5-4 is a win, but: 5-4?! Really?!

SCI is hiring a postdoc researcher & a grad research assistant to expand the National Data Platform with tools for discovering & analyzing AI models used in scientific research publications. Apply/share! Postdoc: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/203... Grad student: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/203...

Dear media: all non-naturalized US citizens are birthright citizens, not just the brown folks

Pro tip: if you want to track air quality in Salt Lake County, the U of Utah has a live map with high quality sensors, including some on transit. They track PM 2.5, PM 10 (GSL dust), and Ozone utahaq.chpc.utah.edu?var=PM10&tz=...

🔥💨 Spurred by an active wildfire season, Brenna Kelly, an incoming postdoc fellow with SCI’s One-U Responsible AI Initiative, wrote an @sltrib.com op-ed calling for stronger public health messaging around wildfire smoke: www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm... More on Kelly: rai.utah.edu/postdocs-dec...

concur - this is brilliant. I'm still chuckling.

What kind of programming language is Rhombus? blog.racket-lang.org/2026/06/rhom... Join us discord.gg/6Zq8sH5

I’ve been waiting over two years to NOT have cars block this mural so I could take a photo! Painted by Detroit muralist Bunnie Reiss for South Salt Lake’s mural fest from 2024 — this piece is a particular favorite of my animal loving eldest daughter!

The new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library looks amazing! I am looking forward to visiting it someday soon. www.trlibrary.com

Welcome to the Public Domain SUMMER (1930)! ☀️🌻🐝🌴 This 2nd entry in the seasonal Silly Symphonies cycle was released in January, but we've saved it to mark the #SummerSolstice. 😎 👀 Watch the full short ➡️ archive.org/details/summ... #Solstice #JuneSolstice #Disney #Animation #ClassicCartoons

Wildfires in the Salt Lake City area are popping off, this was last night. The lights in the bottom right are hospitals next to the University of Utah. All much closer to the city than I'd like.

Worth reading

Today I collaborated by emailing a Word document back and forth, and I felt bad about it.

"Compostable except in California."

A journal website wants me to create an account at the site before I can decline their emailed request to review a submission to the journal? How about "no"?

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Logic for Programmers v0.15 is now available! This version has the first of two proofreading passes and a smaller form-factor for phone reading. Next month: 1.0, out in print! logicforprogrammers.com

#PLDI2026 is live-streaming participating sessions on YouTube! Catch workshops, keynotes, research talks, and more from the premier PL and programming systems research venue. 📺Tune in at: pldi26.sigplan.org/attending/li...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

"We just launch it and we know everything will be dead—everything that will be found there in this particular area will be dead," says Kokhanovskyy. "There is no connection to the drone at all, you cannot see the video, nothing…Everything it sees will be killed." www.newscientist.com/article/2529...

I did Compiler Explorer's monthly accounts, and for the first time in ages we only broke even. Usually we run at a small surplus (which I save) & we have a year contingency saved up. If you want to support us: * Buy stuff: shop.compiler-explorer.com * Patron/GH: "Other" menu on CE Please repost. thx

This is a brilliant idea to force corporations to either raise pay rates for their employees or lower their payouts to CEOs 💯💯💯🎯

At DySPAN '26, Kobus Van der Merwe took part in a panel on Exploring the Role of Testbeds in Advancing Future Wireless and Spectrum Innovation. With all the real-world building blocks it provides, POWDER is uniquely positioned for wireless and spectrum exploration! powderwireless.net/news#news-ma...

The John and Marcia Price College of Engineering is bringing back its two-day AI summit as Utah AI Convergence. Spots are filling up fast, and you won't want to miss out! Thanks to our incredible sponsors, registration is entirely free for all attendees! www.price.utah.edu/ai/convergen...

We will no longer have access to evidence of peer review if this happens. This means when grants are pulled by political minders, we will not have evidence of political influence in the granting process with which to go to Congress who funds the work from the taxpayers.

"The remaining 5 percent concerns only the final portion of the hill, the tendency of the boulder to inevitably roll back down to the very beginning, the eternal nature of my punishment, and the fact that Hades has not technically agreed to alter any terms."

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

From @josevalim.bsky.social's first commit to millions of lightweight processes running in production — happy anniversary @elixirlang.bsky.social! 💜

Tell me again how self-driving cars are going to be our salvation?

CNRS is to recruit 1 person in programming languages on a tenure-track position leading (if confirmed) to a "research director" position (senior scientist, =professor without teaching). This person may get affiliated to the LIG or VERIMAG labs in Grenoble (LIG and VERIMAG are to merge in 2027).

This story seems to have a big hole.

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Everybody here

You can say what you will about Apple, but they're the only big tech company actually trying to use tech to make things better for people; that's not only true for accessibility but also e.g. for privacy.

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“neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.”

Trump didn’t just pardon his followers who stormed the U.S. Capitol. He’s now set them up for payments through a slush fund he created to reward his allies—out of your tax dollars. You could not make this up.

In Memoriam: Peter G. Neumann (1932–2026) cacm.acm.org/news/in-memo...

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

🇳🇴 Gratulerer med dagen to my Norwegian friends and family!

"What I had to learn, and if I am honest am still learning, is that in a federation of expertise, authority is not a resource you hold. It is something you earn and then earn again." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

if the bathrooms are only free to people who have phones, then the bathrooms aren't free

Yay!

Sometimes co-authors ask me “did you see what they cited us for???” and of course I didn’t, because if you want to keep faith in humanity, you don’t look up what people cite you for, just like you don’t read comment sections.

Hooray!

A paper that I published in 2012 is getting some love. ❤️ "Will Wilson, Co-founder & CEO at Antithesis, presents a detailed exploration of swarm testing, a software testing technique..." @antithesis.com youtu.be/wzfC7Q-xNik

Oh hey, it's almost like some computer scientist predicted this on FOX 13 News at 9 just a few days ago (it's me)

[email protected] study links air pollution to worse post-surgical outcomes ⬇️