Milo Trujillo

@backdrifting.net

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Systems scientist, engineer, activist. Researches how we organize and govern based on our social artifacts. Postdoc at @vcsi.bsky.social, lecturer at @nunetsi.bsky.social‬, infrastructure and analysis at @ddosecrets.org

The Boston “CITGO” gas station red triangle logo, except it appears to be made of leaky flesh and reads “SICKO”
A poster on a light pole titled “Cum for Science?” with an advertisement for providing a sample for fertility research that will help “Illumicell AI” create a “data layer” of sperm for some kind of AI training.
A "Winamp Balaclava", looks like that one green face Winamp skin where the audio controls are on extended panels from the ears. A caption next to the image reads "Winamp Balaclava: Knitted lime green balaclava with embroidered Winamp playback buttons across the forehead, sculpted facial contours, attached EQ and playlist panel side-pods with miniature speaker stacks"
Screenshot from a Wikipedia article of a penguin next to a man playing the bagpipes. The caption reads "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"
A curvy calligraphy 'B' on rough cotton paper with a deckle edge visible. The ink is blue-purple and a little messy.
A toaster computer. There are hard drives in the bread slots and a massive wifi antenna bolted to the side. The toaster is plastered in computer stickers like “Viper Gaming.”
A street lamp on the ground, its casing cracked open, lens absent, bulb smashed, filament exposed. A red “DANGE tape ribbon is tied around the neck and hangs limply. Like entrails.
A baby Peregrine Falcon is held in the foreground, cradled in two hands. It looks a little flustered. A baby human is in a stroller in the background, their eyes censored to prevent baby-doxxing
Heatmap of DDoSecrets releases, on a logarithmic scale that highlights that there are 153 U.S. releases and 74 Russian releases, seriously skewing the color scale.
Spam email reads as follows: Dear Purchaser We the KEZBI LLP DRILLING COMPANY has direct affiliations with the top major refineries in Russia and Kazakhstan. We have available non sanction products such as Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan origin already in the high sea for Tanker Take Over TTO, CIF FOB TTM PROCEDURE. The products are as follows: Diesel EN590 10ppm, JET A1, ESPO CRUDE OIL, UREA 47, GREEN PETCOKE, AVIATION KEROSENE JP54.LNG, AGO Thanks Director Bitim kezbayev KEZBI LLP DRILLING COMPANY
The "C'mon, do something" poking-with-a-stick meme, but the person's head is the DDoSecrets logo and the stick is poking a server
Gimli/Legolas meme template. "Never thought I'd publish leaks from a bibliography style guide maintainer" "What about from the largest U.S. association of language and literature scholars suing the government over funding cuts to education programs?" "Aye... I could do that"
A screenshot of the wikipedia article for "Denial-of-service attack" which has recently added a disambiguation block reading "'DOS' and 'DDoS' redirect here. For the non-profit whistleblower site, see Distributed Denial of Secrets. For other uses see DOS (disambiguation)." The screenshot is adorned with pink and purple hearts around the reference to Distributed Denial of Secrets.
Overcast, blizzard conditions, deep snow. Photo overlooks a park, bare trees dripping with powder. The boundary between the 'trail', park, and pond is utterly indistinguishable.
The DDoSecrets logo (a skull and crossbones but a computer mouse and also the progress pride flag) in gold embossing over a rainbow mix of colors of wax
A was seal of an eye in a triangle with light beams coming off of it. The wax is red and pink, but the details are all highlighted in gold
A brass colored honey bee on a larger frilled dollop of blue wax. Both are on a test page amidst various wax droplets and calligraphy tests.
A brick, with a reverse engraving leaving a pattern of symbols that look a little like "|:+5~"
A disassembled TWSBI Diamond 580, with the nib+feed, barrel, and plunger mechanism separated. Among the pieces are a tiny wrench, a bottle of silicon grease, q-tips for grease application, and an allen wrench I needed to push the plunger out.
A spin wheel of random numbers
A house sees a full moon, exclaims "Oh no" and then turns into a warehouse. It is a werehouse.
A map of the globe, with countries color-coded to indicate the number of datasets DDoSecrets have published from each country. Top countries include the U.S., Russia, Canada, and Brazil.
Star Wars episode 3 scene where Obi-Wan amputates Anakin by lightsaber on Mustafar, except Anakin has a train face from Thomas the Tank Engine. Obi-Wan's subtitles have been blacked out to leave "You were the choo!" "You were my train. I loved you."
A bearded dragon in a pet store tank with the label “Hi, my name is Cinnamon.” The bearded dragon has broccoli on its head, like it’s wearing a hat, and they’re pressed up to the glass showing off their fashion sense
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 (There are references, but the bibliography does not fit in alt text)
A microwave, emblazoned with two round stickers on the door. The top sticker reads “I voted”, while the bottom sticker reads “I got my Covid-19 vaccine”
Bumper sticker reading “horse denier” with a photo of a horse crossed out with a label “Not Real”
IBM’s “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision” slide, except words have been blacked out to leave “a computer can never be held, therefore computer sad”
Erik at a podium in front of a slide reading “the spatial stochastic block model” with an illustration of a distance matrix
A fortune cookie taped to a rusted utility pole. It reads "I found a baby in the woods. The stork brought corn."
Plot of flagged grants per state per capita. Rhode Island is far in the lead, followed by Massachusetts and Alaska.
Plot of flagged grants per state. California, Texas, New York, and Massachusetts are in the lead.
Tumblr post. “I had a dream that there was a huge TikTok challenge thing for ‘Joining the French foreign legion’ like people were getting concerned that all these teenagers were joining the French foreign legion as a meme. It became a culture war issue where alt-right chuds were mad that kids with blue hair were joining, which made the FFL ‘soy now’” Top reply, from catgirlforeskin, reads “All Quiet on the Wojack Front”
An order of three stickers: a stack of hard drives with the text “I’m not hoarding, I’m archiving”, a mothman by “Anti Crypto Cryptid Club”, and the Leader of the Luddites etching from 1812. There is also a sweet thank you card from Molly
A rocky beach, wispy clouds overhead, with washed up plant matter in the foreground, presumably kelp. Picture taken in early afternoon light.
Gloves that are smiling anthropomorphic toast slices with USB cables coming off of them
1 cup butter (room temp), 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, 1/4 tsp salt. Beat all ingredients until light and fluffy, then beat in 2.25 cups flour, then stir in 1 cup chocolate chips. Hand scoop into 1-inch balls, placed 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet, flatten down. Bake at 350F for 15 minutes until edges brown, cool on racks, eat
"guess I'll die" old man shrugging meme
Blueberry pie on a cooling rack, juices leaking out one side onto a plate beneath. The top is a haphazard lattice-like patchwork of light to dark browns
Dragonfly resting on a tree trunk
Shortcakes from the oven, no strawberries or cream yet, a little lopsided