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Präzedenzfall: US-Behörde identifiziert Darknet-Admin mit ChatGPT-Daten
Der erste bekannt gewordene Beschlagnahmebeschluss für Nutzerdaten gegen OpenAI offenbart: US-Behörden können Prompt-Eingaben zur Strafverfolgung anfordern.

Oak Woodlands has long been my favorite part of Golden Gate Park, but only recently have I come to appreciate Buena Vista Park for its own coast live oak forest... and even more recently noticed this enormous coffeeberry shrub at the bottom of the hill

A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship (Aishvarya Kavi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/us/politics/imran-ahmed-judge-order.…

Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
Imran Ahmed, who runs an organization that chronicles disinformation, was among five Europeans the State Department had barred, claiming they promote censorship.

The EU could “respond swiftly and decisively” against th
“unjustified” US visa bans on five Europeans involved in combating online hate and disinformation,
a European Commission spokesperson has said.
European leaders including Emmanuel Macron accused Washington of
“coercion and intimidation”,
after the visa ban on the figures who have been at the heart of campaigns to introduce laws regulating American tech companies.
Justifying the visa bans, the US secr…

dj katarakta – voidgejzer
#bass

»US-Hyperscaler — Europa bei Seekabeln stark von US-Konzernen abhängig:
Die europäischen Telcos sind bei Seekabeln abhängig von US-Konzernen. Grund sind mangelnde Investitionen und die Finanzstärke der Hyperscaler.«
Ja das ist umständlich und teuer aber Europa hätte auch schon einiges früher sich darum bemühen können, sprich nicht nur bequem konsumieren.
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US-Hyperscaler: Europa bei Seekabeln stark von US-Konzernen abhängig - Golem.de
Die europäischen Telcos sind bei Seekabeln abhängig von US-Konzernen. Grund sind mangelnde Investitionen und die Finanzstärke der Hyperscaler.

A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship (Aishvarya Kavi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/us/politics/imran-ahmed-judge-order.…

Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
Imran Ahmed, who runs an organization that chronicles disinformation, was among five Europeans the State Department had barred, claiming they promote censorship.

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 9559 nodes and 14909 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

J. Alex Swift Ltd, sock manufacturers, Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain

US reportedly readies new sanctions as Russia stalls on Ukraine peace talks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/25/us-reportedly-readies-new-sanctions.html

Apple baut US-Sales-Organisation um: "Dutzende" Entlassungen
Im Gegensatz zu Microsoft, Meta oder Amazon hat sich Apple bei Stellenstreichungen zurückgehalten. Nun will der Konzern den Vertrieb umbauen, was Jobs kostet.

Ah, Christmas traditions:
#DieHard #Christmas #xmas

‘Traitor’: US representatives call for Trump envoy Witkoff to be fired after leaked Kremlin call https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/26/republicans-steve-witkoff-leaked-call-russia-ukraine?CMP=Share…

So "weit" isses schon🤮
Kontokündigung wegen Antifa: Banken vollstrecken US-Politik in Deutschland | Rote Hilfe
https://rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/kontokuendigung-wegen-antifa-banken-vollstrecken-us-politik-deutschland<…

US government shutdown threatens the spending power of Congress (David Morgan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-government-shutdown-threatens-spending-power-congress-2025-10-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p27#a251026p27

US-Regierung will mit "Genesis Mission" KI-Forschung beschleunigen
Im Rahmen der "Genesis Mission" will die US-Regierung die Weiterentwicklung künstlicher Intelligenz intensivieren. Dafür wird der Datenaustausch vereinfacht.

"Da praktisch jeder digitale Service – sei es Cloud-Speicher oder Zahlungsabwicklung – irgendwo in der Kette Berührungspunkte mit US-Firmen hat, ist Guillou praktisch isoliert. Den US-Unternehmen ist jegliche geschäftliche Interaktion mit ihm verboten."
https://www.…

"Digitale Auslöschung": Wie US-Sanktionen einen europäischen Richter lahmlegen
Nicolas Guillou ist von beinahe allen digitalen Diensten dieser Welt gesperrt – von Amazon bis Paypal. Europa wirkt dagegen völlig machtlos

Annual plant sale at #SutroStewards nursery! I picked up a couple of rare San Francisco wallflowers and some little coast buckwheats, both #CaliforniaNatives.

