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This has to be one of the most embarrassing quiz show guesses ever.
Game show: [Name a country with only six letters in the name.]
Player: Africa
Arbiter: Africa does have six letters, but it is a continent, not a country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpEmF0l40YE&…

September 13, 2025 -- President Donald J. Trump has been trying to remove Federal Reserve ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-13-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p29#a250914p29

Following the "Geo-Erlebnis-Tag" during the weekend, preceding the Geo4Göttingen conference, the Geo4Change | Earth, Life, Climate, Resources, Materials | main program will start with plenary sessions for registered conference participants today.
https://geo4goettingen2025.de/
The full pro…

every single time someone reads Ianthe and thinks "oh, she must have forgotten to capitalize her own name" and calls me Lanthe it makes me want to do war crimes
I get emails and letters and texts to Lanthe from people who can see my full name, including my capitalized last name, and decided "oh well ianthe isn't a name so it must be Lanthe" AND MY FUCKIN CHEESEBURGER GOT LANTHE'D AND I AM GOING TO DO CRIMES

Write Letters to Voters
Letter Writing · Volunteer organized for Vote Forward
Tuesdays and Saturdays
10am PDT 1 more time
- In Person in Mountain View, CA
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Write Letters to Voters - In Person in Mountain View, CA · People For the American Way
Join me every week for a letter and postcard writing party at my house in Mountain View. Bring friends, food to share if you can (it's a potluck!), and enthusiasm for writing. Let's turn out voters and win the future. Looking forward to seeing you!

#Wordle 1,578 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 224,492 (619)
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 0 of 87 (20)
🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ 0 of 0 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 88/99
Luck 47/99
Yep, eliminating 5 letters on the 1st guess is very helpful
Fortunately I misspelled the other word when trying for my 4th guess, so I ended up w/ the right one.

#TIL there are capital variants of small capital letters.

U A7AE Ɪ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I

Ɪ - Wikipedia

President Trump signs a memorandum seeking to reinstate a pre-1997 policy that would sharply restrict prescription drug advertising on TV and social media (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/health/fda-drug-advertising-warning-letters.html

Trump Moves to Crack Down on Drug Advertising
The administration is proposing a return to a 1990s-era policy that kept most drug ads off TV. That could dent the revenues of drugmakers and major networks.

Amazon's CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, recently shared this short post about how software development improves with age. His perspective revolves around the recurrence of certain patterns in technology where the experienced developer can say "New technology, same pattern.", and sift through the daily onslaught of new technologies in a calm fashion, weeding out what's just flash from more interesting developments.
"Development gets better with Age"

on my blog!
https://dotat.at/@/2025-09-11-cover-letter.html
first-class merges and cover letters
how might git and/or jj improve the way feature branches are reviewed / reworked / merged?

If you're a Californian, please contact your senator and ask him to vote yes on AB 1264 to remove ultra-processed "food" from school lunches. These products have many adverse health impacts.
This link makes it easy to write your senator: https://action…

California: Tell Your State Senator to Get Dangerous, Ultra-Processed Food Out of School Lunches
This bill has already passed the Senate Health Committee unanimously, but manufacturers are pushing back hard against this bill, and the Senate will be voting soon to decide its fate.

El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/el-paso-bishop-brings-pope-leo-xiv-desperate-letters-from-migrants-in-crosshairs-of-us-crackdown/

Frequencies of letters in infinite $k$-balanced sequences
Lubom\'ira Dvo\v{r}\'akov\'a, Edita Pelantov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05812 https://

Frequencies of letters in infinite $k$-balanced sequences
Frequency of letters in a symbolic sequence ${\bf u}$ over a finite alphabet is one of the basic characteristics of ${\bf u}$. The notion of $k$-balancedness captures the property that the number of any letter occurring in two arbitrary factors of ${\bf u}$ of equal length differs at most by $k$. For a fixed integer $k$ and alphabet size $d\in \mathbb N$, we discuss possible frequencies of letters in $k$-balanced $d$-ary sequences. For the size $d$ of the alphabet, we introduce the notion of ba…

Watching the Rutgers game on TV. Just saw the band spell “RUTGERS” in big block letters.
When I was in the band we spelled out “Rutgers” in cursive.
#Rutgers #GoRU #RutgersFootball

I am these cost 25¢ per song years old.
I wonder how much the artists got paid being played on these compared to Spotify or any of the other streaming services? Assuming they did in fact get paid.
Think how annoying it is when some AH plays their phone on speaker. Now imagine a diner full of tables all playing their own tunes on speaker (the only way you could).

