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If you are confused about the date of the birth of the web:
https://w3c.social/@w3c/114981709192442504
It’s only because it’s confusing.
12 March 1989 is when TimBL submitted the proposal:

World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
Attached: 1 image Today is the anniversary of the release of the web to the world to the world, in 1991, by @timbl when he said "Try it" Billions have taken up his call to use the web. W3C, as a steward of this initial gift since 1994, is realizing our vision of making the web work, for everyone – a web designed for the good of its users, that is safe and secure. https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/vision-for-w3c-to-reach-durable-and-sustainable-success/

Just like the United States basically outlasted the USSR, the CCP must just be dying laughing as we dismantle ourselves.
It's not enough that we have existential challenges to face in the future, let's also bring back problems from the past.
https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115151

The director of the Dwight D Eisenhower Presidential Library
has stepped down after a dispute with the Trump administration
over gifting a sword in its collection
to King Charles,
according to the BBC's US partner, CBS News.
Todd Arrington, the head of the library in Kansas,
resigned on Monday after declining to remove an original sword from the library's collection
to give to the King during President Donald Trump's visit to the United …

Trump's Eisenhower sword gift to King Charles leads to official resigning
The library director reportedly rejected a request for the White House to gift an Eisenhower sword to King Charles.

Dienstmededelung:
De pruimentaart staat in de oven
Ik herhaal:
De pruimentaart staat in de oven!
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/3783-original-plum-torte?unlocked_article_code=1.jk8.7rf0.mSIJOO7HJ6Aw

Original Plum Torte Recipe (Gift Recipe)
The Times published Marian Burros’s recipe for Plum Torte every September from 1983 until 1989, when the editors determined that enough was enough. The recipe was to be printed for the last time that year. “To counter anticipated protests,” Ms. Burros wrote a few years later, “the recipe was printed in larger type than usual with a broken-line border around it to encourage clipping.” It didn’t help. The paper was flooded with angry letters. “The appearance of the recipe, like the…

What is assinine about this is that Tesla's gift to Musk is based on increase in stock price, not on an increase in profits, market share, or any other metric of actual improved value within the company.
Tesla's board has got its head so far up musk's tailpipe that I fully expect that the rah-rah-sis-boom-bah Tesla Board of Directors will let musk bankrupt the company.
As far as I can see the only parts of Tesla that have any actual value are the supercharger and batt…

Velvet Sundown, an AI‑created band with ~850,000 monthly Spotify listeners and two recent albums, shows how some listeners are turning to anodyne AI music (Ian Bogost/The Atlantic)

My Road Trip With the Velvet Sundown
“​​Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine.

Fewer than half of the 8- and 9-year-olds have gone down a grocery-store aisle alone; more than a quarter aren’t allowed to play unsupervised even in their own front yard.
https://www.

One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood
Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world.

The Fight to Plan America's Birthday Party (Michael Scherer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/america-250-birthday-party-fight-trump/683774/?gift=nHf7iWmpOKBdlkwz68mfUFHKv-OskAQirJGeHJJqKYI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p110#a250806p110

Car culture at its absolute worst meets an unjust legal system. Parents lose a son and are then convicted of a felony because they let him walk across the street. Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion

Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons
They went to jail when their boy was killed. Why don’t road planners bear some guilt?

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other. -Elie Wiesel (the end of his Nobel Peace Prize speech, from 1986)

Raiders’ Tom Brady Set to Get Ultimate Gift from Patriots This Week https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-get-ultimate-gift/?adt_ei=[email]

How SK Hynix's rise as Nvidia's main HBM chip supplier, ahead of Samsung and Micron, disrupted the old order at the top end of the memory chip market (Financial Times)

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/unilateral-disarmament/684086/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31xBmCh1VmOV2uCP3VL6kTw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p134#a250905p134

The wee one is sick (again) so he'll be going to the doctor's instead of childcare tomorrow before being dropped off at his mum's.
Childcare: the gift that keeps on giving.
Too many people have to work and therefore the little ones go to kindy and childcare even when they're not well.
Because the parents have to work and feel they have no choice.
#UBI

Those who truly know me would agree that I am very unusual/strange/weird/etc. It's next to impossible to offend me, but calling me normal comes pretty close. There are a lot of reasons why I'm weird/unusual. One is that I don't like to receive gifts for Christmas, birthdays, Valentine's Day, etc. They feel so obligated. If you want to give me a gift, it should be for a weird reason, as a weird guy I love weird reasons, like because it's Tuesday the 13th, or because it's humpday.
If you wa…

One thing this article doesn’t get into: what’s next.
So national guard is gardening in the capital carrying guns.
But what follows having armed state militias deployed to a capital in most scenarios in history? Nothing awesome.

