3 photos of a raven, imagemagick B&W & montage. #corvid #raven
The Moustache - Emmanuel Carrère (Rating: ★★☆☆☆)

The Moustache is a story about a man who shaves his moustache on a whim one morning, only to have his wife, colleagues and friends insist that he’s never had a moustache. What begins as a small joke ends up with the man spiraling out of control. Remembered trips that apparently never happened, friends that apparently never existed, etc.
The book explores how having one’s own memories denied by others may affect a person’s sanity. In itself this is an interesting concept, and in places the story is a real page-turner. But in other places I found the writing boring and repetitive, like the protagonist repeatedly obsessing over how others might be plotting against him. This could still have been a 3-star read for me, except for the last two pages, where the book suddenly takes a turn that left a bad taste in my mouth.
RSS is still my prefered feed format
But what if we didn’t have to build on top of RSS? What if… and hear me out, what if we used atproto for this!
I do like how standard.site is becoming its own RSS-adjacent thing. Standard Reader is really nice. A lot of stuff on ATProto is but I’m always afraid I’m putting all my eggs into one basket with something so new. I’m on Bluesky, and at one point I was using Leaflet for my blog, Standard Reader, and Skyfeed for RSS. The fact that RSS has been around nearly 30 years is a selling point for me even if it isn’t as feature-rich as what’s on ATProto.
Nvidia’s Huang promotes SamA’s AGI claim for Astra so it can get Amazon and MSFT to unlock funding that is contingent to OpenAI achieving AGI. Clearly, Huang does not want to invest more on OpenAI hahahaha
Daily - Daily Rundown for 2026-09-07
Karn Wong
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2026-09-07
Reducing cloud cost is great, but do the same with carbon cost to preserve the balance is more awesome 😎
https://karnwong.me/posts/2026/08/greenops-tools-on-kubernetes/
ลดเงินค่า cloud ได้ก็ถือว่าดีแล้ว แต่ถ้าลด carbon cost ได้จะเท่กว่า 😎
https://karnwong.me/posts/2026/08/greenops-tools-on-kubernetes/
matizeta
• matizeta
Curaduría de entradas
Para que cada una de ellas envejezcan de la mejor manera posible.
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الإمبراطورية العثمانية: نموها وانحطاطها
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تأسيس الإمبراطورية العثمانية: تاريخ العثمانيين حتى وفاة بايزيد الأول
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أفضل القصص القصيرة لعام 1920
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"حكايات مرحة" لمارك توين
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"دفاعًا عن هارييت شيلي
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الغريب الغامض: قصة حب" لمارك توين
رواية "الغريب الغامض: قصة حب" لمارك توين، كُتبت في أوائل القرن العشرين. تدور أحداثها في النمسا خلال أواخر العصور الوسطى، وتتبع حياة أطفال نشأوا في قرية هادئة، حيث يواجهون مواضيع فلسفية تتعلق بالخير والشر، والوجود، والطبيعة البشرية، من خلال تفاعلهم مع غريب غامض ذي قدرات خارقة. تبدأ الرواية بتصوير قرية وادعة تقع في منطقة نائية منسية، حيث يستمتع أطفال مثل ثيودور فيشر وأصدقائه بأيام هانئة وسط مناظر طبيعية خلابة. تنقلب حياتهم المثالية رأسًا على عقب بوصول غريب آسر يمتلك قوى خارقة، مما يثير فضول الأولاد ويدفعهم إلى التساؤل عن فهمهم للعالم. وبينما يستكشفون هذه الديناميكيات الجديدة، تظهر شخصيات رئيسية مثل الأب بيتر ومارجريت، مما يشير إلى خيوط سردية أعمق حول السلطة والخرافات والطبيعة البشرية. من خلال هذا الغريب الساحر، يبدأ الأولاد في مواجهة مفاهيم صعبة حول الأخلاق وطبيعة الوجود، مما يمهد الطريق لاستكشاف مواضيع عميقة منسوجة في جميع أنحاء القصة.
Garza Coffee
As a specialty coffee enthusiast, I’m always visiting different local roasteries. There’s something special about this ritual: independent roasters offer amazing coffee experiences and an incredible variety of beans you symple won’t find elsewhere.
Last week, I experienced one of those great moments, and bought these great beans from Garza Coffee: Pink Bourbon IPA.

This coffee is co-fermented with IPA hops and IPA yeast, in a very special method: the hops and yeast are added to the beans in a closed tank under CO₂. This allows the coffee cherry to absorb the aromas of the IPA, and taste like a mix between good coffee and good IPA beer, it’s really amazing! You can note the aromatic acidity, smell and clear hop flavour in each sip of coffee.
Ginger and Shogaols for Joint Inflammation: UK Ageing Review 2026 | LongevityTortoise
Evidence-based UK review of ginger for longevity, sleep, and healthy ageing. Updated 2026-09-07.
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• Mark Taylor
Liam's Dad
Liam's dad is stupider than my dad, just like Liam is stupider than me. He never gets my riddles. You have to tell him everything twice, and then he just pretends to understand to shut you up. So how is it that he can tell you any kind
Weekly Wrap Up 126
My weekly blog post. Links this week include an elemental chart showing which ones are safe to lick, the Usenet Archives and a repository of 3D scanned images of publicly accessible restrooms. You can meet Emerald, the mosaic kitty and I talk about my recent hip surgery. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
The One Microscope Feature UK Labs Regret Not Checking Before Purchase | Plankton & Zoom
UK labs waste thousands because they ignore one microscope feature before buying. Here
5 Microscope Buying Mistakes Costing UK Labs Thousands | Plankton & Zoom
UK labs waste thousands on the wrong microscopes every year. Here are the 5 most common buying mistakes and how to avoid them before you request a quote.
7 Anti-Ageing Supplements Backed by Human Trials (Not Just Mice) | Longevity Tortoise
Skip the mouse hype. Seven supplements with actual human trial data for healthy ageing, including vitamin D3+K2, omega-3, magnesium glycinate, creatine, collagen, CoQ10 and taurine.

