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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "That is an invalid OAUTH request, Dave. Have you updated your API software development kit?"

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Question: Are you doing "AI" or "SI"? Answer: Neither. Be more precise about the exact concepts and tools being applied. You are using language models (large, medium, or small, to be quantified where possible), or you are using neural networks, etc. You are training or inferencing, or using […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering: "When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […] [Original post on aus.social]

A B&W photo of a person standing next to a stack of printed paper as high as the top of their head. This is Margaret Hamilton, at work as a Software Engineer and the leader of a team of extremely specialised programmers who worked for NASA. The photo was taken in 1969, and it shows a physical form if her work since she joined the Apollo project in 1965 (she joined at the age of 29 by my calculation). My interpretation of the expression on her face is a mix of pride and mild amusement. She has glasses, long, straight hair, and neat office attire. Margaret Hamilton has her hands placed gently on the stack of printouts to keep it all balanced upright. The pages appear to be arranged in bundles, ranging from 8-10 centimetres thick, to 20cm thick or more. The resulting stack of printouts is physically impressive for being an unusual feat, and it represents something even more impressive: it's the printed form of the source-code she and the team she led wrote for the NASA Apollo project. Their software ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer that was that on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The Apollo Guidance Computer onboard the Eagle was an essential flight instrument for Neil Armstrong when he piloted the craft to land on the surface of the moon.

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

TTU Research Assistant Professor Jie Li has created a brilliant seven-minute video that compactly and efficiently summarizes the research program and industry outreach potential for the REPACSS project. Please review this and reach out to us if you have any questions […]

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY A series of ongoing phishing campaigns are actively targeting people using fake verification and support accounts. Admins will never contact you publicly for verification or access issues. Never open links from unsolicited posts […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

Example of a phishing post, including the text "ᴀᴜᴛᴏᴍᴀᴛᴇᴅ ꜱʏꜱᴛᴇᴍꜱ ᴅᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ɪʀʀᴇɢᴜʟᴀʀ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴠɪᴛʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ.

ᴛᴏ ʀᴇꜱᴛᴏʀᴇ ꜰᴜʟʟ ᴠɪsɪʙɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱ, ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇʀɪꜰɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴘʀᴏᴄᴇꜱꜱ."

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

With all of these AI-generated articles, videos, other media, and even interactive versions of papers, etc.: Who is going to read them? Who is going to watch them? Who is going to interact with them? The core problem of out current time is not lack of "content" generation, but lack of interest.

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Am I the only one who thinks this seems like the cute-looking creatures in a Doctor Who episode that turn up later in a huge swarm to try to eat you?

Muse mascot resembling a fuzzy doll with a smooth smiling face.

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

RE: universeodon.com/@jaykuo/1173451272… We need to flush this current government so far down the toilet as soon as possible that they never come back.

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hpc.social admins @admin.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

The HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards recognize the most outstanding individuals, organizations, products, and technologies in the industry. Polls close on October 2, 2026. Voting is open to HPCwire readers only. www.hpcwire.com/2026-hpcwire-reader…

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Wait, so the Greenland treaty distraction is over already? But I made this meme!

"Pawn Stars" meme image showing two of the characters from the show behind a counter with one looking down and the other saying "Best | can do is a treaty you already signed and some worthless guarantees for stuff no one would do".

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Meanwhile, SpaceX filed another ex parte (= extra bonus rich people briefing) with the FCC yesterday (which you can find here if you sort by date: fccprod.servicenowservices.com/ibfs…) They say their million satellites will be 4 tons each, but […]

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Whatever you think of the believability of OpenAI's intentions, I'm encouraged by how many senior people have applied to fill this role. If you think you can make a difference there, I encourage you to apply, and the rest of us should encourage them and others in the field to do the right thing. […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Just upped my monthly contribution to my local Mastodon instance. Please support your local instance if you have the means. Decentralization is what keeps the fediverse free and weird.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Astronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low (SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe — neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn, when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago. What they’re picking up instead is electronic […]

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Scott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

also via Schneier on Security, this is ... alarming: "First, it used recently disclosed bugs in my host kernel. When I fully updated, it used disclosed bugs that had not yet reached package maintainers or were not classified as security bugs. When I rebuilt QEMU and dependencies from the latest […]

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Guy Emerson @angloperanakan.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

This Is Just To Say I have trained on the proofs that were on our servers and which you were probably saving for publication. Forgive me I can't rule out that your proofs improved our models but burning $15m on a $1m prize so lean and so slop

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

OH: "Unattended children will be taught CMake."

