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Research professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. Co-director of the Flux Research Group: https://www.flux.utah.edu. I build research infrastructure: https://cloudlab.us, https://powderwireless.net, https://emulab.net, https://geni.net.

I do not speak for my employer, nor do they speak for me

Not a boffin

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FFXIV mainGNB

y'all i had almost 3,000 pots of dye

#ffxiv

I don't know what I'm going to do with my retainer whose entire job was to hold dyes

the robots are taking our jobs

#ffxiv

Argen Tina's: highly recommend
resist corporate hegemony by talking about goblins and/or gremlins

#ReIntroduction

Hi, I'm Bill. I make 3D printed soccer player brick collectibles. I make every team in #NWSL and a ton in #MLS , #LigaMX , and others. The shop is https://www.etsy.com/shop/1996NYdesigns

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"I ain’t even got a single duck in a row
...
But when I walk down the block, strays trail in a V, know what I mean?"

These words were not written about being a professor

But they are totally about being a professor

https://aesoprock.bandcamp.com/track/himalayan-yak-chew

Himalayan Yak Chew, by Aesop Rock

from the album Black Hole Superette

Aesop Rock
And there it is, the official cancellation of elections by the Nazi party of America.
please submit to MSFP! (Mathematically Structured Functional Programming), the deadline has been extended to Thursday, May 7th! more info here: https://msfp-workshop.github.io/msfp2026/
Mathematically Structured Functional Programming 2026

I just read NIH's official scientific strategy (as of last year) and now I am really pissed off.

It talks a lot about "gold-standard science" but really means "ideological tests".

NIH will no longer fund anything that treats systemic racism or health disparities for minorities as legitimate research topics. And the only acceptable topic on transgender health is the "harms" of treatments.

https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/nih-director/statements/advancing-nihs-mission-through-unified-strategy#our-priorities

Advancing NIH’s Mission Through a Unified Strategy

NIH is moving toward a unified strategy that aligns our priorities and funding approaches to fulfill this commitment.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

OK, this is incredible. Mad genius Mark Sample has created a web tool for exploring Subcutanean (my novel where each copy is unique) across every axis you can think of: source code, 25 diffed versions, VR projections(!), bubble viz(!!) & a lot more. (1/2)

https://subcutanean.fugitivetexts.net/

Subcutanean Variorum

Compare textual variations across unique editions of Aaron Reed's novel Subcutanean.