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 …
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…
Datini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history
February 5, 2026 -- The past two days have seen a growing struggle between Democrats ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-5-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p64#a260206p64
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:
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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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
Trump's whole presidency spells "I want to be couped away and court martialed" in 30 feet letters.
"Don't Panic" being projected in large friendly letters.
#TOTP
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
#MoviesWatched in January, loosely ranked (being on the bottom doesn’t mean it’s bad)
(1/2)
- Children of Men
- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
- KPop Demon Hunters
- Brokeback Mountain
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 🌏🔁
- Sinners 🔁
- The Stepford Wives 🤖
- John Wick 🔁
- Letters from Wolf Street 🔁
- Friendship
- Hamnet
…
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…
heh, the dishwasher creatively redacted the label on this jar
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)
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
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…
Don't let the Epstein Files become lost in all of the intentional distraction.
#editorial #cartoon #EditorialCartoon
someone "vandalized" our kitchen table. And I fully support that
#fcknzs #fckafd
Beautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf
Cornell's № 15 Avi Adam skates towards the goal with the puck while № 22 Michaela Littlewood tries to take it away
#photo #photography #sports
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
That’s the first time I got no correct letters in the first two guesses.
#Wordle 1,747 5/6*
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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…
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
#Wordle 1,718 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 221,306 (698)
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 3% of 61 (123)
⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 0 of 2 (4)
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WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 19/99
eliminating letters for the win! I was quite happy to see no letters found in my 1st 2 guesses. That always makes it easier.
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…
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
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
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").
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…
It almost look like a scam, although the ads actually leads to Lucidchart-dot-com
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U 004C : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
U 0075 : LATIN SMALL LETTER U
U 0441 : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES
U 0069 : LATIN SMALL LETTER I
U 0501 : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KOMI DE
U 0441 : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES
U 04BB : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHHA
U 0430 : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A
U 0072 : LATIN SMALL LETTER R
U 0074 : LATIN SMALL LETTER T
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
On the ongoing collapse of the United States and US science and engineering: Trump has terminated several members of the independent National Science Board https://www.engadget.com/science/trump-has-terminated-several-m…
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 came for the dick jokes, but it turned out to be a depressing treatise about our surveillance capitalism hellscape. Damn it @… .
[I wrote this toot out before I got to the last line of the blog post.]
$$ of dollars of hardware under my fingertips, and I started writing a short story in longhand. I think it's because, the main character? She's loco 😄
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
I quite like this picture I took a while ago. It’s actually the street sign for a beautiful and affluent street next to Cambuslang station, but the sign looks like it could be outside a prison.
Rethinking how to abbreviate #Bible books in #Obsidian, so as to make them more searchable. (I'm thinking of the Portuguese side.) Maybe three letters instead of two ...
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:
Some historical documents from 2009 for #TextureTuesday... A high-res render and some detail crops of the award-winning generative typography & branding system/application I designed & developed for the DECODE exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum London (one of the largest group shows the V&A had organized and curated in a few decades, and which later traveled to other m…
#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?
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WordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 43/99
I liked my 3rd guess, although a little unusual for me, it really locked down where the known letters had to go. Then I just had to fill in the blank
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
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
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 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
Rogue on Steam does this thing where it can make everything 3D, and everything (monsters, scenery, all of it) is made from the letters and numbers. It's wild, and I'm hooked. 😂 Totally amazing to play on a Steam Deck.
#Rogue #roguelike
Just passed a "FOG AREA" sign with the letters faded
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…
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…
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
In early February there were more than 750 families,
nearly half of them including children,
as well as some 370 single adult women
being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.
It is just one of many immigration centers across the country,
but the only one holding families.
Since the start of the Trump administration, the number of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention has skyrocketed,
-- increasing sixf…
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
Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/par
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
Warren questions DOD about Anthropic blacklist that 'appears to be retaliation' - CNBC
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is questioning the Defense Department about its supply chain risk designation on Anthropic as Claude continues to be used in the Iran war.
Warren said the move by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "appears to be retaliation" and there were less drastic ways to end ties with the company.
Warren also sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman questioni…
February 20, 2026 -- Today, in a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court found ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-20-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p26#a260221p26
April 22, 2026 -- Virginia voters yesterday agreed to a constitutional amendment ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-22-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p20#a260423p20
February 19, 2026 -- In the United Kingdom this morning, Thames Valley Police arrested ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-19-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p44#a260220p44
April 21, 2026 -- There is the unmistakable feeling that the wheels are coming off the MAGA bus. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-21-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p50#a260422p50
March 22, 2026 -- President Donald J. Trump's behavior is increasingly erratic as he lashes ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-22-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p45#a260323p45