iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 27/09/2026

One of my voltmeters is out of calibration, so I think that means I'm pretty much not getting anything else done today... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W4N...

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Hal fixing a lightbulb (Malcolm in the Middle S03E06)

YouTube video by Flashman

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 14/09/2026

RFK jr. should be asked repeatedly, like every time he appears in public, what he thinks of Trump's destruction and desecration of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The way AI is going to “kill everyone” is just by manufacturing consent for ever worse outcomes & conditions, like many governments do. It is a governing technology after all. And like bureaucracy it launders responsibility so the people & institutions who deploy it aren’t accountable for the harms

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Peter Hook & The Light @peterhookthelight.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Setlist from last night in Boston at the House of Blues - thanks everyone… Now heading to New York for tonight’s show at Brooklyn Paramount - here are the stage times: Doors @ 7 PH&TL @ 8 (No Opener) Approx Finish @ 10.45 🎫: www.peterhookandthelight.live Signed merch available!

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Peter Hook & The Light @peterhookthelight.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

📍 BOSTON..!! 🇺🇸 Our North American tour continues here tonight at the House Of Blues… This ltd edition print by Ghost Town Studio & @garageland.bsky.social is limited to just 7️⃣5️⃣, SIGNED by Hooky and available at the merch tonight alongside lots of other cool stuff!

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 04/09/2026

Whoever was the Democratic consultant that told them to stop calling these people "weird" should be catapulted into the sun.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 01/09/2026

I can't believe it's not more of a scandal that Hegseth refuses to promote women or minorities in the military.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 29/08/2026

New Order once said that this song is Dolly Parton's "Jolene" from the man's perspective... www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6AZ... "Paradise" from the album Brotherhood. Sha la la la la.

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New Order - Paradise

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 25/08/2026

I would like a "Butlerian Jihad Now" shirt, but many of the examples on Etsy use AI art.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

MA folks! Today is the last day to register to vote or update your registration before the primary.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Gary K. Wolf •
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica.
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica.
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 20/06/2026

What's even more remarkable is that I don't remember ANYONE remarking on this in the 90s. It was considered completely normal for a mainstream TV show to be actively anti-fascist and anti-racist. Today, it'd be the only thing people know about the show bc of how right-wingers would whine about it

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 20/06/2026

I've been watching Babylon 5 (along with @merrittk.com) and it's striking how almost every episode is criticizing a) fascism, b) xenophobia/racism, c) homophobia, d) theocratic conservatism. @straczynski.bsky.social wrote that shit woker than The Pitt S2. No way an exec would greenlight it today.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 09/06/2026

I've been writing mathematical documents in LaTeX for almost 40 years, and someone pointed me to ISO 31 just last week. I am having a bit of an existential crisis. I feel that Knuth and Lamport have led me astray.

Typeset equations, showing (a) All symbols in italic font, versus (b) variables in italics, but math constants, operators, and labels in roman font.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 25/05/2026

Happy 5.25 Floppy Disk Day.

Four 5.25" floppy disks, including disks from VisiCalc, Commodore, Verbatim, and Elephant Memory Systems.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 09/05/2026

I hate AI-generated art, music, and writing because I want artist, musician, and writer to be viable careers for humans.

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Happy 5/4 from a different type of nerd

Color photo of a corner of the piano sheet music for Take 5, famously written in 5/4.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 01/05/2026

Happy 14-dB Day, because 10^(14/20) = 5.01

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New England Synth Fest @nesynthfest.org · 25/04/2026

DIY Synthesizer Workshop at New England Synth Fest. Build a hand-held synthesizer, Saturday May 2, 2026 at 11am. Northeastern University, Ryder Hall, 11 Leon St., Boston, Mass (right by the Ruggles MBTA Station). Register Here $60: www.eventbrite.com/e/1985594166...

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DIY Workshop - build a Hand-Held Synthesizer @ NE Synth Fest

The Atari Punk Console is one of the most famous and recognizable Lo-Fi synth circuits ever. Join us, build your own in an Altoids tin.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This was my version.

A variation on the "two guys looking out opposite sides of a bus" meme.

The overall image has the title "The sky above the port"

The sad passenger to the left, labeled "Gen X" is facing a window that is covered with the black and white static from a dead channel on an old cathode ray TV set.