Scenes from Trump's National Guard Deployment to D.C.
Their presence has terrified some, relieved others, and left even the troops themselves confused.

Car culture at its absolute worst meets an unjust legal system. Parents lose a son and are then convicted of a felony because they let him walk across the street. Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion

Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons
They went to jail when their boy was killed. Why don’t road planners bear some guilt?

Made me smile (gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/business/china-chongqing-protest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jE8.LOI-.nxBWn_BPfxeP&smid=url-share

A Hidden Camera Protest Turned the Tables on China’s Surveillance State
Before fleeing China, an activist in Chongqing staged an elaborate one-man demonstration against the Communist Party that doubled as performance art.

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/08/trump-tariffs-economic-data/683740/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3sI95jXKUdY25iXtrRZ1pZ8

The Mystery of the Strong Economy Has Been Solved
Turns out it wasn’t actually that strong.

You get older and it’s hard not to think about the cats you have lost, but this boy is new to this house and we will love him just like we did the ones who came before. He’s a gem of a soul who never expected to wind up in New Jersey, a sweet, mad Arabian Mau who my friends rescued and brought to me. What a gift.
On instagram? Follow him @aj.in.nj #caturday

I did an event yesterday where I sold some of my prints and illustrations. A couple was really excited when they saw this one!
As they walked away from my table I heard one say "Iron Giant!" and I uh, well... I really hope it's not a gift for a Star Wars fan!
#art #illustration

loved everything about this piece about the tragic decline of live music/arts listings except blaming it on poptimism, which feels like a bystander at the consolidation/immolation of independent media (& i'm no poptimist). https://www.

A Love Letter to Music Listings
Publications like Time Out New York were my bible and my road map.

Sonnet 060 - LX
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned,
Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parall…

How Many Times Can Science Funding Be Canceled? (Katherine J. Wu/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/08/nih-funding-whiplash/683773/?gift=YUxxmh9QQAulSr5JPkTqQ1DFz1Xa1LQu0lpYP-PYHnA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p142#a250806p142

Over the past month, federal prosecutors in D.C. have failed at least five times to persuade a grand jury to indict a D.C. resident for allegedly attacking federal law enforcement.
These are not the only embarrassments suffered recently by federal prosecutors in the District,
and judges have begun to lose their patience over missteps and sloppy cases.
Despite the president’s promise to “take our capital back,” his law-enforcement surge is struggling in court.
The most …

Trump’s Crime Crackdown Isn’t Holding Up in Court
Grand juries are not delivering the indictments that the Trump administration is asking for—and that may just be the start of a massive legal failure.

Sadly, old school, thank you notes are a dying thing.
The wife received a rather large gift, and she wanted to write a note to the person. With her stroke, she has issues writing, so she composed a rough note on a pad for me. I transcribed the note and added wording to reflect her gratitude and thanks. My wife loved the draft, and I then used my good fountain pen and parchment paper to write the note.
It takes only a few minutes and is more meaningful than a quick text messag…

#EroticMusings Week 14 (August 31-September 6) Characters: It’s a traditional day of gift-giving for your characters – what do they give you?
If it's winter solstice, they will gift me sweets, lucky ribbons to tie to "wish trees" and blessed charms.
If it's my birthday, they'd give me small but useful trinkets. A new chain for the chatelaine, a new fan, a …

Got my son a birthday card. It's very him. I love it.

This band Ultra Lights are often described as "90s slacker rock". To my ears, upon hearing this, I thought it was a new Soft Pack (aka Muslims) album lol
https://www.ultralightsband.com/

Ultra Lights
Rainbow Vision is a planner brand and creative consulting practice by Leela Hoehn. After 10+ years of building and expanding the Rainbow Vision paper and gift brand Leela condensed the line down to a handful of favorites in 2023. Rainbow Vision is based out of Atlanta, GA

As Money Rushed In, ICE's Rapid Expansion Stalled Out (Nick Miroff/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/ice-immigration-detention-centers/684465/?gift=5aCzJ5uvQf7qTzgohcYQnezgOo7IcXkBdbNUHRryNVw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p89#a251006p89

Turns out that the Dutch Justice and Security Minister - of the double-failed right-far-right coalition - ignored urgent advice by Antiterrorism Coordinator to call out the extreme-right nature of last weekend's violence around the anti-immigrant demonstration.
Called it aggression against police and vandalism instead.

