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@aardrian@toot.cafe
2026-04-13 20:37:02

Post updates (a bit behind):
adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you- linking to Donnie D’Amato and Den Odell.

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-06-13 14:19:05

"precarious?"
"yo!"
"did you take the whole building down, too?"
"how else were we supposed to remove the letters?" #TOTDenthusiastsunite

empty scaffolding awaits the Wall of Sound
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-14 13:40:41

April 13, 2026 -- On April 12, the day of Hungary's parliamentary elections ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260414/p33#a26

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2026-04-13 19:03:49

Shuffalo, 13m 59s
🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
🔘🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🔘🟡🟡🔘🟡🟡🟡
newyorker.com/puzzles-and-game

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2026-05-13 12:08:08

This. 🤘
bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rmplv

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2026-06-11 15:39:39

It looks like the "Christian" politicians I OK, allowing this happen, seem to have confused the behavior of the inquisitors of the Spanish Inquisition with Christ's teachings.
Smething about the devil quoting Scripture to his own ends?
‘It’s torture’: prisoners’ letters expose subterranean Oklahoma ‘dungeon’ known as the tombs

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2026-06-11 15:39:39

It looks like the "Christian" politicians I OK, allowing this happen, seem to have confused the behavior of the inquisitors of the Spanish Inquisition with Christ's teachings.
Smething about the devil quoting Scripture to his own ends?
‘It’s torture’: prisoners’ letters expose subterranean Oklahoma ‘dungeon’ known as the tombs

@cjust@infosec.exchange
2026-06-12 18:20:57

#Shitpost #Shitposting #Babylon5

The image is a graphic design featuring bold, stylized text against a vibrant, solid royal blue background. The primary focus is the word "ZATHRAS" rendered in large, uppercase letters. These letters are a bright, warm orange with a distinct red outline, giving them a three-dimensional, embossed appearance. The shadows cast by the red outline suggest light coming from the top left.

Below "ZATHRAS," and slightly to the left, is the word "FOR" in a smaller, italicized font, also in the same oran…
@ncoca@social.coop
2026-04-12 09:44:58

Posted my #job listing a week ago.
- Within 24 hours, got 50 applications, more than >50% from just one country, along with more than 80 LinkedIn friend requests, unsolicited messages.
- The next few day, got a bunch of AI-written cover letters, including several with the same exact line.
The last three days - zero applications from that country, zero AI applications.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-13 14:05:41

April 12, 2026 -- By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260413/p39#a26

@floheinstein@chaos.social
2026-06-12 09:07:57

Bumsrakete Exploit.
And Comic Sans Cruelty
#freebsd #exploit

Yellow background
Emoji Crown, Rocket, Crown
In red big Upper Case Letters:
Bumsrakete tm
In black comic sans:
The HUGEST, the MOST TREMENDOUS FreeBSD page-cache write primitive in the history of computing.
Many people are saying it. Many. Believe me.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-05-09 19:09:51

Did you know that "TOYOTA" is comprised entirely of letters that are symmetric about the vertical axis?
There's a dealer near Seattle that has huge 3D letters on the sign that you can see from both directions. But when you're across the highway it says ATOYOT instead.

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-05-12 21:31:55

Halfway through this paper that I’m reviewing appears an AI-generated diagram of the system the paper describes. The authors are transparent about it, but what do I make of this?
I’ve got to admit, this annoys me more than I expected.
Even if we assume that the diagram is structurally correct, the text contains the typical genAI artifacts (mashed-up letters, misspellings, etc.) that one wouldn’t accept in the main text—so it’s simply sloppy. What’s the point!?

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-05-12 21:31:55

Halfway through this paper that I’m reviewing appears an AI-generated diagram of the system the paper describes. The authors are transparent about it, but what do I make of this?
I’ve got to admit, this annoys me more than I expected.
Even if we assume that the diagram is structurally correct, the text contains the typical genAI artifacts (mashed-up letters, misspellings, etc.) that one wouldn’t accept in the main text—so it’s simply sloppy. What’s the point!?

