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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our first term at WPI ends next Friday suckers.

Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The only use case I'm interested for AI is a chatbot that students are forced to install on their phones that answers their emailed questions before they hit send. It's powered by a SLM (Syllabus Language Model).

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My goal for the next school year is for everyone else to get their shit together

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The shortest distance between Springfield MA and CT is through Anchorage, AK. Go home USPS, you're drunk

Tracking a package from Michigan to Connecticut via Alaska

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Everyone knows that I seldom go on social media to complain, but I'm going to make an exception today. Enshitification has historically been used to describe degradation of products and services in the digital space, but I believe it applies to everything right now

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tariff the Pacific Northwest!!!!!

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I am told this stock ticker showed on the side of the university building next to the student center over the summer. Who is this for? Our undergrad students who have a stock portfolio to manage between exams?

Stock ticker on the side of a university building

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Red Sox win 13 straight. 4 strait sweeps. From 14 games below 0.500 to 2 games over. Breathing down the Yankees' necks & in the wild card hunt. No bigger story in sports right now.

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hydrogen peroxide pKa = 11.8 Carbonic acid pKa = 6.3 quote is edited "Or that a shallow pool of hot water in direct sun grew algae, and then acidic hydrogen peroxide used to treat the algae ate away at the paint?"

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Text from my wife about her delay driving home

Text saying a model T broke down on the interstate

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Reminds me of visiting Edinburgh as a grad student. Since I was at the conference alone, I ended up in a bar by myself one evening. The night ended drinking in some guys apartment with a few others I just met. This despite it getting harder to understand what they were saying as the night went on.

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Some venting incoming. Buckle up. On the upside, it gives some insight on *a* reason I've been less active on the socials for a while.

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I can't wait to not watch the World Cup.

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If you shut down the strip club in town, people are bound to pursue alternative vices

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This seems bad: "Helium, for the WPI areas that utilize Helium, this is now under a force majeure. Based on WPI’s overall usage, Airgas will only be able to provide 1 tank of HE per month to WPI. Procurement will monitor HE orders and advise departments as needed."

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you have plans to commit a crime in NE CT, tonight is the night to do it, as long as it's not in Storrs. Not my video, but I saw what appears to be every cop car in the state staged on or near the UConn campus. There were +12 cars at the Mansfield gym www.instagram.com/reels/DWzoov...

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Rusty Kiln on Instagram: "Storrs CT. 186 State Troopers getting ready for the. UCONN NCAA Men’s Final Game. #uconnhuskies #uconnbasketball #ncaabasketball #rustykiln"

54 likes, 0 comments - rustykiln on April 6, 2026: "Storrs CT. 186 State Troopers getting ready for the. UCONN NCAA Men’s Final Game. #uconnhuskies #uconnbasketball #ncaabasketball #rustykiln".

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Really a missed opportunity to give us a ballroom update.

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

There should be a statue next to it of Washington Irving embellishing & sanitizing history into propaganda.

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Man who's about to turn 80 celebrates death of 81 year old.

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Colin Jost should start giving briefings. It would be equally valuable.

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I guess we will have to invade Venezuela again to install a WBC champion more to our liking.

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Pretty sure we could replace more than 50% of university administration with AI & no one would notice.

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

These morons are taking what could be lightly ribbing our friends to the north who have historically owned us in hockey & making it an unfunny policy justification. It's the Canadian Baconification of international relationships

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

What should members of Congress do tonight? 1. Don't attend. 2. If you do attend, walk out when Trump defends ICE, or when it's clear he's not going to apologize for the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, or when it's clear he's going to ignore the Epstein survivors.

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Not what everyone is latching onto, but isn't this a way to bypass barriers to let the companies LLM train on a large amount of data it might not otherwise have access to?

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

How the 51st state plan sound now, eh?

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

My friends and spouse made the mistake of suggesting that a recent viral workout video reminded them of an old SNL cartoon.

RFKJ riding on top of a flying Kid Rock with both as Ace and Gary

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I don't know if it's as much fun as it used to be, but let's try it anyway. SUCK IT CANADA! USA! USA! USA!

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Why would I invest the time & mental energy into writing an NSF grant right now?

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Hey #ChemSky. I'm wondering what PhD applicants are experiencing this year. I have a student with essentially a 4.0, 3 years of research experience in my group, 1 summer (another pending) interning at Pfizer who currently has no offers. IMO this is complete nonsense. He's getting antsy.

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Would Canada actually notice if the Stanley Cup was eliminated? They haven't seemed that interested in it since 1993

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Offended by the Puppy Bowl, TPUSA is sponsoring the Rabid Coyote Bowl. Tune in!

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Are we going to have to chain ourselves to the f*cking Kennedy Center for the next 3 years?!?!?

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"Shocked"? Not the word I'd use for something observable in public on a regular basis

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Nice to see that 2-days post storm the city & university have made sure it's safe to enter & use crosswalks

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Why stop there? Our Olympic athletes should compete under the Individual Neutral Athletes banner.

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

"Pathological liar says words." Fixed it.

CNN screenshot saying Trump won't use force to take Greenland

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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I know we have word counts to hit & hours of podcast & news talk to fill, but there's nothing to discuss or debate. This is a malignant sociopathic narcissist with diminished mental faculties who wasn't very smart to begin with. Everything you say after that is just filler.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 06/01/2026

Today is the 10th anniversary of my jokily starting a petition to name (then) newly discovered element 117 octarine (Oc) in honour of Terry Pratchett Element 117 (now named tennessine) is, technically, a halogen. Greenish-purple and only visible to the magically inclined seemed right to me (1/4)

Octarine artwork showing an element tile for Oc, 117, surrounded by green and purple fire, on a background featuring cogs.

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