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David Sacks says "Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize" after Amodei shared policy ideas (David Sacks/@davidsacks)
https://x.com/davidsacks/status/2089227290769080656

David Sacks (@DavidSacks) on X
Some thoughts on Dario’s post: 1. Dario does not actually address Gavin Baker’s account of what he said – something he could easily deny if it were inaccurate. 2. Dario claims his critics live in a “bubble” where all regulation equals regulatory capture. He calls this an overly

Mathematician Joan Birman is still active at 99 years old,
and has an important new result on the Burau representation.
This is the result of a project that began when a high school student,
Vasudha Bharathram, came to Birman for help in learning more math and finding a problem to work on.
Bharathram will be a beginning Ph.D student at Princeton in fall.
The third member of the collaboration is Tara Brendle, a student of Birman’s.
This collaboration mu…

The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4
In this paper we use ideas introduced earlier by Moody, Long, Long-Paton, and Bigelow to prove the theorem of the title, that the Burau representation of the classical braid group is faithful for n = 4. An immediate corollary is that the Jones representation of the braid group is also faithful for n = 4.

I’ve got a few ideas about how Kangaroo Island got its name #MacropodsOfMastodon #straya

The Business Of Fitness Podcast
Actionable ideas to build your fitness business. Presented by Fitness Business Mentor, Dan Williams...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/business-of-fitness/

🎉 7 years, 11 cycles, 52 ideas turned into real progress
That's the impact of the GÉANT Trust & Identity (T&I) Incubator.
It started in 2019 to give the community a space to experiment, without pulling resources from running services.
Alongside, It's also grown people alongside ideas, welcoming 11 students through its mentorship programme.
Congratulations to our community on pushing these initiatives forward and investing in future generations 👏

“People would rather block me than debate my ideas,” he says, totally ignoring the sea lion in the room. #subtoot

Mastodon.online in browser is completely broken for me. Bunch of 404s etc, nothing loading.
@mastodon any ideas?

I wish that I could live in a society that believes in fostering community, beauty, connection, and compassion.
Since I live in the USA, it looks like I have to make those ideas a personal project.
#hope #love #peace

The author is one of those radical left people you hear about:
People that think radical ideas like
public universal healthcare,
public education,
public water, sewers and hydro
are good policy.
A 33-year retired hydro worker who was a union activist and who led the successful campaign to stop the sale of Hydro One,
wrote the union bulletin
and in retirement became a freelance writer for Free.

The hardest part, I think, about this program is that every semester I have to "come up with a topic for a research paper", and then write a paper. I'm working with PhDs who have to write something every 2 years or so for publication, and yet I'm expected to have 3 ideas every 6 months. I find the paper part not as hard as "come up with ideas and research questions." What saves me is they don't have to be great ideas, or get anywhere near published, but it is …

Learned a huge load about AI harnesses last few months by building one very capable horizontally scalable and resilient to failure. The approach could run many thousands of agent concurrently.
It’s all fairly basic and often quite janky stuff. The janky works cos LLMs are pretty great at navigating this particular flavour of janky system.
Been really interesting lots of great ideas and problems this can solve. Need to find a place to
Solve it at.

You know what has more bandwidth than GPU RAM or even the L1$?
The register file.
I have great ideas, but lots of code refactoring will be necessary to pull it off...

Red scaremonger wanted.
Third Way, the corporate-backed “centrist” think tank pushing Democrats to the right,
is hiring a new
Director for “Anti-Extremism.”
That person will be responsible for overseeing a takedown of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
by “assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements,”
including a “repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions.”

Corporate Democrats Are Hiring A Socialist Hunter
Third Way’s director for “anti-extremism" will conduct opposition research against the Democratic Socialists of America and launch a guerrilla media campaign against their ideas.

How the NFL could match the drama of World Cup penalty kicks: Two ideas to spice up overtime

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-overtime-rules-world-cup-2026-season/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Parquet Courts:
🎵 No Ideas
#ParquetCourts
https://parquetcourts.bandcamp.com/track/no-ideas-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Vc4WRyZjszQmh96VeEGLQ

Mela is listening to a podcast: The History of Bad Ideas: Utilitarianism – Past Present Future – David Runciman - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1682047968

Ideas don't stay in some minds very long because they don't like
solitary confinement.

