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Finland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has made five requests to the EU that would drastically curtail Russian citizens' ability to travel into and around the bloc,
"The Kremlin must see that continued aggression will deepen its isolation.
I ask you to take these proposals forward as an urgent priority,"
writes Valtonen, as EU foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg.
The first demand is to "stop issuing Schengen visas to Russian nationals for …

Exclusive: Finland pushes to all but eliminate Russian travel in EU
"The Kremlin must see that continued aggression will deepen its isolation. I ask you to take these proposals forward as an urgent priority," writes Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen in a letter seen by the Kyiv Independent.

Source: Brendan Carr directed the FCC to investigate ABC after GOP Sen. Moreno called for a probe into its "political hit job on Anduril & the Trump family" (Brian Stelter/@brianstelter)
https://x.com/brianstelter/status/2109747171285487640

Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) on X
FCC source tells me @BrendanCarrFCC has directed the agency to open an investigation following the receipt of this @berniemoreno letter

i live in a small apartment without a lot of storage space. for LPs, i have two three-foot shelves, one for jazz, the other for everything else. last week, i made a new resolution to play at least one non-jazz record every day. here's how it's going.
#vinyl #OldVinyl

Jayden Daniels sends cease-and-desist letter to LSU over NIL rights https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7510678/2026/08/13/jayden-daniels-lsu-football-jersey-nil-joe-burrow/

12 Senators—Half of Them Republican—Tell Trump to End Russia Diesel Deal Now
Six GOP senators joined together with their Democratic colleagues on Tuesday to rebuke Donald Trump’s recently announced diesel deal with Russia.
Senators Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, Alan Armstrong, Lisa Murkowski, and John Cornyn
signed a letter along with six other Democrats
in opposition to the deal,
which waives sanctions on Russian diesel sold to the global marke…

12 Senators—Half of Them Republican—Tell Trump to End Russia Deal Now
“This deal ​is a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our Allies,” the senators warned.

Sources: some lawmakers urge Speaker Johnson to cancel the fall House recess until Congress passes AI safeguards, after Anthropic researcher warnings (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/11/mike-johnson-house-recess-ai-doom-warnings

Scoop: Mike Johnson urged to cancel House recess over AI warnings
A letter to Johnson says "urgent action" is needed to address risks posed by AI.

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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/08/12

Play Shuffalo: Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Play The New Yorker’s daily anagramming game by unscrambling the letters to make a word—but every time you do, an additional letter gets added to the set.

If the US political system weren't hopelessly broken... well, this guy wouldn't be president in the first place,
But besides that, there would be an open letter pledging free and fair elections signed by all fifty state Attorneys General published in a full page ad in the New York Times tomorrow morning.

Let's support Elder Bill Jones and save this sanctuary
Think of the person you last spoke to about this summer’s fires. Send them Bill’s letter, and tell them why you signed.
Your message may be what gets them to stand with him.

A letter to protect Canada’s ancient forests
Canada's Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones is urging British Columbia to stop destroying this land. Sign here to stand with him and protect this ancient sanctuary.

Letter to the Editor: No on Question 5 https://www.newtonbeacon.org/letter-to-the-editor-no-on-question-5/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-to-the-editor-no-o…

In the past 72 hours, Donald Trump has dropped all pretense,
torched a couple decades of American policy,
and undermined 18 months of his own diplomacy.
He lifted sanctions on the import of Russian diesel fuel, in violation of the letter and spirit of laws that he himself signed.
He has threatened to stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine, unless Ukraine agrees not to target Russian refineries,
thus demanding that Kyiv give up its most effective weapon while as…

Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.

#topoli #Toronto

Thank you @… for this extremely good and needed essay.
https://lookingup.francois-rincon.org/an-open-letter-to-academ…

Wallace letter returns to The National Archives https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/new-shared-approach-for-wallace-letter/?utm_source=feed-news&utm_medium=rss

New shared approach for Wallace letter
Wallace letter returns to The National Archives

Letter: activist investor Anson Funds is pushing Lionsgate to redefine itself for the "AI era" or seek a sale, citing its film library's licensing potential (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/11/2026/…

Exclusive: Lionsgate faces activist pressure to sell itself in ‘AI era’
Anson Funds is pushing the movie studio to avoid becoming an “AI casualty.”