Minister negeerde NCTV-advies om Haagse rellen expliciet ‘rechts-extremistisch’ te noemen
Rechts-extremisme: De Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding adviseerde de demissionair minister van Justitie om de rellen in Den Haag te bestempelen als ‘rechts-extremistisch’. De minister sloeg dit advies in de wind. Door vaag te blijven zou hij volgens de terrorismebestrijder „normalisering” van het gedachtegoed in de hand werken.

A profile of Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban, who brokered the EA takeover with Jared Kushner, following the PE firm's high-stakes deals from TikTok to Altera (Financial Times)

Kurash becomes the commander of Kharkiv Corps: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/kurash-becomes-the-commander-of.html

Great piece about how Trump's attack on the national research infrastructure could be a boon to the rest of the world: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/american-science-brain-drain/

The Pentagon's openness to the press was never a favor to journalists, but an obligation to the country, and its new restrictions make its leaders appear weak (Nancy A. Youssef/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlant…

Why Is the Pentagon Afraid of the Press?
Pete Hegseth’s department is imposing restrictions that threaten to limit media scrutiny.

At another tourist attraction in Central #Indiana , the Bluespring Caverns 🦇 - with an interesting guided boat tour of a long underground river.
#Geology #Speleology

As the guardrails of American #democracy
fall one by one, #DJT is on the brink of becoming a #Dictator
Will he be
stopped?

Isometric deformations of pillow boxes
Atsufumi Honda, Miyuki Koiso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02049 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02049

Isometric deformations of pillow boxes
Pillow boxes are surfaces used for gift boxes, packaging, and even architectural applications. By definition, a pillow box is isometric to a double rectangle consisting of two copies of a rectangle. If the crease pattern is allowed to change, there exist continuous isometric deformations from a pillow box to a double rectangle. However, practical applications often require preserving the crease pattern. In this paper, we classify isometric deformations from a pillow box to a double rectangle am…

Check out the 2025 Dallas Cowboys holiday gift guide and rep America's favorite team! https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/shopping/dallas-cowboys-2025-holiday-gift-guide-jersey-apparel-shoes-wall-art/863176600…

Very good. Gift link, they're should be no paywall.
Fully MAGA-fied Christianity
“Trump and the MAGA movement capitalized on, and then amplified, the problems facing Christian communities, but they did not create them,” @Peter_Wehner argues:
https://w…

Fully MAGA-fied Christianity
Politics, especially culture-war politics, now provides many fundamentalists and evangelicals with a sense of community and a common enemy.

Darktrace says it plans to invest $200M in the US in 2026, up 11% YoY, as part of a push to surpass $1B in revenue and grow its US sales to 50% of its revenue (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

Source of the Serwer quote:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/trump-military-force-protests/683198/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8Bd55fr-u0fCFGLreoW5atQ

Trump Is Crossing a Line That Dates Back to the Revolution (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/09/the-military-wasnt-built-to-fight-crime/684101/?gift=HoRfrgrF5SCKopc-hfobxPo-J_rv6KEfCNxW9ZnU7VA
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p186#a250903p186

"This strange brew of shock, confusion, and ambivalence, I’ve realized, is the defining emotion of the generative-AI era. Three years into the hype, it seems that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it."
https:/…

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

I have notice that around here USPS mailboxes have been modified so that they only have a rather thin slot for the insertion of thin envelopes.
No more pulling open a flap on the mailbox and mailing things like ink-jet recycling envelopes or USB flash drives. For that you have to go to an actual physical post office and wait in line for a clerk.
We've been deJoyed again (even after he is gone his is the gift that keeps on taking.)

With the last bits of our move being unpacked, @… found the best parting gift: From @…, when we left Paris in what feels like a lifetime ago.
#citizenscience

Thank you @… for the wonderful gift.
@…

It’s the fucking rainbows, moron.
Gift article.
Kennedy Center drops family that made Honors medallions for 47 years
“It is unclear what changes the center hopes to make to the medallions”
https://wapo.st/4oDMnG8

Kennedy Center drops family that made Honors medallions for 47 years
The arts center has contacted the jeweler Tiffany & Company to redesign the award.

