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Rob Ricci@ricci@discuss.systems
Research professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. Co-director of the Flux Research Group: https://www.flux.utah.edu. I build research infrastructure: https://cloudlab.us, https://powderwireless.net, https://emulab.net, https://geni.net.
I do not speak for my employer, nor do they speak for me
Not a boffin
Profile pic: Middle aged white man with grey hair and a large beard wearing sunglasses
Banner: Magtape of UNIX V4 and a VT220. Credit: Dan Hixson
Web: https://ricci.io/
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Pronouns: he/him
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Joined: 2026-05-27 00:42:02
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Rob Ricci@ricci@discuss.systems (2026-06-15 11:21:09)
Congratulations, everyone, for successfully making it through the year 2889 (except it's not the year 2889, I guess?) in the year 2026
Thanks to my inability to remember when I owe my spouse a date night, I joined y'all tonight through the magic of time travel (watching it hours ago and using scheduled posts), which somehow feels appropriate for a movie that doesn't take place when it purports to either
IT'S ALL LIES!
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/116749664505730357
#Monsterdon
Rob Ricci@ricci@discuss.systems (2026-06-15 08:14:55)
When this post is about 2 hours old (at 7 PM MDT / 9 PM EDT) we will #Monsterdon !
This means that you, yes YOU can watch a movie of questionable quality along with hundreds of your new best friends.
OR you might want to mute the hashtag if you *don't* want your Sunday night (or Monday morning, or...) timeline to be full of comments of questionable quality. In the Mastodon web UI, you can do this by clicking on the hashtag above and selecting "Mute #Monsterdon " This will take you to the Filters page, where you can create a new filter for Monsterdon.
This week: In The Year 2889 (1969). What sold me on this movie was this quote from a review:
"Although not set in the year 2889, 'In The Year 2889' ... "
When is it actually set? Why 2889? LET'S FIND OUT
Not ONLY is this movie streaming free (at least in the US) on Tubi, it is available on WIKIPEDIA! Yes, that's right, you can watch the whole thing by going to its Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Year_2889_(film) and just... hitting play. C'mon, you know you want to be able to brag to your friends that you've watched an entire feature-length film on Wikipedia, right?
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Rob Ricci@ricci@discuss.systems (2026-05-26 22:35:35)
Petition to rebrand toots as "micro encyclicals"
Rob Ricci@ricci@discuss.systems (2026-05-26 22:28:18)
Going to start calling all my blog posts "encyclicals" so that people take them more seriously