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Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf
Tue 05 May 2026, 6:00 pm
Journalist and human rights advocate , Antoinette Lattouf, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.
#Canberra

Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf
Journalist and human rights advocate , Antoinette Lattouf, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.

UN Security Council to meet on Saturday on Iran conflict (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/un-security-council-meet-saturday-iran-conflict-2026-02-28/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p52#a260228p52

New York-based Actively, which offers AI sales agents for account management, raised a $45M Series B co-led by TCV and First Harmonic at a $250M valuation (Sofia Chierchio/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sofiachierchi

Meet The $250 Million Startup Challenging Salesforce With AI Agents
Actively AI has raised $45 million to scale up its AI sales agents, which can automate a chunk of the work reps typically do manually.

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Carolyn Streets '26 M.Div.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-27-meet-these-grads-2026

🪨 Diversifying lithium-rich mineral sources with petalite
#lithium

Diversifying lithium-rich mineral sources with petalite
Demand for lithium is surging, as the world transitions to renewable energy and adopts new technologies. Lithium-ion batteries play a central role in this shift, powering everything from cars to portable electronics. To meet the increasing demand, companies are recycling lithium from old batteries and also looking for new sources and better ways to extract it. While recycling supports a circular economy, experts agree that recycled lithium alone will not meet projected future needs.

Meet the author - Joshua Black, Frank Bongiorno, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu
Mon 18 May 2026, 6:00 pm
Frank Bongiorno will be in conversation with Joshua Black, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu on Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government. Edited by Frank Bongiorno, CarolynHolbrook and Joshua Black.
#Canberra #ANU

Meet the author - Joshua Black, Frank Bongiorno, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu
Frank Bongiorno will be in conversation with Joshua Black, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu on Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government. Edited by Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook and Joshua Black.

Raiders set to meet with Najee Harris as new HC Klint Kubiak wants a committee with Ashton Jeanty https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/raiders-set-to-meet-with-najee-harris-as-new-hc-klint-kubiak-wants-a-committee-with-ashton-jeant…

NFL Draft Guru’s Pro Comp Validates Cowboys, Christian Parker Fit for Mansoor Delane https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/dallas-cowboys-meet-trio-elite-cornerbacks-nfl-combine-amid-secondary-rebuild

People are gonna fly by the moon!
Scheduled to launch on April Fool's day 😆
#space

Artemis II: NASA’s First Crewed Lunar Flyby in 50 Years - NASA
Meet the Artemis II crew and learn how NASA’s 10-day lunar flyby mission will test deep space systems and pave the way for future Moon landings.

OpenAI and Anthropic briefed House Homeland Security Committee staff on their new cyber-capable AI models and their implications for cybersecurity,
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/28/openai-anthropic-congress-cyber-briefings

Exclusive: OpenAI, Anthropic meet with House committee over advanced cyber models
This is the first time lawmakers have appeared to have engaged with the AI giants on the cyber threats posed by their new models.

Wife is overseas and had to call me with Google Meet.
Ended the call with, "glad we're aligned and hope to complete these action items by our next call."

The answers to this question are, for D4, relative to expectations, refreshingly reasonable. I'm glad even the candidates with a track record of being quite car-brained (lookin' at you Albert Chow) at least feel the need to talk about balance and aren't all, "Yes, there is a war on cars, bicycles are ruining everything and only white people ride them" or something.

Meet the District 4 candidates: Is there a ‘war on cars’ in San Francisco?
In the Sunset and Parkside, over 88 percent of households own at least one car. Should travel by car be prioritized here in urban planning?

The attack mounted jointly by Israel and the US on Iran had been planned for months,
but the timing, in the midst of negotiations between Iran and the US,
will again raise questions about whether Washington was ever serious about striking a deal with Tehran.
In June last year, Israel, with the US later in tow, launched a 10-day attack on Iran just three days before Iran and the US were due to meet for a sixth set of talks.
So this assault, in the middle of a second ne…

Sources: Axel Springer and Politico execs met with staff after a letter from employees accused Mathias Döpfner of using Politico to promote his political agenda (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2026

Exclusive: Axel Springer, Politico execs meet with staff after letter warns CEO risks ‘undermining our reputation’
The letter singled out two recent op-eds by parent company CEO Matthias Dopfner.

