Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 18hGreat typo Featured Speaker: CIO, Illinois Boint & Joint Institute 030
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026WGN is reporting Bicyclist critically injured in South Side crash 82nd and Blackstone #bikechi wgntv.com/news/chicago...wgntv.comBicyclist critically injured in South Side crashCHICAGO — A bicyclist is recovering in the hospital after he was critically injured in a crash on the city’s South Side on Monday afternoon. According to Chicago police, the crash unfolded ju… 000
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Giant Starlinks are hardly good for astronomy. The little ones were already interfering with deep-sky astrophotography and professional research. The big ones could be much worse." www.spaceweather.comspaceweather.comSpaceweather.com - realtime news about the Sun-Earth environmentSolar flares, geomagnetic storms, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids. 110
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Oops, my AI agent downloaded all the science papers behind paywalls and put them on a Tor web site" 0141
Reposted by Dean W. ArmstrongJohn Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Agreed, and some of us recall a related felony conviction: bsky.app/profile/john... 0396
Reposted by Dean W. ArmstrongSETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 23/09/2026#PPOD: 180 years ago today, Johann Gottfried Galle used this telescope to discover Neptune — almost exactly where mathematics predicted it would be. Urbain Le Verrier calculated the location of an unseen planet from its gravitational effects on Uranus. On Sept. 23, 1846, Galle searched for it. 🧪 🔭 59327
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026no scientist in the field has said anything like it. "We’ll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming," No one. A lot of people have taken media coverage of the science and some push the "we're all going to die" aspect of climate change as a reason to push for change, but no. 110
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Converted the 30+ year landline to wireless Tuesday because AT&T has abandoned fixing POTS. Got my first directed spam SMS today. 000
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Look birds, there's free food hanging on a silk thread down off of every tree. Just fly around for a snack! Sincerely, person who is tired of removing mimosa webworms off of hat and body every day. 062
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026alas, it is a typo. But to think of that company's annoying IP claims. Whole-genome sequencing of bacteria isolated from 22 case-patients found that all belonged the same MRSA strain (ST22-MRSA-IV) and produced Pantone-Valentine leucocidin (PVL), a toxin that can make staph infections more severe 100
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026that feeling when you send a student computing assistant to replace a working monitor as old as they are. 000
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Too many emails already today. Internet is basically openly hostile (like REALLY so, don't say duh it's always been). too many projects to do. If a project takes longer than 14 days my boss thinks it's done because that's the default search in the trouble ticketing software. 000
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I had thought early on in the pandemic that I would think it over when I could get a pitcher of Sam Adams and large fries with my friends at Jimmy's. Obviously since they stopped carrying it on draft that wasn't going to happen. But today Salonica has gone back to their old menu with all the items. 120
Reposted by Dean W. ArmstrongLynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 11/09/2026What Fresh Hell is This? What's worse: the design that photo-bombs itself in front of Charles Atwood's landmarked classical facade, or the way they're evading public comment, with renderings not released until AFTER Landmarks Permit Review rubber-stamped it? arcchicago.blogspot.com/2026/09/what...arcchicago.blogspot.comWhat Fresh Hell is This? Stern vs. Atwood at the Museum of Science and IndustryNo debate. No real public input. On Friday, the Chicago Department of Planning and Development went on social media to reveal plans, with ... 183
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026sometimes the LLMs are great. Sometimes they are spectacularly wrong. "Venus at peak brightness ... It's easily visible low in the southwest as twilight fades and will be hard to miss over the lake from the lakefront path. → Space.com: Night sky September 2026"space.comSpace.com: NASA, Space Exploration and Astronomy NewsGet the latest space exploration, innovation and astronomy news. Space.com celebrates humanity's ongoing expansion across the final frontier. 010
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026ClickFix attacks are very very popular. I wrote a reminder to staff and the very same day handled a security incident because a student was given one from an academic medical school webpage arstechnica.com/security/202...arstechnica.comClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viralSimplicity—combined with the difficulty of getting stuff done—makes ClickFix ideal. 000
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Good International Space Station pass Friday evening 7:30-7:40: www.heavens-above.com/passdetails....heavens-above.com 011
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's worth watching even the first 6 minutes, even if it's 2 hours long. tl,dr: LG televisions are spying on you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFV...youtube.com216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV ProblemYouTube video by Gamers Nexus 0177