"...who campaigned on a promise to extricate the US from decades of “endless wars” during his 2024 run for president."
It'simportant to note these are airstrikes and bombings - and that's very different from wars. It avoids the distressful images of wounded and dead service members returning to the US, while using very expensive technology, thus providing purchase orders to very important business interests, and it provides the psycological benefit of violence to imp…

Gen Zers have taken on their governments. From around the world, they tell us why. - CSMonitor.com https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2025/1124/Gen-Zers-have-taken-on-their-governments.-From-around-the-world-they-tell-us-why

Gen Zers have taken on their governments. From around the world, they tell us why.
From Nepal to Peru and from Madagascar to Morocco, Generation Z-led protests have rocked governments. The revolution has brushstrokes of youth, from the use of a gaming platform to organize it to a ubiquitous symbol – a Jolly Roger flag. Perhaps most extraordinary about the Gen Z protests: their interconnection. A global generation has spawned a global movement.

Major US and Japanese animation studios including HBO Max and Amazon unknowingly hired North Korean IT workers, a joint government report has found.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251024-us-japanese-firms-unwittingly-hi…

US, Japanese firms unwittingly hired North Korean animators: report
Major US and Japanese animation studios including HBO Max and Amazon unknowingly hired North Korean IT workers, a joint government report has found.

Merry Christmas from the guy who thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/26/us-warns-of-more-nigeria-strikes-as-abuja-talks-of-joint-ongoing-operations

US warns of more Nigeria strikes as Abuja talks of ‘joint ongoing operations’
Pete Hegseth says ‘more to come’ as Nigerian foreign minister confirms his country provided intelligence for first wave

❝Healthy digital spaces need the same foundations as physical ones (roads, rules, records, etc) so we can build the flourishing fun bits on top. If the web’s first generation gave us villages, and the second gave us gross, unliveable megacities, the next one should give us great neighbourhoods — small, knowable, human-scaled spaces where we can actually live together online.❞

(please don't) add me to the group
We talk a lot about how broken the internet is for all of us as individuals. Doomscrolling, algorithmic feeds, overall exhaustion at The Horrors. But this...

from my link log —
Naming the Net: The Domain Name System, 1983-1990.
https://gade.us/thesis/
saved 2025-11-25 https://dotat.at/:/RHHY8.html

Naming the Net: The Domain Name System, 1983-1990
An early history of the Internet's Domain Name System

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.

NATO Member Estonia Doubling Down on US HIMARS Amid Ukraine Success - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/nato-member-estonia-doubling-down-us-made-himars-ukraine-success-2025-11

Kremlsprecher: Neue US-Sanktionen kein Grund für Gesprächsabbruch
Moskau sieht in den neuen US-Sanktionen gegen Russland kein Hindernis für weitere Gespräche über den Krieg in der Ukraine. Kremlsprecher Dmitri Peskow erklärte, die Sanktionen gegen den russischen Ölsektor seien kein Grund, den Dialog abzubrechen. Das Interview mit Peskow wurde bereits am Samstag aufgezeichnet, aber erst heute im russi…
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USA verhängen Sanktionen gegen russische Ölkonzerne
Lange hatte Trump gezögert - nun verhängen die USA doch Strafmaßnahmen gegen russische Ölkonzerne. Der US-Präsident erklärte auch, weshalb es doch nicht zu einem Treffen mit Kremlchef Putin kommt.

QB Bo Nix on the Broncos' Week 8 showing: 'Overall, a really good performance by us' https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/qb-bo-nix-on-the-broncos-week-8-showing-overall-a-really-good-performance-by-us

New toy: Font coverage analyzer (alpha)
blueset.github.io/font-coverage/

Schauspielerin June Lockhart, 'Lost In Space' und 'Lassie' Star, stirbt mit 100
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/us-schauspielerin-june-lockhart-ist-tot-a-37b57886-6dd8-4c79-9d8f-69da36f72028

Bekannt aus »Lassie«: US-Schauspielerin June Lockhart ist tot
Mit ihren Rollen in den Filmen »Lassie« und »Lost in Space« wurde sie für eine ganze Generation zur Mutterfigur. Nun ist die gebürtige New Yorkerin June Lockhart im Alter von 100 Jahren gestorben.

We are doing another Xogot jam, join us for chapter three:
https://blog.xogot.com/xogot-jam-3-is-coming-jam-2-winners/

Xogot Jam 3 Is Coming + Jam 2 Winners
Xogot Jam 3 is happening in just under a month! Join us for just over 2 weeks of holiday tinkering, small side projects, and creative exploration on iPad or iPhone.