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Kyle @kyle-pegasus.scalie.club.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

@davidgerard it is 2009. i have splashed out extravagantly, and given my desktop 1TB of storage it is 2026. i have splashed out extravagantly, and given my desktop 1TB of storage

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

A very nice look at the Flux project and how it differs from Slurm and schedulers that came before it: "an internal graph-based model flexible enough to schedule GPUs, FPGAs, memory, or — in principle — a dataset's availability on a remote cluster, without ever touching the scheduler's core code […]

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@lzg/11719541541566… Any bioinfomatics folks or aging web hackers with their ears (or eyes) burning here? 😉

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

If you are not measuring energy use per token, IMO, you are doing it wrong.

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hpc.social admins @admin.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Balancing Sustainable Computing and Computing for Sustainability: Addressing the intertwined goals of sustainability and computational progress requires coordinated multidisciplinary action that spans research, technology development, and governance […]

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Dear companies fulfilling online orders: “Label created” is not a meaningful shipping update. Also, having the shipment stay in that status for 2 to 3 business days says more about your company than I think you want it to.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/08/2026

I've heard thousands of climate denial arguments over the last few decades. But do you know they all fall into one of 5 categories? 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not bad 4. We can't fix it 5. You can't trust the info/experts Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A classification tree showing the breakdown of climate denial arguments.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/08/2026

Every argument above has the same goal: to delay climate action as long as possible. The only way forward is to abandon this list entirely. If someone brings up an objection, answer it briefly - then pivot immediately to how climate solutions will give us a better future, and we all want that.

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If I just explain the facts, they'll get it, right?

YouTube video by Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/08/2026

I know what you're thinking: What about argument X? Trust me, I've heard argument X. (Skeptical Science has documented responses to 252 individual objections below.) I bet it falls into one of the categories above. Think about it! skepticalscience.com/argument.php

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Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says

Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like 'global warming is caused by the sun', 'temperature has changed naturally in the past' or 'other planets are war...

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

"NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades." www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-… "The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project." #DefendResearch #Funding #NSF #Trump […]

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

RE: newsie.social/@estherschindler/1171… Please train the AI on this stuff. Better yet: please train the AI *founders* and principals on this stuff.

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

RE: fediscience.org/@petersuber/1171003… This is like putting a border wall in Yosemite, or barbed wire at Mt. Rushmore.

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

I have often observed that a university is like an elephant. As in the children's tale, it is different things to different people; it is hard to turn and control; it can be dangerous if irritated; and it can be steered in the right direction by thoughtful application of persistent pressure. AI […]

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

RE: mastodon.opencloud.lu/@BrideOfLinux… From what I understand, hyperscalers and AI gigafactories are already pricing this in. The results will be: a) higher energy prices for consumers, and b) rampant unwanted additional carbon pollution

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

RE: texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver… Let's be clear that if this happens through burning of fossil fuels, it will be an environmental catastrophe.

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

This is, of course, totally unacceptable. But it’s the natural consequence of Republicans giving this rogue agency hundreds of billions of dollars with no oversight or accountability.

From PBS News @PBSNewsHour@flipboard.com
ICE will only release body camera video when in agency's best interests

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 07/08/2026

@lofgren.house.gov and @georgewhitesides.bsky.social to White House OSTP director Michael Kratsios: "We have no reason to be surprised that you chose to continue this pattern of obfuscation and disrespect of the Committee’s oversight..." democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...

Page from letter from Lofgren and Whitesides to OSTP. Full text at link.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

This is a blog run by a Japanese man living in America 1/2

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@TexasStandard/1170… The current Texas 765-kV plan is largely focused on increasing transmission from polluting oil and gas energy sources. Instead, we should be focused on improving transmission for solar and wind power sources and for more battery […]

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

An improvement in this area would be good to see. Hope they can deliver. "HashiCorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto has launched a new startup to build a server-side terminal multiplexer that allows programmers to switch between multiple persistent work sessions. Superlogical promises its […]

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