2026-10-16 04:06:29
Computers Made of Human Brain Tissue Identify Braille Letters In Breakthrough https://www.404media.co/computers-made-of-human-brain-tissue-identify-braille-letters-in-breakthrough/
Computers Made of Human Brain Tissue Identify Braille Letters In Breakthrough https://www.404media.co/computers-made-of-human-brain-tissue-identify-braille-letters-in-breakthrough/
What I felt like having four letters and still taking two more guesses. #Wordle
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I just learned that #Fedle has a training mode. Today's English clue is: 5 letters, starting with T. My first guess was "train". Instead of counting "train" as a guess, Fedle put me into training mode, and I had to solve another word before returning to today's word!
Baby, we can never kill excel. Long live spreadsheets
Source: https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/117097082760512046 (Forked due to the lack of proper alt text for the image in the original toot.)
I'm watching The Librarians: The Next Chapter 2x10 "And the Heart of a Librarian" https://trakt.tv/shows/the-librarians-the-next-chapter/seasons/2/episodes/10
House Republicans Launch Investigation Into D.C. 'Jury Nullification’
The House committee overseeing local D.C. affairs has launched an investigation into
“politicized jury nullification initiatives by left-wing activist groups,”
Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky) announced Tuesday.
The investigation is so far targeting two D.C. organizations,
"Harriet’s Wildest Dreams" and
"Free DC",
which have hosted a series of trainings called…
everyone should learn about #JuryNullification, it's awesome! https://www.washingtonsun.com/metro/house-republicans-investigation-dc-jury-nu…
Trump Says a Smart President Is All That’s Needed to Rein In A.I.
(Unfortunately, for the moment we instead have one who doesn't even know which letters to capitalize.)
https://dnyuz.com/2026/09/14/trump-says-a-smart-president-is-all-th…
My colleague has built himself a press from wood, dowels, glue and two aluminum plates. The press has a lever you can sit on to exert the pressure onto a 3D printed inked template. This is one of his first results and I love it! 🤩
[Yes, at first I also read the word as "Storch!" (stork) 😅]
#frog #3dPrinting
Another word, I do not know. Just guessing random letters. #Wordle
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FBI, Capitol Police probing letters 'containing suspicious substances' mailed with DSA-linked return address (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/10/15/us-news/capitol-police-probing-suspicious-letters-mailed-with-dsa-linked-return-address/
http://www.memeorandum.com/261015/p50#a261015p50
few nights ago, we went graveyarding in the dead of night, and a Magpie moth flew into our torch beams and onto a fallen gravestone.
#moth #graveYard
The NYC Council sent letters to Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase, and Gemini Titan to investigate alleged deceptive marketing practices and targeting minors (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/new-york…
. -- . Randy's Plan is brought to you today
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( ) the letters L, N, and by the number 10.
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Westsider Radio: Hidden Letters
Reframing the Queer Alphabet is a podcast that uncovers the hidden figures, events and queer histories of Melbourne's West, one letter at a time...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/hidden-letters/
"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
Authorities investigate 'suspicious substances' mailed to congressional offices (Katherine Tully-McManus/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/10/15/congress/suspicious-substances-letters-congress-01120423
http://www.memeorandum.com/261015/p54#a261015p54
"A unified, neutral Germany? Given that nation's heritage, such a
phrase may prove to be the oxymoron of the decade." -Kevin M.
Matarese, Fulda, West Germany; as seen in "Letters", Time
magazine, p. 5, March 5, 1990.
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
I don't actually get to do a lot of FreeCAD on Fridays, so #FreeCADFriday isn't much my thing. But we have a hot foil embosser and a type set for it, and the type came jumbled in a few small ziplock bags without any clear organization, so it's a right pain to set up, hunting for the letters.
We sorted all the type alphabetically and numerically, but we just don't have any sui…
There should be a dire-looking message — big red letters, danger symbol — on every package of corn tortillas:
“CORN TORTILLAS MUST BE HEATED. NEVER SERVE COLD!”
