iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My ancient version of sibelius can batch convert a folder of files and I would hope they kept that feature.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16/08/2026

Larger theater companies, music venues and museums typically get more attention, but it’s smaller arts organizations that are often closest to and addressing the needs of their local communities. Facing tougher economic pressures today, many are struggling to do that. to.pbs.org/4fNoCIn

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Local arts groups that shape community culture face financial pressure

Larger theater companies, venues and museums typically get more attention. But in cities and rural areas, it’s smaller arts organizations that are closest to and address the needs of their communities...

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Trump administration is trying to gut one of the strongest laws protecting tribal sacred sites, burial grounds, and ancestral lands. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act has worked since 1966. Now a handpicked Council voted to rewrite it..in one week. Here's what at stake.👇

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

you know how tsunamis don’t seem insidious until they surge and destroy everything? yeah that’s basically what sportsbooks and the prediction markets are doing to millions of bank accounts right now

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Really enjoyed this ride but didn't love the ending. Perfect length story, though.

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Yeah, there are definitely fewer people interested in that but at least it makes sense internally.

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Just received my first radio promo for AI created music... They made it clear that it was composed by a human but orchestrated by AI. I do not envy defending that position.

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Can you imagine if they hosted major league wrestling instead of the UFC

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

When I started listening to you I lived in Texas. Now I live 15 minutes from the maritime aquarium and got to see their new puffin exhibit this week! Unfortunately you're not watching imax or any movies there right now. They're doing major renovations. This is the theater:

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@ghoshworld @ghoshworld.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

If the Nobel committee won’t give Trump the Peace Prize for ending the most number of wars… maybe they’ll give it to him for ending one war the most number of times.

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

If true, this would be a revelation for this transplant.

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

That's so funny, and it would be infuriating

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

There's a lot less variety from park to park. Basically every town locks into their acceptable guidelines and vendor, and there's not much variance from town to town.

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Oh. I just finished the episode. My first number is just based on the number of endings. For three choices that are identical it's 0.5*0.5*0.5=12.5% so pretty high!

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

fyi, there's a 2.27% chance you get the same read.

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Seeing this on my feed was a good excuse to play it for my 6 month old. He strongly approved.

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

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Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’

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But Dave Died 10 Years Ago This Very Night @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

Los Angeles, 2019. I am a courier, delivering important materials by hand. In order to navigate the dirty, crowded streets better, I glide through them on a pair of roller blades. I'm what's known colloquially as an ANDROID MURDERER. (There was a mix-up at the job name factory.)

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"Fair use for art making really shouldn’t be the frame for any of these conversations at all. The conversation should be, why do private corporations get to own this technology? " Such a good interview with Negativland on Tone Glow open.substack.com/pub/toneglow...

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Tone Glow 200: Negativland

An interview with plunderphonic legends Negativland about copyright, fair use, the rise of AI, and yes, that thing with U2

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I don't know if archiving *everything* is actually the best thing in reality, but it's a big part of what I thought the Internet would make possible. Instead of having access to culture like this we have AI slop, and that's a tragedy

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

This is my fault. For years I've joked to my wife that England only has a dozen actors when the same actors appear in her cozy murder shows. I guess RTD was listening.

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I really appreciated how he really balanced bringing his craft and tradition to the wider musical world while still representing it as he learned it. Just found this wkcr video: youtu.be/nJgDGhwkvzs?... The Kora is such a magnificent and subtle instrument. I could (& will) listen to this all day.

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Foday Musa Suso at WKCR 9/2014

YouTube video by NYC Radio Live

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

He was such an immense talent. My first connection was his collaboration with Glass and it sent me down such a deep rabbit hole. youtu.be/EuVzV5rvL9k?...

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Glass, Suso: The Screens - Suso's Song

YouTube video by Martin Goldray - Topic

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Thanks to predatory consultants, everyone's going to have a brand new big, beautiful mission statement to apply for 7 peanuts and a used Big Mac container.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 22/03/2025

Just stumbled on this brutal gutpunch of a video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSq6... I've trained The Algorithm to show me stuff like this— randos working on projects and showing them to you? I've never seen this channel but I've seen a dozen like it. Dude fixes radios. The video is not about radios.

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Message to My American Viewers

YouTube video by Jim's Radio Shop

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This might be a terrible idea, but recreating the synth in wonderful Christmastime would be a good exercise in understanding why sounds from that time period are so of that time period.

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Douglas Laustsen @lownote.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

My kid sang this to me yesterday and I thought he made it up.

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