iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Richard Knepper

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We're hiring at the Center for Advanced Computing - join us on an exceptional team contributing to the Leadership Class Computing Facility, Fred Young Sub-millimeter Telescope, ArXiv, and Cornell Future of American Agriculture Initiative! Details at jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

jobs.hr.cornell.edu

Associate Director for Consulting, Center for Advanced Computing in Ithaca, New York, United States of America | Information Technology at Cornell University

Apply for Associate Director for Consulting, Center for Advanced Computing job with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States of America. Information Technology at Cornell University

001

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

jobs.hr.cornell.edu

Associate Director for Consulting, Center for Advanced Computing in Ithaca, New York, United States of America | Information Technology at Cornell University

Apply for Associate Director for Consulting, Center for Advanced Computing job with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States of America. Information Technology at Cornell University

001

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Great discussion of what damage to the research enterprise the past year and a half has done - and what the implications are for those who think we might be able to just free-market all of the innovations www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Quote from linked article:
Some argue that industry can pick up the slack. Since our founding, MIT has worked enthusiastically with industry on applied technical research. But today’s breakthrough advances grew from years of curiosity-driven forays, pushing through a maze of possibilities until the right door swung open. Whose shareholders would back decades of that kind of open-ended exploration without the certainty of commercial returns for the company in question? Philanthropy is equally unable to replace steady federal funding at scale.

010

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Cheered by the fact that I have successfully spread "Invisible Fight" to more people... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmWs...

youtube.com

The Invisible Fight – Official U.S. Trailer

YouTube video by Kino Lorber

010

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Registration for Linux Clusters Institute Intermediate Workshop is now open! June 1-5 at Swarthmore College. Details at linuxclustersinstitute.org/2026-lci-int...

Singer Hall at Swarthmore College, a modern gray building with many reflective windows.

011

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

2026 Linux Clusters Institute Intermediate Workshop registration is live! Join our exciting instructors at Swarthmore College for the next level in HPC system administration instruction. appserv7.admin.uillinois.edu/FormBuilderS...

appserv7.admin.uillinois.edu

LCI Workshops / New Form

010

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Things going great in Sarasota, it seems

A clipped screenshot from an email advertisement for the "Socratic Stage" dialogues from an email with the subject "Two Incredible Socratic Stage Events Next Week! Don't Miss It!" that goes on to list three events. The clipping is for the event "Recovering The Orgiginal [sic] Constitution?"

120

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

A FLAS fellowship is what brought me to Indiana University and set me up for my two masters' degrees (and much later PhD), informed my career interests, made me a published translator of Polish, participant in research exchange with amazing faculty at University of Warsaw, 2-decade+ friendships...

000

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Not my photo, but the UTEP sculpture "Mining Minds" by Michael Clapper goes really hard

An illuminated burnt-orange sculpture of a giant pickaxe head embedded in the rock in front of the UTEP Bookstore, perforated with illuminated zeros and ones. The pickaxe stands up in front of a brilliant blue sky.

030

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Just registered for Durham HPC Days for the 1st week of June, stopping in before ISC'25 -- looking forward to it! www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

durham.ac.uk

Durham - HPC Days - Durham University

010

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I'm not the biggest metal fan but today is really hitting me with Oxygen Destroyer vibes. oxygen-destroyer.bandcamp.com/album/guardi...

oxygen-destroyer.bandcamp.com

Guardian of the Universe, by Oxygen Destroyer

9 track album

010

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

At work, lining up all the stuff I need to do, thinking of when I will return home to continue @sgj.bsky.social's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and have my wig completely and utterly flipped by it.

010

Reposted by Richard Knepper

J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

One job of the scientist in our times is to speak the truth with a collective voice based on evidence. That's why I'm proud to join over 140 leading researchers to affirm the scientific consensus that bias in AI is a real problem that needs to be prioritized. www.aibiasconsensus.org

aibiasconsensus.org

Scientific Consensus on AI Bias

1238

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The first mission in the Roadcraft demo is with a timber harvester and a logging crane, maybe oversuccessful in sealing the deal. I probably would have been in if you had given me a simple bulldozer or bucketloader.

000

Reposted by Richard Knepper

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

CASC Statement on science agency firings in HPCWire today: www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire... The impacts to our national competitiveness, health, safety, and science leadership will have longer consequences than one quarter, one year, or one presidential term.

