OpenMind, which is developing an OS for humanoid robots, raised $20M led by Pantera and unveils FABRIC, a protocol to let robots to share info with one another (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/openmind-want…

OpenMind wants to be the Android operating system of humanoid robots | TechCrunch
OpenMind is building humanoid robot operating software designed for robots that interact with people and other robots.

Let’s be crystal clear about what this law actually accomplishes: It makes it harder for adults to access perfectly legal (and often helpful) information and services. It forces people to create detailed trails of their online activit…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

Let’s be crystal clear about what this law actually accomplishes: It makes it harder for adults to access perfectly legal (and often helpful) information and services. It forces people to create detailed trails of their online activit…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

Mittwoch: Titanic-Tauchgang trotz Problemen, WhatsApp-Funktion gegen Scammer
Betreiber verantwortlich für Todesfahrt WhatsApp mit Gruppenchat-Warnung AMD-Rekordumsatz trotz China-Bann Vollausbaurecht für Glasfaser AVM wird Fritz

Over the past decade, a mysterious wasting disease has ravaged some 20 species of starfish, also called sea stars, from Alaska to Baja California in Mexico.

Since the start of the outbreak in 2013, scientists have struggled to pinpoint the cause.
But a group of researchers said Monday that they had finally identified a culprit:
a bacterial cousin of the pathogen behind cholera

Scientists say they’ve solved the mystery of starfish that turn to goo
Sea star wasting disease has killed billions of starfish and destroyed kelp ecosystems. In a study published Monday, researchers say they found the culprit.

Filing: VOA Director Michael Abramowitz has been fired after refusing what he called an "illegal" reassignment to run a broadcasting station in North Carolina (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/04/voa-abramowit…

VOA director fired after declining reassignment to low-level post
Kari Lake tried to dispatch Michael Abramowitz to North Carolina. When he refused, she fired him.

By the by, that “nuclear reactor on the moon:” story is another distraction from them ending what ever is left of democracy in Texas and from the president being a pedophile.

❝
it's amber quotes all the way down
❞
–@…
https://transfem.social/notes/ab1awpk6mhzy1ou…

Amber :neodog_evil_3c: (@puppygirlhornypost2)
it's amber quotes all the way down

Best comment ever below this post:
"You know what else is unsafe? Life, yet we do it all the time.
I don’t care about rust and it’s artistic fanatics doing artistic screeching every time some C programmer uses a pointer."
👏🏻😂🙏😬🫣😳
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/a-gent

A Gentle Introduction To Fortran
Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially by John Backus as a way to make writing programs for the IBM 704 mainfr…

"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
-Annette Bening
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Rwanda agrees to take up to 250 migrant deportees (Felicia Schwartz/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/rwanda-agrees-take-migrant-deportees-00493206
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p116#a250804p116

https://parkerortolani.blog/2025/08/04/tinted-liquid-glass-should-be.html

«The whole thing is a mess and yet another embarrassment for the UK. And they were all warned about it, while insisting these concerns were exaggerations. But this isn’t just about the UK—it’s a cautionary tale for every democracy grappling with how to regulate the internet»
Go UK, "yet another embarrassment" is just too fitting 😅
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/didnt-take-long-to-reveal-the-uks-online-safety-act-is-exactly-the-privacy-crushing-failure-everyone-warned-about/

Not the @… going 'oh well, genAI is here, better engage with it' as well..
https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/08/genai-curriculum-discussions/
I'm so very tired and disappointed, especially after the discussion went full 'basic programming is super important and genAI won't help learning these basics and important concepts' and then we still end up with this 'but anywayz' approach. Why??

it is now possible to set arbitrary strap pins with #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer! use `glasgow multi <...> gpio --pins B0:3 B0=0 B1=H B2=L B3=1` to strap B0 strong low, B1 weak high, B2 weak low, B3 strong high
the GPIO applet doesn't take up USB endpoint resources, so this is "free": you can append ` gpio` to any applet command line you'd like

O'Reilly: GenAI has adopted a colonialist business model.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timo3_proud-of-the-cloudflare-team-working-to-build-activity-7345899260506271745-mlHS

If you want to understand why O'Reilly is a supporter of this announcement, and want to ask both me and Matthew Prince about it, join our July 14 conversation on Live with Tim O'Reilly. | Tim O'Reilly
If you want to understand why O'Reilly is a supporter of this announcement, and want to ask both me and Matthew Prince about it, join our July 14 conversation on Live with Tim O'Reilly. AI has adopted colonialism as its business model: Extract resources from others and use it to enrich yourself and your customers at the expense of those whose resources you have taken, without giving much back. It's high time we started developing new mechanisms to enable content monetization for creators, not …

