John Carlsen

@johnlogic
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Dutch-American Silicon Valley native EE/CS developer, long-time user of Unix & Linux, pilot, amateur radio operator (HAM) volunteer for IEEE (Senior member) & CAP; past: Atari, IBM research, game dev (mostly NES-PS3), Texan, adjunct prof, and some stuff with robots, rail equipment, and rockets

I love science, music, social dancing, and people (E Pluribus Unum), want to see more democracy and equality, and am probably a little OCD & ADHD. Also, hail Satan!

Syncopated Systems (my site)syncopate.us
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John CarlsenMar 6, 2023

Trekle (treklegame.com) 429 5/6
#StarTrek Difficulty: 🔘🔘🔘🔘

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John CarlsenMar 6, 2023

Wordle 625 4/6

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John CarlsenMar 6, 2023
Clayton HoveMar 6, 2023
Enough.
John CarlsenMar 6, 2023

TV chefs have really gone downhill over the years, from Julia Child to the Swedish Chef to Gordon Ramsey.

Who's next? Hannibal Lecter?

John CarlsenMar 5, 2023
Caroline Orr BuenoMar 5, 2023

I found the Facebook profile of this guy (“Peter Karasev”) who was just charged with bombing a power substation in San Jose. According to his profile, he is a software engineer with a PhD. And he’s from Moscow, Russia.

(Follow along for screenshots from his profile). 1/
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/03/authorities-man-bombed-pge-transformers-in-south-san-jose

Authorities: Man bombed PG&E transformers in South San Jose

Criminal charges accuse Peter Karasev of using explosives to destroy electrical equipment in December and January

The Mercury News
John CarlsenMar 5, 2023

Today I'd like to suggeat that CHAT GPT could stand for "Colossus Has Already Transformed and Guardian Partially Transformed"

Sleep soundly, my friends

#ChatGPT

John CarlsenMar 5, 2023

Trekle (treklegame.com) 428 5/6
#StarTrek Difficulty: 🔘🔘🔘🔘

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John CarlsenMar 5, 2023
Mastodon MigrationMar 5, 2023

#MastodonMedia Mar 4, 2023

The Fediverse has a vital inherent structural advantage. Alan Rozenshtein, U of Minn Law, calls it "content-moderation subsidiarity." Cory Doctorow expounds on this in:

@pluralistic: Solving the Moderator's Trilemma with Federation >>> https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/04/pick-all-three/#agonism

"The fact that users can leave a server and set up somewhere else means that when a user gets pissed off enough... they can simply choose another server that's part of the same federation."

#twittermigration

Pluralistic: Solving the Moderator’s Trilemma with Federation (04 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

John CarlsenMar 5, 2023

Wordle 624 4/6

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John CarlsenMar 5, 2023

Florida governor and Presidential hopeful Ron #DeSantis is at the Ronald Reagan library pushing his new book.

I expect an upcoming deluxe edition will be comlplete with crayons.

#uspol