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Roger Moore

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Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda.
Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec
All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them.
Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking.
Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Jul 31, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @Axomamma@mastodon.online
@Axomamma@mastodon.online @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social Or take a big leap and install Debian or FreeBSD or something else that doesn't have a corporate overlord trying to force AI on you.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Jul 27, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social There's also a housing supply problem. Our population is growing, and average household size is shrinking. We aren't building nearly enough new housing to keep up.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Jul 20, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @dougiec3@libretooth.gr
@dougiec3@libretooth.gr Nobody should be surprised by Trump's behavior. We all know that most politicians are attention hounds- even if they don't love attention, they need to stay in the public eye for electoral reasons- but he takes it to a whole other level. There is no spotlight Trump won't try to hog and no camera he won't mug for.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Jul 17, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social
@mattblaze@federate.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @jf_718@mas.to There's a reason code says you aren't supposed to put smoke detectors in or close to the kitchen. I guess that doesn't work as well with open floor plan designs where there isn't such a clear boundary between the kitchen and the rest of the house.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Jul 17, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Based on my air quality monitor, toast is also terrible for indoor air quality. I don't even try with my home coffee roaster. It's located on my balcony, and the balcony door is shut tight any time I'm roasting. Fortunately, I have the settings dialed in so I can get the roast I like without having to babysit the roaster.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Jul 08, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @jessamyn@glammr.us
@jessamyn@glammr.us I'm actually more worried about the humans around me pushing me to use AI than I am about the intrusive pushes to use AI in a lot of software. It's way easier to click "No" on a box in the software, even if I have to do it every time, than to resist my boss saying "just run it through AI to polish up the writing" all the time. I like to think I can write better than the AI can, and I'd rather not have my carefully chosen wording degraded into generic AI speak.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Jun 11, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @LukefromDC@kolektiva.social
@LukefromDC@kolektiva.social @SheDrivesMobility@norden.social Niantic has always admitted their games were mostly a tool to build a geospatial library. They never said it was for military applications, but anyone who looked very hard knew the games were just a means to an end. I'm curious how useful it will be given that A) the data is frequently out of date and B) they deliberately excluded sensitive areas from their games.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · May 29, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @Theriac@plasmatrap.com
@Theriac@plasmatrap.com @amydiehl@mstdn.social What's next are labor saving pen plotters that write dumb messages on people's cups based on an AI analysis of their order history.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · May 28, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com
@notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com Subcontracting essential government services was never a good idea, and it gets worse as we allow businesses to be ever more rapacious. There may be times when subcontracting makes sense, but it should be limited. In a case like this, maybe the company could build the system but transfer enough knowledge that the government could run and maintain it in-house after it's built.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · May 19, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @bigzaphod@mastodon.social
@bigzaphod@mastodon.social @dxzdb@mastodon.social @petergleick@fediscience.org I suspect a lot of those payback time calculations were based on conservative estimates of solar output. If the system puts out more power than predicted, breakeven time is going to come a sooner.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · May 14, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @VATVSLPR@c.im
@infobeautiful@vis.social There's also the whole business about paying for drugs. The current system is just a haven for all kinds of corruption and rent seeking. Any kind of government run healthcare that took that out of the hands of profit seeking businesses- or even just reined in the rank corruption currently running rampant in the sector- could save a lot of money.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · May 14, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @infobeautiful@vis.social
@infobeautiful@vis.social While I won't argue the single payer system would be simpler, the picture shown is oversimplified. Some of the administrative stuff shown in the current system (Billing & negotiation of care) would still exist under single payer; it would just happen between the government and the providers rather than the insurance companies and providers. If you really want to simplify things, go to a National Health Service, where the government is the provider, not just the insurer.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · May 13, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @MissConstrue@mefi.social
@MissConstrue@mefi.social @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social It absolutely should get swatted down, but I'm worried that it won't be. DOJ has been jurisdiction shopping. They aren't just doing this in Texas; they're doing it in a specific part of Texas that guarantees they're going to get a wingnut judge who is overseen by the wingnut 5th Circuit. I no longer have any confidence these courts will follow the Constitution when they have an opportunity to advance right-wing goals.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · May 12, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social
@darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @MissConstrue@mefi.social Except this isn't about anything that happened in Texas. This is an attempt to use a Grand Jury in Texas to investigate things that happened in New York. It's blatantly unconstitutional- the Constitution says crimes must be tried in the state and district where they happened- but the Trump DOJ isn't going to let the Constitution slow them down.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · May 09, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @jfmezei@cosocial.ca
@jfmezei@cosocial.ca @NunavutBirder@mas.to They aren't getting enough calories to survive during the winter; they're eating whatever they can find to extend how long they can survive on the fat they built up in the summer.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · May 06, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @hgrsd@hachyderm.io
@hgrsd It's possible the lesson is supposed to be for oppressors- don't mistreat others just because they're different- rather than the oppressed. Also, the moral of a story has to logically relate to the central conflict. It's hard to tell a compelling story about the importance of treating others well even when they're different without showing some people being mistreated for being different.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · May 06, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @vtrlx@mastodon.social
@vtrlx@mastodon.social I'm surprised you chose to default to using a proportional font if code editing is an intended use case. I have a feeling I'm not going to be the only one who asks. Do you have a FAQ or something where you explain your design choices?
