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Backstage Collapsed: Universal Recording and the Architecture of Courtship
A panelist on a recent broadcast conversation made the following argument. Young people across the wealthy world are not having children. Before they do not have children, they do not date. Before they do not date, they do not interact at the dances, the parties, the mixers their parents and grandparents used as the primary infrastructure for finding mates. Even when they show up at such…

Backstage Collapsed: Universal Recording and the Architecture of Courtship | David Boles, Blogs
A panelist on a recent broadcast conversation made the following argument. Young people across the wealthy world are not having children. Before they do not have children, they do not date. Before …

Artificial intelligence has triggered fierce competition for top talent and is also fueling tens of thousands of layoffs this year.
The class divide is widening in Silicon Valley as a tiny group of employees is landing unprecedented packages for AI skills,
while many others struggle to find work
The have-nots are doing everything that used to guarantee great jobs
— refreshing resumes, optimizing LinkedIn profiles and doing interviews
— but companies are much mo…

There is a frenzied feeling to the news coming from the White House these days. ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-28-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p44#a260429p44

@… a flip side to unprecedented disaster:
― the precedent of humans causing disasters, and failing to learn from their human mistakes.

NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.
The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
NASA hired startup
Katalyst Space Technologies
to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit
where it can continue hunting for some of the universe’s biggest explosions.
A three-armed spacecraft built by Katalyst will chase after Swift once …

NASA races to save the Swift telescope with a $30M robotic rescue mission
NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The salvage effort gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver. NASA has hired Katalyst Space Technologies to boost Swift to a higher orbit where it can continue hunting for some of the universe's biggest explosions. Launched in 2004, Swift has been sinking faster and faster because of recent intense solar activity. It needs to get to a higher orbit as soon a…

Dungeons & Doctorates
A D&D podcast following the adventures of three postgraduates in a fantasy university dealing with supervisors, monsters, and peer-reviewers...
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U.S.-Iran ceasefire could go up in flames (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/28/us-iran-ceasefire-could-go-up-in-flames
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p20#a260628p20

Commission preliminarily finds Meta in breach of Digital Services Act for failing to prevent minors under 13 from using Instagram and Facebook (European Commission)
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_920
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p103#a260429p103

The Justice Department Is Now Reformatting Trump Truth Social Posts as Court Filings (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/justice-department-trump-ballroom-filing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p134#a260428p134

Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following US strikes and threatens to halt talks to end the war (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-war-hormuz-strait-june-28-2026-1132d316545db2cddb3928b6e7840f51
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p7#a260628p7