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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)

On June 28—Elon's birthday—let's celebrate everything we've achieved and a recommit to the long fight still ahead.
And our birthday gift to the Broligarch in Chief?
A global party with one powerful message:
Musk Must Fall.
https://fe…

Just picked up this #Salter Improved Family Scale to gift a friend who's getting married and is into old-fashioned stuff and British stuff.
But, it doesn't quite sit at 0. Does anyone have any experience on how to tare a machine like this? There's no knob as far as I can see. The plate on top also doesn't seem like it can be removed without force.
More pictures below. …

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 Supreme Court Put Nationwide Injunctions to the Torch (Nicholas Bagley/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/supreme-court-trump-injunctions/683354/?gift=c04SMsUDu_5IHrILqcoSg28sKQdP6i7Erpt87QNMVVo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p12#a250628p12

The might of the USA versus one man
#uspol
Trump’s Running Tab in the Abrego Garcia Case
Rather than admit a mistake, the Trump administration is trying to build a criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia by cutting deals with felons, driving out federal prosecutors, and threatening to deport him again, @NickMiroff writes.

Inside the Negotiations Over Abrego Garcia’s Release
The administration is cutting deals with felons, driving out federal prosecutors, and threatening to abandon its criminal case—all to avoid admitting error.

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)

The skit is: you arrive in Venice and remember you forgot a wedding gift... you log on to the wedding registry and...

Some of you ... may have decided that, this year, you're going to celebrate
it the old-fashioned way, with your family sitting around stringing
cranberries and exchanging humble, handmade gifts, like on "The Waltons".
Well, you can forget it. If everybody pulled that kind of subversive stunt,
the economy would collapse overnight. The government would have to
intervene: it would form a cabinet-level Department of Holiday Gift-Giving,
which would s…

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

Recently finished watching a nearly 4 hour livestream covering pamperchu, in which one member of the stream had to leave to throw up. The internet is amazing. Livestreaming is a gift.

We've got buried treasure on view in a new display at the museum. Thanks to a recent gift and the work of a consultant and a staff member, we're displaying mingqi, or "spirit goods," in two adjoining cases in the permanent collection. Read on to learn more about how this grouping of well-preserved objects came together.

Yesterday managed to see at least a half dozen bands for #Kenmore Porchfest (#Buffalo). I only remembered to take one pic (at this RAtM cover band, Anger Is a Gift). They did a great job and the hosts had a cooler of water for everyone.
Kudos to everyone involved in the day.

American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran
The United States is well down the road to dictatorship. Imagine what Trump would do with a state of war.
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/democracy-iran-israel-war-trump/683269/?gift=E9o0y7Rlfcfv2OQ1sSVCEglNGkNaOm3ulZvY2L-kUho&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

💯💯💯
"If a billionaire bought one of your local haunts, renamed it, humiliated the employees, brought back many of the people who’d been banned for harassing other regulars, eliminated basic rules of decency, started having town halls with Republicans and a leader of the #AfD, taking your business elsewhere would be perfectly rational."
#

I was given new shorts as a gift. And they still had the security tag. This seems to happen to me too often. They are easy enough to break off but this one had the dye capsules. The trick is to not pry against the tag. Slip the crowbar in between the two halves of the tag and use a screwdriver to pry the back off against the metal bar.

Will we ever decode the writing system used by the Inca?
Gift article, no paywall.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archiv

Unraveling the Secrets of the Inca Empire
For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Trump officially violates Emoluments clause by taking a bribe… again.
https://flipboard.com/@npr/u.s.-news-aspd61boz/-/a-WZ2HYSHPR3WMNXB1Zz2RYw:a:3195441-/0

Trump administration officially accepts jet from Qatar for use as Air Force One
The United States has officially accepted a Boeing 747-8 luxury jetliner as a gift from the Qatari government, and the Air Force has been tasked with upgrading it to be used as a new plane for President Trump, according to an Air Force spokesperson. The spokesperson, who spoke on the condition of …

“…leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.”
‭‭Matthew€ ‭5€:‭24€ ‭NRSV€€
https://bible.com/bible/2016/mat.5.24.NRSV

Matthew 5:24 leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.

