iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ron Avitzur @ronavitzur.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I believe in the power of stories. What is software, but stories we tell to sand and lightning bound into our service?

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Ron Avitzur @ronavitzur.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

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Ron Avitzur @ronavitzur.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Neil Soiffer (Mathscribe '86, Mathematica…) writes "allowing everyone to have a chance to find the joy of math and science has given purpose to my life". He now works on daisy.github.io/MathCAT. Arno Gourdol (WinMath '86) now works on mathlive.io Who else's math software work spans five decades?

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

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Björn Ottosson - making Island Architect @bottosson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I'm making a cozy and relaxing town builder called 🌳🏡Island Architect 🏡🌳! - Coastal European vibe - Sculpt terrain, including caves & sea arches - Build wonky, curved buildings Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3079100/...

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sea-saw @sea--saw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Succulents 🌵 in Desmos 3D www.desmos.com/3d/phsxf7axqp #desmos #mathart #mathplay

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Rhonda 🌊 @silverarticfox.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

All of this because we didn’t throw Trump in prison for trying to overthrow an election.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

My Favorite sign of all time at a No Kings Protest. So F--king True!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This is a legitimately great idea. Turn every ICE concentration camp into a museum of their crimes and the people who fought against them.

In her letter to lawmakers, Thompson asked for help to close the facility and transfer its ownership from the federal government to the village for redevelopment as a museum. The “Broadview Justice Corridor,” as she called the project, would turn the ICE facility into a “national center dedicated to immigration history, civil rights education, civic leadership, and cultural tourism.

“This transformation would convert a site associated with fear, protest, and division into one that promotes education, reconciliation, and national dialogue,” Thompson wrote in the letter, estimating the proposal would draw up to 250,000 visitors annually and generate up to $31 million in economic activity.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 24/03/2026

“A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth.” It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and he developed the pneumonia that killed him. In other words, ICE allowed a prisoner to die of a toothache.

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US Concentration Camps Exist to Expand the Power of Trump’s Authoritarian Regime

Local actions have proven effective in resisting the creation of the camps our federal government is constructing.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I am an *old* GenX and I *only* buy stuff on my PDP-11/83 running Version 5 UNIX, using a line-mode web browser I wrote in BCPL that runs on a DECWriter. It's the only way to be safe from ad exchange malware!

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

SF STORY PREMISE: SETI decodes an alien signal targeting us. Hi! We see you're still facing the Great Filter! We want to help! Based on your anatomy in broadcasts we decoded, here is a blueprint for a device that will solve your problem! Humans: decode blueprint. It's for an improved guillotine.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

But this isn’t just a regular account. Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies. A phone number associated with Wade is linked to Johnny MAGA, according to a WIRED review of publicly available records, and the connection was confirmed by a source close to the White House.
Wade and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/02/2026

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

ajc.com

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April

Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 29/01/2026

Some things to understand about people from Minnesota on here right now, a short thread:

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Ron Avitzur @ronavitzur.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make the names they call themselves universally acknowledged slurs. MAGA & Trumpist for sure, Republican perhaps. Make those names shameful deservedly, now, lest the slur become our name — American. daringfireball.net/2026/01/the_...

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The Names They Call Themselves

*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madnes...

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Ron Avitzur @ronavitzur.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Evolution of the About Box from 1994 to 2025

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Eric Kozlowsky @vonkoz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE is a terror organization and must be dismantled, abolished and its members prosecuted. Full stop.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Old timers will remember what a federal investigation found after Chicago ‘68: it was a “police riot.” Today, a million times worse. #AbolishICE

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE is a paramilitary force deployed in a campaign of state domestic terrorism. If the primary focus were immigration enforcement, they’d be raiding agricultural and hospitality industry settings. Instead, they’re going into residential neighborhoods, schools, and courthouses. Terror is the goal.

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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

startribune.com

Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure

The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Something that is very important here is that this man’s fellow agents didn’t rush to help him or save his life, barely even pulled over. This is not a military unit joined by bonds of brotherhood and experience together. There is no unit cohesion besides a shared desire to hurt people.