Tell Portland City Government: Revoke the ICE Permit!
This campaign was created to protect immigrants in Portland, OR by Revoking the ICE Permit for the building located at 4310 S Macadam Ave, Portland, OR 97239. Join us in sending emails to Portland City Council, the Mayor and the Permitting and Development Department demanding they revoke the permit. Please feel free to use the template provided and/or add a personal message as well.

A million-solar-mass object detected at a cosmological distance using #GravitationalImaging / An extended and extremely thin gravitational arc from a lensed compact symmetric object at redshift of 2.059: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02651-2 / https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/544/1/L24/8262431?login=false -> Astronomers ‘image’ a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe: https://jive.eu/news/new-nature-astronomy-and-mnras-letters-astronomers-image-mysterious-dark-object-distant

Peyton Manning wrote handwritten letters inviting Pope Leo XIV to Bears-Vikings ManningCast https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6612217/2025/09/08/pope-leo-manning-cast/

For me I have two scanners for papers, pictures, negatives and slides. For floppies and ZIP disks I have an old SFF machine where I can extract all of the files and save them to USB sticks.
Friends and family knows that if they don't want the pictures to send them to me. I digitize and store them in archival quality holders in a room where the humidity is controlled and the temperature doesn't change very much. Last batch were family images that no one knew of and everyone r…

Unix question: is there a version of seq(1) for letters instead of numbers?

October 12, 2025 -- On October 9, President Donald J. Trump's office issued ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-12-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p25#a251013p25

(Neuroscience Letters, 2010) Auditory enhancement of visual phosphene perception: the effect of temporal and spatial factors and of stimulus intensity https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538364/ "The effect was maximal when the auditory stimulus preceded the occipital TMS p…

Auditory Enhancement of Visual Phosphene Perception: The Effect of Temporal and Spatial Factors and of Stimulus Intensity
Multisensory integration of information from different sensory modalities is an essential component of perception. Neurophysiological studies have revealed that audio-visual interactions occur early in time and even within sensory cortical areas ...

Um, sir, I think there's something wrong with the way you've laced your wheel spokes?
#BikeTooter

Letters to the editor from writers using AI chatbots are flooding scientific journals, likely written by writers seeking to boost their number of citations (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/letters-to-the-editor-ai-chatb…

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published.

A strong union, and a strong commitment to healthy work-life balance, makes for a strong company. I encourage Kickstarter management to come back to the table and bargain with the workers @… immediately!

Every year, as I come up on my birthday, I start to think a lot more about the shooting. The intensity was a bit lower after Trump left office the first time, but October of 2024 was pretty intense.
As I've been processing through all this, I thought about the cards and letters folks sent to me in the hospital. I have a box of them in the US and sometimes I think about asking for them to be sent here. But things have a tenancy to get lost in the mail on the way here.
There's a little bit of a trapped and incomplete feeling, that Trump's chaos makes feel even more intense.
So I decided to write a bit about that box, and the hospital, and death.
CW: body horror, death
#Writing

Red-whiskered bulbul, standing on a sign. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October,2025. #laarboretum #redwhiskeredbulbul #bird

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has repeatedly called for a ban on drug advertising on television. .
Trump issued a new memorandum which would effectively reverse a 1997 policy change that opened the floodgates to a deluge of TV drug advertising,
It is likely to be aggressively opposed by the drug industry, which has long had the courts on its side on this issue.

Trump Moves to Crack Down on Drug Advertising
The administration is proposing a return to a 1990s-era policy that kept most drug ads off TV. That could dent the revenues of drugmakers and major networks.

I wonder whether the developer took this restaurant owner for a ride, or the restaurant owner jilted the developer who got back at them. Either way…

TFW your university adopts a new, "streamlined" expense reimbursement system while allowing new submissions to the old system that just... disappear. Of course, no one thought to put a link in flashing letters saying "use the new site instead"!!! Oh, and did I mention that the new system is "streamlined"? There's no way I just spent an absurdly long time trying to get reimbursed for a few books.

World War I Message in a Bottle Found in Australia and Delivered to Families More Than a Century Later https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/world-war-i-message-in-a-bottle-found-in-australia-and-delivered-to-familie…

World War I Message in a Bottle Found in Australia and Delivered to Families More Than a Century Later
Letters from WWI soldiers that were placed in a bottle and thrown into the ocean were recently found in Australia and delivered to relatives.

