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Louis Braille’s Earlier Ideas, Ranked:
7. Musical Reading
Braille got Parisian street performers to “play” books by assigning each letter a note on the 🪗
The ensuing cacophony was unlistenable. However, it paved the way for experimental, atonal music which people now claim they enjoy to sound sophisticated
https://…

Louis Braille's Earlier Ideas, Ranked - The Squeaky Wheel
In 19th-century France, 15-year-old Louis Braille invented his famous tactile codex while still a student at a school for the blind, but Braille wasn’t the first thing he tried. These are our favorites of his earlier ideas: 8. Lickbooks Making all the letters of lickbooks (livres de la langue) taste different was too time-consuming. Plus, […]

Follow-up: a version of #1 for visibly-to-a-user already exists in at least one client:
https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/02/28/2.10.0-release.html#anti-harassment-controls-for-conversations-private-mentions
Having it happen at the server level where the post gets dropped would be better.
Thanks @… for the pointer to the fediverse ideas repository:
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues

Free link. A Very Stable War - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-rubio-vance-war/686219/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3i5QFnBC8yFo-JaTWdjAtMs "After the president of peace, a …

A Very Stable War
J. D. Vance says this Middle East entanglement can’t be dumb—because Trump is smart.

Blender mögen sinnentleerte Phrasen. Jetzt auch wissenschaftlich belegt: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWRlF4clBEO/?igsh=MXc3YzgxbzZiejM5dA==

Did Trump Just Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons in Iran? (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-truthsocial-destruction-iran/686716/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweOZ2ACsYtzYQB-Clgym7_50&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p102#a260407p102

OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a public AI investment fund, strengthened safety nets, and more (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/what-to-know-a

The Dangerous Munitions Mismatch Between America and Iran - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/us-iran-war-air-strikes/686228/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3vvUj4Y1d1mUGAwGpcCnkok Free link.

The Dangerous Munitions Mismatch Between America and Iran
The United States has only so many expensive munitions to send after Iran’s cheap and plentiful arms.

Support this.
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Learn in public. Write and talk about what you learn. Discover it like archaeology even though it's barely six seconds old. Talk to the people who were there before you, and ask them what they were thinking,
Don't take for granted that people are oracles who will tell you what's good or not. That ship sailed long ago with everyone wanting us to make them an app and make them rich while they gave us only ideas and expected us to do the work.
Instead you have to want to learn and show that you're doing it, and be willing to make messes and mistakes and own them. Because if you're just vibing, you won't get it.

Connecting With Your Kids
Join Andy McNeilly and Ash Morphet as they share insights and straightforward ideas that can be implemented at home to foster a more connected and engaged family environment...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/connec

I'd love to have a doctor friend, so I could talk about all my interesting observations about my own symptoms and ideas about possible explanations, and that's why I don't have a doctor friend.

As International Women’s Day approaches, we examine how agentic AI is automating and amplifying gender bias in business workflows, often reinforcing systemic inequalities, and provide some ideas for what can be done to change course.

Agentic AI is automating gender bias – here’s how to stop it
As International Women’s Day approaches, we examine how agentic AI is automating and amplifying gender bias in business workflows, often reinforcing systemic inequalities, and provide some ideas for what can be done to change course.

I recognize that this is not a *new* idea, but it occurred to me that if Google wanted to start pushing “51st State" propaganda (or any other disgusting ideas) to a whole generation of children in #Canada , we don't really have a viable alternative to Google Classroom and Chromebooks.
This is why I think data/technology sovereignty is so important, but from what I can tell it's not e…

Calling tinkerers, hardware hackers, and mesh enthusiasts:
I have the following components:
I have some rudimentary code that can pull sensor data, meshcore-cli is working via USB/serial connection, and can access the display.
Now I just need ideas on what to do with these parts. Any thoughts?

