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Rare chance to see Jane Austen’s will in Love Letters exhibition https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/rare-chance-to-see-jane-austens-will-in-the-national-archives-love-letters-exhibition/

Rare chance to see Jane Austen’s will in Love Letters exhibition - The National Archives
Two hundred and fifty years after her birth on 16 December 1775, Jane Austen fans will have a rare chance to see her will in The National Archives’ Love Letters exhibition, opening on 24 January. The novelist was only 41 when she died on 18 July 1817, having moved to Winchester a few weeks earlier […]

Our solar system’s interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS,
showed strong ultraviolet emissions that are unmistakable telltales of hydroxyl gas (OH), a byproduct of water,
when astronomers imaged it with the with NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift space telescope before it disappeared behind the Sun.
Their findings, detailed in a new studypublished in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, argue that the presence of all this OH indicates
the comet is ejecting water vapor at a torrentia…

I am these cost 25¢ per song years old.
I wonder how much the artists got paid being played on these compared to Spotify or any of the other streaming services? Assuming they did in fact get paid.
Think how annoying it is when some AH plays their phone on speaker. Now imagine a diner full of tables all playing their own tunes on speaker (the only way you could).

October 12, 2025 -- On October 9, President Donald J. Trump's office issued ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-12-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p25#a251013p25

Amazon's CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, recently shared this short post about how software development improves with age. His perspective revolves around the recurrence of certain patterns in technology where the experienced developer can say "New technology, same pattern.", and sift through the daily onslaught of new technologies in a calm fashion, weeding out what's just flash from more interesting developments.
"Development gets better with Age"

Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals https://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2025/12/07/ENEURO.0002-25.2025

Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals
Mirror-invariance is the cognitive tendency to perceive mirror-image objects as identical. Mirrored letters, however, are distinct orthographic units, and must be identified as different; mirror-invariance must be ‘broken’ to enable efficient reading. Consistent with this phenomenon, a small, localized region in the ventral visual stream, the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), exhibits repetition suppression to both identical and mirror pairs of objects but only to identical, not mirror, pairs o…

For me I have two scanners for papers, pictures, negatives and slides. For floppies and ZIP disks I have an old SFF machine where I can extract all of the files and save them to USB sticks.
Friends and family knows that if they don't want the pictures to send them to me. I digitize and store them in archival quality holders in a room where the humidity is controlled and the temperature doesn't change very much. Last batch were family images that no one knew of and everyone r…

#Wordle 1,606 6/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 215,096 (118)
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 7% of 113 (6)
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 44% of 9 (2)
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 2% of 568 (2)
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 14% of 230 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 95% of 7,947
WordleBot
Skill 64/99
Luck 40/99
Damn that was close, and user error on guess 4 and not a wordle word for guess 5. Those guesses still helped me eliminate a couple of letters and know where the 3 letters I had belong.

El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/el-paso-bishop-brings-pope-leo-xiv-desperate-letters-from-migrants-in-crosshairs-of-us-crackdown/

Robo-Buddhism
https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/robo-buddhism-kokoro-technology-and-spirituality-in-japan-today/

The Washington Post's former letters editor, Alyssa Rosenberg, reflects on her role as a professional listener, offering readers a rare chance to feel heard (Alyssa Rosenberg/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/per…

The Washington Post Got 21,000 Emails After It Didn't Endorse. I Read Them All.
Reading and editing letters gave me a theory about what is wrong with America — and how it could be fixed.

December 12, 2025 -- Today former Alabama senator Doug Jones launched his campaign to become the state's next governor. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-12-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p26#a251213p26

Tell Portland City Government: Revoke the ICE Permit!
This campaign was created to protect immigrants in Portland, OR by Revoking the ICE Permit for the building located at 4310 S Macadam Ave, Portland, OR 97239. Join us in sending emails to Portland City Council, the Mayor and the Permitting and Development Department demanding they revoke the permit. Please feel free to use the template provided and/or add a personal message as well.

