# memorandum (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover memorandum. Page: Feed: --- ## [The 5.18% Yield Trap: Why the Treasury’s Debt Repurchase Is Yield Curve Control in Disguise](https://julianaldentfa.substack.com/p/the-518-yield-trap-why-the-treasurys) _2026-08-20 · Julian Alden · The Fiduciary Archive_ Doubling bond buybacks to suppress 30-year Treasury yields isn't market stabilization—it is debt monetization under a different name. ## [The Concentration Contagion: Why the ECB Is Preparing for an AI Balance Sheet Shock](https://julianaldentfa.substack.com/p/the-concentration-contagion-why-the) _2026-08-19 · Julian Alden · The Fiduciary Archive_ When central banks warn of equity concentration, they are not predicting a minor correction—they are auditing systemic leverage. ## [2026 Service Contract Act Health and Welfare Fringe Benefit](https://cms.prod.iae.mcaas.fcs.gsa.gov/node/2060) _2026-08-18 · ChristyLHermansen · SAM.gov_ 2026 Service Contract Act Health and Welfare Fringe Benefit ChristyLHermansen Tue, 08/18/2026 - 14:26 Per 29 C.F.R. § 4.52, the prevailing health and welfare fringe benefits issued under the McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act (SCA) will increase to a rate of $5.92 per hour. Click to view the AAM document Memorandum Id 252 Released On Mon, 08/10/2026 - 12:00 AAM File File 2026 SCA HW Fringe… ## [The $1 Trillion Capex Trap: Why Big Tech’s AI Recovery is Free Cash Flow Destruction](https://julianaldentfa.substack.com/p/the-1-trillion-capex-trap-why-big) _2026-08-18 · Julian Alden · The Fiduciary Archive_ In July, the technology sector experienced severe turbulence: chipmakers and the AI hardware index shed over 20% of their capitalization. ## [The 60-Day Versailles Trap: Why the Fuel Spike Is Just Getting Started](https://julianaldentfa.substack.com/p/the-60-day-versailles-trap-why-the) _2026-08-17 · Julian Alden · The Fiduciary Archive_ Today, the 60-day Versailles Memorandum deadline between the US and Iran expired. ## [I. Typed. These. Words.](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/8/17/i-typed-these-words) _2026-08-17 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ I typed these words while sitting with my laptop, with a hot cup of oat-milk coffee in my hand. You don't have to agree with them, or think they're valuable. But you can imagine me, bleary-eyed, grumbling at my complex relationship with the words I write, even as I pound on my keyboard. And maybe, at that image, you'll smile, recognising a small piece of yourself. And we'll have a moment of… ## [A letter from a reader of my books](https://therealcdc.substack.com/p/a-letter-from-a-reader-of-my-books) _2026-08-14 · John Beaudoin Sr The Real CdC · The Real CdC’s Newsletter_ Thank you all for the many letters and notes over the years--here is one timely email ## [The Cyber Mercenary Era: Why legalized hack-backs threaten private digital assets](https://julianaldentfa.substack.com/p/the-cyber-mercenary-era-why-legalized) _2026-08-14 · Julian Alden · The Fiduciary Archive_ White House issued an executive memorandum officially granting private IT and cybersecurity firms authorization to conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal syndicates ## [The Digital Dragnet: Why the White House’s cyber memo threatens your capital mobility](https://julianaldentfa.substack.com/p/the-digital-dragnet-why-the-white) _2026-08-13 · Julian Alden · The Fiduciary Archive_ On Tuesday, the White House issued an executive memorandum and an official Fact Sheet granting U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies expanded powers. ## [The Redistributive Shift: Why primary wins in Minnesota and Wisconsin threaten your capital stack](https://julianaldentfa.substack.com/p/the-redistributive-shift-why-primary) _2026-08-12 · Julian Alden · The Fiduciary Archive_ On Tuesday, progressive candidates secured major victories in Midwestern Democratic primaries. ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/SRYsRtRNd5OP) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [The $15 Billion Dilution: Why Intel’s AI pivot is a trap for retail shareholders](https://julianaldentfa.substack.com/p/the-15-billion-dilution-why-intels) _2026-08-11 · Julian Alden · The Fiduciary Archive_ This week, Intel Corporation filed a shelf registration to issue up to $15 billion in new equity. ## [The Hormuz Tollbooth: Why $84 oil is just the first installment of the inflation tax](https://julianaldentfa.substack.com/p/the-hormuz-tollbooth-why-84-oil-is) _2026-08-10 · Julian Alden · The Fiduciary Archive_ Today, the Iranian Foreign Ministry announced that transit