**Bondi orders prosecutor to bring Comey and Brennan to grand jury** - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/08/04/bondi-orders-prosecutor-to-bring-comey-and-brennan-to-grand-jury/

Happy Constitution Day Denmark!
A short history of Greenland, in six maps
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/06/04/a-short-history-of-greenland-in-six-maps?giftId=eed38d68-7aa9-468b-9b2c-32bfca227c11&utm_campaign=gifted_article

from my link log —
How LLVM optimizes power sums with scalar evolution.
http://kristerw.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-llvm-optimizes-geometric-sums.html
saved 2025-07-27

“Assuming we steward it safely and responsibly into the world…”—Right, bro, as if.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/04/demis-hassabis-ai-future-10-times-bigger-than-industrial-revolution…

I thought I was close to finishing my blog post about creativity that I've been working on for quite a while, and I made a lot of progress on the bulk of the text of the draft, but ironically I still require more creativity to organize, edit and wrap it up cohesively
#blogging

Ritüel Kaçış (Ritual Escape) #PentatonicMusic #NowPlaying #originalmusic
5 tracks of mystical delight

Ritüel Kaçış (Ritual Escape) #PentatonicMusic #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

What's it like to be neurotypical and just go out and buy something without meticulously researching it for days or weeks or months?

Ahahah, Milestone unlocked:
Ich bekomme „Reichen Sie ihr Paper bei uns ein!!!“–Spam von Predatory Journals.
An echten Journals arbeite ich dann mal noch ein paar Jahre. 😂

Tipp: Mehrere Dateien umbenennen
Wer vielen Files einen neuen Namen geben will, kann das bequem mit Bordmitteln auf dem Mac erledigen.
https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Tipp-Mehrere

Cincinnati-based Pantomath, which automates enterprise data operations using AI, raised a $30M Series B led by General Catalyst, after a $14M Series A in 2023 (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/04/autom…

Automated data operations platform Pantomath raises $30M led by General Catalyst - SiliconANGLE
Automated data operations platform Pantomath raises $30M led by General Catalyst - SiliconANGLE

Dienstag: Elon Musk macht ein Schnäppchen, Lyft und Baidu kooperieren in Europa
Tesla-Chef erhält Aktienpaket Robotaxi-Service für Europa Von der Leyens SMS bleiben verschwunden DSL-Abschaltung soll warten Spotify erhöht die Preise

#Bunt

Have you ever thought about how the “Platinum Chip” from Fallout New Vegas is called “Platinium Crisp” in the UK version?

Glad they're finally updating the requirements.

How Trump's America mirrors the Gilded Age of robber barons
Fortunes built on dominant positions,
even outright monopolies;
a society in which 1% of the population held 50% of the country's wealth.
Among the most enthusiastic admirers of this turn-of-the-century era is none other than Donald Trump

How Trump's America mirrors the Gilded Age of robber barons
Fortunes built on dominant positions, even outright monopolies; a society in which 1% of the population held 50% of the country's wealth. Among the most enthusiastic admirers of this turn-of-the-century era is none other than Donald Trump.

A profile of Katie Feeney, an influencer and a rising star in sports media with 8M TikTok followers, as ESPN hires her to appear across its social channels (Ben Strauss/Washington Post)

From TikTok to ESPN, Katie Feeney is the future of sports media
Chasing content from the Rose Bowl to the red carpet with a 22-year-old influencer and rising media star.

#Bunt

Schwarzenegger ready to fight Newsom on redistricting (Will McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/schwarzenegger-newsom-redistricting-00493418
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p115#a250804p115

The UK's Online Safety Act shows the UK prioritized government control over improving safety, becoming a cautionary tale in internet regulation for democracies (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

"Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting."
-Rufus Sewell
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Do watch; one lady asks 'how much do taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country'
**Hapless idiot Nebraska Republican holds town hall** - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/08/04/hapless-idiot-nebraska-republican-holds-town-hall/

heise | Das iPhone als Scanner: Neun Apps im Test
Mit seiner Kamera eignet sich das iPhone gut, um Dokumente in hoher Auflösung abzulichten. Mit der richtigen App wird aus dem Foto ein durchsuchbares PDF.
https://www.

OpenAI veröffentlicht neue offene Modelle
Mit zwei Open-Weight-Reasoning-Modellen will OpenAI offenbar vor allem der Konkurrenz aus China die Stirn bieten. Eine Herausforderung war dabei die Sicherheit.
https://www.

