Tootfinder

Modern US republicans.
(Original title: Standing Aside Athwart History)
https://leftycartoons.com/2025/07/12/standing-aside-athwart-history/

Standing Aside Athwart History
This cartoon is by me and Jenn Manley Lee. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. Each panel shows the same two characters, wealthy men, as they relax inside an exclusive country club.…

Globales Abkommen gegen Plastikmüll vorerst gescheitert
Über das Problem sind sich alle einig: Plastikabfall vermüllt die Welt und ist eine Gefahr für den Menschen. Bei den Lösungen scheiden sich aber die Geister.
…

Folks, @…, @…, Nathan Case, and I wrote up a short paper on protecting your organization from Iranian threat actors in cyberspace, and it has some simple bullets to focus in your attention on what we think the most likely …

A four-day US military drone exercise in Alaska exposed significant technological and operational gaps compared to Chinese and Russian drone capabilities (Farah Stockman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/business/drones-us-military-manu…

Why the U.S. Is Way Behind China in Making Drones for War
A four-day test in the Alaska wilderness shows how far the U.S. military and American drone companies lag behind China in the technology.

#Tarantula mating season is underway in Colorado. Here’s how to find (or avoid) them
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local…

Tarantula mating season is underway in Colorado. Here’s how to find (or avoid) them
The annual march of thousands of hairy spiders looking for love is underway in southeastern Colorado.

Professor Caravello was swarmed by ICE agents and thrown into a van after he tried to assist a protestor in a wheelchair by getting a tear gas canister out from under their chair.
https://dailynous.com/2025/07/12/philosophy-profess…

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous
Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who was having difficulty moving after Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents threw canisters of tear gas at them and their fellow

Germany to decide on more Patriots for Ukraine 'within days or weeks': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/germany-to-decide-on-more.html

おはようございます。
子猫はかわいいですね。

What’s the difference between ordinary functions and arrow functions in JavaScript?
Arrow functions (also known as ‘rocket’ functions) are concise and convenient. However, they have subtle differences compared to function declarations and function expressions. So how do you know which one to use, and when?
🧑‍💻

What’s the difference between ordinary functions and arrow functions in JavaScript?
Arrow functions (also known as ‘rocket’ functions) are concise and convenient. However, they have subtle differences compared to function declarations and function expressions. So how do you know which one to use, and when?

from my link log —
Soldering the Tektronix way.
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/09/retrotechtacular-soldering-the-tek-way/
saved 2025-01-10

Retrotechtacular: Soldering The Tek Way
For a lot of us, soldering just seems to come naturally. But if we’re being honest, none of us was born with a soldering iron in our hand — ouch! — and if we’re good at sold…

I’m just calling PSG the Pumpkin Spice Girls.

@… what kind of guillotine is the cat working with

Well, here we go. After well over two years, here's a new version of my programming languages book, PLAI (v3.2.5). As always, free of cost! Can't thank enough all the people named in the acknowledgments. Enjoy!
https://www.plai.org/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/10/dictionary-survival-language-evolution/683976/

Who Will Save the Dictionary?
These are parlous times for lexicographers.

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House GOP blocks Dem maneuver to force release of Epstein files (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/trump-epstein-khanna-doj-democrats-republicans
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p158#a250714p158

In case I know anyone here who's familiar with the finer details of DNS and particularly DNS amplification attacks and their mitigations, I have some questions.

Finally got around to visualising the output of our combined drone mapping, collecting street-level imagery, and on-the-ground mapping a couple of weeks ago (c.f. #openstreetmap

A look at anti-Trump podcast MeidasTouch, one of the few left-leaning video podcasts that at times dethrones Joe Rogan's top position on YouTube rankings (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/14/nx-s1-5493541/meidastouch-rogan-trump-podcast-vide…

And this is why ngscopeclient development is a pain sometimes...
https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal/issues/975#issuecomment-3071989479

Rigol MSO5000 BIN file import issues · Issue #975 · ngscopeclient/scopehal
I've generated a .bin waveform recording using a Rigol MSO5074 containing a 20ms span of the scope's calibration signal on channel 1 and an open input on channel 2, with 1k memory depth at 50kSa/s....

what's the greatest readme.md of all time

Israeli Minister: 'Gaza must be in Ruins for Decades,' as Airstrike Kills Children seeking Water
https://www.juancole.com/2025/07/minister-airstrike-children.html

For folks using LLM stuff and who are also driving to an office, I wonder which has more energy/resource usage: their LLM usage or their commute

Voor wie BBC4 kan ontvangen...
Nu begonnen...
#Casablanca

Kanban? Sure I can ban!
#WordPlay

Cool, Neuralink might soon be able to read passwords from your brain - what could possibly go wrong? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/science/brain-neuroscience-computers-speech.html NYT: For some patients, the 'inner voice' may soon be audi…

For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible
In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying.

