csrc.nist.gov/projects/cry... CMVP has (finally!) Validated the Go Crytogrpahy Module for FIPS 140-3. Congrats and Thank you to @geomys.org and @filippo.abyssdomain.expert

A funny thing is happening: the more I build with agents, the less I want to use Python. I explore this in my latest "From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics" wesmckinney.com/blog/agent-e...

github.com/crabby-rathb... Seriously wild times we are living in. If you've been following this OpenClaw agent matplotlib story unfold. OpenSource (as all other things) are starting to get uncooked with AI.

This is the reason for the electricity poles in Bad Bunny Superbowl Halftime Show

"All of this amounts to almost masochistic levels of economic self-sabotage."

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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We should be terrified of who the next new 19,000 ICE and CBP officers will be. Are you watching the news and excited to rough up abuelas, hog-tie the guy cutting the lawn down the street, or manhandle a member of Congress? Apply today! www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...

"The takeaway from this study is that if you give adults an entirely inauthentic task and access to ChatGPT, they’ll let the robot do the work and save their energy for something else." We should study the best uses of AI in learning, not the worst. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

This is really fascinating to me because of the connections we've also found in my research between worse outcomes for software teams and contest cultures/competition mental models for software/zero sum thinking in domain specific ways for technological skills

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

I'm going to business hell for this one

if this reporting is accurate, and it would seem easily disprovable if it's not, i cannot fathom how it's not a 50 pt font banner headline on the times, post, etc. this is outright rebellion. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

Maybe it's just me but I really don't think the @nytimes.com is willing or able to meet this moment. These are the lead stories on the paper's website so far today. Chaos was first, now its breakneck speed. Nope, this ain't it. 1/

Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to dismantle Meta’s US fact-checking partnerships opens a new, troubling chapter in platform governance and lays bare the deep entanglement of tech corporations with reactionary political agendas, writes Charis Papaevangelou.

youtu.be/QHuwYxfXrQ8?... Every Notre Dame fan at Church this past week. #goirish #notredamefootball #fightingirish #weareND #NDfootball

Private equity firms are modern Gilded Age holding companies for the wealthy to centralize their control over our lives. We really seem to be at the threshold of a social and economic crisis unless these financial vehicles for domination are stopped. www.vox.com/health-care/...

"The Gilded Age of medicine" is exactly right. These modern-day robber-barons are looting our health care system, and patients are paying with their lives. We need answers and accountability. We need to pass my Health Over Wealth Act.

I love advent!

In anthropology, we often refer to this impetus as "the Tyranny of Taxonomy." By virtue of forcing various phenomena into categories that can be quantified, you create the illusion that such categories are "real." Rather than methods through which to think about similarities and differences.

This talk was brilliant! And not at all the conclusion I was expecting

Super shouting out @jimmy.zelinskie.com once again with the incredible info & link packed gRPConf talk, Building: SpiceDB: A gRPC First Database The discussions about use for inter-cluster and around performance are fantastic. youtu.be/1PiknT36218#...

This is the most intense, unhinged, brilliant website I've seen in a long time. Built by Cameron Askin (@cameronaskin on X), and check it out for yourself at www.cameronsworld.net

Well, good morning, I have thoughts about the internet. www.wrecka.ge/against-the-...

Post a picture of you from a different era

One downside to handles are domains is if I put @justingarrison.com on a slide and someone doesn’t know about Bluesky handles they won’t know where to find me CNAME records to redirect.bsky.app is a nice feature for people who don’t have anything hosted on their handle domain

This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America. — Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%) — Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%) — Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)

(this is our preprint - osf.io/preprints/ps... )

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Cool bit of history you likely didn't know about: the standardization of time didn't happen until this day 141 years ago. Imagine trying to program time in a follow-the-sundial-in-your-town system. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1...

I honestly don’t think Americans understand how much their day to day lives depend on federal civil servants and now is the time for professional commentators to write op-eds explaining

Another very practical consequence of the X -> BS migration is that it makes each population more homogenous and reactive, and thus subject to behavior control — a step for realizing a fully programmable society in 2025-2035. More info here. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The same people who’ve spent the last several years decrying “unqualified DEI hires” are now shoehorning through Cabinet nominations who can’t even pass a basic background test.

This was the best exhibit I've seen in a long time... live online usage and popularity listing of #emoji in social media. It looks like when I zoom in that the world is kinda #angry today... 😠 which made me giggle!

I wrote about Jeff Bezos' outdated "view from nowhere" approach to journalism and why it doesn't work for the press in 2024 — if it ever did at all www.platformer.news/jeff-bezos-w...

The banger opening presentation at P99 Conf by Professor Andy Pavlo watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-0dw4gUhw

This is a great framing for self-improvement👌

Getting close to a sort of "replace 'Full Stack Developer' with 'Full Stack Ops'" vibe. And, just as a full stack dev is a head-popping expectation (esp. in large orgs versus, you know, setting up veterinarian websites) a full stack ops role seems tough go-vmware.broadcom.com/cloud-native... #DevOps

I put some extended thoughts into a document. You can check that out here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... I'm sure I'm missing stuff. Qualifying all the things that make a good developer platform is hard!

in what is almost certainly going to be an unpopular opinion, i no longer believe that an open source AI definition is achievable redmonk.com/sogrady/2024...

I wrote a new whitepaper on why ✨logs✨ are the bridge from observability 1.0 to 2.0, which workloads should properly keep using metrics, and concrete steps you can take today to modernize your telemetry. http://dlvr.it/TFZv4k

Scaling your managers and developing a consistent leadership set of ethics, practices and philosophy is the binding glue of your culture. It's what liberates you from micromanaging and firefighting. It's what lets people decide whether this is the right place for them or not. Swiftly.

If you read ✨one post✨ this year about instrumentation, OTel, logs, tracing, or observability 2.0, make it this one. It's just that fucking good. It has code samples. It is also a great overview of your options in the o11y 2.0 space, incl vendors, OSS and hybrid. jeremymorrell.dev/blog/a-pract...

Watched this excellent talk by @icooper.bsky.social on being staff plus youtu.be/l-oCDQGH3EU?... This talk really resonates with me.

Seeing the influx of tech people coming over to Bluesky reminds me that we *all* made tech twitter what it was, not the other way around.

Professionalize Open Source.

New, from me: the campaign to remove the President of Harvard is not really about plagiarism. It is part of a broader campaign against DEI. And too many in the media have confused covering the story with participating in the campaign. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-campai...

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