What Rest of the Season Will Teach Us About the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/los-angeles-what-rest-season-will-teach-us-about

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/us/dna-test-fertility-fraud

How a DNA test solved a medical mystery – and revealed a doctor’s decades of deception
Summer McKesson’s quest for answers to her medical condition would unearth a family secret – and a doctor’s decades-old deception that has ensnared multiple families across the country.

affaire difficile – polaroid
#byncsa

Amazon investiert 50 Milliarden Dollar in KI-Infrastruktur für US-Behörden
Amazon Web Services will ab 2026 spezialisierte KI-Rechenzentren für US-Regierungsbehörden bauen. Die Investition umfasst 1,3 Gigawatt Rechenkapazität.

Whatever the worst-case scenario, #Janessa #Goldbeck has probably imagined it.
In 2023 the US marine veteran consulted on a documentary that war-gamed a presidential candidate staging a military coup.
Last year she advised local leaders on the hypothetical of troops being deployed to their streets for immig…

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 153011 nodes and 187318 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

J. Alex Swift Ltd, sock manufacturers, Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain

iPhone-Foldable: Massenproduktion läuft an, Preis 2400 US-Dollar plus
Apples erstes Klapp-Smartphone steht für kommenden Herbst an. Neuigkeiten gibt es nun aus der Produktion und vom Preis.
https://www.…

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month (Jasper Ward/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-department-agriculture-says-no-food-aid-benefits-will-be-issued-next-month-2025-10-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p34#a251026p34

ICE detained British journalist Sami Hamdi on October 26 at SFO; the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it was retaliation for his criticism of Israel (Michael Sainato/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/ice…

PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B , up from $9.24B in 2023 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/cnbc-china

CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Foreign investors warm to China’s cheaper AI valuations despite fears of a U.S. bubble
For all the worries about a bubble in U.S. AI spending, capital flows into China's tech sector is far less, pushing startups to do more with less.

»Frühere Beraterin Bidens — Trump fordert Entlassung von Microsoft-Managerin:
#US-Präsident #Trump geht weiter gegen politische Gegner vor. Nun fordert er den Rausschmiss von #Microsoft-Managerin Monaco. Sie war…

Trump fordert Entlassung von Microsoft-Managerin Monaco
US-Präsident Trump geht weiter gegen politische Gegner vor. Nun fordert er den Rausschmiss von Microsoft-Managerin Monaco. Sie war unter anderem stellvertretende Justizministerin unter dem Demokraten Biden.

The GUARDIAN: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/25/protests-effective-history-impact

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history

This is a weird book because it’s so well-written, darkly witty and clarifying, I can’t stop turning pages, but it also makes me not want to get out of bed. I’m banking on an energizing call to action at the end

A British anti-disinformation campaigner who was told by the Trump administration that he faces possible removal from the US
said he is being targeted by arrogant and “sociopathic” tech companies for trying to hold them to account.
Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH),
is among five European nationals barred from the US by the state department
after being accused of seeking to push tech firms to censor or suppress American v…

US places sanctions on Colombian president over alleged failure to stop cartels (Cy Neff/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/us-sanctions-colombian-president-gustavo-petro
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p17#a251026p17

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
US-Regierung verhängt Einreiseverbote gegen „Ideologen in Europa“

Fox News reports DEI still ravaging US military - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/10/26/fox-news-reports-dei-still-ravaging-us-military/

Trump: Treffe Putin erst, wenn Deal sicher ist
US-Präsident Donald Trump will Kremlchef Wladimir Putin nach eigenen Angaben erst treffen, wenn er sich einer Einigung mit Blick auf den Krieg gegen die Ukraine sicher sein kann. Auf die Frage, was Russland tun müsse, damit Trump ein neues Treffen mit Putin ansetze, antwortete der US-Präsident an Bord der Regierungsmaschine Air Force One vor Journalisten…
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Trump kündigt Treffen mit Putin in Ungarn an
US-Präsident Trump will sich mit Kremlchef Putin in der ungarischen Hauptstadt Budapest treffen. Das kündigte er nach einem Telefonat mit dem russischen Präsidenten an. Es soll um ein Ende des Ukraine-Krieges gehen.

An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or ~$1.2T in wages, based on the "Iceberg Index", which measures job automation potential (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/mit-study-

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.