#today I should do more admin and #research but also I'm going to prep some ideas for adding a little bit of #plugInSolar now that our

Trump Will Make South Korea Pay for His Iran Humiliation (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/trump-iran-korea/688306/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyd7hI7iOH3qL_arR8L-oNog
http://www.memeorandum.com/260817/p48#a260817p48

Good thing that came out of #FediDay for me: I pitched my idea for multilingual and disambiguated hashtags based on #Wikidata QIDs. After a great exchange of ideas I now have a very clear idea for a prototype and an FEP that I could write.

The UK's culture secretary Lisa Nandy says she backs an expansion of the BBC license fee to include subscribers to streamers, though many ideas remain in play (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/lisa-nandy-bbc-licence-fee-…

UK Culture Secretary Backs BBC License Fee Expanding To Cover Streaming Service Subscribers
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said the BBC licence fee could be expanded to subscribers to Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+.

Switch Connections
A podcast connecting the people, tools, and ideas that are shaping communications in the modern workplace. Hosted by Switch Connect. Tech made human...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/switch-connections/

CFP: Governing Global Empires: Ideas and Practices of Political Order, 5–6 March 2027
My colleague, Paula Hastings, is putting on what looks like an excellent conference at the University of Toronto. The deadline for proposals is 10 July. Consider applying!
https://

No lo he visto, pero a mi me preocupa lo mismo.
@… https://flipboard.com/@lasexta/el-intermedio-ojb3t28iz/-…

Why ideas alone won’t defeat neoliberalism | Morning Star https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-ideas-alone-wont-defeat-neoliberalism

Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration has taken a sledgehammer to anti-corruption efforts,
destroying policy after policy dedicated to preventing bribery and money laundering in the country.
But this week brought the biggest blow yet:
The Treasury has obliterated a recent rule to deter devious shell companies,
handily reopening the American economy to anyone looking to hide their illicit wealth.
On Tuesday, the Department of th…

A Green Light for Crooks
The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption.

One downside of enforced brevity in social media is that it leads (ironically) towards redundancy when one creates threads. The brain has a tendency to loop back to recent prior ideas and one can end up saying basically the same things but structured and worded upside down and inside out.

Some have been giving oxygen to an absurd Internet draft again. Gentle reminder:
Every so often ideas come along that are sufficiently deserving of ridicule and derision. Probably anything you're seeing about #IPv8 lately is one of those times.
Read and absorb this instead:
https://github.com/becarpenter/book6/blob/main/01. Introduction and Foreword/Why IPv6 is so complicated.md

Sometimes in science people discourage you from talking about wild ideas because what if someone "steals" it.
But that misunderstands several points: you are rarely the first or only person to have an idea, we are all swimming in the same water, reading the same literature, attending the same conferences. It would be odd if only one person has a given idea.
Maybe someone already tried it and found it didn't work. Discussing ideas might help to stop you wasting your time and resources in that case.
And there are more than enough scientific questions to go round!
Ideas are the easy part. Doing the work is the difficult bit.
And so what if someone publishes similar ideas to you beforehand? It's science, it's supposed to be replicable (odd incentives like publish or perish culture notwithstanding) and there is always a new angle to explore.
Science is a group pursuit anyway. It's rare you do everything by yourself, discussion with other scientists is as essential as oxygen. And sometimes the more discussion you have the wilder and cooler the ideas get
#AcademicChatter
https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/117078561059020813
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net - So. Share your wildest ideas. Not because you want to be praised for it. But because you might inspire other strangers with specific knowledge to build stuff inspired by your idea without even telling you. Ideas want to travel to find new friends. Set them free. They might come back to you or not. Just share. That's what the Real Internet is for ;)

"The thing that concerns me most is violence, the use of force and the threat or the implementation of damage to enforce an opinion. As I said at the beginning, I'm a scientist. I relish facts. I'm interested in ideas. I'm curious about relationships. Violence is just the opposite of that. Violence is the way to gain power without ideas, and it reduces your resources, it stifles dissent and experimentation which we desperately need." — Dennis Meadows (Club Of Rome, Limits Of Growth)

Friday Links 26-28
A short one this week.
The management reading list gave me some new ideas and the interview with Mr. T is great.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/09/friday-links-26-28.html

#PostGISDay 2026 will be November 19.
Call for talk ideas is open now. Registration is free!
This is a virtual community conference all about #PostGIS geospatial and
projects that extend PostGIS or use PostGIS.
Details:

PostGIS Day 2026 – November 19 | Free Virtual Community Event
Learn how others are making use of PostGIS, pick up some tips and tricks, and share stories about bringing this excellent tool into your organizations.

