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I regret that I have inadvertantly informed you falsely. Yes, there is widespread fraud in gift cards around but Apple (and Shoppers Drug Mart) did deliver when I found the right strip to scan.
The link below has not been changed but I have deleted what I typed
https://glo…

B.C. charity warns of gift card scam after purchased and loaded card was blank
Experts say this kind of scam is becoming increasingly common, and in some cases, scammers pull gift cards from racks, record the PIN, and then put them back.

Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)
https://www.theat…

Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon
New details on precisely where the lines were drawn

Dutch newspaper @nrc: "After the arrest of Maduro, Trump makes it clear that for him it's about oil and imperialist power. Venezuela's future doesn't have to be democratic, as long as its oil flows to the US, and the migrants flow back."

Na gevangenneming Maduro toont Trump dat het hem om olie en imperialistische macht gaat
Venezuela: Trump is dol op dictators en autocraten die hem gunstig gezind zijn. De Venezolaanse toekomst hoeft wat hem betreft niet democratisch te zijn, als de olie maar naar de VS stroomt – en de migranten terug.

According to a source familiar with the negotiations, on Friday morning, Anthropic received word that Hegseth’s team would make a major concession.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/202

Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon
New details on precisely where the lines were drawn

"I volunteer in a repair cafe: we can help you learn to fix your broken Christmas gift"
#Christmas #RepairCafe

I volunteer in a repair cafe: we can help you learn to fix your broken Christmas gift
Hundreds of items are taken to repair cafes after Christmas in the hope that they can be fixed.

The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/masks-ice-immigration/685834/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8NyKNl7k7IcEmPXCTFQ_b-E&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p97#a260202p97

​​​​​​​The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/masks-ice-immigration/685834/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3jsxohg4Ck6b1qDZPaMLcZU

​​​​​​​The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks
Face coverings may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to make it easier for them to do unconstitutional things.

On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox "is progressing well to support a launch in 2027" and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC (Tom Warren/The Verge)

AMD hints Microsoft could launch its next-gen Xbox in 2027
AMD says it’s ready to support Microsoft launching its next-gen Xbox in 2027. The pair have partnered to work on a custom chip for the next Xbox.

Chevy Chase... the famously prickly comedian found a sympathetic adversary in the director of a CNN documentary about him. Their conversation with a reporter was … spirited.
✅ He’s Chevy Chase, and He’s Still Like That - WSJ (gift)
ht…

He’s Chevy Chase, and He’s Still Like That
The famously prickly comedian found a sympathetic adversary in the director of a CNN documentary about him. Their conversation with a reporter was … spirited.

As an anarcho-syndicalist, I can’t recommend the IWA-AIT web magazine enough.
The more I read, the more I yearn, and I try to educate myself on the struggles, the movements, the splits and reorganizations, and the lessons from our history.
It’s giving me a stronger sense of what we stand for and where we’re going. It feels like the best kind of self-education, a gift to start the new year.

Trump Opens the Pandora's Box of Assassination (Tim Naftali/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/khamenei-assassination-precedent/686215/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxQWCisA23rxrHDj14QNX3Go
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p38#a260303p38

Due to a slight gift mishap, I find myself with a duplicate copy of volumes 1 - 3 of Donald Knuth’s “The Art of Computer Programming” post-Christmas.
If anyone in the PDX area would cherish a copy of this work, I’d like to talk to you!
I’d rather see it going to a loving home than put too much effort into maximizing sales value.
#PDX

Anxiety is a Form of Futurism — https://www.brichapman.com/p/anxiety-is-a-form-of-futurism?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

The Gift of the Anxious Mind: Turning Fear into Foresight
What if anxiety isn’t a flaw, but a form of foresight? This essay explores how anxious minds, tuned to possibility, can become powerful futurists.