Hey #fediverse #developers
I am happy to bring this update for my pet project #GitRaven. It's a Git management tool built in C and Qt as a learning experience.
Give it a…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Liiek:
🎵 Miserable Thoughts and Ideas
#Liiek
https://liiek.bandcamp.com/track/miserable-thoughts-ideas
https://open.spotify.com/track/5gjcMJE5DBYaMqo4OODNhy

Postmodernism and Christianity
A lot of people think that postmodernism is always the enemy of Christianity, but that is an oversimplified scenario. Postmodernism has many ideas that can be combined with Christianity. One may view it as a problem, but it can be a resource for Christian philosophy, Christian mysticism, Christian apologetics, and even for the understanding of the Bible.

Postmodernism and Christianity | David Boles, Blogs
A lot of people think that postmodernism is always the enemy of Christianity, but that is an oversimplified scenario. Postmodernism has many ideas that can be combined with Christianity. One may vi…

Ugh 🤦🤦🤦
Starmer attacks Greens, saying vote for Labour rivals puts new workers’ rights at risk
When politicians start attacking the parties closest to them, instead of the ones that are far away (and to the right) is when you know for sure that they're in it not for the ideas, but just for themselv…

Starmer attacks Greens, saying vote for Labour rivals puts new workers’ rights at risk
PM also criticises business figures and opponents of changes, many of which come into force on Monday

I have basically mildly positive feelings about Gemini Nano being available in Chrome. I don't use Chrome, but lots of stuff should be done on-device, not off. That's a win.
If "software shouldn't have features i don't like" is the argument you're actually making, that's not really a good argument. Even when the feature is an LLM model.
"Chrome is getting big and bloated and we can do better” is absolutely a good argument you can make.
And then the real kicker: Google pushing the web platform around through dominance is just the real ick here. It's the same sort of thing monopoly power enables. Companies that own verticals in the economy or a product market can dictate rather than negotiate. This is, in general, bad. Google does this, not because the ideas its employees put forward are good, but because they work out to be in Google's interests. And those interests can run counter to the rest of the world.
That's what we have to push back on.

This week, something broke.
Maybe Trump does not understand the link between the past and the present,
but other people do.
They can see that, as a result of decisions that Trump made but cannot explain,
the Strait of Hormuz is blocked by Iranian mines and drones.
They can see oil prices rising around the world and they understand that it is difficult and dangerous for the U.S. Navy to solve this problem.
They can also hear the president lashing out,

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

For a Time, the U.S. Protected Democracy - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/requiem-voting-rights-act/687037/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8HfVT62VNyCzC6swe_2uVmU

Alvin Kamara and Saints seem to be in a bizarre place: Why five-time Pro Bowler could be done in New Orleans

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/alvin-kamara-saints-tenure-could-be-done/

Hackathon.lu 2026, held in Luxembourg on 14–15 April 2026, once again showed what makes this event special: it is not just a place to present ideas, but a place where ideas turn into code, releases, integrations, datasets, pull requests, and concrete roadmaps.
Looking across the all project updates, the overall picture is clear. This year’s edition produced more than thirty concrete project outcome threads, spanning threat intelligence, malware analysis, detection engineering, vulnerab…

for my birthday every year since i 100% accepted i was trans, i usually arrange to be home alone almost the entire day, shut the curtains, and then wear mom's clothes and play music out loud and talk to myself and hope for a glimpse of a future where it's possible to exist naturally. i feel like this year i should get ideas from others cuz i dont wanna just do the same old sad shit. this is supposed to be the year i eventually snap and start transition even if most would consider it …

Как некоторые уже знают, в #Mastodon будут копировать Started Packs из #Bluesky — это такие списки пользователей, которыми можно поделиться с другими и разом подписаться. (См.

Our ideas about Packs
Sharing our thoughts and plans behind sharing collections of accounts in the Fediverse.

Our pal @… looks at AI in the hands of “good people” and what it can do…
https://makerblock.com/2026/03/not-team-ai/

Not Team AI | MakerBlock
Look, I hate AI slop as much as the next person. My kiddo has been taking a college class where they've been delving to the ideas swirling around AI/LLM's and from what I gather, the class is nearly incomprehensible. Just like my toaster, oven, toaster oven, fridge, and dryer don't need wifi - neither does

Step inside St Mary’s Church, Putney in 1647, where soldiers, radicals, and reformers wrestled with bold, world shaping ideas about rights, representation, and how society should be governed. #democracy #englishcivilwar

On the Record: The Putney Debates
On this episode of On the Record, we step inside St Mary’s Church, Putney in 1647, where many wrestled with bold, world shaping ideas.

