Jeff Sonstein

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org

retired RIT Prof, longtime hacker, former Moffett Field cubicle monkey, once upon a time an Army Sgt & SignalPuke™, now WA2RRB… personal acct  “In Gawds we trust, all others must bring data”  <a href="https://masto.deoan.org/tags/pedagogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#pedagogy</a> <a href="https://masto.deoan.org/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#coding</a> <a href="https://masto.deoan.org/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#systems</a> <a href="https://masto.deoan.org/tags/W3C" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#W3C</a> <a href="https://masto.deoan.org/tags/vet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#vet</a> <a href="https://masto.deoan.org/tags/AmateurRadio" class="mention h

Posts

Post #4387667
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
Post #3666141
RE: https://social.makerforums.info/@mcdanlj/116876212249533438 “Listen, don’t look” best advice ever for learning Morse
Post #3666140
a good stance to take, and also a difficult one: https://www.advocate.com/news/people/roswell-encina-patriot-front-metro
Post #3666139
heating up the sauna while drying towels from yesterday. this place is amusing… a rabbit warren of family-focused upper middle class vacation amenities
Post #3666138
weird and wonderful https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1048953521141016&amp;vanity=100067070466198
Post #3666137
RE: https://mastodon.world/@davidho/116877633501458279 yup, at a minimum
Post #3666136
“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
Post #3629881
&quot;From the beginning all men by nature were created alike” John Ball, 1381
Post #3629880
&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
Post #3629879
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.
Post #3629878
Never Forget! 🛸
Post #3629877
turkey vultures?
Post #3629876
“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
Post #3629875
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8SBuAWJXck/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Post #3629874
“Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.” — Surface Detail (Culture Book 8) by Iain M. Banks https://a.co/03ZfMR4l
Post #3629873
good morning
Post #3629872
Frederick Douglass was a genius https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/08/arts/frederick-douglass-slavery-citizenship-writing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Post #2746226
Sgt McKinzie had brass balls
Post #2746215
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.
Post #2746214
remember the movie “Glory”?
Post #2746213
RE: https://mastodon.nz/@leighelse/116586212110657570 good question: “Can digital sovereignty exist on American silicon?”
Post #2746212
my little backyard garden plot is starting to come back into shape
Post #2746211
re-reading https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/ches2012-backdoor.pdf and realizing there is still a problem
Post #2746210
breakfast
Post #2746209
Trump seems to think Venezuela &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.
Post #2746208
I love the things folks leave graveside
Post #2746207
my wife is visiting Tomales Bay today &lt;sigh/&gt; it is a magical place
Post #932405
‘Federal prosecutors in L.A. have lost every assault on a federal officer case they’ve brought to trial against immigration protesters. A federal judge criticized the U.S. attorney’s office as “amateur hour” after prosecutors failed to disclose evidence during an assault trial.’ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-03/u-s-attorneys-office-losses-protest-cases
Post #576735
I took this shot of Rev Jackson in 1988. May he Rest in Power 🙏