Milo Trujillo
@backdrifting.net
Systems scientist, engineer, activist. Research and practice with decentralized online social groups.
Postdoc at the CoMM lab in @nunetsi.bsky.social, infrastructure and analysis at @ddosecrets.org
Postdoc at the CoMM lab in @nunetsi.bsky.social, infrastructure and analysis at @ddosecrets.org
Until now I’ve been highlighting details with a gold or silver paint pen, which can be very satisfying, but limits my options and can rub off
January 14, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Until now I’ve been highlighting details with a gold or silver paint pen, which can be very satisfying, but limits my options and can rub off
I like closing my letters with wax seals, and yesterday learned how to make a two-tone seal. Off-centered and needs more blue, but proof of concept successful ☺️
January 14, 2026 at 4:43 AM
I like closing my letters with wax seals, and yesterday learned how to make a two-tone seal. Off-centered and needs more blue, but proof of concept successful ☺️
Yesterday I found a satisfyingly mysterious brick in front of Boston city hall
January 12, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Yesterday I found a satisfyingly mysterious brick in front of Boston city hall
One of my fountain pens broke, and I had to fully disassemble it with tiny wrenches to repair the plunger, clean everything, re-grease the mechanism, and assemble it again. It works like a charm, and I feel like I've reached a new level of nerding out over this hobby
January 11, 2026 at 7:12 AM
One of my fountain pens broke, and I had to fully disassemble it with tiny wrenches to repair the plunger, clean everything, re-grease the mechanism, and assemble it again. It works like a charm, and I feel like I've reached a new level of nerding out over this hobby
Their estimator, I assume
January 7, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Their estimator, I assume
Some great work at @ddosecrets.com! Here's the state of our coverage as of the end of 2025. If you support what we do, please donate! donorbox.org/ddosecrets
January 2, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Some great work at @ddosecrets.com! Here's the state of our coverage as of the end of 2025. If you support what we do, please donate! donorbox.org/ddosecrets
Cinnamon was wearing broccoli as a hat
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Cinnamon was wearing broccoli as a hat
This is shameful. While I doubt I'll have an impact, I've written to my alma mater (#RPI) urging them to reconsider their vaccine-autism research contract, as are many others I know.
![Dear Dr. Schmidt, Board of Trustees, and Deans,
I am a proud alumnus of Rensselaer (B.S. 2018, M.S. 2020), and credit the institute with shaping
me as a professional scientist. I write today with grave concern about Rensselaer’s proposed
contract with the CDC to study links between vaccinations and autism [1].
Rensselaer’s commitment to knowledge and thoroughness is well-known. However, the link
between vaccines and autism, first proposed in a now-retracted 1998 paper [2], has been
conclusively investigated and discredited [3, 4, 5]. Scientific consensus is clear, and further
studies are not warranted. Instead of providing certainty, Dr. Juergen Hahn’s proposed work will
provide legitimacy to vaccine skeptics by suggesting that a causal link between vaccination and
autism is even conceivable.
Vaccine hesitancy is on the rise globally, in part driven by perceived risk of vaccination [6]. In
contributing to this hesitancy, Rensselaer will be complicit in decreasing vaccination rates, a
return of once-defeated diseases like measles, and ultimately, unnecessary suffering and early
deaths. I urge the institute to reconsider their CDC contract, for the good of humanity and their
own reputation.
Respectfully,
Dr. Milo Z. Trujillo
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September 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This is shameful. While I doubt I'll have an impact, I've written to my alma mater (#RPI) urging them to reconsider their vaccine-autism research contract, as are many others I know.
That’s ridiculous! Some of us act like kids under 12 and need those stickers for our microwaves.
September 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
That’s ridiculous! Some of us act like kids under 12 and need those stickers for our microwaves.
No more machine learning, only machine yearning. We are teaching computers how to love.
June 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
No more machine learning, only machine yearning. We are teaching computers how to love.
Great talk by @erikweis.bsky.social on applying the stochastic block model to group detection in geographic settings
June 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Great talk by @erikweis.bsky.social on applying the stochastic block model to group detection in geographic settings
If we normalize by population, however, the data tells a different story. Forty-two grants per million citizens in Rhode Island, and $27M per million in North Dakota! It's clear that Rhode Island and North Dakota are really the bastions of Neo-Marxist thought in America.
February 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
If we normalize by population, however, the data tells a different story. Forty-two grants per million citizens in Rhode Island, and $27M per million in North Dakota! It's clear that Rhode Island and North Dakota are really the bastions of Neo-Marxist thought in America.
Since Ted Cruz identified $2 billion in NSF grants furthering DEI and Neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda, where are these alleged Neo-Marxists? Well, we can look at which states were awarded each flagged grant and then visualize either the number of grants or the sum total of grant money awarded.
February 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Since Ted Cruz identified $2 billion in NSF grants furthering DEI and Neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda, where are these alleged Neo-Marxists? Well, we can look at which states were awarded each flagged grant and then visualize either the number of grants or the sum total of grant money awarded.
Reminds me of that great Tumblr dream post
January 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reminds me of that great Tumblr dream post
Thank you Molly!! 💕
December 24, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Thank you Molly!! 💕
I have USB gloves that keep my hands toasty warm. The cables get tedious and the slices are a little unwieldy, but they heat up well and fill me with joy
November 24, 2024 at 1:53 AM
I have USB gloves that keep my hands toasty warm. The cables get tedious and the slices are a little unwieldy, but they heat up well and fill me with joy
My favorite little cookie lumps
November 23, 2024 at 5:18 PM
My favorite little cookie lumps
They’re replacing the roof on my apartment complex this week, so the driveways are all covered in tarps and machinery and falling debris, and the workers said “wow, your landlords should have given you hard hats to get to your apartments.” Well, they didn't, so
June 11, 2024 at 8:06 PM
They’re replacing the roof on my apartment complex this week, so the driveways are all covered in tarps and machinery and falling debris, and the workers said “wow, your landlords should have given you hard hats to get to your apartments.” Well, they didn't, so