Look, I'm not saying he's undead, but c'mon..

Mela is listening to a podcast: The History of Bad Ideas: Utilitarianism – Past Present Future – David Runciman - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1682047968

Who Made America Poorer and Dirtier? (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/vance-speech-immigrants-democrats/688656/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8JJmm9c547lJ1hYW07XeVK8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260917/p79#a260917p79

More Ideas for Wearable Tech
This is a gift link #comic #ibuythemall

Matt was a long time hero of mine. It's been wild to watch his brain cook and totally fall from a place of being worth any respect over the last few years.
I think I have 2 - 3 people remaining from the early web I still look too and I wish them luck.
And I wish myself luck in seeing people make mistakes and still finding value in their good ideas.

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg reportedly placed on leave
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg claims the company’s chief financial officer “conspired” with board members to place him on leave, 404 Media reports. 

Thanks @… @… @… @… and everyone else not yet on Fedi for the writing and ideas that made it into this week's issue of the Product Picnic!

I made a little book out of some old bits of internet I found down the back of the sofa:
Talking dogs.
Sarcastic cats.
Strange sports.
Bizarre rituals.
Dumb jokes.
Stupid advice.
Weird ideas.
...OLD HAT
More info: https://gilest.org/books/old-hat/

We are exploring some ambitious ideas around reducing external dependencies and relying more on our own libraries across MISP and related tooling. Over the past year, we have been working on a replacement network graph library for the new MISP interface and things are getting really interesting. Pivotick is already used in around ten open-source tools, including CTI Transmute, AIL Project, and Rulezet. It has also recently been integrated into the new MISP UI, OverMind. The library is, of co…

@… Hello Mr #ThePlaylist. First thank you for Monday's episode which was perfectly timed: the last echoes of God Only Knows fading out as I parked the car at work this morning.
Secondly, I have a couple of theme ideas that popped into my head. Sorry if they've been done before.
1: "Plants / Horticulture". This would allow songs from the lovely Kate Bush and (equally lovely I'm sure) Hothouse Flowers, as well as e.g. Hong Kong Garden by Siouxsie.
2: "Thespians". There is Michael Caine by Madness, and Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce. And I'm sure other suitable songs that my little brain can't come up with right now.

from my link log —
An incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS.
https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes
saved 2021-01-24 https://dotat.at/:/…

Video tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools. #python

Code. Simply. Clearly. Calmly.
Short and simple video lessons that start from scratch. Tools and thoughts that might make your professional life more enjoyable.

Just finished "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge. A fascinating and epic science fiction novel with fascinating ideas about technology and also future societies. As I'm delving into a lot of sci fi looking for social imagination it's a good find in some ways but disappointing in others. The Qeng Ho culture is interesting, but their society is uninspiring; Vinge's rosy view of "trade" is not one I completely share, and their hierarchies and wealth accumulation are less compatible with their freedoms in my imagination than in Vinge's. That said, his perspective on the possibilities of galactic-scale civilization and the idea of the "age of failed dreams" are fascinating, especially right now, and his detailed ideas about programming, AI, automaton, and "Focus" are extremely relevant right now. Ultimately I didn't love some parts of the dénouement, and there's a lot of "great man theory of history" going on, including (only somewhat ameliorated) a focus on men over women. Vinge's damsels in distress have a lot more agency than usual for the role, but with the exception of Victory Sr. and Jr., the damsels are very much in distress, and Victory Sr. gets overshadowed a lot by Underhill.
It definitely helps one expand their imagination of what long-term and large-scale human existence could look like, which is great and no easy feat, and both the technologies that are written in and those written out are extremely convincing. The only thing I didn't find compelling was the transposition of capitalism onto such space and time scales. It's a very standard feature of sci fi from the last few decades, and I'm sure most readers don't question it, but I've become someone who can no longer imagine "capitalism across the stars" without questioning how realistic it is that its self-destructive tendencies could possibly last even a few more centuries, let alone succeed at interstellar travel.
One last extremely fascinating thing: how closely the strengths and weaknesses of Focus track with the strengths and weaknesses of modern generative AI. That, and the way that the "age of failed dreams" idea can help people imagine beyond generative AI in a positive way.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