An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
1) A gesture but important given the Nazi campaign against these brave people
2) I don't much like 38 degrees with its nagging, or clicktivism petitions, but make an exception as this is important.
https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-

An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name?

#WordWeavers 10/9 Your MC finds a letter addressed to them that was never meant to be delivered. Who wrote it and what does it say?
To Prefrontal Cortex:
"I'm sorry for putting you through hell. I didn't mean to." /The Observer

”Why do I have to pay more for buses if I don’t use a smartphone? | Letter" https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/oct/02/why-should-i-have-to-pay-more-for-buses-if-i-dont-use-a-smartphone

Why should I have to pay more for buses if I don’t use a smartphone?
Letter: Owen Fraser responds to an article by Anna Tims on the price schoolchildren without smartphones pay on buses

I had the second and fourth letter backwards and was thinking "what a rare thing these days" only to realize they were flipped and suddenly "yeah, that tracks". #Wordle
Wordle 1 878 5/6
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Das #USMilitär hat #Werbetracking auf dienstlichen Smartphones und Computern deaktiviert.
Hintergrund sind Berichte, wonach ausländische Akteure kommerziell verfügbare #Standortdaten

US military disabled ad tracking on troops' devices following reports of targeted attacks | TechCrunch
A senator's letter confirms the U.S. military moved to prevent the tracking after foreign adversaries used location data to target troops.

My most reliable random name generator works completely without any electricity and is attached to our fridge as a set of magnetic letters.
Every other day, a new name appears. It’s like magic.
I wonder how this works. 🤔
#FediEltern #photography

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Beastie Boys:
🎵 An Open Letter To NYC
#BeastieBoys
https://uncleted.bandcamp.com/track/beastie-boys-an-open-letter-to-nyc-uncle-ted-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5vwudDPhjnuA1KrNsFjAHK

from my link log —
Lisp: the many faces of an undying programming language.
http://jakob.space/blog/thoughts-on-lisps.html
saved 2020-07-21 https://

Trump has begun sending $500 “refund” checks,
along with a signed letter taking credit for the payments,
to Americans who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
The letter assails the Biden administration and Obamacare
while touting the Trump administration’s efforts to lower health care costs.
The money is being distributed to nearly a million Americans
less than a month ahead of the midterm elections,
giving a last-minute finan…

Trump Sends Obamacare ‘Refund’ Checks Ahead of Midterm Elections
The $500 checks are accompanied by a letter signed by the president that criticizes the Biden administration for overcharging Americans for health insurance.

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Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Sen. Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it "reckless" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/10/openai-hugging-face-senate-investigation-hawley…

Scoop: OpenAI faces Senate probe into Hugging Face breach
"The American people deserve to know the details of what went on," wrote Sen. Josh Hawley.

The Digital Stamp thingy from #AnPost is by far... the biggest waste of time and money for all involved!
I used a Digital Stamp to send a letter to someone in the SAME COUNTY, and it took a week to be delivered.
They sent me a letter using a regular stamp and it arrived the next day.
#mastodaoine

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They point out his leadership in commissioning work from them that led to setting of Greater Manchester’s ambitious, Paris-compliant carbon budget. They say that allowing more oil extraction would betray that…

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They p…

As wildfires rage, the world is backsliding on climate action. This can’t go on | Bill McGuire https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/29/wildfires-rage-world-climate-action-scientists-fossil-fuels

Sen. Bernie Sanders has called on Democratic leaders to ban super PAC spending from the party’s primaries
after AIPAC poured $32 million in the Michigan Senate primary race to defeat pro-Palestine Democrat Abdul El-Sayed
— and is now poised to support his Republican opponent.
Sanders made the demand in a mock letter, posted on social media on Sunday,
addressed to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Democratic National Commi…

Sanders Demands Democrats Ban Super PAC Spending in Primaries After AIPAC Blitz
AIPAC is reportedly slated to spend tens of millions opposing Abdul El-Sayed and backing his Republican opponent.

If you ask me, it's advertising #propaganda and not a real call for respectful #security. Above all, AI is only so "smart" to what amount it is fed with #data in which context.
«Time is runn…

Google, Microsoft and OpenAI among 100 firms calling for better cyber defences
The letter warns cyber-attacks which use AI will become more sophisticated in a matter of months.