The happy passenger to the right is labeled "Millennials" and is facing a window that is the bright blue of a flat screen TV tuned to a dead channel with the label "no signal" in the upper corner.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

“Vice President JD Vance thinks aliens are visiting earth and that they are Demons” is the most “I wish Carl Sagan were alive” moment I’ve had in a while.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 28/03/2026

MIT has announced that starting Monday, Barker Library will be converted to a 24/7 study space. The stacks will be closed and the front-desk staff will be laid off. libraries.mit.edu/news/barker-...

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Barker Library Access Update | News

As part of the MIT Libraries’ approach to budget reductions, Barker Library will transition to an unstaffed location, with 24/7 study space and collections available by request. Due to staff attrition...

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 28/03/2026

I do not believe that a university library can fulfill its mission without open stacks.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 14/03/2026

I'm going to tell my kids this is Cabaret Voltaire.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates with bad haircuts.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 03/03/2026

you aren't making the nazi bar less nazi by hanging out with the nazis

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 26/02/2026

I literally reinstalled MikTeX on my laptop earlier this month because I needed to resurrect some slides for a talk on Analog Computing at Harvey Mudd.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

The screenshot of the release notes reads:

A new version of TeX Live Utility is available!
TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now?
Release Notes:
Changes Since 1.54
• Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book.
• First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software.
• Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date.
• Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date.
• Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database.
Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144.
• Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models.
• Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 15/02/2026

"In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience." --- Stokely Carmichael.

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New England Synth Fest @nesynthfest.org · 11/02/2026

Save the date! New England Synth Fest at Northeastern University coming Saturday, May 2, 2026. Performances, lectures, exhibitors, workshops, petting zoo, and more...

New England Synth Fest
at Northeastern University
Saturday, May 2, 2026

performances, lectures, exhibitors, workshops, petting zoo, more
Ryder Hall at NEU, 11 Leon St., Boston, Mass. 02115

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It's our birthday, and for 196 years we’ve explored how science shapes our world to inspire a lifelong love of science in everyone. When was the last time you visited the Museum? 🧪 #MusemOfScience #Birthday #Science #STEM

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 01/12/2025

In 1969, Bob Widlar wrote an article for EEE, "Designing Positive Voltage Regulators", arguing that fully integrated voltage regulators were impossible. The reasoning: the pass transistor kills you: it gets too hot, varying the chip temperature, and there are no standard IC power packages.

"Designing Positive Voltage Regulators" by Robert J. Widlar

Although it is desirable to put as much of the regulator as possible on the IC chip, there are certain basic limitations. For one, it is not a good idea to put the series pass transistor on the chip. The power that must be dissipated in the pass transistor is too much for practical IC packages. Further, ICs must be rated at a lower maximum operating temperature than power transistors. This means that, even with a power package, a more-massive heat sink would be required if the pass transistor were included in the IC.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 30/11/2025

By the way, a "quantum leap" is the SMALLEST POSSIBLE leap. No smaller leaps exist.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 27/11/2025

I shall try some of your burned replicated bird meat.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 26/11/2025

"Ain't Gonna Play Sun City" is a better song than "We Are The World" and "Do They Know It's Christmas". Fight me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fR2...

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Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City

YouTube video by Little Steven

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 24/11/2025

James Carville Shut The Fuck Up Challenge. Difficulty: impossible.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 22/11/2025

Happy Max Headroom Incident Day, to all who celebrate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...

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Max Headroom signal hijacking - Wikipedia

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 14/11/2025

November 14, 1969: "Flight, EECOM. Try SCE to AUX."

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 06/11/2025

I wish the airports affected by the ATC slowdown would say, “Commercial pax are the lifeblood of our business. In response to the slowdown, we are grounding all private planes.”

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 04/11/2025

Was the Palantir used by the good guys or the bad guys? Please help me out here, I am terrible at media literacy.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 04/11/2025

If you send me a campaign fundraiser email signed by James Carville, I just assume that the consultants want you to lose.

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Kent Lundberg @doctoranalog.com · 02/11/2025

Sunset at 4:30 sucks, y'all.

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 31/03/2025

I don't think that "bikeshedding" is a good name for what it represents, we should discuss alternatives

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