So the anti-vaxx murderers in government are shutting down mRNA vaccine research in the US.
The biggest medical advance in decades, got the 2023 Nobel Prize, saved millions of lives.
Lots of in-development vaccines, among them for various cancers, AIDS and other things, cancelled.
Not only will this kill and maim untold numbers of people—it also takes leadership in science away from the US.
And for what? Buying the Republicans votes from a few unhinged people.

A driver going 283 mph while trying to set a land speed record at a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats
-- died on Sunday
-- after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon.
Driver Chris Raschke lost control about two and a half miles into a run
and was treated by medical professionals at the scene,
but died from his injuries,

Google agrees with two power utilities to pause non-essential AI workloads during peak demand or adverse weather events that reduce supply (Tobias Mann/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/google_ai_datacenter_grid/

Google agrees to pause AI workloads to protect the grid when power demand spikes
: On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries

#Kassel demnächst mit Schild "Israel-Städtepartnerschaft frei".
#RamatGan

#Kassel demnächst mit Schild "Israel-Städtepartnerschaft frei".
#RamatGan

Brazil Supreme Court orders house arrest of ex-president Bolsonaro (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/04/brazil-bolsonaro-house-arrest-supreme-court
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p112#a250804p112

⚠️ You have read your last free article

Is that a threat? 😰

“While on the White House roof, President Trump told reporters he was ‘trying to build’ nuclear missiles, then pointed upward and mimed a launch toward the sky.”
But potus’ mind is clearly not broken 🤦‍♂️
via @aaronparnas.bsky.social
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/bre

Wegen China-Bann: AMD macht Betriebsminus trotz Rekordumsatz
AMD schlägt knapp sein bisher bestes Umsatzquartal. Mit dabei: Rekordumsatz mit Ryzen-Prozessoren für Desktop-PCs und starke Epyc-Verkäufe.
https://ww…

**Three years into war, US and Europe keep billions in trade with Russia** | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/three-years-into-war-us-and-europe-keep-billions-trade-with-russia-2025-08-05/

heise | Verzockt mit Outsourcing: Wie Apple von China (zu) abhängig wurde
Seit Apples großer Existenzkrise 1996 setzt das Unternehmen konsequent auf externe Fertigung, vor allem in Asien. Diese Entwicklung ist nur schwer umzukehren.

Looking forward to it!

Es gibt Zitronenfalter und Bügelbierflaschenzudrücker. https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/maschine-statt-mensch-das-ende-des-zitronenfalters,UsXRt1u @zynaesthesie@mastodon.social @why_not@mastodon.social @geist@troet.cafe

Maschine statt Mensch: Das Ende des Bügelbierflaschenzudrückers
Er ist vielleicht der letzte seiner Art: Rainer Frank, von Beruf Bügelbierflaschenzudrücker. Geschätzt 15 Millionen Bierflaschen hat er in seinem Leben zugemacht. Die Brauerei hat ihn durch einen Automaten ersetzt. Aber wer ist wirklich schneller?

Es gibt Zitronenfalter und Bügelbierflaschenzudrücker. https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/maschine-statt-mensch-das-ende-des-zitronenfalters,UsXRt1u @zynaesthesie@mastodon.social @why_not@mastodon.social @geist@troet.cafe

Maschine statt Mensch: Das Ende des Bügelbierflaschenzudrückers
Er ist vielleicht der letzte seiner Art: Rainer Frank, von Beruf Bügelbierflaschenzudrücker. Geschätzt 15 Millionen Bierflaschen hat er in seinem Leben zugemacht. Die Brauerei hat ihn durch einen Automaten ersetzt. Aber wer ist wirklich schneller?

KI-Update: Neue OpenAI-Modelle, KI am Schachbrett, AI-Slop, Genie 3, KI-Hasen
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.…

FEMA Will Deny Grants to States and Cities That Boycott Israeli Companies (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/fema-will-deny-disaster-funding-to-states-and-cities-that-boycott-israeli-firms-under-new-grant-rules.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p1#a250805p1

Acceleration of nuclear power development is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to focus NASA on human spaceflight
Acting NASA director Duffy cites plans by China and Russia to put a reactor on the moon by the mid-2030s
as part of a partnership to build a base there.
If they were first, China and Russia “could potentially declare a keep-out zone” that would inhibit what the United States could do there, Mr. Duffy said.
The directive calls for the appointment of…

NASA’s Acting Administrator Calls for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon
The acceleration of nuclear development is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to focus NASA on human spaceflight. A reactor would be useful for long-term stays on the moon.

Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre reports Q2 net revenue up 34% YoY to $6.8B, vs. $6.7B est., net income down 1.5% YoY to $523M, vs. $596M est. (Andre Romani/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra…

If anyone needs me, I'll be in my bag.