Interesting account of how Ukraine is becoming more reliant on themselves to further prosecute the war.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine
Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands. ​​​

“Tennis star meets fan after US Open hat snatching viral video”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx298wd85d9o
Millionaire CEO snatching a gift intended for a child is the perfect metaphor for… [ waves arms broadly ]

'Meet in the Middle' is a hilarious gift from God!
▶️ Aliens & Doppelgängers! Even More Meet in the Middle | Have I Got News for You
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QRqNVep4vMg&si=arsaeUA7O4sRmPhT

Not one, not a single one, of the invoices for our summer school was just paid by the uni's finance admin. All without exception led to further inquiries and additional rounds back-and-forth before being cleared. Including the one asking for reimbursement for a jigsaw puzzle (priced 10 Euro 💰) which we did as a group activity (but needed checking whether it may have been a gift, and for whom?! #academicChatter #bigSigh #whatIsMyTimeWorth

Kann man machen, auch wenn man statt weißen Kochweins zufällig nur Ingwerbier da hat (ahem), statt der Schalotten weiße Zwiebel und statt der weißen Bohnen steirische Käferbohnen. #nommention

White Bean Piccata Pasta With Broccoli Recipe (Gift Recipe)
The bright lemon-caper sauce for which chicken piccata is known plays equally well with other proteins, like swordfish, or creamy white beans, and forms a glossy, tangy sauce well suited to pasta. Throw broccoli — or any another quick-cooking vegetable, like asparagus, broccoli rabe or peas — into the pasta’s boiling water in the last few minutes, and you’ve effortlessly managed to squeeze a green into this vegetarian dinner.

The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson says the magazine is profitable, with 1.3M subscribers paying an average of $80 annually; 500,000 of those pay $90 for print (Brian Lowry/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/the-atlantic-hiring-spr…

The Atlantic Envy: What Does It Know That Other Publications Don’t?
The magazine’s hiring spree has gobbled up writers, many from the Washington Post, in an expansion its top brass say is sustainable.

Todays #EngelskeGloser is a thought: The Norwegian Language would be severely threatened if a government University did not get paid to maintain it [2] , and a gift link to the Atlantic [1]
[1]

Last night was special. I did get hammered on the cocktails, oof.

"Simple #chemistry helps explain the origin of life, new study suggests" | WaPo (should be a gift link) #geology #biology

Simple chemistry helps explain the origin of life, new study suggests
Scientists have figured out how proteins may have been created on early Earth.

The hypocrisy of the right is off the charts.
#uspol
(gift article)
https://www.nytimes.co…

sometimes, the misaddressed msgs for MEPs in the parltrack inbox are truly wtf. today some young citizen schleiming around and asking for:
> I would be extremely grateful if it would be possible to receive a small
autograph from you or perhaps a small gift or souvenir related to the
European Parliament. Such a gesture would mean a lot to me as someone who is eager to learn more about European institutions and democracy.

Good Morning #Canada
We are wrapping up a Canada-cation with the family at Blue Mountain in Collingwood, Ontario. This area has exploded as a year-round resort since my wife and I skied here in the mid-70s. One of the big tourist attractions that we never visited was Blue Mountain Pottery. Started in 1953 to help increase revenues in the gift shop for the ski resort, it produced pottery with distinctive mixtures of glazes, the most common of which included a blue-green and a dark grey or black glaze. The pottery became popular in Canada in the 1960s and 1970s; it was also exported to the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. After Blue Mountain Pottery closed in 2004, the pottery became popular among collectors, and examples are held by the Royal Ontario Museum and the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Pottery #CanadaCation
https://www.mountainlifemedia.ca/2014/07/how-pottery-saved-blue-mountain/

Trump’s Campaign of Vengeance Is Already Backfiring - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/trump-lim…

Trump’s Campaign of Vengeance Is Already Backfiring
As the president knows too well, efforts to censor or convict foes can often make them more popular.

