iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 22/09/2026

pioneerworks.org/programs/sec... In conjunction with the new edition of Networks of New York I'm doing some bespoke internet infrastructure walking tours in October—Museum of the Moving Image 10/10, Pioneer Works 10/11! (no link for the MOMI one yet)

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Second Sundays: October 2026

Since 2013, Pioneer Works has hosted Second Sundays, a free monthly open house. Highlighting our programs, artists-in-residence, and Red Hook community ...

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OONI @ooni.org · 18/09/2026

Heading to the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2026? 😃 Join us for the IMC Hackathon and use Internet measurement data to solve real-world challenges! 🙌 📅 October 12, 2026 📌 Karlsruhe, Germany 🗒️ Register: conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2026/eve... ✨️ #IMC2026 #hackathon

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10/09/2026

Heads-up everyone in digital humanities and/or cultural AI: this is a hugely valuable resource. It does the systematic cleaning and segmentation — of a million books — that we have always wanted to have, for computational research, and have never quite produced in a way that stuck.

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Jim Cowie @jimcowie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New exhibit has dropped in the Internet History Initiative reading room, thanks to some excellent new indexing of 19th century Boston newspapers (h/t: Boston Public Library via Harvard Library's @institutional.org ) internethistoryinitiative.org/blog/2026/09/04/before-the-internet/

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Before the Internet

A new exhibit in the Reading Room — a century of telegraph and telephone monopoly politics, 1834–1930, in Boston's own newspapers

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 12/08/2026

While denialism 2023-25 was worth pushing back against, I think it’d be insane to settle into a “pro-AI” position long term. Imagine if you had decided to be “pro-internet” in 1996: you’d spend the next 30 yrs arguing w/ ppl whether it was a net good—and we still wouldn’t know.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 15/06/2026

networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw... hi, did you like my book Networks of New York when it came out in 2016? you might like the updated 2026 edition which I'll be releasing in September and you can pre-order now

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Networks of New York, 2026 Edition (PRE-ORDER)

SHIPPING SEPTEMBER 2026! Networks of New York is a book by me, Ingrid Burrington. It helps readers identify indicators of physical internet and telecommunications infrastructure in New York City. Usin...

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RightsCon @rightscon.org · 01/05/2026

Following our April 29 announcement, we believe it's important to be transparent about the context that led to the decision. We want to explain, where we can, why this was made on such short notice, only days before we were set to host RightsCon. Read: www.rightscon.org/rc26-stateme...

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A statement to our community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

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Jim Cowie @jimcowie.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

In light of the chaos surrounding the RightsCon cancellation in #Zambia, I just set up a small monthly donation to support the important work of @accessnow.org . I should have done it before. You should too, if you are able. act.accessnow.org/page/175520/...

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Fund the good fight — donate to Access Now!

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Not everyone has the privilege to give back. I'm grateful I can. And I've drastically changed how I do it when it comes to talks. 📍 With 60+ talks in 20+ countries, I started noticing something special during my talks in the Majority World, especially in countries like Bangladesh. 1/n

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Dramatic drop in internet traffic to #Cuba at 17:40 UTC (1:40pm local) due to collapse of the country's national power grid. www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/w...

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

On Feb-4, @Starlink disabled terminals in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine that weren't on Ukrainian Ministry of Defense's approved list. We saw a 75% drop in Starlink traffic to Ukraine as a result. 🤯 www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

BGP routes belonging to the network of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (AS42586) were completely down between ~17:00 UTC on Mar-1 and ~10:00 UTC on Mar-2. See @ioda.live here: ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/asn/42586?fr... themedialine.org/top-stories/...

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

On Jan-6, Starlink added an additional 6 IPv4 and 1 IPv6 ranges for Venezuela in their geolocation file. Went from 1280 to 2816 unique IPv4 addresses. For more on Starlink geo, see my post for @isoc-pulse.bsky.social: pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/blast-o...

