2026-04-27 08:57:17
Here we go 🖤 #btconf
Here we go 🖤 #btconf
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 📖
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
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…
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
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/
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…
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.
I reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 40/40
Score: 170/170
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 https://spellbee.org/
We're in a cafe, and someone is wearing a t-shirt that reads "GAYTRIOT" in colorful letters. 🥳🏳️🌈👕
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, 2m 41s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/24
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
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
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
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
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…
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.
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 reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 45/45
Score: 223/223
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 https://spellbee.org/
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…
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
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'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 …
Just passed a "FOG AREA" sign with the letters faded
Datini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history
#Wordle 1,803 4/6*
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Skill 85/99
Luck 51/99
As a 4th guess I didn't think as much about trying it as I would have as an earlier guess with fewer letters eliminated. And it turns out it was the only option anyway!
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’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
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…
Fugazi Albini
Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity)
https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity
#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.
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
Sunscreen produces persistent free radicals when exposed to light, study finds #environment
Shuffalo, 4m 25s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/20
I forgot I sent a letter to the editor of the Irish Times on Thursday: they printed it
#mastodaoine
https://www.irishtim…
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:
Erik Spiekermann was right, of course.
#typography #design #graphicdesign #quotes
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
Saw a VW Golf with "Volkswagan" in huge letters across the top of the windshield. No proofreading, we ball!
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!?
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.”
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
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
I have a notational problem to solve. In my linear algebra script polynomials are usually capital letter named, like P,Q ∈ K[t].
Endomorphisms have capital letters from the F,G,H range.
Then in the theory of normal forms we need projection operators, which are endomorphisms, so they ought to be and are currently called P.
But then in that chapter the (characteristic, minimal, ...) polynomials move to small letters which is disturbing.
What should I do?
#math #teaching
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
I scored 277 points in the Spelling Bee game 🐝 https://spellbee.org/.
Can you beat my score?
🔊 #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
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, 4m 10s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/19
Beautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf
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.
#Wordle 1,801 5/6*
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Skill 72/99
Luck 36/99
Was grasping at straws for my 4th word. Just started putting in letters and seeing if they'd be accepted as a word. Didn't really think the one I got was a word.
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…
I reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 38/38
Score: 171/171
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 https://spellbee.org/
Mangrove forests are short of breath, researchers warn #Mangrove
"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
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…
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, 2m 05s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/17
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
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, …
[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
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…
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 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, 5m 45s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/15
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
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
Shuffalo, 4m 55s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/14
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
Shuffalo, 13m 59s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/13
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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