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Mississippi Cotton Farmers Face Tough Decisions Amid Falling Prices, Rising Costs (Mississippi Free Press)
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-cotton-farmers-face-tough-decisions-amid-falling-prices-rising-costs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p113#a250714p113

Complex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651847v1 "underscoring the role of experience in directing compensatory plasticity following early sensory loss.&q…

Complex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness
The neocortex has a remarkable capacity to alter its functional organization and connectivity in response to sensory loss, particularly if this loss occurs early in life. A key question is whether this cross-modal reorganization is driven by sensory deprivation itself or through enhanced use of the spared senses. We investigated how different rearing environments shape neural responses in primary somatosensory cortex (S1) of short-tailed opossums ( Monodelphis domestica) , following elimination…

Filing: Samsung agreed to settle a patent lawsuit over wireless tech with Headwater Research following a $279M jury verdict against Samsung earlier in 2025 (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustr

As we continue down this path of escalating nihilistic meme violence, it can feel like the worst things have become viral. We are drowning in the memetic effluent of a capitalist media that profits by maximizing engagement. But I wonder if anyone remembers "Pay it Forward?"
A movie came out in 2000 about a kid who started a viral kindness campaign. The idea was that you do something nice for someone else with the expectation that they do the same in the future. I never really saw the movie, but I do remember the time. There were a few weeks, maybe a few months, where people started doing it. People would just be randomly nice, and everything actually just started feeling better.
Over time, the world caught up. Capitalism consumed the whole thing, and life went back to normal. 9/11 happened the next year, and the US started down the path of becoming the most twisted and evil version of itself. But there was a short time that doing nice stuff was a viral meme, a thing that people just started doing.
Gun violence doesn't have to be the only viral meme we have. We can make good things happen too.

Today in Tabs and Garbageday were the best reads about wtf is going on with Kirk.
https://www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-war-2-turns-hot

Groyper War 2 Turns Hot
Let's take a deep calming breath before we confront the following.

House Republican to be evicted from DC apartment after failing to pay months of rent (Brady Knox/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3470912/cory-mills-evicted-dc-apartment-failing-pay-months-rent/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p133#a250714p133

Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server, letting Canva users manage designs via Claude's UI, following similar integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, and Prisma (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/706637/canva-anthropic-claude-ai-mcp-s…

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now make and edit your Canva designs
Canva users can now create, edit, and manage their designs by describing their requirements to Anthropic’s Claude AI.

Crime Keeps Falling. Here's Why. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/opinion/crime-statistics-washington-dc.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p43#a250814p43

Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable "graphic content" and "glorified violence" (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-shot-videos-spread-…

Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content Moderation World
Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules.

Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-developin…

ByteDance Developing Mixed Reality Goggles in Challenge to Meta
Competition in mixed reality devices is heating up. TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, is working on a lightweight mixed reality device that resembles a pair of goggles, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project. It’s following in the footsteps of Meta Platforms, which has been ...