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April 21, 2026 -- There is the unmistakable feeling that the wheels are coming off the MAGA bus. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-21-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p50#a260422p50

The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos
after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely flunked the assignment.
As local outlet AZFamily reported, students and families at the Phoenix-area school were left disoriented when the names being read over the ceremony’s loudspeakers failed to match those of the students actually walking across the stage.
The names displayed on the ceremony’s jumbotron were also…

AI system fails during Glendale Community College graduation ceremony
An AI system malfunctioned during Glendale Community College's commencement, misreading graduate names and pausing the ceremony multiple times.

Court filing: Google says it is ready to add third-party app stores in Google Play in the US on July 22, as Google and Epic withdraw their joint motion (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/965792/google-ep…

Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week
Epic Games and Google have just jointly withdrawn their attempt to retroactively settle the lawsuit changing how Android app stores work in the United States.

The right wing think tank "Manhattan Institute", is in the midst of a yearlong campaign to pass state-level legislation
reclassifying minor crimes like vandalism, blocking a roadway, or trespassing during a protest as felonies that would carry 18-month prison sentences as punishment.
The push to criminalize forms of nonviolent disobedience as a form of terrorism comes amid a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on leftist organizations, causes, and social m…

The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.

Not only will the Ring Road not solve the traffic issues as report after report has highlighted only 3% is bypass traffic, but it will CPO and affect 54 homeowners.
The N6 will encourage private car use, raise emissions, waste money, and not even solve traffic.
https://www.

Galway Ring Road CPO issued as residents seek clarity
The marathon N6 Galway City Ring Road project has moved a step closer following the publication of the compulsory purchase order (CPO) notice last week, but families facing the loss of their homes say they are still waiting for direct communication about what happens next.

For @… this coming Monday, we will discuss Barbara L. Fredrickson’s paper “The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.” A PDF is available at the following link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.…

SECRET URBAN EXPLORATION NINJA MAFIA
https://web.archive.org/web/20070813071056/http://www.secreturbanexplorationninjamafia.com/main.html

Sources say Anthropic struggles to communicate effectively with the Trump administration; an official says it "screwed us" after failing to "honor" a cyber EO (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/15/anthropic-white-house-fable-mythos

"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline
Governing the world's most consequential technology is coming down to speaking President Trump's language.

Ireland’s basic income for artists
has been made permanent
after research showed that it boosted the economy.
Other nations have similar schemes.
With more homegrown artists now coming from privileged backgrounds
and AI disrupting the creative industries,
there are calls for the UK to follow suit

‘Imagination and creation are products of time and space’
Artists help power the economy and enrich society, yet many struggle to make ends meet. Ireland's pioneering income scheme aims to change that - and is fuelling debate about whether the UK should follow.

I would go as far as to say maybe just don't retweet Elon Musk at all,
but what do I know?
I'm not the vice president of communications for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Tyler Barnes is, and on Tuesday he popped onto Twitter after a two-year hiatus to weigh in on British politics
by retweeting Elon Musk's white genocide propaganda.

Why Did The Brewers' VP Of Communications Retweet This Racist Crap? | Defector
With the Milwaukee Brewers sitting comfortably at the top of the NL Central, you might think that it’s an easy time to be their vice president of communications. Post the Jake Bauers highlight reel, oversee some decent memes featuring Bernie Brewer, and let the good vibes keep on flowing. All you have to do is…