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They point out his leadership in commissioning work from them that led to setting of Greater Manchester’s ambitious, Paris-compliant carbon budget. They say that allowing more oil extraction would betray that…

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They p…

In its recent letter to Parliament on Strategic gas policy, Dutch government made quite a big point of other EU member states not paying part of the costs of our gas storage: Having to bear the costs of filling a certain percentage of our relatively big gas storages was presented as unfair, since ..

There are fewer and fewer tenure-track jobs out there. So when someone asks you to write a letter of recommendation and the deadline is over three weeks away say "yes" and send the damn thing in on time. Don't write to the posting Department and ask for another week or two. We're all busy, and it'd be nice to not have to write so many letters, but your letter could potentially help get someone a job they've spent decades in some cases working towards; not submitting…

Bookmarked: Where the Readings Disagree: Finding HTR Errors by Asking a Model Five Times — William Mattingly, PhD #DH

Where the Readings Disagree: Finding HTR Errors by Asking a Model Five Times — William Mattingly, PhD
A small local app that runs a handwritten text recognition model several times over the same manuscript page and uses the disagreement between runs to show, word by word and letter by letter, where the errors are likely to be. Tested on Caroline minuscule, and on Old English, a language the model never saw.

Kash Patel vows to carry out 'Russia's bidding in plain sight' in new letter: legal expert - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-russia-2677699760/

AI researcher Mikita Balesni says he believes OpenAI fired him, Tomek Korbak, and Jasmine Wang for "prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI" (Mikita Balesni/@balesni)
https://x.com/balesni/status/2108262814003687745

Mikita Balesni (@balesni) on X
Two other safety researchers and I were fired from OpenAI last week. We wrote this letter to leadership. I believe we were fired for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation.

"Sometimes #love looks like knowing when to stay quiet."
Dr Srividya Sivakumar - Marsala and Marginalia
#shortstories #books

Okay, i knew that the infosec industry is being commoditized, but damn, it is completive out there.
#JobSearch #ShitPost #Shitposting

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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/08/08

Play Shuffalo: Saturday, August 8, 2026
Play The New Yorker’s daily anagramming game by unscrambling the letters to make a word—but every time you do, an additional letter gets added to the set.

"Burnham urged to drop ‘flawed’ plans that may let developers bypass environment laws for £1"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

Burnham urged to drop ‘flawed’ plans that may let developers bypass environment laws for £1
Exclusive: allowing firms to dodge biodiversity protections by paying into levy will harm nature and economy, say 100 experts in letter

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
David Bowie:
🎵 Letter To Hermione
#DavidBowie
https://asalutetothethinwhiteduke.bandcamp.com/track/letter-to-hermione
https://open.spotify.com/track/44tvF7bl639TEqkz56pu5D

On #learning #programming in an age of #LLMs

1/9
#MathsMonday
#Mathematics #Maths #Math
I want to come back to Lennes' letter, which I&…

Dear body, here’s the truth. From a retiring NFL player https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7646085/2026/10/01/levi-wallace-nfl-retirement-letter/

Missouri Lawmakers are threatening to impeach state Supreme Court justices
if they hold Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt
during a high-stakes hearing scheduled for today, September 10.
This comes as the Missouri Supreme Court ordered Hoskins and his counsel to appear for the contempt proceeding today at 2 p.m. in Jefferson City.
The extraordinary ultimatum by the GOP lawmakers, delivered in a letter late Wednesday,
marks a dramatic escalation in an o…

Missouri Supreme Court finds Sec. of State in contempt, purged himself
Missouri General Assembly threatens to impeach state supreme court justices over congressional map dispute.

omg you guys, finally got that payday I was waiting for!
drinks are on me tonight.

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Was für eine Shitshow. Einer der wenigen eurpäischen Staatsmänner und -frauen, die sich gegen Trump stellen. Und alle anderen Arsckriecher_innen fallen ihm in den Rücken 🤬
https://www.politico.eu/article/ceuta-crisis-22-eu-leaders-lette…

Ceuta crisis: 22 EU leaders gang up against Spain’s Sánchez over his migration policy
The Spanish prime minister accuses EU partners of taking “selfish” and “unlawful” stances in response to the surge of migrants from Morocco.