Sometimes I have these ideas. For example, I realize that I have a white T-shirt that I wear rarely. So I decide to wear it, and the very next day I have a white T-shirt with black fur.

Oh, shiny, now I found something else I want! 😁
#FreeCAD

Ready to create a community where collaboration leads to real results? Looking for that old-school forum energy—people working together, sharing ideas, and respecting each other?
https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/

Trump Opens the Pandora's Box of Assassination (Tim Naftali/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/khamenei-assassination-precedent/686215/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxQWCisA23rxrHDj14QNX3Go
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p38#a260303p38

Tim Cook reflects on 50 years of Apple, Steve Jobs' legacy, reaffirming the company's values, working with a "very accessible" Trump administration, and more (Ryan D'Agostino/Esquire)
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a70886045/apple-50th-ann…

Tim Cook (Still) Believes in Crazy Ideas
As Apple marks its 50th anniversary, Tim Cook reflects on Steve Jobs, Apple’s legacy, and why the company still pursues big, risky ideas.

Substack adds translation tools, and says ~100K publishers earn on the platform, including ~30K outside the US; European creators earn $90M /year collectively (On Substack)
https://on.substack.com/p/the-global-ideas-exchange

The global ideas exchange
Introducing translations and our vision for expanding Substack internationally

I'd love to have a doctor friend, so I could talk about all my interesting observations about my own symptoms and ideas about possible explanations, and that's why I don't have a doctor friend.

"Discriminating against Black voters is okay because they vote for Democrats."
The Perversion of the Voting Rights Act - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/vra-supreme-court-callais-decision/686997/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyZdSdSqSnGW1D1xPpBPntmU

Had a great chat about the potential of AI to link collections records with knowledge about the people and ideas behind them with @… - a great start to my role at the Museum Data Service.

Trying to figure out how to lock down my CI runners as much as possible.
They need to be able to reach out to GitHub to HTTPS check out the source code, but I can't easily add a firewall rule for "can only clone this one repo from github".
Ideas beyond "open port 443 outbound to the entire internet"?

Puh, Glück gehabt. Darf ich jetzt im Fediverse bleiben? 😄
I scored 0% on the Tech Bro Assessment.
Verdict: not a tech bro.
Take the quiz:
https://amiatechbro.com/

"The #userinterfaces of the late ’90s were the last ones designed by people who actually cared, by people who approached the whole process with the end user in mind, rooted in scientific data collected by simply looking at people use their ideas. They were optimised for the user as best they could, instead of being optimised for the company’s bottom line.
It’s been downhill ever sin…

Bridging Distant Ideas: the Impact of AI on R&D and Recombinant Innovation
Emanuele Bazzichi, Massimo Riccaboni, Fulvio Castellacci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02189 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.02189 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.02189
arXiv:2604.02189v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study how artificial intelligence (AI) affects firms' incentives to pursue incremental versus radical knowledge recombinations. We develop a model of recombinant innovation embedded in a Schumpeterian quality-ladder framework, in which innovation arises from recombining ideas across varying distances in a knowledge space. R&D consists of multiple tasks, a fraction of which can be performed by AI. AI facilitates access to distant knowledge domains, but at the same time it also increases the aggregate rate of creative destruction, shortening the monopoly duration that rewards radical innovations. Moreover, excessive reliance on AI may reduce the originality of research and lead to duplication of research efforts. We obtain three main results. First, higher AI productivity encourages more distant recombinations, if the direct facilitation effect is stronger than the indirect effect due to intensified competition from rivals. Second, the effect of increasing the share of AI-automated R&D tasks is non-monotonic: firms initially target more radical innovations, but beyond a threshold of human-AI complementarity, they shift the focus toward incremental innovations. Third, in the limiting case of full automation, the model predicts that optimal recombination distance collapses to zero, suggesting that fully AI-driven research would undermine the very knowledge creation that it seeks to accelerate.
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«AI has little reason not to exude confidence. If AI gives you wrong advice, nothing happens to it. There’s no social cost, no loss of standing, no hesitation the next time it speaks.»
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/ai-confidence-tr…

The First AI Crisis Is Psychological
The economic shocks may well be coming, but we have already entered an age of profound uncertainty about ourselves and the world around us.

