Pete Wendel

Well done! Curious if your video talks with music will be shared at some point?

Is it agentic or is it Memorex? (IYKYK)

People my age and older were taught the brain literally stops making new cells in adulthood.
The last 20+ years of brain plasticity research have flipped that entirely.

Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.

"Consumer Watchdog found that the best deals were offered to the wealthiest customers—with the worst deals given to the poorest people, who are least likely to have other options."

fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...

An ER trip for my wife, then stomach flu, a couple days then & my step mom passed away, and moved my dad into assisted living. What day is it? Phrase of the day: cognitive dissonance.

Completing the Four Orders An even deeper dive into the Four Orders through the lens of history, and an attempt to complete the matrix.

Design includes writing and is also more than shapes or software. Some context:

Writing & content as design

dominic-warren.medium.com/writing-as-d...

Design as 4 orders

medium.com/the-design-o...

An interesting meditation for what might be possible

tommulhern-31349.medium.com/conserving-a...

My favorite rural telecom fun fact is that in the early 20th century, Bell didn't want to invest in rural phone infrastructure so ranchers used their barbed wire fences to carry a telephone signal.
loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a....

At The Beautiful Minds Conference for #neurodiversity and #mentalhealth at U of Mich today.

Amazing people and stories!

Yes, and: writing is also design.

Why a Department of Education closure is concern for students with disabilities NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Kristy Hedler, mother of a son with Down syndrome, about what eliminating the Department of Education would mean for kids who receive special education services.

“Why a Department of Education closure is concern for students with disabilities”
www.npr.org/2025/03/07/n...

Interview with the mother of a son with Down syndrome.

How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth? - Boston Review Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.

Really interesting essay about organizing: How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth? “If we cannot organize beyond the bounds of our comfort zones, we will never build movements large enough to combat the forces that would destroy us.” (via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) [bostonreview.net]

Want to read this asap!

I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know. We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.

this OPM career civil servant is risking a lot to share her situation slate.com/news-and-pol...

This thread on impact to NIH funded research at universities from slashing overhead rate. 👇🏽

Helpful, and alarming, thread. thanks for sharing this @carlbergstrom.com !

8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields.

It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.

The goal is destroy US universities.

New NIH ‘Indirect Costs’ Funding Cuts Threaten Universities, Science On Friday, the National Institutes of Health announced major cuts to funding of indirect costs for Universities, etc. Here's the potential impact on science and society.

This article gives an excellent overview of the impact on universities and US research will be if the announced cuts to NIH indirect cost rates hold.

Not good

www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

From https://www.jobsohio.com/blog/ohio-reaches-1-billion-in-nih-funding "Leading the way for NIH-funded research for the state, The Ohio State University claimed an impressive $252 million."

The Musk-Trump administration announced a drop in indirect cost rates for NIH grants to universities to 15%. Immediately. What does that mean?

Consider Ohio State, home of the National Football Champion Buckeyes.

OSU got $252M in NIH grants last year. The immediate cut is $68M. A lot ! 1/3

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Feeling this on multiple levels.

if you haven't seen it in these terms, here it is

if you've been thinking about this all week, is this the first software/systems coup? (I'm assuming not) ... & what does that mean for software practice later?

we've got to stop this, & also to think about how we got here

I have been doing some accessibility training recently, and I am just...agog...that these f*ckers want to roll back accessibility initiatives too.

Every American in some way benefits from progressive changes to accessibility. Every single one.

Huh. I wonder how they can even think of abandoning so many children.

Oh, wait.

endhomelessness.org/resource/rac...

Message worth amplifying.

Ive always said the role of #leadership is not to guarantee certainty. It’s to provide clarity.

Thank you for amplifying @peiferlabunc.bsky.social 👊🏽

#sciencesky #academicsky #medsky

Protect the Department of Education - National Letter Campaign Right now, there’s a critical threat to the future of education in America. House Resolution 899, introduced by Representative Thomas Massie, proposes abolishing the U.S. Department of Education. This...

House Resolution 899 introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie is set to dismantle the Department of Education. Contact your representative to demand they push back on this harmful legislation!

actionnetwork.org/letters/prot...

Over The Hill Is The Cosy Off-Road Game We Never Knew We Needed Funselektor’s newest minimalist title trades hardcore motorsport for laid-back, free-roam off-roading

Mindfulness game for car culture people?

Gotta try this

www.carthrottle.com/news/over-hi...

An alt Decision Tree Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

So straightforward, so good. An ALT text decision tree.

www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial... #a11y

If you see this post, post or repost a bridge from your photography or artwork.

via Gus Higuera and the work he’s doing:

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Saw this post about Ha Phan asking to see if anyone can build an Executive Order tracker. Built this prototype
executive-order-tracker.lovable.app
In the Lovable app and hooked it up to www.federalregister.gov.
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Thank you Gus!