Minnesota could finally teach The Convicted Criminal the limits of theatrically threatening illegal action. <-- There I fixed it for you Megan McArdle and the Washington Post :-)
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115992703377834649

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Tyler Strickland & Tyler Strickland:
🎵 John Candy - I like Me " A Gift to the World"
#TylerStrickland
https://open.spotify.com/track/01PzIwRcc4LWHIbgN2p9r0
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

How some companies are trying to become the "Strava of tennis" by offering match video, stats, highlights, social features, and performance analysis for players (Charlie Eccleshare/The Athletic)

Amateur tennis players love data as much as the pros. The race to monetize it is on
With more players, comes more data and companies are queuing up to be the Strava of tennis

Calling it “divisive” to document the honest brutality of American slavery and lynching is an attempt to erase the uncomfortable truth of racial terror.
Government efforts to remove such important history from both curricula and public institutions are efforts of deliberate whitewashing, propaganda to protect a mythology of American innocence.
Sanitizing the past protects power, not feelings.
(Clint Smith is always required reading.

The Power of Private Museums
Montgomery shows what’s possible when museums aren’t subject to capricious executive orders.

i gave my son-in-law a battery daddy (fully populated), a scrub daddy set, and a gift certificate to fat daddy
#BatteryDaddy #ScrubDaddy #FatDaddy

On the immaterial spirit of giving:
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/ways-of-seeing-the-gift-2025

Ways of Seeing: The Gift
The gift as a form of attention, exploring the gift economies described by Marcel Mauss and Lewis Hyde.

Das großartige Chilirezept (hier immer ohne Schokolade und mit weniger Olivenöl und mit Hackfleisch) funktioniert auch perfekt mit Erbsenprotein, 100g reichen völlig, wo ansonsten 500g Hackfleisch zum Einsatz kommen. Und dann noch eine Dose Kidneybohnen, von denen die Hälfte püriert wird zwecks Erhöhung der Sämigkeit. #nommention

Texas-Style Chili Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Calling a dish "Texas Chili,” especially if you’re not a native of that state, is clearly asking for trouble. But this recipe, refined over years of potlucks and Super Bowl parties, is too good to keep under wraps. Its depth of flavor, from different chile types, makes this recipe stand out. It also has whole spices, unsweetened chocolate and dark beer that meld seamlessly into a brick-red sauce that naps the succulent meat. The meat can be cut into large chunks, or, more traditionally, thi…

You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
The Economist’s country of the year for 2025
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/18/the-economists-country-of-the-year-for-2025?giftId=YTQzMzkyMWYtZmUwMS00MGQ2LWJmM2QtMWVlYjg0YTg4OTc3&utm_campaign=gifted_article

Integza, I see, now makes enough from his YouTube videos to hire a lobbyist. 😉 https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115994469878625166

I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic

In 2016, The Atlantic’s journalist
Shane Harris
made contact with a person claiming to work as a hacker for Iran’s intelligence,
where he claimed to have worked on major operations,
such as the downing of an American drone and the now-infamous hack against oil giant Saudi Aramco,
where Iranian hackers wiped the company’s computers.
Harris was rightly skeptical,
but as he kept talking to the hacker,
who eventually revealed his real name to him,…

They Killed My Source
A man claiming to be an Iranian intelligence officer promised me he would reveal his country’s secrets. Then he disappeared.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Liminanas:
🎵 The Gift
#NowPlaying #TheLiminanas
https://theliminanas.bandcamp.com/track/the-gift-feat-peter-hook-1

Trump's Risky War in Venezuela (Conor Friedersdorf/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/01/trumps-risky-war-in-venezuela/685485/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38Lpnx7tly6HHELfzqjUP5M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p24#a260103p24

A post from the archive 📫:
The gift of time
#musings

Newspaper executives' emphasis on reader data doesn't serve subscribers who look to editorial staff to guide them to potential new areas of interest (John Williams/The Atlantic)
http…

The Washington Post’s Leaders Missed the Point
The editor of the recently scrapped Book World believes in serving subscribers, not data.

'Melania' Is a Horror Movie
<em>Melania</em> Is a Horror Movie
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/01/melania-trump-documentary-horror-movie/685843/?gift=TPTA7XiYh…

'Melania' Is a Horror Movie
The first lady is trapped, and she doesn’t seem to know it.

The Paradox of Trump’s Iran Attack - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-iran-attack/686191/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3g6aEnNPodYnVVupuUG0p34

The Paradox of Trump’s Iran Attack
When his fantasies unravel, Trump has a habit of abusing power to force his will upon an uncooperative world.

