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…
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
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稀有的色彩红 🟥🟥
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Cinestill 800T (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
Saw a VW Golf with "Volkswagan" in huge letters across the top of the windshield. No proofreading, we ball!
This week, ProPublica published a story I wrote
based in part on interviews with parents and children being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
I had asked some of the parents to see if their children would be willing to write to me about their experiences inside.
-- More than three dozen did.
One of those letters came from 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya from Colombia.
Her letter was written on…
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My kind of day. It's tough to eliminate 10 letters in you 1st 2 guesses (without using any of the rarer letters). I continued w/ my 3rd guess being a word I was sure wasn't the answer, and it paid off giving me 3 letters and eliminated 2 more.
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.
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&
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
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.
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 …
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!?
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…
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叶啊叶 II🍁
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Datini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history
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.
🔊 #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
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
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
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
Oh no. My iPad auto updated iOS and it really is as badly designed as everybody said. #LiquidAss #iOS26 #Apple
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
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.”
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
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…
Amazing Stories vol. 24, no. 10 (October 1950), by ed. Howard Browne
Entire issue from here: https://zirk.us/@SFFMagazineCovers/116196673150408723
❓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
#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?
Beautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf
someone "vandalized" our kitchen table. And I fully support that
#fcknzs #fckafd
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://…
Learning how to make a font (1).
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…
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…
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
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…
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)
heh, the dishwasher creatively redacted the label on this jar
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
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
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:
"Don't Panic" being projected in large friendly letters.
#TOTP
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
That’s the first time I got no correct letters in the first two guesses.
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Cornell's № 15 Avi Adam skates towards the goal with the puck while № 22 Michaela Littlewood tries to take it away
#photo #photography #sports
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
Don't let the Epstein Files become lost in all of the intentional distraction.
#editorial #cartoon #EditorialCartoon
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, …
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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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…
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
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…
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
Caroline Lucas here is saying what's missing from most current Green Party messaging.
Leaders must be honest about the likelihood of collapse.
For Keir Starmer to talk of national resilience and ignore nature is absurd | Climate crisis | The Guardian
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
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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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 😀
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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…
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
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, …
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
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
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