4 Fantastic Plant-Based Peach Recipes #plantbased

4 Fantastic Plant-Based Peach Recipes
Try these four fantastic plant-based peach recipes from tasty breakfast ideas like oatmeal and grain bowls to a peach pasta salad

Hey everyone, the unix.next #CfP is still open - submit a cool session!
https://pretalx.com/unix-next2026/cfp
I am working on a draft, boosting a few ideas I've been having for a while and teased …

Sundar Pichai says Gemini has hit 1B MAUs, the company's fastest-growing product ever and its 14th product to hit the 1B-user mark (Sundar Pichai/@sundarpichai)
https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2087222656819241292

Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) on X
1B+ people are now using @Geminiapp every month to spark new ideas and get things done. It’s our fastest growing product ever, and our 14th to hit the 1B-user mark. Kudos to @JoshWoodward & the entire Gemini team, and thank you to everyone who has been on this journey with us -

Fix The News
From grassroots problem-solvers to global big thinkers, each episode explores the people, ideas and innovations creating a better future - because the story of the world isn't just what's broken, it's also what's working...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.gr…

I believe the ideas in this book would help our #society a great deal.
"Part memoir, part Madison history, and part policy handbook, Arrested Development draws on my more than two decades as Madison, Wisconsin’s #police chief (1972–1993) to diagnose what’s broken in American policing and char…

My Case For Improving Our Nation’s Police
American Policing Doesn’t Have to Stay Arrested Part memoir, part Madison history, and part policy handbook, Arrested Development draws on my more than two decades as Madison, Wisco…

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/117102183665641304
Creating a permanent caste & class system requires withholding access to education for the "lower orders".
The 1% doesn't want the 99% getting ideas "above their station in lif…

A declaration of 25 Field Medalists on AI and mathematics: “In recent months, the success of AI in solving major mathematical problems has made headlines even outside mathematical circles. But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. (…) Indeed, the mass production at faster and faster pace of "true/false" statements could destroy fertile ground instead of breathing life into new ideas.”

In the latest visual studio code update they start out with an announcement of the visual studio code documentary... LOL
Man these guys have so much cash and running out of the ideas what to do with it.
#vscode

I'd suspected Vanderbilt was trying to become the "Chicago of the South" (in terms of speech posturing, not necessarily quality), but it seems to be trying to go a lot further… Diermeier's plan comes into ever sharper focus (along the expected vector).
h…

MrBeast is going to encourage people to rely on Gemini AI for info on extreme situations. Am I the only one who finds this highly irresponsible?
https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-announcements/mrbeast-gemini-google-healt…

RE: #SotM, but I have very few ideas on what to make.
Or maybe I …

I think I’d like to come up with a solution to covering the (Micro USB) charge port on my DIY bike light. I have ideas, but I want something clever and maybe even elegant. Hmmm…

Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration has taken a sledgehammer to anti-corruption efforts, destroying policy after policy dedicated to preventing bribery and money laundering in the country. But this week brought the biggest blow yet: The Treasury has obliterated a recent rule to deter devious shell companies, handily reopening the American economy to anyone looking to hide their illicit wealth.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/corrupt-administration-shell-company-business-transparency/688274/

The Reflecting Pool Water’s Fine
The Reflecting Pool episode captures most of Trump’s governing pathologies—without any of the normal attendant consequences, Jonathan Chait argues.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/

The Reflecting Pool Water’s Fine
It’s easy being green.

People challenge your ideas in meetings, and you point to data and slides. This habit stops you from using your own experience to make a decision.
From Presence and Possibility with Bri Chapman.

Community Matters
Join Nicky as she catches up with community leaders to hear inspiring stories, expert insights, and actionable ideas to create positive change...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/community-matters/

Our Neighbour provides some visual ideas

Finally, a politician willing to say YES to racist slop.
For too long, SF has said no to obviously terrible ideas like this. Vote for change. Vote for Slopp Wiener. #sfpol

The feed for my Facebook reels is now full of videos analyzing the Croatian goal that wasn't counted, and with conspiracy theories about the whole World Cup being scripted for a Ronaldo-Messi finale.
And this is how easily social media radicalizes you. I have no idea how widespread either of these ideas are. Is there really a dominating public debate happening about this? I don't think so. But for me, looking at my Facebook reels, it would appear like this is the most important…

How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots to design explosives, fix or upgrade weapons, and brainstorm attack ideas (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/us/poli

How Terrorist Groups Are Using A.I. to Gain an Edge in Battle
A.I. chatbots are not just a propaganda tool for violent extremists but are aiding in bomb construction and attack planning, new research finds.