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2026-05-12 21:31:55

Halfway through this paper that I’m reviewing appears an AI-generated diagram of the system the paper describes. The authors are transparent about it, but what do I make of this?
I’ve got to admit, this annoys me more than I expected.
Even if we assume that the diagram is structurally correct, the text contains the typical genAI artifacts (mashed-up letters, misspellings, etc.) that one wouldn’t accept in the main text—so it’s simply sloppy. What’s the point!?

@ErikUden@mastodon.de
2026-04-06 08:24:30

I've been wondering: will future historians have more public records to go through, or less? It's fascinating to read through letters and telegraphs of Albert Einstein, yet I wonder whether our digitized world will leave the same trace. While on the one hand public figures share a lot more personal information on the internet, which will always be preserved through articles, replies, screenshots etc., chat conversations, which somewhat replace letters, are encrypted, often with disappearing …

A Russian drone strike damaged part of the Centralized Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facilityin the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone overnight on June 7,
Ukraine's state nuclear operator Energoatom reported.
The attack comes amid growing concerns about nuclear safety in Ukraine,
as Russia continues to strike infrastructure tied to the country's energy system and nuclear sector

@Xavier@infosec.exchange
2026-04-11 17:42:48

After spending the last few weeks watching the #Artemis live stream, I brought the family to Huntsville, AL and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. I went to Space Camp and Space Academy when I was a kid, so this whole place is a core memory for me. Time to geek out!
#usspaceandrocketcenter

A person with a beard and sunglasses takes a selfie outdoors in front of a signpost on a sunny day. They are wearing a blue shirt with a partially visible yellow logo. Behind them to the right, two vertical blue banners hang from a pole. The left banner displays the NASA logo and the text "Smithsonian Affiliate". The banner next to it displays the text "U.S. Space & Rocket Center", "Home of Space Camp", and the orange "ASTC" logo. In the background, a large metal archway shows the letters "RANC…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-05-03 13:00:55

Datini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history

A dark-themed interactive map of the medieval western Mediterranean showing 14th-century merchant letter routes as curved arcs coloured from cyan (fast, 0–5 days) through yellow to red (30+ days). Short land routes between Tuscan cities glow cyan; longer sea routes to Barcelona and Majorca burn orange and red, revealing the unpredictability of medieval maritime travel.
(299 characters)
 
Long (accessible description for screen readers / figure caption):
Screenshot of the Datini Letters Geospati…
@compfu@mograph.social
2026-05-11 06:27:58

Oh no. My iPad auto updated iOS and it really is as badly designed as everybody said. #LiquidAss #iOS26 #Apple

Screenshot of iOS 26 screen time code popup. Instead of a number pad it’s now a full keyboard crammed into the same space with tiny buttons. The button labels overlap or break out of their widgets.
When you lock and unlock the iPad the keyboard is normal size but cropped to a number pad‘s dinensions. This only leaves room to display and use numbers 1 to 4 and some letters from the top left corner of a keyboard.
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2026-06-07 15:07:09

Does Pride still matter in #Utah? Yes! Because the #utpol #GOP won't stop, so the public needs to counter them with the reality that we support our families, friends, and neighbors at every turn.

@CubitOom@social.linux.pizza
2026-05-11 16:14:52

Shutdown the Dilley Concentration Camp. Free the Innocent.
This family is being held at ICE’s Dilley Family Concentration Camp in Texas. Here are two petitions to shut it down:
- DHS and CoreCivic: [change.org/p/close-dilley-ice-detention-center-protect-children](https://www.change.org/p/close-dilley-ice-detention-center-protect-children)
- US House and Senate: [actionnetwork.org/letters/mom-say-shut-down-dilley-close-the-camps-and-bring-our-kids-home](https://actionnetwork…

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-05-07 19:11:49

Hantaviruses, which belong to the Bunyavirales order, replicate and transcribe their genome in the cytoplasm of infected cells. So Hantavirus already won’t enter the nucleus, and Ivermectin, an anti-parasite substance, won’t do much of anything to a virus.
“…orthomyxoviruses replicate and transcribe their genome within the cell nucleus, whereas bunyavirus genome replication and transcription occur in the cytoplasm.”

screenshot of a post by Mary Talley Bowden MD 

Red letters: False Information

Hantavirus is a RNA virus, and ivermectin should work against it. 

