2026-03-12 01:28:37
I reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 38/38
Score: 171/171
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 https://spellbee.org/
I reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 38/38
Score: 171/171
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 https://spellbee.org/
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…
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
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.
Oh no. My iPad auto updated iOS and it really is as badly designed as everybody said. #LiquidAss #iOS26 #Apple
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&
Fugazi Albini
Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity)
https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity
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…
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
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.
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 …
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
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
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
Today, transgender people across Kansas are reporting receiving letters from the Kansas Division of Vehicles
stating that they must surrender their driver's licenses
and that their current credentials will be considered invalid upon the law's publication in the Kansas Register on Thursday.
Should any transgender person be caught driving without a valid license,
th…
Datini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history
Shuffalo, 5m 04s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/09
My first thought was only 4 letters but it was one small step to get to the right word. #Wordle
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"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
Hackers are sending snail mail letters to Trezor and Ledger wallet owners
https://coinpedia.org/news/ledger-and-trezor-scam-alert-fake-letters-target-wallet-users/
Amazing Stories vol. 24, no. 10 (October 1950), by ed. Howard Browne
Entire issue from here: https://zirk.us/@SFFMagazineCovers/116196673150408723
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, …
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
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.”
❓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!
👉 https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E5079
I forgot I sent a letter to the editor of the Irish Times on Thursday: they printed it
#mastodaoine
https://www.irishtim…
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
https://…
Long weekend coming and want to avoid it? I’ve got recent posts!
New this month:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html
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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
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…
Beautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf
Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside - San Antonio Current https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-news/report-staf…
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…
#Wordle 1,699 4/6*
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WordleBot
Skill 93/99
Luck 42/99
Interesting I only got 2 letters in my 1st 3 guesses for this word.
#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?
Conduent Data Breach Notification Letters Sent to Millions
as Ransomware Group Claims
⚡️ 8 Terabytes Stolen in One of the Largest U.S. Incidents.
Letters began reaching affected individuals this month detailing a major data breach at #Conduent Business Services, LLC,
a government technology contractor that processes payments, healthcare claims, and back-office services for clients n…
Trump's whole presidency spells "I want to be couped away and court martialed" in 30 feet letters.
Shuffalo, 3m 24s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/08
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:
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)
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
Don't let the Epstein Files become lost in all of the intentional distraction.
#editorial #cartoon #EditorialCartoon
"Don't Panic" being projected in large friendly letters.
#TOTP
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!
https://itch.io/b/3594/tdov-bundle
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
we had a toilet issue last year that was diagnosed as "you need a new toilet" so lynn picked one out and printed in big letters on the side of the box was an announcement CAN FLUSH A BUCKET OF GOLF BALLS and it's all i can think about when i twist that lever
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
Guess what happens when a public service is privatised.
Royal Mail staff tell BBC letters sit undelivered as firm prioritises parcels - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39wlryn20vo
Cornell's № 15 Avi Adam skates towards the goal with the puck while № 22 Michaela Littlewood tries to take it away
#photo #photography #sports
That’s the first time I got no correct letters in the first two guesses.
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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
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The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentagon-threatened-pope-leo
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p107#a260408p107
Post updates (a bit behind):
• https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html#Update03 linking to Donnie D’Amato and Den Odell.
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Eliminate letters as soon as possible. 14 in the 1st 3 guesses is pretty good.
Tomorrow in my History of Here course - one of my department's intro classes - we'll be discussing letters written in response to early-20th-c speeding tickets. My favorite claims it's unfair since he'd sped with so many cars before and never gotten a ticket ("as this is the fifteenth car that he has been the owner of, and has never been fined for speeding, he feels that he is being imposed upon by the commission").
MAGA Religious Leaders Dedicate and Bless 22-Foot Golden Trump Statue at Doral (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/maga-religious-leaders-dedicate-and
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p30#a260509p30
Urban Demons III 👻
城市鬼魂 III 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
just found an ancient geocities foot fetish website with an unexpectedly cool artsy design
https://web.archive.org/web/20091022202041/http://geocities.com/Area51/Realm/1637/FEETHOUSEindex.html
This is an excellent video from #veritasium touches in the history of free software, #compression #algorithms and the dangers of supply chain attacks in open source projects.
How One Ha…
Shuffalo, 2m 20s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/06
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 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…
March 8, 2026 -- Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump was among the dignitaries who attended ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-8-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p46#a260309p46
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
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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…
Shuffalo, 2m 31s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/07
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.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2026/03/19/letter-utahs-district-1-candidate/
HUD workers say Trump admin is violating civil rights law : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5780859/hud-employees-trump-policy-protest-letters-website
Here we go 🖤 #btconf
Not much from the starter words, but guess 4 hit a lot more green letters than I was expecting. Almost blew it anyway by falling down the cliff 😀
#Wordle
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April 7, 2026 -- At 5:06 this morning, President Donald J. Trump posted on social media ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-7-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p32#a260408p32
I scored 277 points in the Spelling Bee game 🐝 https://spellbee.org/.
Can you beat my score?
Steve Bannon, one of the leading figures behind President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement discussed opposition strategies against Pope Francis with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Bannon, a former White House adviser to Trump, told Epstein that he wished to “take down” the leader of the Catholic Church.
In June 2019, Bannon wrote to Epstein: “Will take down Francis. The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU
– come on brother.”
This exchange came years after Epstein served a lig…
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…
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses (Erin Reed/Erin In The Morning)
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p126#a260225p126
Shuffalo, 2m 46s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/04
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…
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 📖
At 8:03 this morning, Easter Sunday, President Donald J. Trump's social media account posted ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-5-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p34#a260406p34
Shuffalo, 4m 41s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/03
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, …
Shuffalo, 4m 33s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/02
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)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-1-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p14#a260502p14
April 30, 2026 -- Today G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers noted that Trump has hit ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-30-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p40#a260501p40
Shuffalo, 3m 36s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/29
February 27, 2026 -- On Monday, February 23, Daniel Ruetenik, Pat Milton ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-27-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p32#a260228p32
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
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
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
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