Kash Patel's Challenge Coin Is Perfect for Him (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/kash-patel-military-memento-internet/684456/?gift=_IXYI0Wrwnxuvm7JZ0fMfD-vjdwuL1UJPB-1cRyvG6k&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p43#a251004p43

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg's aim with the Superintelligence Labs is to create a start-up-like unit within Meta that is unencumbered by the company's bureaucracy (Financial Times)

The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler (Yair Rosenberg/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/maga-hitler-anti-semitism/684078/?gift=Y5UOGK3oJJO3esRHvDP7oaL48gPVGjYarTgx2L5-WNM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p100#a250903p100

At no other time in modern history has a country so thoroughly turned its back on its core national strengths.
With devastating cuts to science and health research,
the administration is turning its back on a history of being powered and renewed by the innovation and vision of immigrants.
What America may find is that we have squandered the greatest gift from the Manhattan Project
— which, in the end, wasn’t the bomb
— but a new way of looking at how science a…

Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project
The U.S. risks not just being left behind, but out of the game entirely.

The Trump Administration Gets a Serious Scolding (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/trump-national-guard-law-california/684084/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxZRivk8VNFDTyCxMzZBFw8k
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p38#a250903p38

Unflattering stat has Cowboys Week 5 opponent trending up in fantasy football https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/unflattering-stat-dallas-cowboys-week-5-opponent-trending-up-fantasy-football

Polish president vetoes Ukraine aid law, threatens Starlink services for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/polish-president-vetoes-ukraine-aid.html

Dieses Gericht mundet auch mit Udon vortrefflich. #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10

Coconut-Gochujang Glazed Chicken With Broccoli Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Gochujang, a staple of Korean cooking, is a fermented red chile paste made from spicy Korean chile peppers and glutinous rice. Here, it’s combined with coconut milk, which mellows the spicy gochujang into a creamy sauce. Fresh ginger is the key ingredient, infusing the sauce with brightness and spice that balance the rich coconut. This recipe calls for broccoli as the vegetable accompaniment, but cauliflower or brussels sprouts would also work. The sauce can be made in larger batches and used…

Arm CEO Rene Haas says the company is accelerating its R&D spending as it considers offering "full end solutions", suggesting plans to launch its own chips (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Well done Alexandra Petri!
Pretty sure if you wanted human rights, you don't go getting rounded up by ice or dhs or cbp or bureau of prisons who will take away your human rights. /s
Reminds me of the old "they were killed by the drone strike, therefore they were a combatant."

Just a Tiny, Minuscule Technicality About the People Held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
How to tell if someone is a criminal, according to the Department of Homeland Security

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/08/billionaire-tax-study/683987/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3izs2-QbznZFuAgjH23TfLc

How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes
A clever new paper puts concrete numbers to the taxes paid by members of the Forbes 400.

PUBG developer Krafton is eyeing major expansion in India, seeking acquisitions as growth slows in China and the US, and plans to invest at least $50M annually (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

Republicans Might Regret Putting Emil Bove on the Bench (Brendan Ballou/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/trump-appointments-emil-bove/683739/?gift=HoRfrgrF5SCKopc-hfobxMqyieqpQ79MQ2M0gvQQojM
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p64#a250802p64

Unflattering stat has Cowboys Week 5 opponent trending up in fantasy football https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/unflattering-stat-dallas-cowboys-week-5-opponent-trending-up-fantasy-football

Next-level recipe: the no recipe recipe. #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023313-bulgogi-style-…

Bulgogi-Style Tofu Recipe (Gift Recipe)
This is a no-recipe recipe, a recipe without an ingredient list or steps. It invites you to improvise in the kitchen. Here's the prompt: bulgogi-style tofu. It’s simple. Press some firm tofu to extract as much liquid as you can. Make a marinade of soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, minced garlic, grated ginger, a spoonful of gochujang, a splash of neutral oil, some sliced scallions and toasted sesame seeds. Slice the tofu into bite-size cubes, and slide them into the marinade. Let that sit …

The English Premier League recently signed deals with Adobe and Microsoft to offer AI-powered tools to fans, including those playing the Fantasy Premier League (Josh Noble/Financial Times)

"Amendment is a constitution’s mechanism for the prevention of insurrection—the only way to change the fundamentals of government without recourse to rebellion. Amendment is so essential to the American constitutional tradition—so methodical and so entirely a conception of endurance through adaptation—that it can best be described as a philosophy. It is, at this point, a philosophy all but forgotten."

How Originalism Killed the Constitution
A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.