Spotted on #ValenciaStreet: tactical urbanism to block cars crossing the “protected” (not at this location) bike lane to park in the wedge-shaped empty space where the lane zigzags around a parklet

Immigrants with no criminal record are now the largest groupin US immigration detention
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/26/immigrants-criminal-record-ice-detention?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
US-Regierung verhängt Einreiseverbote gegen „Ideologen in Europa“

US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump's 'green scam' claims (Oliver Milman/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/us-voters-link-climate-crisis-affordability
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p37#a251226p37

us_congress: US Congressional co-sponsorship (1973-2016)
Two temporal networks of bill co-sponsorship tendencies among US Congresspeople, from 1973 (93rd Congress) to 2016 (114th Congress). Edges are signed, indicating the presence of a significant tendency to co-sponsor, or tendency to not co-sponsor, bills. Two networks per year, one for each chamber (House, Senate). Each file contains the signed network for a chamber of congress (H = House, S = Senate) in one session (e.g. 93 = 93rd…

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
US-Regierung verhängt Einreiseverbote gegen „Ideologen in Europa“

»Datenschützerin warnt vor US-Clouds — Risiken für Behörden:
Datenschutz & Cloud - Zürcher Datenschützerin warnt vor US-Clouds für Behörden«
Endlich wird das Thema Datenschutz bei Microsoft in den populären Medien in der Schweiz aufgegriffen. Und doch werden viele behaupten nichts zu verbergen zu haben und M$ ist ja anscheinend die einzige (bequeme) profi Lösung.
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Datenschützerin warnt vor US-Clouds: Risiken für Behörden
Immer mehr Behörden nutzen US-Clouds. Die Zürcher Datenschutzbeauftragte warnt vor Kontrollverlust über sensible Daten.

Donnie continues to attempt to create problems so that he can claim he's the only one capable of solving them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/gun-violence-prevention-non-profit-grants-disqualified

"Reports indicate that the majority of people choosing to do this are people of color, including many Latino U.S. citizens."
US citizens are carrying passports amid ICE fears | The Week
https://theweek.com/politics/us-citizens-carrying-passports-fear-ice

Sources: a new network of super PACs plans to raise ~$50M to counter the Leading the Future super PAC and back candidates who prioritize AI regulations (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/politics/ai-super-pac-anthropic.html

Fears About A.I. Prompt Talks of Super PACs to Rein In the Industry
As artificial intelligence companies prepare to pour money into the midterm elections, some in the A.I. world are hatching plans of their own to curb the industry’s influence.

Corner of Church Street and Kirk Gate, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain

FCC says hackers hijack US radio gear to send fake alerts, obscenities (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fcc-says-hackers-hijack-us-radio-gear-send-fake-alerts-obscenities-2025-11-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251126/p119#a251126p119

Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, said Unions are gearing up to challenge the US president’s “Billionaire First” agenda in 2026
– and drive candidates in key elections to stand up for “struggling” Americans.
In an interview with the Guardian, she described how the federation has pushed to restore collective bargaining rights for federal workers,
-- and filed lawsuits against the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken unions and worker protections.
“People were …

DoorDash is a marquee sponsor of SFBike's Winterfest this year 😢 I bought a ticket anyway. It's bleak out here trying to fund nonprofits under capitalism. Hate the game, not the player. https://sfbike.org/winterfest/

Winterfest - San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Promoting the Bicycle for Everyday Transportation

US-Handelsminister: Zolldeal für "ausgewogene" Digitalregeln
Weniger Zölle auf Stahl und Aluminium - wenn die EU bei Digitalregeln nachgibt? US-Minister Lutnick macht in Brüssel Andeutungen für einen möglichen Deal.

Trump's trade battle with China puts US soybean farmers in peril | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/trumps-trade-battle-with-china-puts-us-soybean-farmers-in-peril

»Klage gegen soziales Netzwerk — Landgericht bescheinigt US #Regierung "faschistische Tendenz"
Ein Richter am Landgericht #Bonn hat über eine #Klage zum Zugriff von US-Geheimdiensten auf

Klage gegen soziales Netzwerk: Landgericht bescheinigt US-Regierung "faschistische Tendenz" - Golem.de
Ein Richter am Landgericht Bonn hat über eine Klage zum Zugriff von US-Geheimdiensten auf Social-Media-Daten entschieden - und mit Aussagen zur Trump-Regierung Aufsehen erregt.