Ivermectin blocks RNA viruses from entering the nucleus, inhibits viral replication, disrupts integrity of the viral membrane and can prevent viral replication. 

May 6, 2026 • 6:58 PM UTC
@awinkler@openbiblio.social
2026-06-03 22:37:11

Der Guardian über das Liebesbrief-Archiv (liebesbriefarchiv.de/):
Sixty thousand love letters and counting: volunteers help sift through vast German trove of devotion | Germany | The Guardian

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-05-07 20:58:26

"Senate and House Democrats sent letters Thursday to more than a dozen recipients of Trump pardons and commutations, opening a formal investigation into whether the clemency was driven by “pay-to-play dynamics.”"
BREAKING: Trump's Pardons Under Investigation, Hantavirus Outbreak Spreads, DOJ Investigates Insider Oil Trading, and more...
adamkinzinger.com/p/breaking-t

@Nathan@social.lostinok.com
2026-06-09 16:44:53

Dispatch — Squash Bug Front
Casualties: Adults 0 | Eggs 4
After last night's slaughter, both sides withdrew to their lines. No sentries crested the trenchline. Scattered egg fire at 0600 — harassing only, a reminder they still hold the zucchini salient.
#gardening #oklahoma

Soldiers writing letters in a trench.
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social
2026-05-08 07:51:19

❓Kennst du das, du hast eine Projektidee, aber keine Ahnung wo das Geld herkommen soll?
💡Als Teil des NFDI4Culture Helpdesks kann dir der Culture Kickstarter weiterhelfen! Wir beraten Projekte zu Fragen nach Förderprogrammen & unterstützen Neuanträge über die Koordination von Letters of Intents!
👉 nfdi4culture.de/id/E5079

Young Business Boy with Rocket on Back
"Ein kleiner Junge mit Geschäftssinn trägt einen Anzug und einen Weltraumhelm, auf dem Rücken hat er eine Rakete festgeschnallt. Das Foto wurde in Utah, USA, aufgenommen." iStock Standardlizenz Autor:in: A.J. Rich
@bthalpin@mastodon.social
2026-05-01 22:54:32

I forgot I sent a letter to the editor of the Irish Times on Thursday: they printed it
#mastodaoine
irishtim…

@janneke@todon.nl
2026-06-07 18:25:29

Kris van Rens at @… "The XZ Utils backdoor -- Digging into a major cybersecurity incident"
After skipping very quickly through the technical section during the talk because of time constraints, afterwards Kris gave an interactive session on the technicalities for a handful of interested people. Lovely! Also: food for thought.

Kris van Rens  on stage.  Slide with blue on white letters: "The XZ Utils backdoor -- Digging into a major cybersecurity incident"
@cjust@infosec.exchange
2026-06-11 16:13:53

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

The image is a parody of a book cover, designed to be humorous and provocative. The title, "Everything I don't like is DEI," is displayed prominently at the top in bold black text. Below it, in slightly smaller but still bold black letters, is the word "DEI." Further down, the subtitle reads "A BOOK FOR BASIC DICKHEADS" in black, sans-serif font.

The main visual element is a cartoon illustration of a man with short, reddish-brown hair, wearing an orange long-sleeved shirt. He is leaning over t…
@mlippert@vmst.io
2026-06-14 16:47:59

#Wordle 1,821 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 222,281 (977)
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 2% of 43 (6)
🟩🟨🟨⬜🟨 0 of 2 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 94/99
Luck 45/99
Good thing I had 4 letters and had eliminated 8

@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social
2026-04-07 16:42:47

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

@matthiasott@mastodon.social
2026-04-28 11:38:55

Beautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf

Kimya Gandhi on stage at beyond tellerrand with the title screen of her talk The Act of Pressing a Key: The Journey of a Letterform on to Your Screen
Letters of Devanagari, used to write languages like Hindi, on the screen
Beyond tellerrand written in Devanagari letters
@ncoca@social.coop
2026-04-10 04:33:19