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 29, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @cybervegan@autistics.life
@cybervegan @arclight The reason people are taken in by LLMs is because there's a whole industry devoted to deceiving them. The LLM industry is as much a marketing machine as an engineering one. It doesn't help that the mainstream media is helping sell the con. As with all con jobs, the victims could have saved themselves by being more skeptical, but the majority of the blame belongs with the con artists.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 28, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @VATVSLPR@c.im
@TimWardCam @quixoticgeek I don't know if the AI boom was designed specifically to justify building a bunch more fossil fuel powered generating capacity, but that sure looks like it's an effect. It stinks, because building a ton of renewable power would be a nice consolation prize for the AI boom collapsing.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 28, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @TimWardCam@c.im
@TimWardCam @quixoticgeek Of course not. If you read the article, it's going to be using some kind of natural gas powered generation, "At full buildout, the campus would reach 9 GW, all produced on-site through a connection to the Ruby Pipeline, a 680-mile interstate natural gas line that crosses northern Utah on its route from Wyoming to Oregon."
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 22, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @chu@climatejustice.social
@chu @gallowaylass People who haven't experienced it just have no idea how bad for profit medicine in the USA is. It's always a huge culture shock for foreign coworkers. I sincerely think people who haven't been exposed to it discount the truth as unbelievable horror stories designed to scare them.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 22, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @ketan@climatejustice.social
@ketan The use of "hallucination" for a LLM making stuff up is an evil but brilliant marketing move by the LLM companies to make their product seem more intelligent. We should describe these things as "fabrications" or plain old "bullshit" instead.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 21, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social
@oldclumsy_nowmad @3fecta.bsky.social To pick a nit, the process used at Valley Forge was technically variolation (inoculation with smallpox in a way intended to avoid a bad infection) rather than vaccination (inoculation with cowpox). The distinction was significant because variolation had a 1-2% fatality rate, so it was only "safe" compared to a natural smallpox infection, which was fatal in up to 30% of cases. Vaccination with cowpox wasn't invented for another 20 years or so.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 21, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @3fecta.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
@3fecta.bsky.social Just to give it some more force, mandatory immunization in the US armed forces goes back to George Washington inoculating the Continental Army against smallpox at Valley Forge. I guess George was a victim of the Woke Mind Virus.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 21, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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This is a new experience: I'm trapped in an elevator. The door worked fine to let me in, but none of the buttons, including the door open, work. I'm waiting for emergency people to rescue me.

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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 17, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @jsit@social.coop
@jsit Capitalism absolutely uses productivity to pay for leisure; it just restricts leisure, and anything else good, to the capitalist class. Capitalists would let their workers starve to death if they thought they could get away with it.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 09, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place
@shanecelis @Catvalente Confabulation has an existing technical meaning relating to creating false memories in response to brain damage or dementia. I don't think we want to use that to describe AI "hallucinations". I would call them "fabrications" or just "bullshit". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 07, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @SwampYankee@mastodon.social
@SwampYankee @marcoarment VR is a fun gimmick technology, but I haven't seen anyone propose a use that would justify it as a mass market product at the price it would apparently cost to make it work.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 07, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @rbender@mastodon.social
@rbender @jsnell @marcoarment My guess is they overproduced based on unrealistic sales projections and are still trying to unload the stock.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 07, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @jsnell@zeppelin.flights
@jsnell @marcoarment Apple clearly knows how to sell very high-end computers, too. Look at the price for the Mac Studio models; they are clearly mass consumer products, but they sell well enough to justify coming out with new models regularly. I think the problem was thinking the Vision Pro was going to be a mass market product, not a niche, high-end one.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Apr 02, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @faraiwe@mstdn.social
@faraiwe@mstdn.social @tiffanycli@mastodon.social It has to be taken by some court, or it will sit unchallenged. Part of the problem is that the Supreme Court itself made this kind of thing inevitable by preventing lower courts from making nationwide injunctions. That makes it inevitable that much of what Trump does will make its way to the Supreme Court, because it's now the only court allowed to slap him down definitively.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Mar 28, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @Verso@mastodon.social
@Verso@mastodon.social One thing I wish they would do is have dictionaries with special vocabulary that you could install and have a whole genre added to your phone in one step. It would be really cool if AI were smart enough to recognize and install them automatically, but at least let me install the whole Pokedex at once rather than forcing me to teach autocorrect the names of all 1000+ Pokemon individually.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Mar 18, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @pjakobs@mastodon.green
@pjakobs @bluca Init scripts are last century's software, as anyone who was running Linux in the 20th Century can assure you.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Mar 11, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Boosted by Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop
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@cstross@wandering.shop I expect TESCREAL types to dismiss the ethical concerns. If we can improve the lives of trillions of hypothetical future humans, it would justify murdering and dissecting millions of actual contemporary humans.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Mar 09, 2026
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Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @VATVSLPR@c.im
@Gorfram @azonenberg @petergleick I strongly recommend a recent video from @TechConnectify that talks about this at length. He makes a very clear distinction between reusable energy infrastructure, like solar panels and rechargeable batteries, and consumables like fossil fuels. https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?si=T71MHlqDSm1I07Q5
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Mar 09, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @Gorfram@beige.party
@Gorfram @azonenberg @petergleick There's a key difference: batteries can be recycled. Fossil fuels are taken out of the ground, burned, and released into the air. Batteries gradually degrade over time, but the valuable materials in them can be recovered and used to make new batteries.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Mar 07, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz These species may be new to scientists, but there's a very good chance the locals knew about them already. So the best description would be something like "researchers just described two species previously unknown to science".