27% of families in New York City with children and income below $100,000 live in apartments with more than two people per bedroom. [gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/nyregion/nyc-overcrowding-h…

The Hidden Victims of New York’s Worsening Housing Crisis
Thousands of people don’t have stable housing, sleeping on floors and couches and packed into too-small bedrooms. But they are not considered to be homeless.

My beautiful 6/yo son just came up to me and showed me this INCREDIBLE drawing of our hometown he created with the marker pack his dad bought him for school 🥹 What should I do as his mother to support his God-given gift?

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

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

50 years of reunification, the end of the second Indochina war, #Vietnam had a blast with a mammoth celebration. The nationalism is troubled but it goes strong. An entire day of a parade in Saigon and on TV, and we had a tank in the newspaper 🤷
Interesting, since it’s the final days abroad for us

Gift article from WaPo.
At the #capybara cafe, people line up to snuggle the world’s largest rodents
Owners of Florida’s Capybara Café say they are surprised by its popularity, hosting about 100 customers per day.
By Kyle Melnick
https://

At the capybara cafe, people line up to snuggle the world’s largest rodents
Owners of Florida’s Capybara Café say they are surprised by its popularity, hosting about 100 customers per day.

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

Will we ever decode the writing system used by the Inca?
Gift article, no paywall.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archiv

Unraveling the Secrets of the Inca Empire
For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

> And in the gift shop, because the whole exhibit was about inequality, they made two t-shirts and two types of a micro brew specially made for the exhibit. [...] So you could get the king's beer or the commoner's beer. And then you could get a t-shirt with the king's beer label on it or the commoner's beer label on it. And I talked with the gift shop people and they said, “Yeah, and everybody buys the king's beer and the commoner's shirt.”

The mighty hunter brings a gift

The US bombing raid with #StealthBombers of the B-2 type and the GBU-57 bombs were a gift for #NorthKorea 🇰🇵 and #China 🇨🇳 . They have certainly recorded everything, will analyze it and draw their conclusions …

DISCLAIMER: Ich brauche weiterhin niemanden, der mich über das deutsche Atomprojekt aufklärt, liebe Dudes im Internet. Versucht euch einmal zurückzuhalten, ja? Danke!
Meine Antwort zur deutschen Atombombe & die Reaktionen darauf oder "The Gift That Keeps on Giving".
1/5

Analysis: A7A5, billed as the first Russian ruble-pegged stablecoin for cross-border payments, has moved $9.3B on a dedicated exchange after a February launch (Financial Times)

Crypto coin for Russian shadow payments moves $9bn
The A7A5 token aims to facilitate financial flows disrupted after Ukraine war

Bernie Sanders is taking a HEROIC stand against Donald Trump
We’re activating a 200%-MATCH on all donations to save Social Security for the next 24 hours!
If we receive 100,000 donations this week, we’ll have the resources we need to SAVE Social Security.
Donate now to help rescue Social Security and your gift will be 2X‑MATCHED
…

GIFT: Gradient-aware Immunization of diffusion models against malicious Fine-Tuning with safe concepts retention
Amro Abdalla, Ismail Shaheen, Dan DeGenaro, Rupayan Mallick, Bogdan Raita, Sarah Adel Bargal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13598

GIFT: Gradient-aware Immunization of diffusion models against malicious Fine-Tuning with safe concepts retention
We present \textbf{GIFT}: a \textbf{G}radient-aware \textbf{I}mmunization technique to defend diffusion models against malicious \textbf{F}ine-\textbf{T}uning while preserving their ability to generate safe content. Existing safety mechanisms like safety checkers are easily bypassed, and concept erasure methods fail under adversarial fine-tuning. GIFT addresses this by framing immunization as a bi-level optimization problem: the upper-level objective degrades the model's ability to represent ha…

Cat's like a family: you keep telling her every evening not to bring you any more gifts, yet in the morning there's a gift.