Well-Led Schools
Covering all things teacher wellbeing, school leadership and culture building - you'll walk away with ideas and recommendations on ways to evolve your leadership, create a mentally healthy workplace and ultimately influence the lives and learning of our students...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://…

Steven High, a historian of labour and de-industrialization, knows a thing or two. Here he offers his take on Lewis, contextualizing the positions he's taken in a very (very, very) brief potted history of the NDP and a reflection on the party as it stands at the moment. Worth a couple of minutes.
https://

Avi Lewis will make the NDP think big again
The road ahead will not be an easy one for Lewis and the New Democrats. And while his vision may ultimately resonate more with the party’s urban progressives than its working-class base, it is exciting to think that the NDP might once again be the source of bold new ideas. Canadian politics will be better for it.

DOJ Enters a New, Even More Aggressive Phase (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/justice-department-blanche-ballroom-prosecutions/687036/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9Ti_aC4FdOB0eXlvDBH817LM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260503/p19#a260503p19

Sitting on my train home from @… – once again so inspired, so grateful, so full of ideas. What an incredible few days. Thank you, @… 💚, for creating something so special year after year after year! And thank you to every old and n…

For something that's been talked about for a while, and a contractor hired to operate it - there sure seems to be a total lack of cordination and planning. Is that really a good look for the #MayorLurie adminstration? (Certainly makes me nervous about #SanFrancisco

No one knows what S.F.’s new drug RESET center will do 
City officials offer inconsistent ideas about how the city’s new drunk tank will operate on the eve of its opening.

For something that's been talked about for a while, and a contractor hired to operate it - there sure seems to be a total lack of cordination and planning. Is that really a good look for the #MayorLurie adminstration? (Certainly makes me nervous about #SanFrancisco

No one knows what S.F.’s new drug RESET center will do 
City officials offer inconsistent ideas about how the city’s new drunk tank will operate on the eve of its opening.

RE: https://chaos.social/@plyspomitox/116495604011394919
That is a hell of a good point. Ideas are not property: we do not forgo them by giving them to someone else.

GameDiscoverCo posted this ‘how do indies get their games on IGN?’ PDF they got from IGN.
Includes specific email addresses to contact for different promo materials and ideas for promo content (like map images and item guides).
https://studios.ign.com/docs/ign-indies-contrac…

I've had ideas rattling around in my head for a while but not quite hitting coherence.
What does a "rich terminal" mean to you as a developer? We're in a really weird place right now with regards to UI and UX, with chat as a normal mode of operation being everywhere, yet we're constrained to two major paradigms: the terminal user interface, and the instant message. Both come with really weird limits to their affordances.
And there's prior art here — light table, jupyter notebooks, observable hq, rich REPLs — but they're usually this weird hybrid of not quite transcript not quite live program that I find somewhere between unsettling and frustrating.
I do however think it's well past time we abandoned monospaced type as the core way we think about source code, and at the same time, built better user interfaces than that allows, without going full "this is a program with its own interface”
It's weird uncharted territory.

Americans have been waiting for their president and commander in chief to address the nation
and explain why the country is at war.
For weeks, Donald Trump has offered only snippets and sound bites about his decision to lead the United States into another conflict in the Middle East;
his prime-time address this evening was,
one assumes,
aimed at informing and reassuring the American public.
Maybe he’d have been better off not trying.
Trump’s criti…

Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech
His address raised more questions than it answered about the war in Iran.

"Simple ideas like this only work within the right context. Taking such ideas and applying them to an organization that isn’t ready will backfire. But if you build a culture where trust, respect, customer service and responsibility are encouraged lots of rules just get in the way of people doing their best."