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Jan 30, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa
@GrahamDowns @TerryHancock @SnoopJ It's more about being able to make decisions effortlessly than quickly. The idea is to know what to do in a plausible but unfamiliar situation so we don't get overwhelmed by the moment. It's used for all kinds of training, not just ethical questions. It's why people like firefighters and soldiers train so much; they want to be able to respond correctly even when they're under enormous stress.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Jan 30, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa
@GrahamDowns @TerryHancock @SnoopJ Of course sometimes people really do have to make snap decisions. One of the ways we can improve our quick decision making is to consider possible cases in detail in advance so we're ready when they come up. That said, we should be more generous judging people forced to make quick decisions.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Jan 30, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @disorderlyf@todon.eu
@disorderlyf @SnoopJ The problem is that the metaphor adds extra details that complicate the basic moral question. Either those details are important, in which case you can't fault people for considering them, or they are unimportant, in which case the metaphor is flawed for including them.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Jan 26, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social
@lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social @Lana@beige.party I disagree. Discourse with fascists is pointless because they don't live in the same factual universe as the rest of us, but pointing out their lies and hypocrisy still has value. If fascists want to destroy the concept of objective truth, continuing to insist on it is an important form of resistance. It provides a life line to people drowning in fascist lies.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Jan 07, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @DoomHammerNG@mastodon.social
@DoomHammerNG @scalzi For now, at least, it's just "Hey, I noticed you're trying to download Chrome. Don't you know Edge uses the same rendering engine but is designed to work with the rest of Windows?" There are other places where Microsoft flat out refuses to accept that you want to default to using another browser; they say outright that they'll only respect the change for a week.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Jan 06, 2026
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @DoomHammerNG@mastodon.social
@DoomHammerNG @scalzi It's actually the exact opposite. Edge notices you're trying to download another browser and tries to discourage you. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft goes further and makes it impossible for Edge to download Chrome.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Dec 19, 2025
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @sanpan@mas.to
@sanpan@mas.to @brianbilston@mastodon.online Whenever God closes a window, malware opens another. Edit: Or maybe it should be, "Whenever God closes a door, malware opens a window."
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Dec 09, 2025
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @rperezrosario@mastodon.social
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social I would have to look carefully to see if I use GNU/Linux (my PC) or Android/Linux (my phone) more. Probably my phone.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Nov 28, 2025
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @xinit@mastodon.coffee
@xinit @cstross Except the "handle" is removable.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Nov 10, 2025
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @crmsnbleyd@hachyderm.io
@crmsnbleyd @fromjason @camelion @diegoe This is the difference between copyleft and permissive licenses.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Oct 29, 2025
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @chrisp@cyberplace.social
@chrisp@cyberplace.social @f4grx@chaos.social @rrb@infosec.exchange @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io They tried this almost 20 years ago with Conservapedia. You can guess how well it went given that you either never heard of it or forgot about it.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Oct 28, 2025
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @f4grx@chaos.social
@f4grx@chaos.social @rrb@infosec.exchange @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I assume the goal is to take everything from Wikipedia so they look complete and competent and then selectively edit the parts that Elon Musk cares about to reflect what he wants it to say. So you'll get accurate information if you look up an obscure Australian cricket player or a village in Uttar Pradesh, but you'll get corporate propaganda if you look up Tesla Motors.
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Roger Moore @VATVSLPR@c.im · Oct 09, 2025
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im

Proud peripheral blood stem cell donor (2007); RIP Melinda. Employed for my whole career at City of Hope, where I work in the Integrated Mass Spectrometry Shared Resource. #TeamMassSpec All opinions are my own and are worth what you paid for them. Hobbies include photography and sourdough baking. Graduate of Caltech (1994)

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Replying to @sundogplanets@mastodon.social
@sundogplanets To me the big point remains economic: how can these satellites possibly pay for themselves? I just don't see how the whole thing is supposed to work financially. Starlink may be awful for the environment, but it's at least plausible they could get enough mobile phone subscribers to make the system viable. There's just no way reflecting light from orbit onto solar plants is a feasible alternative to building more solar plants and battery storage.
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