Elektrine lite

← Feed

Jeff Sonstein

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org

<p>retired RIT Prof, longtime hacker, W3C Mobile Web Initiative, former Moffett Field cubicle monkey, once upon a time an Army Sgt &amp; SignalPuke™, now WA2RRB… personal acct
 </p><p>“In Gawds we trust, all others must bring data”

</p><p><a href="https://masto.deoan.org/tags/pedagogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pedagogy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.deoan.org/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://masto.deoan.org/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>systems</span></a> <a href="https://masto.deoan.org/tags/vet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vet</span></a> <a href="https://masto.deoan.org/tags/AmateurRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmateurRadio</span></a> <a href="https://masto.

Posts

  • View post

    “In Jones’s diagnosis, white American Christianity has committed a profound act of apostasy by trading its spiritual core for political dominance. By endorsing anti-democratic tactics, white Christian institutions have become the primary engine behind the country’s autocratic slide.” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/03/robert-p-jones-backslide-interview?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

  • View post

    RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117272391691353779 “Meink’s statement is the most direct public acknowledgment by a U.S. official to date regarding space control weapons, but he did not say when the weapons were launched or how many are in orbit.”

  • View post

    thank you, Secretary of Unhealth Kennedy and Childe Elon, for destroying public health monitoring systems and bringing us yet more disease… first lettuce, now jalapeños https://www.msn.com/en-us/food-and-drink/general/chipotle-at-center-of-new-food-health-scare/ar-AA29oXWd?ocid=edgemobile

  • View post

    RE: https://social.makerforums.info/@mcdanlj/116876212249533438 “Listen, don’t look” best advice ever for learning Morse

  • View post

    a good stance to take, and also a difficult one: https://www.advocate.com/news/people/roswell-encina-patriot-front-metro

  • View post

    heating up the sauna while drying towels from yesterday. this place is amusing… a rabbit warren of family-focused upper middle class vacation amenities

  • View post

    weird and wonderful https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1048953521141016&amp;amp;vanity=100067070466198

  • View post

    RE: https://mastodon.world/@davidho/116877633501458279 yup, at a minimum

  • View post

    “Fire officials said they received a call just before 8 a.m. about falling bricks near 235 East 42nd Street, where the former headquarters of Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company, is being converted to a residential complex with more than 1,600 apartments.” https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/07/nyregion/pfizer-building-midtown-collapse/pfizer-building-midtown-collapse?smid=url-share

  • View post

    &amp;quot;From the beginning all men by nature were created alike” John Ball, 1381

  • View post

    &amp;quot;All men are born equally free and independent and have certain inherent natural rights of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity” George Mason, 1776

  • View post

    America’s basic founding principle is that *all* people, not just some people, are born with equal rights and worth. this promise must be fulfilled, or none of us is truly free.

  • View post

    Never Forget! 🛸

  • View post

    turkey vultures?

  • View post

    “The United States of America, established to overthrow a mad king, has elected, 250 years later, a mad king of its very own.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/04/us-history-destruction

  • View post

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8SBuAWJXck/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

  • View post

    “Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.” — Surface Detail (Culture Book 8) by Iain M. Banks https://a.co/03ZfMR4l

  • View post

    good morning

  • View post

    Frederick Douglass was a genius https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/08/arts/frederick-douglass-slavery-citizenship-writing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

  • View post

    Sgt McKinzie had brass balls

  • View post

    I cannot conceive of the courage it took for a Black person to take the Oath, put on Army blue, shoulder a musket, and march South.

  • View post

    remember the movie “Glory”?

  • View post

    RE: https://mastodon.nz/@leighelse/116586212110657570 good question: “Can digital sovereignty exist on American silicon?”

  • View post

    my little backyard garden plot is starting to come back into shape

  • View post

    re-reading https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/ches2012-backdoor.pdf and realizing there is still a problem

  • View post

    breakfast

  • View post

    Trump seems to think Venezuela &amp;amp; Cuba are basically the same situations. I think Trump is going to order an attempt to kidnap Castro, as an attempt to shore up MAGA popularity in Florida in this midterm year.

  • View post

    I love the things folks leave graveside

  • View post

    my wife is visiting Tomales Bay today &amp;lt;sigh/&amp;gt; it is a magical place

  • View post

    @mmasnick worked fine