Not With a Bang, but With a Truth Social Post (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-nuclear-threat/683748/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweFsucCt1MxiecWXagznU0ww&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p4#a250802p4

In August I visited four parks with my daughter on a cross-country trip: Zion, Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Badlands.
It was clear that staffing has taken a serious hit.
Experienced rangers were noticeably absent. Many hikes had been canceled,
and the few rangers we did encounter were young, primarily park interpreters;
even they were in short supply.
In contrast, the visitor centers and gift shops seemed well staffed.

Opinion | Trump’s Painful Cuts to National Parks
Readers discuss the damage to America’s parks. Also: Racial profiling in immigrant sweeps; the 9/11 memorial; phones in the classroom.

An investigation reveals how the Russian military spy ship Yantar is being used to map and potentially intercept undersea telecommunication cables across Europe (Financial Times)

Why Trump Broke With Bibi Over the Gaza Famine (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/trump-netanyahu-gaza-famine/683720/?gift=Ut5zkH9vG00uzi0vmoT5f2YItmNNM9AwbeBCdwSn8bE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p58#a250731p58

Parks gift shops directed to remove items that ‘disparage Americans’
Trump officials have directed staff at national parks to review all items in gift shops for anti-American content.
The move is part of the administration’s wider campaign to scrub federal institutions of “corrosive ideology” recognizing historical racism and sexism.

The directive instructs park staff to report by Friday any retail items that have content that “inappropriately disparages Americans past or…

Parks gift shops directed to remove items that ‘disparage Americans’
The National Park Service’s directive is part of a wider Trump administration effort to reshape how American history is told at federal institutions.

Heartbreaking.
“This essentially says the United States is no longer your ally, that the United States doesn’t see clearly beyond the rhetoric of your regime,”
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Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

Donald Trump Looks Terrible. Why Won't the Press Ask Him What's Wrong? (Brian Lowry/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-hand-aging-social-media-diagnosis/?gift=2eb3b824-c3e9-4da7-8776-c7b70d7a790e&utm_campaign=youtube-s-deal-with-the-devil
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p165#a250827p165

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A look at the data center cluster in the Chinese city of Wuhu, where 15 companies, including Huawei, have built data centers with a total investment of $37B (Financial Times)

The Discourse Is Broken -- That's not necessarily a good thing. (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ads/683704/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0Rqh-RBCXaXmzfBoTU_lwXk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p51#a250730p51

Google has defended Search against the first wave of disruption from generative AI, but AI agents and apps that can reduce clicks now threaten its ad business (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

How Scientific Empires End (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/science-empire-america-decline/683711/?gift=NOCMQ5ngQ0TP3ARV7MGFu8e03NwJI7Noj_2-JqbsMpY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p28#a250731p28

Trump's Crime Crackdown Isn't Holding Up in Court (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-crime-crackdown-courts-dc/684059/?gift=DWZS7XsWkZZzV_Qd7Q3wddbFA92ZM35_CGapaemJyT0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p99#a250831p99

A look at some uncertainties surrounding Nvidia's proposed $100B investment in OpenAI, including concerns about the agreement's circular structure (Financial Times)

The $100K H-1B fee could accelerate offshoring as tech companies route work to India and other countries rather than bringing engineers to the US (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/100-000-dollar-visa-india

A Protectionist's Gift To India
A $100,000 headfake.

The Worst-Kept Secret of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Yair Rosenberg/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/07/trump-gaza-mistakes/683651/?gift=Y5UOGK3oJJO3esRHvDP7oTneQ3j2vMlYV4y8YyZ7RaQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p103#a250724p103

How AlphaFold2 and the rise of generative AI kickstarted a new AI drug discovery boom after a spate of startups from the mid-2010s failed to live up to the hype (Financial Times)

Park gift shops could remove books on slavery and the Civil War (Jake Spring/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/25/parks-gift-shops-banned-books/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUzNDE2MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU0Nzk4Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTM0MTYwMDAsImp0aSI6Ijk3OWU4NmUxLWE5NjctNDE0Yy05ODAwLTZjZDZmZDk5M2MyZiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjUvMDcvMjUvcGFya3MtZ2lmdC1zaG9wcy1iYW5uZWQtYm9va3MvIn0.ybEI2M-WmbFlgf9DOVXv5TySPXLd3_rocOzl_2uDLc8&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p64#a250725p64

The Desperation of Donald Trump's Posts (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/trump-weird-posts-truth-social-epstein/683627/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0U2ssgAGiDCTjPxTa0bhwJM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p36#a250723p36