Worth reading:
"Trump Had No Plan B for Iran.
And it shows." TheAtlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war/686470/?utm_source=feed

Trump Had No Plan B for Iran
And it shows.

Acabo de leer eso en otra red social y quedé como janrol (😅). Qué onda para llevar todo a ideas tan reduccionistas. Ni si quiera se trata de un pastor evangélico particularmente conservador. ¡Otsea!
Re: https://x.com/Prfe_Rodriguez/status/2027589385869230382

Anyone know what causes OPEN_ID_ERROR when trying to call on matrix?
Using continuwuity server with livekit, client is element X. The call appears to take ages to connect then errors after about 10 seconds with OPEN_ID_ERROR. Any ideas?
#matrix #element

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good,
you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken

Carefully babysitting the VP in the meeting to make him think our ideas were his ideas ...

"When this latest war of his turned difficult, he panicked. Everyone could see the panic, including the Iranians. His blood-curdling Truth Social posts—shocking as they were—proclaimed desperation, not resolve. "
David Frum, in
@theathletic.com

Trump’s Desperate Madman Ploy
Does Trump seem crazy? Sure. Credible, not so much.

Why the US attack on Iran is unlikely to produce regime change in Tehran - Defense One
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2026/02/massive-us-attacks-iran-unlikely-produce-regime-change-tehran/411787/

The Paradox of Trump’s Iran Attack - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-iran-attack/686191/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3g6aEnNPodYnVVupuUG0p34

The Paradox of Trump’s Iran Attack
When his fantasies unravel, Trump has a habit of abusing power to force his will upon an uncooperative world.

Are you an MSc student looking for a thesis topic? Interested in Greenland/Antarctica atmosphere and ice sheet processes? Background in meteorology, geography, earth science or physics (or other quantitative discipline?
Then do I have the project for you...
I have just updated my list of open research ideas here:
#MScThesis #AcademicChatter #Greenland #Antarctica #ClimateChange #Meteorology #Wx #Glaciology #MachineLearning #ClimateModelling

If nobody’s talking about what you wish everyone were talking about, be brave. Speak up.
Right before the session deadline, I looked at the schedule and thought, “Nothing about ICE?? Really?! After all we’ve been through in MSP!” Feeling a little desperate, I created this session:
https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/2108
I quickly got a DM from the inimitable Eryn O’Neil, who’d been thinking exactly the same and was halfway through writing up a session when she saw mine come in. We quickly determined our two ideas were complementary, so she created hers:
https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/2126
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27% approval is an insanely low number. You can typically get 30% approval for the most batshit ideas, just because people aren't paying attention. This has to be the least popular war in American history, started by choice, in blatant violation of us and international law, by a president who ran on a promise of no more war. https://

Neat ideas for navigating threaded comments & new comments highlighting. I kinda thought of this but really wonder about its usefulness.
- If there's too much nesting of comments, the sidebar space won't be enough
- It shows "[INT] [NAME]" where INT = vote count. Higher count is probably more read-worthy?
- Per-day filter for new comments highlighting is probably too broad in scope if the conversation is too active.
- Sidebar won't appear on sma…

Substack adds translation tools, and says ~100K publishers earn on the platform, including ~30K outside the US; European creators earn $90M /year collectively (On Substack)
https://on.substack.com/p/the-global-ideas-exchange

The global ideas exchange
Introducing translations and our vision for expanding Substack internationally

Trump's Absurd Citizenship Arguments Went Nowhere (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/birthright-citizenship-barbara-trump-supreme-court/686644/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9TimNRVIfGmiZHVf8kGDClTY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p120#a260401p120

Bread People, what did I do wrong?
While the photos look nice, this loaf turned out just slightly wet/gummy feeling.
I did wait well over an hour before slicing. I have some ideas.
This recipe was about 94% hydration, as opposed to the 84% hydration I've been using.
Also, this was in a 2 quart dutch oven and I wonder if it is just too small for this loaf. (Over 740 grams)
Oh, I also did a two-day cold ferment.
(I guess I changed a lot of variables at…

A look at Kari Lake's 11 months as US Agency for Global Media de facto head, as she wasted money and blocked work to bring reliable news to repressive countries (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/

What Is Kari Lake Trying to Achieve?
The Arizona politician has wasted millions of dollars while blocking U.S. efforts to bring reliable news to repressive countries.

