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@Surasanji its not going to work with standard mud clients because those rely on telnet and ill use ssh + ncurses. But with ncurses my hope is a MUD client wont be needed.

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So just decided to rewrite my MUD :d20: from scratch and write it in Ruby :ruby: with ncurses this time for fun. It will be open-source :opensource:

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Hi, Folks!

I am a tenured Associate Professor at La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA, USA. I have my B.S. Degree with a Double Major in Chemistry and Physics and my Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry with specialties in Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy, Instrument Design, and Automation Software Development. I teach in an interdisciplinary undergraduate program called Integrated Science, Business, and Technology in which our students study the process of developing scientific discoveries into new products and services using collaborative business practices. I develop and teach courses in Energy, Materials, and Informatics, and have personal research interests in Robotics and Machine Intelligence.

After joining Facebook as soon as La Salle was added to the Facebook servers in 2005 and Joining Twitter in 2007, I created the Facebook and Twitter accounts for the University as I was unable to convince our IT department that it was important for the University to have a presence on social media.

After openly sharing my personal Political positions as a Constitutional Conservative and my support of Donald Trump, the backlash on Facebook and Twitter was so severe that I no longer use those networks.

As a Conservative Academic, I understand and deeply experience what it means to be a minority. I'm giving Mastadon a spin in search of respectful conversation.

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@Surasanji I would ask :descartes: how he feels about the fact that just resurrected him from the dead, did he temporarily cease to exist or did he always exist? :byebrows:

for 30/08/2018:

If you could ask one real life figure (living or dead) any question who would choose and what would you ask them?

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How is there not a book about infectious microbiological evolution titled "Children of All Phages"?

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#ShareTheMusic for 8/29/18 

@Surasanji I deeply enjoy Klezmer music. The song you linked is really nice, I'll surely look out for more of them.

Thanks!

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If we only tolerate those we agree agree with, I'm not sure that's tolerance.

Greetings and salutations good people of and !

Lovely Thursday here in Tel Aviv. I do hope your days are shaping up to be beautiful!

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Had some mixed fruit - peaches, plums, grapes, and a lime - overripe but not bad yet. Didn't really want to throw it away, because food waste, so I made jam!

My first jam!

And it is DELICIOUS :)

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@freemo
I don't know much about wil, but I've seen his appearance with Neil deGrasse Tyson and it was really cool. Seemed like a guy =)
@Demo318 @Surasanji @wilw

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@Surasanji
I too am disappointed. I saw some comments and maybe because I don't the history an missing context, but it seemed like users trying to rally a mass exodus from an instance and attack the mod unless he shut down a user who hadn't violated the rules of the instance. I appreciate you posting

"some dude, and it *doesn't matter who said dude is* just got bullied and harassed right off of a social network"

I think many on many sides disagree with this, believing it's right for "us" to attack "them", but it's wrong for them to attack us. Actions of presidents, mobs, and media personalities are cheered or damned not based on what they're doing but on whether they're perceived to be one of "us" or them.

Here's hoping for being excellent to each other here on

I'm fairly sure I disagree on lots of things with @wilw, but would be happy to have people I differ with to interact with here. Not looking for an echo chamber.

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@freemo @wilw

I would be seriously happy if you decided to do that Wil. I'd even promise not to fangirl too much about your Tabletop stuff. (I do like TNG but frankly I prefer watching you game to being Wesley 😛 )

We are all too S.T.E.M. focused here I think to bother with being mean to one another. I don't think Dr. Freemo has ever had a single complaint.

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@wilw You should come to we wouldn't ban you and everyone would love to have you here.

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@wilw Wil, I don't know if you will be reading this but I figure I might as well do it.

If you wish to rejoin the fediverse, you are welcome to join tenforward.social. I will deal with any false reports accordingly.

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@guinan @wilw

I really hope he reads this. I liked seeing his painting updates. Thank you for offering him a drama free alternative Guinan:)

I have been asked to keep things short with a Content Warning. I apologize in advance, I won't be doing that here:

I am exceedingly upset that @wilw has more or less been chased off Mastodon.

He absolutely doesn't deserve to be treated badly, to be maligned, or abused. This admin who's banning Mr. Wheaton because of the actions of OTHER PEOPLE is, quite frankly, a total hashtag. I'm going to use Hashtag here as an insult, because honestly I can't think of anything else without swearing loudly.

I don't know the full story. I don't want to know the full story- because some dude, and it *doesn't matter who said dude is* just got bullied and harassed right off of a social network by toxic, garbage people.

And do not for a moment think that you are not garbage people, those who did this. You are. You are garbage. Rationalize your behavior however you want, but at the end of the day? You are a dumpster fire of a human being and you need to look at yourself good and close and do something about it because I don't want your toxicity poisoning the well any further.

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