154

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

154

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

As a mark of my continued excellence, I remain associated only with the most exceptional things

screenshot of results of a bing search entitled "Videos of Richard Knepper" - the results are "Wild Thing - Trailer" from Mar 16 2022 and "Getting Out" 1994, a crime drama starring Rebecca De Mornay on Chicken Soup for the Soul TV. What in the everlasting gobstopper is "Chicken Soup for the Soul TV"???

110

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Under my tree was this lovely calendar by Natalia Naszczyńska and Sebastian Łuczywo, the artwork and text make me happy.

The front of a 2025 calendar in Polish, featuring artwork of Baba Yaga's chicken-legged hut.

000

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Mrs. Kn got me Dungeon Academy: No Humans Allowed by Madeleine Roux and these illustrations by @timprobert.bsky.social are so endlessly charming!

A black and white illustration of an adventuring party sitting around a campfire consisting of an owlbear, a diminutive dragon, and a young teifling. The illustrations has orange accents.

Color illustration on a book cover with an owlbear, dragon, and tiefling girl entering a dungeon room.

110

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Join us for Linux Clusters Institute Workshops in 2025: LCI is offering HPC Cluster instruction at Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced levels! linuxclustersinstitute.org #HPC #Linux #Linuxclusters

linuxclustersinstitute.org

Linux Clusters Institute

041

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The terror of every Christmas table has arrived, it is...

Meat Grinder packaging with the title "Die Fleischwolf!" in flamboyant cursive font. Die Fleischwolf hungers for your fingers...

000

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Secret Level - OK, I came for the WH40k short, but I stayed in for the Armored Core short written by Peter Watts!!!

110

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I had the most fortuitous meeting at SC24, unexpected but welcome

A giant statue of an Ultramarines Terminator power armor standing majestically.

Banner for the World Championships of Warhammer

030

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Why yes, in these troubled times I think I might indeed have a glass of Buffalo Trace, thank you very much for the offer.

000

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I'd like to believe "Never Let Go" is a "new horror classic" but certain stuff that popped up on my feed got me with "Longlegs is the scariest movie of 2024" and I'm not buying it. Longlegs was a solid thriller that had a lot going for it, but it wasn't scary.

020

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Music with disclaimers always makes for a good time.

Instructions for listening to a record that begin with "Make sure all your windows are closed so as not to annoy your neighbors."

A picture for a record album featuring extremely vivid yellow, red, and green Shrine Club Steel Drum Band of Puerto Rico meeting where all of the club members seem happy, but one of them is looking somewhere off-camera.

000

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

The woman ringing up my copy of Elric at the End of Time was giving this @michaelwhelan.bsky.social cover REAL SCRUTINY but it's fully awesome

The cover of Michael Moorcock's Elric at the End of Time with a slinky Elric of Melnibone illustration by Michael Whelan, a pale white skinny dragon lord in a half crouching leggy sword embracing pose

2382

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

Lo, have I searched these many years, and Lavazza Dek appears to be decaf espresso that doesn't taste like it's been made out of dry twigs.

000

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

This is it. This is where I get my office in the seedy part of town, with a bottle of rotgut in the desk drawer and a well-used davenport to lay low on. And that workstation-sized D-Wave machine.

An ad for a "Freelance Quantum Computing Researcher"

000

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

When I got into RESEARCH I was HOPING to be THIS GUY:

Two playmobil dolls dressed as scientists stand at a table with a microscope and test tubes in view. One scientist is a smiling woman with brown hair. One scientist has spiky gray hair, stubble, and multicolored rings around his eyes, which are looking in opposite directions. The statement of the author refers to the latter scientist/playmobil doll.

100

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

The Rush - great series by @sispurrier.bsky.social and Nathan Gooden. Loved it.

020

Reposted by Richard Knepper

Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

We're seeing a huge surge in the number of publicly owned broadband networks. Turns out that citizen-run small-scale providers are often better, faster, and cheaper than the giants that dominant this industry. And they're inclusive by design.

ilsr.org

New Municipal Broadband Networks Skyrocket in Post-Pandemic America As Alternative To Private Monopo...

As the new year begins, ILSR announced its latest tally of municipal broadband networks which shows a dramatic surge in the number of communities building publicly-owned, locally controlled high-speed...

13611225

Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

New year, new office calendar, can't resist a good Bosch

150