Hunan Chicken (mit Gojuchang statt red pepper chilis), a feast of the hot and sour. #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10

Hunan Chicken Recipe (Gift Recipe)
The cuisine of the Hunan province is one of the eight traditional Chinese cuisines, but what sets it apart from the others is its use of bold hot and sour flavors. Chiles, vinegar and fermented black beans are staples in Hunan cuisine, and this recipe uses all three. Hunan chicken originated in China and made its way to the United States in the 1970s, where the flavor profile was adapted to please the American palate. Here, bite-size pieces of chicken are marinated in soy sauce, making them ten…

The Guardian finally discovers #gravy. Obviously someone reads #mastodon.
"‘It is not jus. It is not a glaze. It is gravy!’ Britain’s gift to the world finally gets the love it deserves"

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.
A historical guide to surviving and thriving in the court of Trump
https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/06/06/a-historical-guide-to-surviving-and-thriving-in-the-court-of-trump?giftId=a04100b1-948e-42b1-9c50-660430689d86&utm_campaign=gifted_article

@… Yeah, ordered it months ago, it was a gift from my partner. 😊
I’m planning on mostly playing Switch 1 games. Part of the reason I didn’t get the first one is that for the first couple of years, it was lacking in games, and after that, it felt like a lot of money for such an underpowered device.
Not enjoying the game prices though.

How online fandom communities are advocating against AI, including protesting companies scraping fanfic content for AI training and opposing AI-generated fanfic (Decca Muldowney/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/688640/fanficti…

Fanfiction writers battle AI, one scrape at a time
‘It is a gift. They stole it without my permission.’

Some thoughts on bluesky, gift article on WaPo. #Fediverse happily sails under the radar here. Slow and steady wins the race, is what I'm thinking. Seems Megan McArdle thinks staying on X is a viable strategy.
https://wapo.st/4mXOdBb

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

FFOTUS' new big awful ugly bill has a rarely noticed provision to effectively eliminate taxes on startup founder's income. It is a gift of prodigious size to the mega-$billionaires who kow tow to FFOTUS.
I am wondering if one could structure a consulting (or other) business as a startup in which you are are the sole holder of voting stock and also the sole holder of a pool of non-voting stock (yup, that's not only allowed, it is rather common practice.)
Then as you d…

This is so out of touch. ICE is ambushing and kidnapping our neighbors and we're going to "cover the entire city with drones"? The SFBOS should reject this "gift"
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/were-

‘We’re going to be covering the entire city with drones’: Billionaire’s donation to SFPD accepted
San Francisco police commission accepts tech billionaire's gift, to provide cops with drones, cameras and a massive new office

First Details Emerge About the 21st Army Corps: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/first-details-emerge-about-the.html

It's less than 6 months to Xmas, you might as well vote for the Lego Idea
"National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Griswold House"
https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/4e51e9fe-f325-4ae6-a835-45cac06da106
…

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Griswold House | LEGO® Ideas
Are you serious Clark? - It’s the gift that keeps on giving the whole year! LEGO is the world’s most iconic toy and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is on…

"Musk and his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration based on misinterpreted data, using their claims to justify an aggressive effort to gain access to personal information on millions of Americans."
Gift link.

Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

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)

Shut up and play yer banjo!
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/05/dear-james-banjo-work-life-balance/…

Dear James: I Miss Playing the Banjo
But I also have to make a living. Is there a way to balance both?

"Backers argue the measure accomplishes two goals at once, boosting housing growth and encouraging the use of public transit."
If we aren't providing reliable , high frequency bus service that CONNECTS to serve all areas, it will not "encourage" the use of transit. And headways greater than 10- minutes are not a draw; headways of more than 20 minutes are a disincentive. But, with market rate housing (all we'll get without subsidies) it's a gift to TN…

State housing bill could clash with SF upzoning
The proposal preempts local zoning around transit hubs.

"Backers argue the measure accomplishes two goals at once, boosting housing growth and encouraging the use of public transit."
If we aren't providing reliable , high frequency bus service that CONNECTS to serve all areas, it will not "encourage" the use of transit. And headways greater than 10- minutes are not a draw; headways of more than 20 minutes are a disincentive. But, with market rate housing (all we'll get without subsidies) it's a gift to TN…

State housing bill could clash with SF upzoning
The proposal preempts local zoning around transit hubs.

