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Leading Ukrainian historian Plokhii steps down from top Harvard post after 12 years: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/leading-ukrainian-historian-plokhii-steps.html

Candela C-8 verbindet als erstes vollelektrisches Boot Europa mit Afrika
Die vollelektrische Candela C-8 hat Europa und Afrika miteinander verbunden. Die Fahrt soll die Machbarkeit einer Fährverbindung zeigen – dann mit einer P-12.

Playbook: Russia's Pearl Harbor (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/06/02/russias-pearl-harbor-00379958
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p7#a250602p7

"During his time at IBM, he wrote some of the first artificial intelligence software—his "geometry theorem machine" was the first advanced AI program, and the third AI program ever. It is a logical AI system that can prove theorems in planar geometry about parallel lines, congruence, and equality and inequality of segments and angles. Like Logic Theorist, it uses heuristics."

Here's a document that deserves to be remembered, resurrected, and read (hey, that's 3 "R's!).
"Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens: Report of the HEW Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems" July 1973
https://epic.org/documents/hew1973repo

Harper Reed on coding with AI: https://avatar42.social/2025/05/01/harper-reed-on-coding-with.html

Can Trump Force Harvard to Improve? (Ben Sasse/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/can-trump-force-harvard-to-improve-writes-ben-sasse-reform-universities-ba1101c2?st=EnwpEg&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p55#a250601p55

Trump Administration Places Thumb On Negotiation Scale, Decides Harvard Didn't Do Enough To Fight Antisemitism - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/trump-administration-places-thumb-on-negotiation-scale-decides-harvard-didnt-do-enough-to-fight-antisemitism/

A Stephen Miller Staffer and Tough Talk: Inside Trump's Latest Attack on Harvard (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/politics/harvard-law-review-investigation-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p154#a250602p154

Trump Admin Issues Finding That Harvard Permitted Antisemitism in Violation of Civil Rights Law (The Harvard Crimson)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/6/30/harvard-hhs-ocr-antisemitism-finding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p79#a250630p79