Bill Longabaugh

@wjrl
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Aerospace engineer turned software engineer interested in network visualization and supporting cloud-based cancer research. Linux since 1995. Calls West Seattle home. Twitter escapee.
JoinedOct 27, 2022
(nodes == lines) -> !hairballshttp://www.biofabric.org/gallery/pages/SuperQuickBioFabric.html
Gene Regulatory Networkshttp://www.biotapestry.org
Cancer Data in the Cloudhttps://www.isb-cgc.org
Joined mastodon.social to get started, now seeing that heading off to a new server is the way to #helpMastodonScale. I'm migrating over to @[email protected]. Hope my six followers get carried across. I'm following all the instructions!

If you want to browse through the journalists on the server @adamdavidson created, look here:

https://journa.host/explore

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@wjrl I was thinking about maybe doing the next tournament on here—it would get a lot fewer participants than Twitter, but this place seems nicer
@scottbarolo #candybracket #crayonbracket #sleuthbracket ... something I will really miss having left Twitter.
@scottbarolo Any chance that #crayonbracket et al. will show up here someday?

A number of people have asked what I could have done better. In particular, I should have set the first post in the thread to public and the rest of the posts as unlisted.

Here's a fantastic explainer from @djnavarro via @flodebarre:
https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/#how-can-i-make-threads

(It's worth reading the entire thing. I learned a ton.)

Notes from a data witch - Everything I know about Mastodon

A hastily written guide for data science folks trying to navigate the fediverse.

I’m seeing tons of awesome stuff that’s outside of my usual security firehose on other sites

Has any group of people done more damage to American democracy than the group known as “billionaires”?

Some, I’m sure, are nice people. But they could still be nice (and rich as Croesus) if we taxed their wealth back down to a few hundred million. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/nyregion/ronald-lauder-zeldin-governor.html

Ronald Lauder: New York’s Billionaire Political Disrupter

The cosmetics heir has pumped at least $11 million into efforts to elect Representative Lee Zeldin, a Republican, as governor of New York.

The New York Times
[This post contains an error in the number of Twitter users. Check the new one here: https://mastodon.social/@estebanmoro/109302968305953555 ] Something big is happening in Mastodon over the weekend. Here is my graph, updated. Right now Mastodon is growing ~3 times faster than Twitter.
Pictures and videos should now be loading fast again on mastodon.social. The load balancer was hitting the limits of its hardware too so I had to upgrade it #devops