September 12, 2025 -- Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-12-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250913/p30#a250913p30

#Wordle 1,606 6/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 215,096 (118)
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 7% of 113 (6)
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 44% of 9 (2)
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 2% of 568 (2)
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 14% of 230 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 95% of 7,947
WordleBot
Skill 64/99
Luck 40/99
Damn that was close, and user error on guess 4 and not a wordle word for guess 5. Those guesses still helped me eliminate a couple of letters and know where the 3 letters I had belong.

pulp forensics, uncovering how william s. burroughs learned about #ayahuasca from a 1949 issue of amazing stories. https://beatdom.substack.com/p/amazing-stories-and-weird-tales-…

Amazing Stories and Weird Tales: Origins of The Yage Letters
Uncovering the origin of William S. Burroughs’ interest in yagé.

An oil pipeline company is suing #Greenpeace for protesting in #NorthDakota
Letter: Defend the right to speak out and protest | Bismarck Tribune

Letter: Defend the right to speak out and protest
In March, 2025, the First Amendment was put on trial in Mandan, North Dakota and the results could affect every American’s rights.

Putting the finishing touches on my presentation at @… next weekend. "The #Fediverse: Embracing the Hacker Ethos for a Decentralized Social Media Experience". We may even have a special guest join us, @…

I ordered something online today. Their form would autocomplete my address, only to then inform me that the address (they proposed themselves!) is not allowed to include any non-latin letters. 🤦 I guess they don't have a lot of German customers... 🙄

No wine, chocolate, or coffee but we’ll still have billionaires (or maybe even trillionaires).
Worth it, no? https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115490957176403898

Important letters which contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
Corresponding errors will show up in the duplicate while the Boss is reading
it. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving
from where you left them to where you can't find them.

18: with a title in big letters.
#30AlbumCovers

18: with a title in big letters.
#30AlbumCovers

Joint Optimization of Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in ISAC-assisted SAGIN-based IoT
Sooyeob Jung, Seongah Jeong, Jinkyu Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08238 h…

Joint Optimization of Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in ISAC-assisted SAGIN-based IoT
In this letters, an energy-efficient integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) for space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN)-based Internet of Things (IoT) systems is proposed to facilitate wide coverage and real-time 6G services. For processing a sizable data collected at a IoT device, a hybrid edge computing scheme is applied with the cloudlets mounted at autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) and low earth orbit (LEO) satellite, where the AAV with multiple antennas performs uplink sensing of th…

Are you tired of illuminated gaming keyboards, and even the clacking sound of mechanical keyboards has lost their appeal?
Fear not, there's hope:
Gboard Dial
https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/main/mozc-dial

The Washington Post's former letters editor, Alyssa Rosenberg, reflects on her role as a professional listener, offering readers a rare chance to feel heard (Alyssa Rosenberg/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/per…

The Washington Post Got 21,000 Emails After It Didn't Endorse. I Read Them All.
Reading and editing letters gave me a theory about what is wrong with America — and how it could be fixed.

"It’s the same playbook Trump has used throughout his thugocracy: pressuring the Federal Reserve, gutting the EPA, extorting universities, muzzling the CDC and NIH, and suing NBC, CBS, and the Wall Street Journal. "

The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions
a proposed
“Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,"
along with a letter asking that MIT review the document.
After considerable thought and consultation with leaders from across MIT,
today I sent the following reply to U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth,
MIT president
--
The document also includes princi…

How Private Equity Made Piracy Great Again
#culture #media

Anarchy near the exit of a Fred Meyer supermarket in Portland

Do you also enjoy "cracking" random Braille inscriptions based on the context, word lengths, repeating letters and the knowledge how "a" is written?

On the Complexity of Language Membership for Probabilistic Words
Antoine Amarilli, Mika\"el Monet, Paul Rapha\"el, Sylvain Salvati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08127 htt…

On the Complexity of Language Membership for Probabilistic Words
We study the membership problem to context-free languages L (CFLs) on probabilistic words, that specify for each position a probability distribution on the letters (assuming independence across positions). Our task is to compute, given a probabilistic word, what is the probability that a word drawn according to the distribution belongs to L. This problem generalizes the problem of counting how many words of length n belong to L, or of counting how many completions of a partial word belong to L.…

The Lurie/Mandelman RV ban is still set to go into effect and tow people's homes on Nov. 1, the same day SNAP expires and at the same time federal agents are in the Bay to terrorize immigrants.
Send a letter to the mayor and BOS asking them to extend the towing deadline:
https://

