Justin Vasel
@justinvasel.phd
IU Trustee Candidate | Physics Ph.D. advocating for transparency, shared governance, and principled leadership at Indiana University.
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Why have I had this saved on my phone for 4 years?
Who can say, but No. 1 and undefeated IU grinding Alabama into a fine paste at the Rose Bowl seems like as good a time as any to post it.
Who can say, but No. 1 and undefeated IU grinding Alabama into a fine paste at the Rose Bowl seems like as good a time as any to post it.
January 1, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Why have I had this saved on my phone for 4 years?
Who can say, but No. 1 and undefeated IU grinding Alabama into a fine paste at the Rose Bowl seems like as good a time as any to post it.
Who can say, but No. 1 and undefeated IU grinding Alabama into a fine paste at the Rose Bowl seems like as good a time as any to post it.
Exciting announcement: Construction has begun on the 3,000+ piece Lego Milky Way Galaxy set.
December 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Exciting announcement: Construction has begun on the 3,000+ piece Lego Milky Way Galaxy set.
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The Sun deserves more hype videos. Here’s a preview into the more cinematic Sun content I’ve been posting to Insta/TikTok/YouTube recently!
December 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The Sun deserves more hype videos. Here’s a preview into the more cinematic Sun content I’ve been posting to Insta/TikTok/YouTube recently!
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it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
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Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history.
Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...
#Wayback1T
Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...
#Wayback1T
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history.
Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...
#Wayback1T
Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...
#Wayback1T
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acing the “small talk” minigame in Wisconsin Neighbor Simulator 2026
they keep those costcos pretty warm, huh
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
acing the “small talk” minigame in Wisconsin Neighbor Simulator 2026
Explaining how amazing the aurorae were last night to my indoor cat
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Explaining how amazing the aurorae were last night to my indoor cat
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*Inning 25*
BENCH COACH: What do we do, Dave? We're all out of pitchers.
*Dave Roberts pets Bud, the team's lucky golden retriever*
DAVE ROBERTS: That's where you're wrong...
BENCH COACH: What do we do, Dave? We're all out of pitchers.
*Dave Roberts pets Bud, the team's lucky golden retriever*
DAVE ROBERTS: That's where you're wrong...
October 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
*Inning 25*
BENCH COACH: What do we do, Dave? We're all out of pitchers.
*Dave Roberts pets Bud, the team's lucky golden retriever*
DAVE ROBERTS: That's where you're wrong...
BENCH COACH: What do we do, Dave? We're all out of pitchers.
*Dave Roberts pets Bud, the team's lucky golden retriever*
DAVE ROBERTS: That's where you're wrong...
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AWS is down, post hog
October 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
AWS is down, post hog
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I mean, whomst amongst you does not have a radio telescope frolicking in the garden with the lavender, rosemary and lemon-scented tea trees?
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October 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I mean, whomst amongst you does not have a radio telescope frolicking in the garden with the lavender, rosemary and lemon-scented tea trees?
🪻🍀📡🌳🌱
🪻🍀📡🌳🌱
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From today's lecture: as good physicists we know we can just divide both sides by dx
October 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
From today's lecture: as good physicists we know we can just divide both sides by dx
Sept 4-10: IDS covers Indiana University's worst-in-nation free speech ranking.
Sept 25: Admin starts censorship talks.
Oct 7: Formal censorship order.
Oct 9: Director refuses.
Oct 14: Director fired.
Oct 15: Newspaper killed.
This is retaliation.
Sept 25: Admin starts censorship talks.
Oct 7: Formal censorship order.
Oct 9: Director refuses.
Oct 14: Director fired.
Oct 15: Newspaper killed.
This is retaliation.
October 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Sept 4-10: IDS covers Indiana University's worst-in-nation free speech ranking.
Sept 25: Admin starts censorship talks.
Oct 7: Formal censorship order.
Oct 9: Director refuses.
Oct 14: Director fired.
Oct 15: Newspaper killed.
This is retaliation.
Sept 25: Admin starts censorship talks.
Oct 7: Formal censorship order.
Oct 9: Director refuses.
Oct 14: Director fired.
Oct 15: Newspaper killed.
This is retaliation.
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To catch you up, Indiana University’s student newspaper reported:
• It was told to print no news in its homecoming edition, set to come out Thursday.
• It refused.
• The director of student media was fired.
• Hours later, IU cut all print editions of the paper, including Thursday’s issue.
• It was told to print no news in its homecoming edition, set to come out Thursday.
• It refused.
• The director of student media was fired.
• Hours later, IU cut all print editions of the paper, including Thursday’s issue.
UPDATE: More at Indiana University, with all IDS print being cut.
The university chancellor claims “the campus is completing the shift from print to digital effective this week” — despite the fight earlier this week having been over a print Homecoming edition. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
The university chancellor claims “the campus is completing the shift from print to digital effective this week” — despite the fight earlier this week having been over a print Homecoming edition. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
October 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
To catch you up, Indiana University’s student newspaper reported:
• It was told to print no news in its homecoming edition, set to come out Thursday.
• It refused.
• The director of student media was fired.
• Hours later, IU cut all print editions of the paper, including Thursday’s issue.
• It was told to print no news in its homecoming edition, set to come out Thursday.
• It refused.
• The director of student media was fired.
• Hours later, IU cut all print editions of the paper, including Thursday’s issue.
President Whitten has cracked down on all forms of dissent at IU, including trustees. It contradicts her narrative that IU has never been stronger, and all is well.
The last thing she wants is for wealthy alumni to hold real campus news in their hands when they arrive this week for Homecoming.
The last thing she wants is for wealthy alumni to hold real campus news in their hands when they arrive this week for Homecoming.
UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
October 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
President Whitten has cracked down on all forms of dissent at IU, including trustees. It contradicts her narrative that IU has never been stronger, and all is well.
The last thing she wants is for wealthy alumni to hold real campus news in their hands when they arrive this week for Homecoming.
The last thing she wants is for wealthy alumni to hold real campus news in their hands when they arrive this week for Homecoming.
adobe (not asking, but telling): save to cloud.
microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?
me: desktop
me: save to desktop
microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?
me: desktop
October 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
adobe (not asking, but telling): save to cloud.
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"This is a fundamental technology for mankind to power everything we do." - @billgates.bsky.social on fusion energy, while touring FIA member @cfs.energy
youtu.be/EmPeDieDZ_Y?...
youtu.be/EmPeDieDZ_Y?...
Harnessing the power of the sun to generate electricity
YouTube video by Bill Gates
youtu.be
October 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"This is a fundamental technology for mankind to power everything we do." - @billgates.bsky.social on fusion energy, while touring FIA member @cfs.energy
youtu.be/EmPeDieDZ_Y?...
youtu.be/EmPeDieDZ_Y?...
AI is just pumpkin spice machine learning don't @ me
October 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
AI is just pumpkin spice machine learning don't @ me
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I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.
September 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
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statistically a tornado has probably sucked up a ghost
January 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
statistically a tornado has probably sucked up a ghost
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September 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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What could go wrong?!
Scientists Printed Viruses Designed by AI and They're Successfully Reproducing
The viruses had their DNA written by an AI model and are already wreaking havoc on bacteria in the real world.
futurism.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
What could go wrong?!