Πηλεΐδης δ’ ἑτέρωθεν ἐναντίον ὦρτο λέων ὣς
σίντης, ὅν τε καὶ ἄνδρες ἀποκτάμεναι μεμάασιν
ἀγρόμενοι πᾶς δῆμος· ὃ δὲ πρῶτον μὲν ἀτίζων
ἔρχεται, ἀλλ’ ὅτε κέν τις ἀρηϊθόων αἰζηῶν
δουρὶ βάλῃ ἐάλη τε χανών, περί τ’ ἀφρὸς ὀδόντας
γίγνεται, ἐν δέ τέ οἱ κραδίῃ στένει ἄλκιμον ἦτορ,
οὐρῇ δὲ πλευράς τε καὶ ἰσχία ἀμφοτέρωθεν
μαστίεται, ἑὲ δ’αὐτὸν ἐποτρύνει μαχέσασθαι,
γλαυκιόων δ’ ἰθὺς φέρεται μένει, ἤν τινα πέφνῃ
ἀνδρῶν, ἢ αὐτὸς φθίεται πρώτῳ ἐν ὁμίλῳ

Ich schätze mal, das Pub The Bull in Charlbury, Oxfordshire wird künftig zur Pilgerstätte.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/staff-mutiny-forces-pub-to-turn-away-jd-vance/

Staff Mutiny Forces Pub to Turn Away JD Vance
The vice president had reportedly attempted to dine at The Bull in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, weeks after the venue hosted Kamala Harris.

Watching more of the first two Alien: Earth episodes. In the first few minutes of the first episode, it really has that same feel of some of the original flicks. Didn't know Timothy Olyphant was in it!
The promo art for it is rad 😂
#AlienEarth #horror

Explaining, at some length, Techmeme's 20 years of consistency
https://news.techmeme.com/250912/20-years
@…

📰 Es ist wichtig, gut informiert zu sein – damit wir Entwicklungen und Erfordernisse zu #Klimaanpassung, #Energiewende und #Gesundheitsschutz verstehen und erkennen, wenn uns

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Hate to bring up HP but no other book has given me as close a feeling as when I read HP. Truly a joy to read with the world feeling both real and magical.
#books #fantasy

Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/11/toxic-pfas-above-proposed-safety-limits-in-almost-all-english-waters-tested

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Trumps anti-woke-Verordnung: Meta arbeitet mit rechtem Influencer

Amazon plans to invest ~$13B in Australia from 2025 to 2029 to develop its data center infrastructure, as demand for cloud computing and AI grows in the country (Ainslie Chandler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The IDF has begun preparations to establish a humanitarian zone that will accommodate 350,000 Gaza residents.
The zone will be established in southern Gaza in line with a cabinet decision on Saturday night, implementing the humanitarian separation plan aimed at distinguishing Gaza residents from Hamas terrorists.
At Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence, the establishment of humanitarian zones will also proceed during any ceasefire, should one occur.
According …

Report: Israel considering partial withdrawal, ceasefire to be announced over weekend
According to the Saudi channel A-Sharq, the Israeli delegation has refused to withdraw from areas captured after March 2. Meanwhile, the IDF has begun

sachen gibts
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettisierung

Live updates: Trump threatens Russia with tariffs if war on Ukraine isn't resolved (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-7-14-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p111#a250714p111

JWTs Are Not Session Tokens , Stop Using Them Like One
When JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) hit the mainstream, they were hailed as the solution to everything wrong with session management. Stateless! Compact! Tamper-proof! Suddenly, everyone started stuffing them into every web app like ketchup on bad code.
🧑‍💻 https://archive.fo/01UkP

I mean… protected bike lanes as a double win? Sure!
“We’ve taken a strong and visible approach to the problem of speeding and reckless driving... That’s also why we’ve installed so many protected bike lanes. One of the goals is to prevent speeders from passing on the right.”

Mayor Cavalier Johnson: ‘A leader has to stand up and lead even if some residents are not happy’
Nearly four years into the Milwaukee Mayor’s job, Cavalier Johnson, at only 38, wears the mayor’s mantle like a favorite pullover as he talks policing, crime and housing in Milwaukee.

Dust rabbit (n): like a dust bunny, but it's a full grown adult not a baby

from my link log —
svg-term-cli: animated terminal sessions using SVG and CSS.
https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli
saved 2025-07-08

GitHub - marionebl/svg-term-cli: Share terminal sessions via SVG and CSS
Share terminal sessions via SVG and CSS. Contribute to marionebl/svg-term-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.