All Eyes on the Mayor’s RV Ban - No Tows Before Housing!
DSA SF is continuing its opposition to Daniel Lurie’s two-hour restriction on RV parking, which will take effect on November 1st, 2025. We know this policy for what it is - the latest attempt by San Francisco’s oligarch Mayor to exile poor and working class people from the City. While San Francisco has put in place a refuge permit program, it’s deeply flawed. The City’s initial eligibility list excludes many longtime RV residents, and those that are eligible have an uncertain offer of …

Regarding the Compact -- The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight ... (Sally Kornbluth/orgchart.mit.edu)
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p39#a251010p39

Fun fact:
If you only change two letters in the word Germany, you suddenly get Gaymany. 😲
Fun fact two:
Mixing the gold and red in the flag of Germany gets you orange, the warm and comfy color of the season. 🧡🌬️🍂
With that, happy German UwUnity Day!
🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I sometimes find myself involuntarily laughing when I see a police vehicle pass by, a reflex born from recognizing the role of the state’s coercive apparatus in maintaining capitalist and authoritarian social order.
#ACAB #Capitalism

Our solar system’s interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS,
showed strong ultraviolet emissions that are unmistakable telltales of hydroxyl gas (OH), a byproduct of water,
when astronomers imaged it with the with NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift space telescope before it disappeared behind the Sun.
Their findings, detailed in a new studypublished in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, argue that the presence of all this OH indicates
the comet is ejecting water vapor at a torrentia…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Metronomy:
🎵 Love Letters
#Metronomy
https://metronomy.bandcamp.com/album/love-letters
https://open.spotify.com/track/6bW7mUdEV4jWxmdxcj8X3k

Dienstmededelung:
De pruimentaart staat in de oven
Ik herhaal:
De pruimentaart staat in de oven!
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/3783-original-plum-torte?unlocked_article_code=1.jk8.7rf0.mSIJOO7HJ6Aw

Original Plum Torte Recipe (Gift Recipe)
The Times published Marian Burros’s recipe for Plum Torte every September from 1983 until 1989, when the editors determined that enough was enough. The recipe was to be printed for the last time that year. “To counter anticipated protests,” Ms. Burros wrote a few years later, “the recipe was printed in larger type than usual with a broken-line border around it to encourage clipping.” It didn’t help. The paper was flooded with angry letters. “The appearance of the recipe, like the…

Sometimes, when I get a native crash and I have no idea what happened, I paste the disassembly into aistudio and have it explain to me what is going on.
It might not be able to count how many letters are in strawberry, but it can pinpoint the root cause for a bug in Apple's Objective-C runtime.
This is a regression in iOS 26.1 beta:

Tried #TiledWords for the first time. It's a mix of crossword and boggle/Scrabble? I initially wanted to avoid the hints, but the final solution must all fit together so they're necessary. I think they're more fun since you solve a little clue and then fit that into your grid.
🥛 “Milk”
🕒 7 minutes, 34 seconds
💡 0/3 reveals used
∗️ 141 moves used

from my link log —
ALS Lamon typeface review.
https://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/als-lamon/
saved 2025-08-05 https:/…

ALS Lamon
I still remember being immediately attracted to ALS Lamon because of its incredibly novel concept and brilliant execution. The design has a very difficult brief: first, both upper- and lowercase letters appear together in the same glyph; second, the letters are (mostly) drawn with single strokes. This creates an interesting...

Trump warns thousands of pharma companies over "deceptive ads" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/10/trump-deceptive-pharma-ads-fda-letters
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p6#a250910p6

Good ol' Roger Williams makes it into the London Review of Books! https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/letters

i continue to play records i don't particularly like in order to make room on the shelf
obtw, i found that sonny rollins LP i was looking for the other night ... in the trade-in bin lol
#nowplaying #jazz #vinyl

Towards stable AI systems for Evaluating Arabic Pronunciations
Hadi Zaatiti, Hatem Hajri, Osama Abdullah, Nader Masmoudi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19587 https://

Towards stable AI systems for Evaluating Arabic Pronunciations
Modern Arabic ASR systems such as wav2vec 2.0 excel at word- and sentence-level transcription, yet struggle to classify isolated letters. In this study, we show that this phoneme-level task, crucial for language learning, speech therapy, and phonetic research, is challenging because isolated letters lack co-articulatory cues, provide no lexical context, and last only a few hundred milliseconds. Recogniser systems must therefore rely solely on variable acoustic cues, a difficulty heightened by A…

