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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!

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  Alright, which of you #monsterdon​ians drives the car I saw this sticker on

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  Mind-blowing fact: Cleopatra lived closer in distance to the Great Pyramid than to the first moon landing.

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  If you ever feel like you suck at your job, just remember that someone designed the Share menu in Android

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  My kid is on a call with a friend and is trying to convince them that Pippin is a better character than Gandalf, this is the kind of conversation you get to overhear when you have a certain type of child, and I am here for it

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  Tech Company: At long last, we have started wearing the One Ring from classic fantasy novel Cast The One Ring Into The Fires of Mount Doom.

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  At last! I've added real OAUTH support (entirely in the browser, so I don't need to process any credentials on the server) to https://moderation-explorer.online/ . This tool shows you how the people you follow, and that follow you, are spread out over the Fediverse, and explains how moderation works. In advanced mode (using OAUTH, now) it'll show you stats from your actual timeline.

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  WHOIS on ::1st

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  lol I wonder how many people can spot the mistake (or easter egg?) the designer of this sign made

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  If I don't acknowledge this text message will they send it again?

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116994609630364826 Do not donate a penny to Wikimedia until the union is recognized

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  What do you think they have said more often in this movie #Monsterdon

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  When this post is approximately 3 hours old (at 7 PM MDT / 1 AM UTC), mysterious #Monsterdon toots will come bubbling up from the depths! Will you watch along? (It's free on Tubi and there are other free ways to watch too!) Will you mute the hashtag? Will you just shrug and get confused?ONLY YOU CAN SAY! Tonight! Giant crickets, apparently? I still need confirmation about whether we're talking about the insects or the sport. Either one sounds like a good time though, and like they coul...

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  #caturday toe beans

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  The number of cases at the PETS conference in Canada where faculty are presenting because their students could not get a visa to attend (hi, I'm one of them!) is far higher than I expected. I didn't realize the extent to which this is not just a US problem these days.

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  Today, one of the co-CEOs of #Mullvad (no, not that co-CEO, the other one) gave a keynote at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS). Someone passed these out while he was speaking. I wasn't at the talk, but I hear the Q&A was spicy, all about this topic. I think it was recorded and will post a link if/when it goes up.

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  Well, I'm going to be working with a set of materials scientists and experimental physicists who work on manufacturing quantum nanomaterials. They have a lab that exfoliates atom-thin flakes from bulk crystals, characterizes them using computer vision, stacks them up to make new materials, and characterizes some of their resulting properties. It's semi-automated right now, but we're going to work on automating it even more, making it available to more off-site users, and improving t...