The United States has gone to war against Iran.
America has only one ally—Israel—in this operation
(the Arab states of the Gulf, which fear the Iranian regime, are targets of Iran, but so far are not participating in the attack),
and both Washington and Jerusalem are making claims about “imminent” threats that require “preemptive” strikes.
But we should dispense with such statements:
Iran is not presenting immediate danger to the United States or Israel.
E…

Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran
A few paths to success, many to failure

A look at "Stanford inside Stanford", where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit (Theo Baker/The Atlantic)
https://www.

The Stanford Freshmen Who Think They Rule the World
Silicon Valley venture capitalists are wining and dining 18-year-olds.

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-has-no-plan-iranian-people/686194/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_q5_fxBXpe0k7IQYKZ32co
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p70#a260228p70

Bridging Distant Ideas: the Impact of AI on R&D and Recombinant Innovation
Emanuele Bazzichi, Massimo Riccaboni, Fulvio Castellacci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02189 https://…

My ideas:
- Peer to peer sync, no server required.
- A small one-binary component you could run on your own server or as a service and pair with your "account" to make it work without another browser peer online.
- Take the ideas from container tabs and use that to create personal contexts within which to sync. Basically: sub-accounts, where you can select what's inherited from global settings and when. (tough to design good UI for. this is the most ambitious idea.)

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation,
without Congress,
without even an attempt to build public support.
Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people,
and without a plan to let them decide how to build a legitimate Iranian state.
This lack of coherence has plagued the Trump administration’s policy for many weeks.
On at least eight occasions during Iran’s nationwide uprising in early Jan…

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People
The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

The Paradox of Trump's Iran Attack (David Frum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-iran-attack/686191/?gift=Ut5zkH9vG00uzi0vmoT5f-SZCUsrR2sPQ6O0PZiPtx4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p29#a260228p29

The Positive Education Podcast With Ash Manuel
In this podcast you'll hear stories, information and actionable ideas from positive education and wellbeing experts, school wellbeing coordinators, teachers and sports coaches...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.

Trump's Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trumps-iran-regime-change-attack-gamble/686190/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweJw09eKM0IFLE27PjNviuec&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p20#a260228p20

The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Pope Leo XIV.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/pope-jd-vance-iran/686826/

Pope James David Vance the First
The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.

The Graveyard of Destructive Ideas (Victor Davis Hanson/American Greatness)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/02/24/the-graveyard-of-destructive-ideas/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p82#a260224p82

The FTC and FCC are engaging in a hostile takeover of the marketplace of ideas by treating editorial decisions as fraud and conditioning mergers on news content (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/opinion

Opinion | Trump Is Turning the F.C.C. and F.T.C. Against Free Expression
Trump appointees have transformed the F.T.C. and F.C.C. into instruments of ideological enforcement.

In the new book,
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed,
authors Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff look at the worldview that shaped Elon Musk
and the ideology that has coalesced around him.
They call Muskism “an operating system for the 21st century.”
Musk runs rocket company SpaceX, AI startup xAI, electric car maker Tesla and the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
Musk’s political influence extends from his use of X to advance controversial ideas,

“Muskism”: Author Quinn Slobodian on How Apartheid South Africa Inspired Elon Musk’s Worldview & More
In the new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, authors Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff look at the worldview that shaped Elon Musk and the ideology that has coalesced around him. They call Muskism “an operating system for the 21st century.” Musk runs rocket company SpaceX, AI startup xAI, electric car maker Tesla and the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. Musk’s political influence extends from his use of X to advance controversial ideas, to his political donations, to the r…

European military officials worry "tech sovereignty" ideas may have serious consequences for European security, given their reliance on US software and networks (Financial Times)

Voters Can Be Disenfranchised Now -- Just say it's because they're Democrats. (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/vra-supreme-court-callais-decision/686997/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8JVAFYetUao2MOTTFWlaCfk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p160#a260429p160

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/600-week-buys-freedom-fear/613972/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3v55Ifcy-zz6-SVLZ4NDiZw

$600 a Week Buys Freedom From Fear
An extra $600 a week buys freedom from fear.

