Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Helping out at #DigitalFutures at Institute of Design in Chicago today. Surrounded by people who care! 000
Reposted by Pete WendelEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 24/01/2026hand it to the people that made it politically impossible for her not to be there 93060315
Reposted by Pete WendelRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Minnesota is the best of us. 651421589580
Reposted by Pete Wendelzeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Free family of hyperlegible® fonts designed to improve legibility and readability for people with low vision. H/t @fredgatesdesign.bsky.social. www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/brailleinstitute.orgAtkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille InstituteRead easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer! 25219
Reposted by Pete Wendel1312 Press @1312press.bsky.social · 10/01/2026the horrors persist, and so do we 012924
Reposted by Pete WendelAndboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 16/07/2025People 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. 3281118
Reposted by Pete WendelErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 17/07/2025"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...fortune.comDelta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticketThe 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. 1010752
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 04/05/2025An 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. 140
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 05/04/2025An interesting meditation for what might be possible tommulhern-31349.medium.com/conserving-a...tommulhern-31349.medium.comConserving AmericaAnother prayer in the form of a TV speech. 020
Reposted by Pete WendelErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/04/2025My 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....loriemerson.neta brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networksIf you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underl… 2275
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025At The Beautiful Minds Conference for #neurodiversity and #mentalhealth at U of Mich today. Amazing people and stories! 030
Reposted by Pete WendelAdrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 08/03/2025“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.npr.orgWhy a Department of Education closure is concern for students with disabilitiesNPR'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. 052
Reposted by Pete Wendelkottke.org @kottke.org · 13/02/2025Really 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]bostonreview.netHow Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth? - Boston ReviewMovement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language. 12812
Reposted by Pete WendelCyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025this OPM career civil servant is risking a lot to share her situation slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comI 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. 03119
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025This thread on impact to NIH funded research at universities from slashing overhead rate. 👇🏽 Helpful, and alarming, thread. thanks for sharing this @carlbergstrom.com ! 010
Reposted by Pete WendelCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/20258. 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. 7239511116
Reposted by Pete WendelDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 08/02/2025This 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...forbes.comNew NIH ‘Indirect Costs’ Funding Cuts Threaten Universities, ScienceOn 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. 431114524
Reposted by Pete WendelDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 08/02/2025The 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 36544287
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025“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 000
Reposted by Pete WendelCyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025if 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 2242
Reposted by Pete WendelL. M. Davis @lmdaviswrites.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I 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. 1328542
Reposted by Pete WendelAngie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Huh. I wonder how they can even think of abandoning so many children. Oh, wait. endhomelessness.org/resource/rac... 0167
Reposted by Pete WendelDr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Message 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 042
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025House 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...actionnetwork.orgProtect the Department of Education - National Letter CampaignRight 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... 011
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Mindfulness game for car culture people? Gotta try this www.carthrottle.com/news/over-hi...carthrottle.comOver The Hill Is The Cosy Off-Road Game We Never Knew We NeededFunselektor’s newest minimalist title trades hardcore motorsport for laid-back, free-roam off-roading 151
Reposted by Pete Wendelzeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025So straightforward, so good. An ALT text decision tree. www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial... #a11yw3.orgAn alt Decision TreeAccessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). 515955
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025 If you see this post, post or repost a bridge from your photography or artwork. 010
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025 via Gus Higuera and the work he’s doing: ——— 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. —— Thank you Gus! 010
Reposted by Pete Wendelkottke.org @kottke.org · 22/01/2025Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens, i.e. “choosing what to ignore, learning how to resist low-quality and misleading but cognitively attractive information, and deciding where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities”. [journals.sagepub.com] 0517
Reposted by Pete WendelRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/01/2025This quote is well-known but what's often forgotten is that this playwright, who in 1989 helped overthrow an authoritarian regime and became its first president afterward, wrote this in 1985 when it would have seemed more likely he'd go back to prison than forward to revolution and the presidency. 316112
Reposted by Pete WendelRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. 418532
Reposted by Pete WendelCyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 11/01/2025the vintage web comes into focus (honestly I’m curious if we can just make these mobile-responsive *and no other post-2010 advances* & have a better life?) 5313
Reposted by Pete WendelEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/01/2025The letter signed by >15,000 physicians re: RFK Jr www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... 782400540
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Danah Boyd’s recent take is spot on www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...zephoria.orgThe Ministry of Empowerment | danah boyd | apophenia 010
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Happy New Year! We are the people we’ve been waiting for! ❤️🎉💫🗽 020
Reposted by Pete Wendelkottke.org @kottke.org · 27/12/2024Absolutely brilliant interactive explainer on everything about the Moon: how it moves, how it formed, what causes tides, solar eclipses, etc. So fun to play with all the gravity widgets in this. [ciechanow.ski]ciechanow.skiMoon – Bartosz CiechanowskiInteractive article about the Moon 04717
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Caregiving is done by young and old alike. Good story here & thank also to Caregiver Action Network. www.npr.org/2024/12/23/n...npr.orgFor young adults, caregiving isn't just hard. It can shape you for lifeCaregiving responsibilities can cut young people off from peers and interrupt their emerging life story. And there's been little research or support directed at this group. That's starting to change. 030
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Good perspective on Tragic Optimism. Longer form but well done frame for hope. youtu.be/LBUHBfFSa4I?...youtu.beThe Tragic Optimist's Guide to Surviving Capitalistic NihilismYouTube video by Dasia Sade 030
Reposted by Pete WendelThe Onion @theonion.com · 19/12/2024Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Trips theonion.com/clarence-tho... 367316126045
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024The tech industry’s incentives no longer align with the user. Good read: www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...wheresyoured.atNever Forgive ThemIn the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor... 050
Reposted by Pete WendelMary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 13/12/2024 I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated. We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children. 1177229517900
Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Sharing for visibility servicedesignchallenge.comservicedesignchallenge.com2025 student service design challenge - design a service that promotes equality and inclusivityThe Student Service Design Challenge is a global design contest that aims to celebrate, encourage & inspire the next generation of designers. 021
Reposted by Pete WendelBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I’m curious how much federal funding he thinks the ACLU receives (it’s none). 49227027310164