Chris K Wensel
@chris.wensel.net
Co-Organizer of https://lu.ma/sf-distsys
Developer of https://github.com/ClusterlessHQ, https://cascading.wensel.net, and other data related projects.
Developer of https://github.com/ClusterlessHQ, https://cascading.wensel.net, and other data related projects.
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Chris K Wensel
@chris.wensel.net
· Oct 26
github.com
Thought I'd share a project i'm tinkering on
github.com/ClusterlessHQ/subpo...
it's a cli for finding emerging patterns. think of it as a way to diff one or more subsets of data in a dataset.
Or, what patterns (or itemsets) are showing more frequently in an outlier set than are in an inlier set.
github.com/ClusterlessHQ/subpo...
it's a cli for finding emerging patterns. think of it as a way to diff one or more subsets of data in a dataset.
Or, what patterns (or itemsets) are showing more frequently in an outlier set than are in an inlier set.
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Josef Sudek :
Prague at Night, ca. 1954-74
Photograph, gelatin silver print
6-13/16 × 4-11/16 in
17.3 × 11.91 cm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Prague at Night, ca. 1954-74
Photograph, gelatin silver print
6-13/16 × 4-11/16 in
17.3 × 11.91 cm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
December 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Josef Sudek :
Prague at Night, ca. 1954-74
Photograph, gelatin silver print
6-13/16 × 4-11/16 in
17.3 × 11.91 cm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Prague at Night, ca. 1954-74
Photograph, gelatin silver print
6-13/16 × 4-11/16 in
17.3 × 11.91 cm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Can't recommend @qntm.org's "There Is No Antimemetics Division" enough, and @theguardian.com agrees!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Five of the best science fiction books of 2025
An eco-masterpiece, icy intrigue, cyberpunkish cyborgs, memory-eating aliens and super-fast travel sends the world spinning out of control
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Can't recommend @qntm.org's "There Is No Antimemetics Division" enough, and @theguardian.com agrees!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
If you are in SF check this out. A buddy of mine is doing their thing at 8pm.
I’ll be at my SF systems meetup. Sad to miss this.
tickets.grayarea.org/events/0af8b...
I’ll be at my SF systems meetup. Sad to miss this.
tickets.grayarea.org/events/0af8b...
Gray Area / Grand Theater
tickets.grayarea.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If you are in SF check this out. A buddy of mine is doing their thing at 8pm.
I’ll be at my SF systems meetup. Sad to miss this.
tickets.grayarea.org/events/0af8b...
I’ll be at my SF systems meetup. Sad to miss this.
tickets.grayarea.org/events/0af8b...
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Parquet praise in the wild :) Nice chatting with you at Datacouncil Hannes!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeon...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeon...
Introducing DuckLake
YouTube video by DuckDB
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Parquet praise in the wild :) Nice chatting with you at Datacouncil Hannes!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeon...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeon...
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There is still time to register for CIDR 2026 in Santa Cruz! If you need a roommate for the conference, there is also a spreadsheet you can use to find someone! www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...
CIDR 2026 - Registration
The 16th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2026), Registration Information
www.cidrdb.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
There is still time to register for CIDR 2026 in Santa Cruz! If you need a roommate for the conference, there is also a spreadsheet you can use to find someone! www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...
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Designers of ATproto! I want to host a design workshop/session at #AtmosphereConf2026
What would you like to see at such an event? Would you like to help? What can we do to make the Atmosphere better?
@aka.dad @renderg.host @zeu.dev @danhon.com
What would you like to see at such an event? Would you like to help? What can we do to make the Atmosphere better?
@aka.dad @renderg.host @zeu.dev @danhon.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Designers of ATproto! I want to host a design workshop/session at #AtmosphereConf2026
What would you like to see at such an event? Would you like to help? What can we do to make the Atmosphere better?
@aka.dad @renderg.host @zeu.dev @danhon.com
What would you like to see at such an event? Would you like to help? What can we do to make the Atmosphere better?
@aka.dad @renderg.host @zeu.dev @danhon.com
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If you want to watch a video describing the Naibbe cipher, I gave a talk on it back in August:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByAR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByAR...
Voynich Manuscript Day 2025 Full Conference
YouTube video by Voynich Talk
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If you want to watch a video describing the Naibbe cipher, I gave a talk on it back in August:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByAR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByAR...
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it's happening!!!
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
it's happening!!!
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
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If your org is on your seventh layoff or Lord-have-mercy, your 82nd re-org, we suggest that it's time to take a hard look at your underlying planning issues...
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
All hat, no cattle - Raw Signal Group
If your org is on your seventh layoff or Lord-have-mercy, your 82nd re-org, we suggest that it's time to take a hard look at your underlying planning issues
www.rawsignal.ca
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
If your org is on your seventh layoff or Lord-have-mercy, your 82nd re-org, we suggest that it's time to take a hard look at your underlying planning issues...
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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> “Supply chain security” is a serious problem. It’s also seriously overhyped
> Setting a cooldown of 7 days would have prevented the vast majority of these attacks from reaching end users
blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/W...
> Setting a cooldown of 7 days would have prevented the vast majority of these attacks from reaching end users
blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/W...
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
> “Supply chain security” is a serious problem. It’s also seriously overhyped
> Setting a cooldown of 7 days would have prevented the vast majority of these attacks from reaching end users
blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/W...