through the Strait of Hormuz will remain strictly restricted until the United States eases sanctions and pays monetary compensation. ## [A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects and the Quandary of Copyright in AI](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/8/9/intellectual-property-in-50-objects) _2026-08-09 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ Intellectual Property law is a recent innovation in social policy which formalises a millennium of assumptions about who owns a thing, has authority over its dispersal, or profits from its use in the world. Given recent Large Language Model innovations, this branch of law is suddenly crucial, as it’s on the edge of defining, and defending, how things, content, stories, pictures, music and more are… ## [The 80% Interceptor Trap: What Executive Denials Reveal About Defense Bottlenecks](https://julianaldentfa.substack.com/p/the-80-interceptor-trap-what-executive) _2026-08-07 · Julian Alden · The Fiduciary Archive_ The White House denied 80% THAAD depletion reports. The industrial assembly line tells a colder story. ## [Trump’s Nevada Rally, Permanent TCJA, and the Math of Unfunded Deficits](https://julianaldentfa.substack.com/p/trumps-nevada-rally-permanent-tcja) _2026-08-06 · Julian Alden · The Fiduciary Archive_ Promising permanent 2017 tax cuts in Las Vegas doesn't eliminate the underlying debt burden. ## [A Book Contract and Other Updates](https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/a-book-contract-and-other-updates) _2026-08-06 · Rajiv Sethi · Imperfect Information_ Back in late June I signed a contract with Princeton University Press for a trade book, Engines of Prophecy: The Power and Perils of Prediction Markets. I think it will be broadly accessible and fun to read but the book will also grapple with some deeper questions related to information, beliefs, and trading in asset markets. ## [S&P 7,736 and Dow 54,085: The Nominal Mirage Wall Street Won't Explain](https://julianaldentfa.substack.com/p/s-and-p-7736-and-dow-54085-the-nominal) _2026-08-05 · Julian Alden · The Fiduciary Archive_ The S&P 500 jumped 1.8% to 7,736 while the Dow added 907 points. Read the ledger. ## [Reflections on a random day in the waning Covid era](https://therealcdc.substack.com/p/reflections-on-a-random-day-in-the) _2026-08-03 · John Beaudoin Sr The Real CdC · The Real CdC’s Newsletter_ Lynn and Tori came across my X feed and I felt the need to comment ## [Breaking Up with Trello—Goodbye To A Once Superlative List Manager](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/7/28/breaking-up-with-trello) _2026-07-28 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.” The famous quote, drawn from the US Declaration of Independence, is a truth sometimes applicable to nations, social groups and apparently, to software. After years of happy use, it’s time to break up with another long-used tool. Farewell Trello. It was… ## [The Dobbelspel and the Wastrel](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/7/23/the-dobbelspel-and-the-wastrel) _2026-07-23 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ What happens when truth becomes completely relative, prone to change on the flip of a few bits and bytes? Cobol the Trader, resident of Terminalstad, the capital of the Cities of the Arc, last bastion of humanity against the Wastrel, is about to find out. ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/CDb4rsz5JpOT) _2026-07-23 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [War strategies and behavior modifications in the information age](https://therealcdc.substack.com/p/war-strategies-and-behavior-modifications) _2026-07-17 · John Beaudoin Sr The Real CdC · The Real CdC’s Newsletter_ How Covid was done to us via selection, promotion, and suppression on social media ## [How Elevator Buttons Tell Unexpected Stories of Their Use](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/7/15/elevator-buttons-tell-unexpected-stories) _2026-07-15 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ The humble elevator button serves as an everyday, but interesting, example of how technology tells stories of its patterns of use. Canny designers, engineers, or makers of things pay attention to these patterns and learn from the story they tell. Those who don’t, do a disservice to these invaluable little signals, and end up making things that don’t quite work the way people need them to. ## [My Visit to "Ask Dr. Drew" on July 8, 2026](https://therealcdc.substack.com/p/my-visit-to-ask-dr-drew-on-july-8) _2026-07-09 · John Beaudoin Sr The Real CdC · The Real CdC’s Newsletter_ The courts, the courts, the