2026-05-27 03:24:31
‘Listen to your feet’: Andrew Janocko brings own ideas as new Raiders OC https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/listen-to-your-feet-andrew-janocko-brings-own-ideas-as-new-raiders-oc-3830715/
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…
New York Wants to Restrict ICE Enforcement. ICE Has Other Ideas. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/nyregion/ice-masks-hochul-ny.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260529/p61#a260529p61
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…
Community Kind - A 100 Women Podcast
a podcast about the people, projects, and ideas at the heart of Australia's collective giving movement...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/community-kind/
One morning, when Kascitcana awoke from a nightmare of religious authoritarianism, they found themselves transformed into an enormous cockroach. They were covered in armour. They could fly. They could digest anything, and infect the body politic with revolutionary ideas. Like the gods, they had many arms and legs! It was wonderful!!!!!
#India
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://
Even though I'm not running for re-election this November, I still get one more filing period for new legislation in September for my potential successors to pick up from me, so I'm still attempting to keep my legislation ideas repository at least somewhat up-to-date:
#NHPolitics
So one of the authors is Nicholas Carlini, who works for Anthropic. This is basically an ad for the three letter agencies to use Claude. It massively over-promises compared to what the actual paper says.
But, it is important. First, this is really about silencing people. The threat of identification is designed to make people afraid to talk online. There's a massive asymmetry between the fascists and the people. The fascists are weird racists and pedophiles who are obsessed with control. No one likes them. No one likes their ideas, because their ideas are creepy and bad.
When they talk about their ideas, that people should be murdered or kidnaped based on their skin color, that there should be a national dress code, that people's sex lives should be monitored, that children should be treated like objects that are owned by the parent (specifically, one parent), that people with different skin color or uteri should be considered as livestock, people fucking hate it because it's awful. When we talk about our ideas, that everyone should be able to eat and take care of themselves, that people who can't take care of themselves should be taken care of, that we should live in a society that values life, that we should live in harmony with nature, people like those ideas. When fascists out us for talking about those ideas, people support us. When we out people who are working as fascist goons those people have to face social consequences.
Everyone hates these people. The US government is currently less popular than it has ever been. The only way they can keep power is by making everyone think that they aren't extraordinarily unpopular. The only way to do that, the way authoritarian have always done it, is to make everyone afraid to talk.
But, yes, what this paper is saying is actually kind of bad. It looks like people who don't take any precautions at all in separating identities can be identified about 30% of the time (based on the results). It's unclear how this will actually work in the real world. Larger corpses will probably have more data, making connecting things easier.
This isn't as good as a human trying to dox someone. It's not going to work as well. It may only work in a small number of cases. There will be false positives (just like there are with people doing the work). It's probably not cheaper than hiring people. But it does mean that you can just dump money into a machine that has no ethical framework and get data out. That's the point. It's hard to find humans who will do evil shit like help dictatorships target human rights activists, but if a machine can do it for twice the price then it's a better deal for the dictatorship.
For most people, you just shouldn't care. This isn't for you. As long as you keep doing what you're doing, and you can keep everyone else doing what they're doing, then there aren't enough resources to actually target you. Even if they know who you are, there are just too many people who hate them and too few goons.
For people who might actually be targeted, there are a lot of things. First, keep in mind what you're putting into anonymous accounts. Any feature that's connected to your real life is a feature that can be extracted to identify you. This has always been true, it just may be easier to find now. Your identities should be totally siloed. It's also harder to identify you if you're writing anonymously as a collective. Collectives are better anyway because they can help check your thinking. When you write as a collective, you can help clean up each other's personal details and language. A collective develops its own voice, which is distinct from individual contributors. If you do this, and you also present your work as being from one "person," then it becomes even harder for anyone (systems or individuals) to really figure it out.
I'm not going to do a full deep dive on this because I just don't have time, but your existing threat model should *already cover these threats* if you need to make sure your writing remains anonymous.
This paper doesn't present any novel methodologies. It just extracts a bunch of features, which a human would extract as notes, and tries to correlate those between identities, which is how human researchers work. Linguistic forensics were mentioned (not by name) in the paper, but the actual methodology doesn't actually seem to use them.
So a thing with less ethics can do a worse job for more money (when adjusted for the real, not investor deflated, price of tokens). It's worth knowing. It's not the end of the world, but it is a good reminder to check your threat model and make sure it's up to date.