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Windows: case-insensitive Registry values: case-insensitive Registry values read by Edge or Chrome: better be in the right case or you'll be sorry! 110
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It's all win-win! From the sound of things, the only way to get general aviation to do this is to prohibit leaded gas service at the local/county level. www.blackstone-labs.com/how-do-aircr...blackstone-labs.comHow Do Aircraft Engines Perform on Unleaded Fuel? | Blackstone Laboratories - Part 2It's a new world with unleaded gas - Part 2 000
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Will it continue to expand and solve everyone's problems today? We await the storm as it crosses 355 through to 290. 000
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Proud of her continued advocacy of human rights, democracy, and all things good in Southern Nevada. (HS friend) 030
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026in case you were wondering, corn starch average particle size is about 14um. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Role of hydrogen bond interactions in water–polyol medium in the thickening behavior of cornstarch suspensions July 2017Colloid and Polymer Science 295(7):1-13 DOI:10.1007/s00396-017-4107-8link.springer.comRole of hydrogen bond interactions in water–polyol medium in the thickening behavior of cornstarch suspensions - Colloid and Polymer ScienceRheological properties of suspensions are influenced by changes in the particle’s or suspending medium’s traits. Due to the ability of water and cornstarch to develop strong hydrogen bonds with each o... 000
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026almost a full circle. azure.microsoft.com/en-us/produc...azure.microsoft.comAzure Local | Microsoft AzureDiscover Azure Local—a hybrid cloud platform and solution to run modern and traditional applications locally with flexibility, security, and unified management. 000
Reposted by Dean W. ArmstrongBob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 31/08/2026The US is currently suffering a bad case of very powerful men dangerously decoupled from reality 13611
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This is what that pedestrian death analysis failed to catch-- the cops simply aren't checkmarking that box on the report. 020
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026check out these shadows of the showers in Iowa 041
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Stony Island Hall to be demolished to become cancer patient housing www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/ca...uchicagomedicine.orgUChicago Medicine, American Cancer Society partner to build no-cost lodging for traveling cancer patients - UChicago MedicineThe American Cancer Society and UChicago Medicine are partnering to build Hope Lodge Chicago, a new facility offering free lodging for cancer patients and caregivers traveling for treatment. 092
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Helicopter parenting extending to graduate students? 000
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I've been using the term "harmonic" as if it were the term "overtone"! I've been off by 1 every time I used it. "1st harmonic" is the fundamental. 010
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026the only way to report a problem with an AT&T landline phone is to call a telephone number 230
Reposted by Dean W. ArmstrongChris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It is both illuminating, and deeply weird, that for OpenAI, Amazon, Google and their ilk, the value of these books as a source of uncorrupted information goes to zero as soon as they’ve ingested it. 1103
Reposted by Dean W. ArmstrongZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Wait, actually... is this the solution? Internet becomes unusable. Everyone opens their window at the same time. Waves to neighbor. Asks if you would like to eat cookies and gossip. Birds dance, flowers bloom, rainbows ribbon the horizon. 1918912
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The first quarter moon, 90 degrees the way around in orbit, constrained by the forced on ecliptic for eclipses for both new and full, must be fully off tilted by the maximum that the moon is from the plane of the solar system -- 5 degrees. definitely on the southern tilt. 020
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Great paleosol surface dig at UChicago -- organics, beach sand, lake clay, clay with pebbles?, more clay 040
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026spent a time experimenting with looking at some satellite images in Claude Chat to see if I could bring up some useful comparisons of the continuing power outage from the derecho of August 11th. 151
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026don't have generative AI create your parade route or map. chicagocaribbeancarnival.org 110
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Remember it is Air and Water show weekend and they practice earlier. KC-135 inbound 010
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Nah see this is good ol' American wildfire smoke. 010
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I diverted my walking path this evening to avoid an orb spider web across a sidewalk. I realize someone else is going to have to deal with it but... 020
Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026geomagnetic watch; currently Bz is fairly negative; while it should be clear for the evening, there is smoke aloft moving in. 110