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

As of 18:45 UTC (10:15 PM local), traffic to Iran has stopped as the country has completely severed itself from the global internet.

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Iran has almost completely disconnected itself from the global internet. Just after 16:30 UTC today, traffic volume into the country began plummeting. The country has been gripped by growing protests in recent days & the Iranian govt has been selectively blocking internet services. #IranProtests

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Jim Cowie @jimcowie.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason." John Harington (1618)

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Jim Cowie @jimcowie.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

What a month for the presidency of the UN Security Council to be assumed by ... ...Somalia, for the first time in 54 years. #venezuela

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Ben Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

A nice write up about Case Viewer, my legal browser app: hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar... If you have an iPhone, iPad, or Mac and haven't tried it, you should! Learn more at www.caseviewer.app, follow @caseviewerapp.bsky.social, or download for free from app store: apps.apple.com/app/apple-st...

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Harvard Law professor launches Case Viewer app for easier access to court decisions - Harvard Law School

Harvard Law Professor Ben Eidelson tapped into a childhood passion to build a tool for lawyers and law students.

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Podcast: Jack Cushman joins “Pioneers & Pathfinders” to discuss libraries shaping legal tech, digital preservation, and realities of legal AI. Listen: www.seyfarth.com/news-insight...

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Pioneers and Pathfinders: Jack Cushman

Today, we’re joined by Jack Cushman, director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, where he and his team are reimagining how library principles can shape the future of legal technology. Jack is a…

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Gretchen Marina Krueger @gretchenkrueger.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been helping out my brother David who is starting a new org, Evitable.com, focused on informing and organizing the public around societal-scale risks and harms of AI, and countering industry narratives of AI inevitability and acceleration! 1/n

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Evitable

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 26/10/2025

If populism is (as this argues) a rebellion against System 2 thinking—which requires symbols and remains frustratingly hard for most of us—it seems we’re stuck with it forever. If only we could make some kind of, idk, cognitive prosthesis for symbolic reasoning? Yeah, never mind. Sounds hard. +

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Populism fast and slow

It is natural that a person who is both concerned by the rise of right-wing populism and possessed of a bookish disposition might turn to the academic political science literature in search of a bette...

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 25/10/2025

Come work with me! I'm hiring a data scientist to join me at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @shorensteinctr.bsky.social careers.harvard.edu/job/senior-d...

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Senior Data and Network Scientist

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Amazon has blamed today's massive outage on the "DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1." @kentik.bsky.social observed a complete drop-off in traffic to this particular AWS service beginning at 06:55 UTC. Thousands of services around the world were impacted.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Well, forget what I said, turns out you can process marsrover images on the train too :) There is a super faint smudge where comet 3I/Atlas should be. The new orbit parameters in Stellarium are a pretty good match. 🔭 #3iatlas

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Open science folks would get a *lot farther* if they spent did a yea long internship in science far outside of their own discipline. Scoop some poop in the pine barrens and count prions for a bit.

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Internet down for a second day in Afghanistan as country's first-ever internet blackout continues. Directive from Taliban govt is to revert to 2G-only service as a way to "prevent immorality."

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The ongoing internet shutdown in Afghanistan is the outcome of what many feared when the Taliban took over in August 2021. As of August 2024, we hadn't seen much change with respect to internet service in the country, as I detailed in this blog post: www.kentik.com/blog/afghani...

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Afghanistan Internet Presses On, Three Years After US Departure

Kentik’s Director of Internet Analysis uses BGP to see how the internet of Afghanistan has changed in the three years following the US military’s departure.

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Jim Cowie @jimcowie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

At long last, AFRINIC can convene a board, hire a CEO, and continue its critically important work. 🙏 www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/a...