The Epstein rot goes deep (Edward Luce/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3f8277cd-2b47-49ff-b264-fd7ce89c924f?accessToken=zwAGSe8m9smYkc8_gnfNK0dJ_9OyZP186JySTw.MEYCIQDPeRoGcKOWd2Wtrm5q_tl_G8pOjtwA9ngEd9n6xgnGywIhAK-C5Evzz0rAuq7tvY3jBsDA3kZnJx2hsE9FUdlZ_QdS&sharetype=gift&token=808810cd-c86f-4327-9f36-27d5885314c6
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p64#a260203p64

I've always loved the Atlantic for taking a chaotic news cycle and pulling out the 10,000 foot story. Please check these out if you have time.
(For the doubters who have been skeptical) "Yes, It’s Fascism: Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny."
(For the people wondering why residents are risking their lives)
"Believe Your Eyes: If it still is not clear why this matters, compare the …

Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

In which I’m reminded that I had (note past tense) an Amazon Wish List with additions (books & music) from 2006-2010. Remembered almost none. Ordered one from the public library.
See https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-address-private-third-party/

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address
Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

"Yet what matters isn’t the specific phrases, but the overall message: Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government and certainly not the Danish government, determines the winner of that prize. Yet Trump now not only blames Norway for failing to give it to him, but is using it as a justification for an invasion of Greenland."
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=E9o0y7Rlfcfv2OQ1sSVCEm2HqWTlvBG_uUPQ_7tcOpI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego, but it's caught between the pressures to be safe, fast, and rigorous while being commercially successful (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)

Anthropic Is at War With Itself
The AI company shouting about AI’s dangers can’t quite bring itself to slow down.

Osaka Stunned by Anonymous Gift of Gold Bars to Fix Aging Water Pipes https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/osaka-stunned-by-anonymous-gift-of-gold-bars-to-fix-aging-water-pipes/

Osaka Stunned by Anonymous Gift of Gold Bars to Fix Aging Water Pipes
At current rates, the 21 kilos of gold will fetch some 560 million Japanese yen, enough to replace 1.2 miles of pipes. 

Visit our newly redesigned modern galleries, and you'll find a sculpture by John Rhoden, part of a gift of several works by this important artist. Read on to find out more about how this gift came to pass...
https://georgiamuseum.org/museum-receives-sculptures-by-joh…

The Convicted Criminal is choosing war. <-- fixed it for you WSJ!
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116148530636417980

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015047-green-pea-guacamole?unlocked_article_code=1._08.vb4Y.PPRlZgE39rS0&smid=share-url

Green Pea Guacamole Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Adding fresh English peas to what is an otherwise fairly traditional guacamole is one of those radical moves that is also completely obvious after you taste it. The peas add intense sweetness and a chunky texture to the dip, making it more substantial on the chip. They also intensify the color of the green avocado — and help the guacamole stay that way. Pea guacamole keeps its bright hue in the fridge for a few days without turning brown around the edges. A good dose of lime juice helps this …

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/ammon-bundy-trump-ice/685849/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3hqhdsGKnuvgTwb-3Ps--Po

Ammon Bundy Is All Alone
The anti-government militia leader can’t make sense of his allies’ support for ICE violence.

New Cowboys 2026 NFL mock draft gift wraps defensive stars for Dallas https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/new-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-mock-draft-gift-wraps-defensive-stars

Good Morning #Canada
Are you still looking for that perfect Christmas gift? Years ago I found myself shopping for my wife's Christmas present on December 23rd. Never again. For those of you still shopping it's inevitable that you're going to be standing in front of the Gift Card rack and mentally convincing yourself that the recipient will love a full gas tank or a Timmies coffee and donut. Canadians will buy close to $12 billion in Gift Cards in 2025, with a lot of that in the next 5 days. Recent changes to legislation have made it illegal to charge processing or activation fees on cards purchased with cash and there is no expiry date. That last point is important because companies are betting that a certain percentage of cards are never redeemed and it's estimated that approximately 40% of all cards are never used. I personally like getting a gift card as it allows me to choose something I want, and I always thank the gifter once I've used it.
#CanadaIsAwesome #GiftCards
YES, I love giving and receiving Gift Cards
NO, I'm not happy when I have to buy or get a Gift Card

Trump's Kennedy Center Honors went... comically poorly. Alexandra Petri reporting at the event.
✅ Trump’s Very Weird Night at the Kennedy Center Honors - The Atlantic
https://w…

Trump’s Very Weird Night at the Kennedy Center Honors
The president and I both got our heart’s desire. But something felt wrong.

