iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

kevin @kevdog.cool · 01/10/2026

you know shit is getting wild when the weatherman is using a matplotlib

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 28/09/2026

that's just a bath

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 22/09/2026

i think elites are not capitulating. they were—and are!—using capitulation as an excuse to do what they’ve wanted to do all along

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 21/09/2026

i made web pages that looked like this

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tantric Cosmic Egg, the fertilized world egg, divided into spheres and currents of energy, Rajasthan, 18th c. Gouache on paper, 27 x 41 cm.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 19/09/2026

if i have more time later, i might experiment with having it try to anticipate what will happen at the start of the next measure, based on history. might work! who knows!

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 19/09/2026

i experimented today w/ using jev to jam, but i think i really need to rethink my approach. it's really cool, but the naive approach which is "figure out which chord to play and then play it right away" definitely does not work with a 100ms delay

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 13/09/2026

This gives me an idea…

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 13/09/2026

wildest burrito shop mural i ever seen

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 12/09/2026

I love that this sounds kinda like a Paul Simon song

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🎶 You got to be good at poker Have skills at poker Win at the poker games Be a poker champ 🎶

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/09/2026

Like the recurring theme of every show could be "the show must go on." And that's it! There's season one. You're welcome.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/09/2026

Maybe one where Kermit is really sick and he's the one really holding the show together so all those other Muppets whose names you don't even know have to come together to make the show work and they do it against all odds.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/09/2026

Here's one: a crossover with Sesame Street. Elmo is a special guest.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/09/2026

You could do an entire Stadler and Waldorf episode. Maybe they learn not to be so cynical. I don't know. I'm just spitballin' here.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/09/2026

And then one where Kermit is the executive producer and he's really frazzled because he's trying to produce this show but his entire staff are Muppets, who do not exhibit abundant competence.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/09/2026

You can do one where like there's like a B plot where Gonzo is having some kind of like neurotic meltdown.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/09/2026

You can do one where Animal has lost his drum kit.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/09/2026

And then you can do one where like... Miss Piggy is really jealous of Kermit. And that causes a lot of tension on the set and messes up the production.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/09/2026

Hear me out: you could do one where Fozzie can't think of any funny jokes, but he has to think of a funny joke. He's telling real stinkers thru the whole episode. But maybe in the end, the jokes don't have to be funny at all because everybody loves Fozzie.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/09/2026

Kinda like 30 Rock, but with Muppets. You can call it, I don't know, "The Muppet Show."

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/09/2026

It seems to me like you could do the show where the Muppets are trying to put on, like, a variety show and you can see what's happening behind the scenes as they struggle to do it, being Muppets and all. But then you're also watching the show that they produce, which is entertaining in it's own way.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 10/09/2026

Is it even possible to reduce latency to an acceptable level when you must sync to video? Is it even possible to do it over our IP networks?

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 10/09/2026

I remembered learning in college that Bell and AT&T made intentional tradeoffs between audio quality and latency for exactly this reason, but I don't think it's something that the product managers at Zoom or Google think about.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 10/09/2026

I think this is because of latency. There's a longer time between when I start speaking and you start hearing it and v/v. So it means we both think the coast is clear and start talking at the same moment.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 10/09/2026

I've been thinking a lot about why video conferencing—particularly Zoom—is terrible for conversation. When I speak with people in person or on the phone, we don't ever talk over each other. It's much easier to read cues about when to speak. But in videoconf, we are always colliding.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 10/09/2026

I think my favorite was a blackberry-blueberry mix. I also made about a dozen strawberry tarts. They were very good, but not quite as flavorful.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 10/09/2026

For what it's worth, I've been baking a lot of tarts in my ample free time.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 10/09/2026

So the Pop-Tart is a sort of "experiential dongle," if you will.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 10/09/2026

Okay, so toasters were invented to toast bread. But pop tarts were invented to be used by toasters to adapt to the experience of enjoying a tart to the available technology of the mid-1960s.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 10/09/2026

Okay, okay, hear me out. A Pop-Tart is a kind of adapter.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 10/09/2026

And you wrote this on spec?

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 10/09/2026

Driving in L.A. makes me wish that I had a second, secret, horn that I could use to honk at people behind me.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 09/09/2026

For most of my life, Charles Barkley has been a sort of biblical figure

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 09/09/2026

every time i indulge my unfortunate tendency to compare myself to a 'tech genius' ding-dong, i pull myself away with "well at least i'm a college graduate!"

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 06/09/2026

responsible economists would be considering ways to unwind this bubble, without destroying our ecology or economy.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 06/09/2026

so if this data center bubble does not burst, we’re looking at widespread (but temporarily local, as you say) environmental destruction. and if it does not work, we are looking at the sort of economic crisis that occurs when trillion dollar bills cannot be paid.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 06/09/2026

of course you understand that eliminating acid rain and clean air act regulations on ai power plants makes dirty coal more competitive with renewable energy for the data center buildout. particulate and sulfur pollution has a direct and dramatic impact on air quality. locally at first, then globally

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 06/09/2026

as you know, the US EPA has recently excluded off-grid power plants from clean air act regulations. they disingenuously frame this as “consumer protection” www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 06/09/2026

to get that power, data center companies propose standing up dirty, off grid power plants that are run by fossil fuels. many proposals include building coal fired power plants.

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