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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another intense memory from that trip: driving during whirling snow flurries and seeing acres of WW2-era landing craft in a junk-/scrap-/boneyard right off the highway just outside of Richmond.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

a purported spiritual predecessor of the United States once executed a king for this exact reason.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can remember so many fights with my now-wife over MapQuest printouts with her navigating as I drove. 😐🫤🫥🫠

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Weirdly nostalgic turn of events, remembering renting this place for a vacation along with another family from The Boy's preschool. It was nestled in a ravine along Arch Cape Creek, by a trailhead into Oswald West State Park.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

story prompt from watching NOVA about the Chauvet cave: a persecuted family (Jewish, Romani, Red) fleeing the Nazis in France finds momentary sanctuary in a decorated Stone Age cave as the Nazis close in.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

S1E1, opening as it does in the then-still-new World Trade Center in NYC, should be mandatory viewing for all engineers of all disciplines.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Connections (1978) S1E8, "Eat, drink, and be merry" - early modern warfare leads to better food preservation leads to the best closing scene in ADHD nerd TV of all time.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Opus 5.5 seems to handle long-running sessions better than any predecessor. I've been working on a proof-of-concept comparing Jev and a handful of comparable models against a homegrown Frankenstein's monster of a RoBERTa-based classifier, and it's been going really well.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ugh. Gotta work on the differences between a conventional job interview and pitching myself for fractional roles.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ok, it wasn't entirely dumb: we bounced the upload off of an in-house PyTorch model to verify that it was a picture of a fuel gauge. Naturally we called it "hotdog/not hotdog."

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's the start of a new month, so: some self-promotion. I help engineering organizations get unblocked. Head of Engineering who can't manage their teams or struggles with alignment? I can help with that.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 28/09/2026

If you have seen me posting about the stickers I've been cooking up, I am proud to say that they're now available. For anyone running LLM cybersecurity evals in your life: www.etsy.com/listing/4583...

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Do Not Connect Machine to Internet Sticker - Etsy

This Stickers item is sold by CriticalPointTV. Ships from Brooklyn, NY. Listed on Sep 28, 2026

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

inside you are two wolves, and they're both going "duuuuude..."

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Meets expectations” is only a ding if the expectations are low. Neil Armstrong “met expectations”.

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The Dark Prince of Donair @erisianrite.com · 24/09/2026

I make sure to read this around once a year, it's great advice to everyone in this field still, 15 years later.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the white house press corps is going to scream bloody murder if and when we tear down the atrocities trump is trying to build in dc

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

tfw the answer to "why is AWS Security Hub in staging still flooding my inbox?" is "oh, that's prod." 🫠😐😶‍🌫️🫥

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

folks, if you're gonna create a bot, 1) mark it clearly, and 2) don't do this

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Since I can't reply directly: assassination is decidedly not a conventional response, which is the OP that I was responding to. Second, yikes because I'm not eager to see a latter-day speedrun of the Concert of Europe's wars.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ok, their processes might have been a little wonky, but I love having true high-speed internet again.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ugh. My LinkedIn feed this morning is providing me with a master class in what low-effort/high-reward online scams are.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AT&T has rolled out 5-gig fiber in our neighborhood. yay! it'll be half of what Xfinity charges. yay! they scuffed the scheduling and showed up 90 minutes early. hmm. they can't start the work until we approve it. ok. approval consists of clicking on a link sent by SMS. ok.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

my wife remarked in passing (and I don't think I've seen anyone that I follow mention it) that the bit that should scare people about Kash Patel's decision is that it also covers animal cruelty before the age of 18. one of the classic indicators of sociopathy.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

tfw an article warning about AI was clearly generated by AI

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

just saw this CA vanity tag at the local Costco: DENGIST

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 13/09/2026

This will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy. 35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292... Shutting them out is extremist folly.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

MOANG F-15s with full air-superiority loadouts and drop tanks, flying overwatch over St. Louis because Al Qaeda was going to drop another 757 on a nuclear power plant in the Midwest.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Well that's an easy GTFO. Wonder why the founder won't openly associate themselves with the company profile? 🤔🤔🤔

Screenshot of a co-founder role posted on LinkedIn at wis.ai:

We'll be a bad match if...

• You're looking for a corporate role with plenty of useless meetings that achieve nothing

• You're not interested in building in the Al space or as a startup

• You don't believe in our values (https://wis.ai/ values)

• You think product, growth and users have nothing to do with you

• You're woke and have pronouns

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

He should ask Kimi what happened in Beijing in June 1989.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

it's part of how the US military was able to motorize so much faster than anyone else in WW2 - lots of draftees already knew how to drive!

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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

SF's billionaire-backed Hamilton Society, an extension of the Bay's right-wing tech scene, gathered 700 people to debate whether the US needs a dictator. The vibes were as rotten as you would expect. bayareacurrent.com/sfs-tech-cae...

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SF's Tech Right Debates the Ideal Dictator

Putrid vibes reigned at SF billionaire-funded Hamilton Society debate.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

they don't want us invisible, unheard, or unseen; they want us dead and unlamented

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

every now and then, I'm forcibly reminded of what privileged, spoiled little shits we are as software developers

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

it's so funny, I recognized that skyline as where we dispersed my father-in-law instantly. I think George would be tickled at sharing Sheepshead with humpbacks.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I am so tired of being under attack because I'm looking for work. There's legal fraud like shitty franchising and automated job hunt services and there's gray area fraud like MLMs and there's outright fraud like the fake recruiters with their resume services or their wallet/credential stealers.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

One of the fascinating things about Carvana when I was there was that they were determined to treat EVs as first-class products. No idea if that changed with Trump 2 and the loss of the EV subsidy.

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“But that’s just as bad,” protested Milo. “You mean just as good,” corrected the Humbug. “Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.”

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just found a shittier ATS than Workday. Not a single term of employment successfully parsed. Simultaneously? TIL that Paylocity still exists.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hi! We're hiring our first Engineering Manager! We're a growing team, and you'll report directly to our CTO. He's co-founded 4 short-lived startups, hates all that hiring and mentoring people stuff, and all that delivery and execution stuff.

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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

After many struggles to complete his Mech E degree, The Boy has found a mechatronics practicum program that he's enjoying and that offers him a viable on-ramp to the hands-on stuff that he enjoys most about Mech E.

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