So much depended on luck. Being at the right place at the right time, meeting the right people at the right time, having the right ideas pop into your head at the right time, it's all God-throwing dice.
--- James Gosling on JAVA
Estoy sentado en un parque, con mi libreta de apuntar ideas de #escritura, la perra a mi lado...... y sin boli. Lo estoy apuntando en el móvil, pero vaya mierda
Eagles' Saquon Barkley reached out to Todd Gurley as he seeks bounce-back season in new system https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-saquon-barkley-reached-out-to-todd-gurley-as-he-seeks-bounce-back-season-in-new-system
This week on #ProFed: the web client now has RSS feeds. Not everywhere yet – authenticated feeds are a harder problem. Every approach I've considered so far is either tooc unsafe, too complicated for regular users, or not supported by most RSS readers.
Ideas very welcome. Are you maybe aware, how other applications do that? Are there any other applications at all, that do that?
I like the idea that the world population (of humans) may actually start decreasing.
The Great Depopulation
The birth rate is dropping in every country on Earth, @DKThomp writes. He spoke with the economist Jesús Fernšndez-Villaverde about why the birth rate is dropping, why it matters, and just how steep the decline is likely to get:
"Blair, who has links to petrostates and whose institute takes money from technology companies that want a large build-out of AI data centres, has made these arguments for fossil fuels and against net zero many times in the past two years."
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing - one of those eternal truths. And, unfortunately, a plague of the "moderates" who are still swallowing the #neoliberal
"Blair, who has links to petrostates and whose institute takes money from technology companies that want a large build-out of AI data centres, has made these arguments for fossil fuels and against net zero many times in the past two years."
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing - one of those eternal truths. And, unfortunately, a plague of the "moderates" who are still swallowing the #neoliberal
"the senior ranks of the organization are in a position where they are unwilling or financially unable to say no to the more outlandish ideas that cross their desk. And it's making Americans less safe in terms of violence and foreign threats. And ... less safe in the simple fact that they cannot rely on the objective rule of law and its enforcement like they have for the past 250 years.”"
Trump is bribing FBI agents to do his bidding: former official - Alternet.org
https://archive.ph/vNZub#selection-901.237-901.645
Trump's Missing Ambassadors Are a Sign of a Deeper Problem (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/american-ambassadors-trump-vacancies/687286/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260527/p48#a260527p48
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/:/…
And there are a couple of reasons why I have so many ideas but so few projects..
> How to Make Something People (Actually) Give a Shit About
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-make-something-people-actually
Somehow I missed this last week
How an operation by Ukrainian cyber experts could have led to the downing of a Su-57 near Moscow
https://defence-ua.com/minds_and_ideas/jak_operatsija_ukrajinskih_kiberfahivtsiv_mogla_prizvesti_do_zbittja_su_57_pid_moskvoju-23744.html
In any case. If problems can be solved by the push of a button, and mathematics really is more than just cracking the problems, then people will start keeping their problems very well guarded.
We used to speak very openly about our ideas and also conjectures, and that may come to an end now. This will be a cultural shift.
The cool proof was the resource and people kept their attempts secret. Now the cool problem becomes the resource, so people will keep their definitions and ideas secret.
Hey wordpress and mastodon dev folks. I've been scouring my site at thesocialweb.ca looking for where the text is that appears in the preview image.
"Mastodonserver.ca is a mastodon instance list with a …..”
(in the red box)
Any ideas?
I thought it was the “tag line" but appears not.
#Wordpress #PreviewImage
Institutions of higher education (like the one I work for!) have an important cultural function: they act not just as venues for exchange of ideas, but as •exemplars• of •how• to exchange ideas — and as •arbiters• of which ideas are worth exchanging. Colleges and universities are an R&D department for the Overton Window.
5/
Support this.
Thankyouverymuch.
https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/0098983c-0ded-4b57-a6a6-5bafc648d829
When the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson,
the landmark case overturning Roe v. Wade,
it marked a turning point in the lives of millions of Americans.
It was also the culmination of a decades-long movement whose grievances were embodied by the man who wrote the court’s opinion:
Samuel Anthony Alito Jr.
This is a man driven to push boundaries and mold ideas.
His aim is to right the wrongs of the past six decades, as he saw them.
Right, that's a bunch of #libreoffice patches merged for the big memory usage bug I've been working on for a while; the original one was using ~10G and is now under 2G, and the BIG one is down from 185G to 45G.