"The president reportedly called up influential right-wing media personalities and asked them to pull back on their criticism of Pam Bondi amid the continued uproar over the Epstein memo"
Charlie Kirk says ‘I’m done talking about Epstein’ after Trump called him over weekend | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-trump-epstein-call-b2788906.html

Intel: USA prüfen angeblich Staatsbeteiligung, Aktienkurs zieht weiter an
Nach dem Treffen von Donald Trump mit Intel-Chef Lip-Bu Tan hat die US-Regierung angeblich begonnen, einen staatlichen Einstieg zu prüfen. Die Aktie steigt.

Ich würde keinen Salatkopf mehr auf Jens Spahn als Fraktionschef verwetten.
https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/jens-spahn---die-deutschen-trauen-ihm-nicht-ueber-den-weg-35892562.html

Jens Spahn – die Deutschen trauen ihm nicht über den Weg
Jens Spahn steht in der Kritik. Erst die Maskendeals, jetzt die Absetzung der Wahl von Verfassungsrichtern. Eine Umfrage zeigt, wie es um sein Ansehen steht

«Innes and Gurr’s response so far suggests that the leadership remains committed to its long-term strategy of denial. Multiple current Turing staffers have described leadership’s communications with staff as tantamount to “gaslighting”.»
https://www.chalmermagne.com/p/how-not-to-fix-an-ai-institute

How Wall Street is embracing crypto, spurred in part by political opportunism, as some executives fear the rush may risk the safety of personal bank accounts (Rob Copeland/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/business/wall-street-banks-cryp…

Behind Wall Street’s Abrupt Flip on Crypto
The reversal risks declawing a century of consumer financial protections and replacing the backbone of bank accounts.

just want to double check I can't use markdown on mastodon:
- a
- b
`test`
# test
## test2

Amorphous silicon resistors enable smaller pixels in photovoltaic retinal prosthesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.01.651774v1 retinal implant

Amorphous silicon resistors enable smaller pixels in photovoltaic retinal prosthesis
Objective Clinical trials of the photovoltaic subretinal prosthesis PRIMA demonstrated feasibility of prosthetic central vision with resolution matching its 100µm pixel size. To improve prosthetic acuity further, pixel size should be decreased. However, there are multiple challenges, one of which is related to accommodating a compact shunt resistor within each pixel that discharges the electrodes between stimulation pulses and helps increase the contrast of the electric field pattern. Unfortun…

As Palantir continues to expand its influence within the administration,
the Trump administration has given the company the right to surveil  Americans.
In a chilling report,The New York Times notes that the company is already creating
“detailed portraits of Americans based on government data,”
with the Trump administration already seeking
“access to hundreds of data points on citizens and others through government databases,
including their bank accoun…

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
KI in der Medizin: Ärzte verlieren wohl schnell Fähigkeiten bei Krebsvorsorge

Cohere hires Joelle Pineau, who previously led Meta's FAIR lab, as chief AI officer, to oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product, and policy teams (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/cohe

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer | TechCrunch
Cohere has hired Joelle Pineau, Meta's former VP of AI research who previously oversaw the tech giant's fundamental AI research (FAIR) lab. In her newly created Chief AI Officer role, Pineau will oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product and policy teams.

I'm back! This morning was fun, I did a 7.6 mile ride on the borrowed ebike, and almost the entire ride was without pedal assist. I kicked it in for the hills (about 6 in total) but the majority of the ride was pedal powered.
Using the assist just for hills is doable. It's a bit more work but that's okay. It's probably the same amount of work I would do on my lighter Trek.
Average speed was pretty close to what I would get on the non-powered Trek.

July 2025 Verified Voter Omnibus (Echelon Insights)
https://echeloninsights.com/in-the-news/july-2025-verified-voter-omnibus-2-2-2-2-2-2-2/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p2#a250715p2

from my link log —
Phil Rogaway on radical computer science.
https://csrc.nist.gov/Presentations/2023/radical-cs
saved 2025-01-14

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…

Berliner Steuerfahnder nehmen Influencer in den Blick
Influencer bewerben zahlreiche Produkte in sozialen Medien – und zahlen dafür womöglich keine Steuern. Nun sind sie deshalb im Visier der Behörden.
https://www.

Interval Walking Training
or “Japanese walking,”
is getting renewed attention after going viral on TikTok.
Nearly 20 years ago a team led by Hiroshi Nose and other researchers from Japan published a study that found that
middle-aged and older people who did high-intensity interval walking had lower blood pressure, stronger thigh muscles, and better aerobic capacity than walkers the same age who kept a more moderate, continuous pace.

