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
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
Found a cool dragonfly this week! (Aren’t they all?)
June 16, 2023 at 12:26 AM
Found a cool dragonfly this week! (Aren’t they all?)
I made strawberry shortcake! They’re delicious, if structurally unsound right out of the oven
May 6, 2023 at 12:14 AM
I made strawberry shortcake! They’re delicious, if structurally unsound right out of the oven
Realized the toaster computer wasn’t spinning up because the power supply was foolishly wired backwards. Upon rewiring it, the drives spun up and then the power supply promptly caught fire. Safe to say it’s toast 🍞
April 16, 2023 at 8:10 PM
Realized the toaster computer wasn’t spinning up because the power supply was foolishly wired backwards. Upon rewiring it, the drives spun up and then the power supply promptly caught fire. Safe to say it’s toast 🍞