2026-02-18 12:08:30
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/
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/
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…
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
Constitutional concerns raised as for profit concentration camp in Dilley, Texas seize letters from prisoner children and families. Following ProPublica’s publication of the letters.
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1r82oqx
Article:
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
Regardless of what you think of today's results, I think we can all thank the #hockey gods that neither of the close games ended in penalties. Just about any other way of deciding a winner - number of total letters in the names of everyone on the squad, a debate on Heidegger's hermeneutics, a figure-skate-off, whatever - would be better.
San Francisco's leaders say we need to act on #climate. So why does #MayorLurie propose gutting San Francisco Environment's climate team? Please tell the SF Supervisors not to do foolhardy cost-cutting - the climate work is URGENT. Here's an explainer and draft letter to send:
San Francisco's leaders say we need to act on #climate. So why does #MayorLurie propose gutting San Francisco Environment's climate team? Please tell the SF Supervisors not to do foolhardy cost-cutting - the climate work is URGENT. Here's an explainer and draft letter to send:
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/17
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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Sunscreen produces persistent free radicals when exposed to light, study finds #environment
I scored 277 points in the Spelling Bee game 🐝 https://spellbee.org/.
Can you beat my score?
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
[Nein, das letzte Wort ist NICHT "meatpeer".]
Shuffalo, 1m 49s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/17
"Oh, and just one more thing... that's not my true aura."
#meme #авторське #пороблено
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
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…
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&
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'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 …
Saw a VW Golf with "Volkswagan" in huge letters across the top of the windshield. No proofreading, we ball!
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
#dtfstlouis : Funny and strange and sweet, but watch out for that looming darkness. #tv
Fugazi Albini
Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity)
https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity
Datini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history
Follie Follie II🍁
叶啊叶 II🍁
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
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!?
#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.
I reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 38/38
Score: 171/171
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 https://spellbee.org/
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Music Rediscovered
Charles Burney (1726-1814) was the author of the first history of music ever published In the English language. Sophie Coulombeau has been reading it and his letters and diaries.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s3y7
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/15
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
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
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
I forgot I sent a letter to the editor of the Irish Times on Thursday: they printed it
#mastodaoine
https://www.irishtim…
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.”
Beautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf
My first thought was only 4 letters but it was one small step to get to the right word. #Wordle
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Oh no. My iPad auto updated iOS and it really is as badly designed as everybody said. #LiquidAss #iOS26 #Apple
❓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
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…
Amazing Stories vol. 24, no. 10 (October 1950), by ed. Howard Browne
Entire issue from here: https://zirk.us/@SFFMagazineCovers/116196673150408723
Mangrove forests are short of breath, researchers warn #Mangrove
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…
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.
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://…
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
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…
Trump's whole presidency spells "I want to be couped away and court martialed" in 30 feet letters.
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)
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
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
"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
Shuffalo, 4m 55s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/14
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
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/
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, …
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:
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…
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…
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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Shuffalo, 13m 59s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/13
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
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…
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
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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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…
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
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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Shuffalo, 5m 04s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/09
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
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/08
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
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, …
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
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/06
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
Shuffalo, 2m 31s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/07
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
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
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
Shuffalo, 2m 46s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/04
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
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