India's Pocket FM doubled its annualized revenue run rate to $500M over the past year as it increases AI use; it still uses humans for ideas and storytelling (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/indi

India's Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content | TechCrunch
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.

Does the hivemind of Fedi have any ideas on why Bazzite (Fedora ublue) v44 breaks my WiFi?

Friday Links 26-28
A short one this week.
The management reading list gave me some new ideas and the interview with Mr. T is great.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/09/friday-links-26-28.html

currently obsessing a bit over config languages (again). it's been endless source of awkward problems in previous jobs
I think I have a set of ideas that are compelling enough to be worth pursuing, but I don't currently have a thing that needs a config language, and it feels unwise to develop it in a vacuum
(equivalent to json/yaml/toml, but slightly more powerful. less powerful and much simpler than .bzl or .hcl or .pkl, but it should be good for like 95% of normal confi…

Anyone have any good ideas for scenes for an actor that is female presenting with an age range of 9-14?
Film, TV or theatre.
#acting #actors

The Signal Rail: A Deterministic Motion Grammar for Communicating Conversational Agent State in Terminal Interfaces
Matteo Grella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10689 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10689 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10689
arXiv:2608.10689v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Terminal interfaces to conversational agents report rich internal state (listening, thinking, executing tools, awaiting input, failing) almost entirely through text, while the motion channel beside it, the one peripheral vision monitors without reading, carries a single bit: alive. We present the Signal Rail, a one-row terminal status instrument that gives that channel a grammar. Four ideas govern it: spatial semantics (input, processing, and output zones, with direction as meaning), a motion grammar (one kinetic rule per state, never color alone), determinism (frames as a pure function of explicit inputs, golden-frame testable), and honesty (no invented progress or activity). We contribute a 45-section normative specification and a reference implementation inside a working full-duplex local voice agent driven by real signals.
toXiv_bot_toot

So an X-Files pilot has been made.. Why?! Can people not have ideas any more?

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116849916587027984
I think probably every writer or speaker would love to someday have one of their “big ideas” widely accepted and endorsed. A large part of *why* we write is to create change by spreading ideas.
So a …

Meet our new GÉANT Security Innovation Lab 🔒
A new space in Hamburg for security experimentation and development.
Testing new security features, incubating ideas from the community, safely experimenting with tools and setups.
The lab is here, running, and already being used. What comes next will be shaped by the ideas it enables.
🔗 Learn more, connect with the team, and get involved:

It's sometimes fascinating to see the conversations that arise here—sometimes by chance as they pass by—and how new perspectives and ideas emerge.
Somehow inspiring. 🌱

The Democratic establishment's ideas deficit (Mike Zapler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/17/democratic-establishment-socialism-third-way-2028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260817/p23#a260817p23

Crooked Media's nonprofit Crooked Ideas launches an initiative to support progressive video creators, with digital strategist Kyle Tharp as executive director (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/07/2026/crooked-me…

Exclusive: Crooked Media’s nonprofit launches new political creator drive
The nonprofit arm of Pod Save America’s audio empire is hoping to lure younger voters back to the Democratic Party.

When the Nazis set out to legally disenfranchise and discriminate against Jewish citizens,
they weren’t just coming up with ideas out of thin air.
They closely studied the laws of another country.
According to James Q. Whitman, author of Hitler’s American Model, that country was the United States
In 1935, Nazi Germany passed two radically discriminatory pieces of legislation inspired by American laws:
the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection o…

The reason there are no more good ideas in tech is that every office has these "low odor" whiteboard markers. Ten years ago, every Design Thinking session participant was way more creative because they were strung out on marker fumes.
#UX #tech

Total Money Management
Every week Steve, Tom, and Jacob cut through the financial noise: stocks, property, bonds, the global economy, all the big ideas made simple, with straight talk and a bit of humour...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/stock-

This is some next level dumb bullshit by the usual suspects purveyors of the worst ideas
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/02/mps-uk-broadcast-russian-cartoon-masha-and-the-bear

Sources: at the September 24 US-China talks, the US is expected to discuss preventing AI-directed cyberattacks, and China will likely revisit US export controls (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

US and China eye Trump-Xi talks on AI guardrails despite tech rift
Silicon Valley insiders float ideas but skepticism over cooperation persists