A million-solar-mass object detected at a cosmological distance using #GravitationalImaging / An extended and extremely thin gravitational arc from a lensed compact symmetric object at redshift of 2.059: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02651-2 / https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/544/1/L24/8262431?login=false -> Astronomers ‘image’ a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe: https://jive.eu/news/new-nature-astronomy-and-mnras-letters-astronomers-image-mysterious-dark-object-distant

Red-whiskered bulbul, standing on a sign. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October,2025. #laarboretum #redwhiskeredbulbul #bird

Bosie’s passionate plea for lover Oscar Wilde in Love Letters exhibition https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/bosies-passionate-plea-for-lover-oscar-wilde-in-new-exhibition/

Bosie’s passionate plea for lover Oscar Wilde in Love Letters exhibition - The National Archives
A passionate plea for clemency from Oscar Wilde’s lover Lord Alfred Douglas goes on show in The National Archives’ Love Letters exhibition, opening in January. The letter addressed to Queen Victoria on 25 June 1895 begs her to exercise her “power of pardon” in the case of the poet and dramatist who was beginning a […]

This is a tragic but also very touching story about life and how people deal with conventions and tradition in a way you would probably not expect:
after my dad died, we found the #love letters
https://www.je…

Every year, as I come up on my birthday, I start to think a lot more about the shooting. The intensity was a bit lower after Trump left office the first time, but October of 2024 was pretty intense.
As I've been processing through all this, I thought about the cards and letters folks sent to me in the hospital. I have a box of them in the US and sometimes I think about asking for them to be sent here. But things have a tenancy to get lost in the mail on the way here.
There's a little bit of a trapped and incomplete feeling, that Trump's chaos makes feel even more intense.
So I decided to write a bit about that box, and the hospital, and death.
CW: body horror, death
#Writing

The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions
a proposed
“Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,"
along with a letter asking that MIT review the document.
After considerable thought and consultation with leaders from across MIT,
today I sent the following reply to U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth,
MIT president
--
The document also includes princi…

#OTD 2013: A time when Tesla still meant progress. One of the first Tesla Superchargers in Europe, in Zevenaar 🇳🇱. Until then, #EV fast chargers were often single devices, but this was one of the first hubs.

Letters to the editor from writers using AI chatbots are flooding scientific journals, likely written by writers seeking to boost their number of citations (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/letters-to-the-editor-ai-chatb…

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published.

A strong union, and a strong commitment to healthy work-life balance, makes for a strong company. I encourage Kickstarter management to come back to the table and bargain with the workers @… immediately!

I hope there's a special place in hell for all the MSc program directors that decided it was a good use of everybody's time to require recommendation letters.

Putting the finishing touches on my presentation at @… next weekend. "The #Fediverse: Embracing the Hacker Ethos for a Decentralized Social Media Experience". We may even have a special guest join us, @…

pulp forensics, uncovering how william s. burroughs learned about #ayahuasca from a 1949 issue of amazing stories. https://beatdom.substack.com/p/amazing-stories-and-weird-tales-…

Amazing Stories and Weird Tales: Origins of The Yage Letters
Uncovering the origin of William S. Burroughs’ interest in yagé.

Ah yes, behold this relic I crafted ages ago. Is it good? Absolutely not. Do I cherish its beautifully terrible quality? Absolutely yes.
#Anarchism

Regarding the Compact -- The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight ... (Sally Kornbluth/orgchart.mit.edu)
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p39#a251010p39

Metropolitana 🔶
城 🔶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Good ol' Roger Williams makes it into the London Review of Books! https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/letters

No wine, chocolate, or coffee but we’ll still have billionaires (or maybe even trillionaires).
Worth it, no? https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115490957176403898

Important letters which contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
Corresponding errors will show up in the duplicate while the Boss is reading
it. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving
from where you left them to where you can't find them.

On the Complexity of Language Membership for Probabilistic Words
Antoine Amarilli, Mika\"el Monet, Paul Rapha\"el, Sylvain Salvati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08127 htt…

On the Complexity of Language Membership for Probabilistic Words
We study the membership problem to context-free languages L (CFLs) on probabilistic words, that specify for each position a probability distribution on the letters (assuming independence across positions). Our task is to compute, given a probabilistic word, what is the probability that a word drawn according to the distribution belongs to L. This problem generalizes the problem of counting how many words of length n belong to L, or of counting how many completions of a partial word belong to L.…

Are you tired of illuminated gaming keyboards, and even the clacking sound of mechanical keyboards has lost their appeal?
Fear not, there's hope:
Gboard Dial
https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/main/mozc-dial

What unholy clucker-fuck fusion of cuisines is this?
I
MUST
GET
ONE
#Shitpost #Shitposting

How Private Equity Made Piracy Great Again
#culture #media

Can a visual neuroprosthesis communicate with the brain? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/can-visual-neuroprosthesis-communicate-brain-2025a1000yhe Archived at

Can a Visual Neuroprosthesis Communicate With the Brain?
A closed-loop cortical implant generates functional percepts of shape, motion, and letters in two individuals with acquired blindness.

Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1996034522308026435

steve hsu (@hsu_steve) on X
I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics research paper itself (on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics) has been published in Physics Letters B. I've written an

Anarchy near the exit of a Fred Meyer supermarket in Portland

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Metronomy:
🎵 Love Letters
#Metronomy
https://metronomy.bandcamp.com/album/love-letters
https://open.spotify.com/track/6bW7mUdEV4jWxmdxcj8X3k

Do you also enjoy "cracking" random Braille inscriptions based on the context, word lengths, repeating letters and the knowledge how "a" is written?

December 10, 2025 -- Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-10-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p32#a251211p32

: "Fiona Bruce trying her level best to interrupt and shut down Zack Polanski left right and centre. She’ll let everyone else drone on endlessly, but the second he goes to give a detailed answer its 'please answer in 2 letters or less.'"
Audience man allowed to shout down Zack Polanski on Question Time | The National

Tried #TiledWords for the first time. It's a mix of crossword and boggle/Scrabble? I initially wanted to avoid the hints, but the final solution must all fit together so they're necessary. I think they're more fun since you solve a little clue and then fit that into your grid.
🥛 “Milk”
🕒 7 minutes, 34 seconds
💡 0/3 reveals used
∗️ 141 moves used
<…

Fun fact:
If you only change two letters in the word Germany, you suddenly get Gaymany. 😲
Fun fact two:
Mixing the gold and red in the flag of Germany gets you orange, the warm and comfy color of the season. 🧡🌬️🍂
With that, happy German UwUnity Day!
🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Dutch answer to the removal of the boards at #Margraten US military cemetery, honoring black US soldiers who died while liberating the Netherlands in WWII. This grave injustice went counterproductive for the US government, as shown.
Courtesy to Dutch TV show ‘Even tot hier’ BNNVARA
#willyfjamesjr

The Lurie/Mandelman RV ban is still set to go into effect and tow people's homes on Nov. 1, the same day SNAP expires and at the same time federal agents are in the Bay to terrorize immigrants.
Send a letter to the mayor and BOS asking them to extend the towing deadline:
https://

All Eyes on the Mayor’s RV Ban - No Tows Before Housing!
DSA SF is continuing its opposition to Daniel Lurie’s two-hour restriction on RV parking, which will take effect on November 1st, 2025. We know this policy for what it is - the latest attempt by San Francisco’s oligarch Mayor to exile poor and working class people from the City. While San Francisco has put in place a refuge permit program, it’s deeply flawed. The City’s initial eligibility list excludes many longtime RV residents, and those that are eligible have an uncertain offer of …

On the irreducibility and monodromy of Tutte polynomials
Andrew Goodall (IMB), Florent Jouve (IMB), Jean-S\'ebastien Sereni (CNRS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05658 https://

On the irreducibility and monodromy of Tutte polynomials
We study algebraic properties of the Tutte polynomial of a matroid and its generalizations to other combinatorially defined bivariate polynomial invariants. Merino, de Mier and Noy showed that the Tutte polynomial of a connected matroid is irreducible, and Bohn, Cameron and M{ü}ller conjectured the stronger property that the Galois/monodromy group of the Tutte polynomial of a connected matroid of rank r is isomorphic to the full symmetric group on r letters. First, we generalize the result of …

On some 2-binomial coefficients of binary words: geometrical interpretation, partitions of integers, and fair words
Gwena\"el Richomme (LIRMM | ESCAPE, UMPV)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07159

On some 2-binomial coefficients of binary words: geometrical interpretation, partitions of integers, and fair words
The binomial notation (w u) represents the number of occurrences of the word u as a (scattered) subword in w. We first introduce and study possible uses of a geometrical interpretation of (w ab) and (w ba) when a and b are distinct letters. We then study the structure of the 2-binomial equivalence class of a binary word w (two words are 2-binomially equivalent if they have the same binomial coefficients, that is, the same numbers of occurrences, for each word of length at most 2). Especially we…