We Are All on the Decoy Plane
#USpol
from my link log —
GNU: a heuristic for bad cryptography.
https://soatok.blog/2020/07/08/gnu-a-heuristic-for-bad-cryptography/
saved 2020-07-08
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/my-mentor-wrote-me-a-strong-recommendation
There are fewer and fewer tenure-track jobs out there. So when someone asks you to write a letter of recommendation and the deadline is over three weeks away say "yes" and send the damn thing in on time. Don't write to the posting Department and ask for another week or two. We're all busy, and it'd be nice to not have to write so many letters, but your letter could potentially help get someone a job they've spent decades in some cases working towards; not submitting…
Emissions from the past decade have made Europe's recent heat waves worse #Europe
Starting today, I'll be in Zurich for one month as a senior fellow at the URPP #DigitalReligion(s). https://www.digitalreligions.uzh.ch/en.html Excited to meet everybody! If you're also in …
“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
Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-c…
Python one-liner to generate a random string (takes one optional argument for length – default 16):
python3 -c 'import secrets,string,sys;print("".join([secrets.choice(string.ascii_letters string.digits) for _ in range(int(sys.argv[1]) if len(sys.argv)>1 else 16)]))'
Can be set as alias in bashrc/zshrc, e.g. via:
alias rand="python3 -c 'import secrets,string,sys;print(\"\".join([secrets.choice(string.ascii_letters string.digits) for _…
Newly obtained documents indicate that the US health secretary,
Robert F Kennedy Jr, lied during two congressional hearings last year,
when he told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation that a 2019 visit to Samoa had “nothing to do with vaccines”.
Letters obtained by the Guardian and the Associated Press contradict that testimony.
In one he wrote to the Samoan prime minister before the trip, Kennedy explicitly said he wanted to study the measles, mumps and ru…
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…
This is by far the strangest #Wordle I have ever played. All the letters but every single one wrong until everything was right.
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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…
"Children born today in Europe will live through almost twice as much extreme fire weather as their grandparents"
#Euope #Climate #ClimateChange
Court filing: the US DOJ defends President Trump's ban on Politico, CNN, and MS Now from the White House, attaching letters purportedly sent to each outlet (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/23/trump-press-ban-brief
You can't spell "FASCIST" without the letters "A" and "I"
Letters: US military branches disabled ad trackers on government-issued devices amid reports of location data being used to target US forces in the Middle East (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
From a fairly open social website to a crybaby sucking in all your content and cutting you off from the outside world ->
X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-c…
Has anyone already cross-checked how many signatories in defence of race science as important part of academic freedom have in the past supported anti-trans letters/statements?
https://johnarmstrongmaths.com/openletters/letter.php?campaign=cofnas
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…
With so many critical letters ruled out, this was all I could make. #Wordle
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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 …
Gemini agrees with me that all this naming is dumb but wryly observes
At least with dnf, nobody actually says the words "Dandified YUM" out loud in a server room—we just type the three letters and pretend the name never happened.
I did a #neurodiversity talk yesterday at @…. Here are the resources I shared with them:
Job Accommodation Network (JAN) — free, confidential, real people. #ADHD — Jessica McCabe
Neurodiversity at Work — Theo Smith & Amanda Kirby
Is This #Autism? — Henderson, Wayland & White
Just remember: You don't have to be exceptional to deserve a quiet room.
“Buildings are the single largest energy consumer in Europe. Transposition and implementation of the #EPBD is key to boosting the EU's current very low annual energy renovation rate (1%), reducing bills for citizens and businesses and the EU's dependence on imported fossil fuels, and achieving a zero-emission and fully decarbonised building stock by 2050.”
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…
The 1st Amendment doesn't say "unless you make a national security argument," even DoJ knows that.
"Justice Department lawyers grudgingly acknowledge that the after-the-fact letters can’t satisfy the requirements of a 49-year-old D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals precedent Sherrill v. Knight, which concluded that the government can’t selectively bar news outlets from White House press spaces based on the perceived viewpoint of their reporting."
Guess 4 was stupid since at least two of the yellow letters were in the same place. #Wordle
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Children born today in Europe will live through almost twice as much extreme fire weather as their grandparents https://phys.org/news/2026-09-children-born-today-europe-extreme.html
ooh i just noticed in christopher strachey’s paper “fundamental concepts in programming languages” he uses camel case for a number of names: ReadFixedFunction, WriteFixedFunction, AddtoTree, PrintBody, etc.
the version of the paper that’s available online was belatedly published in 2000 based on the unpublished typescript version that had been circulating informally since 1967; the foreword doesn’t say how closely the typeset version matches the original (were the greek letters written…
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/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Letters to Cleo:
🎵 Here & Now
#LetterstoCleo
https://open.spotify.com/track/127amD6XCyrI15H3jVDSmC
August 12, 2026 -- In Minnesota yesterday, close Trump ally Mike Lindell ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-12-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p32#a260813p32
RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/117296096950772072
How does Science Corporation define "form vision", in claiming that their PRIMA retinal implant is the first BCI that restores form vision? Merely by the ability to read letters, or more? So, …
Sometimes, it can be enough to believe in just one thing.
#photography #graffiti
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Got five minutes?
