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midendian @midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

lovely jog up the mountain this morning. from my new place it’s somewhat easier to come around the backside on Clarendon to Marview which puts you on a high plateau behind the peaks—and right at the base of @SutroTower. #sanfrancisco #running

Enormous red and white radio tower against a clear blue sky, with red berries in the foreground.

A person stands on a hill with a staircase leading up to a railing. The hill is covered in dry grass and bushes, with a city visible in the distance.

Two red cranes overlooking a city and a body of water under a clear blue sky.

A rocky mountain with a blue sky and the sun shining brightly.

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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Lots of account take overs today resulting in posts with malicious links tagging dozens of accounts. gird your passwords, my friends. turn on 2fa. don't click on sketchy links.

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@rickf Please don't further the garbage "lab leak" conspiracy. Every proper lab has safeguards and safety protocols, as should the AI companies. Lab accidents are for monster movies and RFK Jr.

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

[AI, USpol] "Banning statutory terminology inside federal agencies is not an eccentric linguistic choice: it is an administrative kill switch. The 2020 National AI Initiative Act anchored civilian oversight, FTC inquiries, and NIST safety standards to the explicit phrase “artificial […]

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

[AI, USpol] Believable argument that "SI" is not merely the usual Trumpian headfake, but legally puts regulation with the spooks rather than civil society: Paywall but worth seeking out […]

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Oh look an @beep imposter: mastodon.social/@EthanMarctt blocked and reported. Impersonating jounalists seems to be a new mastododon.social scam

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Any sensor recalcitrant enough to make me choose violence, that is, hook up the logic analyzer, goes on the shitlist. Looking at you TLV493D-A1B6

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I keep looking at this souvenir from my trip to LA and I still have a hard time understanding it’s real and not a sci-fi prop

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

"...caffeine largely restores alertness and cognitive performance degraded by overnight withdrawal rather than conferring net gains beyond a non-dependent baseline." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Effe…

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@williampietri Do you have a link? Would like to learn more…

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

If you are weary of horrid people getting all the headlines, read about this year’s MacArthur fellows www.npr.org/2026/09/29/nx-s1-598044…

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@williampietri Wow. There’s a whole class of entertainment based on people caught in their own lies. Based on the laughtracks I think this is supposed to be comedy, but I find it unbearably cringe

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

John Coltrane centennial birthday Wednesday. Until then, a continued all-Coltrane playlist on www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr

John Coltrane B&W photograph from Wikipedia

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Yes, yet another AI take, but this one cites Brautigan, Adam Curtis, and Community Memory as context, so I thought it was worth the read. www.burningshore.com/p/machines-of-…

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Machines of Loving Grace

Plus News and Notes

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Fancy furniture store selling Eames recliners for more than I paid for my first car :/

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Flying while tall. Signore in front graciously agreed to not recline

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@fbz/1171809919711… My favorite scarf is a Rule 73 cellular automaton knit from KintYak. It came with extra yarn, and SOURCE CODE.

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midendian @midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

another fun day in the high country even though the monsoon storm rolled in and chased me back down before I made it to the pass. good motivation to run more.

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@diyelectromusic That would work! Diode OR would save you a 12-input logic, but you should be able to feedback an output to the reset for a short pulse (which you can stretch if it's too short). zl2pd.com/xtalRefOsc.html

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ZL2PD CMOS HF Digital Dial

CMOS frequency counter suitable for transcevier digital frequency displays

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Cheerful morning reading about Freeman Spogli, the private equity ghouls that totally fucked Philz Coffee workers (and countless others). Last year they endowed a policy research institute at Stanford…

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@spacelizard Ah was going to ask you about the particular sensor! For a hobby project we are thinking a color sensor for daytime and maybe a thermopile sensor at night. Wonder how well a FLIR microbolometer array would do on coverage, maybe that’s what’s in a Boltwood?

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@spacelizard Thank you, neat! Scheming with pals about distributed fog sensing to estimate the fog line in San Francisco, where conditions can vary from minute to minute and block to block :)

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@docpop it’s not for us, it’s to train their algorithms

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

It looks better from this angle. Less cable gore visible.

Photo of the front end of the Huntsman Telescope, an array of ten camera lenses on a single mount.

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I keep spotting this Lightfoot e-scooter zipping through our neighborhood. Yes, those are solar panels along the side to extend its range. Bonus points if you can recognize the rider.

A man riding an e scooter on 17th street. The scooter has large solar panels built onto the sides, giving it a very boxy and unusual look. It seems sort of retro futuristic in style too.

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Hmm, #KiCad Altium import still not quite ready for prime time. Is this bug really 6 years old now? gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/work_…

Kicad schematic showing what should be four capacitors in parallel, but the capacitors are rotated incorrectly and don't connect to the wires

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

@OldLAPhotos "Charles Robert Speedie, aka "The Traveler," was a mild-mannered former Sunday school teacher and law student. In1942, at age 37, Speedie was arrested and falsely accused of check fraud... He was acquitted, but so embittered that he decided that he'd beat the system that had done […]

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@tomshardware/tom-s-h… "some core Windows services will break because they'll fail to authenticate your Microsoft account" --- oh dear such a shame

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Using the #InouyeSolarTelescope and computer simulations, researchers from #NationalSolarObservatory, #mpsgoettingen and #HighAltitudeObservatory reveal tiny vortices on the Sun’s surface that have never been seen before. They are interpreted as signs of […] [Original post on academiccloud.social]

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