Writer and artist Jade Song on redefining perfection
#creativity
https://

Writer and artist Jade Song on redefining perfection – The Creative Independent
Writer and artist Jade Song discusses transitioning between mediums, making money from her art, and marveling at the gift of a residency.

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…

Shut up and play yer banjo!
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/05/dear-james-banjo-work-life-balance/…

Dear James: I Miss Playing the Banjo
But I also have to make a living. Is there a way to balance both?

Have you heard the good news of #BanCars? 🙏
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/114859290311941794

"Vladimir Putin is not looking for a cease-fire, and he does not want to negotiate. Why? Because he believes that he can win. Thanks to the actions of the U.S. government, he still thinks that he can conquer all of Ukraine"

America's Great Realignment Toward Putin
Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.

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

What will our billionaire overlords get out of the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill that narrowly cleared the Senate this week?
Higher interest rates, for one,
because the bill more than doubles the budget deficit;
this will benefit billionaire creditors but hurt billionaire borrowers.
The top marginal rate won’t rise from the present 37 percent to 39.6 percent, as it would have done in a Harris administration,
which is excellent news if you actual…

The Oligarchs’ Big Prize in Trump’s Budget-Busting Bill
Avoiding an income-tax increase is nice, but that’s not the bill’s greatest gift to the rich.

This, too, can be done. (One third of the maple syrup is totally fine, and far less oil is needed than specified.) And extremely bone-healthy! #nommention
https:…

Lemon-Miso Tofu With Broccoli Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Inspired by Cantonese-style lemon chicken, this vegetarian version features crispy tofu and broccoli coated in a citrusy sweet and savory sauce. This lemon sauce is neither overly sweet nor tart, but has a soft umami hum thanks to the addition of miso paste. The simple technique of dusting the tofu with cornstarch before pan-frying delivers crispy tofu that is light yet robust enough to carry the sauce. (The tofu and broccoli can also be cooked in an air-fryer with comparable results; see Tip f…

I renewed my membership to PBS/NPR station WHYY. I paid double the standard fee an did not request a gift. Take that, Trump and GOP!
#pbs #npr #funding

Trump & China: TACO [gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/politics/trump-china-technology.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.vV0m.heUT4E1iWQAj&smid=bs-share

As Trump Courts a More Assertive Beijing, China Hawks Are Losing Out
The Trump administration has dialed back aggressive measures against China and reversed its position on technology controls as the president angles for a Chinese trip later this year.

A look at the lack of consensus in the tech industry on what AGI is, whether LLMs are the best path to it, and what AGI might look like if or when it arrives (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Why Big Tech cannot agree on artificial general intelligence
It has been tipped as the next big breakthrough out of Silicon Valley, but is it a scientific goal — or a marketing buzzword?

when it comes to #psychology and #mentalhealth I've read a decent number of #books on the topic.
I think the best I've read are:
- David D. Burns' Feeling Good (CBT generally including anxiety, depression)
- Sue Johnson's Hold Me Tight (romantic/marital relationships)
- Peter Kramer's Against Depression (on why depression is not a creative gift or sign of moral incompetence, biological underpinnings)
Peter Rutter's Sex in the Forbidden Zone has also been instrumental in forming my understanding of the unhealthy ways romantic interest manifests.
Anne Wilson Schaef's Co-Dependence: Misunderstood--Mistreated is the best I've read explaining how "being good" can oftentimes actually be bad.
The latter two are both more things I extract from the books rather than the books themselves and both are couched in ways that make them not ideally suited to the topic...but still the best I've found.
In addition one might include Joel Fuhrman's Eat for Life (I'm reading it now, I originally read Eat to Live) for nutritional health (which affects psychological) and David Allen's Getting Things Done (still one of the most influential books I've read on productivity).
My #question is, are there books you've read that you'd considered "must reads" on psychological / mental health? Not just mental illness, but mental health?

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.

