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FOIA docs: Brendan Carr joined 8 White House meetings and three calls with Trump officials from March 2025 to February 2026, and met conservative media leaders (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/202…

Revealed: FCC chair Brendan Carr’s close coordination with White House and rightwing media
Internal documents obtained by Guardian show White House meetings, scheduled calls with top Trump officials and communications with Fox News producers

@… meetings: the socially acceptable alternative to goofing off at work

Second Law of Business Meetings:
If there are two possible ways to spell a person's name, you
will pick the wrong one.
Corollary:
If there is only one way to spell a name,
you will spell it wrong, anyway.

Trump eyes busy week of meetings as UN General Assembly gathers (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-eyes-busy-week-meetings-un-general-assembly-gathers-2026-09-20/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260920/p52#a260920p52

Source: Demis Hassabis plans to hold meetings with US policymakers in Washington next week about his proposed US-based Standards Body for "Frontier-class" AI (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Während des Admin-Meetings gelang die Zubereitung rasch improvisierter Tagliatelle Vongole mit Artischocken und Tomaterln. #nommention

The Call for Papers is now open for the Fall 2026 Indiana MAA meeting at Hanover College! As you can see on the map, this SE location is in the OH/KY tri-state area and anyone (including students) may contribute an in-person 20-minute talk or poster.
https://www.indiana.maa.org/meetings/

Section Meetings — MAA Indiana Section

Newly disclosed records reveal
the US government extensively spied on prominent leftwing organizations
and on protesters as part of a vast operation into groups opposing the immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year.
Internal investigative reports show the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent undercover agents to community meetings in the Twin Cities and New York City,
infiltrated Signal chats and obtained financial records of mainstream unions and le…

US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown

FCC chair’s connections to right-wing media revealed | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fcc-chair-brendan-carr-white-house-meetings-b3035836.html

Thank you #FF2026 social media posters! You're helping me get a sense of the event around meetings back at the BL

Tipp: Plaud-AI-Aufnahmegerät abschalten
Mit den Plaud-KI-Geräten kann man Meetings oder Präsentationen aufzeichnen, sie transkribieren und zusammenfassen lassen. Doch wie dreht man die Hardware ab?
https://www.

Tipp: Plaud-AI-Aufnahmegerät abschalten
Mit den Plaud-KI-Geräten kann man Meetings oder Präsentationen aufzeichnen, sie transkribieren und zusammenfassen lassen. Doch wie dreht man die Hardware ab?

Ob Heinz Stücke es jemals bedauert hat, dass er nicht mehr Meetings und Besprechungen in einer Firma hatte?
I doubt it!

Sources: Singapore-based Shein is aiming to hit a ~$25B valuation in its Hong Kong IPO, down from its $30B-$40B goal earlier in August after investor meetings (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona…

It is so easy to create an impressive-looking piece of software.
But it apparently is much easier to create impressive-looking security holes. And deal with them embarrassingly.
https://bobdahacker.com/blog/tldv-hack

Additional grandparenting admin accomplished in the last 10 days...
Organised initial appointments for the wee one for:
OT
Speechie
ADHD/Autism
Teams meetings with:
OT
Kinship assessment
Phoned Centrelink:
Child Care Subsidy has the 3yo attending primary school??? (different rate) - now fixed
Emailing CYF multiple times to keep them updated as required

Morning all!
A day of podcast edits, blog writing, client meetings and online community admin. I also need to make some progress on a new guide to beating #procrastination that I'm writing.
(Grateful for my coffee machine ☕️)

Gave the Level 2 induction lecture today, which I described as "An annual tradition of delivering a motivational yet mildly threatening lecture".
Yeesh, combined with a few meetings my brain feels like mush. Opened up MSc dissertations to mark and was like, "nope". Need to build up that teaching semester stamina again.

Nützliche Features von Smart Glasses:
1. Pornos in langweiligen Meetings einblenden.
2. Meetings in langweiligen Pornos einblenden.

