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jmac

Here is a better photo of the tiny Necco wafer sculpture, in University Park near #MIT, commemorating the former site of the Necco factory. As Atlas Obscura notes, almost everyone who notices it must think it's random public art of a ruptured coin purse. Why are the wafers in a bag and not a roll, which is how you'd actually buy them? I don't know. (And I *would* buy them! I liked these candies, and I am apparently alone in this regard, to hear my Boston friends tell it.) #Boston #CambridgeMA

Bronze art of a small paper bag lying on its side, set onto a real rock. Bronzed discs spill out of it. If you look very closely you can see that they’re not coins, but plain wafers with the old Necco logo stamped on them.
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Nonilex

The document, dated March 11, 2025, focuses specifically on records & communications from the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference (R/FIMI) Hub, a small office in the #State Dept’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracked & countered foreign #disinformation campaigns; it was created after the Global Engagement Center (#GEC), which had the same mission, shut down at the end of 2024. #MIT Technology Review broke the news earlier this month that R/FIMI would be shuttered.

#Trump
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knizer

Now that I think of it, Kendall changed wildly too, it was sleepy #MIT, and maybe some startups. Now it just feels like its been taken over by BioPharma concerns.

At least the #Kendall Band is still slightly functional, when thats gone, all is lost.
youtube.com/watch?v=mvRVtaSKKI
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall_
#CambridgeMA #Boston

YouTubeBoston Red Line Train Arrives at Kendall-MIT with the Bell-Hammers SwingingBy Michael Rupprecht
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Mix Mistress Alice💄

"New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.

The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant — what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money — but for now he’s an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for granted.

'Picks And Shovels' is a high-tech crime thriller about the “weird era of PCs” in the early 1980s, when Reaganomics, the tech industry, multilevel marketing, and the AIDS crisis all converged in San Francisco. "—Jacobin

"Picks And Shovels" by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic, with Yanis Varoufakis @VaroufakisDE & David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com >

youtube.com/live/xkIDep7Z4LM?f

YouTubePicks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow, with Yanis Varoufakis & David MoscropBy Jacobin
#podcast#interviews#personal_computer
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Crystal Huff (they/them)

Today I learned about the existence of MIT's giant flywheel, which reportedly has a right of way easement across Cambridge in case it ever falls off track and rolls into the sea. There would be no stopping it.

mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/

Also, I learned what a flywheel is.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel

What a world!

MIT MuseumBuilding NW14, Francis Bitter Magnet Lab, construction, interior, flywheel, 1962 | MIT Museum
#TIL#MIT
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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

They were quick to identify that Trump’s campaign didn’t really seem to be about fighting antisemitism @ all, but rather about using that fight as a justification for govt overreach. Roth, a historian & the pres. of #Wesleyan told The New Yorker, “Anti-antisemitism can be appropriated by any political movement. They can use that as a vehicle for persecuting researchers & institutions that are not aligned w/the ideology of the person in charge.”

forward.com/opinion/712714/jew

#Harvard
#MIT
#Princeton

The Forward · What Jewish university presidents say: Trump is exploiting campus antisemitism, not fighting itJewish presidents are actively defining what antisemitism actually is in the face of the Trump administration’s weaponization of the term
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Chris J. Karr

Here's a letter that I sent to Princeton University President Chris Eisgruber a few weeks ago urging the University to stand firm against the Trump administration's attempt to turn it into the Ivy version of the New College of Florida.

I'm pleased to see Harvard and MIT join the conflict.

notesfromthevoid.cc/note-74-my

Notes from the Void · Note 74: My letter to Princeton's PresidentSharing a note I sent to Princeton University's President a few weeks ago.
#Princeton#AcademicFreedom#Harvard
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MPI for the Science of Light

Photonic computing needs more nonlinearity — #acoustics can help

Researchers from #MPL, @unihannover & #MIT demonstrate an all-optically controlled activation function using traveling sound waves. This optoacoustic approach enables nonlinear signal processing in the synthetic frequency dimension and could pave the way for more efficient, scalable optical neural networks — compact, fast, and energy-saving.

Read more 👉
mpl.mpg.de/news/article/photon

📸 © Grigorii Slinkov

The image shows a schematic representation of how an optoacoustic activation function can be employed in an all-optical multi-frequency neural network.
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