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)
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/29/2026/house-committ…
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. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/bobby-weir-part-1
Beautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf
There is a frenzied feeling to the news coming from the White House these days. ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-28-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p44#a260429p44
It almost look like a scam, although the ads actually leads to Lucidchart-dot-com
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U 004C : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
U 0075 : LATIN SMALL LETTER U
U 0441 : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES
U 0069 : LATIN SMALL LETTER I
U 0501 : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KOMI DE
U 0441 : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES
U 04BB : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHHA
U 0430 : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A
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U 0074 : LATIN SMALL LETTER T
March 28, 2026 -- Almost exactly a year ago, on March 27, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-28-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260329/p21#a260329p21
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…
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
On the ongoing collapse of the United States and US science and engineering: Trump has terminated several members of the independent National Science Board https://www.engadget.com/science/trump-has-terminated-several-m…
We're in a cafe, and someone is wearing a t-shirt that reads "GAYTRIOT" in colorful letters. 🥳🏳️🌈👕
Wordfeud got even harder now
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
Playing with improvising some sanquhar-style patterns in the round (so I don't have to do purls), and decided to turn it into a sock for my lovely Zoom L6 portable mixer. #knitting
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Look at those letters just appear in place!
You've til Monday to demand a better transport plan for Greater Manchester. We need more than a 8% reduction in motor traffic!!
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-a-better-plan-for-a-greater-manchester?source=direct_link&
Some historical documents from 2009 for #TextureTuesday... A high-res render and some detail crops of the award-winning generative typography & branding system/application I designed & developed for the DECODE exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum London (one of the largest group shows the V&A had organized and curated in a few decades, and which later traveled to other m…
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 …
Datini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history
Crazy... After a week of continuous use with Debian (with daily reboots in the morning), my Logitech MX Mechanical keyboard suddenly started acting up: some letters got stuck and were displayed dozens of times while I was typing. Other keys weren't registering at all.
Well, I thought, maybe there’s something wrong with the keyboard—dirt, crumbs, dust, or something like that. So I switched keyboards to an MX Keys—exactly the same issue. No improvement even with a third keyboard (Che…
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I’m told this has raised nearly $65,000 for Letters Charity. You are amazing! https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity
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.
In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Singapore's minister for foreign affairs ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-26-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p24#a260327p24
At the scale of the French National Audiovisual Institute, standard fuzzy matching created more noise than answers. So the team did something unexpected: they looked back decades to ancient phonetic algorithms to solve a very modern problem.
Join Pietro Mele and Radu Pop to find out why "sounding right" beats "spelling close", especially for languages like French, where silent letters and homophones make spelling a guessing game.
Just passed a "FOG AREA" sign with the letters faded
#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?
Read in my local #Willowdale facebook group. So glad those people can't block... fourplex anymore.
Imagine the outrage if a 3 million dollar home was to be built and would require letters, public consultations, etc, etc. But yet, when it's 4 families moving in, they would LOVE the opportunity to join a meeting and scream at this idea.
Warren questions DOD about Anthropic blacklist that 'appears to be retaliation' - CNBC
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is questioning the Defense Department about its supply chain risk designation on Anthropic as Claude continues to be used in the Iran war.
Warren said the move by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "appears to be retaliation" and there were less drastic ways to end ties with the company.
Warren also sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman questioni…
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)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/indias-proposal-p…
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:
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:
April 25, 2026 -- Tonight the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-25-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260426/p39#a260426p39
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.”
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!?
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!?
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!?
Saw a VW Golf with "Volkswagan" in huge letters across the top of the windshield. No proofreading, we ball!
Someone created a website where you can make bets on German trains and their delay.
Biggest payout is probably for a train to be on time :-D
#train
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Started with helpful letters, but still need some sleuthing to find the word.
April 22, 2026 -- Virginia voters yesterday agreed to a constitutional amendment ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-22-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p20#a260423p20
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.
So Speak4 uses AI and apparently the names of real people to send comment letters. And "Speak4 was hired by the Bay Area Council – whose membership includes the Western States Petroleum Association, Chevron, and the Martinez Refinery Company."
There's a simple solution - treat any comments purporting to support the #FossilFool positions as bogus, astroturfed fakes unless prove…
So Speak4 uses AI and apparently the names of real people to send comment letters. And "Speak4 was hired by the Bay Area Council – whose membership includes the Western States Petroleum Association, Chevron, and the Martinez Refinery Company."
There's a simple solution - treat any comments purporting to support the #FossilFool positions as bogus, astroturfed fakes unless prove…
"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...
https://www.adamkinzinger.com/p/breaking-trumps-pardons-under-investigation
March 22, 2026 -- President Donald J. Trump's behavior is increasingly erratic as he lashes ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-22-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p45#a260323p45
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I was running out of letters.
Looking at the 4 words left, the answer was a lucky guess, because it left a group of 2 for the 6th guess if it was wrong and there was another option that would have left only 1 word.
April 21, 2026 -- There is the unmistakable feeling that the wheels are coming off the MAGA bus. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-21-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p50#a260422p50
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, …
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)
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-says-its-robotaxis-are-sometimes…
April 20, 2026 -- Late Saturday evening, Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey of the Wall Street ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-20-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p58#a260421p58
March 19, 2026 -- After yesterday's revelation that the Department of Justice (DOJ) ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-19-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p52#a260320p52
March 18, 2026 -- I was intending to take tonight off, but there's big news--I mean ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-18-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p38#a260319p38
May 17, 2026 -- Thousands of people gathered today on the National Mall in Washington ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-17-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p23#a260518p23
This morning, after a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect Thursday ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-17-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p25#a260418p25
April 16, 2026 -- Congress is back in session, and there is a frantic feel in the air. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-16-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p46#a260417p46
After Trump's Attack on Pope Leo, a Bomb Threat Came for His Brother in Suburban Chicago (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/after-trumps-attack-on-pope-leo-a
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p71#a260416p71
April 13, 2026 -- On April 12, the day of Hungary's parliamentary elections ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-13-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p33#a260414p33
March 12, 2026 -- In Ohio today, Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy launched ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p36#a260313p36
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)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-12-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p39#a260413p39
March 9, 2026 -- It has become clear that Trump had no plan in Iran other than to strike it ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-9-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p37#a260310p37
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)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-9-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260510/p10#a260510p10
April 9, 2026 -- The ceasefire President Donald J. Trump announced Tuesday night fell apart almost immediately. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-9-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p50#a260410p50