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  In two hours, a bunch of us will be participating in #Monsterdon , which means LOTS AND LOTS OF TOOTS. Perhaps you like lots and lots of toots? Great, you will get them. Perhaps you do not like lots and lots of toots? In that case, you might want to mute the hashtag - in the Mastodon web UI, for example, you can click the hashtag, pick "mute", and it will take you to a screen where you can create a filter for it. OR maybe you would like to MAKE lots and lots of toots! In that case,...

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  The revolution will not be tokenized

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  What a terrible day to have a computer

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  Every sysadmin tonight

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  The hardest problem in Computer Science is figuring out which zoom link everyone else is on

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  uh oh what did I miss about the number 4

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  Ken Thompson, 1983: wouldn't it be awful if someone snuck secret code into a compiler that broke our ability to trust the output of a computer AI Guy, 2026: wouldn't it be cool if we stuck something we know can't be trusted into every part of the computer

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  Back door

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  4 is the new 0x09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0

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  I'm sorry, there's no way this character's name is Morgan, it's Vincent Price, and that's that #monsterdon

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  When this post is not ONE but TWO hours old #monsterdon will be the Last Hashtag on the Fedi. That's right, we're watching The Last Man On Earth, starting Vincent ... but at what Price? It's streaming free (in the US at least ) on Tubi (see also #MonsterdonAlert for some other links too) , so you can watch along! Or, if you don't want a barrage of out of context toots, you could mute the hashtag. Better yet, you could mute ALL OTHER HASHTAGS for the true Last Hashtag on the Fed...

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  Laws are forcing more and more services, like social networks, to change their behavior based on the user's region. This week, I've been in Calgary, Canada, and Bluesky wants me to verify my age because it thinks I'm in ... Texas??? This seems like a good time to talk about how IP geolocation works, and as a treat, we can also talk about mobile networks and roaming! One way that apps and websites can tell where you are is for your phone to tell them based on your GPS or other loc...

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  A #monsterdon this way comes! Watch along (see #monsterdonalert for the details), mute the hashtag, or get prepare to be bombarded! Tonight: The Bat (1959) with Vincent Price

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  Please get your day off to a good start by enjoying this photo of Kiki getting some outside time #fedicats #catsofmastodon

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  "Intro to Computer Science" implies "Outro from Computer Science"

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  I'm looking to hire a project manager! I'm working on a project with materials scientists and physicists to build stacked quantum heterostructures, which have potential interesting properties as semiconductors, etc. It's a crazy process that involves crystal growers, driving microscopes with an Xbox controller, a adiabatic demagnetization refrigerators, and exfoliation with scotch tape. We need a project manager to help us ... well, manage the project. Apply at: https://utah.peopl...

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  The whale is free!

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  This is bothering me more than it should

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  I am flying in to DCA in less than a week, goddamnit https://www.businessinsider.com/faa-ai-air-traffic-control-contract-airlines-2026-9

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  PSA: if someone asks a question on here, you don't have the answer they asked for, and you want to be helpful, you can boost

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  Oh good now we're getting spam signups from these assholes Fuck you very, very much #FediAdmin

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  The main problem with the Fediverse is that too many of y'all are far too interesting in too many different ways

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  Dean Stockwell implies the existence of Dean Bareshelves #Monsterdon

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  Gonna miss #Monsterdon tonight, my kid has roped me into continuing to watch the Hobbit trilogy, and there's only so much bad movie I can take in a day

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  "Look I just found this slop coming out of the ground better eat it" See, it works, this is about AI #monsterdon

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  It's unclear to me whether eating dinner *before* tonight's #monsterdon feature, The Stuff, is wise. But I'm gonna do it anyway. People eating weird stuff that comes out of the ground and tastes really good but then make you do weird shit? So far as I can tell from the trailer, this movie is going to be a cautionary tale about AI.

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  Coming soon to a feed near you! Tonight #Monsterdon is watching ... uh oh I better go look it up!

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  Hey academics and academic-adjacent folks! I've updated my Google Scholar clone for toots! https://mastodon.academy/ Now updated and with a few more features you don't need! Tooltips! Caching! A few more clickable thingies! Find out if your b-index (boosts) is higher than your h-index! Mine sure is!