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AFRINIC has elected a board. Now the hard work begins

: Regional internet registry faces numerous critics and isn’t out of the legal woods

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Beginning at 04:27 UTC today (Sep-15), Starlink suffered a brief but global service outage. This is most widespread service outage since Jul-24 when Starlink was down for more than two hours. Nearly all AS14593's BGP routes were briefly withdrawn at the time of the incident.

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Submarine cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupt connectivity between Europe and Asia. Latency spikes as traffic is re-routed around the broken cables. @kentik.bsky.social's Cloud Latency Map captures the impacts here: clm.kentik.com?q=4084ef2b1d...

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Get fucked, textbooks. Seriously breaking my PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology brain that this happened. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com · 04/09/2025

Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026. data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd

data-and-design.org

Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2026

We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

On Aug 19, China's Great Firewall began blocking most traffic on TCP port 443. This disruption lasted from 16:35 to 17:48 UTC (00:35 to 01:48 Beijing Time). According to the GFW Report, the outage was caused by the injection of forged TCP RST+ACK packets. gfw.report/blog/gfw_unc...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20/08/2025

This is btw the trajectory you would expect if you believe LLMs are—not an abstract protean principle called “intelligence”—but a cultural technology that animates the verbal machinery already folded up in libraries, allowing it to run by itself.

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Jim Cowie @jimcowie.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

"On July 4, 1903, the Manila cable was spliced into the Pacific cable in Hawai‘i, and President Theodore Roosevelt, who was at his home in Oyster Bay, New York, sent the first message to William H. Taft in the Philippines." doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 13/08/2025

I love this opposition, because it really clarifies the difference between assuming language models are abstract intelligences, and observing the roles they actually play in a network of social, language-using animals

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 19/07/2025

The reverse of the bitter lesson is when you spend a month trying to solve a problem with deep learning and then solve it in a day with feature engineering and XGBoost. Let's call it the nauseatingly sweet lesson.

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

New entries in @Starlink's GeoIP file for #India appear the day after the country's space regulator granted a license to launch operations in India. This was the final regulatory hurdle for the satellite provider to enter the massive South Asian market. www.reuters.com/world/india/...

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Jim Cowie @jimcowie.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

It took more than a century of suffering on the American frontier before they figured out the "milk sickness" that carried off untold numbers of settlers, including Abraham Lincoln's mother. What a story. hikersnotebook.blog/flora/other-...

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White Snakeroot

Common Name: White Snakeroot, Indian or White Sanicle, Richweed – Snakeroot is used as a common name for several plants without clear attribution. It is generally asserted that this would mean that…

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Tuvalu has became the latest site of a Starlink Community Gateway. At 20:40 UTC on July 2, 202.2.120.0/21 appeared in the global routing table — the first route originated by Tuvalu Telecom (AS23917) and transited by Starlink (AS14593). More here: www.kentik.com/blog/starlin...

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Join our team! LIL is looking for a Product and Research Manager to help create, shape, and execute on our portfolio of open knowledge projects. PRMs work across every piece of the LIL ecosystem, from software experimentation to convening of events. Learn more at careers.harvard.edu/job/product-...

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Product and Research Manager

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EarthSky @earthskyscience.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

For only the 3rd time in history, astronomers might have just identified an #interstellar object hurtling through our solar system! 🔭 Named A11pl3Z, it could be as large as 12 miles across. Read buff.ly/D2RTHXU And join our livestream at 9 CT (14 UTC) today: buff.ly/5TSsDkj 📷 Filipp Romanov

Black background with some white oblong dots and a dim round dot at center labeled A11pI3Z.

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Tony Dunn @tony873004.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

3rd interstellar object discovered? Maybe. There's a lot of buzz right now in the Astro community. More observations should come in tonight to confirm if A11pI3Z is from beyond the solar system.

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Jim Cowie @jimcowie.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

NSF can sleep on my couch for a few days but then it really needs to get its life together and figure out what it's doing from here on out

Dan Garisto writes: "NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: 'There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move.' [Bluesky * Yesterday at 6:20 PM]

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