"nothing says “fearless military leadership” like being absolutely terrified of books about civil rights and the radical concept that people of different backgrounds might have something to contribute."
The “Warrior Ethos” According To Trump: A Field Guide To Being Scared Of Everything | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/the-warrior-ethos-according-to-trump-a-field-guide-to-being-scared-of-everything/

Have heard a new term for “AI hype enthusiast”:
botlicker
Do with this information as you wish.

Globaler Smartphonemarkt: Samsung legt zu, Apple nicht
Der globale Smartphonemarkt hat im zweiten Quartal einen leichten Dämpfer erfahren. Samsung konnte dennoch zulegen, während Apple Verluste verzeichnet.
https://ww…

The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights As We Know It (Pema Levy/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-2/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p1#a250806p1

Microsoft unveils Project Ire, a prototype AI system that can reverse engineer and identify malicious software autonomously, without human assistance (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsofts-new-a…

The Israeli military has imposed a full blockade on Gaza’s sea from north to south,
preventing fishers, swimmers, and all other Palestinians from entering the last remaining source of relief from this genocide.
The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, announced the total maritime closure on July 12, 2025

Israel Bans Palestinians From Gaza Sea, Cutting Off Yet Another Food Source
As Palestinians endure unbearable starvation, the sea was the last place where fresh food might be found.

The most valuable company in the world in 2030 will be a maker of stickers that you can slap on the seventeen cameras every electronic device will come with to feed the never-ending hunger of generative AI for stolen, private data.

I asked this Monchhichi what they thought of the recent news, but they refused to comment.

Wie ich höre, läßt #Trump keine künftigen #Nobelpreisträger mehr in die #USA.

heise | Hilfskraft mit Potenzial: MCP im Einsatz auf dem Desktop
Agentische KI will Aufgaben erledigen, landet aber oft in Sackgassen. Dennoch hat sie das Potenzial, die PC-Arbeit gehörig umzukrempeln. Ein Werkstattbericht.

Wow, AI can now simulate a 2005 3D engine for a few minutes only by stealing petabytes of data and using the power consumption of a small country!
(With my puny human mind I can only imagine a mountain scene with a lake that looks like reality by not stealing anything at all and using the power consumption of a grain of rice.)

Trump Says Japan to Import Ford's Huge F-150 Pickup Trucks (Sakura Murakami/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-06/trump-says-japan-to-import-ford-s-massive-f-150-pickup-trucks
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p2#a250806p2

As Delta experiments with AI-driven pricing, regulators and travelers alike worry about dynamic fare schemes that "go beyond the human cognitive limits" (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)

heise | KI im Job: Wie eine Entwicklerin mit CustomGPT & Co. ihren Alltag meistert
KI als Jobkiller für Entwickler? Eine Entwicklerin erklärt, wie sie KI-Tools nutzt und warum sie sich keine Sorgen um ihre Zukunft macht – aber um die der Apps.

:ablobcatpopcorn:

Why the Texas floods were so severe
Four months of rainfall came down in four hours.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/07/04/texas-flooding-extreme-rains/

Why the Texas floods were so severe
Flooding rains in and around Kerr County had brought a widespread 10 to 15 total inches by Friday morning. Four months of rainfall came down in four hours.

I don’t care too much about the term “clanker” referring to annoying bots (like idk pharmacy phone tree)—because you can’t insult them.
Instead it’s much better to insult the humans ordering bots to be made to profiteer from them and the wanton suffering they cause.
(Also the origin of the term from Star Wars uses it as essentially a racist slur on sentient beings [droids], which makes it problematic.)

USA planen Atomkraftwerk auf dem Mond
Neue Befehle an die NASA deuten sich an: Eine neue Raumstation als Ersatz der ISS und ein Atomkraftwerk auf dem Mond. Damit wären die USA nicht alleine.
https://www.…

A term sheet shows Ant will sell its remaining 5.84% Paytm stake via block deals that could total ~$433.72M; Ant sold a 4% stake in May and 10.3% in August 2023 (Ananta Agarwal/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-ant-group-e…

Laura Loomer has the White House scrambling again -- and she's far from finished (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/laura-loomer-trump-firings
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p119#a250804p119

In a stunning reversal, the Trump administration just gave the green light to a major tech merger
— and then fired two Justice Department lawyers who opposed it.
Was corruption at play in the merger decision?
Today on Lever Time, David Sirota sits down with The Lever’s Luke Goldstein and UnHerd Magazine’s Sohrab Ahmari, who first exposed the “mergers over martinis” story behind the reversal

Trump’s New Merger Scandal Is Swampier Than Watergate
After hiring MAGA lawyers, a tech giant got its antitrust case settled, and monopoly cops were fired. Can a Nixon-era law save the day?