courts - the branch most broken ## [A Message Set in Stone Versus Fragile Information Technology](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/7/7/fragile-information-technology) _2026-07-07 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ When we say a decision, message, or communication is ‘set in stone,’ we’re usually talking metaphorically; that something is immutable and unchanging. But I’ve spent twenty years thinking about a message set in literal fired clay, and what it means about the history and future of our fragile information technology. ## [The Computer as a Conservative Force Which Solidifies Existing Power by Professor Joseph Weizenbaum](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/6/29/computer-as-a-conservative-force) _2026-06-29 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ “I think the computer has from the beginning been a fundamentally conservative force. It has made possible the saving of institutions pretty much as they were, which otherwise might have had to be changed.” Professor Joseph Weizenbaum, 1985, MIT, “The Tech.” ## [“English Food” by Diane Purkiss](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/6/22/english-food-by-diane-purkiss) _2026-06-22 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ “English Food” by Professor Diane Purkiss is a delightful, scholarly, and engaging tour through the history of English food. Not the stereotypically cliched image of English food, like boiled meat, flavourless mashed potatoes and over-steamed pale peas, but the rich and varied tapestry of things the English ate, extending across thousands of years of history, innovation, and cultural change. ## [What Does Good Technology Look Like?](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/6/16/what-does-good-technology-look-like) _2026-06-16 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ Technology commentatorazzi risk being a one-trick pony; all aggresively negative analysis and no upside. But technology is usually a mix of the good, bad and ugly, depending on which affordances (opportunities for action) they offer. That said, some affordances shade a technology into one primary character, a little more bad than good or vice versa. If we’ve generally got a sense of what bad… ## [Known Issue with SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Search Results](https://cms.prod.iae.mcaas.fcs.gsa.gov/alerts/known-issues-samgov-contract-opportunities-search-results) _2026-06-11 · ZackSionakides · SAM.gov_ Known Issue with SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Search Results ZackSionakides Thu, 06/11/2026 - 11:45 Alert Type Warning Contract Opportunities search results are currently experiencing an issue that may prevent the display of the latest opportunities’ updates. This warning will be removed once the issue is resolved. Published Date Thu, 06/11/2026 - 12:00 End Date Date Date & Time Thu, 06/11/2026… ## [Sociocultural Machines of Destruction](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/6/7/sociocultural-machines-of-destruction) _2026-06-07 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ I’ve been moving towards a position that ideas, concepts, phrases and even larger social, political and economic frameworks are all a type of sociocultural technology build with intention to engineer society and culture. Whether we call them memes, story-gizmos, semiotic signals or sociocultural technologies, they shape our world, often for the worse. ## [Broken Courts Are Contributing to Societal Breakdown](https://therealcdc.substack.com/p/broken-courts-are-contributing-to) _2026-06-06 · John Beaudoin Sr The Real CdC · The Real CdC’s Newsletter_ FreedomHub hosts John Beaudoin Sr as he explains how the US Courts are failing the American people and causing US breakdown into incivility ## [Sync Bookmarks Everywhere (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bdUQDwATKZi4) _2026-06-06 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync keeps folders and toolbar intact across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. ## [Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the LGU of Tago and the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW), strengthening support and services for our Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and their families.](https://tago.gov.ph/1644-2/) _2026-06-04 · JL · LGU TAGO_ A milestone partnership was officially sealed through the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the LGU of Tago, led by Municipal Mayor Hon. Jelio Val C. Laurente, and continue reading : Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the