In the study, the volunteers…

Just 30 minutes a day of ‘Japanese walking’ may help you get in shape
People are rediscovering interval walking training (IWT), a technique that can help you get fit in 30 minutes a day.

Statista: the global influencer marketing industry is projected to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/i…

Pam Bondi ousts ethics watchdog amid DOJ purge (Josephine Walker/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/14/pam-bondi-fires-ethics-chief-doj-purge
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p149#a250714p149

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Was Whatsapp und Signal trotz Verschlüsselung verraten
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The United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, has filed a criminal complaint against
#Alejandro #Orellana,
a local immigration activist in Los Angeles.
They’ve charged him for distributing face masks to protestors.
They specify that the masks are supposed to prot…

Only Criminals Don’t Want To Be Gassed By The Government
The Tellingly Pathetic Case Against Alejandro Orellana

Berlin-based Motor Ai, which develops neuroscience-driven Level 4 autonomous driving tech and plans to deploy it on German roads in 2025, raised a $20M seed (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)
https://gamesbeat.com/after-8-years-motor-ai-raises-20m-for-autonom…

After 8 years, Motor Ai raises $20M for autonomous driving software
After eight years of work, Motor Ai has raised $20 million for autonomous driving software that prioritizes compliance.

Studie: Streaming-Boom flacht ab – YouTube stark
Für die Streaminganbieter sind die Jahre des riesigen Wachstums offensichtlich vorbei. Das ältere Publikum wird jetzt als Zielgruppe attraktiver.
https://www.

Behind Trump's Tough Russia Talk, Doubts and Missing Details (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/politics/trump-russia-ukraine-nato.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p151#a250714p151

Lila Sciences, which uses AI to develop novel drugs and materials, raised $235M at a ~$1.23B valuation, after coming out of stealth in March with a $200M seed (Brian Kahn/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09…

Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former Ukrainian defence minister, said “an acceptable armistice may never formally arrive” and that Kyiv should formulate “a revised theory of victory” – which accepts that the Kremlin considers itself engaged in a forever war against its smaller neighbour.
The former minister describes the new approach as “strategic neutralisation”, a permanent and dynamic military effort to ensure that Russia’s forces cannot advance and that Moscow becomes “operationally incapab…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
KI in der Medizin: Ärzte verlieren wohl schnell Fähigkeiten bei Krebsvorsorge

How Benchmark's investment in Chinese startup Manus has highlighted a philosophical divide in Silicon Valley over China, patriotism, and the pursuit of profit (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-1…

Eleanor Holmes Norton keeps a low profile as Trump takes aim at DC (Nicholas Wu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/13/eleanor-holmes-norton-trump-dc-00506273
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p67#a250813p67

Rather than assuming the war can be ended through a comprehensive battlefield victory or a negotiated compromise,
Ukraine and its allies must plan to build a viable, sovereign, and secure state under constant military pressure.
This reality demands a redefinition of what a successful outcome looks like.
In this context, the objective should not be to defeat Russia outright or expect its regime to end the war because of economic or diplomatic pressure
-- but to syste…

Ukraine’s New Theory of Victory Should be Strategic Neutralization
By ensuring that Russia’s war is operationally pointless, Ukraine can survive, adapt, and achieve success, no matter how prolonged the war.

Malaysia says individuals and companies must get a permit 30 days before exporting AI chips, effective now, signaling it is clamping down on China chip exports (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/mala…

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-state-department-human-rights-report/683852/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK305c70ZtaUVxORUJw6JKTGw
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p64#a250813p64

JD.com reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $49.7B, above $46.8B est., and net income down 50% YoY to ~$846M, benefiting from government-directed consumer subsidies (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/jd-…

Outrage continues to grow against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem over her response to the deadly floods that ravaged Texas last week.
According to a Friday report from The New York Times,
more than two-thirds of phone calls to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from flood victims went unanswered
after Noem allowed hundreds of contractors to be laid off on July 5, just a day after the nightmare storm.
According to The Times, this dramatical…

'Unforgivable': FEMA Missed Thousands of Calls from Texas Flood Victims After Noem Fired Contractors | Common Dreams
FEMA missed two-thirds of calls from Texas flood victims after DHS Sec. Kristi Noem allowed hundreds of call center employees to be fired. "They are intentionally breaking government," said Sen. Chris Murphy.

