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.com
Postdoc at the CoMM lab in @nunetsi.bsky.social, infrastructure and analysis at @ddosecrets.com
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Milo Trujillo
@backdrifting.net
· Jun 9
No more machine learning, only machine yearning. We are teaching computers how to love.
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Consider: Visa restrictions shaping who participates in AI research. Defunding of scholarship on algorithmic discrimination. Federal preemption of state AI laws. This is not deregulation.
January 15, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Consider: Visa restrictions shaping who participates in AI research. Defunding of scholarship on algorithmic discrimination. Federal preemption of state AI laws. This is not deregulation.
When you hit the Zotero browser button by accident and add an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the group literature review. Yeah, here are some hierarchical topic models I'd like you to study and a soap opera with bloodthirsty ghouls.
January 15, 2026 at 7:04 PM
When you hit the Zotero browser button by accident and add an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the group literature review. Yeah, here are some hierarchical topic models I'd like you to study and a soap opera with bloodthirsty ghouls.
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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
I think we should use cat purring as hold music! "Your call is important to us. *purrrrrr*"
January 7, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I think we should use cat purring as hold music! "Your call is important to us. *purrrrrr*"
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Leakers do what governments won't.
January 6, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Leakers do what governments won't.
I think there should be a Where's Waldo about identifying lycanthropes called Wherewolf, and when you find one you exclaim Therewolf!
January 5, 2026 at 12:43 AM
I think there should be a Where's Waldo about identifying lycanthropes called Wherewolf, and when you find one you exclaim Therewolf!
Fierce debate between small children: “Mummies are dead people.” “Well, yeah. But if they were alive? They would eat brains.” “Yeah.” Consensus.
January 2, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Fierce debate between small children: “Mummies are dead people.” “Well, yeah. But if they were alive? They would eat brains.” “Yeah.” Consensus.
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
I have a great memory from high school of watching two men drive up in a golf cart to one of those electric construction signs, reprogram it to say “Hey Barney!” and then drive away cackling. Inspirational.
December 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I have a great memory from high school of watching two men drive up in a golf cart to one of those electric construction signs, reprogram it to say “Hey Barney!” and then drive away cackling. Inspirational.
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The original cache of DataSet 8 (with the incorrectly redacted files) has been added to @ddosecrets.com
So for some of the Epstein docs they highlighted in black and then forgot to “print to pdf” which would have effectively flattened the formatting and stopped text being recoverable, but here we are.
github.com/leedrake5/un...
github.com/leedrake5/un...
GitHub - leedrake5/unredact: A simple tool for reading in poorly redacted documents and reproducing their origional form
A simple tool for reading in poorly redacted documents and reproducing their origional form - leedrake5/unredact
github.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The original cache of DataSet 8 (with the incorrectly redacted files) has been added to @ddosecrets.com
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I pry open the crab shell but instead of sweet crabmeat I find a tiny, bustling city filled with people who have my face. It tastes terrible
December 14, 2024 at 7:10 PM
I pry open the crab shell but instead of sweet crabmeat I find a tiny, bustling city filled with people who have my face. It tastes terrible
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In the last several months, @ddosecrets.com has been powering through archives of Epstein emails and files and releasing them for free to the public.
No DoJ meddling, no institutional power making decisions about what to release.
They sure could use your help tho... DONATE donorbox.org/ddosecrets
No DoJ meddling, no institutional power making decisions about what to release.
They sure could use your help tho... DONATE donorbox.org/ddosecrets
The first public tranche of Epstein emails - over 13,000 emails - was just released live on @offthehookradio.bsky.social with the folks from @2600.com: ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
December 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
In the last several months, @ddosecrets.com has been powering through archives of Epstein emails and files and releasing them for free to the public.
No DoJ meddling, no institutional power making decisions about what to release.
They sure could use your help tho... DONATE donorbox.org/ddosecrets
No DoJ meddling, no institutional power making decisions about what to release.
They sure could use your help tho... DONATE donorbox.org/ddosecrets
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Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
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NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it
A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230.
No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech.
We can't let this happen. Share & take action
www.badinternetbills.com
A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230.
No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech.
We can't let this happen. Share & take action
www.badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
www.badinternetbills.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it
A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230.
No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech.
We can't let this happen. Share & take action
www.badinternetbills.com
A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230.
No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech.
We can't let this happen. Share & take action
www.badinternetbills.com
Underexplored genre: atomic steampunk. It’s steampunk, but they use radioactive rocks to boil the water. Victorian Chernobyl.
December 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Underexplored genre: atomic steampunk. It’s steampunk, but they use radioactive rocks to boil the water. Victorian Chernobyl.
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This is a reckless and self-destructive decision by ACM. It violates trust to cover up the peer-reviewed abstract with a lousy, error-ridden counterfeit. It sets a bad example for the community, implying that LLM "summaries" have epistemic value and that reading isn't necessary.
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This is a reckless and self-destructive decision by ACM. It violates trust to cover up the peer-reviewed abstract with a lousy, error-ridden counterfeit. It sets a bad example for the community, implying that LLM "summaries" have epistemic value and that reading isn't necessary.
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The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
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Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
🧪
December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
🧪
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👋 Our FOIA requests and lawsuits revealed a trove of government secrets in 2025.
Join @freedom.press, @jasonleopold.bsky.social, @weareoversight.bsky.social, and @kevinok.bsky.social on r/IAmA at 1 p.m. EST to ask us anything about our work and discoveries.
➡️ www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...
Join @freedom.press, @jasonleopold.bsky.social, @weareoversight.bsky.social, and @kevinok.bsky.social on r/IAmA at 1 p.m. EST to ask us anything about our work and discoveries.
➡️ www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...
December 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
👋 Our FOIA requests and lawsuits revealed a trove of government secrets in 2025.
Join @freedom.press, @jasonleopold.bsky.social, @weareoversight.bsky.social, and @kevinok.bsky.social on r/IAmA at 1 p.m. EST to ask us anything about our work and discoveries.
➡️ www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...
Join @freedom.press, @jasonleopold.bsky.social, @weareoversight.bsky.social, and @kevinok.bsky.social on r/IAmA at 1 p.m. EST to ask us anything about our work and discoveries.
➡️ www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...
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Great rundown of the Section 230 debate and why its necessary to preserve by @backdrifting.net!
backdrifting.net/post/078_sec...
backdrifting.net/post/078_sec...
Section 230: A Primer
Section 230: A Primer
backdrifting.net
December 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Great rundown of the Section 230 debate and why its necessary to preserve by @backdrifting.net!
backdrifting.net/post/078_sec...
backdrifting.net/post/078_sec...
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CDs were a wild technology. “Oh yeah, there was this era where we all had high-precision lasers at home and burned data into reflective platters, like a sci-fi reenactment of etching the early written word onto clay.”
March 18, 2024 at 12:48 AM
CDs were a wild technology. “Oh yeah, there was this era where we all had high-precision lasers at home and burned data into reflective platters, like a sci-fi reenactment of etching the early written word onto clay.”