So I've closed the 10yr old bug that complained about the 10G case crashing; onto just doing stuff on the big one.
I've got some ideas left - not sure how fa…
I don't know how wildly impractical it would be, but imagine you could transform red-brick former industrial buildings into data centres with a "MareNostrum 4" aesthetic?
https://www.riba.org/news/riba-and-government-design-ideas-competi…
The Fedi just *shines* when we do Big Ideas. Herewith a very civilised conversation about gender, power, violence, colonialism, and how to unthink all the rubbish we get taught. Follow the thread right through; the original claim that "testosterone is more dangerous than CO2" is not the best way to challenge toxic masculinity, but the discussion includes more measured voices.
Does Nick think brother Joey will join him on 49ers? 'I don’t think he’s thinking too much about football' https://www.nfl.com/news/does-nick-think-brother-joey-will-join-him-on-49ers-i-don-t-think-he-s-thinki…
Articulate: Talking Art And Ideas
Captures live conversations with artists, curators, and cultural leaders, and explores exhibitions, creative practice, and the ideas shaping today's visual culture...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/articu…
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/
Dear Zoom,
In what world would you think I would want an “AI Companion” panel *taking up almost half the application screen*? And that apparently *I cannot turn off* in the application settings itself… and instead have to login to the Zoom website to go into the settings *there* to turn off this panel?
This is the kind of behavior toward users that is turning people off to all things related to #AI
Job loss? That one really seems weird. The numbers are not adding up to the stories we hear yet. But the numbers are not dire yet. Of course, our actual tracking of those numbers is increasingly suspect because of the US fascist project.
The big tech companies are absolutely pulling shenanigans, and using "AI" as an excuse for layoffs in a great number of cases, and in many cases, openly admitting they don't have any good ideas, so they'll lay people off instead of allocate them better. We are absolutely seeing the shifts in what are viable careers in tech though. And that was underway before AI: the UX bootcamps, for example, destabilized those job function, devaluing the workers, and the resulting shifts absolutely wrecked those job titles and the pay for them, leaving a bunch of people in the lurch.
But behind that too was our broken education system in the US: it was a shortcut around the massive debt that going to college can produce for people. But it didn't last, because it was vocational training being used purposefully as a wedge to change the labor market. Similar, sometimes intentional effects have happened in other aspects.
A huge amount of the "AI" problem is actually labor problems coming home to roost. We can blame Reagan for a lot of this.
We can build a life where ambition and joy don’t just coexist, but actually elevate one another.
By #PsycheMagazine
https://psyche.co/ideas/why-older-peop
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117003679053298178
Other ideas from the scientists:
- Leaving children in cars in summer for increasing periods of time to harden them.
- Wearing parkas at work during spring and fall
- One day per week sleep in a full-body latex suit
Just finished "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" by Becky Chambers. Overall it's good but I also have some Thoughts.
First, it was very pleasant to finally read some non-trite utopian solarpunk after having read stuff like Octavia Butler recently. Both hope and despair can be poisonous on their own IMO, so getting some balance in is nice. It's definitely a very valuable thing to be able to lay out an actually desirable and in many ways imaginable future given our grim present. Chambers is no LeGuin though. I'll probably be reading more of her work and maybe she fleshes out these ideas elsewhere, but at least in this book there is no focus on either how the transition to a better society could happen nor on how the better society holds up in the face of adverse events and inclinations. Compare LeGuin's "The Dispossessed" or N. K. Jemisin's short story "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" and it feels like there's something important missing from Chambers' portrait of a future society. Of course, maybe the point is to make a cozy book, in which case fine, there's certainly a place for such things, and I can look for deeper inspiration elsewhere.
The second big thought I had was that Chambers' worldview seems not well-informed by certain indigenous perspectives, and this creates some contradictions. For example, (minor spoilers) when Dex enters the wilderness there's a whole bit about understanding humankind's place in nature and how human settlements are what we're used to but they're only a brief interruption of the vast untouched wilderness. Along the same lines, much of the world is intentionally left untouched by humans as a way to keep it pristine and natural. Later however, a character makes the point that humans *are* animals. The indigenous perspective that I appreciate would agree with that, and would further question the value in distinguishing between human influence on ecosystems and influences that others have. More sharply, one might observe that there's a bigger difference between how different kinds of humans relate to and influence their environments than between how less-disruptive humans and various animals do the same: the strip-mine-operator vs. migrant tribesperson impact difference is probably much greater than the migrant tribesperson vs. beaver gap, for example. Rather than talking about limiting human disruption, then, as if all human-environment interactions are disruptive and must be minimized, we could/should be talking about how to create human societies that have beneficial relationships with their environments and acknowledging that we actually have many positive examples of that, both historical and contemporary. Chambers' utopia is a "humans dominate nature but restrain themselves so that their disruptions are minimal and thus nature can thrive" vision, but what I'd even more like to see would be a "humans study old ways and make new ones so that they can interact positively with ecosystems again" vision, including some of "here are the places that sometimes breaks down but also the patterns and institutions that ensure repair of those breakdowns and thus long-term sustainability."