On some 2-binomial coefficients of binary words: geometrical interpretation, partitions of integers, and fair words
Gwena\"el Richomme (LIRMM | ESCAPE, UMPV)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07159

On some 2-binomial coefficients of binary words: geometrical interpretation, partitions of integers, and fair words
The binomial notation (w u) represents the number of occurrences of the word u as a (scattered) subword in w. We first introduce and study possible uses of a geometrical interpretation of (w ab) and (w ba) when a and b are distinct letters. We then study the structure of the 2-binomial equivalence class of a binary word w (two words are 2-binomially equivalent if they have the same binomial coefficients, that is, the same numbers of occurrences, for each word of length at most 2). Especially we…

Signaling in the Age of AI: Evidence from Cover Letters
Jingyi Cui, Gabriel Dias, Justin Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25054 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.250…

Signaling in the Age of AI: Evidence from Cover Letters
We study how generative AI affects labor market signaling using the introduction of an AI-powered cover letter writing tool on Freelancer.com. Our data track both access to the tool and usage at the application level. Difference-in-differences estimates show that access to the AI tool increased textual alignment between cover letters and job posts--which we refer to as cover letter tailoring--and raised callback likelihoods. Workers with weaker pre-AI writing skills saw larger improvements in c…

Today (October 31) in 1980, The Smithereens released their debut 4 song EP 'Girls About Town'. The four songs were also included on 'Attack of the Smithereens', one of their compilations. Great bunch of songs here. It didn't have them in a playlist on YouTube, so I made one.
https://

From https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cysfyu7ook326epmpvun2qtb/post/3lzs7noi6oc23 —
> Prof. Lee says that the problem for Canada Post is the smartphone because people send texts, not letters. Fine, but don't gut it. I say, make Canada Post a pub…

@… IMO every short initialism naturally has many meanings depending on context, there’s only so many ways to combine 2-3 letters in the Latin alphabet. So I *personally* would never assume which of the many possible meanings is implied.
Whether you’re comfortable with it, will of course only ever be up to you.

So, did the letter “y” form out of the letters “ij”?
Evidence:
- they would both sound “eeyy”
- in “free”, “ee” might be English substitute for “y”
- in “free”, “ij” might be English substitute for “ij”
- “ÿ” can look exactly like “ij” in cursive
#dutch #vowels

#PreciousPlastic is a global community of people working towards a solution to plastic pollution. Knowledge, tools and techniques are shared online, for free
LET'S BUILD V.5:
==
We spent the last 10 years building a network of plastic recyclers around the world. Yet despite progress, only 10% of all plastic ever made has been recycled, the same as when we started

It's the last week of the California Legislative session, and there are a number of #climate & #environment bills awaiting action in the California Senate.
PLease help! #350BayArea has an eas…

Solutions that our communities need - Support these bills!
As Californians concerned about global warming and the climate crisis, it is up to us to make sure that our legislators listen to us and enact legislation that will do everything possible to fight climate change, and to mitigate its effects on all communities, especially those communities most directly affected. Please add your voice to this effort by signing this letter to your State Senator. Feel free to add your experiences and your thoughts about why your Senator needs to support this cl…

Construction equipment was still at work near the new Martha Dodson Field at the second Field Hockey game contested there
#photo #photography #sports

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'The church cannot be silent,' Pope Leo XIV tells El Pasoans in Vatican meeting on mass deportation fears (El Paso Matters)
https://elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/el-paso-bishop-mark-seitz-pope-leo-vatican-hope-border-institute-letters/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p98#a251008p98

#Wordle 1,593 6/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 <1% of 228,956 (53)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 17% of 18 (10)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 13% of 8 (6)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 11% of 166 (3)
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 14% of 1,101 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 75% of 365
WordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 40/99
Pulled it out, but you're really not puzzling out the answer when there are so many words that fit that initial 3 known letters, each using different letters (well I guess the last 2 did share a letter, so if I had thought of all of the words when I made guess 3, I should have tried one of them first.
Actually I see there were 2 pretty common first letters among the 10 remaining words. And it ended up that getting the answer was just lucky.