@… no kidding. Pot, meet kettle.

If you use the GGNRA areas (see map link below), here's a chance to meet NPS Superintendent David Smith at "Office Hours with the Superintendent" at 11 - noon Sat, May 16 at the Presidio Visitor Center (210 Lincoln Blvd in the Presidio)
This meeting's focus is Park safety (but I suspect there'll be opportunity to ask about other items.
I've been luck to hear the Superintendent speak -and am impressed. if you care about the local National Parks, this is…

Maps - Golden Gate National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)

If you use the GGNRA areas (see map link below), here's a chance to meet NPS Superintendent David Smith at "Office Hours with the Superintendent" at 11 - noon Sat, May 16 at the Presidio Visitor Center (210 Lincoln Blvd in the Presidio)
This meeting's focus is Park safety (but I suspect there'll be opportunity to ask about other items.
I've been luck to hear the Superintendent speak -and am impressed. if you care about the local National Parks, this is…

Maps - Golden Gate National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)

As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

📣 Last chance to join the Sylius hackathon! 🚀
Tomorrow, we're gathering at the @… office in Mannheim to improve Sylius together. 🤝 Don't miss this opportunity to contribute to the ecosystem and meet fellow enthusiasts.
Register now:

Does anyone have experience self-hosting Jitsi Meet? I'm already running apache2, so I can't use nginx-full as per the default instructions.
Jitsi configured the main domain, but I wasn't sure if I need to also add its subdomains (e.g. if I have meet.example.tld, do I also need to setup apache configs for conference.meet.example.tld and so on?).
#SelfHosting

Sources: China's top chipmakers, with strong government backing, aim to increase advanced chip production capacity fivefold to 100K wafers within two years (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techno…

China aims for 5-fold increase in advanced chip output to meet AI demand
Backed by Beijing, Huawei and SMIC lead efforts on 7-nm and 5-nm-like production tech

Safeguarding LLMs Against Misuse and AI-Driven Malware Using Steganographic Canaries
Md Raz, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Meet Udeshi, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami, Ramesh Karri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28655

"Mandelson’s lawyers, Mishcon de Reya"
I wonder where we've heard of Mishcon de Reya before? Are they a very reputable law firm, I wonder? Oh, yes, the money-laundering specialists involved in the persecution of Maltese anti-corruption campaigner Daphne Caruana Galizia, before her murder.
Lovely people.
#Mandelson

About to get on the plane to #LaraconEU, can't wait to meet my #laravel and #statamic friends and meet some new people!

Meet Paolo Zampolli, the Man at the Center of Trump’s Biggest Scandals – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/meet-paolo-zampolli-trump-world-cup-ice-epstein/

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Abby Langford '26 M.Div.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-27-meet-these-grads-2026

J.J. McCarthy Being Told Not to Do Griddy Only Made Him Want to Do It More https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/dallas-cowboys-meet-trio-elite-pass-rush-prospects-nfl-combine

Heute um 9:15 Uhr wird der diesjährige Workshop des KIM – Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable #Metadaten eröffnet. Jede:r kann hier online teilnehmen: https://meet.academiccloud.de/gl/rooms…

Jets brass showing interest in Ty Simpson, but is it enough to draft him? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48313486/new-york-jets-quarterback-2026-draft-ty-simpson-interest

Did #Melania and Donald Darth #Trump actually meet through #Epstein?

✨ Let’s continue spotlighting the next generation of #WomenInSTEM ✨
Meet a student in audiology, driven by a simple, powerful goal: helping people hear and live their lives the way they want to.
“I want to show how good I am at my job and prove that I will be the best audiologist they’ll have.”
🎥 Watch her full interview below and hear what inspires her journey
💬 An…

Zelensky says he’s ready to meet Putin, urges Trump and Xi to pressure Russia to end the war: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/zelensky-says-hes-ready-to.html

from my link log —
Most people do not expect Google to track their activities so pervasively.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/does-google-meet-its-users-expectations-around-consumer-privacy-this-ne…

Does Google meet its users’ expectations around consumer privacy? This news industry research says no
A significant majority of consumers do not expect Google to track their activities across their lives, their locations, on other sites, and on other platforms.

