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…
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…
Westsider Radio: Hidden Letters
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This word looked too easy based on the letters I had. #Wordle
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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…
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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."
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
“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
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 _…
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…
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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.
I suppose this is true, strictly speaking, but only in the same way that using a computer or a mobile phone could end up with you introduced to the same set of friends.
"Most excitingly, you can download apps for [Software Defined Radios] that do everything, most especially the kind of thing that will introduce you with surprisingly rapidity to a wide range of new friends with no sense of humor and love letters that look suspiciously like arrest warrants."
Source: #SDR #SoftwareDefinedRadio #TheRegister
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…
You can't spell "FASCIST" without the letters "A" and "I"
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…
We Are All on the Decoy Plane
#USpol
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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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, …
“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.”
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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
"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
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
"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.
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.)
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
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…
Hoax alert: that legal threat supposedly sent by Flock to a discussion group telling them not to "analyze or speculate" about Flock's security vulnerabilities was made up by the group.
What Flock *actually* does is evil enough, so don't muddy the waters by making stuff up, geez. Also I was mildly suspicious of this but boosted it anyway so my bad I guess.
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
This is one of three #books I acquired yesterday. The other two are still in the car, I'm in my nightie and it's raining, so they're staying put for now 😄
The Constant Gardener by le Carré, The Golden Hours by Louisa Young and Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett.
I'm particularly looking fwd to TGH, the next in The Cazalet Chronicles, written by EJH's niece. It…
Let me say something fun about the #Polish language.
When you name the letters of the alphabet, "G" is pronounced "gye" (with "g" pronounced similarly to "good", not "George").
"Gie" also exists as a euphemism for "gówno", or shit. It has the same pronunciation, it's derived from the letter "g" in that word.
Well, we were prepared for #Google.
2 years after the stratospheric flight of #SunriseIII, first results are released today in a #SunriseIIIFocusIssue in The Astrophysical Journal Letters:
Murang #IcedMocha: pagsamahin ang San Mig 3-in-1 at Milo 😁
#coffee
♫ When a problem comes along . . . ♪
#Shitpost #Shitposting #Devo
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.
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…
I get the concept and how that’s
supposed to work but in cases like this Liquid Glass could ditch the realism aspect in favor of aesthetics.
Don’t highlight neighboring items font in the bar if they are not selected at all. The glass blob selector should not even let them shine through.
My fellow Mastodonians, can we all give this idea a little bit of praise, please?
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…
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 …
Another word, I do not know. Just guessing random letters. #Wordle
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Happy #PortfolioDay everyone. 🪴
I'm Sebastian. I like gazing at clouds, the crunching sound of dirt when I vacuum and writing stuff on the Internet. You can find some of it here.
https://finest.day/
…
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…
For the touring #musicians as we prep our grant applications for 2027 tour travel: seeking recommendations for festivals likely to book a 7-piece #hotjazz band in Canada, UK, EU, Africa, Central or South or North America, Asia, heck all we need is three letters of interest from ANY country to put in an #EighthStreetOrchestra travel application! 😅
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
I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
#Shitpost #Shitposting #OpenCarry
With so many critical letters ruled out, this was all I could make. #Wordle
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Between May 29 and July 9,
roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov
(and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published).
The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided:
about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it,
with fewer than one percent marked as unclear.
The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated.
Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments…
My pleasure. 😎
#40c3 Sticker
#AI #LLM #Vibecoding
Sourc…
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…
Natalie Harp’s Intimate Letters to Trump Revealed in Full
https://archive.ph/EFTfX
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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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/
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
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September 21, 2026 -- On September 18, while White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-21-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260922/p27#a260922p27
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
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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 …
Sometimes, it can be enough to believe in just one thing.
#photography #graffiti
"Preston Harp said his sister had been writing letters to presidents since she was a teenager — long before she claimed Trump was her "first exposure to politics."
"I think that's where her infatuation for Trump comes from, honestly," he said, "because I don't think it's a physical attraction. Let's get real."
Eric Trump gushes over Natalie Harp's 'genetics' in cringy rant about her 'looks' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/eric-trump-natalie-harp-genetics/
Swapped two letters in guess 4. #Wordle
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Very round about way to get the letters for this one. #Wordle
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