"Jesse Jackson was a gift from God and a witness that God exists in the ways he cared for and lifted all people, the way he called forth a rainbow coalition of people to challenge economic and social inequality from the pulpit to a historic presidential run, the way he dared to keep hope alive whenever the nation struggled with being who she says she is and yet ought to be."
—The Rev. Dr. William Barber
Full statement here:

It's worth saying that the reason I am able to be generous to friends in #Gaza is that other friends are generous to me. And the gift of the ability to be generous is a very great gift indeed.
You know who you are. Thanks!

Which instrument should you play?
#music #education

A look at the rise of AI companion apps; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with 220M total downloads as of July 2025 (Financial Times)

#Metrolinx finally admits what everyone has been expecting, the Ontario Line will open later than 2031
It might also require closures of the DVP for some crucial engineering work (the line will go over the freeway)

Gift Article:
How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded
-- a Video Tmeline
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-alex-p…

Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded
A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.

'I Have Agreed to Talk' -- Trump tells The Atlantic that Iranian leaders want to resume negotiations. (Michael Scherer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/trump-iran-attack-negotiations/686201/?gift=nHf7iWmpOKBdlkwz68mfUJqztpZBoSFVb4MKQxlCiDg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p39#a260301p39

Free link --> A Democrat for the Trump Era - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/jasmine-crockett-democrats/683652/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3il9Yroz0IJ6lNuCh03g3o4 …

A Democrat for the Trump Era
Jasmine Crockett is testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced.

A week or two ago, I saw a youtube video where someone was claiming that the adult thing to do was to get your coats dry cleaned at the end of the winter season, so that they are ready for next year. I briefly thought that it would be a nice gift for future you. Fast forward to this past Monday and I ended up dropping my coat off at the dry cleaners in an attempt to get cat pee out of it. I've used laundry services before but not a dry cleaner. I'm curious to see what $40 buys me.

*nochmalskicher*
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSKoD3wiAF6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

ISTB University of Vienna on Instagram: "We are deeply honoured and delighted that the South Asian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies Library has been selected as one of the distinguished institutions to receive the eighty-volume commemorative edition of the Tipitaka, published in Thailand in 2016 to mark the seventieth anniversary of His Majesty King Bhumibol’s accession to the throne. The Thai monarchy has long upheld a well-established tradition of commissioning, presenting, and receiving editions of the Pali Canon. In 1893, King Rama V commissioned the first printed edition of the Tipitaka in Thailand, which was subsequently presented as a gift to institutions in more than twenty-five countries. The 40-volume “King Bhumibol Edition” allows monks and Buddhist laity worldwide to chant the Tipiṭaka in a consistent, rule-based manner. It is accompanied by the 40-volume “Queen Sirikit Edition” which reproduces King Rama V’s use of Syām-Pāli annotation with additional notes. The ISTB library provides an ideal home for this new edition of the Tipitaka. With a collection of more than 70,000 volumes in over ninety Asian languages, it serves as a vital centre for research and teaching in South Asian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna."
20 likes, 0 comments - istb_univienna on December 12, 2025: "We are deeply honoured and delighted that the South Asian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies Library has been selected as one of the distinguished institutions to receive the eighty-volume commemorative edition of the Tipitaka, published in Thailand in 2016 to mark the seventieth anniversary of His Majesty King Bhumibol’s accession to the throne. The Thai monarchy has long upheld a well-established tradition of commissioning, presentin…

As the BBC fights Trump's $10B lawsuit and ITV plans to combine its broadcasting business with Sky in 2026, a look at the slow death of the UK's TV channels (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

How Nokia has reinvented itself for the AI revolution by expanding into cloud services, data centers, and optical networks, and by partnering with Nvidia (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

The Paradox of Trump's Iran Attack (David Frum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-iran-attack/686191/?gift=Ut5zkH9vG00uzi0vmoT5f-SZCUsrR2sPQ6O0PZiPtx4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p29#a260228p29

Free link. --> Why I Got Thrown Out of a Jasmine Crockett Rally - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/02/texas-senate-democratic-primary-talarico-crockett/686154/?gift=7dKt…

Why I Got Thrown Out of a Jasmine Crockett Rally
The crowd was fired up. The candidate was on her game. And I was escorted out by armed guards.