I was feeling iffy on my #creditunion after they did the bait and switch with a "high-interest" savings account (rapidly dropped the interest rate after a few months). Also found the non-stop life insurance promo letters annoying.
But them charging me a $50 fee for not closing a CD account within a tiny window, and refusing to waive the fee despite me being just a few days late, …

@jamie@boothcomputing.social
2026-04-07 13:10:43

Yep, yep. That's what I was. I had a chance for a wordle in 3 (had all the known letters in the right place). Just couldn't get the last one. Finally burned a guess to confirm and then I found it. #Wordle
Wordle 1 753 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-06-05 16:34:22

Now that the trump name is being removed from the Kennedy Center I wonder whether trump will try to sell off the physical letters that were removed and keep the proceeds to himself?

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-06-05 01:59:46

I don’t know who needs to see this…

Image from a set of instructions for how to use a telephone rotary dial. It shows a dial with all the numbers and letters arranged in a circle.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-31 23:05:55

Letters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
wired.com/story/tesla-says-its

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2026-06-02 02:16:33

The summoning circle worked!

Photo of a young black cat laying down on a Ouija board type, circular rug. The rug has zodiac signs, letters, numbers, sun & moon symbols, etc.
@gevoel@mastodon.green
2026-06-05 13:55:39

Lieverds, er moeten toch manieren zijn om zonder typen en zonder google en andere verderfelijke zooi teksten op plaatjes om te zetten naar teksten met letters? Op linux en of op googlevrij Android?

@nelson@tech.lgbt
2026-06-03 17:55:48

I don't know how to read your mind
The letters are too small
I guess you know what you mean
But it makes no sense to me at all
Willie Nelson

@publicvoit@graz.social
2026-06-02 15:23:17

#ForAllMankind S05E10: is there nobody in the #SONY production team old enough to remember a correct #DOS prompt? 🤔
A bit embarrassing considering the overall situation of this scene. 🤷

Screenshot of an amber colored screen that starts with A:/ and some cyrillic letters.

In reality, the path would have been A:\ with a back-slash instead of a forward-slash.

However, even that is questionable since A: was the first floppy drive letter and C: would have been the hard disk which is most likely the boot media for a scifi spaceship. So it should have been C:\
@gray17@mastodon.social
2026-06-05 18:50:50

The moment after eating shrooms when you realize that you yourself are a shroom and you've just committed cannibalism.

Photo at the Portland riverfront of a rectangular metal fence post with scrubbed graffiti and a sticker of a tall mushroom with a purple cap with white dots. The stem of the mushroom has a face with bloodshot eyes, angry eyebrows, and a square-ish mouth open in a toothy scream. Letters scrawled down the post read SALT LICK, which indicates this is a spot for casual sexual encounters with Navy officers known as "smurfs", during Fleet Week.
@hllizi@hespere.de
2026-04-04 15:38:28

Trump's whole presidency spells "I want to be couped away and court martialed" in 30 feet letters.

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2026-04-09 16:00:53

Shuffalo, 5m 04s
🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🔘🔘🟡🟡🟡
newyorker.com/puzzles-and-game

@jake4480@c.im
2026-04-20 01:17:08

In Rogue-FP on Steam, EVERYTHING is made of letters. When you kill a monster and come back later, there will often be flies (capital 'F' letters) flying around the remains 😂
#Rogue #Steam #SteamDeck

A dead emu in Rogue-FP and flies around its corpse, shown as capital 'F's
@tschundler@leds.social
2026-05-08 02:42:16

It's an incredible thing to have something in my head and then in my hands, or seeing myself wear it in a mirror. It was even more surreal to imagine a space and then be standing in that thing from my imagination.
It still feels a bit hard to believe seeing photos from #Neotropolis last week - this place that people have these cool photos from is the place that previously existed onl…

What looks like a small building basked in blue light. There are letters "RAPTURE" inside a set of glowing triangles to the left. In the middle is an LED analog clockface. Above is a set of 4 exhaust fans, two are spinning slowly. Inside a glowing column is visible in the back corner. The entry is closed off with a velvet rope.
@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-06-02 11:25:57

Daoist road sign.