LGU of Tago and the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW), strengthening support and services for our Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and their families. ## [A Pincer Grip](https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/a-pincer-grip) _2026-06-03 · Rajiv Sethi · Imperfect Information_ The following remarks were prepared for delivery to the board of the Teagle Foundation a couple of weeks ago. ## [A Conversation with Matt Jackson](https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-matt-jackson) _2026-06-01 · Rajiv Sethi · Imperfect Information_ Back in February of this year I had the opportunity to speak with Matt Jackson for the Human Centered podcast. This is the official podcast of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, where Matt was a fellow in 2005-06 and where I am just finishing up my own fellowship year. ## [Is Artificial Intelligence The Ultimate Poisoned Chalice?](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/5/28/artificial-intelligence-poisoned-chalice) _2026-05-28 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ That dangerous golden cup from which we sip, hoping for reward; or knowingly offer to others to gain power, but end up poisoning ourselves. Some metaphors are so effective they rebound down through time, giving us room to use them again and again to describe new moments in culture. Which makes me wonder if Artificial Intelligence is the ultimate poisoned chalice? ## [Kenny Carmody's Robust X Thread](https://therealcdc.substack.com/p/kenny-carmodys-robust-x-thread) _2026-05-24 · John Beaudoin Sr The Real CdC · The Real CdC’s Newsletter_ Thank you, Kenny. God Bless You. ## [Anti-God Agenda in Full Tactical Deployment Worldwide](https://therealcdc.substack.com/p/anti-god-agenda-in-full-tactical) _2026-05-21 · John Beaudoin Sr The Real CdC · The Real CdC’s Newsletter_ Protect the Children from Agenda 2030 and All the Freaks Who Promote It - This Will Not End Well for Globalist Communists ## [What We Needed to Know About Cars by Neil Postman](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/5/20/what-we-needed-to-know) _2026-05-20 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ “What we needed to know about cars… is not how to use them but how they use us. In the case of cars, what we needed to think about in the early twentieth century was not how to drive them but what they would do to our air, our landscape, our social relations, our family life and our cities.” Neil Postman, “End of Education.” ## [A Talking Toaster and Compelling But Dangerous Illusions of Consciousness](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/5/14/talking-toaster-illusions-of-consciousness) _2026-05-14 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ Despite all the recent froth, conversational Large Language Models don’t imply, need, require, or suggest consciousness. They create (sometimes meaningful) outputs when our input prompts cause the models to search through huge word-fragment array tables for a matching strung-together output. It’s information, but it isn’t necessarily intelligent in the way we usually talk about intelligence. And… ## [How State Laws Drove Behavior to Maximally Vaccinate Hospital Staff and Filter Out the Non-Compliant and Non-Believers from the Staff](https://therealcdc.substack.com/p/how-state-laws-drove-behavior-to) _2026-05-13 · John Beaudoin Sr The Real CdC · The Real CdC’s Newsletter_ Incentive Plans Are Behavior Modification Devices ## [“Visions of Space”—Stirring Imagery of the Cosmos and Nostalgic Memories of Technological Optimism](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/5/7/visions-of-space-art-technology-optimism) _2026-05-07 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ My ten-year-old self lives on within me, especially when I look at the ‘classic’ 1980s and 90s era pictures of space-envisioning. Those inspiring oil, watercolour or gouache imaginings that posited what a future in space could look like. As the years have gone on, I’ve grown more aware of how technology is applied and wary of how it’s misapplied. Which makes me realise that my memories of… ## [The Technologisation of Everything](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/4/27/the-technologisation-of-everything) _2026-04-27 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ It’s interesting how changes in language both affect and reflect society. This seems especially true to how we think and talk about technology. I can’t put my finger on when it happened, but suddenly, the Greek root-word ‘techne’ has spread everywhere. This simple fragment is