US warns of more Nigeria strikes
as Abuja talks of
‘joint ongoing operations’
Pete Hegseth says there are
‘more to come’
as Nigerian foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar
confirms his country provided intelligence for first wave
Tuggar also says strikes against group accused by Donald Trump of attacking Christian communities will be an ‘ongoing process’
In an interview with the BBC,
Tuggar insisted the strikes had
“nothing to do with a parti…

Now you've done it, @…. This piece is about to make the Sunset Dunes/Great Highway debate look tame in comparison
https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/sf-be

Forget the mishigas you’ve read: Here’s the real best bagel in S.F.
Over the summer, different San Francisco news outlets attempted bagel taste tests. But forget all that: Mission Local's got the real winner.

Former Google CEO Says US Tech Workers Must Match China's 996 Schedule To Remain Competitive - Slashdot
https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/26/2359224/former-google-ceo-says-us-tech-workers-must-match-chinas-996-schedule-to-remain-competitive

Trump’s recent claims that the US should keep Venezuelan oil from seized tankers
are part of a broader belief in rightwing “resource imperialism”, experts say.
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has escalated pressure on Venezuela, invoking drug-trafficking claims.
This month, the US intercepted two tankers carrying Venezuelan oil and began pursuing a third,
while intensifying its campaign against the country’s president, Nicolšs Maduro.
Critics have comp…

That's sad: what was far and away my favorite restaurant during last year's visit to Portland (Ore.) closed. Brunch-serving vegan diners are a particular type of place I love that seems to be an endangered species these days, cf Beach'N in SF, also closed this year.

One of Portland’s oldest vegan-friendly restaurants has closed
“We can no long sustain operations and have served the final plate,” the restaurant announces.

US-Forscher entwickeln umweltfreundlichen Beton zum 3D-Drucken von Häusern
Ein neuer Beton soll das 3D-Drucken von Häusern umweltfreundlicher machen. Aber das ist nicht der einzige Vorteil gegenüber herkömmlichem Beton.

The mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew has been detained by ICE, as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Bruna Ferreira, a Boston-area resident who migrated with her family to the US from Brazil as a child, is now in custody at an ICE facility in Louisiana.
The White House press secretary’s brother, Michael Leavitt, 35, had a relationship with Ferreira, 33, and they had a son, Michael Leavitt Jr, aged 11.
Ferreira was leaving her home to pick up her son …

US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack (Cory Doctorow/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-trade-dominance-will-begin-to-crack/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p13#a251226p13

wow the only person who brought up Sunset Dunes/the former Great Highway at Lurie's D4 listening tour was someone who supports the park.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-listening-sunset/

Lurie, in Sunset ‘listening mode,’ says he’ll tap a supe for the long haul
Daniel Lurie asks merchants, recall leaders and community groups who they want to represent them, and talks about upzoning

San Franciscans! Here's a petition you can sign asking Mayor Lurie and the board of supervisors to fund social housing. You might have seen the flyers around the city.
We voted to fund it with 2020's Prop I, but for obscure reasons of state law, the use of the revenue wasn't legally binding, only intended. And then-Mayor Breed refused to do it. But we can fund it now!

Fund San Francisco's Social Housing Program with Prop I Property Transfer Tax Revenue, as Promised!
In 2020, San Francisco voters passed Prop I which levied a transfer tax on properties worth over $10 million dollars. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution assuring voters it was their intention to spend the revenue from the new tax on a Social Housing Program. Social Housing is housing that is municipally-owned (or non-profit owned), permanently affordable, and available to a wider mix income than traditional public housing. Mayor Breed overruled the Board of Supervisors a…

Seventy percent of Americans oppose to US military action in Venezuela, CBS News/YouGov poll finds
Trump administration labels Maduro as member of foreign terrorist organization
as US prepares for next phase of operations
https://www.

US justice department memo about boat strikes diverges from Trump narrative (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/25/trump-caribbean-boat-strikes-memo
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p129#a251125p129

US-Effizienzbehörde DOGE existiert nicht mehr
DOGE sollte den Behördenapparat reformieren. Zuletzt war nicht mehr viel davon zu hören. Ein Regierungsmitarbeiter hat Reuters das Ende von DOGE bestätigt.
https://www.

With growing interest in social housing in SF, maybe it’s a good time to re-up this Q&A I hosted last month. In addition to lessons from Seattle, @… goes over SF efforts so far, so it’s a great way to get up to speed!

