Scott Jost
scottljost.bsky.social
Scott Jost
@scottljost.bsky.social
Husband. Dad. Dog walker and dish washer. Automation and model predictive control enthusiast. UTexas ChE.
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Oh man, who's he gonna fire this time? Math? Maybe he'll fire math.
U.S. Factory Orders Declined in June
New orders from U.S. factories contracted 4.8% month over month to $611.7 billion in June. Orders have dropped for two of the past three months.
www.wsj.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Wracked with guilt because I accidentally tossed a plastic jar in the trash and not the recycling bin 🫤
A staggering 96 private jets are expected to fly in for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding – Supercar Blondie
Almost 100 private jets are expected to touchdown in Venice, Italy, this week for the wedding of billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez
supercarblondie.com
June 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.
June 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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with apologies to @xkcd.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take
April 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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This is hard to believe, but is happening:

the CVE program to end later today?

CVE has been the de facto way to track software vulnerabilities - from disclosure to fixing - globally.

Feels like everyone will be worse off - and I wonder what will replace this, if anything will
April 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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April 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Erasing people's participation in the war effort because they're not white men is so ridiculous that I'd laugh myself sick if it weren't so serious.

It's really the reign of the fragile and the cowards.
March 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
More heartbreaking disrespect for public servants, in this case setting aside work to conquer dementia.
Trump cuts grants for research into Alzheimers at our Blunt Center in Columbia, M0.
Is America getting great again?
February 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Every day I get closer to understanding how it must have felt when the incoming Senator was Caligula's horse.
February 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes
January 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Jay: I think social media should be basically common infrastructure that society gets to use and evolve it as society evolves, building a more democratic form of social media to reflect a democratic society.
November 20, 2024 at 5:07 AM