On the irreducibility and monodromy of Tutte polynomials
Andrew Goodall (IMB), Florent Jouve (IMB), Jean-S\'ebastien Sereni (CNRS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05658 https://

On the irreducibility and monodromy of Tutte polynomials
We study algebraic properties of the Tutte polynomial of a matroid and its generalizations to other combinatorially defined bivariate polynomial invariants. Merino, de Mier and Noy showed that the Tutte polynomial of a connected matroid is irreducible, and Bohn, Cameron and M{ü}ller conjectured the stronger property that the Galois/monodromy group of the Tutte polynomial of a connected matroid of rank r is isomorphic to the full symmetric group on r letters. First, we generalize the result of …

October 10, 2025 -- All of President Donald J. Trump's lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize came ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p15#a251011p15

New post: Paul’s Address Book app updated! https://edintone.com/pauls-address-book-app-updated/ My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a r

Paul's Address Book app updated! - Miscellanea Edintone
My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a refresh. More details here and a you try it and download it for free!

My RAs have been transcribing letters from the mid-nineteenth century for the past several months. While they're improving by leaps and bounds, they remain wholly incapable of recognizing "Esq." or "Esqre." for what it is. Maybe I'll make them watch Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
#histodons

Not an assault. Genocide.
One that the UK – for which the BBC is the propaganda channel – is complicit in.
#israel

Israeli military says first stages of assault on Gaza City have begun
Call-up letters have gone out to 60,000 reservists to bolster an operation which is expected to last until next year.

Yellow Canna Lillies in front of the famous rooster bar on the West end of the Ithaca Commons
#phjoto #photography #ithaca

Trump Denies Epstein Birthday Drawing, but Signature Matches Personal Letters (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/us/politics/trump-signature-epstein-letter.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p155#a250908p155

#Wordle 1,602 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 <1% of 227,384 (147)
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 2% of 694 (6)
🟨🟩🟨🟩⬜ 25% of 125 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 89/99
Luck 55/99
Felt I had to be led to the answer and beat over the head with it! That's how it goes when you have 4 letter and know where 3 of them belong and have to walk through all of the remaining letters to find the word!

“Many questions remain about the fund-raising for this project,
including the amount of each contribution,
the agreement reached with each contributor,
what promises may have been or may yet be made in exchange for what presumably will be substantial contributions,
and why the White House chose to allow donors to remain anonymous,”
Mr. Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote in letters to several donors

Donors to Trump’s Ballroom Are Asked Why They Chose to Remain Incognito
Senator Richard Blumenthal is requesting information from business interests whose donations were not disclosed by the White House.

November 7, 2025 -- The repercussions from Tuesday's vote, in which Democratic candidates ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-7-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p7#a251108p7

#Wordle 1,538 3/6*
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 212,937 (101)
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 0 of 127 (12)
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WordleBot
Skill 94/99
Luck 56/99
Sometimes the word you chose to eliminate letters is the answer!
Bot says my 3rd guess was both skillful (99) and lucky (95)

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis on Oct. 9 ordered “visible identification” that is “prominently displayed.”
But dozens of photographs of uniformed immigration agents shot by Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists in four separate locations since the court order show how the feds have fallen short.
The 80-plus photos show that not all officers are displaying a visible identification code that mixes numbers and letters during some of the most contentious recent immigration actions that…

IDs are mismatched, illegible — or still missing three weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers
In dozens of photographs at four locations, Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists documented federal officers failing to wear the “visible identification” needed to hold individuals accountable during the ongoing immigration “blitz.”

In New Letters, DOJ Escalates Hunt For State Voter Data, Threatens Legal Action (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/in-new-letters-doj-escalates-hunt-for-state-voter-data-threatens-legal-action/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p119#a250818p119

#Wordle 1,568 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 0 of 228,833 (199)
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩 0 of 0 (1)
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WordleBot
Skill 88/99
Luck 71/99
After my 1st guess I was a little worried, those aren't the letters I really want to know early on, eliminating them would have made me happier!
But, my 2nd guess really made up for it!
Also NO ONE ELSE chose my starting word today!

October 3, 2025 -- Although President Donald J. Trump has not appeared in public since Tuesday ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-3-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p16#a251004p16

September 3, 2025 -- [Please note that this post talks about sexual assault in the last four paragraphs.] (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-3-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p64#a250904p64

November 2, 2025 -- Last Monday, October 27, right-wing personality Tucker Carlson interviewed ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p44#a251103p44

September 2, 2025 -- In the early hours of Sunday morning, in the middle of a three-day holiday weekend ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-2-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p42#a250903p42

September 30, 2025 -- Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-30-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251001/p9#a251001p9

Read the Resignation Letters of Top CDC Officials (MedPage Today)
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/117197
http://www.memeorandum.com/250828/p136#a250828p136