A white sign with a black arrow pointing out of the frame to the left with black letters spelling "INSIGHT." Grass, trees, and a broken concrete snake back from the sign.
@chiraag@mastodon.online
2026-05-24 02:03:27
Content warning: Puzzles

I reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 40/40
Score: 170/170
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 spellbee.org/

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-05-02 20:25:54

heh, the dishwasher creatively redacted the label on this jar

a tiptree hot gooseberry chutney jar with a white label printed in black; about a quarter of the letters are missing or damaged as if they had been carelessly edited out before the label was printed
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
2026-05-19 09:10:11

#TuneTuesday

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-06-01 14:05:34

Monochrome thi.ng (2022)
An old exploration using only circles and the SDF-based fully parametric typeface I created as part of the work on my S-TRACE piece...
See here for other related WIP of this perpetually unfinished project:
mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/tagged/S

Short animation loop showing "thi.ng" as negative space visualized by thousands of moving circles of all sizes moving through the surrounding space. Depending on position parts of the letters become temporarily illegible.
@ncoca@social.coop
2026-04-07 02:18:06

#Hiring for a #journalism assistant and got way too many applications. Too many cover letters have the same exact format, with bullet points summaries in the middle.
Is this how #AI writes cover letters?

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-05-10 12:20:28

May 9, 2026 -- If you google the history of Mother's Day, the internet will tell you that Mother's ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260510/p10#a26

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-03-31 18:57:12
Content warning:

Stolen from @dragonsandsapphics@bsky.social who doesn't seem to bridge their account:
Do you want to see tragic Greek lesbian gods? Polyamorous lesbian dragons? All #trans, too? Click right here!
itch.io/b/3594/tdov-bundle

A sky with stars and clouds in the colours of the trans pride flag. In blue letters is written "Trans Day of Visibility Bundle" and "16 short stories, novels, and novellas for $15".
@paulwermer@sfba.social
2026-05-03 21:24:42

The President and his lickspittles in Congress are introducing legislation to shield fossil fuel companies from liability for their intentional and knowing actions to emit GHGs, fully aware of the damage, destruction and death that would cause.
Please, if you live in California, write you congress people and tell them to oppose this legislation. It's easy, I just did it using this action network link:

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2026-05-03 21:24:42

The President and his lickspittles in Congress are introducing legislation to shield fossil fuel companies from liability for their intentional and knowing actions to emit GHGs, fully aware of the damage, destruction and death that would cause.
Please, if you live in California, write you congress people and tell them to oppose this legislation. It's easy, I just did it using this action network link:

@Jaffa@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-03 19:12:14

"Don't Panic" being projected in large friendly letters.
#TOTP

@seav@en.osm.town
2026-03-31 16:22:46

That’s the first time I got no correct letters in the first two guesses.
#Wordle 1,747 5/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Letter: The GOP candidate in Utah's new District 1 is going to have to actually earn the vote of the people.
Republicans must find that so distasteful.
sltrib.com/opinion/letters/202

@sherold@mastodon.online
2026-05-04 08:08:17

Happy Monday everyone. 🌻 If you're already struggling, here is a friendly reminder.
It's all about the stories you use to make sense of the world. 🤗
Have a great start to the new week.
#DailyAppreciation #FriendlyReminder

A circular wooden embroidery hoop on a plain white background displays a cross-stitch design on white Aida fabric. The left side features a cross-stitch sword with a teal-striped hilt, gold crossguard and pommel, and a grey and silver blade. To the right of the sword, the cross-stitch text reads: “I’M NOT PROCRASTINATING I’M DOING SIDE QUESTS” in black, pixelated capital letters.
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-04-18 21:16:35

Caroline Lucas here is saying what's missing from most current Green Party messaging.
Leaders must be honest about the likelihood of collapse.
For Keir Starmer to talk of national resilience and ignore nature is absurd | Climate crisis | The Guardian

@mlippert@vmst.io
2026-05-13 14:10:12

#Wordle 1,789 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 219,507 (552)
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 2% of 212 (40)
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 0 of 4 (10)
🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 94/99
Luck 25/99
Good thing I eliminated so many letters.

