2026-05-01 22:54:32
I forgot I sent a letter to the editor of the Irish Times on Thursday: they printed it
#mastodaoine
https://www.irishtim…
I forgot I sent a letter to the editor of the Irish Times on Thursday: they printed it
#mastodaoine
https://www.irishtim…
#ForAllMankind S05E10: is there nobody in the #SONY production team old enough to remember a correct #DOS prompt? 🤔
A bit embarrassing considering the overall situation of this scene. 🤷
Monochrome thi.ng (2022)
An old exploration using only circles and the SDF-based fully parametric typeface I created as part of the work on my S-TRACE piece...
See here for other related WIP of this perpetually unfinished project:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/tagged/STRACE
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
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…
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
That’s the first time I got no correct letters in the first two guesses.
#Wordle 1,747 5/6*
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Beautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf
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
Today's April Fool's puzzles were pretty good, especially including
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…
#Wordle 1,747 4/6*
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⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 1% of 219 (31)
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WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 39/99
Even with the 1st 2 letters and all those other letters eliminated it took me a while to figure out the answer today.
Unf*ck your feet! 👣
#photography #sandals #running
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…
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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Shuffalo, 3m 36s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/29
It almost look like a scam, although the ads actually leads to Lucidchart-dot-com
Luсiԁсһаrt
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
I reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 40/40
Score: 170/170
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 https://spellbee.org/
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
Same. I plan to continue my subscription as additional donation.
When propaganda and hate is free, it's important to make good journalism accessible to everyone.
#Utah #Utahns #NoPaywall…
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/
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…
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
Here we go 🖤 #btconf
Pro tip: bookmarking https://www.tind.io/ is an effective way to let Firefox autocomplete accidentally bring you to a safe space when you're at risk of visiting a dangerous domain a few letters longer.
We're in a cafe, and someone is wearing a t-shirt that reads "GAYTRIOT" in colorful letters. 🥳🏳️🌈👕
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 …
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
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&
Datini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history
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
Playing with improvising some sanquhar-style patterns in the round (so I don't have to do purls), and decided to turn it into a sock for my lovely Zoom L6 portable mixer. #knitting
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.
For #TerryPratchettDay I want to share one of my favourite quotes. There are many, but this one just resonates with me as a writer. Sir Terry Pratchett's work is about how important stories are to humans and as a storyteller who grew up loving his books, unsurprisingly I feel the same way. He was the first celebrity where I was truly gutted when he died. Much love to everyone who w…
I reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 45/45
Score: 223/223
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 https://spellbee.org/
👏 to the NYT Games team for this banger of a puzzle within a puzzle! 🧩
#NYTConnections #puzzles #wordplay #AprilFools
Fugazi Albini
Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity)
https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity
Just passed a "FOG AREA" sign with the letters faded
Human Human 👘
人啊人 👘
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400 (6x7)
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal #filmphotography
Crazy... After a week of continuous use with Debian (with daily reboots in the morning), my Logitech MX Mechanical keyboard suddenly started acting up: some letters got stuck and were displayed dozens of times while I was typing. Other keys weren't registering at all.
Well, I thought, maybe there’s something wrong with the keyboard—dirt, crumbs, dust, or something like that. So I switched keyboards to an MX Keys—exactly the same issue. No improvement even with a third keyboard (Che…
Sorry, but I just had to do it. 🤭
https://science.nasa.gov/specials/your-name-in-landsat/?img1=h_0&img2=u_1&img3=m_0&img4=a_2&img5=n_2&im…
#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?
Lit-dropped Noe Valley in defense of Prop I and got a solid workout 😅 This is how we're gonna win and preserve funding for social housing. #sfpol
- If you live in SF and haven't sent a letter yet: https://dsasf.org/protectpropi
At the scale of the French National Audiovisual Institute, standard fuzzy matching created more noise than answers. So the team did something unexpected: they looked back decades to ancient phonetic algorithms to solve a very modern problem.
Join Pietro Mele and Radu Pop to find out why "sounding right" beats "spelling close", especially for languages like French, where silent letters and homophones make spelling a guessing game.
#Wordle 1,777 3/6*
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WordleBot
Skill 75/99
Luck 50/99
I keep being surprised when these words I pull from my remaining letters on the 3rd guess are the answer, today I had a 3% chance to pick it from the remaining words.
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.
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
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:
Sunscreen produces persistent free radicals when exposed to light, study finds #environment
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…
Shuffalo, 2m 41s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/24
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.”
I enjoyed a really fun writing workshop with @… and @sgl_in_progress@instagram.com on the theme of female rage in contemporary and fantasy fiction. I am not a literary scholar, so the analyses by workshop hosts Lena and Simoné gave me greater insight into the differences of female rage in these two broad genres and I got a new book out of it too 📖
#Wordle 1,808 5/6*
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⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 8% of 209 (27)
⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 24% of 2,077 (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 89% of 3,440 (1)
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WordleBot
Skill 98/99
Luck 22/99
So helpful today to have eliminated 10 letters off the bat.
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…
I scored 277 points in the Spelling Bee game 🐝 https://spellbee.org/.
Can you beat my score?
City Silhouettes III 🏙️
城市轮廓线 III 🏙️
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400 (6x7)
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
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
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…
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
Shuffalo, 4m 25s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/20
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 reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 38/38
Score: 171/171
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 https://spellbee.org/
#Wordle 1,746 3/6*
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🟩⬜⬜🟨🟩 0 of 25 (3)
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WordleBot
Skill 94/99
Luck 64/99
I really like that 5 letter elimination on my 1st guess. It gives me so much more leeway to chose the letters in my next guess, while narrowing the field of possibilities. Just occurred to me that's really only if you're playing in hard mode.
Shuffalo, 4m 10s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/19
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
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
Shuffalo, 2m 05s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/17
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
[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
April 20, 2026 -- Late Saturday evening, Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey of the Wall Street ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-20-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p58#a260421p58
Shuffalo, 5m 45s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/15
March 19, 2026 -- After yesterday's revelation that the Department of Justice (DOJ) ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-19-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p52#a260320p52
Shuffalo, 13m 59s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/13
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
March 18, 2026 -- I was intending to take tonight off, but there's big news--I mean ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-18-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p38#a260319p38
Shuffalo, 4m 55s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/14
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
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
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
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
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
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