#public-memory
Confiscate 99.8% of Andreesen’s net worth for the public good, wait 20 minutes, and then tell him his memory of ever having more than $4 million is false.
the billionaires are not ok
March 17, 2026 at 1:38 PM
'Memory cafes' are small social gatherings for individuals with dementia — and their caregivers, too. As public health funding shrinks, memory cafes are cheap to run and can offer measurable benefits.
Memory cafes offer camaraderie and fun for people with dementia — and their caregivers
'Memory cafes' are small social gatherings for individuals with dementia — and their caregivers, too. As public health funding shrinks, memory cafes are cheap to run and can offer measurable benefits.
n.pr
May 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This Idaho health district banned public clinics from distributing the coronavirus vaccine as widespread fear during the pandemic fades from public memory.
In Idaho, a preview of RFK Jr.’s vaccine-skeptical America
This Idaho health district banned public clinics from distributing the coronavirus vaccine as widespread fear during the pandemic fades from public memory.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
September 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Stalinesque removal from public memory.
March 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Very insulting to this man’s memory to imply that he would ever be caught dead on public transportation
It cannot be stressed enough that AI "art" is the aesthetic of modern-day fascism
September 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The covid amnesia shell game happened DESPITE THE DATA, in part bc we never had a reckoning or real memorialization

The *moment* we replace this regime, they will memory-hole everything they did. If we don't keep clear records and then make them into public memory, they'll get away with it.
This is amazing...

Dr Ioannidis (9 April 2020): "I would say that COVID-19 will result in fewer than 40,000 deaths this season in the USA."

Dr Howard: "The USA reached 40,000 COVID deaths the next week."
As part of my efforts to combat the COVID Amnesia Project, let's accurately remember what 3 influential laptop class doctors from Stanford said 6 years ago as COVID overflowed hospitals and morgues.

They won't remind you.

I will.

My latest.
April 14, 2026 at 11:43 PM
This needs saying.

Within living memory it was literally illegal to be trans in public. Within living memory queer communities faced a horrific genocide. Within my lifetime anti-queer violence was far, far more widespread. People fought anyway.

Do not assume all is lost. We do not have the luxury.
February 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Free Ornamentation VII. This work is dedicated to the public domain 🌼. In thanks to the public for helping me settle my cat’s final vet bills.

In remembrance to Aragorn, my companion of almost 10 years. may his memory be a blessing.
August 27, 2026 at 11:29 PM
US public life is such an anti intellectual space that having a working memory of longer than 15 minutes is considered bias
related to another bizarre feature of political discussion in the US: that it's supposed to mark you as reasonable/bipartisan/fair or whatever that you take these discourses on their own terms. as opposed to marking you as (at best!) a mark
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
July 27, 2026 at 3:33 PM
“Trump’s first term has been memory-holed… His prior decades of illicit activity have vanished from the public domain: because there is no public domain. The public domain was purchased and destroyed by oligarchs: purchased to be destroyed.”
September 24, 2026 at 9:43 AM
How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole
➡️ spectrum.ieee.org/digital-arch...
Can We Trust Our Government to Safeguard Vital Research Data? Meet the Digital Archivists Battling to Keep Information Accessible!
Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets
spectrum.ieee.org
April 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Thought I gift linked to it. Here you go. READ it. Your welcome.
GIFT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
September 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
There is literally no Western politician alive that I can think of that has incited more hate, bigotry, and violence than Donald Trump.

That so many in our public life, in our 'liberal' media, have just memory-holed 10 years of nonstop incitement and abuse from him is shameful.
September 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So is the White House, the Kennedy Center, and for that matter the Supreme Court, Congress, the executive branch, the rule of law, the military, public health, and.... Let's hope for a midterm landslide and thereafter some memory in the electorate of who broke what.
The Reflecting Pool is still broken
September 27, 2026 at 4:32 PM
It’s hard to claim ‘as soon as we knew’ when the first public response was a denial. The internet has a memory.

Community Notes just reminded everyone.
July 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Everyone should read this. Because every word needed to be said. (gift article). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Given Charlie’s public statements on the subject, nothing honors his memory more than shrugging off the death and immediately moving on to something else.
September 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
mamdani may have the biggest gap in living memory between how much he freaks out his opponents and how wholesome his public persona is
August 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Seven years ago today, the Saudi Crown Prince directed the murder of VA resident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

As we honor Jamal's memory, we are reminded that we must protect reporters around the world as they uncover the truth, inform the public, and promote accountability.
October 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Now, students are vilified for camping, disrupting, and talking about Zionism. This country is unserious, and a lack of public memory helps facilitate that posture.
September 5, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Crushingly sad to learn of the passing of Gerry Connolly, my friend, colleague and fierce champion of federal workers, public integrity and the people of Virginia (though he never surrendered his hearty south Boston accent). May his memory be a blessing to us all.
May 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
When I miss decency, strength & real family love in our public life I find myself grieving in the cloud again. Look at this beautiful walk down memory lane.
January 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM