Cornell AAUP statement on “the deal” aaup-cornell.org/2025/11/07/s...

"'People send me back their the season brochure shredded in an envelope and say: "Never, never, will I return: while he's in power."'" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

𝙒𝙚'𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙮 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨! KSoC: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/190... (AI broadly) Education + AI: - utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/189... - utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/190... Computer Vision: - utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/183...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

An update: bsky.app/profile/ricc...

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

Dr. Mustaque Ahamad is coming to the Kahlert School of Computing. He will discuss the evolution of cybersecurity into an academic field and share insights from his entrepreneurial background. Mark your calendars for Thursday, November 13th! The lecture will begin at 3:40pm with refreshments at 3pm

🌟 This year's Utah AI Summit (hosted by @utahcommerce.bsky.social) features 2 @utah.edu speakers: Penny Atkins, our director of research & science, and Masood Parvania, director of the Utah Smart Energy Lab & professor of electrical & computer engineering. Learn more: aisummit.utah.gov

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Have expertise with functional programming, interpreters, and Web technology? Like Rust, wasm, etc.? Looking for a job with a great team (like @adamchalmers.com )? Please see this job ad, and share with others you might know! zoo.dev/jobs/4619187...

Raising money for the Utah Food Bank because — waves hands frenetically — the current situation. Here’s a link: www.justgiving.com/page/slsees-... And if you donate $50 or more, DM me and I’ll send you one of my SLC coffee cups! Wow — what a deal! Let’s feed some hungry Utahns!

🤔 Do you have questions about your experiments on POWDER? Sign up for office hours on Friday, November 7. 🍂 calendly.com/powderwireless

Read more: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

🎃 Trick or treat! 💀 We're handing out chills with THE SKELETON DANCE (1929), the bone-rattling classic where skeletons swing & sway till dawn! 🦴 Get it & more #PublicDomain goodies in our #SpookySeason Collection ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ste... #Halloween

📢 Applications for the 2026 CyberPowder Fellows Program are now being accepted! For full consideration, applications are due by Friday, November 21 2025. Program info and application form: www.powderwireless.net/cyberpowder2... Summary in thread. 🧵

Political Scientist here: the entire point of a constitution is to outline the rules so that political officers cannot "go around it"

why are klingons so offended by bad kerning

My torts exam writes itself.

My computer science for the day.

Make sure to submit your co-located workshop and/or tutorial proposals to PLDI'26 by Nov. 14 with proceedings and Nov. 24 otherwise!

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Happy 31st Birthday The First Web Banner! On October 27, 1994, The AT&T Telecommunications Company placed the first web banner in Internet history on the HotWired magazine website. The first web banner in the world was 476×56 px. #WebDesignHistory

Playlist for the (fifteenth RacketCon) October 4-5, 2025 at UMass Boston youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Also and again, Republicans in Congress are fine with this. (Not only that, it’s like 15 minutes worth of pay for the uniformed force)

If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation. Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

TIL you can use @quarto.org markdown to generate ACM format compliant journal articles... github.com/quarto-journ...

Construction of the new ball room is coming along nicely at the White House.

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

TIL that "functional mushrooms" are a thing. But higher-order functional mushrooms are not (yet).

🚪 The POWDER team will not hold office hours on Friday, October 24. Instead, the team be running a POWDER User Community Training session on that day. powderwireless.net/news#news-se...

This song has been stuck in my head since I first heard it a few days ago. youtu.be/v_yJFbvOkXs

Today in anonymity.

Quality of life hack: take a little pepper grinder to your office.

"Medium Swing."

To be clear, @satnam6502.bsky.social is talking about chip design here but feel free to meme this as you wish #icfpsplash25

Blathering about my most recent mostly-positive but limited experience using claude code wanted more space than social media permits, so it got a blog post. Don't expect anything too deep, I'm just keeping track of my experience. wiredream.com/claude-optim...

"Ping pong ball size hail." ‼️

🔜 A quick reminder that the POWDER team will hold online office hours on Friday, October 10. 🍂 Sign up for an appointment—

This is a hell of a Freudian slip from the Republican majority in the Utah House of Representatives.

📢 Applications for the 2026 CyberPowder Fellows Program are now being accepted! For full consideration, applications are due by Friday, November 21 2025. Program info and application form: powderwireless.net/cyberpowder2... Summary in thread. 🧵

Fun with ordinals.

🤔 Do you have questions about your experiments on POWDER? Sign up for office hours on Friday, October 10. 🍂 calendly.com/powderwireless

Important context from @genevievelakier.bsky.social:

📢 The POWDER team will run a series of POWDER User Training sessions via Zoom in fall 2025 and spring 2026! The fall training will focus on POWDER platform concepts and workflows. More details: powderwireless.net/news#news-se... Signup form: forms.gle/QPCKEE1LuECr...

I’m happy to have my cartoons reposted, but it’s always nice when credit is given to the artist so people can find me There’s a lot more where this came from

Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP www.science.org/content/arti...

A recent article about changes at NSF under the current administration. The article is a nice summary of what has happened in the last several months. www.science.org/content/arti...