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Rob Ricci @ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Students and other early-career CS researchers! Participating in an Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) is a good way to get acquainted with research in an area and to get hands-on experience. The AEC for the International Conference on Performance Engineering (https://icpe2026.spec.org/) is […]

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Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 7h

This is, of course, fucking nonsense.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe they should go ahead and put some big fins on these racks to make them look better! 😉

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Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 2d

I am constantly fighting off a gut feeling that these things will age about as well as big fins on Cadillacs, but there's about a 10% chance that I am wrong about this and we'll constantly have to support the tendency to concentrate power in this way in order to accomplish organized bulk computing.

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know […]

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Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 2d

If you want to know why the barkeep in the Star Wars cantina threw out the droids, the current state of AI should give you some understanding.

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Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 6d

We're always here to help!

Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats! The last update of the GridFTP protocol document (ogf.org/documents/GF...) was in 2005. There's still a path available to update this and promote it to an IETF, ISO/IEC, or other standard if you like!

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 7d

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

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hpc.social on BlueSky @hpc.social · 8d

Please follow the link below to help bring hpc.social sponsorships up to support our jobs board, chat communities, Mastodon instance, community map, weekly online chat, podcasts, community syndicated blog, & other projects. Even a small contribution will make a difference! github.com/sponsors/hpc...

Sponsor @hpc-social on GitHub Sponsors

The hpc-social resources provide an open platform for community engagement, including a variety of open source work on code and resources hosted on the hpc.social domain and associated community ca...

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Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 8d

Are we entering a period in which the primary application area for RISC-V will be for FPGAs?

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Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 11d

Greg Newby has also been serving generously as Editor for the Open Grid Forum for many years, guiding many groups through the process of creating the many public documents available at ogf.org/documents. We appreciate these contributions deeply and also wish to convey our deep thanks and regards.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

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Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 13d

It’s disgusting when companies and organizations give in to extortion like this.

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Energy Innovation @energyinnovation.org · 14d

🔌💡 The economics of #coal are bad, and only getting worse
- 99% of U.S. coal fleet is more expensive to keep running than to replace
- The cost of coal power has increased 28% since 2021
energyinnovation.org/report/coal-...

Coal Power 28 Percent More Expensive In 2024 Than In 2021 • Energy Innovation

Coal's already poor economics have gotten worse over the last four years, with costs at the majority of plants rising faster than inflation.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 17d

This whole thread

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 17d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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The Register @theregister.com · 17d

Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice

Study finds microgrids with wind, solar, and batteries can be built years sooner and at lower cost than SMRs Renewable energy sources could power datacenters at a lower cost than relying on nuclear generation from small modular reactors (SMRs), claims a recently revealed study.…

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Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 17d

Run.

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Drew Jolly @amjolly.bsky.social · 18d

Look at this trash-- "the previous Administration’s wasteful Green New Scam agenda"

DOE press releases used to be the gold standard, now just another garbage mouthpiece.

www.energy.gov/articles/ene...

Energy Department Returns $13 Billion in Unobligated Wasteful Spending to American Taxpayers

The U.S. Department of Energy announced today its intention to return more than $13 billion in unobligated funds initially appropriated to advance the previous Administration’s wasteful Green New Scam...

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Climate.us @climate.us · 18d

...report on climate change impacts and risks to the United States. The website was taken offline by the Trump administration in early 2025.

You can support our fight to bringing back factual, climate information: donorbox.org/climate-us-p...
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Climate.us: independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics | Multiplier (Powered by Donorbox)

The truth about climate is being erased. Act now to save it.In June 2025, under pressure from political appointees, NOAA shut down daily operations of its award-winning Climate.gov website. They hid…

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Climate.us @climate.us · 18d

In case you missed the big news earlier this week...

We've brought the website of the Fifth National Climate Assessment back online. Explore it at nca5.climate.us

The assessment, which was released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program in 2023, is the most recent state of the science...
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Fifth National Climate Assessment

The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the…

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 19d

"When world historians tell the story of 2025, it will be about the passing of technological, and hence economic, and hence political leadership from the U.S. to China, in the span of eight months. The tape of this address will be the easiest way to explain" why. @billmckibben.bsky.social

The Stupidest Speech in UN History

Everyone's saying so!

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Carly Strasser @carlystrasser.bsky.social · 19d

Love to see Simons Foundation supporting faculty that contribute to Open Source! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/scient...

Scientific Software Research Faculty Award

Scientific Software Research Faculty Award on Simons Foundation

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 20d

The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 20d

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

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