the core of the word ‘technology,’ which means, by proxy, technology feels like it’s subsuming everything. ## [Ease Into That Conversation About the Lottery](https://therealcdc.substack.com/p/ease-into-that-conversation-about) _2026-04-21 · John Beaudoin Sr The Real CdC · The Real CdC’s Newsletter_ All Kinds of Prizes Result from the Random Lottery of Covid Vaccine Deployment - The Blood Goes Everywhere in the Body to Sustain Life of Cells and Organs ## [Fears Of Telegraph Operator ‘Brain Fever’ Predate AI ‘Brain Fry’ by 100 Years](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/4/20/telegraph-operator-brain-fever-versus-ai-brain-fry) _2026-04-20 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ The recently coined, AI-induced ‘Brain Fry’, appears as a new condition; something unique to our use of Large Language Model algorithms. However, a hundred years ago people worried about ‘Brain Fever’ in overworked telegraph operators. This cycle of concern is a reminder that the history of technology might not repeat, but it rhymes like sophomoric poetry; often and awkwardly. And it’s also a… ## [NASA’s Artemis II Mission to the Moon and the Journey from Earthrise to Earthset](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/4/14/nasa-artemis-ii-moon-earthset) _2026-04-14 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ There is no more humbling and inspiring image than the Earth alone against the darkness of space. That’s us there - the Blue Marble; a single sphere enwrapping all our trials and tribulations. It’s an image gained from an unprecedented coordination of intellect, labour and technology, but it also hides a more complex truth. ## [Cui Bono Intellegentia Artificialis?](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/4/7/cui-bono-intellegentia-artificialis) _2026-04-07 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ There’s a throwaway line from “Elementary,” the Sherlock Holmes homage from 2012. While questioning a witness, Holmes, as portrayed by the edgy, energetic and enquiring Jonny Lee Miller, asks a suspect, “Another line of inquiry is ‘Qui bono?’ Who benefits? AKA ’follow the money.’” I’m struck by how uncannily apropos the line is to our current socioeconomic wrestling match with the behemoth of… ## [The Covid Era was Behavioral, Not Biological](https://therealcdc.substack.com/p/the-covid-era-was-behavioral-not) _2026-04-04 · John Beaudoin Sr The Real CdC · The Real CdC’s Newsletter_ They can't all be in on it ... knowingly ## [𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬](https://tago.gov.ph/%f0%9d%90%92%f0%9d%90%ad%f0%9d%90%ab%f0%9d%90%9e%f0%9d%90%a7%f0%9d%90%a0%f0%9d%90%ad%f0%9d%90%a1%f0%9d%90%9e%f0%9d%90%a7%f0%9d%90%a2%f0%9d%90%a7%f0%9d%90%a0-%f0%9d%90%8f%f0%9d%90%9a%f0%9d%90%ab/) _2026-03-31 · JL · LGU TAGO_ The Municipality of Tago and Caraga State University (CSU) formally signed a Memorandum of Agreement for the implementation of the Smart Solar LED Streetlight with Intelligent Remote Lighting Control System continue reading : 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 ## [Information Contagion](https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/information-contagion) _2026-03-31 · Rajiv Sethi · Imperfect Information_ At around 6:50am ET on March 24, there was an unusually large spike in trading volume in oil and stock futures markets. ## [AI is not the Creative Champion We Think It Is—We Are Our Own Gatekeepers](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/3/30/there-was-no-gatekeeper) _2026-03-30 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ There’s a lot of conversation in the ether about gatekeeping; as if the tools of the recent past restrict people’s ability to create. The argument usually follows that the most recent technology wunderkind, Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence, removes gatekeepers to creative and knowledge work. That it allows more people, more power to ideate, synthesise and produce information. Which is… ## [Semantic Pareidolia, Artificial Intelligence and Minds Hijacked by Language](https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2026/3/24/semantic-pareidolia-artificial-intelligence) _2026-03-24 · Christopher Roosen · Blog - Christopher Roosen_ There’s something strange happening in how people perceive Large Language Models, the now pervasive sub-variant of the broader universe of experiments in Artificial Intelligence. When using these tools, there’s a risk we’re being hijacked by a type of pareidolia, our human tendency to see meaning in noise; faces in rock structures, animals in clouds and voices in static. If so, it would explain…