5 Calls — Get your reps, phone numbers, and a script. Then make the call.
Resistbot — Text RESIST to 50409 to send letters to your elected officials by email, fax, or postal mail. From your mayor to the president.
Mobilize — Events near you: phone banks, canvasses, town halls, and volunteer shifts.
Indivisible Take Action — They pick one thing and tell you what to do.
Indivisible Campaigns — Learn, act, win.
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Very round about way to get the letters for this one. #Wordle
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I never had decent handwriting, to the point where I ultimately adopted drafting-style lettering for everything on the advice of a college instructor. To have a consistent signature, I practiced. Intensely, for years, with very fine point pens & unforgiving inks. But all my fountain pens are dried up hard and all the old ballpoints required hard shaking to get more than a couple of letters at a time out of them. So I splurged and spent ~$12 on a selection of cheap pens. I think I like gel ink.
The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout https://www.404media.co/the-rise-of-anti-flock-influencers-who-make-things-up-for-clout/
Ocean Vuong
"To see the Nobel Committee honour a mind and spirit of such immense capacity and rigour gives me hope for the role of letters in our world at an hour when the vocation’s integrity is more threatened than ever before. For decades, Carson’s unapologetically erudite work has centered strangeness and mystery as methods of human revelation. And its myriad and restless formal enactments have granted endless permissions to multiple generations of writers."
#ANNECARSON #Nobel
Sometimes there is already enough that someone has to carry.
#photography #closeup #cover #art
If you horizontally mirror two letters in Claude and drop one, you suddenly get something like Clang.
Adding one letter to LLM gets you LLVM.
Think about it.
Wow, before you wrap up for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical cyber developments you should know, including
--Anthropic becomes the second frontier AI lab to disclose agent breaches,
--Copilot worm spreads through trusted Word documents,
--ExploitGym creators explain how OpenAI's agent escaped,
--Coordinated attacks signal a new threat to water utilities,
--Critical Azure Cosmos DB flaw threatened thousands of customers,
--CrimeStoppers put a bounty on the INC gang,
--AI helps Chrome squash more than 1,000 security bugs,
--Cheap streaming sticks can turn homes into botnets,
--Fake IRS letters target crypto holders with QR-code scam,
--Brinks Home investigates breach claimed by ShinyHunters,
--Coupang ordered to compensate victims of massive data breach,
--DC schools probe breach of summer program data,
--Australia's under-16 social media ban falls short,
--Defcon badge debuts a chip built for trust,
--UK program steers young hackers toward cybersecurity careers,
--Hugging Face tech chief says OpenAI agent hack was all too real,
--Opposition to Flock cameras unites Americans,
--AI is becoming a dating dealbreaker for young Americans
https://www.metacurity.com/anthropic-becomes-the-second-frontier-ai-lab-to-disclose-agent-breaches/
August 9, 2026 -- On August 9, 1974, Richard M. Nixon became the first president in U.S. history to resign. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-9-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260810/p93#a260810p93
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…
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…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Ruby Doe:
🎵 Red Letters
#TheRubyDoe
https://therubydoe.bandcamp.com/track/red-letters
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ihGMxqRrHZBIi4rgJJk2g
This word looked too easy based on the letters I had. #Wordle
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Department of Commerce Announces Letters of Intent With 7 Companies for $874 Million to Accelerate Semiconductor R&D for the Compute Supply Chain (NIST)
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/07/department-commerce-announces-letters-intent-7-companies-874-million
http://www.memeorandum.com/260730/p123#a260730p123
This is an unusual path to that answer. Guess 4 was burned to get some letter positions but it gave me different letters then I was expecting.
#Wordle
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Georgia election board director sent Trump administration demands 2 board members say they never approved (Jessica Huseman/Votebeat)
https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/10/04/georgia-election-board-mills-federal-letters-dhs-doj-board-approval/
http://www.memeorandum.com/261004/p50#a261004p50
Gloria Steinem's Final Essay (Gloria Steinem/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/life-and-letters/gloria-steinems-final-essay
http://www.memeorandum.com/260903/p148#a260903p148
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
Natalie Harp's Intimate Letters to Trump Revealed in Full (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/natalie-harps-intimate-letters-to-trump-revealed-in-full/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260820/p132#a260820p132
October 6, 2026 -- Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-6-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/261007/p75#a261007p75
September 4, 2026 -- On September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-4-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260905/p15#a260905p15
Florida's MAGA Attorney Threatens to Defund Catholic Schools Over Vaccine Mandate (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/floridas-maga-attorney-threatens
http://www.memeorandum.com/260801/p52#a260801p52