Raider Nation Origin Stories: Meet Barbara Estrada, the Raiders' 2025 International Fan of the Year https://www.raiders.com/news/raider-nation-origin-stories-meet-barbara-estrada-the-raiders-2025-international-fan-of…

Live Updates: Trump to Meet Privately With King Charles (Michael D. Shear/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/28/us/king-charles-us-visit-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p25#a260428p25

Joanna Stern, who has worked at WSJ, ABC, The Verge, and Engadget, launches New Things, her independent tech newsletter and YouTube channel (Joanna Stern/The New Things)
https://thenewthings.com/p/meet-my-new-thing

It’s Time. Meet My New Thing.
A new kind of independent tech journalism. Newsletters! Videos! Fun!

"Solar-plus-storage could meet 90% of India’s power demand"
#India #SolarPower #Energy

Solar-plus-storage could meet 90% of India’s power demand
Ember sazs that solar paired with battery storage could supply 90% of India’s electricity demand at a levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of INR 5.06/kWh ($56/MWh).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Attila Zoller:
🎵 Meet in Berlin
#AttilaZoller

Watched "Cocoon” (1985): it holds up remarkably well
Watched "Meet The Spartans" (2008): it was the stupidest fucking movie I've ever seen

Key Figures in the Hunt for Osama bin Laden
⭐️Alfreda Frances Bikowsky
Role: Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station
Background: Started her CIA career in the 1990s as a Soviet analyst. Promoted to Deputy Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station after the USS Cole bombing in 2000, and became Chief by March 2003.
Controversies: Involved in the CIA's interrogation program and linked to the extraordinary rendition of Khalid El-Masri. Criticized for her role in the tortur…

Google Meet kommt erstmals zu Apples CarPlay
Teams, Telegram oder WhatsApp gibt es seit längerem für die iPhone-Fahrzeugintegration. Nun legt auch Google mit seiner Konferenz-App nach.
https://www.

Nations not on track to meet UN 2030 pesticide risk reduction targets: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/nations-not-on-track-to-meet-un-2030-pesticide-risk-reduction-targets-study/

Nations not on track to meet UN 2030 pesticide risk reduction targets: Study
The world’s nations committed to halving overall threats to biodiversity from pesticides and other highly hazardous chemicals by 2030 at the 15th United Nations Biodiversity Conference in 2022. But new research finds most countries are trending in the wrong direction when it comes to ecological risks from pesticides, with the U.N.’s global risk reduction target […]

We’re taking a massive leap toward solving that problem by introducing a new, upgraded, guided workflow within our exiting Debugger Agent in #visualstudio
https://d…

Saints Join Cowboys as Teams to Meet with 'Ascending' FCS Prospect https://www.si.com/nfl/saints/onsi/news/saints-join-cowboys-as-teams-to-meet-with-ascending-fcs-prospect-arye3

Here's a song by Jimmy Halliday titled "When You Meet a Member of the Ku Klux Klan"
https://bandwagon.fm/6827ded167d89ec13b5b64c3

When You Meet a Member of the Ku Klux Klan

Raider Nation Origin Stories: Meet Barbara Estrada, the Raiders' 2025 International Fan of the Year https://www.raiders.com/news/raider-nation-origin-stories-meet-barbara-estrada-the-raiders-2025-international-fan-of…

I am riding my 45 pound 1946 Schwinn acoustic bicycle rain or shine :-) slowly (<=18km/h :-)) from East Vancouver to UBC for ATmosphereConf Saturday March 28, 2028. Join me? We can meet at JJ Bean at 715 at 7th and Commercial for East Van folks or at Be Fresh, 1900 W 1st Ave. at 8am for west side folks

Pope, 1st Female Archbishop of Canterbury Meet and Pray Together | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pope-leo-sarah-mullally-archbishop/2026/04/27/id/1254288/

Google says Meet's Gemini-powered Take Notes for Me feature can now be used for in-person meetings and adds support for Teams and Zoom (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/22/google-workspace-next-2026/

Google Meet adding in-person ‘Take Notes for me’ and Drive ‘projects’
Google announced a suite of new Workspace features across Drive, Sheets, Meet, and more. These updates are rolling out over the coming weeks.