Tteokbokki! Falls man die Tteok aus der Packung im Kühlregal nimmt (also nicht tie tiefgefrorenen), empfiehlt es sich, sie ein paar Minuten zu kochen, bis zur Bißfestigkeit. #nommention

Spicy Korean Rice Cakes (Tteokbokki) Recipe (Gift Recipe)
This popular street-food dish, called tteokbokki, is a garlicky, richly spiced dish of rice cakes bathed in red chile paste. Tteokbokki (pronounced duck-bo-key) got its own festival, spinning off from the larger annual Seoul festival of rice cakes, or tteok.

'The Worst-Case Outcome Is Complete Chaos' (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/02/iran-war-trump-us-strikes/686197/?gift=C-rzmQ8PsUHt15odxTKJDi4sBl9eFXpZyQv_H_PHbDI
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p89#a260228p89

Court docs from a New Mexico trial reveal internal divisions at Meta as Instagram teen safety initiatives conflicted with growth and engagement goals (The Atlantic)
https://www.

How Meta Executives Talked About Child Safety Behind the Scenes
For years, employees acknowledged a problem with potential child groomers, but prioritized growth over fixes.

Shares of Kyndryl, the US company that will take control of the Dutch DigID digital identity app (if government doesn't prevent this) crash as the CFO leaves and the quarterly report is postponed.

De koers keldert van Kyndryl, het bedrijf dat Solvinity wil kopen
De koers van het Amerikaanse bedrijf Kyndryl is meer dan gehalveerd op Wall Street. Dat volgde op het nieuws dat de financiële topman van de IT-dienstverlener maandag opstapte en het bedrijf zijn volledige kwartaalrapport later indient, melden persbureaus. Kyndryl is een afsplitsing van IBM. Het bedrijf kwam recent in Nederland in het nieuws omdat Kyndryl het van oorsprong Nederlandse bedrijf…

Was making a cuppa for my wife who is working through a little Christmas-gift box of fancy tea and it’s pretty well all gone, as I was gathering the last cupsworth I snickered because there was a tune going through my head 🎵“Twigs and seeds, twigs and seeds…” 🎵
#IYKYK

To frame #Grinch vs #Scrooge as a mere new-for-old replacement misses half the point of #AChristmasCarol: it’s not just a redemption story, but—like much of

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-has-no-plan-iranian-people/686194/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_q5_fxBXpe0k7IQYKZ32co
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p70#a260228p70

Sources: Microsoft is focusing on fixing the core issues of Windows 11 over the coming months after persistent bugs, ads, and bloatware eroded user trust (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows
Microsoft is going to spend 2026 improving Windows 11. It comes after Windows update quality issues and complaints about the operating system.

Inside the Fight Over the Epstein Files (Sarah Fitzpatrick/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/02/epstein-files-trump-clinton-bondi/686156/?gift=AwR_TGzSRSLueG5W7xh0Rdj0F27-xDL_u0SsPTekRlg
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p76#a260227p76

“God gave us this incredible gift of an intellect and curiosity and an opportunity to explore how nature works,”
Dr Francis Collins, former director of National Institutes of Health said.
“And God gave us nature as well
and we get the chance through science to do that.
I think of science as glimpsing God’s mind.
Science is almost a form of worship because what you’re trying to do there is to be completely caught up in the awe of what we’ve been given in natu…

Francis Collins and Marc Siegel say medicine is a gift from God
“To have Christians be the group that was most resistant” to the Covid vaccine “really seems wrong here,” said former NIH Director Francis Collins.