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Ben @ben9311.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

ICE must, collectively and individually, be destroyed. They are committing #Sedition and possibly #Treason. They are committing assault, murder, arson, kidnap, rape while intentionally breaking the Constitution. They use nerve agents on the innocent. They are OUTLAWS and we must act.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

People want to have their basic needs met. They want to be paid a living wage. They want to stop being nickle and dimed by powerful corporations who control so much of our lives. They do not want Venezuela. They do not want Greenland. They do not want masked thugs terrorizing our communities.

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Felix Klein lectured “On Hilbert’s first note on the foundations of physics" at the Mathematical Society of Göttingen #OTD in 1918. He included excerpts from letters in which he and Hilbert give priority to Emmy Noether’s results on conservation of energy in general relativity. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

Black and white photograph of Emmy Noether. She is standing just behind an ornate chair, wearing a white striped blouse with puffy shoulders, a fluffy bow at her neck, and a heavy long skirt cinched with a belt. Her dark hair is pulled back and she is looking a bit to the photographer's right.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

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Ron Avitzur @ronavitzur.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

"Every day the Republicans are like “we built a new puppy killing machine” and every day the Democrats are like “we are introducing legislation to encourage more government oversight to the puppy killing machine” Abolish ICE.

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Daniel Wilson @helsig.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I just want to explore all the possibilities for parametric equations. What else should I try? #MathArt

Variations for a torus-like set of parametric equations. Colored and graphed in Excel. Assembled in Krita.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

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Ali Adair @aliadair22.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The ACLU has a Mobile Justice app that will automatically record video and send it to your local ACLU affiliate if you get attacked by ICE and they try to delete your video or steal your phone. It’s now available in 17 states and Washington D.C. www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...

cnet.com

Record and report interactions with police using the ACLU app -- here's how

Learn if your state supports the ACLU Mobile Justice app.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

By Douglas MacMillan
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the Jan. 3 death of detainee Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp, the agency said “staff observed him in distress,” and it gave no cause of death.

An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner told Lunas Campos’s daughter this week that, subject to results of a toxicology report, the office is likely to classify the death as a homicide, according to a recording of the conversation.

In the recording, which the daughter shared with The Washington Post, the employee said a doctor there “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression,” which means Lunas Campos did not get enough oxygen because of pressure on his neck and chest. Pending the results of a toxicology report, the staffer said on the recording, “our doctor is believing that we’re going to be listing the manner of death as homicide.”

In an interview with The Post, Santos Jesus Flores, a man who says he was detained in the segregation unit the day Lunas Campos died, said he saw at least five guards struggling with Lunas Campos after he refused to enter the segregation unit, complaining that he didn’t have his medications. Flores said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, “No puedo respirar” — Spanish for “I can’t breathe.” Medical staff tried to resuscitate him for an hour, after which they took his body away, Flores said.

“He said, ‘I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe.’ After that, we don’t hear his voice anymore and that’s it,” said Flores, who had contacted a family member of Lunas Campos, who in turn put him in touch with a Post reporter. The Post confirmed Flores was in Camp East Montana through ICE’s detainee locator.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I find it really really hard to keep up with more than one social media site... I have a full time job, a family, and, you know, a life, so I don't post here much... but I'm going to try to share a bit more. Also posting here too: youtu.be/8cJggmt_CB4

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Sickness Absence Rates in *Young* Doctors

YouTube video by tern

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/01/2026

If you need inspiration to keep going right now, may I recommend the story of Robert Smalls, who stole a confederate steamboat and piloted his family and almost 20 others to freedom and went on to become one of the first Black people elected to Congress ✊🏽 www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...

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'Be Free or Die,' tale of escaped slave who became a Union hero

Cate Lineberry's new book tells the little-known story of Robert Smalls, a ship pilot.

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Ron Avitzur @ronavitzur.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Hope is a powerful thing. Sometimes it's the only thing. Our numbers are few. Our spirit is undiminished. Aidtya Sahil. Never commissioned. The Federation has gone dark and vanished for decades. What does he do? He shows up every morning and does the work, for as long as it takes. Happy New Year!

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/12/2025

THE CANCELLED 60 MINUTES SEGMENT DOWNLOAD BEFORE APPLE INTERFERES

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Ron Avitzur @ronavitzur.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Wishing everyone a Merry Solstice! This is your seasonal reminder that Covid is still dangerous, airborne, & spread by people with no symptoms, and that masks work. Stay safe out there!

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Ron Avitzur @ronavitzur.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Lorenz butterfly in the Pacific Tech Graphing Calculator

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