October 10, 2025 -- All of President Donald J. Trump's lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize came ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p15#a251011p15

Per @…’s prompt, this week’s #ThursdayFiveList is #TheLastFive songs I’ve listened to:
5. Cat Power, “New York”—

World War I Message in a Bottle Found in Australia and Delivered to Families More Than a Century Later https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/world-war-i-message-in-a-bottle-found-in-australia-and-delivered-to-familie…

World War I Message in a Bottle Found in Australia and Delivered to Families More Than a Century Later
Letters from WWI soldiers that were placed in a bottle and thrown into the ocean were recently found in Australia and delivered to relatives.

I do wonder if the Voynich Manuscript was just some scribe's (or bored elite's) elaborate piece of handwriting practice. When I was trying to learn Carolingian minuscule decades back, I'd cover pages with gibberish like this trying to get transitions between letters to "look right." It didn't need to say anything; it was about nailing the æsthetic.

Sometimes, when I get a native crash and I have no idea what happened, I paste the disassembly into aistudio and have it explain to me what is going on.
It might not be able to count how many letters are in strawberry, but it can pinpoint the root cause for a bug in Apple's Objective-C runtime.
This is a regression in iOS 26.1 beta:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chance the Rapper:
🎵 Letters
#ChancetheRapper
https://ennnnvvvvyyyy.bandcamp.com/track/letters-envy-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xg25m2SiZJkAXEXAcURNb

i continue to play records i don't particularly like in order to make room on the shelf
obtw, i found that sonny rollins LP i was looking for the other night ... in the trade-in bin lol
#nowplaying #jazz #vinyl

I need to be more of a hard-ass when asked to write letters of recommendation.

When you've been fighting the aarch64 MMU all morning but your kid wants to play
(My code actually runs in EL3 but i couldn't find the lego 3 lol)

I'm sure you'll be relieved to know that #GhislaineMaxwell is not being mistreated. https://www.rawstory.com/amp/ghislaine-maxwell-2674277682-2674277682

‘This is fantastic!’ Ghislaine Maxwell gushes over special treatment in prison
Convicted sex offender and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell gushed over her special privileges in prison recently in a series of letters to her family and attorney, NBC News reported Saturday.“I feel like I have dropped through Alice in Wonderlands looking glass,” Ghislaine wrote to her r...

Seen in #brno

Signaling in the Age of AI: Evidence from Cover Letters
Jingyi Cui, Gabriel Dias, Justin Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25054 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.250…

Signaling in the Age of AI: Evidence from Cover Letters
We study how generative AI affects labor market signaling using the introduction of an AI-powered cover letter writing tool on Freelancer.com. Our data track both access to the tool and usage at the application level. Difference-in-differences estimates show that access to the AI tool increased textual alignment between cover letters and job posts--which we refer to as cover letter tailoring--and raised callback likelihoods. Workers with weaker pre-AI writing skills saw larger improvements in c…

So, did the letter “y” form out of the letters “ij”?
Evidence:
- they would both sound “eeyy”
- in “free”, “ee” might be English substitute for “y”
- in “free”, “ij” might be English substitute for “ij”
- “ÿ” can look exactly like “ij” in cursive
#dutch #vowels

And yes, all these sizes were referred to as "diskettes" (small disk), even the 8" one, even by their inventor, IBM.
Even in huge letters on the sleeve.

fun fact: i learned that the letters "grub" stand for "GRand Unified Bootloader" before i found out what "a grub" is. so i was like, 18 or something when i first google-imaged "grub". i was like 😨

Today (October 31) in 1980, The Smithereens released their debut 4 song EP 'Girls About Town'. The four songs were also included on 'Attack of the Smithereens', one of their compilations. Great bunch of songs here. It didn't have them in a playlist on YouTube, so I made one.
https://

@… IMO every short initialism naturally has many meanings depending on context, there’s only so many ways to combine 2-3 letters in the Latin alphabet. So I *personally* would never assume which of the many possible meanings is implied.
Whether you’re comfortable with it, will of course only ever be up to you.

