Wil Shipley

@wjs
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Senior iOS ecosystem engineer at Apple.

Previously co-founder of The Omni Group and Delicious Monster Software.

I'm angry at every person who knows me and for some reason didn't tell me that “Predator: Badlands" was the best movie of the last year.
Wait so is this season of Bridgerton really going with the idea that nobody could tell Sophie was a maid this whole time? Like, he had sex with her but didn't recognize her?

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

“I am a former NASA engineer/scientist with a PhD in space electronics. I also worked at Google for 10 years, in various parts of the company including YouTube and the bit of Cloud responsible for deploying AI capacity, so I'm quite well placed to have an opinion here.
The short version: this is an absolutely terrible idea, and really makes zero sense whatsoever.”

Have a look, @sundogplanets

https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

Taranis
My team at Apple is hiring Debugger Engineer to work on LLDB in London: https://jobs.apple.com/en-gb/details/200643284/debugger-engineer
If you’re interested, please submit your CV through the website. Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions!
Debugger Engineer - Jobs at Apple (UK)

Apply for a Debugger Engineer job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

Voluntary research update on the first three rural GMI study counties. If you give trust, you get it in return. https://rgmii.org/blog/voluntary-research-participation-our-first-three-rgmii-counties/
Voluntary Research Participation: Our First Three RGMII Counties

The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative has three primary goals: 1. Help lift rural Americans out of poverty with direct cash payments over the course of 16 months. 2. Study the process of the GMI programs, so that the GMI playbook can be improved and repeated, for more people, in

Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative • RGMII

Who is the patron saint of email?

Saint Francis of A CC.

(Don’t @ me, I stand by my choices)

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/seven-billion-reasons-facebook-abandon-its-face-recognition-plans

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans

Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
What if we all just decided to say something different instead of “Let's go!"
"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp
Accountability for ICE and CBP

However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

Doomsday Scenario
Come with me if you want to live -- https://staygold.us
Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative • RGMII

Funds county-level studies providing direct cash support to rural communities facing generational poverty, while partnering with local organizations to generate evidence-based data and build lasting opportunity.

Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative • RGMII