Handoffs drool, meetings rule. To fully realize our design vision we MUST coordinate with other people, and therefore deliberately design our meetings to be effective. But instead we are ceding the influence that meetings give us, to focus on LLM-powered solipsism.
https://product…

Sense-making is only productive when it is collective
The "optimization" you achieve by automating interfaces between colleagues is always going to be self-defeating.

Heading for my first #ETSI meeting: on #DectNRPlus. After having contributed to many #IETF meetings in the last decade, how different can it be?
Well, I know they have better graphics and worse hyperlinks. Fo…

Quick recap of Belém, Salzburg, and what's coming next:
http://anitagraser.com/2026/07/11/belem-salzburg-and-onwards/

Belém, Salzburg, and onwards
It’s been a couple of busy weeks, with the QGIS 4.2 release and meetings and conferences all over the place before a few, hopefully quieter, weeks of summer break. QGIS First, the Austrian QG…

Friday Links 26-25
This week I really enjoyed the podcast about compression (The Hutter Prize) and the one about seashells.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/08/friday-links-26-25.html

Tom Brady treatment extends to Troy Aikman after taking new role before NFL season kicks off https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/tom-brady-treatment-extends-troy-aikman-nfl-restrictions/70…

In the 80s, during the Cold War, a drone attack with explosives on a plane would have caused crisis meetings in governments and the military, now it is just a small article on this frontpage in Germany. I don't think Russia has received the message we don't want to allow this...
We could just slide into war and will probably be surprised when people start dying outside Ukraine...
Russia is simply not deterred from doing more attacks.

underrated #tool imho: https://www.meetingbrew.com/
It's terribly useful for scheduling meetings. I hope it will be maintained (and maybe developed further).

On biotech and neurotech in China, Q3 2026 https://milan.cvitkovic.net/china_notes_q3_2026/

Notes from China, Q3 2026
Context: I recently spent 2.5 weeks in China visiting universities, research institutes, clinical sites, companies of all sizes, and investors. Most meetings focused on biotech, neurotech, and AI. Conventional wisdom my trip corroborated US cities feel medieval compared to Chinese cities. I was expecting the cleaner, safer, greener cities with better trains, EVs, consumer electronics, etc. But I was surprised that Chinese cities didn’t feel bleak. I thought that would be the required tradeoff…

from my link log —
Don't make my mistakes: common infrastructure errors i've made.
https://matduggan.com/mistakes/
saved 2021-12-03 https://dota…

Troy Aikman gets the Tom Brady treatment after taking Dolphins position https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/troy-aikman-gets-tom-brady-treatment-after-taking-job/70fabf5b77ebef1e0665314…

University admin at some point cleary thought to themselves, "human resources is insufficiently dystopian, we really ought to come up with something better." After years of meetings, they congratulated themselves on a job well done. "Yes," they purred, "'people strategy' is so much worse."

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TVOD:
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#TVOD
#newRelease 🆕 single
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Während des Admin-Meetings gelang die Zubereitung rasch improvisierter Tagliatelle Vongole mit Artischocken und Tomaterln. #nommention

Top U.S. Postal Service officials tasked with issuing new regulations on mail voting
expressed concerns in internal meetings about how
the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms,
but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned.
The revelations about the discussions, from someone familiar with the rulemaking process, come as a separate anonymous federal employee filed a wh…

New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.

Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-ai-industrys-behind-scenes-push-pol…

Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

Geht ja noch morgen 🙈🫪

This summer, the Georgia Museum of Art will celebrate the retirement of Paula Arscott, who has served as the museum’s executive assistant to the director for 17 years. Requiring the utmost organizational and communication skills, her position consists of supporting the director in whatever is necessary, including correspondence, scheduling meetings, ensuring preparedness and arranging travel — a role in which she has excelled.
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U.S. Postal Service officials tasked with issuing new regulations on mail voting
expressed concerns in internal meetings about how the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms,
but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned.
The revelations about the discussions, from someone familiar with the rulemaking process,
come as a separate anonymous federal employee filed a whistl…

New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.