And there we are. Trump is already blackmailing Europe with 'his' LNG. We urgently need to reduce our natural gas consumption by speeding up the energy transition: focus on energy efficiency, electrification, and scaling up EU production of biomethane, developing way too slow to meet its 2030 target.

Trump Threatens to Cut Off EU's American LNG Supplies - Washington Today
US President Donald Trump is threatening to cut off American liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies to the European Union if Brussels refuses to ratify a trade agreement favorable to Washington. The US Ambassador to the EU, Andrew Puzder, stated that the implementation of the energy part of the agreement would be in question if the EU demanded changes to any points of the document.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Yoshio Suzuki:
🎵 Meet me in the sheep shadow
#YoshioSuzuki

I've largely resolved to never watch a movie adapted from a book I read -- or at least not from a book I loved. I just watched the Netflix adaptation of "People We Meet on Vacation" because I thought the book was enjoyable but not spectacular, and it turned out that the movie had largely the same deficiencies that the book had [in my assessment].
But now I'm curious: if someone watched the movie* without already having read the book, how would it seem to them?

The 'Board' game console is great family fun, the whole family asks to play each night!
✅ Board | Board Game Feel Meets Video Game Magic
https://board.fun/
▶️ Meet 'Board': The 1st ever face-to-face gaming console

Board | Board Game Feel Meets Video Game Magic
Board is a new kind of game console where interactive pieces transform gameplay. Gather around Board and play together.

Fired-up Fernando Mendoza takes center stage to meet Raider Nation — PHOTOS https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/fired-up-fernando-mendoza-takes-center-stage-to-meet-raider-nation-photos-3792584/

Ukraine must meet EU agricultural standards by 2028, says minister: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/06/ukraine-must-meet-eu-agricultural.html

Alysa Liu seems cool as hell and Eileen Gu seems like someone I would never want to meet.

Meet the Press - April 12, 2026 (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/transcripts/meet-press-april-12-2026-rcna326636
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p3#a260413p3

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Spencer Beckman '26 M.Div.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-14-meet-these-grads-2026

Meet Prospect X, who could be the 2026 NFL draft's brightest diamond in the rough https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48543478/2026-prospect-x-nfl-draft

"Saudi Arabia adds around 7.8 GW of solar in 2025"
#SaudiArabia #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower

Saudi Arabia adds around 7.8 GW of solar in 2025
Saudi Arabia had a record year for solar deployment last year, taking cumulative capacity past 12.4 GW. GlobalData is forecasting annual deployments to increase in the coming years but notes that they remain behind the pace required to meet the country's target of 130 GW of renewables by 2030, instead nearing the goal by 2035.

How some independent tech reporters are using AI, which they say allows them to do more reporting and recreate newsroom resources like editors and fact-checkers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-reporters-using-ai-write-edit-stories/

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories
Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

The 2040 milestones that Europe must meet to achieve climate-neutrality by 2050 #Europe …

The 2040 milestones that Europe must meet to achieve climate-neutrality by 2050
Energy, transport, heating and industrial transition: A major modeling study now provides EU-wide guidance with high sector detail on the required pace of transition to fossil-free technologies. The conclusion is encouraging: the EU Green Deal is realistic, and it will ultimately make the continent stronger and more independent from oil and gas crises.