@janneke@todon.nl
2026-06-06 20:13:33

Today's opening talk at @… by @…
"How to start anything -- from small projects to hackerspaces to huge events -- when you only have the foggiest of ideas".
Great, lovely, and very down-to-earth relatable and in…

Photo of boekenwuurm starting their presentation, title as mentioned in post, green letters on a purple background.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-10 14:40:55

April 9, 2026 -- The ceasefire President Donald J. Trump announced Tuesday night fell apart almost immediately. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260410/p50#a26

@ddrake@mathstodon.xyz
2026-05-17 12:55:15

I hate NPR's weekend edition puzzle. Sorry Will Shortz, but it's bad. It's always the same kind of thing: take a word, do stuff with the letters, find another word, blah blah.
Does he think that manipulating words and letters is the only kind of puzzle?
The classic Car Talk puzzles, Many were somehow about cars, but didn't require any kind of extensive mechanical automotive knowledge. They also had many other kinds of logical puzzles -- prisoners and hats puzzles…

@jamie@boothcomputing.social
2026-05-06 17:02:04

Didn't think 4 was a valid guess. Apparently, there are some letters you can add to almost any word and get a valid word. 🤷 #Wordle
Wordle 1 782 5/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2026-04-08 16:35:12

Shuffalo, 3m 24s
🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
newyorker.com/puzzles-and-game

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-29 19:56:04

Letters: House Homeland Security Committee and House China Select Committee are probing Airbnb and Cursor maker Anysphere over their use of Chinese AI models (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
semafor.com/article/04/29/2026

A part of the Atlantic Ocean, just south of Greenland and Iceland, has been cooling off while the rest of the world gets hotter.
This enigmatic patch is often referred to as the "cold blob" and scientists have been trying to figure out the mechanisms behind its cooling.
While some studies have blamed increased heat loss at the sea surface,
others suggest weaker currents are bringing less heat to the area.
Now, a new study, published in Geophysical Research…

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-04-03 17:33:21

Someone posted this, perhaps in some other context. It is worth repeating here.
(I noticed a mild similarity to another short piece by Twain, his "Letter To the Earth", part of the Bernard de Voto assemblage "Letters From the Earth".)
The piece below is quite proper and relevant to the crazed faux "warriors" who have brought our nation into several illegal wars.
Mark Twain, “The War Prayer” (ca.1904-5)

@chiraag@mastodon.online
2026-05-23 01:36:43
Content warning: Puzzles

I reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 45/45
Score: 223/223
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 spellbee.org/

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-05-09 18:15:57

MAGA Religious Leaders Dedicate and Bless 22-Foot Golden Trump Statue at Doral (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
thelettersfromleo.com/p/maga-r
memeorandum.com/260509/p30#a26

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-04-30 17:02:22

the good ol’ grateful deadcast is back! we open season 13 with part 1 of our bobby weir tribute, with lots of archival audio, teen letters to john perry barlow, water balloons, the mccoy tyner influence, firing tape & glorious redemption arc. dead.net/deadcast/bobby-weir-p

Bobby Weir, smiling in orange sweatshirt
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-03-31 13:45:10
Content warning:

Happy #TransDayOfVisibility to all who celebrate 🏳️‍⚧️
I am grateful for all the trans folks who stand visible, who talk openly about their experiences and life despite the danger to themselves. Your voices are so important because I don't think the imagination of cis people (even well-meaning) can truly capture the struggles and the joys of trans lives. I promise to stand…

A rose-coloured background with hearts on it in the colours of the trans pride flag. "No LGB without the T" is set in white letters.
@servelan@newsie.social
2026-04-18 05:56:26

HUD workers say Trump admin is violating civil rights law : NPR
npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-57808

@matthiasott@mastodon.social
2026-04-27 08:57:17

Here we go 🖤 #btconf

The stage at beyond tellerrand, with the letters B and T illuminated by light bulbs and the word good morning on the screen
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2026-05-24 16:43:06