Americans Once Understood Birthright Citizenship (Lawrence Glickman/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/newspapers-history-birthright-citizenship/686946/?gift=GETxgkzAqEYlT7d6KgZ8RaxkPGZ9ge88elTJOaA5084&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p26#a260428p26

The longest State of the Union in modern history is now over.
Donald Trump held court in the House of Representatives and said little of substance,
but substance wasn’t the point.
This year, he intended to put on a show, with an array of guest stars and special appearances.
He was happy because he was playing the roles he clearly loves:
game-show host, ringmaster, emcee, beneficent granter of wishes
—and, where the Democrats were concerned, a self-righteous…

President Trump's State of the Union Extravaganza
Were you not entertained?

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/elite-accountability-powerful-impunity/686134/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8ImCAJzfV2R8UlH_eHGQVjM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p49#a260226p49

The Age of American Caesarism (Gregg Nunziata/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-caesar-executive-power/686846/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p68#a260427p68

Flick through pro-government Hungarian accounts on TikTok, and you might see an AI-generated version of Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, sitting on a golden toilet, counting his money, snorting cocaine, and barking orders at a Hungarian soldier.
You might also find an AI-generated Péter Magyar, the leader of the Hungarian opposition, appearing to say he’s fine with handing Hungarian factories over to foreigners, as long as he’s the one in charge of the country.
Keep …

In Hungary, the First Post-Reality Political Campaign
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.

How long do we think that quote will stay up?
https://bsky.app/profile/adamserwer.bsky.social/post/3mi4gqohxak22

Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social)
In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/iran-war-king-trump-congress/686237/

The First Post-Reality Political Campaign (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/hungary-first-post-reality-political-campaign/686565/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-efMFd7lJ81M13YabdRGno&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p139#a260327p139

Immigration-enforcement officers have used tear gas on nonviolent protesters, broken into homes and cars, and killed people, including U.S. citizens.
ICE and Customs and Border Protection have been behaving like an out-of-control police force.
No wonder, then, that when lawyers and other advocates try to challenge these federal officials’ abuses of power—in court and on the streets—they tend to reach for the same legal tool used to combat police violence:
the Fourth Amend…

ICE Might Be Violating America’s Other Bill of Rights
To keep rogue agents in check, we need to look beyond the Constitution.

Where Are All the Campus Protests? -- Two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad. (Rose Horowitch/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/campus-protests-trump-iran/686518/?gift=201cWZnM2XBz2eP81zy0pM0125U17irlZaTpnssACq4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p105#a260325p105

How the Supreme Court Spared America (Ilya Somin/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/tariffs-trump-supreme-court/686093/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p45#a260221p45

Trump Voters Like Marco Rubio More and More (Sarah Longwell/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/maga-heir-rubio-vance-voters/686904/?gift=qXjqwUsXcHZWmnhI5mWkNbYJsXAan0LevfZBONWHQ7k&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p57#a260423p57

The Virginia Gerrymander Disenfranchises Republicans (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/virginia-congress-midterms-trump/686895/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8DNfDkO_wM3hiZEF2s76eMs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p21#a260423p21

How Trump Killed Conservatism (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-maga-conservatism/686501/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p77#a260323p77

The Lecture I Couldn't Give -- Now more than ever, our armed forces need to understand the history of civil-military relations. (Kori Schake/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/pete-hegseth-trump-military-education/686484/?gift=UvnwM_ucHtaApOJJQ10uJv7g6jP4Wkw23x1zmAnu8aw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260322/p31#a260322p31

Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump (Phillips Payson O'Brien/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/ukraine-trump-us-oil-russia/686854/?gift=BQHDq1p24LRO8cUUEyLQ662MHEbZ7hRgiAy66D6yYJ0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p35#a260418p35