Two Democrats Are Bolting From a Bipartisan Governors' Group (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/national-governors-association-trump/683648/?gift=nHf7iWmpOKBdlkwz68mfUNcy74dTNylasUVvW3vWP9Y
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p45#a250724p45

This is proper journalism. "How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power"
NYT gift article https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/magazine/benjamin-netanyahu-gaza-war.h…

How online fandom communities are advocating against AI, including protesting companies scraping fanfic content for AI training and opposing AI-generated fanfic (Decca Muldowney/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/688640/fanficti…

Fanfiction writers battle AI, one scrape at a time
‘It is a gift. They stole it without my permission.’

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.

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.
Britain is already a hot country. It should act like it
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/07/03/britain-is-already-a-hot-country-it-should-act-like-it?giftId=5f3749d8-a0fc-46fe-ac93-69f1a875e5bb&utm_campaign=gifted_article

Is Mamdani Really a Gift to Trump and the G.O.P.? (Jess Bidgood/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/us/politics/mamdani-trump-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p153#a250625p153

Quietschkäse daheim? Dies kann ich empfehlen: #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10

Halloumi With Corn, Cherry Tomatoes and Basil Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Seared cubes of halloumi get melty and soft on their insides and dark brown and a little crisp on the surface, making it almost impossible not to devour them all as they come out of the pan. But try to resist, because they’re even better tossed with a quick sauté of summer corn and tomatoes, seasoned with basil. Slivers of red onions, folded in raw at the end, add crunch and sweetness, while a squeeze of fresh lime makes everything tangy and fresh. Although this dish is at its most sublime m…

Comedians Pull Off Brazen Epstein Prank Inside Trump Tower Gift Shop (Lee Moran/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-good-liars-donald-trump-gift-shop_n_6879e733e4b00f995df4e2e8
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p87#a250718p87

Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish (Financial Times)

Simple yet effective #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025664-chilled-tofu-with-g…

Chilled Tofu With Gochujang Sauce Recipe (Gift Recipe)
This silken tofu, draped in a tangy, savory, chile-sweet gochujang sauce, is a warm weather epiphany: No cooking whatsoever. The sauce is essentially a chojang, a portmanteau of the Korean words for vinegar, cho, and for gochujang, the fiery fermented red chile paste, one of South Korea’s most delicious exports. Often served alongside salted boiled broccoli with sesame, this sauce is also excellent with tofu or on cold, crisp lettuce or hydrating cucumber and pepper. Make a double batch of th…

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.

🧪Explore this gift article from The New York Times.
You can read it for free without a subscription.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/health/trump-cuts-ni…

Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

Trump's Two-Week Window for Diplomacy Was a Smoke Screen (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-israel-iran-bomb/683275/?gift=kPTlqn0J1iP9IBZcsdI5Ie8uG5lCCjj8j4qVMruuL_s
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p3#a250622p3

Pranksters Fill Trump Tower Gift Shop With Epstein Postcards (Jack Silvers/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pranksters-fill-trump-tower-gift-shop-with-epstein-postcards/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p129#a250718p129

Funny, and so true.
#uspol #fascism
ICE Agent or Just Some Person?
"Your clothing should tell a story about you! Just not who you are or that you are acting in any kind of official capacity." @petridishes on the ICE dress code:

The ICE Dress Code
There’s a dress code to help you make that determination.

An interview with Gaia Marcus, director of the UK-based think tank Ada Lovelace Institute, on AI regulation in the UK and Europe, AI safety, bias, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Ada Lovelace Institute’s Gaia Marcus: regulation would increase people’s comfort with AI
The head of the UK-based think-tank talks about her hopes and fears for future oversight of AI

American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran (Robert Kagan/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/democracy-iran-israel-war-trump/683269/?gift=5aUYI8dJ_4U5JTdJqsIAqwzbXk7nlcFLPaxDqLj0C5E
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p46#a250621p46

Dies geht auch mit Hühnerfiletstücklein vortrefflich, und mit Ssamjang statt Srirache (Chilipulver würd's wahrscheinlich auch tun). #nommention
https://…

Cumin Beef and Green Bean Stir-Fry Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Borrowing from both Hunan and Indo-Chinese cuisine, this speedy stir-fry features a generous amount of crushed cumin seeds for their aroma and earthy flavor. While ketchup is commonly used in Indo-Chinese cooking to provide tangy sweetness, sriracha does double duty, delivering a spicy kick without needing to reach for the chile powder. Green beans are ideal here for their mild sweetness and crunchy texture, but any quick-cooking vegetable will work in their place.