The "spicy" option on Grok's new generative AI video tool Imagine produces nude deepfakes of celebrities like Taylor Swift, even without explicit user prompting (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/718975/xai-grok-imag…

Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes
Groke Imagine’s “spicy” setting will generate uncensored topless videos of Taylor Swift without specifically asking the bot to take her clothes off.

New non-profit law firm in DC aims to challenge Trump's executive power (Casey Gannon/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/washington-litigation-group-trump-executive-power
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p127#a250804p127

Already, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act places Trump and the Republicans at odds with their base and with swing voters.
According to a Wall Street Journal poll, 70% of the US believes the act benefits the rich.
Beyond that, the tax plan is underwater with the public, 42-52,
and is disfavored by a majority of independents.
Practically speaking, the Congressional Budget Office projected in June that nearly 8 million people would lose their insurance under the Trump-ba…

Sources: TSMC fires several employees for violating rules related to obtaining sensitive info on 2nm chip tech; TSMC says it detected "unauthorized activities" (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

TSMC fires workers for breaching data rules on cutting-edge chip tech
Prosecutors are investigating the matter under Taiwan's National Security Act

'How much does it cost for fascism?': Tensions erupt at Nebraska GOP congressman's town hall (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/mike-flood-elissa-slotkin-town-halls
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p12#a250805p12

This year’s spike in fire activity appears to be driven by several large fires across
Central and Southern California, including three major fires that devastated parts of Los Angeles County in January.
But even without those unprecedented January fires
— the Palisades, Eaton and Hughes
— this year would still outpace the five-year average for this point in the season

The parents of a Parkland shooting victim created an AI version of their son to speak about gun safety, starting with an interview with journalist Jim Acosta (Jon Blistein/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

Jim Acosta Just Interviewed an AI Version of a Parkland Victim
The parents of Joaquin Oliver, who was killed in the 2018 Parkland school shooting, have created an AI version of their late son.

GOP effort forms to shut down Texas vs. California redistricting war (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/04/california-texas-redistricting-newsom-abbott
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p128#a250804p128

It’s the moment we’ve feared
—the moment the Supreme Court invoked in giving Donald Trump immunity,
and the moment that marks an authoritarian government at its most vulgar and vicious.
On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi signed an order
directing an as-yet-unidentified federal prosecutor to convene a grand jury
to investigate whether prominent officials in Barack Obama’s administration, including Obama himself,
purposely manufactured an intelligence asse…

Bondi’s Obama Grand Jury: The Authoritarian Moment We’ve All Feared
It’s officially happening: the use of the machinery of justice to go on fishing expeditions about political predecessors. Absolute madness.

Instagram now lets users repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts, collected in a designated tab, and rolls out a Snapchat-like maps feature (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/719756/instagram-adds-reposts-feed-rips-off-snap-m…

Instagram adds a reposts feed and rips off Snap Maps
Instagram is adding a TikTok-like repost feature as well as its own version of a Snap Map.

Trump's Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/harvard-trump-brown.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p20#a250805p20

Researchers have found the
fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution released by wildfires
is even more toxic than air pollution from other sources.
One possible reason is the high level of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
mixed with various levels of other known neurotoxic particles that can be found in smoke,
including heavy metals.
These particles can reach the brain via the olfactory nerve
and pass through the blood–brain barrier,
…

Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Wildfire smoke is like smoking 'half a pack a day.' Here's how to protect yourself (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5492448/health-michigan-canada-smoke-minnesota-air-quality-wildfire
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p131#a250804p131

House Dems Trash America At Radical Summit In Mexico (Melissa O'Rourke/The Daily Caller)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/04/house-dems-trash-america-radical-left-wing-summit-mexico-city/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p14#a250805p14

Trump stokes conspiracies about jobs data, as White House defends firing BLS chief (Erin Doherty/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/trump-bls-chief-firing-jobs-data-.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p117#a250804p117

Marjorie Taylor Greene presses Trump to pardon George Santos (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-pardon-george-santos
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p2#a250805p2

Marjorie Taylor Greene Asks for George Santos's Sentence to Be Commuted (Michael Gold/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/george-santos-pardon-marjorie-taylor-greene.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p22#a250805p22

After Trump's Firing of BLS Commissioner, Republicans Fall in Line With His Criticism (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/trump-republicans-bls-jobs-analysis.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p8#a250805p8

Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries (Mary Whitfill Roeloffs/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/08/04/almost-90-of-americans-are-worried-about-the-cost-of-groceries/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p17#a250805p17