With the WaPo layoffs, we're seeing a business and leadership failure, and the death of a newspaper where the actual journalism still stands strong (Ashley Parker/The Atlantic)
https://www.

The Murder of The Washington Post
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

The rise of the slopagandist ... The violent federal occupation of Minneapolis ... (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869824/right-wing-influencers-nick-shirley-slopaganda?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Ik9ybzNhRTVkV3IiLCJwIjoiL25ld3MvODY5ODI0L3JpZ2h0LXdpbmctaW5mbHVlbmNlcnMtbmljay1zaGlybGV5LXNsb3BhZ2FuZGEiLCJleHAiOjE3NzAxMzQ3NzUsImlhdCI6MTc2OTcwMjc3NX0.pSvXmTL-Bp-zqeCeqOavGJFU-selnaL2kD0VNRJaH08&utm_medium=gift-link
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p71#a260129p71

Dieses Hühnersuppenrezept wäre mir denn doch etwas zu aufwändig, aber womöglich möchte sich ja jemand von Euch die Zeit nehmen. Mir reichen eineinhalb Stunden leichtes Blubbern. #nommention

Chicken Soup From Scratch Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Chicken soup is one of the most painless and pleasing recipes a home cook can master. This soup has all the classic flavors (celery, carrot, parsley) but has been updated for today's cooks, who can't easily buy the stewing hen and packet of soup vegetables that old-fashioned recipes used to call for. A whole bird provides the right combination of fat, salt and flavor. Don't be tempted to use all white meat, as the flavor won't be as round. Because making soup involves the bones and deep tissues…

"The President of the USA is a dictator, how to tell." <-- There I fixed it for you Atlantic :-)
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115935370334290240

The Trump administration recently dropped its
National Security Strategy
and, like all things Trump,
it’s equal parts nonsense and vitriol.
It signals a self-defeating retreat from any sort of global leadership
and the regime’s open promotion of white nationalism at home and abroad.
The document is extremely light on the “strategy” part,
but is chock full of naked racism and Great Replacement rhetoric.
If you fed a low-rent knockoff version o…

We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.

The Case Against Don Lemon Is Junk, and Dangerous (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/don-lemon-arrest/685840/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9TuxxwGcPa5RX3-nY0LYJSc0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p136#a260130p136

As news outlets treat prediction markets like news, especially heading into US elections, every dip and swing in the odds may end up wildly misleading people (Saahil Desai/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/202

America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster
Why is the media obsessed with prediction markets?

The Diplomats Who Carry Trump's Grievances Abroad (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/02/undiplomatic-diplomats-ambassadors-trump/686183/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFwePAKg-LBezi9Eu4K2XsBnRM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p100#a260227p100

[Auf Bsky verlinkt gefunden, der Postende hob hervor, wie gut es wäre, dass erfahrene Kriegsberichterstatter*innen aus Minneapolis berichteten und auch die entsprechende Sensibilität für den Schutz von Personendaten mitbrächten.]

The Minneapolis Uprising
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

Trump's Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trumps-iran-regime-change-attack-gamble/686190/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweJw09eKM0IFLE27PjNviuec&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p20#a260228p20

Trump’s National Gallery Portrait - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/01/trumps-national-gallery-portrait/685666/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3r8RoKTaVZ0EL18buU6YwR8 "The photo in…

Trump’s National Gallery Portrait
The National Portrait Gallery removed key details from the caption beside the president’s photograph. It still has a story to tell.

Apple acquires Q.ai, whose tech can analyze facial expressions to enable non-verbal discussions with AI assistants; sources: the deal values Q.ai at ~$2B (Financial Times)

Erneut teile ich dieses wundervolle Saag-Shrimp-Rezept mit Euch Folgenden, und es schmeckt auch mit einem Drittel der Ghee-Menge und ohne "heavy cream" fantastisch. #nommention

Saag Shrimp Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Saag comes in so many ingenious variations. Leafy greens, such as spinach, amaranth, mustard greens or fenugreek, make up the bulk. A heady blend of spices and aromatics provide the foundation, and different proteins can be added to enhance texture and flavor. This version, adapted from the chef Pourin Singh’s recipe at Le Taj in Montreal, is made with plump shrimp, which add a complementary brininess. The secret to Mr. Singh’s version is the freshness of his ingredients: the spices, the sp…

