We've got a brand-new book out.
"Much Love from Paris: Letters to My Family (1928 - 30)" (edited by Nelda Damiano with the assistance of Katherine Rabogliatti and with an essay by Robyn Asleson) lets Louise Heron Blair tell her own story: a young, rebellious American in Paris, learning how to make her own life.
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
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.
June 6, 2026 -- In the wee hours of Friday morning, Senate Republicans passed a measure ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-6-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p14#a260607p14
Murang #IcedMocha: pagsamahin ang San Mig 3-in-1 at Milo 😁
#coffee
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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
Guess 3 was a waste. I can't count and didn't realize I already had 5 letters. Could have been a Wordle in 3. #Wordle
Wordle 1 845 4/6
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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.
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…
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…
Der Guardian über das Liebesbrief-Archiv (https://liebesbriefarchiv.de/):
Sixty thousand love letters and counting: volunteers help sift through vast German trove of devotion | Germany | The Guardian
♫ When a problem comes along . . . ♪
#Shitpost #Shitposting #Devo
I don’t know who needs to see this…
"Letters sent to Nancy Guthrie’s family after she disappeared are released
The sheriff’s department said it was making the notes public in the hope that someone will recognize the writer’s language and style to help generate new leads."
what if those letters were written by #AI
Sources: to fight critics on social media, DHS sent platforms hundreds of subpoenas and asked posters to sign letters saying speech about ICE "may" be a crime (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-surveillance-interne…
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?
The moment after eating shrooms when you realize that you yourself are a shroom and you've just committed cannibalism.
June 5, 2026 -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had good news for the American people ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-5-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260606/p16#a260606p16
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…
The summoning circle worked!
Swapped two letters in guess 4. #Wordle
Wordle 1 843 5/6
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟩🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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
Саме автентичних слів розширеного "художнього" лексикону мені не вистачає в перекладі коміксу. Часто здається, що текст виходить занадто сухим. Доводиться навмисно шукати по словнику щось менш поширене.
...а потім мешканці Бестемного пишуть, що не розуміють, що це означає.
Це також складно. Не факт, що люди так взагалі говорять. Постійні сумніви — а ну як я це слово неправильно використав? Або навіть правильно, але воно настільки застаріле, що вже не сприймається?
…
#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. 🤷
The title of this letter gives a flavour of what the UK looks like from the outside:
"Can post-Brexit Britain become governable?"
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/06/23/whether-post-brexit-…
Threats to prosecute sheriffs in Minneapolis and Chicago,
cities that have experienced some of the most intense immigration enforcement of the Trump era,
are a new salvo in the president’s campaign against state and local officials
who refuse to embrace his administration’s crackdown.
The warnings have been conveyed in a series of letters that federal agents began hand-delivering in early July
-- to Sheriff Dawanna Witt of Hennepin County, Minn., which includes …
@…
You Write Letters.
Go on … do it …
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:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/tagged/STRACE
Most capitalists, as a class, don't think "oh, we should fire people to make sure we don't lose control." But, as here, a few people do. All it takes is a few because you have highly class aware companies like BlackRock, which own enough stock to just force boards to force CEOs to lay people off. Strongly worded letters from private equity can kick off firing sprees in FAANG. Everyone else just follows their lead because "they must have some information we don't" or "they're smart, so we should follow their lead."
It takes a very tiny portion of the capitalist class to maintain the system. It mostly acts without any centralized control channel. That's one of the the things that makes the system so stable.
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…
For decades, we've been going on vacation on the Baltic Sea, and for decades we’ve been renting bikes there. But the prices have gone up and the quality has gone downhill. So we finally bought our own bikes today and immediately went for a short ride to the Border Museum in Schlutup.
Also, we can now recommend “at Fahrräder” in Lübeck: https://at-f…
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
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
Insights from my latest piece of workplace research are now available to download from:
https://ais-interiors.com/the-space-between/
"The Space Between" explores the question whether office design has changed due to the Covid-19 pandemic (or do we simply work different…
The Commerce Dept. signed letters of intent for $874M in CHIPS Act funding in exchange for minority stakes in GlobalFoundries, Kepler, and five other companies (Miranda Nazzaro/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6000186-commerce-ai-chips-stakes/
“Do you think emojis will ever become part of formal language? Are we going to see emojis in laws or letters from the pension fund?” - Emojis are mainly used in informal language, because (or that’s why?) one of their main functions is to signal closeness, familiarity and a lack of hierarchy between the conversation participants. This is also the reason why a lack of emojis from a personal chat message may trigger questions like “what have I done?!”, because it could signal that the friendly relationship is disturbed. So I think emojis wouldn’t be used in legal code. But in official letters, maybe! I once received an email from a university administrator with a ☺️ and I appreciated it a lot.
#emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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June 3, 2026 -- Last night, in an unsigned opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court expanded its finding ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-3-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p75#a260604p75
A note from my journal that I just stumbled across again.
It's fascinating how you can always put things in a new context just by flipping back through old entries.
Almost as if the process of coming to terms with things continues way beyond the last entry.
#writing #blogging
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.
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…
Three little kids from our neighbourhood were selling bracelets (two girls, one boy, just to break any stereotypes) and now I have the coolest wrist (well, I think so anyway) ✨
#bracelets #bray #ireland
EU project proposals have become a bureaucratic endurance test.