Same. I plan to continue my subscription as additional donation.
When propaganda and hate is free, it's important to make good journalism accessible to everyone.
#Utah #Utahns #NoPaywall

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering plans by the start-up
💥Reflect Orbital
to illuminate parts of the Earth at night using reflective satellites,
as well as applications from
💥SpaceX that could dramatically expand satellite numbers in low Earth orbit.
“The proposed scale of orbital deployment would represent a significant alteration of the natural night-time light environment at a planetary scale,”
said the presidents of the Europ…

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2026-04-07 10:02:59

Shuffalo, 2m 20s
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newyorker.com/puzzles-and-game

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-04-25 15:16:58

#caturday

Blurred photo showing headshots of three house cats wearing black hoodies. One in foreground also wears a headband with the letters DMX.
Caption: Whats the difference between cats and dogs? “Cats don’t work for the police.”
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-08 22:25:49

The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pe
memeorandum.com/260408/p107#a2

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-04-28 15:11:23
Content warning:

For #TerryPratchettDay I want to share one of my favourite quotes. There are many, but this one just resonates with me as a writer. Sir Terry Pratchett's work is about how important stories are to humans and as a storyteller who grew up loving his books, unsurprisingly I feel the same way. He was the first celebrity where I was truly gutted when he died. Much love to everyone who w…

A quote from Terry Pratchett's book "Hogfather" in white letters against a dark blue background:
"Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet...
You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?"
-- Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-08 14:20:49

April 7, 2026 -- At 5:06 this morning, President Donald J. Trump posted on social media ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260408/p32#a26

@chiraag@mastodon.online
2026-03-15 06:24:25
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-19 14:55:47

Letters: industry groups pushed back after India proposed in January that Apple, Google, and others consider pre-installing biometric ID app Aadhaar on phones (Reuters)
reuters.com/world/china/indias

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2026-04-04 17:19:52

Shuffalo, 2m 46s
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newyorker.com/puzzles-and-game

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-07 13:50:26

June 6, 2026 -- In the wee hours of Friday morning, Senate Republicans passed a measure ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260607/p14#a26

One useful way to think about today's chatbots is that they function more like secretaries than physicians.
They are remarkably effective at organising information, summarising text, and structuring complex documents.
These are the kinds of tasks where language models are already proving useful within healthcare systems,
for example in drafting clinical notes, summarising patient records, or generating referral letters
The promise of AI in medicine remains real, …

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-03-27 21:34:44
Content warning:

I enjoyed a really fun writing workshop with @… and @sgl_in_progress@instagram.com on the theme of female rage in contemporary and fantasy fiction. I am not a literary scholar, so the analyses by workshop hosts Lena and Simoné gave me greater insight into the differences of female rage in these two broad genres and I got a new book out of it too 📖

A photograph of the hardcover edition of Nerd Girl Magic by Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner. The book is dark blue with pink letters and a magical girl reminiscent of Sailor Moon in the top half.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-06 14:05:55

June 5, 2026 -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had good news for the American people ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260606/p16#a26

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2026-04-03 11:29:41

Shuffalo, 4m 41s
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newyorker.com/puzzles-and-game

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-06 14:45:35

At 8:03 this morning, Easter Sunday, President Donald J. Trump's social media account posted ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260406/p34#a26

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-04 17:35:48

June 3, 2026 -- Last night, in an unsigned opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court expanded its finding ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260604/p75#a26

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2026-03-29 15:46:00

Shuffalo, 3m 36s
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newyorker.com/puzzles-and-game

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-03 11:20:44

June 2, 2026 -- Officials in the Trump administration have worked hard to restrict the access ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260603/p9#a260

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-05-02 14:40:57

May 1, 2026 -- Today is the deadline for President Donald J. Trump to ask Congress for approval for his war on Iran. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260502/p14#a26

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-05-01 15:05:55

April 30, 2026 -- Today G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers noted that Trump has hit ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260501/p40#a26

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-29 14:05:51

There is a frenzied feeling to the news coming from the White House these days. ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260429/p44#a26

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-29 14:25:35

March 28, 2026 -- Almost exactly a year ago, on March 27, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/260329/p21#a26