The First Couple of a Dysfunctional DHS (McKay Coppins/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/02/dhs-couple-noem-lewandowski/686153/?gift=66OeTwjwIWd7-zlTK2lFDubm5VZj0aHYaXs0_U3t99E&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p100#a260226p100

Battles Are Raging Inside the Department of Homeland Security (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/dhs-ice-trump-immigration-minnesota/685802/?gift=6kW-3kpyH7tV4NcHqyTUk7cqeLMPAhfUWPnIburGY74
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p74#a260129p74

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/elite-accountability-powerful-impunity/686134/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8ImCAJzfV2R8UlH_eHGQVjM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p49#a260226p49

A look at Amazon's and Walmart's differing approaches to agentic AI shopping; Similarweb: Walmart doubled its share of AI referrals in the US to 32.5% in 2025 (Financial Times)

Whatever This Is, It Is Not Strategy -- Defending the nation will take more than sycophancy, slurs, and slop. (Eliot A. Cohen/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/unserious-national-defense-strategy/685784/?gift=uknf6XP0NWAxCOSANNYObRx9HosyqhA7HBjYHRleMp8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p47#a260129p47

The judiciary's Christmas gift to Trump (Brian Karem/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/26/the-judiciarys-christmas-gift-to-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p50#a251226p50

'Elaine From Atlantic ... She Needs to Leave' (Elaine Godfrey/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/02/jasmine-crockett-rally-atlantic-reporter/686175/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweECfPTdKa076FYWdbEVRQfE
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p122#a260227p122

Analysis: scientists who appeared to use LLMs posted 33% more papers on arXiv than those who didn't, as concerns grow over AI slop in scientific publishing (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)
https://www.

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop
Peer review has met its match.

Why I Got Thrown Out of a Jasmine Crockett Rally (Elaine Godfrey/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/02/texas-senate-democratic-primary-talarico-crockett/686154/?gift=zYCTBrO_7y7KHmiTPdBdgy4WhHAIcXijFBHeV034_ys
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p93#a260227p93

Abu Dhabi's top tech university MBZUAI launches K2 Think, a new model it says is capable of advanced reasoning, as part of the UAE's push into "sovereign" AI (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

ICE's No. 1 Ally -- The Department of Justice has rushed to shield federal agents ... (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/ice-trump-minnesota-justice-department/685788/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9TvzRmBocVP69WUVJpNdI0Z0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p80#a260128p80

Data center developers, facing grid access wait times of up to seven years, are turning to aeroderivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

MAGA's War on Empathy (Hillary Rodham Clinton/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/war-empathy-hillary-clinton/685809/?gift=HoRfrgrF5SCKopc-hfobxMOywIq9w6UJ4366olDJeKk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p1#a260130p1

The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives (Hana Kiros/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/02/trump-state-department-ending-aid-seven-african-countries/686106/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3xzCPg7Z1oVNh5eTu3qO-Zc
http://www.memeorandum.com/260222/p51#a260222p51

What MAGA Really Thinks of the Second Amendment (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/maga-second-amendment-minneapolis/685752/?gift=hES2-gYGuMNFzvFJOo-72S0YJG7GuCk-_wMdbXDj2e4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p43#a260125p43

I grew up with Alex Pretti (Kristen Radtke/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/868567/alex-pretti-minneapolis-childhood-friend?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IktWYlQ1a1F1ZUUiLCJwIjoiL3BvbGljeS84Njg1NjcvYWxleC1wcmV0dGktbWlubmVhcG9saXMtY2hpbGRob29kLWZyaWVuZCIsImV4cCI6MTc2OTk2NDA1NSwiaWF0IjoxNzY5NTMyMDU1fQ.FrZ0NlULSpVamKAg761dJTzxcH4-LkVYlrvVVZb2ZFc&utm_medium=gift-link
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p64#a260127p64

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted (Nick Miroff/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/?gift=Tsjgy5hc-Y7tsZCY3EHYrYYPEwapWRKELmkhtUjTN38&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p132#a260126p132