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Jeff Sonstein

@jsonstein@masto.deoan.org

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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”  

#pedagogy #coding #systems #W3C #vet #AmateurRadio #data #FOSS #fedi22

1033 Followers

785 Following

35 Posts

Joined July 14, 2023

Personal Website:

https://www.well.com/~jeffs/

joined mastodon.social:

31 OCT 2016

New Thang:

https://arghstudios.com/

Storyteller Ko-fi:

https://ko-fi.com/arghstudios

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Aug 05, 2026

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

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 07, 2026

“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

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 07, 2026

RE: @davidho@mastodon.world

yup, at a minimum

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 07, 2026

weird and wonderful

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1048953521141016&vanity=100067070466198

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 07, 2026

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

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 07, 2026

a good stance to take, and also a difficult one:

https://www.advocate.com/news/people/roswell-encina-patriot-front-metro

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 07, 2026

RE: @mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info

“Listen, don’t look”

best advice ever
for learning Morse

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 05, 2026

Frederick Douglass was a genius

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

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 05, 2026

good morning

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 05, 2026

“Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.”

— Surface Detail (Culture Book 8) by Iain M. Banks
https://a.co/03ZfMR4l

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 05, 2026

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

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 04, 2026

“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

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 04, 2026

turkey vultures?

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 04, 2026

Never Forget! 🛸

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 03, 2026

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.

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 03, 2026

"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

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jul 03, 2026

"From the beginning all men by nature were created alike”

John Ball, 1381

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · May 21, 2026

my wife is visiting Tomales Bay today

it is a magical place

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · May 21, 2026

I love the things folks leave graveside

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · May 21, 2026

Trump seems to think Venezuela & 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.

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · May 21, 2026

breakfast

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · May 17, 2026

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

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · May 17, 2026

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

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · May 17, 2026

RE: @leighelse@mastodon.nz

good question: “Can digital sovereignty exist on American silicon?”

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · May 16, 2026

remember the movie “Glory”?

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · May 16, 2026

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.

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · May 15, 2026

Sgt McKinzie had brass balls

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · May 07, 2026

Replying to @nullagent@partyon.xyz

@nullagent@partyon.xyz @dataparty@partyon.xyz @rfparty@partyon.xyz that looks like you are having great fun ;^}

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Apr 03, 2026

‘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

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Mar 06, 2026

I took this shot of Rev Jackson in 1988. May he Rest in Power 🙏

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Nov 09, 2025

Replying to @trib@aus.social

@trib@aus.social @cmconseils@mastodon.social we live in a weird fork of reality

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Nov 06, 2025

Replying to @mmasnick@mastodon.social

@mmasnick worked fine

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jan 03, 2025

Replying to @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net

@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net @minimaxir@sigmoid.social I have found that including an example of similar-pattern code that works right within the input is useful for getting the LLM to suggest useful code in its output

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jan 06, 2024

Replying to @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org this is my favorite output

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Jeff Sonstein @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jan 05, 2024

Replying to @chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt

@chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt @stoneymonster@stoney.monster

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