Final big thought: Chambers' utopia is too homogenous for my tastes. Of course it's hard enough and valuable work dreaming up and sharing any utopia and Chambers' transcends triteness in a number of ways, so this criticism is a bit rude. But the single shared religion, lack of mention of conflicts around shared decisions, especially historical society-defining ones, and nagging questions like "what about the people indigenous to the now-uninhabited lands?" and "what about the indigenous peoples who weren't part of the factory-building societies?" leave me wishing for more nuance in this direction.
All in all: a good book, and I'm criticizing out of a place of appreciation, not scorn. I've got there sequel out from the library as well and will probably detour to a few other books but get to it pretty soon.
Sadly I don't remember who, but I got this one because of a recommendation on here, so thanks if you're someone who recommended it!
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
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
This is a great interview with #CaptainDisillusion where he's breaking down the effects and ideas he put into the filming of one of his episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCewGo4lvNw
🎉 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 👏
RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116957571811403553
"Neutrality" doesn't exist. You cannot NOT take sides. If you avoid taking sides, you already chose the side of oppressors.
Recently, at the library...
"Have you got their new book 'Silk switch system problem'?"
"No. Is that the sequel to 'Equiconnected nanosky oasis'?"
"What's that?"
"Oh, you've never read the 'Magnetic haze cycle' series? That's just too bad. It's full of cool ideas like the ultra-iridescent opcode sentinel, infraconnected division boundary, or even beige frontier mirror..."
"Dude!"
"Yeah, it's real porcelain ultra-peak! Absolutely life changing epoch omnicurve vision!"
…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Parquet Courts:
🎵 No Ideas
#ParquetCourts
https://parquetcourts.bandcamp.com/track/no-ideas-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Vc4WRyZjszQmh96VeEGLQ
- Regular congregations
and
- Regular religious services
Just meet regularly. "Regular" is not defined, but monthly, or weekly would be good. You figure out what that means, but it does need to be predictable. That's less about legal stuff and more about the fact that you need some kind of predictable cadence for any type of organizing.
ULC says "Our ministers congregate online in the forums and in other places online. They meet regularly, as our forum is available 24/7."
Now, "congregations" and "services" can be different or they can overlap. People can "congregate" for services. A lot of anarchists would already qualify for both just by way of monthly general assemblies.
But services can also be different. You could, for example, regularly post some ideas to a specific mastodon account or to a specific hashtag as a "service" and then people can "congregate" on a specific server. That would, as far as I understand it, qualify.
Why ideas alone won’t defeat neoliberalism | Morning Star https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-ideas-alone-wont-defeat-neoliberalism
I have some ideas about candidates for this offer. The sooner the better.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:37m5h6wl2dh2wqiyncbpzpmo/post/3mmakm6pfls2l
Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks prompt raft of conspiracy theories in divided US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/25/ebola-hantavirus-conspiracy-theories?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks prompt raft of conspiracy theories in divided US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/25/ebola-hantavirus-conspiracy-theories?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Discretisation and independent resolutions of ample groupoids
Xin Li, Alistair Miller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21761 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.21761 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.21761
arXiv:2606.21761v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We develop a general framework for understanding and computing both the groupoid homology of an ample groupoid and the topological K-theory of its reduced C*-algebra, based on two main ideas: discretisation and independent resolutions. Discretisation shows that a special class of ample groupoids we term independent groupoids are homologically and K-theoretically equivalent to discrete groupoids. We introduce the notion of a resolution by independent groupoids and provide a recipe for building a controlled independent resolution of a given ample groupoid of interest, leading to a systematic way of studying its homology and K-theory. In order to illustrate our general ideas and methods, we work out several concrete examples and applications. Garside categories provide a wide range of examples, including higher rank graphs, self-similar groups and spherical Artin-Tits groups. We also present an application to the homology of Stein's groups.
toXiv_bot_toot
Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' "dystopian" ideas (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/23/mark-zuckerberg-ai-optimism
Mir war nicht klar, wie kontrovers #JonathanHaidt ist, hierzulande quasi der akademische Kronzeuge pro #SocialMediaVerbote.