Texas's Talarico Scrubbed Website of Statements Supporting 'Trans Kids' and 'Bold, Progressive Ideas' Ahead of Senate Run (Collin Anderson/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/texass-talarico-scrubbed-website-of-statements-supporting-trans-kids-and-bold-progressive-ideas-ahead-of-senate-run/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p95#a260623p95

From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By,
an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think,
from its origins three hundred years ago
to the ideas behind modern AI systems
and the ways in which they still differ from human minds
https://us.macmillan.com/b…

A Green Light for Crooks (Casey Michel/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/corrupt-administration-shell-company-business-transparency/688274/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK378wnJ_ftC-9fzt9tkWxUUE
http://www.memeorandum.com/260814/p44#a260814p44

The Dirt
Each episode we explore the people, technologies, and ideas transforming modern agriculture. We hear from leaders in the industry and dive into the intersection of technology, engineering and agriculture...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-di

Yuri is a 52-year-old Ukrainian who runs a market stall in Kherson,
not far from the front line.
Yesterday, he was sorting through vegetables when he heard the loud, distinctive buzz of a Russian drone.
As he later told the journalist Zarina Zabrisky, he had nothing more than a couple of garlic bulbs in his hands, and no weapons.
“Not even a phone.” He gestured at his tomatoes and peppers, so that the drone operator, whoever and wherever he might be, could see that h…

Putin’s Human Safari Is the Dystopian Future of War
A grim new normal dawns in Ukraine.

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini…

Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash
Scale your ideas with Nano Banana 2 Lite, our fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini Image model, and Gemini Omni Flash for high-quality video and conversational editing.

Trump's Second Gamble on Iran (Karim Sadjadpour/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/trumps-second-gamble-on-iran/687650/?gift=qXjqwUsXcHZWmnhI5mWkNQuKFDHnSfnotJQ3jcr5NAk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p31#a260621p31

Many Americans
—and much of the rest of the world
—have become inured to Donald Trump’s strange rants.
When he shouts about sharks, when he drones on about his brilliant uncle, when he casually ponders violating the Constitution,
his supporters try to dress his statements up as some kind of strategy:
He’s not lost touch with reality, you see.
He’s doing the weave,
or he’s owning the libs.
He’s fighting the fake news and flooding the zone.
He…

Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous
The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.

Ageless With Roz
This is a podcast for curious minds, introducing you to remarkable people, fresh ideas and inspiring conversations that encourage lifelong learning, active living and a richer more connected life...
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Out of Gas. Out of Ideas. Out of Time. -- Today marks twenty-five years since the September 11th attacks. (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/out-of-gas-out-of-ideas-out-of-time-trump-vance-midterm-convention-republicans-gop-polling
http://www.memeorandum.com/260911/p39#a260911p39

Since donald trump and J. D. Vance took office last year, they have set out to destroy both America's institutions and her symbols.
Because they believe that only their clan represents America,
-- that only people like them deserve to be considered “real” Americans,
and that the American government exists to serve them alone,
-- they need to undermine anything that tells a more unifying story.
With that goal in mind,
Trump has deliberately and methodica…

Trump’s Anti-Patriotic Trap
The president celebrates only some Americans. But patriotism is not about who is in the Oval Office.

The Musical Archeologist
Explores forgotten ideas from music's past — old books, neglected composers, vanished musical worlds, and surprising stories from the archive...
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The U.S. military has asked combat experts to think outside the box in a desperate bid for new ideas to end Trump's war against Iran
In an email last week, an officer in the intelligence branch of U.S. Central Command asked a broad group of military analysts for suggestions:
"We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” the email reportedly read.
Military officials said the effort to crowdsource a solution to the war by email …

Trump’s despair over Iran revealed in memo seeking ‘creative and unconventional’ ways to punish the enemy: report
U.S. military officials say effort to crowdsource a solution to the war via email blast is highly unusual

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Tucker Carlson said he left the GOP because of the administration’s fervent support of Israel and the trajectory of the Iran war.
But he was vague about ideas for a third party’s platform, though he said he would not be a candidate himself.
Building a third party is not a new idea
— many have attempted to do it,
and third-party candidates do successfully run on local and national ballots.
It’s important work, proponents told NOTUS,
but gaining power outs…

Tucker Carlson Is Starting a Third Party. Those Who’ve Tried Say: Good Luck!
“It's not that this is impossible work, it's just really, really hard,” Forward Party CEO Lindsey Williams Drath told NOTUS.