The strangest thing for me about going to a comic book convention or a maid cafe is explaining that I would like exactly the same if you meet me on an ordinary day #summerphaseresearchanddevelopment
#photo

ASML says it plans to make at least 60 of its standard EUV machines this year, 36% more than it sold in 2025, as it races to meet demand for making AI chips (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/the-race-to-m…

Mayoral appointee is only D4 candidate not to oppose mayor’s tax cut on rich real estate investors.
Great answers from the others. Greco and Gee are the ones I’m most aligned with overall, but on this question Lee and Chow are strong too—all 4 defending the will of the voters to put this money toward affordable housing. Love to see it

Meet the District 4 candidates: Should S.F. cut real estate transfer tax?
Mayor Lurie says the BUILD Act will incentivize more housing construction. All but one of District 4 supervisor candidates are against it.

“Britain’s failure to meet its legal obligations has contributed to the mass killing of Palestinian civilians and the wholesale destruction of civilian objects, the desecration of international law and the further erosion of Britain’s status as a nation committed to the rule of law in the international arena.”
#Corbyn would have done much better to have NOT led this tribunal; his presence wil…

Donald Trump says he told top U.S. envoys not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran,
telling Fox News that ″they can call us anytime they want.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Pakistan on Saturday evening, two Pakistani officials told The Associated Press.
Trump said Thursday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah by three weeks after talks at the White House.
The meeting was the second high-lev…

Live updates: Iran's foreign minister leaves Islamabad without meeting US envoys, Pakistan officials say
U.S. President Donald Trump is sending his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan on Saturday for talks with Iran. The pair are expected to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Cowboys Will Meet With ‘Violent’ Star Defender Amid Trade Rumors https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/sonny-styles-nfl-draft-meeting/

SK Hynix says it plans to invest ~$12.85B in a new fab in South Korea for advanced packaging to meet AI demand for HBM, with construction starting this month (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/s…

Ukraine, US, Russia to meet in UAE next week for new round of peace talks, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/ukraine-us-russia-to-meet.html

Meet New York's 'Bodega Boys,' the Yemeni shopkeepers caught in Trump's immigration crackdown
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/02/10/meet-new-york-s-bodega-boys-the-yemeni-shopkeepers-caught-in-trump-s-immigration-crackdown_6750321_4.html

🔨 Can justice happen on a laptop? Study says yes
#law

Can justice happen on a laptop? Study says yes
As courts increasingly turn to virtual proceedings, jurors who deliberate online may be just as attentive, engaged, and fair-minded as those who meet face-to-face, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

First ever talks to ditch fossil fuels as UN deadlock deepens #UN

Countries meet in first global effort to phase out fossil fuels
Some 60 countries are meeting in Colombia as frustration grows with lack of progress in tackling climate change

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Jordan Baker '26 M.Div.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-06-meet-these-grads-2026

Meet These Grads 2026

Cowboys Meeting 2026 Draft Prospect Scooby Williams: Scheme Fit or Stretch? https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-meeting-2026-draft-prospect-scooby-williams-scheme-fit-or-stretch

"Women bear the brunt of climate change. Meet the green politicians determined to change that"
#Women #Climate #ClimateChange

IWD: Meet the women fighting for the planet through politics
This International Women’s Day, Euronews Green highlights some of the female politicians spearheading the never-ending fight against climate change.

A profile of Sherrese Clarke, who grew HarbourView Equity Partners' assets to $2.7B by acquiring 70 music catalogs with songs from Bruno Mars, Nelly, and others (Jabari Young/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jabariyoung/2026…

Meet Private Equity’s Pop Culture Queen
Sherrese Clarke, founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners, has turned the music catalogs of top artists—including Bruno Mars, Nelly, and Justin Bieber—into lucrative alternative assets. Now she’s doing the same for film, television and sports.