Pro Football Hall of Fame overhauls selection process ahead of Class of 2027 election https://www.nfl.com/news/pro-football-hall-of-fame-overhauls-selection-process

What a day! Spent 3 hours with a MA student to finish our pilot experiment for her research project (it’s launched!), meeting 1 with former current PhD students on paper edits, meeting 2a b with another current PhD student on paper edits slides for a talk (different topic), meeting 3 with a future PhD student and their second supervisor on “what it means to do a PhD”, then 7 meetings with students on their term paper topics. 😅 All made possible by the fact that virtually all of German academia is on vacation, so I received a single digit number of actionable emails today #academicChatter

"Wordplay in Peanuts" @ Charles M. Schulz Museum's blog
#Peanuts

City That Arrested Person for Clapping at Data Center Meeting Moves to Virtual Townhalls for 'Public Safety' https://www.404media.co/city-that-arrested-person-for-clapping-at-data-center-meeting-moves-to-vi…

People challenge your ideas in meetings, and you point to data and slides. This habit stops you from using your own experience to make a decision.
From Presence and Possibility with Bri Chapman.

This is a great thread on remote work. The notes about having to be 💯 while on camera made me realize that all my clients are fine if people have their cameras off (mine is almost always off), and how much that really makes doing meetings easier.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:svvjd

Snitty (@clofsnitville.bsky.social)
Matt and @ed3d.net have offered up some interesting thoughts on making remote work more workable with both technology and camera-facing skills, but I'll throw in my two cents about the limits of technology and why some *workers* still prefer to be in-person. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

A low-slung building in Garden Grove California is the home of the Women's Civic Club, a community group that's been around since 1921.
Once a month for nearly 20 years, it was also home to meetings for the California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR),
one of the influential voices in the anti-immigrant movement during the 1990s and 2000s,
and one whose legacy is still felt today.
The group originally started as Citizens for Action Now,
headed by…

The OC Community Center That Launched a National Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
A small community center became the unlikely launching pad for multiple extremist movements that profoundly changed American politics.

Sources: Beijing recently held meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, Z.ai, and others to discuss restricting overseas access to advanced open and closed AI models (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/beijing-is-l

meetings melting away from my agenda like snow under the sun are the best

#shitpost

How Amazon and Gilroy, California, quietly negotiated a $2B data center project that AWS applied to build in 2020, without any public meetings or votes (Zusha Elinson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us…

- Recognized creed and form of worship
The practice of "worship" is not necessarily theistic. There are plenty of secular churches, such as some of those from some Buddhist sects and Secular Humanist ones. You just need something that says what you believe.
Perhaps, what you believe is that "the system is dying and we must work together to create an alternative system." That's kind of all you need. Now, if you're reading this, then I might recommend your "practice of worship" look a whole lot like the "housing coop that looks like a convent/monastery," with a library and dispensary managed by the "Church" and "regular services" (we'll get to that) which are just the types of general assemblies/organizing meetings that you need to keep such things going. But I'm not here to tell you what to believe and how to practice it. ;)

Accused rapist Graham Platner convenes crisis meetings with Maine Senate campaign brass as he holds 'livid' Dems hostage (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/07/08/us-news/accused-rapist-graham-platner-convenes-crisis-meetings-with-campaign-brass-as-he-holds-livid-dems-hostage/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260708/p89#a260708p89

„Heute war ein guter Tag: Zwischen den Meetings blieb fast eine Viertelstunde Zeit für produktive Arbeit.“
Was Arbeitgeber glauben, dass Arbeitnehmer denken.

Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5 (Hugo Lowell/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-trump-white-house-is-over-anthropics-dario-am…

The Trump White House Is Over Anthropic's Dario Amodei
At high-stakes meetings with the White House, Anthropic's CEO—a "weirdo," per one official—has been replaced by cofounder Tom Brown.