> Setting a cooldown of 7 days would have prevented the vast majority of these attacks from reaching end users
blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/W...
doom loop unrelated, catcalls are up in SF per a trusted source -- my wife..
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
doom loop unrelated, catcalls are up in SF per a trusted source -- my wife..
the elastic dying on my moleskin is my least favorite feature.
any good alternative notebooks that have improved on this?
any nice solutions to this?
any good alternative notebooks that have improved on this?
any nice solutions to this?
November 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
the elastic dying on my moleskin is my least favorite feature.
any good alternative notebooks that have improved on this?
any nice solutions to this?
any good alternative notebooks that have improved on this?
any nice solutions to this?
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Ceebo's 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘴 includes some of the most tremendous world-building I’ve heard in years, on a gloomy, gleaming slate of beats by producers like Jim Legxacy and afrosurrealist
Raps About Tony Blair, Synths About Vikings
Plus two more intimate hip-hop albums and a high-energy new DJ-Kicks mix.
www.hearingthings.co
November 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Ceebo's 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘴 includes some of the most tremendous world-building I’ve heard in years, on a gloomy, gleaming slate of beats by producers like Jim Legxacy and afrosurrealist
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Here is a nice article summarizing the talk (thanks stiller.bsky.social)
🔗 www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
🔗 www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Here is a nice article summarizing the talk (thanks stiller.bsky.social)
🔗 www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
🔗 www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
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My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
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I've been thinking about this all day, because so much of my career has been spent being not truly "one of us," and I'm only beginning to come to some kind of terms with how painful it has been.
If you're always an inspector at the end/external to/outside of the "core group" you're seen as not truly belonging, not truly "one of us," especially in organizations that are doing a bad job of protecting their dissenters and divergent thinkers (many tech orgs, ofc)
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I've been thinking about this all day, because so much of my career has been spent being not truly "one of us," and I'm only beginning to come to some kind of terms with how painful it has been.
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Security, privacy, accessibility, UX, anything that an org sees as being bolted on at the end hits this problem.
"Champion sounds nice, but you don't have to become a Champion if everyone is already doing the thing you want. So taking on the mantle of Champion means taking on conflict."
"Champion sounds nice, but you don't have to become a Champion if everyone is already doing the thing you want. So taking on the mantle of Champion means taking on conflict."
New open newsletter at Fight for the Human: Can we make Security Empirical, and why might we want to?
In it you'll find the Dev Science Office Hour I hosted with @arianamirian.bsky.social, as well as my notes on a paper about technical Champions
www.fightforthehuman.com/empirical-se...
In it you'll find the Dev Science Office Hour I hosted with @arianamirian.bsky.social, as well as my notes on a paper about technical Champions
www.fightforthehuman.com/empirical-se...
Can we make Security Empirical, and why might we want to?
There's a paper I recently came across by Mohammad Tahaei and colleagues called Privacy Champions in Sofware Teams: Understanding Their Motivations, Strategies, and Challenges. In it, they interview 1...
www.fightforthehuman.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Security, privacy, accessibility, UX, anything that an org sees as being bolted on at the end hits this problem.
"Champion sounds nice, but you don't have to become a Champion if everyone is already doing the thing you want. So taking on the mantle of Champion means taking on conflict."
"Champion sounds nice, but you don't have to become a Champion if everyone is already doing the thing you want. So taking on the mantle of Champion means taking on conflict."
Reposted by Chris K Wensel
If you're always an inspector at the end/external to/outside of the "core group" you're seen as not truly belonging, not truly "one of us," especially in organizations that are doing a bad job of protecting their dissenters and divergent thinkers (many tech orgs, ofc)
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If you're always an inspector at the end/external to/outside of the "core group" you're seen as not truly belonging, not truly "one of us," especially in organizations that are doing a bad job of protecting their dissenters and divergent thinkers (many tech orgs, ofc)
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Tesla employees passed around photos of the insides of customers' garages, footage of what they were doing inside/near their cars. The cars were OFF at the time, a nude Tesla driver walking past their car in the privacy of their own garage became a Tesla office meme
Stop embracing surveillance tech
Stop embracing surveillance tech
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tesla employees passed around photos of the insides of customers' garages, footage of what they were doing inside/near their cars. The cars were OFF at the time, a nude Tesla driver walking past their car in the privacy of their own garage became a Tesla office meme
Stop embracing surveillance tech
Stop embracing surveillance tech
That 100% rotten tomatoes might be due to an rna infection.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
That 100% rotten tomatoes might be due to an rna infection.
I guess I’m not surprised Paul Kingsnorth didn’t introduce James C Scott until the end even though it always felt from the first chapter he was just around the next corner.
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I guess I’m not surprised Paul Kingsnorth didn’t introduce James C Scott until the end even though it always felt from the first chapter he was just around the next corner.
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@andymasley.bsky.social you've written a about data center water usage, have you explored differences in water quality?
If data centers use potable drinking water (to avoid damaging their cooling equipment with mineral buildup-up) that means comparisons to agricultural water usage may be misleading
If data centers use potable drinking water (to avoid damaging their cooling equipment with mineral buildup-up) that means comparisons to agricultural water usage may be misleading
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
@andymasley.bsky.social you've written a about data center water usage, have you explored differences in water quality?
If data centers use potable drinking water (to avoid damaging their cooling equipment with mineral buildup-up) that means comparisons to agricultural water usage may be misleading
If data centers use potable drinking water (to avoid damaging their cooling equipment with mineral buildup-up) that means comparisons to agricultural water usage may be misleading
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”