N.Y.U. Students Object to Speaker Who Calls Their Generation Coddled
"But Vance did not build his faith on the rock of St. Peter. He built it on the rock of Peter Thiel. The tech billionaire played a definitive role in Vance’s conversion. Vance credits Thiel with exposing him to the ideas that pushed him toward Catholicism."
https://www.then…
I am going to be “borrowing” a lot of UI ideas from the new RealityComposer Pro.
In particular, I love the new graph editor UI. They solved a few idioms I struggled with.
What is surprising is that they dropped their units of measure entire from their properties.
GCVE has published a description of the scope of a GCVE record. It is based on feedback, misunderstandings from articles about the GCVE initiative, and ideas from GNAs actually assigning IDs.
The document is still in draft before in a final publication. Feedback is welcome via the standard Discourse platform.
BCP-09 ->
"Trump Celebrates While America Capitulates" The Atlantic
[$]
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/trump-iran-deal/687547/?utm_source=feed
Finally, none of the current AI systems are compatible with the principles formulated in the ACM Code. They rely on stolen data, and they cause significant environmental and social harm. These systems and their creators blatantly violate Section 1.5 of the Code: “Respect the work required to produce new ideas, inventions, creative works, and computing artifacts.”
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Finally, none of the current AI systems are compatible with the principles formulated in the ACM Code. They rely on stolen data, and they cause significant environmental and social harm. These systems and their creators blatantly violate Section 1.5 of the Code: “Respect the work required to produce new ideas, inventions, creative works, and computing artifacts.”
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#MusicMonday! Matt Corby - "Big Ideas"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpZNJBhe9EA
🎶 "We could make it real
Whatever you feel
So tell me all your big ide…
Tony Pollard Can Be the Lighting to Javonte Williams' Thunder in 2026 https://insidethestar.com/tony-pollard-can-be-the-lighting-to-javonte-williams-thunder-in-2026
I keep watching this guy’s ideas and trying to find what’s wrong. Not finding it yet though. #ukpol
The most stunning exchange of Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing to serve as attorney general came in response to an amiable question.
Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, a Republican who appears favorably inclined toward Blanche, asked the nominee whether he considered himself to be the president’s friend.
Blanche, who is currently leading the Justice Department in an interim role, responded:
“I’m his lawyer.”
Then, perhaps, realizing his mistake, he corrected himse…
The Korean government will provide trade secret original certification services to applicants of a government-backed AI startup program to help safeguard their business ideas following a major data leak.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20260622007000320
First Light
Hosted by James Zagari, each episode is a conversation with leading architects, designers, and creatives on the ideas, philosophies, and details that define exceptional spaces...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/first-light/…
A generation of PMs made a career out of copying ideas from other apps they've seen into their own app. Today, AI (which has seen every app) can do this 100x faster than any of them.
The only problem is that doing this was always pointless
This week's issue of the Product Picnic newsletter breaks down this problem and surfaces some tools for thinking in workflows (or just plain thinking) rather than worrying about atomic features.
Draft-order Olympics and three other ways to make ... https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/49040029/fantasy-football-ideas-punishments-options-fun-draft-day
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
He had a way of crafting musical ideas that are •sweet and simple• in a way that makes them •strong•. The melody from the opening track on this album rang in my ears as soon as I hear of his passing:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/kramat/286770505?i=286770542
Goosebumps when the piano finally, finally enters halfway through.
There are also some really interesting anarchist adjacent ideas, or things that I would probably label as anarchist even if folks wouldn't self-label. Awra Amba is fascinating and worth learning about all on it's own.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=feYv2wZFbb0
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@aredridel/116614280060230177
Okay I wrote this as snark but there is a body of economics research on this, Elinor Ostrom's Nobel-prize-winning work in fact.
Commons _can_ be managed, but it requires some interesting framework pieces to really work. I think actually trying to apply her ideas to the information commons is extremely prudent.
It's also a little uncharted because the commons isn't just a resource. It's people's creative output.