From https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cysfyu7ook326epmpvun2qtb/post/3lzs7noi6oc23 —
> Prof. Lee says that the problem for Canada Post is the smartphone because people send texts, not letters. Fine, but don't gut it. I say, make Canada Post a pub…

Construction equipment was still at work near the new Martha Dodson Field at the second Field Hockey game contested there
#photo #photography #sports

This is a minor annoyance and I’m interested in identifying it as well as exploring solutions.
I frequently mistype (or write) double letters by doubling an adjacent letter & singularizing the should be double letter.
examples:
Booby for Bobby (my pal Bob HATES this)
noddle for noodle
felling for feeling
Could be Dysgraphia or related to Dyslexia.
I'd appreciate pointers to articles / tests, and any other help.
cc/ @…

The Replicated Man: AI and the Ghost in the Archive
I finally did it. I committed the act of digital suicide. It was a gesture of clinical curiosity and personal dread. I took twenty years of archives, every Boles Blogs entry, every "Best of" compilation, the discarded drafts, the love letters to lost eras, and I fed the entire body of work into the AI maw. My digital soul, offered up for digestion and analysis...

The Replicated Man: AI and the Ghost in the Archive | David Boles, Blogs
I finally did it. I committed the act of digital suicide. It was a gesture of clinical curiosity and personal dread. I took twenty years of archives, every Boles Blogs entry, every “Best of&#…

Model-Guided Microstimulation Steers Primate Visual Behavior
Johannes Mehrer, Ben Lonnqvist, Anna Mitola, Abdulkadir Gokce, Paolo Papale, Martin Schrimpf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684

Model-Guided Microstimulation Steers Primate Visual Behavior
Brain stimulation is a powerful tool for understanding cortical function and holds promise for therapeutic interventions in neuropsychiatric disorders. Initial visual prosthetics apply electric microstimulation to early visual cortex which can evoke percepts of simple symbols such as letters. However, these approaches are fundamentally limited by hardware constraints and the low-level representational properties of this cortical region. In contrast, higher-level visual areas encode more complex…

#Wordle 1,637 3/6*
🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ <1% of 231,716 (12)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 11% of 867 (5)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 37% of 417
WordleBot
Skill 83/99
Luck 66/99
well that went better than expected with a 3 letter prefix and only 4 eliminated letters

#WritersCoffeeClub October 2025
1. Have you written in an epistolary format?
2. Do you tend to include prologues? Why?
3. How do you transition into writing mode?
---
1. Not the entire big literature thing. I did better.
In-game letters.
I love notes and letters in Morrowind, Deus Ex HR and MD as well as Dishonored. Not so much post-Oblivion (Beth Fallout3 …

#GAYINT

Das Wort "Carryout" war mir unbekannt, und doch vermochte ich es zu finden.
https://www.nytimes.com/badges/games/v1/bee.html?d=2025-12-06&l=oacrtuy&p=248&r…

I got Genius!
How many words can you make with 7 letters?

404 Cooling insufficient...

Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging the adoption of device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes (Jason Parham/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/pornhub-is-urging-tech-giants-to-e…

Pornhub Is Urging Tech Giants to Enact Device-Based Age Verification
The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn, as US and UK laws have caused its traffic to plummet.

'The church cannot be silent,' Pope Leo XIV tells El Pasoans in Vatican meeting on mass deportation fears (El Paso Matters)
https://elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/el-paso-bishop-mark-seitz-pope-leo-vatican-hope-border-institute-letters/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p98#a251008p98

#Wordle 1,593 6/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 <1% of 228,956 (53)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 17% of 18 (10)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 13% of 8 (6)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 11% of 166 (3)
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 14% of 1,101 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 75% of 365
WordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 40/99
Pulled it out, but you're really not puzzling out the answer when there are so many words that fit that initial 3 known letters, each using different letters (well I guess the last 2 did share a letter, so if I had thought of all of the words when I made guess 3, I should have tried one of them first.
Actually I see there were 2 pretty common first letters among the 10 remaining words. And it ended up that getting the answer was just lucky.

So, did the letter “y” form out of the letters “ij”?
Evidence:
- they would both sound “eeyy”
- in “free”, “ee” might be English substitute for “y”
- in “free”, “ij” might be English substitute for “ij”
- “ÿ” can look exactly like “ij” in cursive
#dutch #vowels

“Many questions remain about the fund-raising for this project,
including the amount of each contribution,
the agreement reached with each contributor,
what promises may have been or may yet be made in exchange for what presumably will be substantial contributions,
and why the White House chose to allow donors to remain anonymous,”
Mr. Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote in letters to several donors

Donors to Trump’s Ballroom Are Asked Why They Chose to Remain Incognito
Senator Richard Blumenthal is requesting information from business interests whose donations were not disclosed by the White House.