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act mandates all new US border surveillance towers are "autonomous", effectively granting Anduril a monopoly on new contracts (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/09/trump-big-beautiful-bill-…

Trump’s Big Beautiful Gift to Anduril
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act requires all new border surveillance towers to be certified "autonomous." Only Anduril's fit the bill.

Naturalized Citizens Are Scared (Chris Feliciano Arnold/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/naturalization-civics-test/683579/?gift=Gb4kuW_xbd8ADZ8y0a4fDPqQHTOBmQq25l5vri1qTrg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p42#a250720p42

The New MAGA World Order
“Rather than following a foreign policy that ignores values altogether,” writes @jonathanchait, “Trump has a clear preference for values that are, in the American context, historically anomalous or—to put it in less neutral terms—bad”:
(No paywall)

Trump’s Immoral World Order
This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.

Feds probe UM over foreign gift disclosures, 'indifference' to national security concerns (Jennifer Chambers/The Detroit News)
https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/15/feds-probe-university-michigan-foreign-gift-disclosures-indifference-national-security-concerns/85213945007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p143#a250716p143

The New MAGA World Order
“Rather than following a foreign policy that ignores values altogether,” writes @jonathanchait, “Trump has a clear preference for values that are, in the American context, historically anomalous or—to put it in less neutral terms—bad”:
(No paywall)

Trump’s Immoral World Order
This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.

Gemini referencing real-life moments when prompted to write a birthday letter shows how effectively Google is leveraging user data to craft personalized content (Lila Shroff/The Atlantic)

Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish (Financial Times)

The Silence of the Generals -- As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg ... (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/silence-generals/683106/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweC9SKhWuL8c7oypTub1ifvo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p157#a250610p157

This is amazing.
The World’s Hardest Bluffing Game
Why are some Iraqis so good at figuring out when a person is lying? Jason Anthony reports on the world’s hardest bluffing game:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

The World's Hardest Bluffing Game
Why are some Iraqis so good at figuring out when a person is lying?

Ukraine's security service says AI allowed its drones to keep flying "along a pre-planned route" even after losing signal in Russia during "Operation Spiderweb" (Fabrice Deprez/Financial Times)

How AI guided Ukraine’s drones to hit Russian airfields
Artificial intelligence took over the steering of unmanned quadcopters after losing signal

The Great Realignment -- Trump is giving the Russian dictator every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians. (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/putin-trump-russia-ukraine/683414/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38jq6vvO2FygkuCulUcodbA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p13#a250704p13

Former Apple employees say integrating LLMs with Siri has led to bugs, an issue not faced by companies that have built GenAI-based voice assistants from scratch (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Apple’s struggles to update Siri lead to investor concerns over AI strategy
iPhone-maker hit by technological challenges that have led to delays to the full rollout of its ‘Apple Intelligence’ features

Trump Is Using the National Guard as Bait (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/trump-provoke-not-pacify-los-angeles/683080/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweH25hY2p_rsKIBWUs1l7ZV4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p59#a250608p59

PitchBook: VC exits through public listings, acquisitions, and buyouts reached $67.7B in Q2 2025, up from $38.5B a year ago and the strongest showing since 2021 (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

Inside the Trump-Musk Breakup (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-musk-breakup-feud/683065/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyTTQDPq9pZ3wuJhd4MQSKRQ
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p157#a250606p157

The Unconstitutional Conservatives -- Not too long ago, Republicans believed in the rule of law ... (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-unconstitutional-conservative-republican/682987/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyZBUToihj1vqMp3WylhCDR8
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p39#a250531p39