Under long-standing DOJ internal rules in the Justice Manual,
prosecutors should never seek a grand jury indictment unless they have evidence that would probably be sufficient to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt and to sustain that verdict on appeal
—a standard meant to avoid subjecting anyone to a fatally weak criminal case
(meaning, even if you can meet the low evidentiary threshold of “probable cause” to bring an indictment,
you must not do so unless you can…

The Poverty of the DOJ Indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Former head of the DOJ Fraud Section, Weissmann discusses conspicuous gaps in the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Chris Murphy weighs in on the calls to oust Chuck Schumer (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/chris-murphy-weighs-in-on-the-calls-to-oust-chuck-schumer-259826757775
http://www.memeorandum.com/260322/p55#a260322p55

4 freakish NFL combine athletes to know, plus why ranking free agent receivers is hard https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7065923/2026/02/23/nfl-combine-freaks-to-watch-prospects-scoop-city/

Who is Mike Washington Jr.? Meet combine darling who sprinted his way into Raiders RB room as Day 3 pick https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/mike-washington-jr-combine-raiders-rb-draft/aa5448edef…

Source: Meta has a system in India to "automatically restrict content, at scale" to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers (Aroon Deep/The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technolo

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Joan Lavaki '26 M.Div.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-14-meet-these-grads-2026

'Jarring disconnect': Maine voters at odds with Democratic leadership in high-stakes Senate primary (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/-jarring-disconnect-maine-voters-at-odds-with-democratic-leadership-in-high-stakes-senate-primary-261737541537
http://www.memeorandum.com/260420/p157#a260420p157

A U.S. district judge in Oregon said he will vacate a declaration made late last year by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/judge-…

Judge will rule against Kennedy’s declaration on gender-affirming care
A U.S. district judge said he will vacate a declaration by Kennedy that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care. 

Source: Meta has a system in India to "automatically restrict content, at scale" to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers (Aroon Deep/The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technolo

Meta sets up automatic blocking for govt., police-referred content
Meta introduces automatic content blocking in India, granting police and government extensive censorship powers under local laws.

Cowboys Host Versatile Safety Kamari Ramsey for Top 30 Visit https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/cowboys-host-versatile-safety-kamari-ramsey-top-30-visit

White House says Trump will meet Xi in China in May (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/trump-xi-beijing-china-summit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p79#a260325p79

Sources: cloud provider Vultr is seeking to raise $1B to expand its AI computing capacity, after raising $333M at a $3.5B valuation in 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amd-backed-vultr-seeks-1-billion-ai-cloud-push

AMD-Backed Vultr Seeks $1 Billion for AI Cloud Push
Vultr, one of the oldest independent cloud providers, is seeking to raise at least $1 billion in new capital so it can compete with a growing list of startups scrambling for cash to meet the surging demand for AI computing power. The company, which is backed by chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, ...

Cowboys to Franchise Tag WR George Pickens Ahead of 2026 NFL Season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/2026-dallas-cowboys-nfl-combine-meeting-tracker-full-list-players

Profile of comedian Tim Heidecker, who, as creative director, plans to turn Infowars into a "weird" comedy streaming network if a judge okays The Onion's offer (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Replit raised a $400M Series D led by Georgian Partners at a $9B valuation and says it's on track to hit annual recurring revenue of $1B by the end of the year (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/

Meet The $9 Billion AI Company Reimagining Vibe Coding
Amjad Masad’s Replit allows users to work together like they’re doodling on a white board. It also made him a billionaire along the way.

Cowboys To Meet With Ideal Fit at LB Anthony Hill Jr. on Monday https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/cowboys-meet-with-ideal-fit-lb-anthony-hill-jr-monday

Meet the Top "Content" Producers Linked to Canary Mission (Jacqueline Sweet/Drop Site News)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-israel-megamot-shalom-highest-paid-employees
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p146#a260423p146

An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-man-making-music-with-his-brain-implant/

Meet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant
Galen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going to be successful.

A look at Microsoft's recent wave of executive departures, as it struggles to retain talent and changes its annual rewards and performance programs in response (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad…

Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures
Microsoft has lost a lot of executives this year already. The company is reshuffling many of its businesses to meet AI demand.

Sources: OpenAI staff raised concerns about a Canadian mass shooting suspect months ago; OpenAI says her activity didn't meet the bar for reporting to police (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.…

Google announces the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a revamped developer tool built on Vertex AI that manages the full lifecycle of AI agent fleets (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-cloud-next-enterprise-agent-platform-ai/…

How Google just revamped Gemini Enterprise for the agentic era - here's what's new
Meet Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, the new developer tool for managing fleets of agents at scale.