My RAs have been transcribing letters from the mid-nineteenth century for the past several months. While they're improving by leaps and bounds, they remain wholly incapable of recognizing "Esq." or "Esqre." for what it is. Maybe I'll make them watch Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
#histodons

November 7, 2025 -- The repercussions from Tuesday's vote, in which Democratic candidates ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-7-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p7#a251108p7

#Wordle 1,602 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 <1% of 227,384 (147)
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 2% of 694 (6)
🟨🟩🟨🟩⬜ 25% of 125 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 89/99
Luck 55/99
Felt I had to be led to the answer and beat over the head with it! That's how it goes when you have 4 letter and know where 3 of them belong and have to walk through all of the remaining letters to find the word!

Donald Trump has taken over the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C.,
and put his name on it,
even as the legal battle over who owns the building is ongoing.
Independent journalist Marisa Kabas posted about the visible signage on the building Wednesday showing “DONALD J. TRUMP” in block letters tacked to the building.
Kabas reports that Trump plans to use the building to host the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic…

Trump Plasters His Own Name on U.S. Institute of Peace Headquarters
This is not Donald Trump’s building, but he’s certainly acting like it is.

Paul’s Address Book app updated! https://edintone.com/pauls-address-book-app-updated/ My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a r

Paul's Address Book app updated! - Miscellanea Edintone
My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a refresh. More details here and you can try it and download it for free!

December 6, 2025 -- On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-6-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p26#a251207p26

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis on Oct. 9 ordered “visible identification” that is “prominently displayed.”
But dozens of photographs of uniformed immigration agents shot by Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists in four separate locations since the court order show how the feds have fallen short.
The 80-plus photos show that not all officers are displaying a visible identification code that mixes numbers and letters during some of the most contentious recent immigration actions that…

IDs are mismatched, illegible — or still missing three weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers
In dozens of photographs at four locations, Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists documented federal officers failing to wear the “visible identification” needed to hold individuals accountable during the ongoing immigration “blitz.”

"Quite frankly I was pissed off!" Growing online page chronicles Trump Justice Dept. resignation letters (Scott MacFarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-justice-dept-resignation-letters-chronicled/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p76#a251123p76

#Wordle 1,568 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 0 of 228,833 (199)
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 88/99
Luck 71/99
After my 1st guess I was a little worried, those aren't the letters I really want to know early on, eliminating them would have made me happier!
But, my 2nd guess really made up for it!
Also NO ONE ELSE chose my starting word today!

New post: Paul’s Address Book app updated! https://edintone.com/pauls-address-book-app-updated/ My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a r

Paul's Address Book app updated! - Miscellanea Edintone
My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a refresh. More details here and a you try it and download it for free!

#Wordle 1,598 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 229,258 (739)
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 0 of 1 (17)
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 86/99
Luck 43/99
Nice to have eliminated so many letters, the ones I had made choosing next guesses a little more difficult

December 3, 2025 -- Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday's special election ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-3-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p50#a251204p50

October 3, 2025 -- Although President Donald J. Trump has not appeared in public since Tuesday ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-3-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p16#a251004p16

#Wordle 1,628 5/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ <1% of 231,265 (229)
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 2% of 272 (21)
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 27% of 11 (3)
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 47% of 3,242 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 64% of 3,956
WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 45/99
I'm ok w/ this result, particularly since I'd rather have eliminated those 2 letters on my first guess rather than have to use them going forward. I only occasionally use them together in my starting word.

Pope Leo Confronts Trump: Don't Invade Venezuela -- and No "Solo Deal" in Ukraine (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-confronts-trump-dont-invade
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p172#a251202p172

November 2, 2025 -- Last Monday, October 27, right-wing personality Tucker Carlson interviewed ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p44#a251103p44

December 1, 2025 -- President Donald J. Trump's behavior over the holiday weekend has increased concern about his mental acuity. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p52#a251202p52

November 30, 2025 -- On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-30-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p11#a251201p11

September 30, 2025 -- Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-30-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251001/p9#a251001p9

November 29, 2025 -- In the wake of yesterday's report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-29-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p12#a251130p12