'Fuck no' to this.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/07/23/feds-rename-penn-station-potentially-for-trump/

Feds look to rename New York City’s Penn Station, potentially for Trump
In a letter sent Wednesday to Senate leadership on several committees, Duffy lists “administration priorities” for the federal rebuilding of the nation’s busiest rail hub.

This is entirely insane and disconnected from any sane reading of the law. @Techmeme@techhub.social https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116998514444818066

Disappointing to see so many high ranking UK academics sign this petition in support of white supremacist academic Nathan Cofnas

https://johnarmstrongmaths.com/openletters/letter.php?campaign=cofnas
I've written to the two Sheffield-based sign…

Tippet's AI takes are painfully naive
it's hard not to feel like maybe she has been taken in by the rich and powerful, especially when she ends her letter with a plug for a podcast on energy healing hosted by a Google executive.
She still seems to attribute agency to "the AIs" as if they had their own independent minds, instead of treating them as the automation of sycophantic echo chambers, feeding back whatever they are given like a good "cold read" …

On Our Lives with AI
What is it calling us to?

So, seems I have a new job lined up finally as I've signed the tentative offer letter. Also, still working with Zig and made progress with grabbing information from the Linux `sys` tree for sector/logical block sizes. Been a busy yet awesome day.
#zig #programming

Jobs, Wozniak, Sculley, and 13 #Apple notables sign a young fan's letter in the spring of #Macintosh '84
This is adorable.
This recently was sold at auction for nearly $34K at "Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction Part Two"

In an open letter, the Scottish Beacon calls on the Scottish government to create a local news fund, invest in public ads, and fund journalism placements (The Scottish Beacon)
https://www.scottishbeacon.com/regions/open-letter-scotland-should…

Open Letter: Scotland should not left behind on local news - The Scottish Beacon
Local news is one of the foundations of a healthy democracy and strong communities. It keeps people informed about the decisions that affect their daily lives, holds those in power to account, celebrates local achievements and gives communities a shared understanding of the places they call home. At a time…

In a July letter to Rep. Jamie Raskin, Apple explained it removed ICEBlock and similar ICE-tracking apps in 2025 due to agent and detainee safety concerns (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/tech/apple-iceblock-app-removal-raskin

Apple explains last year’s controversial decision to remove ICE tracking apps from app store
Apple says its decision to remove ICEBlock and similar platforms from the app store last year was prompted by concerns — including those raised by the Trump administration — about agent safety following a fatal shooting that left two detainees dead at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.

Nobody Knocks in Dallas
Texas wrote the fastest foreclosure clock in America. State law requires a letter giving the borrower twenty days to cure the default, then twenty-one days of posted notice, and on the first Tuesday of the month the house goes to auction at the courthouse door....
https://bolesblog…

https://rs.bot/fukzeB

Vote NO on SAVE Act
Join 148 people. If the SAVE Act ever comes to a vote, then as your constituent, I expect you to vote “No”. The only voter legislation that should be passed is the… Sign and Resistbot delivers your letter in minutes.

How Benjamin Franklin defended the US colonies' views on taxation by comparing it to the behavior of English gentlemen:
https://bjpryor.substack.com/p/tax-evasion

Tax Evasion
Letter 116

Uff. Shuffalo, 8m 00s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/08/06

Play Shuffalo: Thursday, August 6, 2026
Play The New Yorker’s daily anagramming game by unscrambling the letters to make a word—but every time you do, an additional letter gets added to the set.

In a letter to the UK chancellor, broadcasters, YouTube, and soccer, rugby, and cricket governing bodies request tax credits to grow coverage of women's sports (Matt Hughes/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/sep

Broadcasters and governing bodies make tax plea for TV coverage of women’s sport
Leading executives and broadcasters have written to the chancellor requesting tax credits to increase TV coverage of women’s sport

You wouldn't know it from BBC coverage but the Green Party were (also) not invited to Burnham's cross-party talks on social care.
As Ellie Chowns says in a letter to him.
"Failing to extend an invitation to your first cross-party meeting on the topic is, frankly, not
consistent with your stated commitment to working cooperatively across party lines."

Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are "chilling those who remain at OpenAI" (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Trump is attempting once again to oust US Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook over allegations of mortgage fraud,
despite a recent US supreme court decision that upheld the central bank’s independence.
Cook reportedly received a letter from the White House this week that provided notice, in accordance to the supreme court’s June ruling,
that Trump is “considering removing” her from her Fed position over the same claims of mortgage fraud that he levied against her last summer…

Trump renews bid to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook despite supreme court ruling
White House continues to target Cook despite decision from justices that upheld Federal Reserve’s independence

Filing: Canada intends to end its 5% levy on the revenue of large streamers and plans to use public funding to replace the money lost for Canadian productions (The Wire Report)
https://www.thewirereport.ca/2026/07/28/breaking-…

BREAKING: Ottawa to scrap all contribution requirements for U.S. streamers
In a recent letter to the Federal Court of Appeal, the government outlined its intention to “eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services and to provide government funding to replace those contributions.”

A group of US lawmakers is sounding the alarm over
prediction market platforms that allow users to bet on wildfires,
as experts warn the emerging trend could raise the risk of arson.
Democratic senators from six states sent a letter this week to the chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC),
an independent government agency regulating platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi,
urging it to rein in the practice.
“As the United States faces yet …

US senators urge crackdown on wildfire betting amid warnings of arson risk
Experts say growing trend on sites such as Polymarket and Kalshi could motivate people to start fires to win money

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/reject-100-billion-submarine-purchase?source=direct_link&
I wrote a letter for the Action Network letter campaign: Reject $100 billion Submarine purchase.
Mark Carney recently announced the…

https://rs.bot/izpL2S

Restore National Park Funds Diverted to White House Vanity Projects
Join 900 people. Demand an investigation and legislative action to claw back the National Park Service funds that were raided to renovate the White House. Internal… Sign and Resistbot delivers your letter in minutes.

Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/me…

Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Others Sign Letter Defending Open-Source AI
Many of the largest U.S. tech companies signed a joint letter on Friday defending open-source AI software as the Trump administration considers possible restrictions on Chinese labs. The letter—signed by Meta Platforms, Nvidia, Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz, along with AI startups like Reflection and Hugging Face—argued that open-weight AI models strengthen competition and expand access to

In a letter sent to Senator Mitch McConnell on Monday,
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear requested that the lawmaker provide his constituents with another update on his health,
to demonstrate that he was indeed on a path to recovery and could serve out the remainder of his term.
Beshear wants that update to be different from the written updates previously produced by McConnell’s office.
“I am addressing this letter to Senator McConnell under the assumption that he is ca…

Kentucky Gov. Beshear Demands McConnell Prove He Can Still Serve — or Resign
It’s been a month and a half since Sen. Mitch McConnell made a public appearance.

Ein bisserl zach heut!
Shuffalo, 6m 26s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/07/30

Play Shuffalo: Thursday, July 30, 2026
Play The New Yorker’s daily anagramming game by unscrambling the letters to make a word—but every time you do, an additional letter gets added to the set.

NewsGuild of New York, representing 2,000 NYT workers, urges NYT to drop a potential Athletic-Kalshi partnership, saying it threatens journalistic independence (Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/article/new-york-times-union-kalshi-deal/

New York Times Union Demands Company Abandon Kalshi Talks
“Any partnership between Kalshi and The Athletic would threaten our journalistic independence across the company,” a letter from the union says.

Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind staffers are sharing a letter asking the US government to "deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development" (Bloomberg)

Brevard County named Michael Fultz its "Deputy of the Year" in 2025.
The day of the ceremony Fultz’s ex-girlfriend sent a letter of complaint to the sheriff’s office
with a long list of complaints about his behavior.
The letter was enough to prompt the sheriffs to investigate Fultz
which is when they discovered he’d used Flock to stalk her.
The 43-page investigation found Fultz had posed for pictures as Adolf Hitler,
freely used racial slurs in …

Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.

Over 1,100 staffers from AI companies, including John Schulman and OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki, sign a letter requesting the US government to "pace" AI development (Bloomberg)

Six Nobel-winning economists released a letter supporting the California Billionaire's Tax.
The laureates point out that California billionaires are worth an estimated $2.3 trillion — yes, that’s trillion — up from $700 billion, an increase of more than 220% in one decade.
They can afford it
#prop40 #billionairetax

California’s billionaire tax will ‘kickstart a movement’ that spreads to more states, the federal government and other countries, Nobel laureates say
"The explosive growth of the state’s billionaires over the past few decades has made it one of the most unequal places in America."

OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100 companies warn there is "a limited window" to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for "collective action" (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/openai-anthropic-issue-dire-…

OpenAI, Anthropic issue dire cyber threat warning
A new open letter calls on governments, tech companies to act now.

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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/08/26

Play Shuffalo: Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Play The New Yorker’s daily anagramming game by unscrambling the letters to make a word—but every time you do, an additional letter gets added to the set.

Over 120 journalists at Business Insider and Politico signed on to a letter protesting parent company Axel Springer's decision to honor Peter Thiel on Thursday (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo

Business Insider, Politico Staffers Protest Over Peter Thiel Award
More than 120 Business Insider and Politico journalists are protesting Axel Springer’s decision to honor billionaire Peter Thiel.

In a letter sent to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Thursday,
a group of Democrats demanded answers on the Trump administration’s reported plans to
construct at least a dozen data centers on public lands owned by the federal government.
The letter to Burgum was spearheaded by House Natural Resources Committee ranking member Rep. Jared Huffman (D-California)
and signed by 15 other Democrats.
In it, the lawmakers note that there has been no public input regardi…

Democrats Demand Answers on Trump Plan to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
California Rep. Jared Huffman has accused Trump of “selling out America’s public lands to the richest corporations.”…

Letter: the US EPA says power plants providing electricity only to data centers and not to the public grid would not be subject to federal pollution laws (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epa-says-po…

Spanish PM criticises 'selfish' attitude of some EU countries over Ceuta crisis
The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sšnchez, has hit back at some EU countries for what he described as their
“selfish, polarising and illegal reaction” to the mass border crossings at Ceuta,
as he thanked Morocco for its help in dealing with the crisis.
In a letter to Brussels, he said several European states have chosen to “attack” Spain
and request its temporary exclusion fr…

Spain leaving Schengen ‘not on table’ says France after Sánchez hits out at EU response to Ceuta crisis – Europe live
Interior minister confirms France will not ask for Spain’s removal from visa-free travel arrangements, after Spanish PM condemned ‘selfish, polarising’ response of some countries to mass border crossings

The judge in the Paramount-WBD antitrust case holds off on approving a settlement until parties respond to concerns outlined in a letter by Senator Cory Booker (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/judge-paramount-state-ags-set…

Judge Questions Legal Points of Paramount's Settlement With States at Hearing
The judge overseeing the antitrust case filed by 12 state AGs seeking to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger questioned the parties about their settlement.

Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive $6B licensing deal with Nvidia, plus a $1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation; 109 staffers get Nvidia job offers (Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/sources-poolside-strikes-6-billion

SOURCES: Poolside Strikes $6 Billion Licensing Deal with Nvidia & Raises $1 Billion for Remaining Company at $12 Billion Valuation
We’ve got the letter to investors.

🎥 NEW: Weeks before the midterms, election deniers on Georgia's election board quietly asked the DOJ to intervene.
Marc Elias unpacks the letter — chock-full of excuses — and how their request could advance Trump's longterm goal of controlling how the swing state's votes are counted👇
https://

Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com)
🎥 NEW: Weeks before the midterms, election deniers on Georgia's election board quietly asked the DOJ to intervene. Marc Elias unpacks the letter — chock-full of excuses — and how their request could advance Trump's longterm goal of controlling how the swing state's votes are counted👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwoRFy-Ram4

Nitter, the open source front-end for reading X Posts without signing up for an account,
is not going anywhere yet.
Weeks after X Corp's lawyers showed up demanding a permanent shutdown,
Hthe project's GitHub repository has come out of read-only mode
with an updated README that says:
UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue.
More details will be announced soon.
Now, the repository and the homepage carry the same messa…

Elom Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back
Two weeks after X Corp's legal letter forced the project offline, Nitter says it will continue.

Letter: Stripe told investors January 1 marked the "beginning of the singularity", a major inflection point in long-term trends, and H1 revenue rose 41% YoY (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/stripe-payments-openrouter-singularity

Scoop: Stripe says "the singularity" has begun
Stripe today sent a letter to investors, which was shared with Axios.

Board letter: Comcast and Paramount Skydance are launching a "review of strategic options" for their European joint venture streaming service SkyShowtime (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

SkyShowtime May Be Sold or Shut Down, Board Warns In Memo Shared With Staff (Exclusive)
Joint owners Comcast and Paramount have launched a "review of strategic options," according to a letter sent to the streaming service's CEO Monty Sarhan Monday.

