
Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · last mo.Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
Etiquette tips for those of you who send AI note takers to meetings: 1. Don't. 2. If you still do, find a way to turn off *all* the messages they post in the meeting chat. Nobody benefits from that garbage and they obscure messages from real people.
Many of the best software developers I've known over the years were former music teachers, professional musicians, or passionate amateurs.
Lena of Lune@lena.realitywerks.com · 2mo agoThe best software developers and architects I've ever worked with have always had "non-traditional" backgrounds, which is to say, humanities, "soft sciences," or art and design Those degrees give perspective and if you learned tech with one, usually it was to actually make stuff that works
Welcome to the latest genAI edition of "how it started / how it's going" (This was just seven months, almost to the day...)
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2mo agoFord has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
Very interesting article about the ways new technologies like AI impact jobs, often leading to increased demand for people, not less.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2mo ago“Many people now fear that AI will make a huge number of careers obsolete,” Rogé Karma writes. “Answering the following three questions can help you determine how endangered a job really is”:
Post your thoughts on Trump’s Arch here before end of day June 15.
National Park Service - PEPC - Triumphal Arch - Section 106 Assessment of Effect and Draft Programmatic Agreement -Submit Comments
parkplanning.nps.gov
You all will be shocked, I'm sure, to learn that the program for monitoring and interdicting NWS spread from South America was part of foreign aid through USAID. Aid which was cut by DOGE because foreign aid is dumb and obviously doesn't do anything to help America.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoBrooke Rollins says the screwworm is around for at least a couple months
the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
nytimes.com
Given the anticipated size of the SpaceX meme stock IPO, it may enter major indices relatively quickly, driven in part by some relaxed rules on inclusion of mega IPOs. Here's an informative Business Insider article for the "concerned". www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-i...
SpaceX is set to join major indexes after its IPO as inclusion rules evolve to accommodate the mega IPO
SpaceX stock could show up in major indexes and the ETFs that track them soon after the company's IPO. Here's a rundown of what to expect.
businessinsider.com
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4mo agoBreaking news: The military will no longer require U.S. troops to receive the annual flu vaccine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, rolling back what he described as “overreaching mandates that only weaken our war-fighting capabilities.” https://wapo.st/4eAG2sx
This is evil. Why would anyone ever help us in the future? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo
nytimes.com
Colorado Overrun With Flamboyant Children After Camp Director Notices Conversion Therapy Device Set To Reverse https://theonion.com/colorado-overrun-with-flamboyant-children-after-camp-director-notices-conversion-therapy-device-set-to-reverse/
Bondi fell into the Trump Trap, giving up her integrity to keep her job, and looks like she now will leave with neither.
As promised, here are some links from our #ATmosphereConf talk by @cassidyjames.com and @julietshen.bsky.social! First, here are the slides; we ran over time and so didn't get to share the last couple of slides with you all, but they're important. :) docs.google.com/presentation...
ROOST ATmosphereConf 2026 - Coop
Coop: Open source Trust & Safety infrastructure for all ROOST • ATmosphereConf 2026
docs.google.com
maybe my favorite thing on the internet: neal.fun/deep-sea/
The Deep Sea
Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.
neal.fun
BREAKING: 49 Senate Republicans just VOTED DOWN our simple bill to pay TSA workers. Republicans have now blocked TSA pay SEVEN times. It’s a slap in the face to the men and women who have been working without a paycheck for weeks.
At EPFL, Professor Martin Odersky set out to combine functional and object-oriented programming. The result was Scala, now used worldwide. In 2025 he received the Programming Languages Achievement Award. 🔗 Read the full story here : actu.epfl.ch/news/to-crea... #Scala #Epfl #Programming
A decade ago was the "high-water" mark for functional programming and the languages it inspired. Now everyone is focused on AI, of course. Andrew Oram is writing a retrospective series about FP, then and now. www.lpi.org/blog/2026/03...
Functional Languages and the Future of Programming (Part 1)
Functional programming explained: history, core concepts, and the influence of languages like Haskell, Erlang, and Scala.
lpi.org
I would have taken a fraction of the $80B Zuckerberg spent on this effort to tell him years ago that it was doomed from the beginning, but he didn't ask...
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 5mo agoMark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over, after renaming Facebook to Meta and spending ~$80B on the endeavor, as his focus shifts to AI (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Raffi Krikorian’s Tesla “was in Full Self-Driving Mode, driving perfectly—until it wasn’t.” He writes about his crash, and whether this technology is training drivers to be complacent:
My Tesla Was Driving Itself Perfectly—Until It Crashed
The danger of almost-perfect tech
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