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@ottomate@noc.social

retired software engineer, volunteer for environmental causes, wanna-be inventor.
grand opening policy: one free Follow for each journalist, scientist, engineer or doctor kicked off of Twitter when and as I learn of your refugee status. In a previous millenium I got a degree in physics and still identify as a member of the tribe of science.

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Joined November 06, 2022

I could reprogram your museum:

Python, Java, C, Bliss, Fortran, Pascal, VB. IBM360, PDP-11, 8086, 68000, Data General. RSTS, RSX, Unix, Solaris, Windows...ugh I am getting a cramp.

But what about:

physics, paleontology, climate, environment, plastics, fossil fuels, money in politics

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otto @ottomate@noc.social · Aug 06, 2026

Replying to @AAKL@infosec.exchange

@AAKL@infosec.exchange @Newsweekdotcom@flipboard.com Cuck Edwards had withdrawn his candidacy. Apparently even NC MAGAts don't like a guy who brazenly hits on his female staffers.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · May 13, 2026

Replying to @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services

@FediFollows@social.growyourown.services So far, I find a dedicated forum for the largest community of Rubin data users: https://community.lsst.org/ That is, as it should be, a place for astronomy students, faculty and professionals to discuss problems and findings. I really need a blogger who can comment on the significance of the stream of news in lay terms. One can apply to drink from the fire hose here: https://rubinobservatory.org/for-scientists/data-products/data-access

otto @ottomate@noc.social · May 12, 2026

Replying to @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services

@FediFollows@social.growyourown.services Ah...I see. I will see if enough nobodies writing them will encourage them to join.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · May 12, 2026

with an incubation period averaging something like 12 days, few will feel ill enough to realize they should quarantine. Good thing transmissibility is so low.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · May 12, 2026

Replying to @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services

@FediFollows@social.growyourown.services Isn't the Vera Rubin imagery also available. The problem of course is that neither you, I or most universities own a big enough computer to handle that many pixels.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · May 10, 2026

Replying to @ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social

@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social illustrates why I call the US impotentate the Orange Julius Seizer

otto @ottomate@noc.social · May 10, 2026

Replying to @DGI@graeber.social

@DGI@graeber.social well at least the billionaires who aren't in jail for what they did with Jeffery Epstein. The Epstein class, the lot of them, should have their wealth confiscated and put to use for things like infrastructure and healthcare.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · May 09, 2026

My son and his GF had a cat with kidney problems. It required a daily injection of a large amount of saline to stay alive. They were both working in biology labs and handy at injecting mice....the cat lived five more years

otto @ottomate@noc.social · May 08, 2026

Replying to @aliceamour@beige.party

@aliceamour@beige.party And this surprising surrender of will doesn't have much to do with computers or their strengths and weaknesses. See Hoffer's "Escape from Freedom"

otto @ottomate@noc.social · Apr 29, 2026

I am getting to the point where I don't attend media or channels that report any statement from Trump. Why does anyone listen to him? Right now I am down to math, medicine and physics journals.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · Apr 29, 2026

That strikes me as neither a benign nor a greedy species of enshitification but more like Unintended Consequences. The upshot is still a less useful internet.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz

@gregeganSF The last thing I expect from AI is sensitivity to context. Lets see if the AI gets good enough to make acceptable content or ASU regrets and retires this botched attempt to displace salaried professionals with computerized systems that make sausage from lectures.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @davidnjoku@mastodon.world

@davidnjoku@mastodon.world At the safe distance of Massachusetts, I read of this. At the time, the speculation about what happened was as wild as the understandable intensity of the fear. Ways to test the depths of still lake water for CO₂ that is trapped and building up in the high pressure hypolimnion have since been developed.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · Apr 14, 2026

Populations, movements and interest groups may wish for "regime change", but how often do you encounter a regime seeking to change some other regime without thinking it has called itself out for a thorough house cleaning? [and senate cleaning etc]. In the US, the white christian nationalists and racists got the regime change they wanted.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @cwebber@social.coop

@cwebber finally, a little warmth and human touch instead of Zuck.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · Mar 22, 2026

Replying to @norootcause@hachyderm.io

@norootcause Can't say because notions of "practical" have shifted radically in my lifetime. Gonna say Neither cause my warrantee is about to expire.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · Mar 21, 2026

Replying to @mastodonmigration__dup_134@mastodon.online

@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online I would look into the sources of his campaign funds, as I would for Newsom. Politics has no standards for originality so I can't ding Pritzger for "introducing" a term I have been using since last April. A few others I come across in FB and Mastodon also use it.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · Feb 14, 2026

Replying to @adafruit@fosstodon.org

@adafruit@fosstodon.org Meanwhile the empire of voyeuracracy has gotten a patent on using AI to imitate/automate your FB "likes" and comments after you have died. I have deleted my account. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/13/1929209/metas-new-patent-an-ai-that-likes-comments-and-messages-for-you-when-youre-dead

otto @ottomate@noc.social · Sep 26, 2025

Replying to @futurebird@sauropods.win

@futurebird@sauropods.win @notoriousiptg@fediscience.org @mjr@masto.bike @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk That seems a bass ackwards way to reduce traffic congestion...or what do they think they will buy with the funds gained from congestion pricing?

otto @ottomate@noc.social · Apr 04, 2025

Replying to @rysiek@mstdn.social

@rysiek@mstdn.social also applies to all content on FB Reels.

otto @ottomate@noc.social · Jan 26, 2025

Replying to @lavaeolus@fedihum.org

@lavaeolus@fedihum.org where can I hide the climate and the environment for the next 4 years? Oh, wait. those are already invisible to the wrecking crew.

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