Senate Republicans scramble to lock down support for Trump's spending clawbacks (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/14/senate-republicans-scramble-to-lock-down-support-for-trumps-spending-clawbacks-00452852
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p159#a250714p159

Crypto exchange Bullish raised $1.1B in its IPO, selling 30M shares at $37 per share, above its $32 to $33 marketed range, implying a $5.4B valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/crypto-firm-…

Coindesk Owner Bullish Raises $1.1 Billion in IPO Priced Over Range
Bullish raised $1.1 billion in an initial public offering, pricing its shares above the marketed range.

Every last anti-healthcare Republican must lose their seat for what they’ve just done.
Trump and House Republicans just rammed through a budget that takes money from Medicaid and the mouths of hungry children
– 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐱 𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩.
***Top Democrats are so incredibly furious, they’ve unlocked the QUADRUPLE MATCH to ensure we flip the House – but ONLY until midnight***
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2 New Jersey Journalists Face Criminal Charges for Publishing Information From a Police Blotter (Jacob Sullum/Reason)
https://reason.com/2025/07/14/2-new-jersey-journalists-face-criminal-charges-for-publishing-information-from-a-police-blotter/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p156#a250714p156

Homan, who doesn't have a Senate-approved position and no formal authority over any agency, is a giant trial balloon, right?
Not being sarcastic.
I feel like that is his job: say something outrageous ("Of course we stop you for being brown!") and then see how it goes over, walk back what fails.
-- John Pfaff
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Nearly all funding for AI safety research comes from Silicon Valley companies racing to develop AI, as the voices of AI "doomers" fade in prominence (Peter Guest/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-12/the-ai-doomers-a…

Feds Conduct Immigration Raid Outside California Redistricting Press Conference (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-agents-immigration-raid-california-redistricting-press-conference/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p94#a250814p94

Bitcoin reached a new all-time high of over $121K, up about 30% since December 2024, after more than doubling in value in 2024 (Kirk Ogunrinde/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/bitcoin-hits-record-h…

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food (Hana Kiros/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p152#a250714p152

Republican House leaders anticipate passing the GENIUS Act along with considering two other crypto bills, as the House kicks off a regulatory Crypto Week (Yash Roy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/s…

'Help me!' Democrats decry 'vile' conditions at 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigrant prison (Phil Fernandez/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/14/vile-conditions-alligator-alcatraz-migrant-prison/85196347007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p155#a250714p155

CSET researchers: China's SMEE has only a 4% market share in older-generation chip lithography, far below ASML and Nikon, a "chokepoint" for China's chip plans (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Jensen Huang says Chinese military is unlikely to use Nvidia's AI chips, citing the risk of the chips being "limited at any time" due to US export restrictions (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Foreign journalists in the U.S. are self-censoring to protect themselves from the Trump administration (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/foreign-journalists-in-the-u-s-are-self-censoring-to-protect-themselves-from-the-trump-administration/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p144#a250714p144

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building multi-gigawatt datacenter "clusters", starting with a massive datacenter called Prometheus that will come online in 2026 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump's answer to numbers he doesn't like: Change them or throw them away (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/14/trump-data-misinformation/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU1MTQ0MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU2NTI2Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTUxNDQwMDAsImp0aSI6Ijk5NmY5MTRiLTVkN2EtNGJmMS1iMzY5LTQwOTJjYWY4NTljYSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI1LzA4LzE0L3RydW1wLWRhdGEtbWlzaW5mb3JtYXRpb24vIn0.TcNvHiGgi4lHtEbtNmQWn8bKCVtXtg-a0vmfEoRQWW4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p77#a250814p77

Nvidia plans to resume H20 AI chip sales to China after Washington assured shipments will be approved, reversing an earlier Trump administration stance in April (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Charlie Kirk says 'I'm done talking about Epstein' after Trump called him over weekend (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-trump-epstein-call-b2788906.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p157#a250714p157

A recent UK AI Security Institute study found that LLMs from OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Alibaba can shift users' political views in under 10 minutes of conversation (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/31e528b3-9800-4743-af0a-f5c3b80032d0

Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities (Max Kozlov/Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02221-6
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p142#a250714p142

Companies, including Google and Cisco, have reinstated in-person interviews for some roles to combat AI-driven cheating, with some using deepfake detection tech (Ray A. Smith/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-j

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and 80 fintech and crypto CEOs urge Trump to block US banks from charging fees to access customer data (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

GOP populists plot to repeatedly bypass Mike Johnson (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/mike-johnson-jeffrey-epstein-stock-trading
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p136#a250814p136

Milan-based Bending Spoons raised €500M in debt led by JPMorgan Chase to buy more software businesses; the company raised $155M at a $2.6B valuation in 2024 (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Russia and Ukraine Agree: A Trump Summit Is a Big Win for Putin (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world/europe/trump-putin-alaska-summit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p134#a250814p134