Trump’s legal and rhetorical assault on voting by mail
— and the flurry of contradictory court decisions around it
— has left voters confused and local officials scrambling just eight weeks before November’s critical midterm elections.
The contortions have county registrars dusting off Election Day contingency plans developed for natural disasters like floods and wildfires.
They have struggled to make it through planning meetings before the latest version of the rules…

Trump’s War on Mail-In Ballots Has Voters Baffled. That May Be the Point.
From Oregon to Florida, officials are at once reassuring voters that their ballots are safe and encouraging them to use drop boxes or vote in person.

"A former OpenAI employee described what was often a grueling work culture marked by frequent 'crisis meetings, ' working on weekends, and 'super cut-throat' performance reviews that would see colleagues suddenly let go."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgx4yd1gl2o

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
TVOD:
🎵 Meetings
#TVOD
https://televisionoverdose.bandcamp.com/track/meetings
https://open.spotify.com/track/24kld4AJX5lPrenmK8Juc6

Why Smart People Overexplain In Meetings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joKPvXF4UDA

People across the United States are increasingly pushing for moratoriums on new datacenters and trying to oust elected officials approving such projects.
Perceived secrecy surrounding a proposed datacenter
prompted residents to pack public meetings that sometimes lasted more than four hours.
They expressed outrage at officials in the Republican-led rural municipality 40 miles (64km) north of Detroit
and submitted a petition seeking to recall four members of the Leno…

US residents angry at datacenters ‘being shoved down our throats’ are recalling officials
People across the country are pushing for moratoriums, and electeds who approve projects are being punished

Bee morning meetings: first photo in the squash flower conference room, second photo in the sunflower conference room. #bloomscrolling

The Man Behind the Anti-Flock Darth Vader Mask Wants to Know: 'When Will This End?' https://www.404media.co/darth-vader-flock-san-diego-city-council-interview/

meetings melting away from my agenda like snow under the sun are the best

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
TVOD:
🎵 Meetings
#TVOD
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://televisionoverdose.bandcamp.com/track/meetings
https://open.spotify.com/track/24kld4AJX5lPrenmK8Juc6

Sources: YMTC, which seeks to raise $5B in an IPO, told investors in IPO prep meetings that it aims to become the largest NAND flash supplier by the end of 2027 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1b1c357f-6a1c-4ce3-bb47-980c3de4d3d2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
TVOD:
🎵 Meetings
#TVOD
https://televisionoverdose.bandcamp.com/track/meetings
https://open.spotify.com/track/24kld4AJX5lPrenmK8Juc6

Why Smart People Overexplain In Meetings
From Presence and Possibility with Bri Chapman. #leadership #podcast

“You can do it either way. We don’t have to pay you, and you just go off and do how you normally do. Or, we can pay you, but we get more control over it.” They then offered him “£100 for every story that is successfully published (national or trade)”.
In meetings with the reporter, the CT Group employees proposed he chair a roundtable for the company for £500 and pitch pieces to national and trade papers.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/22/david-cameron-firm-adviser-pays-journalists-favourable-pieces-boris-johnson?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
TVOD:
🎵 Meetings
#TVOD
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://televisionoverdose.bandcamp.com/track/meetings
https://open.spotify.com/track/24kld4AJX5lPrenmK8Juc6

Trump commemorates Graham's life -- with sunny Netanyahu and Zelenskyy meetings (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/28/trump-zelenskyy-netanyahu-graham-01013912
http://www.memeorandum.com/260728/p136#a260728p136

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
TVOD:
🎵 Meetings
#TVOD
https://televisionoverdose.bandcamp.com/track/meetings

Handoffs drool, meetings rule. To fully realize our design vision we MUST coordinate with other people, and therefore deliberately design our meetings to be effective. But instead we are ceding the influence that meetings give us, to focus on LLM-powered solipsism.
#tech #UXDesign #SoftwareDevelopment #AI #LLM #UX #design