The application process is painfully long, the evaluations often opaque, and rejection letters can feel almost dismissive. Even when a proposal succeeds, far too much of the budget disappears into compliance, coordination, reporting, controls, and audits.
When roughly 60% of resources go to administration rather than impact, something is fundamentally broken.
Europe cannot afford to turn innovation into paperwo…
We're in a cafe, and someone is wearing a t-shirt that reads "GAYTRIOT" in colorful letters. 🥳🏳️🌈👕
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
You can't spell "FASCIST" without the letters "A" and "I"
Wordfeud got even harder now
Through Their Eyes
From battlefield artefacts to fragile letters, museum collections and recorded histories, we follow the threads that connect individual lives to larger moments around the world...
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@… heh that somehow reminds me of "russisch brot" ("russian bread"), a baked sweet we have in germany. despite the name, i think i have only ever seen it in latin letters.
I hope Andy Burn 'em has some advisor who actually reads Environmental Research Letters. The review essay by Emily Grubert, summarizing a frustrating 25 years of research with no apparent effect on climate overheating, is blunt.
" For people and places that rely on fossil fuel production and face major transition challenges (Xenarios et al 2026), failing to be explicit about the degree to which transition must proceed, or the extent to which alternatives might actually be ava…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Ardeo Quartet and pianist Barry Douglas
At the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Ireland, the Ardeo Quartet performs Janšček's String Quartet no 2 'Intimate Letters'. Barry Douglas plays Schubert's Piano Sonata no 16.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xnd8
I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
#Shitpost #Shitposting #OpenCarry
"The Uniform Code Council requires that there be a period after each letter in U.P.C. because the letters UPC (without periods) is the trademark of the Universal* Plumbing Code." ☝️
[Nelson, Benjamin (1997): Punched Cards to Bar Codes. A 200 Year Journey with descriptions fo over 260 codes. Helmers. Page 85.]
* Uniform, not Universal. 🧐
https://
Regolamentazione Criptovalute: Arriva la stretta del "Customer ID" per le Stablecoin
Le agenzie di regolamentazione bancaria statunitensi (tra cui Federal Reserve e FDIC) hanno formalmente richiesto feedback pubblici su una proposta politica per imporre requisiti rigidi di identificazione dei clienti (CIP) agli emittenti di stablecoin utilizzate per i pagamenti. L'obiettivo è parificare le crypto-valute stabili alle banche tradizionali nel contrasto al riciclaggio e ai fi…
June 2, 2026 -- Officials in the Trump administration have worked hard to restrict the access ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-2-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p9#a260603p9
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.
"precarious?"
"yo!"
"did you take the whole building down, too?"
"how else were we supposed to remove the letters?" #TOTDenthusiastsunite
Through a portal on 419 East 6th street in Manhattan, a traveler crosses into the parallel world called Sunset/Sunrise, to search for a lost treasure.
https://www.worldofawe.net/
Sometimes, it can be enough to believe in just one thing.
#photography #graffiti
(LinkedIn) Blind recipient of retinal implant from Chinese company Nanochap Electronics identifies letters on second day of testing, 2 weeks after surgery, after 15 years of blindness from RP (retinitis pigmentosa) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/retinitispi
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…
August 7, 2026 -- On Tuesday, August 4, Erin Banco, Mike Stone, and Jonathan Landay ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-7-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260808/p21#a260808p21
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When I was first learning to write,
my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror.
Being left-handed, I was imitating the hand strokes of my right-handed teachers instead of reversing their strokes to replicate the letters.
I gradually got the hang of writing in the correct direction, but it still feels natural for me to mirror-write.
I have a mirror-written childhood diary. Leonardo da Vinci, another lefty, did that too
RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/116804001517308051
What can this blind recipient of a Nanochap Electronics retinal implant do that she could not have done with The vOICe vision BCI?
(YouTube, 2010) Hearing letters with The vOICe
San Francisco sends legal notices to Apple and Google demanding they take down 13 AI apps used to make deepfake nude images; Google says it has deleted the apps (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-demands-ap…
June 27, 2026 -- Observers are noting that the reflecting pool fiasco, in which Trump created ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-27-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p15#a260628p15
The executive branch plays no role in making election policy or regulating election administration
—the Constitution explicitly leaves those responsibilities to the states and Congress.
The “Proposed Rule: Ballot Mail for Federal Elections” therefore conflicts with the Constitution.
Beyond that, it is bad policy that will make it harder for election administrators to do their jobs,
runs the risk of potentially disenfranchising voters
and increases the chance of …
A group of Democratic senators
and one Republican, as well as two Democratic House committees,
sent letters Monday to the National Science Foundation
asking it to reverse course on its plan to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network,
with House lawmakers going further and accusing the agency of acting illegally.
The Ocean Observatories Initiative is a network of more than 900 ocean sensors built at a cost of $386 million.
Over the last decade it has…
Mullin threatens states that refuse Trump's election demands
Mullin also repeated his threat of withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency grant funding to states that don’t work to “secure” elections.
“If they’re not willing to do it, it should raise serious questions.
It’s not that hard. This isn’t a partisan issue,”
the homeland security secretary said.
This also comes after the Trump justice department sent letters to election officials in every sta…
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