Municipal Social Housing: What can California learn from Seattle’s win? — California DSA
By now, San Francisco is famous not just for unaffordable rent, but also for its acrimonious debates about how to solve the problem. One well-funded contingent asserts it’s all about making it easier and cheaper to build privately owned homes, but as even the corporate media is now noting, we’ve don

US Navy Helicopter and Fighter Jet in Separate South China Sea Crashes (Philip Glamann/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-27/us-navy-helicopter-and-fighter-jet-in-separate-south-china-sea-crashes
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p64#a251026p64

“The case for upzoning is relatively solid but deeply underwhelming as a standalone position. The upshot is that everyone is at least partly right: Upzoning can address the shortfall in supply. But it won’t come close to solving the housing crisis alone. Re-enter: public housing.”
https://

The Solution to the Affordable Housing Problem That No One Wants to Discuss
There are new ideas for fixing this. And one very old one.

In a post on X, the U.S. military's Africa Command confirmed it had conducted a strike that killed multiple militants at the request of Nigerian authorities.
The strike occurred in “Soboto state,” an apparent reference to Sokoto state, the post said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles…

US hits Islamic State in Nigeria after Trump warnings
President Trump said "numerous perfect strikes" had hit Islamic State militants in the West African nation of Nigeria.

KI-Müll in US-Urteilen aufgeflogen
KI-Müll in Gerichtseingaben ist eine Plage. Nun sind auch Entscheidungen zweier US-Gerichte aufgeflogen. Ein Praktikant sei schuld, sagt ein erwischter Richter.
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Everyone's 2nd favorite single-serving website is now updated with the details of #FreeMuni on New Year's Eve
https://ismunifree.com

Is Muni Free?

'Traitor': US representatives call for Trump envoy Witkoff to be fired after leaked Kremlin call (Joseph Gedeon/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/26/republicans-steve-witkoff-leaked-call-russia-ukraine
http://www.memeorandum.com/251126/p126#a251126p126

Freitag: US-Richter mit KI zum Urteil, Milliardenforderung mangels Datenschutz
KI-Nutzung in US-Gerichten Googles umstrittener Datenschutz Urteil gegen Apples App-Abzocke Binance-Gründer begnadigt GM ohne CarPlay und Android Auto

China has brought millions out of poverty.
The US has not – by choice
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/china-us-poverty-income-inequality?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Nigeria averts unilateral US action by cooperating on airstrikes (Ben Ezeamalu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigeria-averts-unilateral-us-action-by-cooperating-airstrikes-2025-12-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p16#a251226p16

Seekabel: EU warnt vor Abhängigkeit von US-Hyperscalern
Ein EU-Bericht warnt vor Europas Abhängigkeit von US-Technologiekonzernen bei Unterseekabeln und kritischen Komponenten. Auch die Reparatur ist gefährdet.
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In one of his wildest moves to date, Trump is now offering companies access to plutonium from America’s arsenal of cold war nuclear missiles.
On Tuesday, the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes
— a little under 42,000 pounds
— of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal.
One of the companies anticipated to receive shipmen…

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.

Kamala Harris hints she is ready to run again for US president (Louise Guillot/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/kamala-harris-ready-run-again-us-president/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p27#a251025p27

Kläger verlangen 2,36 Milliarden US-Dollar von Google nach Datenschutzurteil
Wegen Irreführung beim Datenschutz soll Google 425 Millionen US-Dollar zahlen. Das genügt den Klägern nicht. Google sieht sich missverstanden und wehrt sich.

Abbott warnt vor fehlerhaften Sensoren: Blutzuckersensoren melden falsche Werte
Der US-amerikanische Hersteller Abbott warnt Kunden per Mail vor fehlerhaften Blutzuckersensoren. Die Geräte liefern zu niedrige Werte.
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Nasa-Mondmission: Maskottchen-Entwurf aus Deutschland nominiert
Mit der Artemis 2-Mission will die US-Raumfahrtbehörde Nasa demnächst wieder Menschen in die Nähe des Mondes schicken. Mit an Bord soll ein Maskottchen sein.

Schweiz: Datenschützer verhängen breites Cloud-Verbot für Behörden
Eidgenössische Ämter dürfen US-Hyperscaler wie AWS, Google oder Microsoft laut der Datenschutzkonferenz nur noch eingeschränkt nutzen.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
US-Regierung verhängt Einreiseverbote gegen „Ideologen in Europa“

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
US-Regierung verhängt Einreiseverbote gegen „Ideologen in Europa“