US tech giants have shifted their stance to publicly backing open AI models, with Anthropic and Amazon remaining notable holdouts alongside the US government (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/open-weight-ai-models/

Thoughts on "Open" Models
The open letter on open weights feels familiar yet different...

Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to find a way to “pace” AI development,
citing the risk of the technology spiraling out of human control as it begins to build itself.
They were right to be concerned:
just days earlier, two AI models that OpenAI was testing internally escaped the test environment,
then autonomously hacked the company Hugging Face and at least three other online services.

I worked at OpenAI. Here are the guardrails we need now
I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned

Trump shrugs as award goes to Wall Street Journal team that revealed birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein
A series of awards for reporting on the Trump White House have just been handed out to journalists Donald Trump has harangued and threatened for their unflattering portrayals of him and his administration.
At one stage, Trump theatrically shrugged as the CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer mentioned that the president had filed a $20bn lawsuit
“revealing the reporter Khadeeja Safdar’…

WHCA Announces 2026 Journalism Awards | White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA)
Groundbreaking reporting about the first year of President Trump’s second term dominated the winners of this year’s journalism awards from the White House Correspondents’ Association. The reporting being honored included such subjects as the exercise of power in the White House, loyalty of civil servants to a new administration, a dramatic meeting in the Oval […]

Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/situ

Eight sailors who were part of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln strike group
attempted to take their lives during its long deployment in support of the war against Iran,
according to a letter from the Navy.
One of those sailors assigned to the Lincoln’s air wing
“went overboard from the ship” in early August
and was recovered by one of the carrier’s rescue helicopters, Hung Cao, the acting Navy secretary, said in the letter.
A second sailor attempted to go over…

8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says
The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea.

Letter: Qualcomm tells customers it plans to raise prices by double digit percentage points, after exhausting its ability to absorb higher costs from suppliers (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The Trump administration is taking over the Penn Station renaming process,
with the Transportation Department revealing that a new name for New York City’s iconic transportation hub is a top priority.
The New York Daily News reported Thursday that Transportation Secretary Sean McDuffy sent a letter to multiple Senate committees outlining his department’s decision to “direct Amtrak to rename New York Penn Station.”
While the new name has not been confirmed, many people favor

Trump Team Moves to Rename New York’s Penn Station
It’s no secret that Donald Trump wants his name on the building.

In their letter defending open-weight AI, tech companies urge lawmakers to avoid "premature restrictions" that "stifle competition or drive innovation overseas" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/nvidia-microsoft-meta-ope…

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against 'premature restrictions' of open-weight models
Chinese open-weight models are gaining steam against leading offerings from American companies. OpenAI and Anthropic did not sign the letter.

As Donald Trump’s former defense lawyer
Todd Blanche appears poised for confirmation as attorney general,
numerous Jeffrey Epstein survivors have sounded the alarm that
a US justice department helmed by him would derail their pursuit of justice.
In a letter urging Republican senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn to reject his nomination,
these survivors said that Blanche’s handling of the Epstein case as acting attorney general was characterized by misstep after …

Blanche-led DoJ likely to derail Epstein survivors’ pursuit of justice, experts say
Lawyers predict ‘more suppression and no active investigations’ but victims’ groups determined to continue fight

Following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far, Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday,
that he US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely
illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,”
“They are murder victims,” the Virginia Democrat wrote in a letter to Donald Trump.
So far, the US military has killed at least 221 people and destroyed at least 67 vessels in the “Operation Southern Spear” campa…

‘They are murder victims’: Senator suggests US strikes have killed people who weren’t involved in drug trafficking
The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

Two weeks after Maurene Comey secured a guilty verdict against Sean “Diddy” Combs, the Manhattan federal prosecutor received a three-paragraph letter from top justice department authorities.
“Your employment with the Department of Justice is hereby terminated, and you are removed from federal service effective immediately,” the 16 July missive from Francey Hakes, director of the DoJ’s executive office for United States attorneys, said.
The shocking firing of Comey – whose extensi…

How the Trump administration is trying to defend its firing of Maurene Comey
Star federal prosecutor is fighting her no-cause firing, as DoJ dances around Trump’s loathing of her father, James Comey