Bans of and challenges to reading material in K-12 schools have been on the rise since 2021,
when the American Library Association and PEN America noticed a sharp uptick in the number of books on the no-no list.
The classics of the banned-book genre remained
— “Brave New World,” “Animal Farm,”“Beloved”
— but those were joined by an escalating list of picture books of two-dad families, young-adult novels tackling race or suicide, graphic novels in which teens make inf…
San Diego's Tragic Lesson About Terrorism (Juliette Kayyem/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/san-diego-islamic-center-mosque/687217/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p98#a260519p98
Sources: Trump officials discussed ways to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick favoring a sovereign wealth fund (Eleanor Mueller/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/17/2026/trump-advisers…
And, yeah, there are both anarchists in Ethiopia and anarchist adjacent ideas. This was a good interview. I'd love to read or listen to more (if anyone knows any):
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anner-an-ethiopian-anarchist-perspective-on-the-war-in-tigray
Democratic Leaders Want the Party to Moderate. Its Base Has Other Ideas. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/us/politics/democratic-progressive-primary-candidates-mamdani.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260624/p144#a260624p144
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/
Mark Zuckerberg was so convinced the metaverse was the next big thing that he renamed his company after it.
Meta, as Facebook is now known, bet the farm on virtual reality,
investing more than $80bn into metaverse-related ventures over the past five years alone
—only to abruptly decide it wasn’t the future after all.
In March this year it was announced that Horizon Worlds, Meta’s flagship metaverse venture, would shut down its VR operations in June, continuing only as …
Barney Frank's Second Coming Out (James Kirchick/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/barney-frank-book-left-trans-rights/687192/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p35#a260517p35
Inside Travel Writing
Pull back the curtain on how travel writing actually works and how to come up with ideas editors want to commission, how to pitch those ideas and how to travel the world and get paid for writing about it...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods…
Defiant After Bad Week, Trump Pushes Ahead on Politically Unpopular Ideas (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/us/politics/trump-republicans-fund-ballroom-iran.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260523/p12#a260523p12
Trump has announced that the United States and Iran have reached a deal to end their war.
“Congratulations to all!” he said in a posting on his Truth Social site this evening.
He then headed off to oversee the garish public spectacle he’d arranged for his birthday on the South Lawn of the White House.
The United States, however, has little to celebrate:
Trump and his team, in record time, just lost a war to a militarily mediocre
—but nonetheless extremely dang…
Here are some notes I've found also (not ours, but I think we distilled some ideas from these):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tz0mNWt01Fbc78m3waYzviM3exjDY2aj/view
This is related to FEMA stuff.
Edit:
Apologies in advance for the google link. It's not our doc. But also, we did use google drive. I wouldn't do that today.
Xi Jinping Was Only Humoring Trump (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/trump-lame-duck-superpower/687189/?gift=47TjPNd1fvywdLyCkprj-K7vU3Iwmzj24xyINbEslNw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p2#a260517p2
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…
Again, this is focused on community organizations that work directly with emergency management (police, fire, etc). But the ideas still work well (if not the execution) for all sorts of other types of orgs:
https://cdn.kingcounty.gov/-/media/king-county/depts/dph/documents/safety-injury-prevention/emergency-preparedness/cre/cbo-tabletop-exercise-guide.pdf?rev=e9695770e3e2444ab635e2af14254dfc&hash=55894CC9A38E70249D494DF367FD6310
So Much for Leaving Abortion Up to the States (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/mifepristone-abortion-pill-access-impossible/687519/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8EH1wJ4cZuVapmtWbrVQKiE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260615/p21#a260615p21
The Assassin's Delusion -- Violence serves an authoritarian agenda. -- People keep trying to kill the president. (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/assassins-delusion-backfiring-violence/687135/?gift=S1WMti8oXyTPzPp134rTM3GQncePZ3iVR-Yk19CQ7uk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p88#a260512p88
What Did Jamaica Do to Deserve This? -- Kari Lake, Trump's pick for ambassador, has a disastrous record. (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/kari-lake-jamaica-record/687141/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-1vsMnfSfrdlcSxy7U2uvw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p118#a260512p118
The 'Presumption of Regularity' Is Evaporating (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/trump-doj-judges-lawfare/687501/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9TvapTam0C-052RpqwcndmXI
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p66#a260611p66
The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/alabama-racial-discrimination-voting/687448/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8PXx3PqdVJDy2VNT4oMQvd0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260605/p78#a260605p78